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Mark Forrest

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It’s not immigrants - it’s billionaires ✊🏼 - FUCK ICE - he/him • justified & ancient • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 - Aberdeen, Scotland

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Rose Ruane@regretteruane.bsky.social · 6d ago

Painting created c.1967, by Mary Lorraine, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, where she was compelled to live. Several of her surviving works depict dancers & we have reason to believe she, herself, was a trained ballet dancer. This & other biographical details are awaiting confirmation

Painting in an untaught style of six white ballerinas doing a barre class with a teacher in pink tutu in the centre of the room. The practice is room is opulent with large scalloped gilt framed mirrors and a gold and crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling, although the figures are anatomically incorrect and actually impossible, there is an incredible sense of movement which is really evocative and somehow true to life and despite the perspective of the room being all wrong, it also gives a sense of place, of the long narrow room filled with music and purpose
Rose Ruane@regretteruane.bsky.social · 6d ago

Satyr created by Mary Lorraine, c.1967, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, where she was compelled to live. One of several surviving works her paintings often depict scenes of ballet, art making & society occasions & it seems, pre-hospitalisation, she may have been a professional dancer

A pale painting of a white, grey haired satyr dressed in a grey v neck sweater, white shirt and black tie with furred legs and pointy hooves, the left hand raised to shoulder height. The figure is rather stranded in the middle of an expanse of yellowing paper, it is painted in an untaught style and there is something quite camp about the satyr’s stance but there is also a slightly unsettling quality to it. His face is not very detailed but the expression on it is certainly not friendly
Toby Miller@tobytram.bsky.social · 4d ago

Our radar as seen through glass. The local airbase radar, via a Polaroid, in low sun, and with extra lenses and glass prisms stuck over the Polaroid lens with BluTac. Some extra technical details in the alt text.

Polaroid of a large military radar dish atop a concrete pillar. The sky is and odd bruise of a colour. This is just a normal Polaroid, shot on automatic, through with the f-stop dialed down about 2 stops to take some of the brightness out of the sky. This is too many stops, I can now see. I have started to dial down the f-stop when I have extra glass in front of the Polaroid camera’s lens, as that extra glass seems to throw light around and muck up the exposure, so I let less light in at the source. Polaroid of the radar dish atop- only with a semi-fish eye lens stuck over the Polaroid lens. Just stuck over with BluTac. Because of this lens the claustrophobic nature of a Polaroid frame is thrown wide open - we can see the radar building roof, and so much more sky. It all bends in distortion, which is very pleasing. Very very pleased with this. Here the extra 2 f-stops down has worked a treat. I must remember this. Again, a Polaroid of the radar. Only it is shattered in the frame, with sky above and below it. This is because a glass decanter - a complex prism of glass - was stuck over the Polaroid lens. I had no idea if this would work. Again, an f-stop up here would have helped the final image pop a bit more.And lastly, the radar through just the Polaroid lens, though with a better exposure level. It looks very pleasing. Like a watermark.
Rose Ruane@regretteruane.bsky.social · 4d ago

Painting created by Muriel Lewis c.1968 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live. Part of a large body of work, this is one of several paintings which depict embracing couples, often suggesting furtive trysts where unease underlies the apparent romanticism

Painting in an illustrate style of a white heterosexual couple embracing in front of a stone bridge in the moonlight surrounded by leafy trees with golden light reflected on the water. The couple is in the far left middle ground and a fair haired man in pale yellow short sleeved shirt and tan slacks embraces a brown haired woman wearing a short grey dress and matching shoes from behind, something awkward in their posture
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7d ago

Jonathan Porritt has been arrested. As he says "trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism."

Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · 7d ago

NEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org

Rose Ruane@regretteruane.bsky.social · 7d ago

Woodcuts of the Madonna created c.midC20th at Netherne hospital by George Buday who was compelled to live there. Buday was a professional artist, writer & historian. Art therapist Edward Adamson set him up a studio in an derelict summerhouse on the hospital grounds with access to his carving tools

A mid-century style woodcut printed in dark blue ink on pale blue paper of a serene, apparently female face with eyes closed.A mid-century style woodcut printed in dark blue ink on orange paper of a serene, apparently female face with eyes closed.
Jess R.@joodeane.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Giving a little talk tomorrow about work in my Newport show. Anxious, my old therapist said he might come. Oy. 1,000 Cuts. Cotton thread on vintage linen with cloth.

Cotton thread ‘drawing’ on linen. 1,000 Cuts. By Jessica Rosner. b.1958
Richard Morris@ahistoryinart.bsky.social · last wk.

In 1924, the year this picture of the Grand Canyon was painted, Gunnar Widforss exhibited a large group of works depicting scenes from US National Parks. An art critic at the time considered Widforss as 'possibly the greatest watercolorist in America today.'

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