Being a lover of second-hand books. An example of what it might mean to own a book. People ‘of a certain age’ is how you think of describing those who haunt second-hand bookshops, book-fairs that occur across the provinces of the UK by of the PBFA and charity shops. That is the impression I have … More Being a lover of second-hand books. An example of what it might mean to own a book.

Reflecting on Performing David Grieg’s Dr. Korczak’s Example based on a Leeds Playhouse performance, seen on the afternoon of 6th February 2020 (run 25 Jan – 15 Feb.). CONTAINS SPOILERS Who and what is involved in the performance of a play? Our expectations of this production is in part formed by our knowledge – at … More Reflecting on Performing David Grieg’s ‘Dr. Korczak’s Example’ based on a Leeds Playhouse performance

Reflecting on the writing biographies of queer couples: St.Clair, H. (2019) A Lesson in Art & Life: The Colourful World of Cedric Morris & Arthur Lett-Haines, London, Pimpernell Press Ltd & Turner, J.L. (2016) The Visitors’ Book: In Francis Bacon’s Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller London, Constable. The Times obituary for … More Reflecting on writing biographies of queer couples: St.Clair, H. (2019) ‘A Lesson in Art & Life: The Colourful World of Cedric Morris & Arthur Lett-Haines’, and one other book.

REVISION 21st Feb. 2020. I’m calling the experiment below to an end, having received no contributors. That’s hardly surprising in a blog site that hasn’t been popular. In many ways it anyway failed to open itself for collaboration by aiming higher than I could go myself, at least yet. I’m publishing my own version of … More EXPERIMENTAL CO-BLOGGING. Beginning a reflective blog ‘out there’: Reflecting on Garth Greenwell’s ‘Cleanness’ (2020)

Reflecting on the dual concepts of influence and reference in one case study raised in Exhibition on Screen: David Bickerstaff’s film of Lucian Freud: A Self-Portrait (at Royal Academy of Arts, London) seen at Gala Theatre, Durham, Screen 1: A photograph of a static scenario performed in 1992 by Leigh Bowery & Lucian Freud and … More Reflecting on the dual concepts of influence and reference in art about art using one case study raised in David Bickerstaff’s film of ‘Lucian Freud: A Self-Portrait’.

Reflecting on Exhibition on Screen: David Bickerstaff’s film of Lucian Freud: A Self-Portrait (at Royal Academy of Arts, London) seen at Gala Theatre, Durham, Screen 1. Some further related thoughts in: https://stevebamlett.home.blog/2020/02/02/reflecting-on-the-dual-concepts-of-influence-and-reference-in-art-about-art-using-one-case-study-raised-in-david-bickerstaffs-film-of-lucian-freud-a-self-portrait/ I came out of this film presentation absolutely delighted – this was not only a great source of information but a work of … More Reflecting on Exhibition on Screen: David Bickerstaff’s film of ‘Lucian Freud: A Self-Portrait’ (at Royal Academy of Arts, London) seen at Gala Theatre, Durham, Screen 1.

Laocöon: The struggle against constriction and limitation As I read the essays in Curtis and Feeke’s 2007 catalogue of an exhibition called Towards a New Laocoon (sic.) in the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, I find a central contradiction between: the reception of the work as full of uncontainable plenitude (of meaning, dynamic energy and … More Laocöon: The struggle against constriction and limitation, A reflection on Keith Vaughan.

Christopher Neve’s Unquiet Landscape (2020 revision of 1990 work) London, Thames & Hudson and Doubles: a novel (2015) Kindle Ed.: Reading the unquiet but not silent self in novels and works on visual art The cover of Doubles has a detail of Neve’s Glacier, an oil landscape, in which the strength and dynamism in the … More Reflecting on Christopher Neve’s ‘Unquiet Landscape’ (2020 revision of 1990 work) London, Thames & Hudson & ‘Doubles: a novel’ (2015) Kindle Ed.: Reading the unquiet but not silent self in novels and works on visual art

‘The Suppliant Women’ Aeschylus translated David Grieg Thursday, 10 Nov 2016, 18:11Visible to anyone in the world- Edited by Steve Bamlett, Friday, 11 Nov 2016, 21:20– Edited by Steve Bamlett, Friday, 11 Nov 2016, 08:56 The Suppliant Women Aeschylus translated David Grieg Following my tweet, I did indeed see this production at Newcastle. The Making of The … More ‘The Suppliant Women’ Aeschylus translated David Grieg

Max Porter’s Lanny and second works: Porter, M., (2019) Lanny London, Faber & Faber If every reviewer of Grief is The Thing With Feathers, Porter’s (2015) debut work, praised, but was amazed too, by its innovations in the genre of writing delivered and inventiveness of form, they also loved its ‘lightness’. There were many references … More Max Porter’s ‘Lanny’ and second works: Porter, M., (2019) ‘Lanny’ London, Faber & Faber