I was inspired to write a post recently about the sexism in the look of the current range of Games Workshop figures. I wanted to analyse all the female sculpts in one post; but with just the Sisters of Battle I’ve… Continue Reading
(Copied from a post I made from Facebook.) Sometimes I sit on the floor of my photography studio to work rather than anywhere more conventional like a desk with a chair, or the sofa. I don’t know why I like… Continue Reading
I’ve been rather enamoured by the Germaine Greer book ‘The Boy’ (or sometimes called ‘The Beautiful Boy’) for quite a long time. I can’t remember exactly how I came across it, but I remember it was while I was at the… Continue Reading
In about a month I’m giving a talk about a print by Albrecht Dürer. I’ll show you the print before I go any further. I really hate presentations to peers, however I have to do one in about a month and… Continue Reading
So… after reading some articles in class yesterday and hearing about a tutor’s experience with a women in architecture hack-a-thon, I’m curious to know if I could organise one for women photographers. This post is serving as little more than… Continue Reading
Islamic art has fascinated me for a long time. If I’m right (and I don’t have a reference book here with me now) Islamic art focusses on geometry, colour, pattern, and text due to ideas of non-pictoral representations in local… Continue Reading
Since I’ve now had my results back from my second year at university, I can post the final essay for my Culture, Gender and Sexuality module. I got 80% overall in this module – 70% is required for achieving a… Continue Reading
There’s two famous ladies in these photos. I’ll give you a hint – they ain’t alive anymore. The eagle-eyed will spot that both the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo are in the backgrounds of these photos – that… Continue Reading
Today, all day, was spent in the Louvre. The morning was spent in a lecture looking at the sculpture of tombs and then the afternoon I dragged myself around some of the antiquities parts of the museum. I say dragged,… Continue Reading
So, the photo tour of Paris continues. It turned out to be a glorious day today which was a lovely contrast to the very grey day that we arrived on yesterday. It was even warm in the sun, although bitterly… Continue Reading