Julie Sanders

@profjsanders

Vice-Chancellor & Principal Royal Holloway University of London. Trustee of London Higher and Board member for Universities UK, Advisory Board member HEPI. Hopeless optimist. Treading gently. Views my own.

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Julie Sanders@profjsanders· 3d

A mini pilgrimage to Cookeham to see the Stanley Spencer sites and walk the Thames Path on a stunning summer day #Weekend ☀️

Detail from Stanley Spencer unfonshed painting of Christ Preaching to the Regetta which hangs in the Stanley Spencer gallery in Cookham. An image of swan upping can be seen in the centre.

Detail from Stanley Spencer Christ Preaching to the Regatta depicting women in punts on the River Thames holding Chinese lanterns

The River Thames near Cookham Moor on a glorious summer day. The sky is blue, the water calm and the grassland parched from many weeks without rain.

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· 10d

The Henry Moore sculptures currently on display at Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social combine to create a truly powerful experience especially in this summer of intense heat … #London #Weekend

A large seed like bronze sculpture stands on parched grass and in front of a tree. The sky is bright blue

A reclining female figure in bronze by Henry Moore. Parched grass is berg visible as is a bright blue sky.

A large oval bronze with a hole through which the trees and parched landscape of Kew can be seen

Two large bone like structures and a human figure standing within them to give a sense of scale. The ground looks exceptionally dry. There are a few clouds in a blue summer sky

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· 14d

Day 7 of 9 at @royalholloway.bsky.social graduations and these summer evenings are continuing to cast their magic ☀️🧡🎓

A late summer evening - the sun is bright above the parched looking South Quad at Royal Holloway University with one of its spectacular towers visible and many graduation guests gathered to applaud their graduates following group photos

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· 17d

Annual visit to the Serpentine Pavilion didn’t disappoint #London #Weekend

View of a curved brick path and a brick crinkle crackle style wall waving like a serpent - a cafe area with people under a shaded roof can be seen. It is a bright summer’s day.. the lawns look parched from a long period without rain.

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· 19d

The last ceremony for today @royalholloway.bsky.social just processed by my window so I think I can safely start to shut down the computer & head home. Four more ceremonies tomorrow & I have to say every one so far has been joyous & special. Awesome team effort to make this all happen … 🎓🧡

Image through a sash window of graduates in black gowns and mortar hoods processing towards a photo shoot after their ceremony. Trees can be seen in the background and it is a light summer evening.

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· 24d

Finally made it to see the baby pelicans in St James’s Park #London #LovedAndWanted ☀️

Two full grown white pelicans stand with a large pelican chick whose feathers are black in the shade of a tree

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Jul 12

Wonderful afternoon at Somerset House in London. The Barbara Hepworth exhibition focussed on her interest in colour @courtauld.bsky.social is glorious. Followed by a fabulous meal at Poons who could not have made us more welcome. #Weekend

Shows a curved form by Barbara Hepworth. The outer is white the inner is light blue and there are red strings stretched in tension across it. The sculpture is on display in an art gallery and other works can be seen in the distance on the wall.

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Jun 21

Great to see the preparations for the opening of the Frida Kahlo exhibition taking place at Tate Modern in London yesterday. Am booked for July and super excited. This mural by Blackfriars bridge was especially striking on a searing hot midsummer weekend.

A mural
Comprised of multiple squares and rectangles depicting details of a series of Frida Kahlo paintings is visible including Frida in a floral headdress, a cat, a spider monkey and an insect as well as plant life is placed onto the brick wall by Blackfriars bridge where buskers often perform. Greens pinks and blacks predominate in the colour scheme

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Jun 4

London looking some kind of wonderful this evening as I walk back from a late meeting

Late summer evening view of St Paul’s and the associated skyline from Waterloo Bridge. The sky is blue with clouds. The Thames is relatively still with boat traffic visible

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Jun 2

Faint but still perceptible double rainbow over campus as I walk home 🌈

FOunders East on Royal Holloway’s Egham campus in its notable orange and white brick is visible in the picture along with trees and a double rainbow

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· May 30

Small clouds across a blue and then increasingly pink and red sky

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· May 29

Well on the way to the blue moon this weekend #London

The London Eye can be seen - it is dusk and there is a particular quality of light. Through the wheel an almost full moon is visible. Buildings along the south bank are lit with pink and purple lights.

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· May 29

Astonishing performances at the Donmar Warehouse this evening in Mass.

