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An outing with threads and cutlery...
Jun. 10th, 2026 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kazzy_ceeYesterday, Mr Cee and I decided to brave the heavy rain showers and visit a couple of free exhibitions in London. We started by going to the Saatchi Gallery to catch Perspicere: States of Transition before it closes at the weekend.
Perspicere is a street artist who uses sewing thread wound around nails to form pictures. These aren't the nail and thread pictures you might remember from the 1960s and 1970s - these are stunning works of art produced with thousands of threads like this:
More amazing thread art under the cut (including a link to a short video on how he does it).
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We also popped into the small Inflorescence exhibition in a next-door room to check out this fun wall of smilie flowers by RYCA (aka Ryan Callanan)
From there, we jumped on the tube to head for The Goldsmith Centre in Islington to see their small free exhibition The Culture of Cutlery. The display covers European cutlery from 1425 to the present day. It's easy to forget that cutlery was not always provided by the host, and back in the medieval or Renaissance era, guests would bring their own knife, even if the spoon was provided by the host. Knives would be used to spear meat and take salt from the saltcellar. More under the cut about the history (including when forks started to be used) with photos (which get bigger with a click) under the cut.
Knife and fork with their travelling case from 1577, with figures carved on the handles. (from Germany or the Netherlands).
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It was a fun outing, and we managed to completely miss the downpour of heavy rain while we were inside looking at things (which was a bonus).
Perspicere is a street artist who uses sewing thread wound around nails to form pictures. These aren't the nail and thread pictures you might remember from the 1960s and 1970s - these are stunning works of art produced with thousands of threads like this:
More amazing thread art under the cut (including a link to a short video on how he does it).
( Read more... )
We also popped into the small Inflorescence exhibition in a next-door room to check out this fun wall of smilie flowers by RYCA (aka Ryan Callanan)
From there, we jumped on the tube to head for The Goldsmith Centre in Islington to see their small free exhibition The Culture of Cutlery. The display covers European cutlery from 1425 to the present day. It's easy to forget that cutlery was not always provided by the host, and back in the medieval or Renaissance era, guests would bring their own knife, even if the spoon was provided by the host. Knives would be used to spear meat and take salt from the saltcellar. More under the cut about the history (including when forks started to be used) with photos (which get bigger with a click) under the cut.
Knife and fork with their travelling case from 1577, with figures carved on the handles. (from Germany or the Netherlands).
( Read more... )
It was a fun outing, and we managed to completely miss the downpour of heavy rain while we were inside looking at things (which was a bonus).
