Art + Environment I Circumpolar North
So it's been a while since I last wrote anything - turns out it's actually been around seven months now. Oops! It's been a busy half-year, with more writing carried out than I thought possible, and yet still not enough. In addition to reading and collating the material required for the first chapter of my … Continue reading Scandinavian Art & Scandinavian Studies
As part of an Anglo-Swedish Society organised event, I made a visit the Josef Frank exhibition currently being staged at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. Undertaken in association with Millesgården in Stockholm - the home, now museum, of the sculptor Carl Milles - this is the first instance his textiles have been exhibited in … Continue reading Exhibition Review: “Josef Frank Patterns: Furniture – Painting”
In her book, 'Rural Artists Colonies in Europe, 1870-1910', Nina Lubbren looks at why thousands of artists during the nineteenth-century up and left the urban capitals of Europe and instead chose to live and work in the countryside. This was indeed the case for the Scandinavian artist, not only abroad but at home as well. Focusing on … Continue reading At Home & Abroad: The Swedish Artist Colony
You don't realise how quickly time has passed by until you open your diary and January is over, and February has begun. At the beginning of last month I officially started my PhD (glutton for punishment). So I thought that part of my blog would become a way of introducing little elements of my research, … Continue reading 1912: Scandinavian Art Comes to America
The exhibition Arven fra Anchers, or The Legacy of the Ancher's, is currently on show at the Skagen Museum, and provides a superb insight into the artistic process of both Michael and Anna Ancher, as well as the impact an artistic upbringing had on their only child Helga. Upon entering, it is Michael Ancher's Girl … Continue reading Exhibition Review: The Legacy of the Ancher’s, Skagen Museum
Ok, so yes this has absolutely nothing to do with Scandinavian art, unless you consider York's Viking history, but that's just a roundabout and convoluted way of justifying the inclusion of a mini-review on an exhibition to do with Flesh currently on show at York Art Gallery. I'm including this here as it is something I … Continue reading Mini Exhibition Review: “Flesh” at York Art Gallery
Although the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition, Russia and the Arts, is nearing its end, I thought I would just say a few words. Being a student of Scandinavian art, it is only natural that my research interests extend to the same period in Russian art. A few years ago, the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm staged an … Continue reading Review: Russia and the Arts – The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovksy
Isabelle Gapp 