Busytinsnips Blog
RECENT INSPIRATIONS (SUMMER AND AUTUMN)
Strawberry Field (No one I think is in my tree), Liverpool
Monday, 30 September 2019
Monday, 30 September 2019
ART
William Blake — Tate Britain
Cy Twombly Sculptures — Gagosian, London
Antony Gormley — Royal Academy of Arts, London
Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits — Royal Academy of Arts, London
Keith Haring Tate — Liverpool
Rose Wylie, 2014: PV Windows and Floorboards — Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Laurence Stephen Lowry, 1959: The Liver Building, Liverpool — Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Bridget Riley — Scottish National Gallery
Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage — Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art
Out Of Sight Out Of Mind exhibition — Summerhall, Edinburgh
Lady Lever Art Gallery — Port Sunlight Village, Wirral
BOOKS
Tim Riley — Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music
Patti Smith — Year Of The Monkey
Olga Tokarczuk — Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead
Nick Cave — The Death Of Bunny Munro
Paolo Parisi — Basquiat A Graphic Novel
MUSIC
After two recent trips to Liverpool I have become a little obsessed with The Beatles! Of course I have always liked them but now I hear them in a different way.
Compelling, mesmerising and inspiring I am still in awe at their brilliance and sit at their feet to absorb creativity! Sitting in Strawberry Field last month was one of those truly profound moments in life.
The Beatles — The Beatles (white album)
The Beatles — Let It Be
The Beatles — Abbey Road
Yoko Ono — Approximately Infinite Universe
John Lennon and Yoko Ono — Milk And Honey
John Lennon — Imagine
Echo & the Bunnymen — Crocodiles
Wings Of Desire Soundtrack
Iggy Pop — Free & Zombie Birdhouse
Public Enemy — Power To The People And The Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits
Smog — Supper
Miles Davis — Bitches Brew
FILM/TV
Joker — Todd Phillips
Distant Voices Still Lives — Terence Davies
Werckmeister Harmonies — Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
As Good As It Gets — James L. Brooks
Ad Astra — James Gray
The Frankenstein Chronicles — Sean Bean
Children Of Heaven — Majid Majidi
I Am Ali — Clare Lewins
Nebraska — Alexander Payne
LIKES
Liverpool
The Pen Factory, The Art Bar, The Grapes and Baltic Fleet, Liverpool
Double Fantasy, John & Yoko — Museum Of Liverpool
Patti Smith — Kelvin Grove Bandstand
Linda McCartney Retrospective — Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
www.instagram.com/busytinsnips2
Moonstruck: 500 years of mental health exhibition — Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
BBC Radio 4 — Desert Island Discs, Wendell Pierce
Topping and Company Booksellers, Edinburgh
QUOTATIONS
"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be…"
— John Lennon
"Nothing is real"
— John Lennon
"No one I think is in my tree"
— John Lennon
"Art has always been to me a stimulating influence; it has always taught me without upbraiding me; elevated me without humbling me; and appealed to me because of the fact that only the best and truest in art survives… Art can be to everyone an inspiration. It is within the reach of all of us…"
William Blake — Tate Britain
Cy Twombly Sculptures — Gagosian, London
Antony Gormley — Royal Academy of Arts, London
Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits — Royal Academy of Arts, London
Keith Haring Tate — Liverpool
Rose Wylie, 2014: PV Windows and Floorboards — Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Laurence Stephen Lowry, 1959: The Liver Building, Liverpool — Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Bridget Riley — Scottish National Gallery
Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage — Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art
Out Of Sight Out Of Mind exhibition — Summerhall, Edinburgh
Lady Lever Art Gallery — Port Sunlight Village, Wirral
BOOKS
Tim Riley — Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music
Patti Smith — Year Of The Monkey
Olga Tokarczuk — Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead
Nick Cave — The Death Of Bunny Munro
Paolo Parisi — Basquiat A Graphic Novel
MUSIC
After two recent trips to Liverpool I have become a little obsessed with The Beatles! Of course I have always liked them but now I hear them in a different way.
Compelling, mesmerising and inspiring I am still in awe at their brilliance and sit at their feet to absorb creativity! Sitting in Strawberry Field last month was one of those truly profound moments in life.
The Beatles — The Beatles (white album)
The Beatles — Let It Be
The Beatles — Abbey Road
Yoko Ono — Approximately Infinite Universe
John Lennon and Yoko Ono — Milk And Honey
John Lennon — Imagine
Echo & the Bunnymen — Crocodiles
Wings Of Desire Soundtrack
Iggy Pop — Free & Zombie Birdhouse
Public Enemy — Power To The People And The Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits
Smog — Supper
Miles Davis — Bitches Brew
FILM/TV
Joker — Todd Phillips
Distant Voices Still Lives — Terence Davies
Werckmeister Harmonies — Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
As Good As It Gets — James L. Brooks
Ad Astra — James Gray
The Frankenstein Chronicles — Sean Bean
Children Of Heaven — Majid Majidi
I Am Ali — Clare Lewins
Nebraska — Alexander Payne
LIKES
Liverpool
The Pen Factory, The Art Bar, The Grapes and Baltic Fleet, Liverpool
Double Fantasy, John & Yoko — Museum Of Liverpool
Patti Smith — Kelvin Grove Bandstand
Linda McCartney Retrospective — Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
www.instagram.com/busytinsnips2
Moonstruck: 500 years of mental health exhibition — Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
BBC Radio 4 — Desert Island Discs, Wendell Pierce
Topping and Company Booksellers, Edinburgh
QUOTATIONS
"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be…"
— John Lennon
"Nothing is real"
— John Lennon
"No one I think is in my tree"
— John Lennon
"Art has always been to me a stimulating influence; it has always taught me without upbraiding me; elevated me without humbling me; and appealed to me because of the fact that only the best and truest in art survives… Art can be to everyone an inspiration. It is within the reach of all of us…"
— Lever at the opening of the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight Village, Wirral, 16 December 1922
