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Andrew Ray

@andrew-ray.bsky.social
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Day job on climate change policy. Writing about landscape and the arts in the occasional spare moment...

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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 2h
Hackney Stadium by Jock McFadyen in the Swedenborg’s new Visionary Landscapes exhibition.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Upside down mountain in the Hayward
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Had covid all weekend so have been in bed watching old silent films. Enjoyed the reindeer herding scenes in ‘Gunnar Hedes saga’ (1923).
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wondering if this will really eventually happen - a transcendentalists hangout movie trilogy with Oscar Isaac as Thoreau. www.worldofreel.com/blog/2026/9/...
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Richard Linklater Says His Next Movie Is Now a Trilogy, and Funding Has Been a “Challenge” — World of Reel
Linklater has been planning a film about the transcendentalists, the "first hippies," a literary movement that included Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sussex landscape and Ravilious references in this new record. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
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Gilroy Mere – Furlongs | The Quietus
A journey through the anceint rites of the Sussex countryside with wind chies, plinky keyboards and infectious acoustic guitar licks proves a triumph, for Travis Elborough
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
to give thanks for water you might offer a stone Thomas A. Clark Lovely evening in ‘the grove of delight’, postROOM gallery
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I dug this out - quite nostalgic. I’d forgotten about the cartoon. I can see from the tour dates listed that I saw Armitage, Maxwell and Paterson at Waterstones on 17th May. Cost was £2.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It occurs to me it's high time two poets went off to Iceland to produce another report, thirty and sixty years on from these two.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Michael Heizer’s City video game by Lily Belmira lilybelmira.itch.io/city?ref=gam...
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City by Michael Heizer [Free Version] by Lily Belmira
art in your home
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I have built a new searchable map of Some Landscapes blog posts. some-landscapes.blogspot.com/p/map.html
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Thinking about Tacita Dean's 'Antigone' today, with Stephen Dillane as an Oedipus blinded by tinted eclipse glasses. 'At full eclipse, a black sun with a flaring corona looks back, like an eye. Colour is drained from the world and then all light...' www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Tacita Dean Landscape review – a total eclipse of the senses
From the steaming volcanoes of Yellowstone park to the mists of Bodmin Moor, the artist’s latest riveting work is like hitching a ride with Oedipus, Antigone and ZZ Top
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Imagining a world where Farrar, Straus and Giroux are selling a stake in Liverpool FC to a consortium of small poetry presses.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Good to see Nancy Holt in the Saatchi’s sun and moon exhibition
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Whitstable sea breezes - such a welcome change yesterday from the stifling heat of London, to which I’ve now returned.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
‘Lower Lake’ by Hurvin Anderson - there are some very appealing Caribbean landscapes in his Tate Britain exhibition.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
‘A thing of rare beauty. “I have seen it described as the ‘falling leaf’ penalty and I like that,” he reflects.’ www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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‘That penalty changed my life’: Panenka’s pride 50 years on from special spot-kick
Czech’s audacious defiance of Sepp Maier in Belgrade has slipped into football folklore: ‘The only disadvantage is that I don’t get any royalties from it’
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Multispecies maps. lithub.com/has-the-time...
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Has the Time Finally Come for Multispecies Maps?
Imagine, if you will, a college student returning from summer break for the start of a new semester. Heading to her first class of the day, she pulls up the campus map on her phone and is intrigued…
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Remembering how impressed I was by David Hockney's photographic collages which I saw when I was 16 at the Hayward Gallery (it was showing alongside a Raoul Dufy retrospective). I would love to have tried this method myself but photographs were too expensive to print like this (still are!)
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Walked to the Estorick this afternoon, where Emilio Isgrò’s map and globe erasures remove history and culture from the land and the sea.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Sunset over Highbury this evening.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Shao Fan - The Northern Sea 3. Seen at White Cube this morning. He also does large drawings of rabbits.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The sea at Antibes yesterday. The colour of the Mediterranean is always more beautiful than you remember it. (Sadly I’m now back in Hackney.)
Azure sea
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Seurat and the Sea some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...
