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Selected #art writing from the Signifier team: transgressive stained glass, mothers' love, still life, living life long, ghosts, #illustration, collage, #kawaii culture & Remy on Remy + more!

Our Winter #Solstice 2025 🎄 Newsletter has dispatched!

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A Yuletide Writer Round-up

Welcome to Your Winter Solstice Special Edition of Signified

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December 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM

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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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👁️ 👁️ 👁️

standing like a sentinel at the fringe of its thicket our 'Bardic Birch' keeps watch over the Vale (in the dawn or dusk half- light, those eyes seem to fix you with benign scrutiny)

#landscape #photography from #Eryri #Moelwyns #folklore

photograph by Remy Dean of a section of a birch tree trunk with knot marks that look like four eyes looking out in different directions

December 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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“Creatures”

#art by Zel Cariad was our December 2023
#exhibition in The Signifier : six : shot : gallery :

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#ContemporaryArt #animals #folklore #illustration #イラスト

Three illustrations of Velvet Worms colourful Pop Art in style while remaining biologically accurate. "Solórzano's velvet worm, Mongeperipatus solorzanoi (the pink one) is one of the biggest velvet worms, growing to around 22 cm long. Other species are much smaller, about 5cm long on average, but some species are even smaller. Eoperipatus totoro (the brown one) was named after the 1988 Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro. The first specimen was caught in 2007. The team that found it wanted to name it after Totoro because the velvet worm's many-legged cuteness reminded them of the Catbus in the film. So far Eoperipatus totoro is the only velvet worm described from Vietnam. The species can grow to be up to 6cm long. The New Zealand Peripatus, Peripatoides novaezealandiae (blue one) gets its name from the word 'peripatetic' meaning 'wandering'. The Māori name for velvet worm has a similar meaning - ngaokeoke comes from the word 'ngaoki' meaning 'to crawl'. This particular species is about 10cm." more in article via link in post.

December 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM

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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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'A Relic for Kazimir Malevich'
(new work photograph ©2025)

#art #photography

photograph by Remy Dean of a rusted lever mechanism (partial) attached to a grey wall of slate blocks in bright daylight - the arrangement of metal parts resembles Supremacist compositions by the Russian artist Malevich

November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM

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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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the Vale taking delivery of our 1st instalment of winter with a light dusting of snow on the #Moelwyns peaks & temperatures more like the average for mid-November

bright'n'fresh'n'bracing at 8:30 a.m ⛰️
#landscape #photography from #Eryri

landscape photograph by Remy Dean of a series of autumnal valleys leading to a snow-capped mountain range catching warm morning light under a partially blue sky

November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM

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Remy has written about Gustav Klimt's tree #paintngs

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...& the iconic poster favourite, 'The Kiss'

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#art #ArtHistory #history #illustration

Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ @remydean.bsky.social · Nov 19

Gustav Klimt's 'Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer' (c.1915) just sold for $236.4m at Sotheby's New York, becoming the 2nd most expensive artwork ever sold at auction...

BBC #art 🖼️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The full-length portrait shows Lederer, an heiress and the daughter of one of Klimt's patrons, wearing a white robe and standing in front of a blue tapestry covered in Asian motifs."

November 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM

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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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the #fungi fiesta in our local woods reaching its finale 🍄 with a variety of mushrooms recycling deadwood & bringing new life

three photographs by Remy Dean of stemmed and capped fungi growing from dead tree stumps in mainly coniferous woodland: a cluster with a golden pale orange colour; an old conifer stump festooned with pearlescent parasols; a rotting log sprouting grey-beige mushrooms with small but deep rounded caps and long thin stalks.

