The Galilee chapel in the cathedral has an exhibition of “Images of God” by school children who are part of the Hexham and Newcastle Catholic Partnership.
The work is of an incredible quality for a bunch of people so young and some of it is really inspiring.
The works that really caught my attention were:
A picture of [...]
Yesterday, I had a couple of hours to kill in Newcastle between meetings and so popped into the University Gallery to look at the Jane Brown exhibiton. Jane Brown has taken black and white portrait photos for the Observer for about 60 years and this exhibition contained 100 portraits of famous people. The subjects ranged [...]
Darlington and Arts Centre are not words that easily go together in ones mind, or atleast not in my mind. Darlington, before I got to know the place bought to mind exactly the sort of place The Jams were on about in “It’s Grim Up North”. The words arts centre bought to mind cosmopolitan cities. [...]
So I have had an interesting few days doing what I don’t normally do….simply relaxing and allowing myself to be looked after. Over the last few days I have chilled out and enjoyed reading non-course related stuff aswell as a bit of quality modern art.
The first book I consumed was Now More Than Ever [...]
Yesterday popped down to London for the day to have lunch with some GCN friends. Before meeting up with them and going for a time of silent prayer before we actually ate, (All Saints, Margaret Street is a beautiful church), we headed off to the Tate Britain.
The main purpose of the detour to Milbank [...]
I have recently read through my my fathers biography on his web site. Ok, it’s a marketing tool….a kind of abbreviated CV but it is also a summary of who he is in many ways. Reading through I realised not only how incredibly proud I am of my father but exactly how much of a [...]
Wednesday afternoon was spent mainly at the GoMA (Gallery of Modern Art). I had particularly gone to look at the infamous sh(out) exhibition. JTL has already blogged about her visit, and I would encourage you to read her excellent reflection aswell as my perspective on it.
Before reaching “that exhibition” I explored the lower floors, encountering [...]
Am now back where I should be but as promised my reflections on the Burrell Collection. This, I am gathering, is somewhere with the marmite effect; you love it or not. Personally I did love most of it, wandering through the ecclectic mix of articles agog. For those not aware this is a collection housed [...]
Leeds, it appears, is an interesting place to visit. To be honest Third Party and I weren’t too hopeful yesterday when we set out. The trip had been dogged by hiccups, (largely of my own making), from the beginning. To start with I purchased non-refundable train tickets to Sheffield for some reason. I knew I [...]
Scotland is a wonderful country, not only do lots of inspiring people live there it also has the benefit of having lots of completely random things to enjoy.
Third Party and I have just arrived back from a long weekend up there. The first part took us up to Edinburgh to meet up with some Ship [...]