Nov 25, 2020
Matt Smith’s lockdown adventure was spent in County Kilkenny.
From there he recalls being in the Fitzwilliam’s Gallery 6, where
decades old wall coverings reveal memories of where paintings have
been. Effects of light and marks of use revealing the passage of
time. This led Matt to an early photographic
process...
Nov 18, 2020
Jackie Kay describes her discovery of Fanny Eaton as two time worlds coming together with modern technology providing the portal which brought this black Victorian into her house. Fanny was born in Jamaica in 1835, and the graphite drawing of her by Simeon Solomon feels very vivid to Jackie, as if “she is right...
Nov 11, 2020
Issam’s memories of the Fitz are many but he is drawn to something from his birthplace Syria. His mind’s eye recalls three small eye idols, 5000 years old, from the ancient Syrian city Tell Brak. Issam asks “What is the future of my past”? He creates sculptures of the eye idols, like everyone’s family,...
Nov 4, 2020
Halima Cassell’s “Virtues of Unity” was exhibited in our Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery exhibition in 2017-18. The Museum shop was where she discovered Clarence Bicknell’s designs on cards and wrapping paper. Although from different times and starting points both she and Bicknell were inspired...