by John Bevis | Dec 9, 2019 | A view from the Iron Bridge
Friday, 6 December. The cooling towers of Ironbridge B Power Station are being taken down today. A big event round this part of Shropshire where, for the entire lives of anyone aged much less than 60, the towers have been part of the skyline, but never quite part of...
by John Bevis | Dec 2, 2019 | A view from the Iron Bridge
I’m visiting the library in Dunchurch, near Rugby, the very picture of a best- kept village competition winner. As soon as I step across the threshold I can tell it is a community, or volunteer-run, library. One of the staff looks up, calls out a big “hello!” and...
by John Bevis | Nov 25, 2019 | A view from the Iron Bridge
Stray arts, the title of a new poetry collection from Anthony Etherin, is a wee bow, the daintiest of fastenings, that we untie simply by running our eyes backwards and… yes, it’s a palindrome. Stray arts, whichever way you look at it. A taste of what is to come, of...
by John Bevis | Nov 18, 2019 | A view from the Iron Bridge
Since the early 1980s, David Connearn has established a distinct and intriguing manner of drawing. It chimes with one of the tenets of conceptualism of the period, in that the mechanical process may be reduced to relatively few words. Examples such as “Walk in a...
by John Bevis | Nov 10, 2019 | A view from the Iron Bridge
“Every night I left the earth and floated above the city in search of the perfect stranger. As I floated thru the damp clouds with my arms outstretched I let out a long piercing scream. All I ever wanted to do was just drift across the deep cruel mysterious blue sky...
by John Bevis | Nov 1, 2019 | A view from the Iron Bridge
The first thing to get over on your visit to Centraal Museum, Utrecht, is the old familiar complaint: Why is everything so much better in Europe? And it is great here, a lovely airy space on the Nicolaaskerkhof built around the cloisters of the former Agnes Convent,...
