On the origin of a scientist

“Today, such is the veneration for all things Darwin, it might seem surprising that at its first offering in 1866 Charles Darwin’s childhood home, The Mount in Shrewsbury, didn’t sell and had to be auctioned the following year.”

Review of On the Origin of a Scientist: The Ghost in the Garden: In Search of Darwin’s Lost Garden By Jude Piesse in the Literary Review

Slimy but wholesome

“Seaweeds are magnificent in their briny home. They are colourful, shapely, buoyant. Stranded by the tide, flaccidness takes over.”

The Seaweed Collector’s Handbook: From Purple Laver to Peacock’s Tail By Miek Zwamborn (Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison) in the Literary Review

Water and our Planet:

'The six large landscape photographs of Water Matters are bold and beautiful, puzzling and disturbing. They embody Burtynsky’s deep concern for planetary health.'

Our Lancet review of Edward Burtynsky: Water Matters on show at Arup, 8 Fitzroy Street, London, W1T 4BJ

14 March - 8 June 2018 Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm (closed bank holiday)

Is it all in the stars? 

 ‘After four centuries … Forman has come back to London. He’s done it in style, but in ways undreamed of in his lifetime’:

Our Lancet review of  CASEBOOKS: Six Contemporary Artists and an Extraordinary Medical Archive Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London NW1 5LS, UK,  April 23, 2017

Elizabethan lives

'A worn suit of linen clothing hanging in a glass case captures the lot of the common man.'

Our Lancet review of  Elizabeth I & Her People, at London's National Portrait Gallery, 2013/2014