art – KDD & Co

how to see a rainbow

By: Kate Davies Designs November 16, 2022November 18, 2022

allover club, art, color, colour, photographyart, color, colour, photography, rainbow, rainbows, science, writing54 Comments

the optical phenomenon with important resonances of joy, hope, and solidarity

Knitting an anti-surveillance jumper

A brilliantly innovative combination of the material and the digital

All dressed in yellow

how our attitudes to colour are bound up with the stories we tell ourselves

meet, make, collaborate

creative, collective and protective acts of making

the Carbeth creature goes north

The Carbeth creature takes a trip to Banchory

sock of the week no.1

Philippe Mercier’s popular portrait of an eighteenth-century stocking knitter

behind the mask

accepting that not everything works out is key to the (slow) creative process

Winter’s End

Bonnie Sennot finds inspiration at Winter’s End.

mend

We celebrate the new edition of Wheesht with this essay exploring the creative work of mending and Celia Pym’s inspiring practice

In conversation with Jacob Heringman

By: Kate Davies Designs November 1, 2020November 1, 2020

art, musicart, collaboration, intabulation, Inviolata, Jacob Heringman, Josquin des Prez, lute, lutenist, music, photography, Susanna Pell24 Comments

Hello everyone, it’s Tom here. Today, I’d like to tell you about my collaboration with talented lutenist Jacob Heringman and how one of my “waterscape” images came to be on the cover of his new album Inviolata. An interesting development in contemporary photography has been the use of abstraction to distill a scene down to…

keeping shop

By: Kate Davies Designs July 23, 2020July 23, 2020

art, History, womenart, empire, Glasgow, History, manufacturing, painting, People MAKE Glasgow, retail, rum, shopkeeping, slavery, sugar, women's history12 Comments

As part of my research for the introduction to our People Make Glasgow book, I’ve been doing some highly enjoyable work poking about the city’s eighteenth and nineteenth-century post office directories, which provide intriguing lists of Glasgow’s merchants, manufacturing and retail businesses (much like the yellow pages). Looking at these directories across a century or…