ronnierennoldson
- Oct 17
- 3 min
Chess, and the benefits of positive criticism: displacement activity #25.
When I first started painting seriously I found that years of pent-up creativity needed to be released; my paintings were enthusiastic,...
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ronnierennoldson
- Oct 8
- 2 min
Illustration, and finding a voice.
It was over a cup of coffee that a friend, who lives and works in Bristol and Amsterdam confessed that to help manage the impact of...
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ronnierennoldson
- Jun 15
- 2 min
Life imitating Art
poster for the Warner Brothers film: Death in Venice 1971. I have to admit to a guilty pleasure; that of enjoying Melvin Braggs...
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ronnierennoldson
- Feb 27
- 1 min
#1-27/02/1993
It is astonishing that exactly thirty years ago Rage Against the Machine were #1 in track play lists for “Killing in the name” and...
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ronnierennoldson
- Feb 13
- 2 min
Are you feeling safe yet?
image above:my commentary on being monitored, "Just F.ck Off ", created 2021. The disappearance of Nicola Bulley, apart from being a...
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ronnierennoldson
- Jan 27
- 1 min
Setting the attainment bar low.
What is Sunak hoping to achieve? As a student I always found that the process of having to state your attainment goals at the start of a...
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ronnierennoldson
- Jan 13
- 1 min
Rosemary Mayer: ‘Ways of attaching’ in Spike Island
So, My first exhibition of the year is the travelling show of Rosemary Meyers works entitled Ways of attaching, shown in the Swiss...
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ronnierennoldson
- Jan 8
- 4 min
December 2022: A month of exhibitions. The good, the bad and the … really not so good.
Rather like christmas shopping I like to do gallery visits in short sharp bursts and in December I had at least four to go to : The RWA...
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ronnierennoldson
- Nov 20, 2022
- 2 min
Painting and Displacement activity #2 Yorkshire puddings: revisited
After my show in April, I decided to take a breather and regroup. Unfortunately, I took too long and found myself not having started...
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ronnierennoldson
- Oct 29, 2022
- 3 min
Pierre Soulages has died, and abstract art, is it really that difficult to understand?
Two things happened this week; Pierre Soulages, known for his black abstract paintings, died aged 102, and, it was discovered that a...
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ronnierennoldson
- Oct 12, 2022
- 1 min
Surprise!
Apparently, according to recent ONS data, the UK economy shrank unexpectedly by 0.3% in August. Its said to be due to a 'range of...
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ronnierennoldson
- Sep 29, 2022
- 3 min
Toothpaste: to be taken with a pinch of salt
After many years of going to the same dentist, today was the first that they discovered that I don’t use a fluoride toothpaste and...
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ronnierennoldson
- Sep 11, 2022
- 4 min
The perfect plum tart, is, from Germany.
It’s been a while since I visited Germany, and one of the rituals I miss is that of afternoon kaffee und Kuchen. It’s a ritual that...
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ronnierennoldson
- Aug 31, 2022
- 1 min
RWA ; the new galleries.
The new exhibition 'Earth: digging deep in British Art 1781-2022’ and the installation on the back wall by Richard Long shows off the...
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ronnierennoldson
- Aug 31, 2022
- 3 min
An alternative to the Great British Hero.
With the bank holiday weekend over, I remain astonished at the amount of war films shown on Freeview television but not surprised, given...
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ronnierennoldson
- Apr 20, 2022
- 1 min
The Mount Without : Solo show 11th April.
I knew that setting up just before a show and then taking it down the next day was going to make it a hard few days but even the...
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ronnierennoldson
- Mar 8, 2022
- 2 min
Solo show/Private view; finding light in shadow
11th April 2022 between 18.00 and 21.00 St Michael on the Mount Without (at the bottom of St Michaels Hill), Bristol. After the last two...
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ronnierennoldson
- Feb 18, 2022
- 1 min
Lest I forget exactly what he said
Is someone doing a lie count ? What the PM actually accused Sir Kier Starmer of was that 'he spent most his time prosecuting...
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ronnierennoldson
- Jan 7, 2022
- 3 min
34 million dead is not by mistake.
I was delighted that the ‘Colston 4’ were acquitted of criminal damage having admitted that they rolled the statue of Edward Colston into...
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ronnierennoldson
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
Richard Rogers, Lord Rogers of Riverside died today.
Although I never met the man or was even in his presence, throughout my architectural career from student in Dundee to fledgling project...
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ronnierennoldson
- Dec 16, 2021
- 3 min
Bridget Riley and the difference between an Artist and a designer.
I recently watched a really insightful programme that featured a discussion between Bridgit Riley and Kirsty Wark (still available on...
