Renaissance Utterances

'suspended' It has been an orgy of art since I arrived back in London just over a week ago. Russian/Communism inspired exhibitio...

Brest Maritime International Festival I am currently living in Atlantic Wharf on the banks of London’s Thames, and September’s Totally T...

Waiting. We sit on the island content to wait. Waiting weeks for the moon to be in the right quarter so we can fish. Waiting months for t...

Bartol Kašić (1575-1650) On my island of olive growers and fisherman I feel as far away from the baroque as is possible. The landscape ...

Klapa singers on Vis 2016 One of my first experiences of klapa music during my stay in Split was wandering around the city late one cold...

There was a spell in the not so distant past where I did a module on  exhibiting the body as part of my MA in History of Art. It was one ...

The new writers group I've just joined here in Split talked about inspiration. What inspires us, why are we here in Split, what is m...

Lastovo is known as the island of stars, but for reasons I shall go into, for me it will always be the island of pink. It's been on m...

M Hodge "Bear's Dream" 2012 It's taken me a year to finally get around to this piece but it somehow seems appropriate...

Death of the last King of Croatia I've decided to put my Croatian Culture and Civilisation notes here because they are slightly more...

Just no. And no again! What is it about art, sculpture and architecture that really makes me tingle passionately? Why is it such an obs...

Sam - alone; sole; only Samoća - solitude; loneliness Samostan - monastery Samovoljan - self willed; obstinate  In a Split art ...

I don't usually write about music because I find it extraordinarily difficult to articulate, unless in poetry. When I have talked about...

Cursed Crew (2013) I took my new language on an artistic field trip to Wandsworth on Tuesday evening. Kristin Hjellegjerde's gallery...

  © Jagoda Kaloper-Tajder In true Renaissance woman style, I'm worried  I'm over-intellectualising my new found enjoyment of a f...