Curiosity and the icon

Michael Jackson. Roger Federer. Martina Navratilova. Vandana Shiva. Each of these icons have had a moment in my mind in the past two weeks. MJ, of course. Roger’s 15th grand slam. Martina at the National Portrait Gallery’s Gay Icons exhibiton. Vandana Shiva as the subject of debate on the Lit & [...]

The sculpting of wonder

There was a lovely piece in yesterday’s Guardian by the writer Marina Warner on the scuplture of Peter Randall-Page, an artist who draws on natural forms and sources to reposition our perspective on some of the larger questions of experience: love, play, growth, among others.
He has an exhibition on at the Yorkshire [...]