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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

📢 Are you a parent or carer of a young person aged 5–24 in Surrey UK? If so, please take 10-15 minutes to complete this anonymous survey: engage.zencity.io/surrey-count... Your views will be used to make recommendations to strengthen creative opportunities & career pathways in the county.

Poster for Survey for parents and carers of children and young people in Surrey with QR code.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Anyone else obsessed with Chris Packham wearing the same camel coloured Fred Perry polo in every shot of Evolution? Just me then I guess.

Chris Packham sitting on a beach looking into camera, wearing a camel coloured buttoned up short sleeved Fred Perry polo shirt.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Are you a teacher, lecturer, careers adviser, youth or community worker, arts tutor/facilitator, SEND practitioner or adult in any other role who works with children & young people in Surrey UK? Please complete our survey on creative learning & career pathways: engage.zencity.io/surrey-count...

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Do you represent a creative or cultural business or organisation in Surrey UK that supports or employs young people (or would like to)? Please complete & share our survey to help understand & strengthen creative opportunities, skills development & career pathways: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It's been a week since @movementdetroit.bsky.social and I'm still buzzing. Detroit♥️. #TechnoFeedsTheSoul

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I took these photos of window displays in Vienna a few weeks ago. Frohe Ostern! 🐇🥚📷

Toy bunny sitting in front of a little grand piano. There is a pink Easter egg on the piano lid.

A window display featuring 3 ceramic cats sitting on artificial grass with plastic brightly coloured eggs and carrots strewn around them. They have bunny ears attached to them. The largest cat in the middle is yellow with blue hearts and a kind of demonic grin, and also has a furry mane attached around its head. There are two painting easels with gilt frames in the scene advertising art. The reflection of a large ornate building across the street is visible.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

And finally - last but certainly not least... A Mozartknoedel! (I could only post 4 photos)

A round white plate with a sugared dumpling in the middle of it, surrounded by pistachio sauce. There is a white coffee cup with gold handle behind it.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Returning from 5 glorious days in Vienna. Absolutely no regrets.

A slice of cake on a plate with 2 forks beside it. It has chocolate on top and a chocolate medallion with Mozart's name and silhouette on it.

In foreground is kammerscharrn with plum sauce. At top is a slice of chocolate cake with strawberry on top. Glass of dessert wine in between.

In foreground there is a square piece of cake. The top layer is raspberry and below it are layers of vanilla cream and poppyseed cake. There is a chocolate medallion on top that says Belvedere with an image of the palace. In the background there is a striped slice of a vanilla layered cake.

In foreground is a slice of vegan cherry crumble cake. Beside it is a beetroot latte and ticket to Hundertwasser Museum. In the background there is a slice of cheesecake.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I actually really don't want or need to know what Banksy's original name was or what he looks like.

Black and white graffiti by Banksy of a woman in a leotard doing a handstand on the wall of a destroyed building in Ukraine.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

AND FINALLY... Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 29. Nude with Leg Up (1992) by Lucian Freud

A nude portrait of Leigh Bowery in a supine, exposed pose. He is lying on bare floorboards, surrounded by paint rags, with one leg bent and the other raised and propped on a striped mattress, creating an explicit, yet relaxed, composition.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. (which is really hard in this case) 19. The Babylonian Marriage Market (1875) by Edwin Long

In the foreground of this painting is a line of women who are seated and are facing the viewer. These women are brides waiting to be auctioned off on a white stepped pedestal featured in the middle ground of the painting where the first bride is currently being auctioned. An auctioneer is presenting the woman to be sold to a crowd of men in the background.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

An abstract painting featuring layered, soft-edged rectangular dark shapes floating on a deep maroon, red, and black background.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 17. Portrait of Mlle Sarah Bernhardt, Member of the Comédie Française (1876) by Georges Clairin

Portrait of Bernhardt reclining on a sofa, looking towards the viewer with a sultry expression, holding a feather fan in her lap in her right hand, wearing a white gown trimmed with fur, with a dog lying at her feet and palm to left emerging from dark background

