The Opposite is Also True
So finally after all the challenges of firing schedules and making I opened Baby Diana the smaller kiln (being D or ABC – Agnes, Barbara and Collette – names which sound like cool and distant goddesses to me) which I’d tenaciously had to negotiate in this less than ideal process. First of all -…
Je ne regrette rien
Remembering Philippe Gauler 1943-2026 Yesterday I went to Paris to attend the extraordinary funeral of the teacher who changed the course of my life Philippe Gaulier. In the sometimes murky world of artist training Gaulier is perhaps the most widely and wildly misunderstood pedagogue of all. Perhaps we all assembled from around the world yesterday…
Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules
Been turning over in my mind the 10 rules from Corita Kent’s Immaculate College of Art that we looked at in the last session. It occurs to me that Kent’s rules are so fresh precisely because she wasn’t (for a long time) accepted or part of the art establishment, that her outsider status gave her…
Alex Murdoch, Artist 