{"id":1327,"date":"2023-08-21T08:52:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T07:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2023-08-21T08:52:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T07:52:29","slug":"sheilas-weekly-update-20-august-a-bit-of-fesitival-ing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/weekly-updates\/sheilas-weekly-update-20-august-a-bit-of-fesitival-ing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheila&#8217;s weekly update 20 August: A bit of fesitival-ing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had a wee day out at the Edinburgh Festival this week checking out some of the art on show.  The &#8220;big one&#8221; this year is the Grayson Perry &#8220;Smash Hits&#8221; at the National Gallery. It&#8217;s his first retrospective and it&#8217;s big &#8211; in every sense of the word. Big tapestries, big use of colour, big ideas.  It was also very busy so I must go back and explore it in more detail. However, if you do go &#8211; make sure you head downstairs to the Elizabeth Blackadder and John Houston show in the lower galleries.  A different scale to the &#8220;big show&#8221; upstairs, but quietly wonderful.  I also spent some time at the Talbot Rice Gallery, with Jesse Jones&#8217;s installation The Tower which was really powerful. As was the 45th  Parrallel by Lawerence Abu Hamdan. Two contrasting video installations but both equally thought provoking.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheila&#039;s weekly update: A bit of festival-ing\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VU42F5yVOYk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a wee day out at the Edinburgh Festival this week checking out some of the art on show. The &#8220;big one&#8221; this year is the Grayson Perry &#8220;Smash Hits&#8221; at the National Gallery. It&#8217;s his first retrospective and it&#8217;s big &#8211; in every sense of the word. Big tapestries, big use of colour, big ideas. It was also very busy so I must go back and explore it in more detail. However, if you do go &#8211; make sure you head downstairs to the Elizabeth Blackadder and John Houston show in the lower galleries. A different scale to the &#8220;big show&#8221; upstairs, but quietly wonderful. I also spent some time at the Talbot Rice Gallery, with Jesse Jones&#8217;s installation The Tower which was really powerful. As was the 45th Parrallel by Lawerence Abu Hamdan. Two contrasting video installations but both equally thought provoking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,26,42],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-updates","tag-contemporaryartist","tag-artistpractice","tag-artisttalking"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}