Toby Blackman
@tobyblackman.bsky.social
Art and Architecture: Site, Writing, Photography | Senior Lecturer, Newcastle University (he/him)
I have learned things about myself, the weight of a full radiator, and the deep, black despair which leaks in their final moments.
July 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I have learned things about myself, the weight of a full radiator, and the deep, black despair which leaks in their final moments.
January to June, 2025
Some days, I read ten pages.
Others, I (need to) re-read the same paragraph ten times.
And occasionally, I read a book in a single sitting.
Reading sustains me, and brings me joy.
Some days, I read ten pages.
Others, I (need to) re-read the same paragraph ten times.
And occasionally, I read a book in a single sitting.
Reading sustains me, and brings me joy.
July 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
January to June, 2025
Some days, I read ten pages.
Others, I (need to) re-read the same paragraph ten times.
And occasionally, I read a book in a single sitting.
Reading sustains me, and brings me joy.
Some days, I read ten pages.
Others, I (need to) re-read the same paragraph ten times.
And occasionally, I read a book in a single sitting.
Reading sustains me, and brings me joy.
The old, existing dining room radiator FELL OFF THE WALL.
July 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The old, existing dining room radiator FELL OFF THE WALL.
Marseille: Architectures of Transit in Novel, Film and Place (1936-1945 and 2001-2021)
New OPEN ACCESS publication: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I’m proud of this one—a work exploring occupation, borders, identity and exile—and grateful to many.
New OPEN ACCESS publication: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I’m proud of this one—a work exploring occupation, borders, identity and exile—and grateful to many.
June 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Marseille: Architectures of Transit in Novel, Film and Place (1936-1945 and 2001-2021)
New OPEN ACCESS publication: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I’m proud of this one—a work exploring occupation, borders, identity and exile—and grateful to many.
New OPEN ACCESS publication: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I’m proud of this one—a work exploring occupation, borders, identity and exile—and grateful to many.
PLEASE LIFT ME UP
The shot which unlocked my thinking, writing and work on the house and home, grabbed late at night when I rolled the carpet back.
Fingers crossed this one's also selected and hung.
THANK YOU, Artful Dodgers for the beautiful digital C Type and for supporting a rush job.
The shot which unlocked my thinking, writing and work on the house and home, grabbed late at night when I rolled the carpet back.
Fingers crossed this one's also selected and hung.
THANK YOU, Artful Dodgers for the beautiful digital C Type and for supporting a rush job.
April 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
PLEASE LIFT ME UP
The shot which unlocked my thinking, writing and work on the house and home, grabbed late at night when I rolled the carpet back.
Fingers crossed this one's also selected and hung.
THANK YOU, Artful Dodgers for the beautiful digital C Type and for supporting a rush job.
The shot which unlocked my thinking, writing and work on the house and home, grabbed late at night when I rolled the carpet back.
Fingers crossed this one's also selected and hung.
THANK YOU, Artful Dodgers for the beautiful digital C Type and for supporting a rush job.
In Concrete, at the Softest Stages
A morning spent mounting and framing prints preselected for the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.
Fingers crossed this one's selected and hung.
THANK YOU, Make It Easy and Rhys Herbert for the print tutorial and guidance.
A morning spent mounting and framing prints preselected for the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.
Fingers crossed this one's selected and hung.
THANK YOU, Make It Easy and Rhys Herbert for the print tutorial and guidance.
April 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
In Concrete, at the Softest Stages
A morning spent mounting and framing prints preselected for the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.
Fingers crossed this one's selected and hung.
THANK YOU, Make It Easy and Rhys Herbert for the print tutorial and guidance.
A morning spent mounting and framing prints preselected for the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.
Fingers crossed this one's selected and hung.
THANK YOU, Make It Easy and Rhys Herbert for the print tutorial and guidance.
PERFECTION
Very, very good — a literary Worst Person in the World, Frances Ha, and others, and much more.
Felt seen, externally, and seen through, internally.
Architecture, material culture, social networks, and meaning - all fabulously drawn out, with precision.
Very, very good — a literary Worst Person in the World, Frances Ha, and others, and much more.
Felt seen, externally, and seen through, internally.
