Ian Hunt

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Ian Hunt@ianhunt· 23d

Pallant House does good, committed education work. Last time in Chichester (2024) there was a demo against the housing of asylum seekers going on at this crown thing at centre of the town. This time I found a new second hand bookshop that had a section labelled 'fascism' & chatted with the owners.

elaborate octagonal crown-shaped stone thing with Perpendicular detailing. Seats to shelter under round its centre point. At the dead centre of a Roman town. The small black sculpted portrait in the middle, wearing crown and gold chain, is of Charles 1.

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· 23d

In just five galleries (architect Colin St John Wilson) this show does such a lot. The accompanying show by Haroun Hayward works well alongside it - his layering of landscape by motifs from rave culture as well as art history adds fun & something beyond neoromantic nostalgia.

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· 23d

Prunella Clough, Disused Land, 1999. Painted in 1999, the last year of her life. There have been few artists as quietly original as Clough, who was also represented by one her early pictures of cooling towers.

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· 23d

The show covers less fashionable areas such as the etching revival - this an early Sutherland - but it was really nice to see a few St Ives works again, including this wonderful Christopher Wood, China Dogs in a St Ives Window, 1926, with its playful way with the view through the window motif.

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· 23d

Nash was intelligently represented by a range of works, including these two posters for London Passenger Transport Board, COME IN TO PLAY and COME OUT TO LIVE, 1936

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· 23d

Edward Wadsworth, Ladle Slag, Old Hill 1 (litho, 1919), and Paul Nash, Tide (litho, 1920).

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· 23d

Just a few from the Pallant House show, British Landscapes, to 1 Nov. It's a mostly C20 show with a few key forerunners, & opens up unexpected comparisons. John Sell Cotman, Capel Curig, 1807 & Helen Saunders (the Vorticist), represented by a more Braque-inspired Sussex Landscape, Barn & Road, 1912.

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· 26d

The C18 was hot. I have proof. (An undated publicity shot, which I treasure). #theatre #C18

Black and white photo mounted on card, large format, done as publicity, presumably to be shown at the theatre itself. 1970s? early 80s? White man seated on stage, wearing shiny black boots over his breeches, fancy embroidered jerkin under a coat with pale collar. He has a moustache. Hands of young white woman next to him are prominent, one curls around his neck, just below his ear, one rests on his knee above one of those boots. She has lacy headgear (what did they call those things, just 'cap'?) and a dress showing a daring decolleté. She has heavy eye make up. They are both looking right at something we can't see; he possibly speaking, she with a suggestion of a smile

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· 27d

'The boots brought the bag up. . . ' Reading Elizabeth Bowen (The House in Paris, 1935) for the first time in years. Ironic acknowledgments of class, ingenious prose (here, monosyllables). Don't completely like her writing but v interesting to read after Green, Compton-Burnett. #booksky

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jul 12

Small Scabious Scabiosa columbaria, Coney Banks, Chatham, with Kidney Vetch. #WildflowerHour #KentWildlife

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jul 9

'Sebastia', Jumana Manna's public art work in the New Government Quarter, Oslo, is named after a Palestinian village & archaeological site. It looks stunning; wd love to see it. I used to show 'Wild Relatives' to my students. She is a very inventive and varied artist. #stone #Palestine #art #Oslo

The artwork from above (drone) being installed. Workers in oranbge suits and hardhats. a central area of varied pieces of stone laid in a way you have seen no paving laid before -- beyond crazy paving.

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jul 8

Louis MacNeice, News Reel from Springboard, poems 1941-44. Interesting to compare how earlier generations experienced confusion of fact and value as a result of war (and media). #poetry

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jul 8

Care, written & directed by Alexander Zeldin, at #YoungVic near the end of its run. Linda Bassett is brilliant as is Hayley Carmichael, who plays a disturbed woman who (it is implied, I think) kills herself. Characters who die take empty seats among the audience, a quasi-metaphysical touch /

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jul 5

From a few week ago. Yellow-wort, Blackstonia perfoliata, in Gentian family. At Coney Banks, Chatham, a local Wildlife site that has been endlessly rewarding to visit. Dry chalk valley, scrub, secondary woodland, areas of grassland that are mown once a year. #WildflowerHour #Grassland #KentWildlife

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jul 5

Tormentil, in Rose family. Fairlight, East Sussex, growing on acid grassland. Common, but I hardly ever see it. A new site for me (trying to notice flowers while out with family). Lots of Wood Sage here, some of it growing among Bell Heather. #WildflowerHour

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jul 4

June #reading. Not much. DH Lawrence, The Trespasser, 1912 Dorothy Richardson, Deadlock, 1921 Dorothy Richardson, Revolving Lights, 1923

Top part of Pilgrimage 3 in Virago Modern Classics, at a cafe table opposite the house where Dorothy Richardson lived 1905-6 (recounted in the last book of Pilgrimage 3, The Trap.) late Georgian shopping street: bow windows.

