I recently reviewed the exhibition Virginia Woolf: Art, Life, Vision, currently showing at the National Portrait Gallery in London, for new online magazine Standard Issue. You can read my review here.
Museums, Galleries & Exhibitions
Museum of Water, Somerset House
I visited the Museum of Water, Amy Sharrocks’s latest work to explore how we respond to and interact with water, on the day it opened. You can read my impressions of it in Exeunt here. Find out more about the Museum of… Read More ›
Ansel Adams: Photography from the Mountains to the Sea, National Maritime Museum, 6th April 2013
‘The splendor of Yosemite burst upon us and it was glorious . . . One wonder after another descended upon us . . . There was light everywhere . . . A new era began for me.’ So wrote Ansel Adams of… Read More ›
Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition, Natural History Museum, 23rd February 2013
In hindsight, the decision to visit the Natural History Museum on a Saturday afternoon during half-term was not one of my finest moments. The Museum was overrun with children and their harassed-looking parents, and it took a while for my… Read More ›
Hollywood Costume Exhibition, The Victoria & Albert Museum, 27th January 2013
Are the best costumes celebrities in their own right, so iconic as to be instantly recognisable, and with no need of an actor to bring them to life? Or are they those like Matt Damon’s drab, grey and immediately forgettable… Read More ›