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The Queen in my suitcase
‘Aha!’ said a member of Glasgow airport’s security staff as a small Royal person was revealed lurking at the bottom of my suitcase. Ten years ago this summer, whilst returning from the Outer Hebrides, my luggage set off a shrill … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Travels, Visits, Workshops
Tagged an Lanntair, Bernara, carvings, chess, chess sets, Iceland, islands, Isle of Lewis, Lewis chess set, Outer Hebrides, Queen, Stornaway Gazette, travel, Uig, Vikings, Visit Scotland
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Sally Kindberg and Smithfield Market
Recently I took a short cut through Smithfield Market. The gates’ colour scheme reflect the Victorian’s invention of super bright colours, especially green and purple. The meat market has been here for over 800 years, and is currently under threat … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg and exercises
Cold/stormy/apocalyptic weather conditions mean you may have to give up on your usual exercise regime. If you have a home, chair exercises can be rather exhausting, especially if the chair is heavy to lift off the ground. I’m now developing … Continue reading
House of Dreams workshop with Sally Kindberg at Swedenborg House
The painted wooden summer house where eighteenth century polymath Emanuel Swedenborg sometimes wrote his mysterious books, thought of inventions, planned his garden or played music on his organ, is now in Skansen, Sweden. I visited here when I was three … Continue reading
Posted in Workshops
Tagged drawing workshop, dream, family workshops, House of Dreams, memory, paper cut out, paper house, Skansen, Summer House, Swedenborg, synaesthesia, Triola, workshop
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Sally Kindberg at the Artworkers Guild Table Top Museum
On October 12th I joined thirty other collectors of the obscure and intriguing and showed a collection of objects again at the Artworkers Guild . This time a selection of relics, votives and a shrine dedicated to Dandy comic’s Desperate … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibitions
Tagged Artworkers Guild, Beano, comic strips, comics, Dandy, DC Thomson, Desperate Dan, Dudley D Watkins, Hair, relics, votives
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Sally Kindberg and National Poetry Day at the seaside.
The sun shone on National Poetry Day, and I was lured to the seaside to add a contribution to a Poetathon held at Kollectiv Arts Centre in Folkestone. En route to the coast via High Speed train, I wrote a … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg meets Mr Doodle (briefly)
Meeting and chatting with Mr Doodle today on Primrose Hill bridge, where he was doodling away – part of London Mural Festival – reminded me of one of my Draw It! series, the Doodle a Day book.
Sally Kindberg and a Michaelmas comic strip
As Michaelmas approaches, here’s one of my comic strip stories from the Kindberg archive
Posted in Comic strips
Tagged angels, childhood memory, comic strip, memory, St Michael, unfinished business
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