Architecture, material culture, social networks, and meaning - all fabulously drawn out, with precision.
March 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
PERFECTION
Very, very good — a literary Worst Person in the World, Frances Ha, and others, and much more.
Felt seen, externally, and seen through, internally.
Architecture, material culture, social networks, and meaning - all fabulously drawn out, with precision.
Very, very good — a literary Worst Person in the World, Frances Ha, and others, and much more.
Felt seen, externally, and seen through, internally.
Architecture, material culture, social networks, and meaning - all fabulously drawn out, with precision.
Picked a good one for World Book Day, Adrian Duncan’s second novel, A Sabbatical in Leipzig.
Beautiful, disturbing, devastating.
Beautiful, disturbing, devastating.
March 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Picked a good one for World Book Day, Adrian Duncan’s second novel, A Sabbatical in Leipzig.
Beautiful, disturbing, devastating.
Beautiful, disturbing, devastating.
My lovely parents, on this day in 1974.
December 6, 2024 at 12:26 PM
My lovely parents, on this day in 1974.
Elevador de agua de Gordejuela, Tenerife.
September 10, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Elevador de agua de Gordejuela, Tenerife.
Los Realejos, Tenerife.
September 10, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Los Realejos, Tenerife.
Tenerife.
Having a fabulous time in the north of this beautiful island.
Having a fabulous time in the north of this beautiful island.
September 10, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Tenerife.
Having a fabulous time in the north of this beautiful island.
Having a fabulous time in the north of this beautiful island.
Remembering my friend today, and always.
Charlie Easton, 2.12.79 - 1.9.16
Charlie Easton, 2.12.79 - 1.9.16
September 1, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Remembering my friend today, and always.
Charlie Easton, 2.12.79 - 1.9.16
Charlie Easton, 2.12.79 - 1.9.16
Made a discovery, and a drawing — after Buchli, Lloyd Thomas, Wigglesworth et al.
August 17, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Made a discovery, and a drawing — after Buchli, Lloyd Thomas, Wigglesworth et al.
Shared without comment.
August 1, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Shared without comment.
Landing on doormats across the country this week.
An invitation to the Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Degree Show in London.
Thursday, 6pm, Crypt on the Green, Clerkenwell.
FABULOUS WORK; ALL WELCOME.
An invitation to the Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Degree Show in London.
Thursday, 6pm, Crypt on the Green, Clerkenwell.
FABULOUS WORK; ALL WELCOME.
June 26, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Landing on doormats across the country this week.
An invitation to the Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Degree Show in London.
Thursday, 6pm, Crypt on the Green, Clerkenwell.
FABULOUS WORK; ALL WELCOME.
An invitation to the Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Degree Show in London.
Thursday, 6pm, Crypt on the Green, Clerkenwell.
FABULOUS WORK; ALL WELCOME.
RA Summer Exhibition Architecture Afternoon.
Mosaics, point clouds, wallpaper, and pigmented plaster: Tessa Hunkin, Ibiye Camp, Graham Oram and Steven Blench in conversation with Vicky Richardson at the RA Summer Exhibition Architecture Afternoon.
Mosaics, point clouds, wallpaper, and pigmented plaster: Tessa Hunkin, Ibiye Camp, Graham Oram and Steven Blench in conversation with Vicky Richardson at the RA Summer Exhibition Architecture Afternoon.
June 21, 2024 at 3:36 PM
RA Summer Exhibition Architecture Afternoon.
Mosaics, point clouds, wallpaper, and pigmented plaster: Tessa Hunkin, Ibiye Camp, Graham Oram and Steven Blench in conversation with Vicky Richardson at the RA Summer Exhibition Architecture Afternoon.
Mosaics, point clouds, wallpaper, and pigmented plaster: Tessa Hunkin, Ibiye Camp, Graham Oram and Steven Blench in conversation with Vicky Richardson at the RA Summer Exhibition Architecture Afternoon.
Heart and soul, musicianship and artistry. Lankum are simply stunning live. I have so much love for them.
Hackney Empire, Saturday 18 May 2024.
A phenomenal gig. False Lankum played in full before an expanded, blazing performance of Bear Creek concluded the perfect encore.
Hackney Empire, Saturday 18 May 2024.
