Aine Corr

a whalebone carving on a little plastic stand. shaped a bit like a child's drawing of a bell but oddly boxy, it has a crooked face made of crude and extremely mismatched holes that together form a look of benign confusion and maybe a coming sneeze. it has an enormous bellybutton (?) but no other features such as limbs or any earthly explanation. i love him and you do too

hey guys? i need you to look at buddo real quick

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A pied peacock fanning its tail, standing centee inside the dark of an open garage door.

If a door gets left open here for any length of time it summons the elusive but impressive garage peacock.

An old post card of two Breton ladies standing in front of one of the huge uprights that form part of the de Menec complex at Carnac.
#StandingStoneSunday #Carnac #megalith #Neolithic

The same hands that once dug peat and ploughed fields helped shape modern Britain. He built his own business. Which was pretty impressive considering when he turned up in London he had nothing.
One of his favourite things to say to me and my siblings was ‘You’ll wear out more sheets than shovels’

Painting of a vintage digger/machinery, in a dreamscape full of flowers

‘Digging’ painting (30x30cm) My dad, part of the wave of Irish migrating to England in the ’60s, left rural Leitrim to build a better future. He started with hard physical labour- digging foundations and roads (by hand)1/2

A thread, which I am calling 'Why British Badgers Are Fucking Brilliant'.

1. They are always in a good mood and absolutely love to surprise you by arriving at your window with a big infectious smile on their face. bsky.app/profile/dj-a...

A roof fox from Rufus for your #FoxOFTheDay ! Thank you Rufus ( @27rufus )

Ethereal and stunning ❤️

Stephanie Temma Hier Juxtaposes Uncanny Ceramic Sculptures with Embedded Paintings Stephanie Temma Hier revels in tension and ambiguity in surreal, hybrid compositions that combine painting and sculpture.

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This is a major reason I left the profession after 15 years. Loved teaching my subject. Gove has a lot to answer for.

As described there are at least 6 prints laid out on a tabletop to dry. Each print is my linocut on white Japanese paper which shows 18th century woman (Laura Bassi) in dress with fur cape, and hair in ringlets with a hairpiece which echoes a laurel crown. She’s holding an open book with Newtonian optics diagrams and in front of her is an electrical machine (a stand with vertical large glass plate and hand crank and brass tubes to channel the large electrostatic charges it could generate through friction). She is surrounded by typical high tech lab equipment of her day like conductors, an aurora flask, a luminous discharge tube, a Lane electrometer, Leyden jars and Volta's electric pistol. It’s printed in a gradient of a hint of turquoise through violet to red-magenta to bronze from the bottom to the top.

My edition of portraits of physicist Laura Bassi (1711-1778) surrounded by devices used to study electricity, laid out to dry

#linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #physics #electricity 🧪🐡

Hedgehog-shaped jar, Neolithic period (3500-3000 BCE), from the Nanbaoligaotu site, located about 40 km southeast of Zhalute Banner, Collection of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute.

Enjoy this historic artifact little guy

Hedgehog-shaped jar, Neolithic period (3500-3000 BCE)

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The window drew inspiration from the book 'Cuthbert and the Animals 'by John Mc Manners & the Lindisfarne Gospels. So two otters link to “The Tale of the Affectionate Sea Otters” who were reputed to have warmed and dried Cuthbert's feet after a night of him meditating and praying whilst standing in the sea. The Celtic knotwork border is influenced by designs in the Lindisfarne Gospels.

St Cuthbert’s Church, Crayke, North #Yorkshire

“St Cuthbert” window (2020)
#HelenWhittaker

The detail shows the Tale of the Affectionate Sea Otters who were reputed to have warmed & dried Cuthbert's feet after a night of him meditating & praying whilst standing in the sea.

#StainedGlassSunday

Love your books

The final two first edition hardbacks of my novel 1983 that I have in my house.

Two cut-out linoprint hares by my mum, Jo. This is a hare linoprint which she originally did to illustrate a chapter in my earlier (non-fiction) book, Ring The Hill, which has a hare subtheme darting through it.

I thought it might be nice to give away my last 2 signed hardbacks of my novel 1983, with two lovely linocut hares by my mum.

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The book's been called "Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend”.
Extract in the replies.

The Skulls in the Turret

In 1877, restoration workers at Elsdon (Northumberland) broke into the bell turret's spire. They found three horse skulls arranged in a triangle, carefully built into the stonework centuries before.

Why? Nobody knows.

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekAForAbstract

Celtic interpretation 🥰

Collage with many different images of eyes arranged like a bouquet of flowers

Dada artist Hannah Höch,
Bouquet Of Eyes, 1930 #womensart

A roughly carved wooden idol with a human head and elongated body in a museum display case

Ralaghan Idol • Cavan

This striking figure was hewn from yew around 3,000 years ago. It was found deep in a Cavan bog on what was once an ancient boundary.

It is now on display in the Kingship and Sacrifice exhibition in the @nmireland.bsky.social

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺

The highly decorative cover of the old Ordnance Survey map of Southern Britain in the Iron Age showing a big pike of decorative metalwork including carnyces and shields.

Just thought I’d drop a picture of everyone’s favourite archaeological map cover into the timeline because, you know…carnyx.

A detail of a broadside showing a man, a postal messenger with a letter in his hand, positioned within a text part. More details in the thread

A man travelling within the lines of a text printed in 1621. Enjoy this short 🧵 for #skystorians and friends of news flows.

The People You Love Become Ghosts Inside Of You
Robert Montgomery, 2013
@charlestontrust.bsky.social Lewes

Detail of a black mosaic with a white skull, the boney arm of the skeleton raised, and a few ribs.

Mosaic with black background, reclining skeleton with cup of wine in hand with two loaves of bread and an amphora upright in a stand.

Happy #Halloween!
A wonderful 2nd century AD Roman mosaic found near Antioch, Turkey showing a skeleton, cup of wine in hand, reclining on the floor of a dining room in a house reminding guests to enjoy life: ‘ευφρόσυνος’

St. Nicholas of Abbots Bromley opened!

arent these beautiful?
1000 year old antlers on 16/17th century (approx) heads

On the feast of St. Jerome #otd, 30 Sept, here he is having a quietly tender moment extracting a thorn from his lion's paw.

Lucas Cranach, 1515. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

'Sherry Bar Portrait', Ravenscourt Arms, Hammersmith (c.1964) by Ruskin Spear

(Private collection)

Brooch depicting lovers 1430-1450, made for the Burgundian Court.

(Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

The belief that butterflies were the departing souls of the dead dates back to ancient Egypt. In 1810, folklorist Eleanor Hull recorded the case of a young Irish girl being told off by her friends for chasing a butterfly in case it was her recently deceased grandfather.