Cathy's Art Diary

Magical evening at Charleston Farmhouse as part of the Charleston Festival looking at the Vampire’s Wife brand. We were taken into another world by founder and creator of the brand, Susie Cave, and her design assistant and model, Matthew Keller, in conversation with Lucy Moore. They talked about the origins of the brand, where creative ideas came from and working on specific projects such as for Florence Welch. I was fascinated to find out that the brand is based in local Lewes and has a largely local team. It was a packed venue and the atmosphere was buzzing. The stage and grounds were transformed with mannequins displaying some of the glamorous dresses.    The icing on the cake was the performance of a song at the end by Susie’s husband, Nick Cage. A truly magical Charleston moment. P.S. In writing up this blog a number of weeks later (yes I am quite behind) I was Googling to check a few things and spotted that the brand is facing a winding-up petition by HMRC. Su...

A small exhibition at Somerset House of photographs of Nick Cave, Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional film actor,   by Bleddyn Butcher who has photographed Cave throughout his career. These were nice pictures but I was not sure what the point of the show was except to advertise the accompanying book. I must admit I don’t know much about Cave other than recognising his image and I didn’t feel the show added to my knowledge.