If you fancy a poke around in artists' studios (and let's face it - it's brilliantly appealing to the slightly horrendous nosy side of all of us), totter down to Totterdown this weekend (sorry - I've never being able to say anything about Totterdown without invoking wordplay so feeble that it barely qualifies as pun).It's always inspiring meeting the artists and seeing the spaces where they work when seeing the art - and sometimes they even give you homemade cake too!
There's over 200 artists taking part in over 60 venues around Totterdown, from D. Brooke's paintings and installations at The Oxford Pub, Oxford Street (the turf bike looks fab), through Linda Gates's ceramics of everyday objects - inspired by pop-art but with a quirky DIY-twist - at 13, Hawthorne Street to Rachel Heaton's stunning seascapes at Totterdown Baptist Church, Wells Road.
Join in a communal knitting project at 19, Summer Hill; there's music and poetry going on at the Shakespeare; and if it all gets a bit too cultural, Sean Busby and Richard Jones from The Totterdown Press will be making cider outside number 31 Balmain Street.
Front Room art trail takes place Friday 20th Nov, 6-9pm; Saturday and Sunday 21st & 22nd, 12-6pm. Go to http://www.frontroom.org.uk/ for more information.
I've just realised that in only 9 reviews we've mentioned the possibility of eating cake twice. That's quite a hit-rate. Clearly, we've got our priorities sorted.
ReplyDeletePhillida this is especially strange considering that given our combined food intolerances, neither of us can eat said cake. Perhaps its a bit like anorexics who feed up everyone else around them so that they can still take some pleasure in food.
Or perhaps we just eat the cake anyway (I know I do...)