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

An abstract painting featuring dark, densely packed, looping fleshy forms, some outlined in black with pink and white highlights that suggest tangled bodies, blood, eyes, and wounds.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 15. Impression VI (Sunday) (1911) by Wassily Kandinsky

Abstract vividly coloured painting of people promenading. There are 2 central figures, one of which seems to be a woman wearing a hat with big red blobby eyes.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

A gouache painting in red looking between the open legs of a blobby watery headless woman who is expelling a blur. At the top of this shape are breasts pointing toward the top of the canvas.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 13. The Detroit Industry Murals (1932–1933) by Diego Rivera

Photo of a wall mural with planters on the floor underneath it. It represents the manufacturing process of the exterior automobile parts, with a focus on technology including huge parts-pressing machines. In the centre of the mural are factory workers working on an axle. In the background, there are people touring the assembly line.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

A gestural fragmented painting that merges together three naked torsos with large breasts, each topped with the artist's own head seen at different angles

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Still going! Now over half way! Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 11. Dancing Skeletons (1934) by Edward Burra

This is a vibrant gouache painting featuring four skeletons in pink, blue and white all wearing hats and dancing in a night-time meadow. In the background there is a gallows and in the sky a round white moon with a face.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

A painting that is made up of a series of wavy, vertical stripes in red, turquoise, and grey. These bands unfurl like ribbons, increasing in intensity towards the centre of the square canvas. The lines broaden and thin in a rhythm that creates the illusion of movement, vibration and depth.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

A wooden window frame with 9 small squares on the top and a single pane the same size as the 9 together on the bottom. There are images in each of these boxes including a skeleton, moons and stars, a phenological head, a lion with a sun in its mouth, and a dancing couple. The main one on the bottom features a silhouette of a girl with an afro. You can see her eyes and her hands are pressed against the panes of the glass. On the hands are different astrological symbols in yellow and red.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A vivid painting of a simple, colourful but disorientating room with a bright red carpet and domestic details. A couple floats in mid-air, with the woman holding flowers and the man twisting his neck in a gravity-defying kiss.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 7. Portrait de Jean Genet (1954-1955) by Alberto Giacometti

Portrait of Jean Genet in dark strong black lines, facing the viewer. He is seated and legs look large and head small, hands clasped between his knees.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 6. The Resurrection, Cookham (1924-7) by Stanley Spencer

This is a painting depicting residents of an English village rising from their graves in a churchyard.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The central figure of this painting is Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, who is riding an alligator and holding a feather, engaging with characters such as a British soldier, a basketball player, and a mermaid. The painting features a triangular, Rococo-style composition. There's lots going on here and it's very colourful.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 4. Leben? oder Theater? (Life? or Theatre?, 1940-42) by Charlotte Salomon

Gouache expressionist self portrait of Salomon with her back towards the viewer and feet tucked under her. She's wearing a swimming costume and facing a vivid blue sea which she is painting. On her back are the words "Leben Oder The-ater" in large black letters.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

This is a painting using monotype and gouache on paper. It depicts a rustic dwelling within a rugged Cornish landscape. The painting is expressive rather than naturalistic.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 2. Nocturne in Black and Gold The Falling Rocket (1875) by James Whistler

Semi-abstract painting of fireworks over the River, with a dark colour palette of blue, green, and black, punctuated by golden specks of light.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Okay, I will play... Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting a day (or thereabouts) for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. 1. Henry Ford Hospital (1932) by Frida Kahlo

This is the painting, Henry Ford Hospital, by Frida Kahlo. Frida is lying on a hospital bed naked with blood and hemorrhage. Her body is twisted and the bed is tipped up. There are six objects flying around her including a male fetus, an orchid that looks like a uterus, and a snail. The objects are attached to red ribbons she holds in her hands next to her stomach .

