My dear friend Waj is showing his latest work at Chappel Galleries 15 August - 6 September. He and his wife Edna have been gallerists since the 80s and have a plethora of stories about every artist you can think of. Love em.
Claire Cansick
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Painter Norfolk, UK Government Art Collection | Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art | Norwich Castle Museum | Cold Paradise | Jacksons 19&24 | Firstsite | Contemporary & Country https://linktr.ee/ClaireCansick
Painting by Marie Lenclos. ‘From The Tracks’ Oil on linen. Size 30 x 40 cm.
“We need to remember that this is as good as it gets" “It gets worse from here. Until we get to net zero, things go on getting worse” says Prof Julia King, from UK Climate Change Committee #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK heatwave: Burnham considers ban on disposable barbecues to prevent wildfires – as it happened
Prime minister suggests possible measure as he prepares to chair emergency Cobra meeting in response to extreme heat
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The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org
Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet
“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder
science.org
NEW: A 13-year-old girl has been reported missing in Inverness 🚨
Teenage girl, 13, reported missing in Inverness
thenational.scot
'They Need To Be Banned': Woman calls out doctor wearing smart glasses during consultation where she had to take off her clothes These glasses are a privacy nightmare ripe for abuse by the individuals who buy them and Meta themselves.
Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned'
A woman's discomfort with a doctor wearing smart glasses during a consultation has sparked debate over privacy and the use of camera-equipped technology in healthcare settings.
fashiontimes.co.uk
A sensational discovery of an ancient Roman shipwreck off the coast of Sicily promises to provide new information about ancient Mediterranean trade routes. buff.ly/rElt4bK
A scorching summer drought has brought devastating wildfires to places like Dunwich Heath and Middlewick. Behind the flames lies an uncomfortable truth: our unbridled access and sense of entitlement can destroy wild spaces. Glyn Evans on what to do about it. 🔥🌿
Wildfires: do we love our wild spaces too much?
As a scorching summer fuels wildfires, our unlimited access to wild spaces raises uncomfortable questions about protecting them
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Scouring bloody Spotify for an original version, through the tidal wave of utterly shite mixes, is not my idea of fun.
The Amazon rainforest might be closer to a tipping point than scientists thought go.nature.com/4g7jjnc
A ‘super’ El Niño could transform the Amazon. Is the world’s biggest rainforest doomed?
The Amazon rainforest might be closer to a tipping point than scientists thought. Some fear that droughts and fire could nudge it into irreversible decline.
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Kids born in the 80s read this and think, “my parents would have been in a maximum security prison” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/w...
Sid Motion Gallery, the South London dealership that has spent the past decade building a programme supporting emerging and mid-career artists, is to close this autumn, with its founder saying she has chosen to wind up the business while the programme and finances are still intact. buff.ly/QN3m5Ul
Petition to ban SUVs unless you live in a shack up a mountain, are a forester, or a farmer.
Making flapjack I'm not allowed to eat yet, as I'm taking it somewhere tomorrow, and the house smells of butter and treacle.
Wildfires can generate their own weather if hot enough Major fires heat the air above them, resulting in formation of powerful air currents that lead to the formation of deadly PyroCbs “A pyrocumulonimbus is basically a thunderstorm within the plume of the fire”. www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth...
Deadly 'fire thunderstorms' are forming across the US. And cities may be powerless to stop them | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Mega-firestorms are erupting around the globe. And we’re not prepared
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Parkview, 2026. Gouache painting on purple St-Armand paper, 19 x 14cm. #painting #gouachepainting #art
We need to have to have a reckoning with the fact that our media class is mostly just dull as fuck driving gloves Tory 65 year olds who think behaving like an insufferable cunt is cool and funny
Going through my parents' stuff and found this weird little gal. She's a transistor radio. Her right eyeball is tuner and her left eyeball is power/volume.
Died (alas!) on this day in 1516, Hieronymus Bosch. A truly unique mind. It was said that he painted humanity as we are on the inside, not just the outside. And it isn't pretty!
New Scandinavian wings at Wandsworth and Pentonville jails have seen a 45% fall in assaults, 57% drop in self harm and halving of staff absence rates - fascinating results from trial into a more rehabilitative approach to prisons observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
‘Scandi wings’ offering pianos, pool and tea parties coul...
A unit in London’s Wandsworth prison has been transformed using methods from Sweden and Norway that prioritise rehabilitation over retribution
observer.co.uk
Finally have got to the bottom of my website shop issue. If you want a website, don't get a Wordpress one, unless you like spending half of Sunday talking to an engineer. Anyhow here it is all happy and working. clairecansick.com/shop/
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Burgh Castle: Roman Fort near Great Yarmouth George Christopher Davies, 1883.
‘These are human fires, not wildfires’: Dunwich reflects on the devastation
‘These are human fires, not wildfires’: Dunwich reflects on the devastation
As residents, nature wardens and experts consider the damage to the heathland and how to restore it, the climate crisis is foremost in their minds
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