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You’re only as good as your last trick. I’ve typed millions of words since becoming a journalist in 19Canteen. Writing Book Two (slowly).
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Edinburgh festivals? I go to have fun... (opens the original)
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THE BUILD UPI’VE NEVER really covered the Edinburgh Festivals in a crazy full-on-three-week bonanza way. This year, forgive me Art World and lovely PR Nicola, I didn’t even make the Edinburgh Art Festival two-day long press trip. My journalist pals and colleagues are only just coming up-for-air and back to reality, more than a week after the end of the festival.I did, however, go down for the last weekend but not for work – to enjoy, Although this year, in an unexpected turn of events, I was ask
A NEVERLAND OF LIGHT, AIR AND SALT (opens the original)
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I wrote this essay as the foreword to the catalogue of an exhibition which opens on September 5 20226 at Fidra Fine Art in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland.Coast, featuring work by Jon Schueler, Will Maclean, Marian Leven, Dominique Cameron and Jennifer Alford, runs until Sunday 11 October. *******“My imagery is not blue sky, but it is a sky of storm and subtle mysteries. Rain, mist, a strange juxtaposition of
A Lad o’ Pairts... (opens the original)
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I don’t write regular art columns now for newspapers these days, but I ‘keep the hand in’, as my mum would have said…Recently, I wrote a press release (a story in old parlance) for Lyon & Turnbull about Stanley Cursiter (1887 - 1976), an artist I’ve always found intriguing. Lyon & Turnbull is hosting a fascinating exhibition of Cursiter’s work in Edinburgh, at its headquarters on Broughton Street (ends on Monday 24 August) and at at 20 Connaught Street, London, from Wednesday 2 September to Mond
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