November 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM

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"unusual for a woman to make it as an artist at that time but her own father said that she painted beauties more skilfully than himself ... he was Katsushika Hokusai"

'Hokusai’s Daughter' by @kimvertue.bsky.social

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#Japan #art #ArtHistory #history #illustration #イラスト

‘Beauty with Fan and Morning Glories’ (Edo Period) by Katsushika Ōi - a print of a young lady wearing a dark kimono holding a fan sitting near a decorative bowl containing flowers - the blank area to the top left is detailed with sparse calligraphy

November 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM

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Claude Monet #BOTD 1840

Once reviled, now revered, his famous #paintings of Water Lilies reflect on the tragedy of war, express a hope for peace, & celebrate the joy of creation 🖌️

@kimvertue.bsky.social looks beyond the surface of Monet’s Final Masterworks of #art

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‘Water-Lilies’ (c.1916+) - a large painting by Claude Monet: "...a colourfield of subtlety. The mauve and gold, punctuated by red blossom and a deeper blue in one corner, allowed the eye to roam and the mind to immerse itself completely in contemplation of shimmering hues that only hinted at water-lilies and trails of weeping willow..."

November 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM

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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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glad to see 'The War Between Land & Sea' miniseries has been rescheduled back to this year - starts 7 December, BBC1 - not quite the Christmas Special we're used to but something to help fill the #DoctorWho gap... still not sure about the new 'Sea Devils'

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promotional image via BBC of a human face looking across at the humanoid face of a 'Sea Devil' for the new two-part Whoniverse adventure

November 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM

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Illumined Thinking — Bright Ideas from the Bauhaus

@remydean.bsky.social remembers the first product from the Bauhaus as a sort of introduction, in itself, to what the influential design school were all about...

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#art #design #history #ArtHistory

photograph of two of the lamps - "...spherical dome of the shade balances with the circular base. The ball of its pull-switch, suspended mid-way between the two, is a design ‘comment’ on the visual transition from one to the other..." more analysis and description in article via link in post

November 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM

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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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#RemyReviews

'Shogun’s Samurai' aka 'The Yagyū Clan Conspiracy' (1978)

Kinji Fukasaku's impossibly intricate & enthralling 'Shadow History' saga of devious samurai powerplay

my #movie #review of the newly restored #Bluray

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#Japan #cinema #history

four film stills: Sonny Chiba with one eye covered by a patch and looking horrified by the aftermath of battle; innosuke Nakamura as Yagyū Munenori in a lamp lit interior having just returned his katana to its sheath; Hiroki Matsukata as Tokugawa Iemitsu looks away from the candlelit shrine he is considering; Tetsurô Tanba as Ogasawara Gensinsai, a fencing master wearing a large domwed straw hat, stands ready with katana raised...

November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM

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Are Ziggy Stardust & Thomas Jerome Newton the same person? Such parallels landed David Bowie a starring role in 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' (1976)

@remydean.bsky.social discusses how two iconic personae fused multimedia fictions in a Pop Art cycle of creative feedback

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David Bowie as Thomas Jerome Newton wearing a fedora and looking pensive in the closing scenes of the film 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' (1976)

November 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM

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‘Tis the season for #DarkMatter 🎃

Today’s #PhotoOfTheWeek highlights Halloween Jack-o'-lanterns in the ATLAS Control Room.

One pumpkin features a schematic of the @atlasexperiment.bsky.social, and the other a dark-matter candidate event display.

November 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM

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🖼️ 🫟 🪟

A Small Thing But My Own

@kimvertue.bsky.social looks back on the technicolour emotions of Howard Hodgkin & how daubs of vivid colour & elusive forms represent intangible feelings about solid reality

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#art #painting #ArtHistory #illustration #GraphicDesign

abstract painting by Howard Hodgkin called 'Night and Day' (1997-1999) is a frame in vivid green and yellow around a swathe of deep blue across orange...

November 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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remember. remember...

