A brilliant long weekend. Houses, village hall, workshops, tents and all packed with remarkable art. Paintings, jewellery, some remarkable iron work from our local blacksmith, good food, decent beer, nice wine (my partner insisted I include that) and then you have finished some good walks.
And no, I am neither exhibiting or have an interest other than seeing people enjoy it. 30 miles south of Ed.
I love the details above these windows on a tenement on Peel Street in the Partick area of Glasgow, especially the cherubs in boats getting pulled along by swans. The building dates from 1875 and was designed by H and D. Barclay.
More #Strandbeests from conceptual artist-engineer Theo Jansen. He became obsessed with designing moveable sculptures that might help conserve beach dunes, then says the project got completely out of hand from there. And it's wonderful.
From https://www.strandbeest.com/ Strandbeests are "Skeletons made from yellow plastic tube (Dutch electricity pipe), are able to walk and get their energy from the wind."
New art thread for 2024 starts here! This is a mostly daily thread with a different artist featured in each post, primarily modern and contemporary stuff since that's my thing.
Sculpture by Japanese artist Shigeko Kubota, 1970s-90s, a member of the Fluxus movement and a pioneer in the use of video, often combining tv screens with wood and metal structures in her experimental works.