Francesca Woodman's exhibitions in Edinburgh

Francesca Woodman (1958-1981)

Interested in how people relate to space, and how the three dimensional world could be reconciled with the two dimensions of the photograph, Francesca Woodman played complex games of hide-and-seek with her camera.

She depicts herself fading into a flat plane, becoming the wall under the wallpaper, part of the floor, or sealed behind glass, constantly contrasting the fragility and vulnerability of her own body with the strength of the objects around her. Caught in a state of metamorphosis, she is not quite here, nor quite there.

Her body becomes an expressive tool which mingles with the other objects she chooses to photograph; gloves, eels, sheets, mirrors, fireplaces and flowers. Fascinated by limits and boundaries, Woodman's work conjures the precarious moment between adolescence and adulthood; between existence and the ultimate disappearance, death.


Francesca Woodman's photographies are at the Ingleby Gallery (till 13.6.2009) and at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (till 18.11.2009), both based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Start (where fashion meets rock'n'roll), 42-44 Rivington Street, London

Woodhouse founder Philip Start and his wife (former Fall guitarist Brix Smith-Start) own all three of these Rivington Street flagships, two of which are men’s specialists.

See what you can find online.

Nick Knight photography

Nick Knight is a british photographer. He is known for his personal, experimental vision, resulting in work that exists outside the conventions of fashion photography.

Knight has won awards for his editorial work for Vogue, Dazed & Confused, i-D, The Face, W Magazine, Another Magazine, Arena Homme + and Visionaire, as well as for fashion and advertising projects such as the 2004 edition of the Pirelli Calendar.

He has shot album covers for Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Björk, Boy George, David Bowie, Kylie Minogue, The Style Council, Paul Weller, Gwen Stefani, Seal, ABC and Massive Attack, and has produced Flora (1997), a series of flower pictures.

Flickr Favourites

Line 1: 1. Dashariabchenko, 2. Francisca Filipa, 3. Noko Mi Koma, 4. Roberto Zotti, 5. Danske, 6. Biorn-Eric.

Line 2: 1. Bjorn-Eric, 2. Emiliebjork, 3. Emiliebjork, 4. kelly♥kaiser, 5. Danske, 6. Danske.

Line 3: 1. Danske, 2. Danske, 3. Eliza Beth, 4. Eliza Beth, 5. ©14'STANDARD, 6. Fleur de Lis.

Line 4: 1. Ta, 2. antufev, 3. Monsieur Oiseau, 4. water&sleep, 5. Lina Scheynius, 6. Roberto Zotti.

Line 5: 1. Marie Ek, 2. Lauren Schmauren, 3. Crystin Moritz, 4. INFINILITE, 5. INFINILITE, 6. Greatestdancer.

Line 6: 1. Toshiya Watanabe, 2. Natasha Klimchuck, 3. Paola_, 4. Ekinakis, 5. Yosigo!!!, 6. Elif Sanem Karakoc.

Laura Laine fashion illustration

I fell in love with Laura Laine's fashion illustrations.

Tara Donovan

Some works by Tara Donovan, american artist. She uses everyday manufactured materials (scotch tape, styrfoam cups, drinking straws) to create large scale sculptures.

John Lautner

The Lighthouse in Glasgow is hosting an exhibition of projects and models by John Lautner, an american architect (1911-1994) who worked in Los Angeles, Hollywood, Acapulco and Anchorage, mostly during the 60s and 70s.

His work tries to correlate man with the environment, and environment itself with nature. His houses are clearly Hollywood-style, and they have often been chosen as a set by fashion photographers, directors and videogames!

They look like spaceships in the desert, don't they?

CameronWebster Architects, the Printworks, Glasgow.

Today I went with Marian to a lunch in the amazing CameronWebster architects office in Otago Street. It's called the Printworks, my landlord Robin Webster and his partners have designed it, and it looks like this:

Take a look at their website.

Images: Martin Phillimore Photography

Hello, here are some photo of the lovely House for an art lover, just to finish with Mackintosh!! I visited it last week, but never posted photos so far!

Watercolours from Rennie Mackintosh:

This morning I woke up early and I went out to the west part of the city to visit the Hunterian Art Gallery and Museum and Mackintosh House. 

Here is a photo of a coloured and nice building near the museum, I think it's part of Glasgow University. Isn't it nice?

I went to the Hunterian Art Gallery which has a great Whistler collection plus other artists, included the Glasgow Boys and many other beautiful pictures. 

The loveliest thing I've ever seen!! Mackintosh House! Actually, I'm loving Mackintosh so much! I wanted to buy his books of watercolour, but they told me It's gone out of print!! sob!! 

Tomorrow I'm going to visit his House for an Art Lover, a house they built after his death, based on his projects.

(I couldn't shot photos, but no one was looking... :)

Hunterian Museum is in another building, inside the Glasgow University Campus. It's a sort of scientific museum, with dinosaurs skeletons, human body parts in formalin, minerals, birds nests, fossils, prehistoric arrows..

...and insects!

That's me in the mirror of the elevator!! ahah!

And that's the amazing Glasgow University!!! I wish I had studied here! (yes! there was the sun!! But a lot of wind as well!)

Princes Square Mall for some shopping. (didn't buy anything for the records)

And finally I deserved a coffee and some black chocolate at Starbucks inside Borders!

Well, that was my saturday! I'll keep posting tomorrow. See you.

C.