Judith Rugg's Blog

Reflections on art, writing, teaching and research in fine art and creative practice

Darkness Invisible Part 1

Darkness Invisible Part 1

Teju Cole's recent book, Black Paper (University of Chicago Press, 2021) proposes ways in which to think critically about 'blackness and it's connotations.'
Coloured Variations

Coloured Variations

David Batchelor draws on an apparently unending list of thinkers in his introduction to On Colour (2008) including Julia Kristeva (‘colour is the shattering of unity’), Josef Albers...
Hypercathections

Hypercathections

In James Lasdun’s novel, The Horned Man (Vintage, 2003), the protagonist, a professor of gender studies sinks into paranoia via a series of vividly drawn spatial scenarios.....
Yule Blog

Yule Blog

Christmas started arriving in September as the shops displayed Christmas cards and decorations, in a widely expanded development of the twelve days of Christmas ...
Down the track

Down the track

Under the railway arches of London Bridge station, during the process of the currently ongoing reconstruction programme, a fine, red bricked, cross-shaped vaulted ...
Interiorities

Interiorities

Recently the experience, purpose and contexts of architectural space have been subject to various kinds of scrutinies. The contemporary obsession with how buildings appear ...