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In this collaboration, the audience is confronted with the gradual, man-made disaster through expanded senses of sound and vision. “As if on the threshold of a dream, chaos clashes with order, night meets day, primordial forms rise out of the dissolving icecap to confront the visitor with our destruction of the planet.” Maggi is well known for her wild and tempestuous North Sea paintings, her most recent works have been called The Edge series. When asked about the title she said: “It is called Edge because I feel we are ‘on the edge’. There is a fragility to our existence – both ours and the planet and these works attempt to address that and strike up a dialogue with whoever is looking at them.” ....
John Minihan on Francis Bacon: Champagne and paint splatters in Soho John Minihan 9 min read The Francis Bacon I knew had a reserve in him. He also had that Irish love for gambling and drinking and a perpetual desire to be somewhere else Francis Bacon was a man whom I both knew and did not know. There was a reserve in him that discouraged familiarity, and he was happier in the company of photographers, terrified of writers and biographers, and he had more reason than most. Born in Dublin in 1909, certainly Irish by birth, if not by blood, he had the Irish love for gambling, drinking and perpetual desire to be somewhere else. I first met Bacon outside Marlborough Magistrates Court in London in 1971. The Daily Telegraph published a story, Irish Artist on Drugs Charge. He was acquitted. In his defence, he told the magistrate that he could not h ....