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...
by Peter Knight | Dec 16, 2023 | Blog
Gideon Kondjeni makes high-quality charcoal from thorny Acacia trees invading his farm in central Namibia. He sends it six thousand miles north to Europe and Scandinavia where Kurdish and Indian restaurants depend on his artisanal fuel to keep their traditional ovens...
by Peter Knight | Aug 5, 2023 | Blog
What do you do with a redundant steel mill and its blast furnaces, cranes and contamination? Level the land, cap the toxins and build new, erasing the memories of an industrial heritage that defined generations? Or repurpose symbols of a manufacturing past as...