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The Channel of Gravelines
Georges Seurat at Gravelines
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
A slide from Donald Locke’s ‘The Journey’, 1973-74. Ceramic elements photographed in landscapes. Seen this morning at Camden Art Centre.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A highlight of every month - who wouldn't want to read Irmin Schmidt's Invisible Jukebox in the latest issue, or Sunn O))) on Rothko and landscape? Other mags are full of lists and archive reprints but The Wire is always fresh and forward looking. And subscribers can access their amazing archive...
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Article on jazz and landscape photography. www.onlandscape.co.uk/2024/12/land...
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Landscape and all that Jazz | On Landscape
Others have referred to the idea of both music and photography containing rhythm, both containing light and dark, or positive and negative.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Tom Lubbock on John Russell's 'The Face of the Moon' (1793-7) www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This evening I’ve tuned in to nature. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Unclassified - Tune into Nature - BBC Sounds
Elizabeth Alker shares the winner of the Tune into Nature Music Prize.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Rain spattered watercolour - Turner caught in a shower while painting Cader Idris.
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I wrote about Basil Bunting’s modernist masterpiece, Briggflatts — published 60 years ago this month — and what I learned from the poet’s own comments on his poem
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Pinks #40: How It Feels Rubbing Down a Gravestone
Personal insights into a poetic masterpiece
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Non-invasive restoration of Chinese landscape painting. www.nature.com/articles/s40...
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Gerhard Richter is 94 today
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
New post on 'A Surrey Naturalist by John Bevis, published by @uniformbooks.bsky.social some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2026/02/over...
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Over stones, under alders
On John Bevis's collection of found poems, 'A Surrey Naturalist'
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Misty light in the distant vistas of ‘Crossing the Brook’, on show in the Tate’s Turner/Constable show.
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
On the fifteenth anniversary of his death, I wrote about one of my favourite poets, R.F. Langley, who I was lucky enough to know for ten years someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/we-speak-f...
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We Speak From Out There
Remembering R.F. Langley, 1938-2011
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Richard Long at Lisson Gallery.
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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Andrew Ray, on my last collection of poems, Not Sealions But Lions by the Sea. some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2025/08/loch...
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Lochan Eck
Landscape in recent poetry by Alec Finlay
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Landscape cinema starter kit (2016) mubi.com/en/notebook/...
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Landscape Cinema Starter Kit
Filmmaker, archivist, LGBT film historian and online pioneer Jenni Olson offers recommendations for excellent examples of landscape cinema.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Emerging from flu, looking at the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham glaciers book.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Peter Doig’s ‘Music of the Future’ at the Serpentine. I thought I might be irritated by paintings accompanied by music but I really enjoyed it – the music is excellent and not ‘blasted’ as you might think from the Guardian review.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Lawrence Lek’s ‘NOX’ at Goldsmiths CCA.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Twenty years and over 1200 posts - I still enjoy doing this, even though the days when people wrote and read blogs are long gone... some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2025/11/twen...
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Twenty Years of Some Landscapes
Text works by Richard Long and Hamish Fulton
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Ben Enwonwu’s ‘River Niger Landscape’ (1965) at Tate Modern.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Landscape of the Megaliths: Ħaġar Qim.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Lucy Raven’s video installation ‘Murderers Bar’ (2025) about the undamming of a river is excellent. Free to see at the Barbican
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
‘From the top of the Great Pyramid, Giza’ (c.1938), in the Tate’s Lee Miller exhibition.
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Sixteen detached blog posts on Ian Hamilton Finlay some-landscapes.blogspot.com/search/label...
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Nice little Wilhelmina Barns-Graham show at Hales Gallery - this is ‘Formentera Rocks’, 1958
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Andrew Ray @andrew-ray.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Obituary for Ian Monk, le punk de l'Oulipo.
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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Great interview with Iain Sinclair on the 50th anniversary of Lud Heat (speaking of Sinclair, I thought Pariah Genius, his recent book exploring the life and death of seedy photographer John Deakin, was his best work in ages) thequietus.com/culture/book...
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A London Dreaming: Iain Sinclair’s Lud Heat At 50 | The Quietus
On the fiftieth anniversary of his seminal 'book of the dead hamlets', author Iain Sinclair talks to Robert Davidson about London in the 70s, Hawksmoor churches and Arthur Machen
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