4 posts tagged “cake & neave”
But despite a continuing fanaticism about Lego in all its forms, these days Cake and Neave’s artworks involve other just as unconventional materials, including knitted toilet roll dolls, Scalextric track, Tube maps, Smurf figurines and papier mache masks. Although in the UK they often face scepticism, elsewhere they’ve proved far more popular, with exhibitions this year in Paris, Berlin, New Zealand, Singapore and Beijing.
This is an interview with my handsome housemates, Cake & Neave, who kindly agreed to let me grill them for The London Word. You can read the rest of the article here.
I promise I will chronicle our adventures in Paris at some point soon.
And I haven’t forgotten all the other bits and bobs I haven’t told you about yet, like reviewing restaurants and the Love & Madness production of Macbeth for the London Word, the Manics two nights in a row at the Camden Roundhouse, and squealing with excitement because I’m interviewing Amanda Palmer next week.
But in the meantime, here are some photos of my boys and I at their exhibition in Zadig & Voltaire last week. And some pictures of Z and I slurping hot chocolate in Café de Flore, pretending to be Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
(Polaroids by François Séguin)
So, given the chaos that the
blizzards have unleashed, it looks like I timed my return from Berlin just
right. We got home late last night, and at the moment, my garden looks like
this:
With all flights in and out of Heathrow cancelled today, we made it just in time. Even though our epic journey from Heathrow airport to home took double the time of the journey from Berlin to London (including the hour we were sat on the runway at Tegel). But, could not be happier to have an excuse not to go into work today, and as long as I can spend the snow day in my pyjamas catching up with emails and writing, long may the severe weather conditions continue.
You can watch a video of my ever-talented housemates’ speaking about their Berlin exhibition here. Or, if you’re snowed-in and want some reading, my latest Bitch Buzz posts are about Melissa Panarello, and my massive crush on Jamie Babbit (the director of But I’m A Cheerleader).
Welcome to 2009, dear little blog. I hope you enjoyed your first NYE. Personally, I’m not yet convinced by this 2009 lark. It’s still so cold that all I want to do is stay burrowed in many layers of blankets and knitwear. And that term-starts-tomorrow, end-of-school-holidays feeling does not provoke in me one iota of eagerness to return to the office. If someone could please provide me with a paid full-time writing position, I’d take it in a heartbeat. At the moment, however that seems to be unforthcoming. The stuff that dreams are made of. So tomorrow I’ll be battling the grumpy hordes in the morning rush hour to renew my travel card and traipse back into work.
I know I’m being a bit of a scrooge about this. And I am excited about what 2009 might bring. Especially Berlin at the end of this month. 2008 was the first time in four years that I didn’t go to Berlin, so I’m long overdue another visit to my favourite city. My ever-talented housemates have an exhibition opening here in February, and you didn’t expect me to forgo a chance to get in on the action, did you?
But other than that, 2009 is mainly going to be about battening down the hatches, writing, saving, and planning. 2008 was my first full year in London, and I accomplished a lot, but there’s still much to be done. So on that note, I’ll be finishing this here to go and get on with it.
My latest BitchBuzz post, on Virginie Despentes, can be found here. And very soon I should be able to share with you my latest project. But for now, hope you’ve not eaten too many Quality Street, and if you’re back in work tomorrow, you have my utmost sympathy.
