• Art Exhibition,  English

    Getting to Know Glart

    Here’s a fun fact for you: Glass has been around since around about 3000 BC (in the Bronze Age), and glassblowing was created in Syria, in the 1st century BC. You may be wondering what that has to do with the price of fish – well, let me explain. Glass is immensely important in our society. And, the fact that it was developed so early on in our history means that it has been incredibly important for our ancestors’ society, and their ancestors’ society… for thousands of years. Again, you may be asking what the point of this is. Well, fine you got me, I guess there isn’t a point…

  • Art Exhibition,  Art in Europe,  English

    Where the Wild Things Are

    It is at dusk that our imaginations and fears start to play tricks on our minds.  The sun-filled, logical part of the day is over. Twilight deepens.  Looming shadows, the scuttling of animals, and eerie, indiscernible shapes; the witching hour approaches.  This is the time, walking home from work on a cold winter’s night, when your brain conjures up all those things that go bump in the night.  You walk faster, trying to get ahead of the possible footsteps behind you, jump at the tree branch when it brushes your shoulder, and peer ahead into the gloom, trying desperately to make out what the troll-like shape is in front of…