Inaugurated in 2011, the Grey Fox Trophy is a limited overs cricket competiton for over 50s teams.The final will be played at Headingley on September 9th 2012. The GFT is a component of ‘Runs on the Board – an artists’ celebration of over 50s cricket in Yorkshire’ – which is itself a component of imove – the Yorkshire cultural programme celebrating the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games.

Next Sunday’s Countryfile, BBC1 at 6.30pm, features Chris Drury’s work ‘Time & Flow’ at Thixendale as well as interviews with David Hockney and David Cameron – not to mention the yorkshire puddings! 

Update – Countryfile to be broadcast on 8th January 2012 will focus on the Yorkshire Wolds, and include a visit to “Waves and Time” at Thixendale.

BBC’s Countryfile are planning to film in the Yorkshire Wolds in December, including a visit to either Chris Drury’s “Waves and Time” at Thixendale or Jony Easterby’s “Enclosure Rites” at West Knapton.  Watch this blog for updates on transmission dates…

On Sunday I had a very pleasant walk among the autumn reds and browns at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. This new work by Magdalena Abakanowic fits in very well.

Graham

New entrance to Green Park Underground Station on the south of Piccadilly provides visual delight with the sensitive integration of John Maine’s work Sea Strata – an engaging visual essay into the character of stone as a repository of life millions of years ago.  Also not to be missed is John’s exhibition across the road at the RA After Cosmati, a sculpture installation created in response to his experience as an advisor on the conservation of the C13 Cosmati Pavement in Westminster Abbey.  As in all he does there is a ‘sense of the world beyond’ and a knowledge that ‘doing is seeing’.

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/artists-laboratory/artists-laboratory-04-john-maine-ra,395,RAL.html

Our RKL colleague Doug Sandle is organising a conference in 2012 bringing together those interested in the historical and contemporary links between the arts and sport. The call for papers and registration of interest is here ‘Fields of Vision‘.

Just found an interesting report on the Open House website describing ODA commissions. Check it out http://www.open-city.org.uk/advocacy/publicrealm/index.html 

Andrew Knight

Though chill winds blow the RKL team have been hard at work, commissioning marvellous artists to do great things in urban and rural settings. Please visit our site regularly for updates.

Graham Roberts
Continue reading →

Welcome to the new, revised, uplifted and re-vitalised RKL website.