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Animal Magic

Posted on December 9, 2015 by claire collison

Autumn 15 WTC#1 Using animals in our writing From Aesop’s Fables to Ted Hughes’s Crow, the stories we tell about animals are often stories about us. This exhibition goes on the trail of animals on the page, asking why they have … Continue reading →

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Small Steps, Big Difference, by Gail Golding

Posted on April 6, 2011 by claire collison

The cormorant, a lord watching over its manor, perches on a cream-coloured chimney pot on the old brick warehouse. It curves and twists, swivels its neck compass-angles, side-eye watching for movement. Its gaze snakes through iron gas pump pillars, filigreed … Continue reading →

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Moving Landscape, by Rocío Prieto Rodríguez

Posted on April 4, 2011 by claire collison

A red and yellow worm serenades his blue garrapata friend with an orange mandolin.  There’s a window into the fishes, the sulphur is looking at me. Beyond are the Triangules that keep screaming while the circle has gone very sad … Continue reading →

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Primeval/Primordial, by Phyllis Lane

Posted on March 28, 2011 by claire collison

Monsters eating babies, mouths,eyes,teeth, snakes twisting and turning, eyes burning into me, dreams and nightmares, circles,squares,rectangles, diamonds,triangles,zig-zags, a trail of sploges and splashes, on a trancelike journey, church purple,viridian green,poppy red, azure blue,banana yellow, black dots and lines, hieroglyphics and … Continue reading →

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Elements enjoy the new season, by Astrid Sutton

Posted on March 28, 2011 by claire collison

“My name is Gallium Germanium. I’m a crane. My huge red shoulders toil as they lift the earth. I work with a digger, Antimony Tellurium who shifts the loads. At this time of the year, we smell the first fresh … Continue reading →

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Magic Landscape: Alan Davie to Camley St, Kings Cross

Posted on March 23, 2011 by claire collison
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