There is life in the old portrait yet! A visit to the Laing Art Gallery’s reframing of the ‘Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award Show 2025’

There is life in the old portrait yet! A visit to the Laing Art Gallery’s reframing of the ‘Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award Show 2025‘ This blog follows on from yesterday’s which reported a visit to The Hatton Gallery to see their new exhibition Lines of Action (see it at this link). The day-trip … More There is life in the old portrait yet! A visit to the Laing Art Gallery’s reframing of the ‘Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award Show 2025’

I learned to see imagery, as must be the necessity in all images offered to you. Here is a test case: How do you see children flying kites?

The Kite in Time Space: describing the flying of kites in Gaza’s Great Return March of the spring of 2018 Ahmed Almaouq, explains that kites became and ‘opportunity to express defiance, even through [only symbolic ways’ citing Ramzy Baroud, going on to say himself that they became this kind of symbol because, ‘unlike the Palestinians … More I learned to see imagery, as must be the necessity in all images offered to you. Here is a test case: How do you see children flying kites?