Cathy's Art Diary

Lovely outdoor exhibition in Soho Square of this year’s pictures in a project to document New Year’s day over 24 years. On the first day of 2005 24 photography students from Central St Martin’s were allocated an hour of the day to photograph. They decided to continue the project and each year they move on an hour. From the look of the pictures some of them have now moved aboard and some look more domestic that those taken 20 years ago. Shout outs to David Mazda’s picture of a boat and Candida Jones’s “Meditation” of a man on a bench with memorial flowers. I like the way the pictures are displayed in the traditional heart of partying London in the open air. I last saw this show 5 years ago and will be fascinating to see how the project develops.   Closed 19 March 2025

Fun installation in Covent Garden of student responses to the musical Frozen which has recently opened in London. 2nd year students from Central Sain Martins were invited to create high-fashion, abstract interpretations of Christopher Oran’s scenery and costume designs for the show. The outfits focused on certain aspects of the story and design including the idea of the human side of animals such as the reindeer Sven. Another set looked at how different seats in the theatre can give different perceptions of the set and costumes. It was a shame the labels were so small that they were too small to read. I ended up photographing them so I could blow them up a bit. I particularly liked the outfits that responded to the effect of ice in the show from one which looked like a bouffant wedding dress to an angular grey catsuit.