How clever to create an exhibition about something we walk on every day – soil. There’s a whole world down there, hidden away. Scientific explanations of what lies under our feet are all very well, but this creative and visually attractive response to the subject of soil is very attractive to me …
One of the first musical acts to have a video game tie-in was a queer band who’d already hit the headlines. When a gaming company so prominently featured a band who’d had a controversial run in the press, we might wonder …
Today, the Blasket Islands are uninhabited. This newspaper article documents the decline in population, leading to their abandonment in 1954. These images have an air of melancholy about them, especially the boy and his dog, shy and unsure about what the future holds …
While the world tells us that the new year means we all ought to be leaping into new ventures, the image of January in this panel seems to show a tired bearded man, warming his hands by the fire. According to this wooden panel, probably from the early 1700s …