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jul 4

I published Thyhand, a small book of Brian Catling's poems, in 2001. Swedenborg House has a stack in the bookshop. It is also - this was nice to see, I admit! - included in the small display of his publications. I sell it on eBay for £5. #poetry

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jul 4

I am useless as London art guide these days. There is a small show of Brian Catling's paintings at Swedenborg House, to 17 July. Include a reel of assorted film and video: early silent films, videos of performances from the European circuit he was part of. @swedenborghouse.bsky.social #BrianCatling

Catling, bearded, suited, in dark glasses, in a white room in a stucco terraced street -- view of balcony and street through the window. (W London?). Soda syphon on the table. Still from an enigmatic early film.

Tempera painting, 'UFO'. Lozenge shape UFO casting shadow on what nay be a country road or track. Suggestions of picket fencing. Disc of moon or more likely sun slightloy interrupting/running over the UFO.

'Cards' -- no info about these really. Resin? They appeared to have been worked, filed and polished. Irregular shaped black rectangles like playing cards, with varied arrangements of white or transparent discs set into them, some are like constellations. Raw linen bag for carrying them. Resemblance to Bronze age type markings.

'Mermanic'. Still from a video of outdoor performance somewhere in Scandinavia. Catling carrying mer-man type thing. Jointed wooden figure with fish tails. Four white children look on from behind him.

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jun 29

Anna Colin, 'Art- and Land-Oriented Educational Programmes in Britain, 1925 to the Present'. Unusual study across a long history of 'an educational mode that refuses the separation of art and land'. Includes Village Colleges. Open access. #Art #Education #Land www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/15...

This research starts with Dartington Hall in Devon and The Village Colleges in Cam-
bridgeshire in the first part of the 20th century and continues with recently established
endeavours. These are the university-affiliated MA Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths and Black
Mountains College’s BA (Hons) Sustainable Futures: Arts, Ecology, and Systems Change;
the Permaculture Association-accredited programme The Gathering; and the independent
educational platform The Gramounce.
The proposed transhistorical juxtaposition aims to cast light on how these early ex-
periments and their incentives resonate with and may inform present-day art and land-
conscious educational programmes. A further aim of this article is to survey like-minded
initiatives that have not yet been written about in conjunction with each other and which,
for some, have yet to be written about by researchers other than the founders themselves.
Critically, the text tells a story of entanglement between alternative education, social
practice, arts-based pedagogies, and commitment to the land as a teacher. The subject of
skills and their transferability between artistic and land practices, common to all initiatives,
is explored throughout the essay. Indeed, in the discussed endeavours, arts-led pedagogies
have almost consistently been utilised as the means through which to develop critical
minds and value the power of imagination, observation, attention, and situated experience.
The same values are integral to cultivating, listening to, and caring for the land

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jun 27

On the way to shops: these horses have definitely got something. Somewhere between Agostino di Duccio & Tang dynasty. The person who hung them on their wall recognized something powerful in them & I hope they were rescued by another passer-by. What are they running away from, or towards?

bronze effect relief of seven horses running, falling out of its frame, being chucked out. N

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jun 26

Aerial view looking east, the tower in previous photo. This was a staggering approach to planning a city block, and to the organisation of a hospital. #Waterhouse

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jun 26

A new and striking view of the Cruciform building (Alfred Waterhouse, designed 1896, completed 1906, now part of UCL -- wd love to see inside) from the new building of UCLH, the style of which is visible l; on r an older accommodation block. Thank you outpatients dept. #NHS #architecture

Corner tower of Gothic red brick and terracotta hospital building. This is one corner of a St Andrew's Cross plan. At end of perspective view of access road to UCLH. People walking cars, traffic cones, grey mosaic tiled 60s accommodation block right, white and greeny glass modern hosp building left

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jun 21

Common Figwort, Scrophularia nodosa, late for #WildflowerHour. London/Herts border, wildlife site in between golf courses. One of the many plants with 'Common' in the name that I don't see that often.

More advanced flowers, beginning to fade, and some becoming the small green shiny 'figs'

Flower of figwort, deep red/purple, two petals sticking up, overlapping

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jun 21

'Anyhow. The worst of it is that my employers are so frightfully nice. But the principle's the same, the frightful unfairness.' [Miriam squaring off with Mr Hancock at work.] 'I told him in future I would have nothing to do with his Mudie books.' #DorothyRichardson Deadlock, 1921, chapter VIII).

