Kirsty Stonell Walker

LATEST ARTICLES ( 627 )

• Friday 13th December - Jezebel

  

  It's the end of the second week and Friday the 13th, which does not bode well. Mind you, I have a day off and I'm off to an exhibition, so it's not all... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2024 CULTURE

• Thursday 12th December - The Awakening Conscience

  

  I can't believe we are half-way through Catvent already! Thank you everyone for your comments, messages and general smashing-ness. Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2024 CULTURE

• Wednesday 11th December - The Rain It Raineth Every Day

  

  Yesterday, I bought the double issue of the Radio Times so Christmas has officially begun! I had to remortgage our house to do it, but it was worth it and many ... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2024 CULTURE

• Tuesday 10th December - Suspense

  

  Right, we are now into double figures! Welcome to Day 10 of Catvent...Fluffy resented being made to do the YMCA against his will... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2024 CULTURE

• Monday 9th December - The Gods and Their Makers

  

  Ahhh, bliss, a day at home. Technically, I will be working from home today, but honestly a day of sofa, blanket and peace sounds like heaven. I have the dog... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2024 CULTURE

• Sunday 8th December - Sunday Afternoon

  

  I started this morning by watching Fanny Cradock Cooks For Christmas, so it's a good day. I don't know if it is her eyebrows, her general distain for everyone,... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2024 CULTURE

• Saturday 7th December - Le Chat Noir

  

  We have reached the weekend and today the Family Walker will be visiting relatives in a Christmas-y fashion, so I better crack on with today's cat lady and... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2024 CULTURE

• Friday 6th December - Hydrangeas

  

  Well, we have reached the end of the first week of Catvent and it is my daughter's birthday today, which is exciting. If you have been with me a while, you... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2024 CULTURE

• Thursday 5th December - Kiss and Be Friends

  

  I hope it is less stormy where you are this morning as it is blusterous and miserable here. It has stopped raining long enough for me to go out and feed the... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2024 CULTURE

• Wednesday 4th December - A Girl with a Cat

  

  I'm hoping to finish Christmas shopping today, for which I apologise if that sounds frightfully organised. It has been the sort of year where I just wanted... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2024 CULTURE

• Tuesday 3rd December - Here Comes Trouble!

  

  Hello again and I have rather a busy day ahead as the lovely Simon is coming round later to hose out my guttering (not a euphemism) and so I ought to crack on... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2024 CULTURE

• Monday 2nd December - At Home

  

  Here we are at the beginning of the first working week of December and I need to bottle my fruit gins today. We have blackcurrant (from the garden), blackberry... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2024 CULTURE

• Sunday 1st December - Blinking in the Sun

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to another Blogvent! Turns out I've been doing annual nonsense since 2011 (as some of you will know as you have been here with me, fo... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2024 CULTURE

• Review: Julia Margaret Cameron: The Colonial Shadows of Victorian Photography

  

  I've started this review a few times but knowing how to start a conversation about Colonialism is hard, which I think is the point. Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2024 CULTURE

• Review: Rising Splendour - Fred Appleyard: From the Royal Academy to the Itchen...

  

  It isn't often that I go into an exhibition without being able to visualise or name the artist's work. That is not a flex on my part, but after a few years of... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2024 CULTURE

• A Tale of Three Sisters

  

  As often happens, I started looking at one person only to open a whole can of worms and end up looking at three unknown female artists. I started by looking at... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2024 CULTURE

• Review: Spirituality, Feminism and Pre-Raphaelitism in Modern British Art and...

  

  You know me, I am all about 'forgotten' artists (I can't stand it when journalists say someone is 'forgotten', so possibly 'less fashionable' is better? That... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2024 CULTURE

• Kate Greenaway: The Disco Years

  

  If I was going to have a tattoo of an important date, I might choose the day I met Mr Walker, the day my daughter was born or May 1966. Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2024 CULTURE

• The Very Uneventful Life of Emma Irlam Briggs

  

  Recently, I had the absolute pleasure of researching and writing about Emma Irlam Briggs for an upcoming auction at Bonhams. I knew her a little due to this... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2024 CULTURE

• Book Review: Julia Margaret Cameron - A Poetry of Photography

  

  Happy New Year everyone and I trust you have all recovered from your Christmas jollities and the suchlike. I was very fortunate to receive a lovely Christmas... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2024 CULTURE