Vale Peter Maloney: an artist engaged with our times
Moving between painting, photography and collage, Peter Maloney captured the HIV pandemic and held a mirror up to contemporary life.
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Moving between painting, photography and collage, Peter Maloney captured the HIV pandemic and held a mirror up to contemporary life.
“This is that sort of show — old-fashioned and often as soft as a marshmallow toasted over the fire, but also a vision of England at its humane best. No matter that the Yorkshire Dales looked uncharacteristically blue-skied for the bleak midwinter, this was a perfectly lovely programme to sip sherry to while noting the distinct feeling of having your cockles warmed.” “There’s Christmas, and then there’s Christmas in Skeldale, the Yorkshire idyll that is home to vet James Herriot and the squabbling Farnon brothers. The festive special of All Creatures Great And Small turned the Chr...
Rating: Rating: There's Christmas, and then there's Christmas in Skeldale, the Yorkshire idyll that is home to vet James Herriot and the squabbling Farnon brothers. The festive special of All Creatures Great And Small (C5) turned the Christmas dial up to maximum and shovelled on bucketloads of schmaltz. They should have called this It Shouldn't Happen To Santa. Siegfried (Sam West) was handing out presents, dressed as Father Christmas — though in green, not red, because the old curmudgeon claimed St Nicholas never wore scarlet robes until Coca-Cola's marketing people got hold of him. F...