The Duffy Archive Brings Bowie to Leeds
Melissa Baksh spoke with renowned photographer Chris Duffy ahead of his highly anticipated exhibition ‘The Duffy Collection’. His astounding prints will give viewers a peek into the life of David Bowie, through a selection of never-before-seen photographs. As the son of legendary Brian Duffy, an innovator of documentary fashion photography during the 1960’s, Chris nonchalantly [...]
Art | Robert Filliou, The Institute of Endless Possibilities
4/5 Stars Leeds’ Henry Moore Institute plays host, this spring, to a vibrant retrospective of Robert Filliou, in an exhibition that shatters artistic boundaries and defies definition. Robert Filliou, born in France in the 1920s grew to fame as a multimedia artist; his films and sculptures key to the Fluxus ‘anti- art’ movement of the [...]
Posthumous Appearances in Advertising: Dead Clever or Distasteful?
The iconic star Audrey Hepburn has recently made a return to our screens. In Italy the flawless actress seduces her audience with her signature flirtatious glances and cheeky smile, winning over the heart of an Italian stranger. One is taken in by her charm and serenity as she is whisked away in an open-top car over [...]
Bradford International Film Festival 2013
The Bradford International Film Festival returns on the 11th April, and until it ends on the 19th it will be showcasing the best of both Bradford’s history in film and the wider world of cinema. The festival’s neighbour, the Leeds International Film Festival, may be the better known of the two, however the BIFF is [...]
A Closer Look At…Toulouse Lautrec
Perhaps best known for his posters advertising the Moulin Rouge, artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec captured and immortalised the faded elegance of belle époque Paris. Heavily saturated with colour, his paintings have a hazy quality, as though seen through an absinthe-induced stupor. A post-Impressionalist, Toulouse-Lautrec was influenced by Degas and Manet, as well as holding admiration [...]
Theatre | The Improvathon
Riley Smith Hall, March 14 Theatre Group’s 2013 charity Improvathon ran from 12 noon on Thursday the 14th of March until the same time on the following day, raising money for prostate cancer. The set up consisted of (twenty four) 45-minute episodes, for each of which an object, location, and a theme were chosen [...]
Theatre | Refugee Boy
5/5 Stars Unsurprisingly the cast of Refugee Boy took their bows this Wednesday to thunderous applause. With their raw, forceful, yet incredibly human performances, Alem (Fisayo Akinade) and his supporting actors completely blew us away. They successfully navigate through a civil war, knife crime, foster homes, and the government red tape raised around immigration, even [...]
Theatre | A Play in a Day
5/5 Stars As one might expect, staging a play with only 12 hours of rehearsal time is no mean feat. However, I have to say Theatre Group managed it with such incredible style, they may have even beaten Oscar Wilde at his own game. The Importance of Being Earnest was a fantastic choice – being [...]