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jun 20

City's edge, #London off Leman St. Unusual school, 1877, by EA Gruning for St George's Lutheran church, next door. Queen Anne-ish, C17 or earlier in effect: love the paired doorways to passage (to infants school) and stairs, with pointy pediment. Flats for teachers on top floor. #Architecture

Red brick building with gauged/rubbed brick details. Plain classicism. No stone, just brick. Paired narrow doorways to left, one to a passage, one with 3 steps leading (I think) to hall and stairs. Surmounted by a round window with panes and above that a pointy pediment. Above this, fairly free distribution of windows indicating stairs. Part of the C18 church (yellow brick) left.

View of facade showing proud inscription into brick above segment headed windows at ground floor. Historic England listing: Elementary schools for girls and boys. 1877 by E A Gruning for the German Lutheran Church (q.v.). Red brick frontages with internal fireproof construction, slate roofs. Six bay classrooms, two per floor, with staircases in smaller bays at end which rise to schoolteachers' flats on second floor and attic. Three storeys and attic. Casement windows, those to ground floor under segmental heads and those to first floor with keystones and pediments; sashes to second floor, all between pilasters, which rise to attic centrepiece under pediment. High brick parapet, brick stacks cut down. Doors to either side under segmental heads, that to left under pediment with round window shared with entry to rear, which leads to former graveyard now occupied by Infants' School (q.v.). Rear elevation similar but simpler, with date plaque in moulded brick surround. The interior simple, but retaining some fireplaces on ground floor and in attics. Stone staircases with wrought-iron balustrades. Source. Der Londoner Bote, September 1962.

Fish-eye view that shows the while building with the pointy dormers and the pointy gable centred on the two middle bays. Symmetrical but not entirely --single door to right of building,paired doors to the left. Two blank, ornamented bays on top floor (teachers' flats) , where you expect windows.

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jun 20

City's edge, #London, E of the Mint, S of Whitechapel proper. Prescot St, Co-operative Wholesale Society offices and warehouses. 1932, designed by LG Ekins. Not Deco: this is an unusual exercise in N German/Dutch brick expressionism. Adjacent block in same style completed 1960. #Architecture

Corner view of the block. Historic England Listing description: Office block. C1932 by L G Ekins for the Co-operative Wholesale
Society. Built by the CWS Building Dept. Steel frame clad with
dark brown brick, with horizontal joints raked out; semi-basement
and entrances, concrete textured with feldspar or granite,
channelled to appear as stone. Green pantiled mansard roof with
two rows of dormers. Rectangular block on corner site. Five storeys,
two attics and semi-basement. Main facade thirteen bays plus later
addition of seven slightly projecting bays to right. Segmental
arched arcading rises from ground floor through 4th floor with
splayed reveals of bricks set at angles to give dog tooth
pattern; arch heads also of this treatment. Bronzed and green
painted metal framed windows of three lights with green metal spandrel
panels of corrugated and bead design. Main entrance on centre of
thirteen bays; rectangular surround an extension of basement textured
cement. Recessed angular mouldings to opening with bronzed iron
geometric pattern screen; above, a bas relief rectangular plaque
depicting a nude male and female; cornice of corrugated design.
Entrance approached by steps flanked by cement balustrades with
bronzed iron railings of geometric pattern with bronzed octagonal
lanterns. Fifth floor in lighter coloured brick with blue band;
continuous 3-light square headed recessed windows with brick
mullions and separated by elongated enriched brick
ornamentations. Blue and red brick corrugated parapet. Pantiled
roof with antefixae. Continuous rows of cream painted 3-light
dormers with corrugated lintels and separating panels; alternate
panels with angular cream rainwater heads and green painted pipes
forming a feature of the decoration. Left-hand angle canted with
plainer entrance; brick work at angles forms open-work pattern;
angular 2-light oriel through three floors with green painted metal
zig-zag patterned spandrel panels. Returns similar to main
facade. Attached con…

View of entrance on Prescot St. Note vertical emphasis of the whole design and then the quite different horizontal treatment of the dormers.

Detail of brickwork making three sided angled buttress between windows, gaps left at the angles. The adjacent building that was not completed until 1960.

Facade of the adjacent building on Prescot St.

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jun 18

At #Goldsmiths for degree show staff student rally. #UCU members on marking & assessment boycott are being docked 100% pay.

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jun 18

Since seeing your post I have looked at the distribution maps and become aware of how well Four-leaved Allseed is doing in the London area. A special pleasing category of botanising for me -- 'on the way to the shops'. Here it is with Veronica polita, Grey Field Speedwell. #botany

flowers, mostly green, of Four-leaved Allseed, in clusters, A single bright blue Grey Field Speedwell flower with four sepals showing

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jun 15

Ghazal Mosadeq read from The Book of Advice (Ugly Duckling Presse, bilingual, Persian and English) and the remarkable long poem If (Tripwire Journal)

Ian Hunt@ianhunt· Jun 15

Terrific readings last night at Xing the Line. Stephen Watts and Ghazal Mosadeq, among others. #poetry