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How I escaped my anxiety and depression through architecture and poetry

Social anxiety led him to introversion and silence. The brutalist architecture of London’s Barbican Estate inspired his liberation in poetry.

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Pum Dunbar’s living lessons

Read the ‘legends’ that give insight into Pum Dunbar’s creative process while producing her recent series of collages.

  • Interview

Inside the mind of Living with Buildings curator, Emily Sargent

Curator Emily Sargent reveals why council estates and a Finnish TB sanatorium were chosen for the ‘Living with Buildings’ exhibition.

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Searching for a place to call home

Wherever she’s lived, Tanya Perdikou has rarely felt at home, and numerous moves have perpetuated a sense of disconnection. But signs from nature offer powerful moments of connection.

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  • A young mother cradles her child in her arms. Mezzotint by J. Porter.
  • Six men are working with saws, drills, hammers and vices making chairs, cabinets shelves and cradles. Coloured etching.
  • A distressed woman cradles the body of a dying child in her arms while another woman holds a mask in her right hand. A bearded man and two women watch the scene from a distance. Etching by J. Gregory after M.L.L. Willmann, 1794.
  • Edward II's cradle. Engraving.
  • Edward II's cradle. Engraving.
  • Henry V's cradle. Wood engraving.
  • Henry V's cradle. Wood engraving.
  • Pefume bottle, gilt filigree swinging cradle.
  • Portable cradle metwork, Hall Sound, New Guinea
  • Cradle shown in Madonna with cat by Romano.
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