Paul Noble’s latest work is now showing at the Gagosian Gallery in San Francisco – [Link] G is for ear Nobson New Town, Paul’s extraordinary world, appears in the drawings he has produced since the mid 1990s. I met Paul in 2013, wrote an essay for the great exhibition of his work at Boijmans Van…
Sjarel Ex (Museum Boijmans van Beuningen) has introduced me to the extraordinary, the wonderful work of Paul Noble [Link] [Link] [Link] A paradigm of the archaeological imagination. Paul has been drawing his Nobson Newtown for a number of years. I could just about tick every one of the categories in my blog. I will have…
There’s an exhibition of the stop-motion animation of Ray Harryhausen running at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art – [Link]. I vividly remember first seeing his magical movies in the 60s and 70s. The infamous fighting skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts (1963); Pegasus the winged horse in Clash of the Titans (1981). Paul Noble…
Research-creation and scholartistry: a manifesto for research and learning From Michael Shanks Addressing the question “what does a researcher do?” and “what should researchers be doing?” Personal standpoint I am an archaeologist in a university, an academic researcher and scholar. It is typically held that archaeology researches the past by digging up sites and working…
Last year Paul Noble and I explored his remarkable world of Nobson New Town [Link]. Our conversation became [In Parenthesis] a kind of inventory or dictionary of topics in the way that form emerges in Paul’s drawing [Link] Here’s one of my initial reactions [Link]: In Nobson, buildings and structures give form to letters; things…
Mike (Pearson) and I are planning a new edition of our book “Theatre/Archaeology” – now 15 years old. A key topic – the documentation, description, inscription of place/event – recognizing that places are always in motion, made what they are by virtue of our engagement, happening, perception, actions performed. Mike mentioned the work of George…
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