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ronnierennoldson
- Dec 16, 2021
- 2 min
Bristol Harbourside development.
One of the last projects I worked on while at CODA architects was a proposal to Bristol City Council for an undeveloped and what is...
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ronnierennoldson
- Oct 6, 2021
- 2 min
German food: more than bratwurst.
I have to admit to being a fan of all things German, so you can imagine my irritation when in every TV programme or YouTube post I’ve...
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ronnierennoldson
- Oct 6, 2021
- 1 min
Shopping: same as it ever was !
Shopping is getting back to normal and we now know what cost society is prepared to put on that luxury: 800 deaths / week. Given that our...
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ronnierennoldson
- Sep 1, 2021
- 1 min
‘Land of many waters'. Paintings by Frank Bowling at the Arnolfini, Bristol.
'An idea of a view' I’ve just visited the fabulous new exhibition of Frank Bowling paintings, (open until 26th September 2021) comprising...
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ronnierennoldson
- Aug 17, 2021
- 3 min
NFT’s and why I will not engage with the cryptocurrency art market
Reasons I will not be engaging with the fashion for Artists to create Art as Non-Fungible Tokens! While the idea behind NFTs was, and is,...
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ronnierennoldson
- Aug 13, 2021
- 1 min
1961 and the Berlin wall goes up!
It is the 60th anniversary of the building of the Berlin wall: a moment when the whole of European politics changed and the threat of...
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ronnierennoldson
- Jul 25, 2021
- 1 min
Swiss Art Expo 2021 : The Artbox Project.
Im delighted that three of my paintings will be shown in Zurich as part of the Artbox Project in the Swiss Art Expo (dates 25-29th August...
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ronnierennoldson
- Jun 16, 2021
- 2 min
11 June 1987: an anniversary still within memory!
As Black Monday wiped £50,000m off the value of shares on the London stock exchange, Rick Astley released "Never Gonna Give You Up" and...
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ronnierennoldson
- May 18, 2021
- 1 min
Twelve Trees
Twelve of my photos of trees taken during the lockdown of November 2020 to April 2021 are now published (See also my January blog on Tree...
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ronnierennoldson
- May 4, 2021
- 1 min
#not_enough_art
Its great that galleries are opening up again and I've been to see a few socially distanced shows( RWA, That Art Gallery and Centrespace )...
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ronnierennoldson
- Apr 9, 2021
- 3 min
Lockdown displacement activity #23: making lists.
Emerging from this third lockdown has set me thinking about whether I could have managed the year better. It started with good...
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ronnierennoldson
- Mar 25, 2021
- 1 min
What's wrong here?
Irony at work. I saw these books in shop windows as I was taking a recent permitted exercise break from my laptop: either people are off...
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ronnierennoldson
- Mar 20, 2021
- 2 min
An Apology.
So, what’s the difference between the vigil held for Sarah Everard attended by 100’s of women wanting to peacefully assemble with other...
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ronnierennoldson
- Mar 12, 2021
- 2 min
Bread ..... pandemic displacement activity #17
I've been baking bread for years, starting with the basic albeit brick heavy white pan loaf from Mollie Weir's brilliant all purpose...
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ronnierennoldson
- Mar 12, 2021
- 1 min
Together Apart - Exhibition and Book
When That Art Gallery in Bristol closed on March 23, 2020 for the first COVID-19 lockdown, gallery owner Andy Phipps issued an 'open...
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ronnierennoldson
- Feb 21, 2021
- 1 min
@That Art Gallery
I really miss the feel of an art gallery; virtual galleries are fine but they cant compare to the feeling of standing in front of a...
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ronnierennoldson
- Feb 4, 2021
- 1 min
An Artist Emerging
With the absence of venues in which to arrange shows of my work, I decided to enter as many awards and exhibitions ( both real and...
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ronnierennoldson
- Jan 19, 2021
- 2 min
Gin
I thought that I’d try making gin; partly as a displacement activity during lockdown, partly because of the proliferation of micro...
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ronnierennoldson
- Jan 18, 2021
- 2 min
Protecting our Monuments?
In response to the toppling of Colston’s monument in Bristol, our Government have just announced that they will protect the ‘national...
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ronnierennoldson
- Jan 10, 2021
- 1 min
Tree portrait photography
Given the lack of available people to photograph I thought I'd try photographing trees and rather than documenting the particulars of a...
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ronnierennoldson
- Jan 4, 2021
- 2 min
Nostalgia in an age of pandemic; time for change.
One of the effects of pandemic induced lock-down is the dissociation one gets from the ordinariness of existence and the joy found in...
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