Fiona McLees
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Fiona McLees
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Paper conservator in Wales. Manuscripts, drawings, artists’ materials, studios, sideline interests in holy wells, roodscreens, and all manner of heritage at the end of long country lanes. Colour-related Instagram posts @chromatic_dispatches
Here’s the outside of the cottage he was born in, Georgetown, Merthyr Tydfil
November 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Harder to fit that on a clock!
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Of Myfanwy fame? Don’t know about Gwahoddiad!
November 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
It’s like the counterpart to Whiteread, almost - floating rather than solid, but equally inaccessible, and lost
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Ah not that I know of! But will find out…
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Yes, the perceived authenticity of these places intrigues me. The Paolozzi studio in Edinburgh is an intriguing fabrication of real objects in a gallery space
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
And they were very much billed as “recreations” - but it was like they couldn’t commit to going the whole way so ended up in this weird intermediary space
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Here’s part of it. The graphic didn’t even extend all the way to the floor!
November 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Oh that lecture sounds fascinating
November 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The Francis Bacon one was also crazy. A giant wall graphic of a photo of his studio, in front of which a combination of replica detritus bits and bobs were loosely scattered and a few genuine brushes in perspex boxes. So many levels of real / replica
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Did you see the Artists’ Studio exhibition at Whitechapel a few years ago? There were some recreations in that, some exceedingly odd fabrications - sitting very uncomfortably between replica/ installation/ set dressing. The Factory was perhaps the oddest, with framed photos mounted on foiled walls
November 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Oh that’s cool! No I hadn’t seen that before!
November 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Obviously hospitals can be stressful places so it is good that the walls contain works of art which can calm worried visi… WHAT THE FUCK
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Oh no. This is haunting me through the screen, I would hate to encounter it in person whilst feeling vulnerable in a hospital
November 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Has a magical ring to it, doesn’t it!
October 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM