by Peter Knight | Dec 4, 2024 | Blog
Moo Deng, the baby hippo internet sensation, and the girl who was gored by a rutting stag in a London deer park highlight our sometimes-baffling behaviour around wild animals. The Thai zoo where Moo Deng (bouncy pig), a pygmy hippopotamus, was born to great fanfare on...
by Peter Knight | Oct 6, 2024 | Blog
In springtime, a friend sits under a tree beside Pen Pond in London’s Richmond Park and through her binoculars plays what she calls sand martin bingo. This involves recording the birds’ darting flights in and out of the rows of nesting burrows in an artificial...
by Peter Knight | Jun 22, 2024 | Blog
These are porcelain paintings… perhaps better described as monoprint paintings on porcelain. But that’s not quite the right description since the image is painted directly onto a plaster batt – the heavy, chalky, highly-absorbent slabs used for wedging clay – from...
by Peter Knight | Jun 18, 2024 | Blog
Over three days in May, Catchlight curated its first show with works by Amy McMillan, Elise Ovanessoff and Sophie Balhetchet. After seeing Amy McMillan’s work at a grad show at Mall Galleries showing ceramic sculptures of metamorphic female figures engaged in mythic...
by Peter Knight | Mar 29, 2024 | Blog
Nothing much eats a porcupine. But what a porcupine eats could signal the end of the Laager Aloe, an ancient plant that lives for up to a thousand years in South Africa’s increasingly arid Karoo. This semi-desert region stretches for about 155,000 square miles...