A phenomenal gig. False Lankum played in full before an expanded, blazing performance of Bear Creek concluded the perfect encore.
May 22, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Heart and soul, musicianship and artistry. Lankum are simply stunning live. I have so much love for them.
Hackney Empire, Saturday 18 May 2024.
A phenomenal gig. False Lankum played in full before an expanded, blazing performance of Bear Creek concluded the perfect encore.
Hackney Empire, Saturday 18 May 2024.
A phenomenal gig. False Lankum played in full before an expanded, blazing performance of Bear Creek concluded the perfect encore.
A Festival of Feminist Architectural Writing | Re:arrangements and A Revisitation
01 May 2024, 9:30 am–9:00 pm, The Bartlett School of Architecture
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...
01 May 2024, 9:30 am–9:00 pm, The Bartlett School of Architecture
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...
April 25, 2024 at 8:03 PM
A Festival of Feminist Architectural Writing | Re:arrangements and A Revisitation
01 May 2024, 9:30 am–9:00 pm, The Bartlett School of Architecture
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...
01 May 2024, 9:30 am–9:00 pm, The Bartlett School of Architecture
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...
Day four of the fabulous Production Studies International Conference at Newcastle University 🤍🩷
Wonderful framing, work, ideas, discussions (and colours) — a credit to Katie Lloyd Thomas, Will Thomson, and everyone speaking, volunteering, supporting, and attending.
Wonderful framing, work, ideas, discussions (and colours) — a credit to Katie Lloyd Thomas, Will Thomson, and everyone speaking, volunteering, supporting, and attending.
March 28, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Day four of the fabulous Production Studies International Conference at Newcastle University 🤍🩷
Wonderful framing, work, ideas, discussions (and colours) — a credit to Katie Lloyd Thomas, Will Thomson, and everyone speaking, volunteering, supporting, and attending.
Wonderful framing, work, ideas, discussions (and colours) — a credit to Katie Lloyd Thomas, Will Thomson, and everyone speaking, volunteering, supporting, and attending.
Final session at the 13th AIARG conference beginning powerfully.
James O’Leary, Future Peace Line — resonant work, deeply engaged in the community.
James O’Leary, Future Peace Line — resonant work, deeply engaged in the community.
March 15, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Final session at the 13th AIARG conference beginning powerfully.
James O’Leary, Future Peace Line — resonant work, deeply engaged in the community.
James O’Leary, Future Peace Line — resonant work, deeply engaged in the community.
Valerie Mulvin, giving the closing keynote on Day One in Regent House, TCD — sharing the exquisite work of McCullough Mulvin Architects with us all.
March 14, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Valerie Mulvin, giving the closing keynote on Day One in Regent House, TCD — sharing the exquisite work of McCullough Mulvin Architects with us all.
Saturation Point 2nd September 2020
Our first speaker, Peter Carroll, University of Limerick begins fabulously. Careful, compelling and situated.
Our first speaker, Peter Carroll, University of Limerick begins fabulously. Careful, compelling and situated.
March 14, 2024 at 10:39 AM
Saturation Point 2nd September 2020
Our first speaker, Peter Carroll, University of Limerick begins fabulously. Careful, compelling and situated.
Our first speaker, Peter Carroll, University of Limerick begins fabulously. Careful, compelling and situated.
Very much looking forward to this — to speaking, and listening at the 13th AIARG conference, Imagining Pasts, Remembering Futures in Dublin next week.
I’ll be presenting a paper entitled, ‘Names on the doorframes, inches and ages: architecture-writing and the house, home and landscape.’
I’ll be presenting a paper entitled, ‘Names on the doorframes, inches and ages: architecture-writing and the house, home and landscape.’
March 6, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Very much looking forward to this — to speaking, and listening at the 13th AIARG conference, Imagining Pasts, Remembering Futures in Dublin next week.
I’ll be presenting a paper entitled, ‘Names on the doorframes, inches and ages: architecture-writing and the house, home and landscape.’
I’ll be presenting a paper entitled, ‘Names on the doorframes, inches and ages: architecture-writing and the house, home and landscape.’
All the wine was all for me.
February 17, 2024 at 10:47 AM
All the wine was all for me.