The stage is empty following a performance of Mass at the Donmar Warehouse. A room set out for a meeting of 4 people with table and chairs can be seen

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· May 23

1536 at The Ambassadors Theatre - what a show to have seen. Play, performances, weather all 🔥 Deeply unsettling too, so heading home to process.

Image from a sunny street of the outside of The Ambassdors Theatre in London with the poster for the show 1536 in branded purple and with an image of three women performers clearly visible. A few people are getting in line to enter the theatre

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· May 3

The Zurbarán exhibition at the National Gallery in London is a thing of wonder. 🎨

A small slip of paper carries the signature of the artist zurbaran and the date of commotion and appears pn a vivid red umber background This is a detail from a far larger image

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Apr 30

“Are we all met?” - A Midsummer Night’s Dream act 3 - I think we were all met at Shakespeare’s Globe this evening for a joyous production of the play directed by Emily Lin, and celebrating the happenstance community that theatre can create ⭕️🎭

Back of a Globe Theatre programme in a number shade with white text on it declaring “are we all met?” A quote from act 3 of A Midsummer Night’s dream

A view in the interval of the crowd gathering back in the Globe theatre for a production. The stage is brightly lit and decorated with coloured flowers for a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Apr 25

London Thameside walk weekend portrait. #Saturday #Pigeon

Image shows a pigeon resting on the edge of a bridge - in the distance can be seen a bridge and a red london bus going over it. The sky is the brightest blue with no clouds

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Apr 12

Another in the infrequent series “Things you can do by train” (and by foot of course but we didn’t quite have that much stamina) … #SantiagoDeCompostela

An arch frames a view of a 12th century portico with an angle clearly visible - the stone is light coloured against the teal blue of the door.

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Apr 6

Things you can do by train #Donastia

A large group of people are gathered to watch the sunset between two headlands and over a stretch of calm water.

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Mar 27

Wonderful to spend a Friday evening watching our @royalholloway.bsky.social drama students performing works responding to specific images in the National Gallery’s early modern art collection.

A group of spectators have gathered in a section of the National Gallery to watch a profane by a group of Royal Holloway students in front of early modern paintings . The red wall and multiple hanging pictures can be seen as well as the ornate white roof

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Mar 27

A source of joy on our campus this week. Snakeshead fritillaries catching the morning light.

Three purple and white chequerboard snakeshead fritillaries in bright green grass and caught by morning sunlight

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Mar 22

An exhibition on exquisite yet practical Japanese craft at the Japan House followed by hand pulled noodles in a nearby restaurant. #Saturday

Image shows two small square ish ceramic dishes each is white porcelain with blue decoration and the tiniest hint of brown. The first shows a person cross legged in a blue kimono eating noodles from a brown bowl with chopsticks. The second shows the same person still cross legged but with bowl now fully to face to finish off the broth with the chopsticks dealt held to the side.

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Dec 30

Quite the skies this evening

Vivid red sunset over a silhouetted building with many towers and turrets

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Dec 13

Theatre ❤️

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Nov 26

One advantage of a very early UUK meeting this morning ahead of our Council strategy away day is catching the sunrise through the trees on campus @royalholloway.bsky.social

Sunrise can be seen through bare winter trees. There is an orange glow and a trace of frost on the grass and balustrades that frame the scene

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Nov 23

It was quite something 🎶🕯️

founders building at Royal Holloway university in silhouette against a night sky. The lights of the chapel can be seen through the huge arched windows and the clock tower gleams out

A lilac tinged long view of the empty chapel just before guests arrive. The dramatic black and white floor stretches towards the decorated end of the chapel. Wooden row seating can be seen on either side

The choir sings in the chapel beneath an image of St Cecilia . a conductor is directing them dressed in black and on a raised step

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Nov 13

When a book you have been longing to read arrives and when it is by one of the loveliest people you get the privilege to know @starcrossed2018.bsky.social ❤️📚🪡

Cover of Textile Shakespeare by Hester Lees Jeffries showing a sample of material in close up. The colours are cream and grey predominantly

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Nov 9

On my way back from the Englefield Green Remembrance Sunday events … #LestWeForget 🕊️

Image shows a knitted post box topper decorated with white and red poppies and the message “We Will Remember Them”

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Oct 31

Happy Halloween 🎃

Julie Sanders@profjsanders· Oct 27

Latest lovely volume by Patrick Cheney is now out in the Early Modern Literary Geographies series with Oxford University Press that I am very proud to co edit with Garrett A Sullivan Jr …