Rose Knox-Peebles 
BRAINCHILD It is crying again. Which one? Which one is making the noise? I am in charge here. I am The Nurse. The light is bright. I wear a gauze mask; I move slowly and heavily; the urgency of the labour I have been engaged on for so long is wearing me out. When it … Read more
Witty, clever, above all thoughtful, Rebecca Forster makes connections – between shapes, ideas, images; connections over time and space; connections between now and then: connections between us and history; between reality and myth; between where we live now and ancient maps that show the bones beneath the skin. Colours change; rose pink, ink-blue, red, ochre, … Read more
GET THE TO A PUBLICIST I am the child of a past era. When publisher lay in wait for unsuspecting authors at the top of dusty flights of stairs. They lived in attics with sloping ceilings and fed their authors sherry and dry biscuits. They took them to lunch at restaurants where other publisher and … Read more
7.45 am on Sunday morning – grey, raindrops hovering, the steps down into the underground wet and grubby. Broadcasting House at 8.00am. In the ground floor reception there are three bilious-coloured chairs. They are shaped like eggs, scooped out and lying on their sides. You sit down, you lean back, you lean back some … Read more
I first met Ana Pacheco in 1999. I had been visiting Monika Kinley and noticed on her wall a painting of an orange rubber glove. I was told it was by Ana and that it had been returned by the man who had bought it because his wife had disliked it. I wondered that a … Read more
BRA-LESS IN DIOR We were shooting accessories, so I didn’t bother about my underwear. The studio was big, empty and windowless. A corner was curtained off by a few meters of thin brown stuff, half concealing a shelf, a chair, a mirror, a hair-stylist, a manicurist and a makeup artist. Half way down the room … Read more
Article on Apple’s battle with Samsung over copying its designs: ‘It is “dead wrong” to argue that consumers consider a variety of technical features, as well as the external design, when deciding which product to buy. “Modern marketing and cognitive science shows very clearly that visual design in consumer decision-making overrides underlying functionality”’ … Read more
There is a positive side to obsession. Sometimes many are not too much and repetition is in the act of making, not in the work made. These objects may just be faces in a crowd but within their mass, their similarities and their differences, something wholly new is formed. Each is an individual; this is … Read more
‘Calf’s head is quite a dish among some epicures; and everyone knows that some young bucks among the epicures, by continually dining upon calves’ brains, by and by get to have little brains of their own, so as to be able to tell a calf’s head from their own heads; which, indeed, requires uncommon discrimination. … Read more
FINDING WISDOM IN TESCO’S Tesco has not been here as long as I have. First the store was a Co-Op where elderly ladies managed the tills strictly from 9.30 to 5.30. It closed, they told me, because they could not compete with the corner shops that stayed open till late and whose family members worked … Read more