I just returned from the UK and Ireland where I was inspired by many things.
The combination of old and new.
Here's a great example: The National College of Art & Design in The Liberties in Dublin.
Brick and new architectural insert/ addition -- mostly glass.
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| Three things I love about this picture: the beautiful, old brick buildings; the church steeple; the graffiti on the red box. |
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| Inner courtyard of NCAD -- same thing. Industrial brick buildings / renovated areas. Old/new mash-up. Ceramics department (left), reception (right). Art students everywhere. |
I was invited to a super fab birthday party luncheon at a café in Belfast called Harlem Food & Wine (http://www.harlembelfast.com/).
Totally funky and delightful: colour, pattern, whimsy, style and delectable food.
It's owned and operated by Faye Rogers, an artist and graduate of the Fine Arts Department of the University of Ulster.
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| Luncheon at Harlem in Belfast: Prosecco with floating red currants; scones with cream and fresh jam; meringue with raspberry reduction and mint leaves; mis-matched china. |
Fabulous piece of graffiti in downtown Belfast. I love the arts and crafts grill above the door, too.
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| It says BeLfASt. |
This was a huge inspiration and chance find: St. Anne's Cathedral in Belfast.
Instead of pews, there were wooden chairs. Sometime in the 1970s, the church women's auxiliary group embarked upon handsewing/stitching a unique kneeling/sitting pillow for each chair.
They are absolutely beautiful. All sorts of patterns and designs: representational and abstract.
Kneeling rail by the altar.
Mosaic.
Stained glass. I'd like to design and make stained glass windows for Humber House.
At the Tate Modern in London: Rirkrit Tiravanija pad thai food cart kitchen turned into a vitrine.
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| Rirkrit Tiravanija pad thai kitchen aftermath. |
A really nice piece of "instant" architecture / pop -up gallery space / collaborartive sculpture by Polish artist Pawel Althamer. Artworks such as videos and paintings are commissioned for the space.
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| FGF, Warsaw 2007 Mixed media. Pawel Althamer |
Still at the Tate Modern on the Structure and Clarity Floor -- Albers and Judd. Love.
I really like this piece. So strange and sort of physical.
A wooden baby's crib filled with paraffin wax.
Lithuanian artist Deimantas Narkevicius.
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| Never Backwards 1994 Wood and paraffin. Deimantas Narkevicius |
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