Art
-
Culture – Alice: Curiouser & Curiouser
Hi Everyone! I hope you had a positive week. Welcome back to the Pineapple Chicken Blog. For those who are new, my blog posts cover positivity, culture and lifestyle. The Exhibition This week I wanted to share a trip that I took earlier this year when I visited the V&A exhibition. Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser.… Continue reading
-
Culture: Wes Anderson – The French Dispatch Exhibition
Hi Everyone! I hope you had a positive week. Welcome back to the Pineapple Chicken Blog 🙂 For those who are new, my blog covers positivity, culture and lifestyle. Wes Anderson – The French Dispatch I think many of you are looking forward to the new Wes Anderson film released this week in London. Not… Continue reading
-
Culture: Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch
Hi Everyone! I hope you all had a positive week 🙂 I am extremely excited that England (I am not sure whether the rest of the UK is doing the same) is opening back their museums and art galleries the week commencing the 17th May. I have really missed my weekends out in London, going… Continue reading
-
Art: Antony Gormley
Another artist that does not need an introduction (particularly in the UK), the Antony Gormley exhibition is being held at Main Galleries in the Royal Academy of Arts until 3 December 2019. From the British coastline to the rooftops of Manhattan, Antony Gormley’s sculptures are recognised across the world. With work from his 45-year career… Continue reading
-
Art: Leonardo da Vinci – A Life in Drawing
An individual who does not need an introduction is, of course, Leonardo da Vinci. Marking his death 500 years ago, the Royal Collection is displaying more than 200 of the 500 drawings in the collection at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace. The exhibition will end soon on Sunday 13th October, so I thought that I… Continue reading
-
Art: Olafur Eliasson – In Real Life
If you live in London you would not have been able to miss all the adverts that have popped up in train stations, on the tube and buses for Olafur Eliasson In Real Life at Tate Modern showing until 5 January 2020. The Exhibition The exhibition brings together 40 works of art made between 1990… Continue reading
-
Art: Natalia Goncharova
The first retrospective of the (take a deep breath) female Russian avant-garde artist, painter, costume designer, writer, illustrator, and set designer Natalia Goncharova is being held in the UK at the Tate Modern and will be available until the 8 September 2019. When embarking on this art journey and blog around two years ago, I had no… Continue reading
-
Art: Food – Bigger than the Plate
The latest immersive and interactive exhibition at V&A museum explores our current and future relationship with food, available until 20th October 2019, it brings together different innovators, communities and organisations to consider what collective choices will lead a more sustainable and delicious food future. It is a topic that is close to my heart, food… Continue reading
-
Art: Sorolla – The Master of Light
No painter before or since has painted Mediterranean sunlight like Joaquín Sorolla In 1908, Sorolla was considered as one of the greatest living artists and his works has finally returned back to London a century after his exhibition at the Grafton Galleries in Mayfair. The National Gallery has curated 58 spectacular pieces of work, many… Continue reading
About Me
An English diarist and naval administrator. I served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament. I had no maritime experience, but I rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II through patronage, diligence, and my talent for administration.
The Pineapple Chicken Blog 