'Fireworks at Ryōgoku Bridge' (c.1858) from Utagawa Hiroshige's 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo'

learn about the artist's 'Road to Fame' in our article by @kimvertue.bsky.social

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#art #ArtHistory #illustration #イラスト #fireworks

the woodblock print 'Fireworks at Ryōgoku Bridge' (c.1858) from Utagawa Hiroshige's 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo' in which a silhouetted crown watch falling fireworks by lantern light, reflected n an expanse of water

November 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM

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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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...it's a #fungi fiesta in our local woods🍄

a couple more 'architectural' mushrooms

photograph by Remy Dean of a cluster of 'oyster' mushroom forms growing from a mossy log

photograph by Remy Dean of a 'cep' type mushroom growing on a woodland floor among autumn leaves, twigs and moss

October 23, 2025 at 11:10 AM

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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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💀 🦇 👻

& another classic go-to #horror #movie for #Halloween🏰

'Catacombs' (1988) "promises everything one expects from #classic #Italian horror in the style of Bava, Fulci & Argento..."

my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🕸️ medium.com/framerated/c...

four film stills: a man with white hair and white eyes shackled to a wall; a white-gloved priest gestures toward camera with other priest behind him in a crypt; a monk studies a skeleton with a magnifying glass; a young woman enters a candlelit ossuary.

October 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM

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cool group photo & I urge any of my pals 'down under' to catch the tour if it comes to a venue near you 🎶

Dave Graney @davegraney.bsky.social · Nov 1

Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes 30th Anniversary Soft n Sexy Sound tour is happening TONIGHT Mo's Desert Clubhouse on the Gold Coast. Doors at 6pm. We play The Soft n Sexy Sound album in sequence and then another set of rockers. Photo by Meredith O'Shea tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event...

November 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM

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Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️

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Just scraped in with my last few ratings before Halloween deadline & as usual, some great short films this year🎬 I look forward to seeing if the judging panel agree with my recommendations again 👻 Notifications go out 30th November so, best of luck to all who submitted their Twisted mini-movies 🙀

Remy Dean 🏴‍☠️ @remydean.bsky.social · Sep 28

have received my pre-selection list of mini-movies to rate & this year managed to land around 30 entries for the 'Twisted Tales' category 🙀 which are usually enjoyable, inventive & fiercely imaginative...

#CardiffMiniFilmFestival 2026 info:
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#horror #movies

Cardiff Mini Film Festival

Cardiff Mini Film Festival has been taking over unusual venues to screen film since 2012. To ensure any newcomers to the industry aren't obliterated by any h...

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November 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM

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it's #fungi season in the Eurozone so time to revisit:
'Beatrix Potter’s Field Studies' 🐸

@kimvertue.bsky.social on the #art & #science of a pioneering mycologist better known as the beloved children’s #author & #illustrator

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#illustration #fungi #history #ArtHistory

two illustrations by Beatrix Potter: ‘Toad’s Tea Party’ (c.1905) - six toads gather around a small table, five sit on toadstools, and ‘Mycology Study’ - and accurate natural history illustration of fungi

October 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM

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'David Hockney: Making a Splash with the Bigger Picture'

@kimvertue.bsky.social dives into the large-scale, immersive #art of the people’s painter who continues to please with new work more than six decades later…

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#painitng #ArtHistory #history #photography

detail of the splash from the painting 'A Bigger Splash' (1967) by David Hockney

October 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM

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'Sana' (2023) is part 1 of Takashi Shimizu's enjoyable #JHorror #GhostStory duology "a slow build to some expertly delivered jump scares & a few very creepy moments" - now streaming @arrowvideo.bsky.social player

read my #horror #movie #review @framerated.co.uk
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four film stills: head and shoulders portrait of Tomoko Hoshi as Japanese schoolgirl Sana Takaya; another schoolgirl falling from a school roof; Hayato Komori at the microphone during his radio show; Alan Shirahama and Makita Sports as Tsugutoshi Gonda looking horrified by something we can't see.

November 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM

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'Sutton Hoo, a Great Warrior’s Treasure'

@kimvertue.bsky.social uncovers mystique and myth surrounding Britain's most significant Anglo-Saxon ship burial and its surprisingly sophisticated artefacts

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#art #design #ArtHistory #history