dIGITAL iTERIORs

An English Interior, a review.

 

I was quite looking forward to the trip to the Foundling Museum as I’d never been there before. I found out that it stands next to the site of a building that became a home for abandoned children and was known as the Foundling Hospital. The guy who set it up was a sea captain called Thomas Coram.

 

The museum contains some of the furniture from the Foundling Hospital and also a hole load of coins, hazelnut shells and buttons that were left by mum’s of the children. 

 

The exhibition we saw called An English Interior, was by the artist John Kindness, he had designed wallpaper. His designs were inspired by the work of William Hogarth and the Desperate Dan cartoons and consisted of large pictures edged with a border. You could see the resemblance with the Desperate Dan cartoons in his pictures, though there wasn’t so much detail, particularly the faces. The borders to the pictures were designs inspired by lace patterns and photographs of rubbish taken out of the river Lee in Hackney. I felt a bit irritated when I found out this because when ever you hear about Hackney in the news, it’s always something negative and I think it’s a great place to live!. Surely he could have found something more positive in Hackney to be inspired by.

 

Anyway, the exhibition was okay but I wouldn’t want his pictures on my bedroom wall.

 

  Io Swift Wolf