GlobalYell’s blog news
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New additions to the collection
This week four new additions to the studio collection have arrived. Bought at auction, the pieces are by Malcolm Harrison, Penelope Read and Laura Vassilis. Malcolm Harrison was a well-known…
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Men of the Trees
Trees feature heavily in this week’s blog. Perhaps it is because the first part of the week was spent planting new trees where the studio-on-the-hill is nearly complete, perhaps it…
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Calling all West Coast Creatives
An Arts and Cultural Sector Networking Meeting will be held on 9th November in the Left Bank Art Gallery.
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Join a choir
On Saturday 11th November at 2pm there will be a meeting about a new adult choir that I will be starting shortly. We will also be doing some singing so…
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This week’s Spotify playlist
Each week a curated set of music on Spotify accompanies the blog. The pieces relate to the blog contents and you can listen via the player below or by clicking…
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Quentin Garel – In The Flesh
Quentin Garel, the French sculptor, works with wood and bronze in a show at Cromwell Place in London. The sculptor is showing his trademark large pieces, portraits and depictions of…
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Textiles of the Mbuti
Over in the northeastern rainforest, the Ituri, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo live the Mbuti people who make unique barkcloth. Pounded out by men and decoratively planted by…
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For the love of trees
New Zealand Aotearoa (for those of you who do not know how to pronounce it try Ow-tay-ah-raw-ah) is famous for its amazing scenery, and here in the South Island on…
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The Rugby
South Africa’s Cape Town Camerata perform a song for the Rugby World Cup and the All Blacks perform their haka before The Big Game kicked off today. Now, who to…
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Appropriation or appreciation – finding new ways to share
For the past couple of weeks the blog has been looking at the thorny issue of appropriation: when does using someone else’s culture become “theft” and when is it actually…
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