The C Word, (Because Craft is Art's C Word).

BCB: Some Reflections On Fresh And Award Winners I was invited to talk about this blog at a forum organised by the National Association f...

This has been a pronged absence. I’ve been showing Shattered and nursing the most severe, vicious and unforgiving episode of sciatica I’ve e...

‘Huh,’ snorts Masoud, ‘I’m not staying here for a load of Rafsanjani’s goats,’ and stomps off into the gloom of the early November night. Th...

Edmund de Waal once commented that, ‘ceramics have not been well served by museums.’ They haven’t. Museums have tended to view ceramics as h...

I didn’t expect to be assailed by the scent of lavender when I got to Origin, but I was – well it is a craft show after all - and a nice lad...

Middle Eastern dance, popularly known as ‘bellydancing’ suffers from all manner of image problems in the West. Firstly, ‘Middle Eastern danc...

View of ST. Andrew's looking out over the harbour I’ve always been a bit suspicious of Art History. When I was still at school and also ...