Up to Scotland on Bank Holiday Monday to look at an archive and possible donation. Have a very enjoyable lunch with the owner and her other half. Train to Edinburgh and catch the Francesca Woodman show at the Ingleby Gallery next to the Waverley Station - the relationship of the body to nature and man-made space and objects or animate/inanimate is disturbing - perhaps made more so by her suicide. The Fruitmarket Gallery is en route to the hotel so I call in at Willie Doherty's show Ghost Story & Buried. Willie shows with Matt's Gallery, so I had seen 'Ghost Story' before. 'Buried' is a sort of pendant piece. The next day is a meeting on Collaborative PhDs at RCAHMS Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. I'm on the panel of non-Higher Education Institutions hosts/collaborative institutions - will all PhDs in 10 years be collaborative?
I saw the Francesca Woodman show down at the Tate Modern and thought it was awesome. Some of the reviews in the standard were not too good which I found surprising.
Posted by: Jim | 02 November 2009 at 09:54 AM