The C Word, (Because Craft is Art's C Word).
This is where I write about completed work and exhibitions. I also write occasional reviews.
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
The original rural-urban migrants
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So these are the swan-eating immigrants we've been hearing about. Torrid reporting in the Haringey Independent: "The Killing Fields...
Friday, 4 April 2008
Under the Floorboards: The C Word’s Most Loathsome.
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Spring glanced at the garden this week, brought out the plum blossom, magnificently white and sweet smelling, and the ‘pond’ filled with amo...
Sunday, 23 March 2008
The C Word, Seconds Away, Round 2: Class
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The Workhouse, the Slum, the Slum Landlord and the Eternal Waiting-Room. Some people are saying ‘the white working class’ has disappeared, s...
The Loathsome Peasant
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My first candidate for reintroduction is the character of ‘The Loathsome Peasant.’ I noticed the return of this character, dragged back from...
A Yorkshire Village and the Urban Peasant
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That Yorkshire village I mentioned provides a fine example of what I’m talking about. I was organising a community project which involved re...
The Workhouse
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Next in line for reintroduction, also with a nice flavour of the mid Eighteenth Century is the Workhouse. I live in Tottenham, an unlovely p...
The Slum Landlord
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Hogarth would be proud of our next candidate: The Slum and its cohort, The Slum Landlord. This comes complete with Gin Lane, or, more accura...
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