Phylis Broadbend (Pearly Queen of Islington) – Photograph by Harry Dutton Pearly Kings and Queens, also known as pearlies, are an organised charitable tradition of working class culture in London, England. They featured in the Olympics opening ceremony where they […]
Knitting bombing might sound dangerous in a cute, ironic sort of way, but it’s hard to think of a guerrilla art movement less threatening than ‘yarn bombing.’ Catching on across the globe, knitters and crocheters have taken their grandmother’s favourite […]
Twiggy (1966) – Photographed by Barry Lategan Twiggy was born in London in September 1949. She is best remembered as one of the first international supermodels and a fashion icon on the 1960s. She was named “The Face of ‘66” […]
The Vanity Of Small Differences at the Victoria Miro Gallery, Old Street, tells the story of Grayson Perry’s exploration into British taste. Made as part of his Channel 4 television shows ‘All in the Best Possible Taste’ Perry set out […]
On arriving in London, each of the 204 national teams competing in the 2012 Olympic Games received a special object, inscribed with the name of its country. Each slightly different from the other, these objects have sculpturally beautiful forms, made […]
In January 2010, Heatherwick Studio joined the team commissioned by London’s mayor to develop the design of a new bus for London. This would be the first bus to be designed specifically for the capital in more than fifty years, […]
July 2012’s theme for our blog posts was ‘bubbles‘. We posted a variety of art styles and media types including futuristic architecture that could create fresh water, fashion stoles made of paper, microscopic photography inspired fine art, miniature sculpture created with […]
If you find a giant javelin or a 3m tall shot-put sinking into the pavement outside your closest Tube station, don’t worry, these aren’t Olympic-related hallucinations! Part of “Gifts of the Olympic Gods”, these 12 sculptures – including javelins, shot-puts, […]