London - West End - Christmas Lights

Oxford Street

Wishing all my readers and followers Seasonal Greetings and hope for a Peaceful and Prosperous 2017.  I will be taking a blogging break now until after Twelfth Night.

Regent Street

Faces On Friday - Hong Kong - Sunshade

   I love this lady's choice of traditional Chinese sunshade to protect her from the intense Hong Kong sun.

Faces On Friday - Devon - Locals

On my Travels I enjoy taking photos of people, usually to share here. I captured this candid shot of locals chatting in Devon on a trip last year. What fascinates me the most is the length of the man with a beard's fingernails!
Do you think he is a fisherman and the nails help him untangle the nets?

Tate Modern Exhibition - Southbank - London

I was blessed to have a long weekend in London from 24th to the 28th November 2016 to celebrate the occasion of my eldest daughter's marriage.  This gave me the opportunity during the weekend to make a brief visit, to an exhibition at Tate Modern of work by Louise Bourgeois.

It was fascinating although I do not pretend to understand the exhibits, I did learn more by following up my visit with some research and a visit to the Official Website.

Hopefully the few photos of the exhibits that I have taken and included here will make you interested to visit the Tate Modern Website or if you get the opportunity, visit the exhibition yourself.

Louise Bourgeois      Text courtesy of  Official Website

Feel the impact of Bourgeois’s intense psychological insight through the artworks in this display

Louise Bourgeois’s work is often autobiographical, while addressing universal experiences such as birth, death, love, loss and fear.

This exhibition brings together a selection of Bourgeois’s late works, alongside a small number of earlier pieces from her remarkable seven-decade career. She was born in Paris in 1911. Her parents ran a business restoring antique tapestries, which sparked her life-long interest in textiles. Though she initially studied mathematics and geometry at the Sorbonne, she soon changed direction and trained as an artist. In 1938 she moved to New York City, where she remained until her death in 2010.

Bourgeois returned again and again to a number of themes, though the materials she used to express them vary greatly. Her sculpture, drawing  and writing are characterised by an unflinching emotional honesty, as she continually retold and reworked the memories and stories that shaped her life.

Bourgeois kept written diaries and records. Often she would write down her thoughts and ideas on loose sheets of paper. She collected books on many topics, sometimes because she was inspired by their illustration plates, but also to study subjects such as philosophy and psychoanalysis. Bourgeois was herself in psychoanalysis for many years, and suffered from anxiety and insomnia for most of her life. For her, making art was another form of therapy that she could not live without.

Louise Bourgeois is the first artist to be presented in the new gallery dedicated to ARTIST ROOMS. Located on Level 4 of the Switch House, the space has been designed exclusively to present a programme of solo exhibitions of work by the forty artists in the ARTIST ROOMS collection.

More information content about the individual exhibits that I have shared photos of here and videos about the artists work can be found on the Official Website.

Tate Modern

Location within Central London
Established	2000; 16 years ago
Location	Bankside London, SE1 United Kingdom
Coordinates	51.507625°N 0.098970°W
Visitors	4,712,581 (2015)[1][2] Ranked 4th nationally[2] Ranked 6th globally[3]
Director	Frances Morris
Public transit access	Blackfriars
Website	tate.org.uk/modern
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N.B. The photographs of the exhibits I saw are my own work, but please visit the  Tate Modern - Official Website to learn more about each individual exhibit.

More information can be found via the following websites.

Tate Modern - Wikipedia       Tate Modern - Official Website   Tate Modern at Visit London