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

You can read 'Caryl Churchill's Eco-Socialist Feminism' by Elaine Aston (published by Cambridge University Press) for free online until 22 October: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Cover of Cambridge Elements title: Caryl Churchill's Eco-Socialist Feminism by Elaine Aston

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

If you see this, you can post a bridge too! This is the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor Ontario and Detroit. (I took this photo in August.)

Photo from ground level of a suspension bridge stretching over water. There's a freighter passing underneath. You can see the Detroit train station on the other side of the river.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Walter Benjamin died on this day 85 years ago. "This is how one pictures the angel of history... Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage... The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead & make whole what has been smashed." 🪽

Black and white photo of Walter Benjamin.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Today I'm finishing my paper for the Bodies & Performance panel at the 20th annual @tapra.bsky.social conference starting Wednesday. I've been there from the beginning & wouldn't miss it for the world. My presentation topic is "The Fugitive Futurity of Danielle Abrams’ Jewish & Black Temporal Drag".

A photo of 3 people sitting at a bus stop. In the middle is Danielle Abrams in bubbe drag. She's wearing a babushka with flowers on it, sunglasses and a red cardigan, clutching a handbag. She's talking to two older men wearing baseball caps.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Still reeling from Rebecca McCutcheon's beautiful promenade site-specific production of Caryl Churchill's apocalyptic play "Far Away" for Lost Text/Found Space. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It's on as part of the Camden Fringe until 23 August (with relaxed & BSL performances this week): camdenfringe.com/events/far-a...

Photo of part of the set for Far Away. There is a wall with the words "Your soul will expand into the sky" written on it in large black letters. There are bright white tube lights at foot of the wall. In the foreground in front of the wall are electricity pole structures with tufts of grass at the bottom. There seems to be a curved path on the ground. Above the wall is a mezzanine where there is another set for performance featuring hats and tube lights. There are many chairs on the mezzanine.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

"Owls of the Night" (1990) by Inuk artist Pitaloosie Saila (1942-2001)

A lithograph of two graphic owls with spread wings facing the viewer, one on top of the other against a white background. The colours are subtle and gradated.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I feel like I've waited a long time to finally engage with Jenny Saville's work. Her exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery is extraordinary - visceral, bold, intimate, huge, luminous, brutal, tender. It's astonishing that some of these paintings were made in her early 20s. Just wow.

Painting by Jenny Saville of nude woman perched on black pedestal. Her fingers are digging into the flesh of her thighs. There is backwards writing in French etched into paint across picture.

A detail from a painting by Jenny Saville of a woman's head. She is looking up and her eyes are milky blue

A portion of a portrait painting by Jenny Saville of a young person with prominent front teeth and fleshy lips. Their face is coloured by a luminous rainbow

A painting by Jenny Saville of three nude figures merging together.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

"Have a good time all the time." Go well, Viv Savage. 🎹

Black and white photo of David Kaff who played Viv Savage in Spinal Tap. He's looking at the camera, is wearing a striped shirt and embroidered jacket and has shoulder length frizzy hair.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Hi I'm procrastinating so had a go. Of course I now have a shadow list of movies I regret not including. Ah well, I said what I said.

My ballot for New York Times 100 best movies of the 21st century, in no particular order:
Poor Things
Shaun of the Dead
Sightseers
There will be Blood
Mulholland Drive
A Serious Man
The Wolf of Wall Street
Stories We Tell
No Country for Old Men
The Grand Budapest Hotel

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

21 June is National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada, a time to recognize and celebrate the history, heritage, resilience and diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

On the right are 3 illustrations placed around the date 21 June: an eagle representing First Nations, a narwhal representing Inuit, and a violin representing Métis.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

What glorious sunshine for the Royal Holloway Open Day! I loved talking to visitors about their aspirations - & how exciting that so many are interested in studying Music + Maths! Thanks to our wonderful student ambassadors and talented choral & orchestral scholars who performed in the chapel! 🌞🎹🎓

Selfie of Roberta Mock wearing sunglasses. She is standing in a clearing in front of a large carved wooden bear - this is Royal Holloway's mascot, Colossus. Behind them are a bank of grass and green trees. It is possible to glimpse the Founders Building and some people in the distance.

