Andrew Ray
@andrew-ray.bsky.social
Day job on climate change policy. Writing about landscape and the arts in the occasional spare moment...
Sussex landscape and Ravilious references in this new record. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
Gilroy Mere – Furlongs | The Quietus
A journey through the anceint rites of the Sussex countryside with wind chies, plinky keyboards and infectious acoustic guitar licks proves a triumph, for Travis Elborough
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to give thanks for water you might offer a stone Thomas A. Clark Lovely evening in ‘the grove of delight’, postROOM gallery
I dug this out - quite nostalgic. I’d forgotten about the cartoon. I can see from the tour dates listed that I saw Armitage, Maxwell and Paterson at Waterstones on 17th May. Cost was £2.
It occurs to me it's high time two poets went off to Iceland to produce another report, thirty and sixty years on from these two.
Michael Heizer’s City video game by Lily Belmira lilybelmira.itch.io/city?ref=gam...
City by Michael Heizer [Free Version] by Lily Belmira
art in your home
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I have built a new searchable map of Some Landscapes blog posts. some-landscapes.blogspot.com/p/map.html
Thinking about Tacita Dean's 'Antigone' today, with Stephen Dillane as an Oedipus blinded by tinted eclipse glasses. 'At full eclipse, a black sun with a flaring corona looks back, like an eye. Colour is drained from the world and then all light...' www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Tacita Dean Landscape review – a total eclipse of the senses
From the steaming volcanoes of Yellowstone park to the mists of Bodmin Moor, the artist’s latest riveting work is like hitching a ride with Oedipus, Antigone and ZZ Top
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Imagining a world where Farrar, Straus and Giroux are selling a stake in Liverpool FC to a consortium of small poetry presses.
Good to see Nancy Holt in the Saatchi’s sun and moon exhibition
Whitstable sea breezes - such a welcome change yesterday from the stifling heat of London, to which I’ve now returned.
‘Lower Lake’ by Hurvin Anderson - there are some very appealing Caribbean landscapes in his Tate Britain exhibition.
‘A thing of rare beauty. “I have seen it described as the ‘falling leaf’ penalty and I like that,” he reflects.’ www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘That penalty changed my life’: Panenka’s pride 50 years on from special spot-kick
Czech’s audacious defiance of Sepp Maier in Belgrade has slipped into football folklore: ‘The only disadvantage is that I don’t get any royalties from it’
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Multispecies maps. lithub.com/has-the-time...
Has the Time Finally Come for Multispecies Maps?
Imagine, if you will, a college student returning from summer break for the start of a new semester. Heading to her first class of the day, she pulls up the campus map on her phone and is intrigued…
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Remembering how impressed I was by David Hockney's photographic collages which I saw when I was 16 at the Hayward Gallery (it was showing alongside a Raoul Dufy retrospective). I would love to have tried this method myself but photographs were too expensive to print like this (still are!)
Walked to the Estorick this afternoon, where Emilio Isgrò’s map and globe erasures remove history and culture from the land and the sea.
Shao Fan - The Northern Sea 3. Seen at White Cube this morning. He also does large drawings of rabbits.
The sea at Antibes yesterday. The colour of the Mediterranean is always more beautiful than you remember it. (Sadly I’m now back in Hackney.)
A slide from Donald Locke’s ‘The Journey’, 1973-74. Ceramic elements photographed in landscapes. Seen this morning at Camden Art Centre.
A highlight of every month - who wouldn't want to read Irmin Schmidt's Invisible Jukebox in the latest issue, or Sunn O))) on Rothko and landscape? Other mags are full of lists and archive reprints but The Wire is always fresh and forward looking. And subscribers can access their amazing archive...
The Wire Magazine@thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 5mo agoAn annual message from The Wire Publishing an independent music magazine is tougher than ever. We need your continuing support www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
Rain spattered watercolour - Turner caught in a shower while painting Cader Idris.
I wrote about Basil Bunting’s modernist masterpiece, Briggflatts — published 60 years ago this month — and what I learned from the poet’s own comments on his poem
Pinks #40: How It Feels Rubbing Down a Gravestone
Personal insights into a poetic masterpiece
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New post on 'A Surrey Naturalist by John Bevis, published by @uniformbooks.bsky.social some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2026/02/over...
Over stones, under alders
On John Bevis's collection of found poems, 'A Surrey Naturalist'
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Misty light in the distant vistas of ‘Crossing the Brook’, on show in the Tate’s Turner/Constable show.
