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ronnierennoldson
Apr 193 min read
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Thank you to all those that came to the evening view of my solo show in The Crypt and thank you to all those working at St Michaels on...
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ronnierennoldson
Oct 17, 20233 min read
Chess, and the benefits of positive criticism: displacement activity #25.
When I first started painting I found that years of pent-up creativity needed to be released; my paintings were enthusiastic, impulsive...
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ronnierennoldson
Oct 8, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20231 min read
#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, 20232 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20223 min read
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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