A musical recital by a flautist accompanied by a pianist in the ornate Royal Holloway chapel.

A photo of visitors talking to animated Royal Holloway staff inside the Arts Building foyer. There are two banners, one in blue for Music and one in bright yellowy green for Media Arts.

Four singers performing in the ornate Royal Holloway chapel.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The LSO's programme last night felt remarkable although it shouldn't have. It opened with a piece by a woman composer (Julia Perry). There was a woman conductor (Susanna Mälkki) & a woman soloist for Stravinsky's Violin Concerto (Leila Josefowicz), who was wild & extraordinary (in a good way). ♀️🎶🎻💜

Photo taken from audience of stage at Barbican with wood panelling in background. Leila Josefowicz is standing on right at front, smiling and holding her violin. She is wearing a fantastic sleeveless full length colour block dress in brown, red, yellow and bright blue. Susanna Mälkki is also standing and facing the audience. She is behind and amidst seated violin players, wearing a black top and gesturing upwards towards Josefowicz.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Loved Do Ho Suh's delicate, beautiful, spacious meditations on the meaning of home, bodies, scale, materiality and community at Tate Modern.

Close up of Do Ho Suh's "Perfect Home: London, Horsham, New York, Berlin, Providence, Seoul" (2024). The image is of an assortment of bright candy coloured door handles, light switches, plug sockets and toilet roll holders. They are translucent, made of coloured see through fabric and wire and mounted on a white gauze. You can faintly see the rest of the gallery space including people behind.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Last night I experienced Jo Clifford's performance "The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven" in a chapel in Hampstead. This is a play that's sadly needed more than ever - it felt vital, respectful and spiritual 🙏🏻👑🏳️‍⚧️

Jo Clifford is wearing a light mauve long flowing sleeveless dress. She is in her 70s and youthful, with her gray hair in a bob. Her hands are clasped in a prayer-like position in front of her. She is standing on a church altar facing the audience. Behind her are stained glass windows and a large bouquet of flowers. In the foreground there is a person applauding.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I watched Last One Laughing UK this week and - despite being no fan of Jimmy Carr or reality TV - really enjoyed it. Let me tell you why. - Even though it was a competition, the contestants supported each other & told each other they were funny - Women & comedians of colour weren't token presences

Comedians Rob Beckett, Judi Love (who is speaking), Daisy May Cooper, Bob Mortimer, and Joe Lycett sitting on a sofa in a brightly coloured room with carousel horses behind them.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I really needed Omar Elerian's deceptively light but urgent production of Ionesco's Rhinoceros last night, with its palpable joy of theatre underscoring the dangerously seductive illogic of fascism at its textual heart. A play for then and a play for now. 🦏

Photo taken during the interval of Rhinoceros at the Almeida of the sage with white floor and microphone in the foreground. In the middle of the stage on a raised platform is a leather armchair. You can see the brick back wall of the stage and the words "Music for a while..." projected onto it in big white letters.

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I can't tell you how much I ache to use each and every one of these emails sign offs! (*Maybe not deep, which I have to look up now...)

Screenshot of Instagram post from thedrunkenwitchco that says:

UNHINGED E-MAIL SIGN OFFS

With pizazz,

At your cervix,

Apologies for existing,

Over and snout,

Without my ducks in a row,

Feeling hamburger helpless,

On the brink of tears,

Stressfully,

We ride at dawn,

Searching for my marbles,

Screenshot of Instagram post from thedrunkenwitchco that says:

Help I've fallen and I can't get up, In a tailspin,

Throwing it on the back burner

Sitting in utter confusion.

One fish two fish red fish blue fish

Roll the credits,

Derp,

Neutral regards

Alright alright alright

Lukewarm regards,

Live love laugh

Hags,

Hasta la pasta,

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