It’s a little easy currently to forget that we’re still in the middle of a pandemic. The powers that be are seemingly pushing us speedily towards normality, when many of us are still feeling a uncertain, raw, and cautious. Few things brought this closer to me this week than the launch of Gratitude a Manchester…
Category: Art
Product Review: Modern Map Art
Last year, Mr GFB and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. We had high hopes of a bit of a do, and to celebrate with those who couldn’t make it to our actual wedding, which was in Las Vegas in 2007. Yes, Elvis walked me down the aisle, I wore a big red puffy dress,…
Photoshoot with Velvet D’Amour
If you follow me on social media, you cannot fail to have noticed a few pictures being released of a shoot I did with Velvet D’Amour. This post is all about the whole experience, and includes the images. But it’s only fair that I make you aware that some of these pics are probably, well…
Art Map Project
The summer holidays are approaching, and as parents are starting to wonder what to do with the kids, I’m looking at that long bank holiday weekend, wondering how to spend it. I love taking a day off and spending it on me. I might hit the gym in the morning, but then have a…
Post Secret
I have a Sunday morning ritual. I get up around 6am. I make coffee, I sit, tidy my emails, sort my images for the blog for the week ahead, with a little BBC Breakfast in the background. And then I read Post Secret. Post Secret started as a community project, an address where people could write…
Selfridges: Bright Old Things
I don’t know about you, but I’ve missed the Whitworth Art Gallery. I mean really missed. It’s a walk from my office, had a great cafe and I could wander around and waste a chunk of my lunch hour looking at beautiful things. And I’ve still got just under a month until it reopens on…
MSF14: The Sounds of Others/3D: Printing The Future
I’ve loved Manchester Science Festival – I’ve not managed to get to everything, as usual there’s so much on, I would need a clone or two to fit it all in. But two of my favourite bits have been the exhibitions running at MOSI for the entire duration. (And they’re still on now). The Sounds…
Greater Manchester Fringe Festival 2014
The Greater Manchester Fringe Festival is an annual event that I do my damnedest to attend. The younger sibling of the massive Manchester International Festival, the Fringe is a more community based, lower budget (unsurprisingly) but unlike the MIF, it’s an annual look at the creative minds at home in Manchester and Salford who get together…
Selfridges: The Beauty Project
Anything that asks the question ‘what is beauty?’ is going to get my attention. Being an opinionated sort, I have my own ideas, but it’s always good to question them and listen to other people’s ideas. After all, we learn as much about ourselves as the outside world when we question. And I like to…