Different doors Bill Ming is from Bermuda, that lovely group of islands in the North Atlantic that have been a staging post between Europe and America since the 16th century. As a…
Everybody’s a dreamer… Almost a year ago, I began a series of conversations with people in West Bromwich about their cultural interests. I met painters, musicians and writers, people who…
Birmingham, late November 2011, early evening. Along New Street and around the Town Hall, the Christmas Market offers glühwein and frankfurters, cake, strudel and chocolate to the last office workers…
At the National Portrait Gallery, in London, there is a photograph of two painters by David Dawson. Lucian Freud stands In the doorway of his studio, looking like Dr Jekyll…
Where we Dream is now with the designer. Before it went, I asked a few friends who work in the arts and academia to read the text. Although drafts had been…
Work on the portraits for Winter Fires continues, alongside the meetings and conversations with older artists. The aim is to produce a conscious image of an individual that will work with…
The art world divides artists into two kinds. There are artists, by which it means the acceptable figures who conform easily to its current idea of a legitimate actor in…
Where we Dream book and, film, will be presented to members of West Bromwich Operatic Society on Monday 30 April. There’s still a lot to do before then, but the…
Retirement is an old fashioned word for an increasingly old fashioned idea. It evokes Victorian widows moving to the country or players who leave the field hurt. The expectation is…
The second rough cut of Ben Wigley‘s film for Where we dream is done. It follows some of the company members through rehearsals to the performance at the Alex in…
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