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Tag: Rochelle Roberts

Your Retreating Shadow: poetry as a portal between conscious memory and subconscious dreaming

12th December 202213th December 2022  Jennifer Brough

Rochelle Roberts’ speaker moves back and forth through the porous gateway of memory in an uncanny debut. 

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Broken Sleep Books, poetry collection, Rochelle Roberts, Your Retreating Shadow

It All Comes Down at the Barbican

10th March 202110th March 2021  Rochelle Roberts

Bringing together thirteen emerging artists between the ages of 16-25, the Barbican’s latest exhibition, It All Comes Down, explores how young people navigate the world and approach their artistic practise during the pandemic.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Annie Lee, Arabella Turner, art, Barbican, Barbican Centre, Becca Lynes, Dada, Defne Ozdenoren, Film, Jordan Robertson, Lay Stevens, Lockdown, Molly Morphew, Photography, Rebecca Cromwell, Rochelle Roberts, Safiye Grey, Sam Ahern, Sneha Alexander, Surrealism, Vangelis Trichias, Young Visual Arts Group

Postcards in Isolation 28: Somaya Critchlow and Dorothea Tanning’s Interior with Sudden Joy, 1951

15th October 202015th October 2020  Rochelle Roberts

In the final postcard of her series, Rochelle Roberts reflects on the last few months since the first lockdown, and finds comfort and hope in the artwork of Somaya Critchlow and Dorothea Tanning’s Interior with Sudden Joy, 1951.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: BHM, BHM 2020, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Corona Virus, Covid-19, Dorothea Tanning, Lockdown Living, Love and Hip Hop, Maximillian William Gallery, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, Somaya Critchlow, Underneath a Bebop Moon

Postcards in Isolation 23: Majella Mark, The Return, 2020

27th August 20201st September 2020  Majella Mark

Majella Mark looks back to her own artwork, The Return, 2020, a celebration of African ancestry, and asks where can black men and women go to be safe in light of the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery?

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Africa, Ahmaud Avery, Banksy, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Breonna Taylor, Covid-19, Elijah Mcclain, George Floyd, Lockdown Living, Majella Mark, New York, Pandemic, Postcards from the Edge, Postcards in Isolation, Racism, Rochelle Roberts, The Return, Visual AIDS

Postcards in Isolation 22: Luchita Hurtado, Untitled, 1971

19th August 202019th August 2020  Jennifer Brough

In Luchita Hurtado’s paintings, the nude female body is an affirmation of the self, a locus of solitude and personal care that reminds us to slow down and appreciate ourselves and others, writes Jennifer Brough.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Covid-19, Jennifer Brough, John Berger, Lockdown Living, Luchita Hurtado, New Mexico, Nude, painting, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, The Serpentine

Postcards in Isolation 21: Mina Loy, Househunting, c.1950

17th August 202019th August 2020  Jade French

Jade French muses on the idea of ‘home’ and the relationships that create one, when looking at Mina Loy’s assemblage, Househunting, c.1950.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: assemblage, Decorating Dissidence, H. D., Househunting, Jade French, Mina Loy, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts

Postcards in Isolation 20: Atsuko Tanaka, Electric Dress, 1956

12th August 202012th August 2020  Kitty Becher

Kitty Becher takes inspiration from Atsuko Tanaka’s Electric Dress, 1956, a radical and daring work that speaks to our current anxieties and dependency on technology.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Atsuko Tanaka, Covid-19, Gut group, Japan, Kitty Becher, Lockdown Living, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts

Postcards in Isolation 19: Sylvia Fein, The Painting Told Me What to Do, 2012

7th August 20208th August 2020  Molly Gilroy

On a trip to Berkeley, California, Molly Gilroy discovered Sylvia Fein’s hypnotic and blazing work, The Painting Told Me What to Do, 2012, an image, which in postcard form, has given her hope during lockdown.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, GeneralTagged: art, BAMPFA, Berkley, Covid-19, Leonora Carrington, Lockdown Living, Molly Gilroy, Postcards in Isolation, Remedios Varo, Rochelle Roberts, San Francisco, Surrealism, Surrealists, Sylvia Fein, Women surrealists

Postcards in Isolation 18: Faith Ringgold, #19 US Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of Black Power, 1967

5th August 20205th August 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Faith Ringgold’s striking painting, #19 US Postage Stamp, 1967, captures the complexities of the Black Power movement in 60s America and the white supremacist structures African Americans were subject to. But it serves as a metaphor for our times too, writes Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Black Lives Matter, Black Power Movement, BLM, Faith Ringgold, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Hyde Park, Lockdown Living, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Monuments, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, sculpture, The Serpentine, US Postage Stamp

Postcards in Isolation 17: Lichtenstein, In the Car, 1963

1st August 20207th August 2020  Rebecca Savage

Rebecca Savage reflects on 60s Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s In the Car, 1963, a colourful work that reminds her of the pre-corona freedoms we’re no longer able to enjoy fully.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: 1960s, Covid-19, In the Car, Lichtenstein, Lockdown Living, Pop Art, Postcards in Isolation, Rebecca Savage, Rochelle Roberts, Roy Lichtenstein

Postcards in Isolation 16: Tyler Mitchell, Untitled – Two Girls Embrace, 2018

23rd July 202023rd July 2020  Emma Korantema Hanson

Emma Hanson marks the sixteenth Postcard of the series with Tyler Mitchell’s Untitled – Two Girls Embrace, 2018, which she sees as a celebration of black womanhood, Black freedom and looks to the achievability of a Black utopia.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Black Lives Matter, Covid-19, Emma Hanson, Foam Gallery, Lockdown Living, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, Two Girls Embrace, Tyler Mitchell, Vogue

Postcards in Isolation 15: Pixie Colman-Smith, The Hermit, 1909

21st July 202026th July 2020  Anna Kate Blair

In the fifteenth Postcard of the series, Anna Kate Blair contemplates Pixie Colman-Smith’s designs for the Rider-Waite tarot deck and pays close attention to the Hermit, a card whose solitary figure resonates with our times.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: A. E. Waite, Ana Kate Blair, Covid-19, Jungian Analysis, Lockdown Living, Pixie Colman-Smith, Postcards in Isolation, Rider-Waite, Rider-Waite tarot, Rochelle Roberts, Tarot, The Hermit

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