Posts by Jane Topping
Thinking of Spells…
… I remembered Salem. Here he is. This is what’s informing practice. I am fine with this.
Read MoreHow We Made ‘The Kick Inside’
LOVED Paul Becker’s How We Made ‘The Kick Inside’. Feels so close to truth that early on you might worry Kate has been taken in vain. But it’s not in vain at all. I’m sure she’s right into this picking apart and almost becoming text about process, about making things. It’ll be on the Professional…
Read MoreThe Horror Show: A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain
Off south at the end of 2022 for this pop cultural round-up at Somerset House. Curated into Monster, Ghost and Witch sections by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard and Claire Catterall, this was fun-packed and quite the top trumps experience for the geeky hauntologists among us. Plus it had that Radio Times cover from when Threads aired…
Read MoreFuseli’s Bums ‘n’ Dos
Alternative title: Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism at The Courtauld. Many of these drawings were in a private collection in New Zealand and were kinda Fuseli’s homemade erotica, many made in collaboration with his wife. It’s essentially mathematically spectacular hairdos and tempting botties – so great. Here’s the ‘real’ blurb (from the…
Read MoreTai Shani @ Gathering
Loved the pastel witchy vibe at Your Arms Outstretched Above Your Head, Coding With the Angels, Tai Shani’s solo show and first thang up at Gathering, London. I had great images of this show but then I cleaned up my phone… So go here instead. Starting Shani’s 2019 sci-fi book Our Fatal Magic now… Gathering…
Read MoreNope
Meant to mention how much I loved Jordan Peele’s Nope. A dusty Jaws with a gorgeous alien and a hilarious Keke Palmer. That’s all.
Read MoreThe Hypnotised Machine by Francesca Zappia
The Hypnotised Machine Francesca Zappia When I was a child, I was hypnotised by my dentist. The hypnosis went like this: “Dentist George W. Fairfull Smith attached 4 balls of cotton wool onto the length of rotary dental drill. These, he said, were three little rabbits, being chased by a hungry fox. Needing a place…
Read MoreA Letter from Francesca Zappia
So perfectly designed I post it here as it dropped into my inbox… Last news: 🐇 Follow the rabbit in the virtual world – Jane Topping + SIX YEARS Dear friends and colleagues, Hope you had a nice summer! I am sharing some details of my recent collaboration with the art fair ART-O-RAMA in Marseille,…
Read MoreMurky Waters & Endless/Belly Film Programmes are now online
SALT (Art Walk Porty) has finished, but the two curated film programmes are now online. Watch them here. Murky Waters A programme of 7 short films curated by Rosy Naylor:Water Work (Tony Hill, 1987), Longshore Drift (Jane Watt and SE Barnet, 2022), Change Direction (Greta McMillan, 2021), B-scope (Martina O’Brien, 2019), Precarious Edge (Tamsin Grainger,…
Read Morered gym in Berlin
Wish I was getting along to see this show, crammed with favs… You should go. The exhibition ‘red gym’ brings together artists from Berlin and Glasgow and features work from the Haubrok Collection. The exhibited work, including painting, photography, video, sculpture, collage, and poetic writing, responds to the theme of ‘resistance’. The exhibition utilises the…
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