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.
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.
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
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.’
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.
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.
I was there last week and tried to get into what is now Stalker Hall in the Creative Hub but they said I needed an appointment… I had a drink in Stalker Bar in Stalker Pathway though.
July 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I was there last week and tried to get into what is now Stalker Hall in the Creative Hub but they said I needed an appointment… I had a drink in Stalker Bar in Stalker Pathway though.
‘Sunset in the Archipelago’ (1879) by Fanny Churberg. Saw some lovely landscapes by her arranged by time of day in ‘Crossing Borders’, an exhibition of women artists at Helsinki’s Ateneum.
July 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
‘Sunset in the Archipelago’ (1879) by Fanny Churberg. Saw some lovely landscapes by her arranged by time of day in ‘Crossing Borders’, an exhibition of women artists at Helsinki’s Ateneum.
“Here the shortest path isn’t the simplest…”
July 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
“Here the shortest path isn’t the simplest…”
Kumiko latticework folding screen at the Japan House exhibition on ‘The Craft of Carpentry: Drawing Life from Japan’s Forests.’
June 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Kumiko latticework folding screen at the Japan House exhibition on ‘The Craft of Carpentry: Drawing Life from Japan’s Forests.’
Talking to my son about Zen so I dug out my old Readers & Writers comic book guide ‘Zen for Beginners’. Haven’t looked at this since the eighties but it is pretty good.
June 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Talking to my son about Zen so I dug out my old Readers & Writers comic book guide ‘Zen for Beginners’. Haven’t looked at this since the eighties but it is pretty good.
Two neolithic stone circles, one on land and one underwater. ‘La Cathédrale Engloutie’ (1950) in the new Tate Ithell Colquhoun exhibition.
June 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Two neolithic stone circles, one on land and one underwater. ‘La Cathédrale Engloutie’ (1950) in the new Tate Ithell Colquhoun exhibition.
Great evening at the RGS talking about the architecture Venice Biennale with Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi of Cave_bureau, Owen Hopkins and Kathryn Yusoff.
June 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Great evening at the RGS talking about the architecture Venice Biennale with Kabage Karanja and Stella Mutegi of Cave_bureau, Owen Hopkins and Kathryn Yusoff.
This mountain is part of a Turkish shadow puppet theatre, on display in the British Museum.
June 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This mountain is part of a Turkish shadow puppet theatre, on display in the British Museum.
I’m really enjoying this book by Kelly Presutti - just been reading some fascinating stuff about mountains.
June 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I’m really enjoying this book by Kelly Presutti - just been reading some fascinating stuff about mountains.
Paul Thek landscapes painted on newspaper, 1973
May 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Paul Thek landscapes painted on newspaper, 1973