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24 September 2014 Bread and Salt

Dark matter

The title of Sardul Gill’s exhibition refers to the unknown material whose presence physicists deduce from gravitational data. Like much

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17 April 2014 From My Life

Misguided visionaries and rigid minds

From My Life is the most ambitious Regular Marvel so far, and it is already testing some aspects of the

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2 March 2014 From My Life

Restless meanings

Classical music is as important as photography in Terence Davies’ elegiac film about the people and city of Liverpool in

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4 November 2013 Regular Marvels in Theory / Winter fires

Bringing one’s self into the lab

An ethnographer’s perspective on drawing A few weeks after the publication of Winter Fires, I was contacted by the editor

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6 April 2013 A Wider Horizon / Bread and Salt / Regular marvels / Where we dream / Winter fires

Making sense

I got an email from a Dutch friend, partly in response to my post about waiting for feedback. Margreet wrote

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24 March 2013 Winter fires

A conversation about drawing

Each project in the ‘Regular Marvels’ series is a collaboration between me and an artist whose work I value. Although

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6 February 2013 Bread and Salt

45 years of hope

Be Like Water – Hetain Patel The ruler has already been a language teacher’s cane and a samurai sword dancing

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24 January 2013 Winter fires

‘When will we get rid of you?’

Elder Abuse in Kyrgyzstan There is an extraordinary series of photographs in the latest issue of Anthropology and Ageing Quarterly

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27 November 2012 Winter fires

Winter Fires: Book now available

Winter Fires: Art and agency in old age is published today. Old age haunts the human imagination. Nowadays, it also

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24 November 2012 Winter fires

Mik Godley’s portraits of older artists

Here are Mik Godley’s final portraits, which are reproduced in Winter Fires. They start with photographs I made, in discussion with the

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