Blog Archive
The Plant: Creating Theatre for Society
Visit Duncan Grant's gallery Apologies for the time that has passed since my last post. As things have opened up, life seems to have got busier for everyone. The last series of posts that I wrote featured the SILTings festival and the many ingenious ways that LV21...
Tania Holland Williams: Changing the Shape of Opera
Visit Duncan Grant's gallery Imagine you are standing on a street in your town. What would it take for you to feel that you were in the presence of opera, that you had suddenly stepped into an opera house? It was this question that Tania Holland Williams, founder of...
SILTings: Shrimpers and Mudlarks; Fish and Ships
Visit Duncan Grant's gallery This is the third of my blogs about the SILTings creative programme, which runs next weekend (Friday 4th - 6th June 2021) online, aboard LV21 and the surrounding quayside, and at various locations around Gravesend town centre. If you...
SILTings: Filaments Art Collective on LV21
Visit Duncan Grant's gallery In the dark winter evening of February 2020, just before the even darker days of the first lockdown, Winter Gathering, a community festival produced by LV21 for Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, brought a welcoming glow to Ebbsfleet...
SILTings: The Trail of the Blue Porcupine
Visit Duncan Grant's gallery At 11am on Saturday 5th June 2021, blue porcupines will start to appear at various secret locations around the streets of Gravesend. The porcupines will hide in plain sight for a week. Together they form a two-mile trail around the town....
Griselda Cann Mussett: A self-portrait
Visit Duncan Grant's gallery I never met my grandfather, Ernest Hanchard Goodwin, as he died five years before I was born. But I grew up surrounded by his drawings, which were to be found in piles of sketches at my grandmother's house. There are hundreds if not...
Gettin’ Giclée Wit It
Visit Duncan Grant's gallery For some time now, thanks to the high quality images taken by my good friend, photographer, Roger Crosby, I've been able to offer prints of all my artwork, as well as selling the originals. These high quality photographs were good. They...