Impatient for Summer

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croquet, Jesus College, Oxford, student life

Jesus College, Oxford, pre-pandemic

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Stowe School’s Frontage

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Buckingham, independent school, lion sculpture, NT gardens, public school, Stowe School, Vanbrugh

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Ai Wei Wei

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activist, Ai Wei Wei, artist, Melbourne, NGV, portrait, Victoria

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart.

Ai Wei Wei: ‘bye ‘bye

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Ai Wei Wei, Chinese artist, global figure, NGV, political protest, Victoria

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Taken by Candia Dixon-Stuart as he left the NGV, Melbourne, Victoria.

Actually, he then took a photo of me taking one of him and he posted

it on his blog that evening (2015/2016)

I find the blacked out presence in the middle photo foreboding. He is so brave.

New book out.

Water Wall, NGV Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

In this photo I think I captured the tripod hood that the professional

photographer had been using for a photo shoot. It reminded me that

Ai Wei Wei had been seized and a black hood placed over his head.

A Good Book

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a good book, concentration, personal entertainment, reading, Sculpture on churches

In this cold weather, settle down with a good book

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

David Olusoga

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acrylic painting, David Olusoga, historian, media celebrity, portrait, Professor, social justice

An acrylic painting by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Little Red Riding Hood

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acrylic painting, fairy tale, grandmother, Little Red Riding Hood, visiting the elderly

Acrylic painting by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Hannah More (1745-1833)

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anti-slavery, bas bleu, Belmont, Blagdon, Clapham set, Cowslip Green, Fishponds, Hannah More, Mendip Hills, nervous breakdown, philanthropist, religious tracts, Tyntesfield, Walpole

Hannah More by Pickersgill

A quennet for a woman who made a fortune with her pen:

 

fourth daughter   Gloucestershire born   Mendip Hills

poetic landscape

religious tracts   pastoral plays   Sunday education

nervous collapse

‘strange affair’    Bleeding Rock   jilted female

small annuity

bas bleu

Blagdon cottage

Clapham Sect

petticoat bishop

Cowslip Green

anti-slavery

bold philanthropist

strange plays   female education    pastoral landscape

religious rock.

 

 

Children’s Sculpture at Kingham

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children's art, Cotswolds art, Kingham Lodge, plastic bottles, re-cycling, Sculpture, sculpture in the garden

Made by children from Bledington School, from plastic bottles.

French Parenting: Carousel Decoration

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carousels, child supervision, French fairground rides, health and safety, parental advice, Parenting

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart