by admin | Nov 5, 2025 | Writing
When I was a kid and having the kind of fun a mixed race Anglo Somali transracial adoptee was likely to have in 1970s rural Worcestershire, I used to stare into the mirror and try and will my skin lighter. I did this in part because wanted to look like my family or...
by admin | Oct 3, 2025 | Writing
The late vegetarian playwright George Bernard Shaw used to say he’d like to dig up Shakespeare and throw stones at him. It’s a completely unreasonable position to take in so many ways, but not entirely. Shaw got irritated with some of the weaknesses in Shakespeare’s...
by admin | Aug 3, 2025 | Writing
Apple Tree, Quidhampton Mill, Tina Rowe 2025 I made this photograph on Sunday, 17th August 2025, around 5pm. It’s made of light sensitive emulsion, gelatin, paper, plastics and photons. Photons are possibly the most magical thing I can think of as light from the sun...
by admin | Jul 30, 2025 | Writing
I saw many other exhibitions but these were the ones that I ended up thinking about the most. There were two shows that stood out to me were: Diana Markosian: The Cut Out, Father series, 2014-2024 and In Search of the Father by Camille Lévêque. These two could not be...
by admin | Jun 27, 2025 | Uncategorized