One Fish.....Two Fish.............

I cannot believe that the Summer is now behind us with the clocks having changed this weekend and the darker nights with us so much earlier.

Late Summer I was asked to provide two exhibits for the 'Tides of Change' Exhibition which is being held now until Saturday 2 November 2013 on the LV21. Now you might well ask what the  LV21 is, well its a lightship moored at Gillingham Pier on the River Medway. The exhibition is being staged as part of Kent Coastal Week and the exhibition is open between 11am - 4pm each day and features local, national and international artists, including the work of Chatham's very own Billy Childish.

My two pieces are named One Fish and Two Fish, mainly because one piece has one fish and yes you've guessed it the other has two fish. It also helped that a few days before the exhibition, I returned from 2 weeks in Florida and decided to name my two pieces after the Dr Seuss 'One Fish Two Fish' ride in Seuss Landing at Islands of Adventure Park.

Anyway, here is a picture of One Fish:

And here are two pictures of Two Fish (although its not clear from the photo image, Two Fish depicts the differences between a clean and polluted river with a clean river producing a fish and a polluted river producing a dead fish - hence the fish skeleton) :

I hope you like them.

David Bowie Is.............WOW!

I cannot believe that its been 4 months since my last blog. I feel like I have been hibernating like a hamster through these cold winter months and although the sun has finally begun to shine today, and its possible to venture out into the garden without the safety of a woolly jumper, there is still a cold wind blowing and sporadic rain showers.

Yesterday we ventured out and visited the David Bowie Is exhibition at the V&A. If you have tickets, I guarantee you will not be disappointed. We were admitted at 11.30am (our allotted ticket time) and did not leave until 3.30pm as there is so much to see and experience. Being someone interested in creative sewing, obvious highlights for me were David's clothing, especially the Alexander McQueen Union Jack frock coat worn on the cover of Earthling, clothing from the Reality tour and another stunning frock coat David wore for his 50th birthday celebration (I have always had a love of textile art that is decadent but decayed). However, I was fascinated by the sheer quantity of personal items from David's collection and especially loved the artefacts from his time in Berlin as this is a period of David's music that has a special place in my heart. I had tried to avoid reading too much about the exhibition before our visit as I wanted to be surprised and this certainly worked for me. Therefore, whilst there were many favourite and unusual items I could list in my blog, I refuse to do so in fear that it could spoil the experience for others.

According to press reports the exhibition has sold out, but there is rumour that the exhibition may be extended to meet continued demand for tickets. Let's hope so.

Photos are not permitted inside the exhibition (although the V&A have produced a very detailed book which I recommend) but I did take some photos of the exhibition publicity photos in the tunnel leading from the tube to the V&A and would like to share them here on my blog.