by John Bevis | Oct 25, 2019 | A view from the Iron Bridge
As I write this, it is twenty years to the day since the death of Brian Lane, at the age of 57. Brian was a powerhouse who put work above all other concerns, reflected in a legacy of meticulous publications in various media, not least his output as artist publisher in...
by John Bevis | Oct 18, 2019 | A view from the Iron Bridge
I’m in the Newcastle area, and have a chance to visit two examples of the shock new wave of library design from the early 1960s, when post-war austerities were finally shaken off, public funds for ambitious amenities were released, and local government pilgrims to...
by John Bevis | Oct 11, 2019 | A view from the Iron Bridge
The Free Music Machine Drawings of Percy Grainger, ed. Simon Cutts, with an introduction by Wilfrid Mellers. Coracle, 2014 * At a dinner party once, amid William Morris-ish surroundings, I remember a guest remarking that somebody, or some thing, was “as English as...
by John Bevis | Oct 4, 2019 | A view from the Iron Bridge
I was working at Coracle Press gallery in Camberwell in 1984, a year when there was much analysis of the coming of age of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, which of course had been written in 1948. Camden Arts Centre, for example, ran a show titled Nineteen...
by John Bevis | Sep 27, 2019 | A view from the Iron Bridge
Wildlife photography pioneers Richard and Cherry Kearton began their work in 1892; by 1900, they had published six bird books, including the first ever catalogue of the nests and eggs of British breeding birds illustrated entirely from photographs; they had secured...
by John Bevis | Sep 20, 2019 | A view from the Iron Bridge
Growing up, I thought all libraries were like my local one: a quirky, rose-pink prefab chalet that had touched down from outer space in a gap between staid Victorian shops. It felt like stepping into a story: the floorboards creaked, there was an entire library of...
