Last week I visited Bridget Riley’s exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre. This is the largest exhibition of Riley’s work to date, a retrospective of pieces spanning a 70-year career, including during her time… View Full Post
Last week I welcomed colleagues and guests to an event on the creative industries organised by Goldsmiths’ Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE) and co-hosted by the Policy and Evidence Centre (PEC). Creative Industries… View Full Post
On Friday 22 November I chaired a panel to mark the closing of Rothko in Lampedusa, an inspiring exhibition of artwork by refugees. The Rothko in Lampedusa exhibition ran from May to November 2019 and… View Full Post
The Convention, which took place in Sarajevo between 4-7 November, brought together all current grantees of the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women (UN Trust Fund) for the first time, along with UN… View Full Post
Dr Tim Parnell is Senior Lecturer in English at Goldsmiths University of London and Literary Director of the Goldsmiths Prize. In this interview ahead of the announcement of the Prize’s 2019 winner, Tim shares how… View Full Post
In today’s increasingly polarised society, it’s good to be reminded how a community can come together to challenge those who seek to undermine its values. I was reminded of this at the weekend when I… View Full Post
London College of Fashion, UAL alongside its new neighbours in East Bank officially ‘broke ground’ this morning. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, who officially launched the beginning of construction works said: “Culture and creativity… View Full Post
As the project evolved I became increasingly fascinated with where the tent had come from, unanswerable questions I received from children, took me to Za’atari – where the tent had once been home to a fleeing Syrian family. I learned fast, that the first person you meet in camp is yourself, your beliefs, your defences, ultimately, whether you like it or not, your purpose in life. … View Full Post
“On a personal level, we at Fashion Revolution advocate very much for the caring of clothes as well as the respecting the people that made them, the two things go hand in hand. We’ve got a bit of a catchphrase this year, which is ‘it’s just as important to ask who made my clothes as it is to remember that loved clothes last’.”… View Full Post
A powerful colour with many cultural associations, dressing all in black is often a sophisticated, elegant and restrained fashion statement, yet even so black’s historical associations with evil, death, eroticism, piety and puritanism remain. … View Full Post