Thought • Art • Representation

I have recently been helping students install their Degree Show exhibitions. With one student working across printmaking and photography, we...

One of the earliest lessons in drawing I can remember involved my brother, Tom, showing me how a tank might appear over a distant horizon. W...

A few weeks ago a student circulated an open letter calling for the abolition of generative AI within the Art School. It was carefully writt...

Someone points to a tomato and says “That’s green”.   It is sitting on the table in front of us, in ordinary light. The rest of us have no h...

As a young child, I remember a teacher, Mr Taylor, urging us—quite insistently—to “see” the ellipse in a roll of masking tape placed on the ...

  Clarity is something we appeal to readily. We speak of bringing things into focus, of sharpening an idea, of seeing clearly. The language ...

A ruler offers a promise. It fixes length, establishes proportion, provides a stable reference against which things can be measured. It anch...