Inspiration
Music
A mixture
Now, this is a tough one – here goes (in no particular order)... The Cravats, Clock DVA, The Wedding Present, Cinerama, The Primevals, Swans, Big Black, The Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid, McCarthy, Chevelle, Bogshed, Fugazi, Clan of Xymox, Dinosaur Jr, Lee Scratch Perry, Toots and the Maytals, Buffalo Tom, Frank Black, Belly, The Breeders, Kristin Hirsh, Tanya Donelly, Throwing Muses (obviously), Dub Syndicate, Lisa Gerrard, The Sunshine Underground, Xmal Deutschland, Wolfgang Press, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Yo La Tengo, A Witness, Marshall Smith, Silversun Pickups, Cat Power.
Dance
Northern Ballet Theatre
Northern Dance Theatre, the name by which the company was originally known, was founded in 1969 by Canadian born Laverne Meyer; a dramatic dancer whose formative years were spent with Bristol based, Western Theatre Ballet, the first ever British dance company to be based outside London.
Northern Ballet Theatre...
Rambert Dance Company
Rambert Dance Company is Britain's flagship contemporary dance company. Under the artistic direction of Mark Baldwin it tours throughout the UK and overseas, producing an unrivalled quantity of new work on the large-scale.
Rambert Dance Company...
Art
Francis Bacon
His artwork is known for its bold, austere, and often grotesque or nightmarish imagery. International exhibitions throughout Europe reinforced the perception of Bacon as the greatest British painter since J.M.W. Turner.
The Francis Bacon Estate... | The Tate Collection...
Paul Klee
A Swiss painter of German nationality, he was influenced by many different art styles in his work, including expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was famous for teaching at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture.
Paul Klee Online... | The Tate Collection...
Mark Rothko
Rothko's iconic paintings, composed of luminous, soft-edged rectangles saturated with colour, are among the most enduring and mysterious created by an artist in modern times.
Washington National Gallery | The Tate Collection...
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is the national gallery of international modern art. Located in London, it is one of the family of four Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection. The Collection comprises the national collection of British art from the year 1500 to the present day, and of international modern art.
Tate Modern...
Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Bill Brandt, Joan Miro, August Strindberg, Jeff Koons, Bridget Riley, Max Ernst, Frida Kahlo, Wassily Kandinsky, Edward Hopper, Marc Chagall...
Varivane
Bassetts
PVRC
English B&B
