A Year in the life: 30 September 2022
There comes to certain artists a time in their lives where the culmination of their life's work is caught up in a single piece.
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There comes to certain artists a time in their lives where the culmination of their life's work is caught up in a single piece.
"Like a precious baubled ring, the carving becomes the clawed setting, the movement of light upon it the jewel."
Larkin is telling us to trust our instincts - to see through the rhetoric of the day - a rhetoric that sometimes constructs a reality that is so absurd and yet so real and pervasive at times.
Steve Tomlin will deliver an illustrated talk about the medieval church, specifically addressing apotropaics, the perception of magic and religious ritual in the context of remarkable archaeological evidence found at Broadwell church.
Avebury henge is part of a vast ritualistic landscape. Here's an opportunity to drop within a stone circle via VR.
It's one of my favourite buildings in Avebury. There's something about a circular building that really appeals to me - it never ends.
" It has taken over 300 hours of travel, photography and post production to produce."
"The peeling paint, the muted colours and the rusting iron is no more. Here time’s cataract has been removed, and I’m seeing a building as the Victorians first saw it. "
All Saints was subject to an arson attack in 2015 which left the building a shell. It has taken 8 years of careful planning and skilled conservation to bring the building back to life.
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