Andrew Ray
@andrew-ray.bsky.social
Day job on climate change policy. Writing about landscape and the arts in the occasional spare moment...
Lawrence Lek’s ‘NOX’ at Goldsmiths CCA.
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Lawrence Lek’s ‘NOX’ at Goldsmiths CCA.
Twenty years and over 1200 posts - I still enjoy doing this, even though the days when people wrote and read blogs are long gone... some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2025/11/twen...
Twenty Years of Some Landscapes
Text works by Richard Long and Hamish Fulton
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November 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Twenty years and over 1200 posts - I still enjoy doing this, even though the days when people wrote and read blogs are long gone... some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2025/11/twen...
Ben Enwonwu’s ‘River Niger Landscape’ (1965) at Tate Modern.
November 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Ben Enwonwu’s ‘River Niger Landscape’ (1965) at Tate Modern.
Landscape of the Megaliths: Ħaġar Qim.
November 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Landscape of the Megaliths: Ħaġar Qim.
Lucy Raven’s video installation ‘Murderers Bar’ (2025) about the undamming of a river is excellent. Free to see at the Barbican
November 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Lucy Raven’s video installation ‘Murderers Bar’ (2025) about the undamming of a river is excellent. Free to see at the Barbican
‘From the top of the Great Pyramid, Giza’ (c.1938), in the Tate’s Lee Miller exhibition.
November 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
‘From the top of the Great Pyramid, Giza’ (c.1938), in the Tate’s Lee Miller exhibition.
Sixteen detached blog posts on Ian Hamilton Finlay some-landscapes.blogspot.com/search/label...
October 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Sixteen detached blog posts on Ian Hamilton Finlay some-landscapes.blogspot.com/search/label...
Nice little Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
show at Hales Gallery - this is ‘Formentera Rocks’, 1958
show at Hales Gallery - this is ‘Formentera Rocks’, 1958
October 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Nice little Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
show at Hales Gallery - this is ‘Formentera Rocks’, 1958
show at Hales Gallery - this is ‘Formentera Rocks’, 1958
Obituary for Ian Monk, le punk de l'Oulipo.
October 3, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Obituary for Ian Monk, le punk de l'Oulipo.
Reposted by Andrew Ray
Great interview with Iain Sinclair on the 50th anniversary of Lud Heat (speaking of Sinclair, I thought Pariah Genius, his recent book exploring the life and death of seedy photographer John Deakin, was his best work in ages)
thequietus.com/culture/book...
thequietus.com/culture/book...
A London Dreaming: Iain Sinclair’s Lud Heat At 50 | The Quietus
On the fiftieth anniversary of his seminal 'book of the dead hamlets', author Iain Sinclair talks to Robert Davidson about London in the 70s, Hawksmoor churches and Arthur Machen
thequietus.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Great interview with Iain Sinclair on the 50th anniversary of Lud Heat (speaking of Sinclair, I thought Pariah Genius, his recent book exploring the life and death of seedy photographer John Deakin, was his best work in ages)
thequietus.com/culture/book...
thequietus.com/culture/book...
Got the Tate members stuff today and was struck again by the fact they seem to have stopped having artist talks or symposiums. I've seen Roni Horn, Dan Graham, Hamish Fulton and others there... Checked online and it says "The Starr Cinema is perfect for corporate events and presentations..."
September 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Got the Tate members stuff today and was struck again by the fact they seem to have stopped having artist talks or symposiums. I've seen Roni Horn, Dan Graham, Hamish Fulton and others there... Checked online and it says "The Starr Cinema is perfect for corporate events and presentations..."
Landscape beneath my feet at V&A East Storehouse
September 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Landscape beneath my feet at V&A East Storehouse
It is Caspar David Friedrich‘s birthday and The Wire’s 500th issue. some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-gl...
A glorious sunburst-streak
Caspar David Friedrich in music writing
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September 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
It is Caspar David Friedrich‘s birthday and The Wire’s 500th issue. some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-gl...
Emily Kam Kngwarray’s ‘The Alhalker Suite’, which ‘offers an aerial perspective of the winding waterways, sandplains and the variable geography of Alhalker.’
August 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Emily Kam Kngwarray’s ‘The Alhalker Suite’, which ‘offers an aerial perspective of the winding waterways, sandplains and the variable geography of Alhalker.’
Reposted by Andrew Ray
I wrote about Eugen Gomringer, Europe's first concrete poet, who died last week aged 100 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-35-e...
Pinks #35: Eugen Gomringer (1925-2025)
The life and work of Europe's first concrete poet
someflowerssoon.substack.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I wrote about Eugen Gomringer, Europe's first concrete poet, who died last week aged 100 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-35-e...
Scott Joplin rags as a garden in ‘Olio’ by Tyehimba Jess.
August 31, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Scott Joplin rags as a garden in ‘Olio’ by Tyehimba Jess.
Ian Penman on Erik Satie
August 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Ian Penman on Erik Satie
Kiefer or Van Gogh? This is 18 year old Kiefer inspired by Van Gogh. Excellent exhibition at the RA.
August 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Kiefer or Van Gogh? This is 18 year old Kiefer inspired by Van Gogh. Excellent exhibition at the RA.
On nature cure memoirs (not for the first time Richard Mabey was ahead of the curve with ‘Nature Cure’). But this kind of writing has many antecedents… www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
The end of the road? What The Salt Path scandal means for the nature memoir
It wasn’t the first hit memoir to tell a story of redemption inspired by the great outdoors – but could it become one of the last? Authors and publishers assess the damage
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
On nature cure memoirs (not for the first time Richard Mabey was ahead of the curve with ‘Nature Cure’). But this kind of writing has many antecedents… www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Robert Wilson’s KA MOUNTAIN AND GUARDenia TERRACE: 'a site-specific fantasia, a ritual and a pilgrimage across the seven hills of the arid rocky terrain of the Haft Tan Mountain.' some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2013/04/ka-m...
KA MOUNTAIN AND GUARDenia TERRACE
Robert Wilson and his avant-garde theatre group staged a seven-day non-stop performance across an entire mountain landscape in Iran.
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August 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Robert Wilson’s KA MOUNTAIN AND GUARDenia TERRACE: 'a site-specific fantasia, a ritual and a pilgrimage across the seven hills of the arid rocky terrain of the Haft Tan Mountain.' some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2013/04/ka-m...
Popped into the reopened NG Sainsbury Wing at lunch and was greeted by an old favourite at the top of the stairs.
July 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Popped into the reopened NG Sainsbury Wing at lunch and was greeted by an old favourite at the top of the stairs.
Stones and 21st century Morris dancers process up Whitehall this morning for Jeremy Deller’s The Triumph of Art.
July 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Stones and 21st century Morris dancers process up Whitehall this morning for Jeremy Deller’s The Triumph of Art.
‘The Clarkson’s Farm of art retrospectives’ according to JJ, but I’d like to see this. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years review – a wild walk between life, death and sheep-shearing
Using barbed wire, graveyard pebbles and prickly thorns, this retrospective plunges viewers into the raw sadness and beauty of rural life
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:54 AM
‘The Clarkson’s Farm of art retrospectives’ according to JJ, but I’d like to see this. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Pasture (and a Some Landscapes email feed)
Misty landscapes by Līga Purmale
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July 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Interesting how culture has influenced this list www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The Beatles to Virginia Woolf: UK tree of the year shortlist is rooted in culture
Woodland Trust’s 10 nominees from across the country highlight how trees inspire creative minds
www.theguardian.com
July 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Interesting how culture has influenced this list www.theguardian.com/environment/...