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Showing posts with label sculpture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sculpture. Show all posts
2 June 2025

Shoreditch – powerful architecture, marvellous metal and a helping hand

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This actually follows on from this piece I wrote on my Substack – I continued my walk westwards from Norton Folgate towards City Road, ente...
7 May 2025

Kensington Gore – hot and cold and nine miles from Hounslow

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Lowther Lodge, is a lovely GII* red brick building at 1 Kensington Gore, facing Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens as seen here . The house wa...
8 October 2024

Sir George Peabody and Paul Julius Baron Von Reuter – marvellous memorials

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I wrote recently about the shops around the exterior of the Royal Exchange and their lovely architectural details. The pedestrianised street...
17 September 2024

Public Art in The City of London – Sara Barker at Angel Court

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Angel Court echoes an ancient path that today links Throgmorton Street to Copthall Avenue between high-rise glass office buildings. During L...
22 December 2023

Youth by William Dudeney – a lovely statue near Gough Square

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Outside the door of  Pemberton House, 6 East Harding Street, between Gunpowder Square and Gough Square, there is a lovely sculptural piece ...
1 December 2023

If Not Now, When at The Saatchi Gallery

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Those of you know me well will know I roll my eyes and sigh every time I hear there's a women's thing on. Hence why I wasn't goi...
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4 July 2023

Remnants of Rachel Whiteread's 'House' on Wennington Green, Grove Road, East London

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Wandering westwards along Roman Road recently from its welcoming arch at the Parnell Road  seeing how the road has evolved from the wonderfu...
30 June 2023

After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art at The National Gallery – ooh lovely!!

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Oh my, this is good. What a lovely surprise – an absolute delight. Just like my last post about the Ai WeiWei show , I had no idea about the...
26 February 2023

BBC TV Centre – tiletastic!

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Last week I went with my friend to be part of the audience for a panel show recordingw.  We arrived to find many hundreds of people… the que...
11 November 2021

Ron Mueck at the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery – Wow in all respects

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I had no idea about this superb gallery until I walked inside the door of this unassuming, yet beautifully renovated, Georgian house in Dove...
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13 January 2021

You need hands

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Inspired by the pointing hands in a recent post, I have collected some more hands that please me.  You might recognise some of them. The cen...
29 March 2020

Endangered Species by Barry Baldwin on Grand Buildings

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Blimey!  How did I not notice this until last year? Trafalgar Square is a busy junction that I usually walk through or round quickly as I ...
12 November 2019

Australia House

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Last week my friend Rob Smith, a fellow Footprints of London  guide, told me that an Australian lady on one his walks said she followed my ...
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5 October 2017

Take One Picture – creatve inspiration for schoolchildren at The National Gallery

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My last post was about the Degas exhibition at the National Gallery. If you do go to see that, or even if you don't, walk through the ad...
29 August 2017

A Walking Tour around Woolwich Arsenal

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Earlier this summer I went on an excellent tour of Woolwich Arsenal led by my friend Laurence Scales. Laurence is interested in machine...