Edefalk’s and Wåhlstrand’s Memory Work: A talk by Astrid SchmetterlingLecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, Astrid Schmetterling will draw on her current research into the relation between history, culture and memory in order to explore the ways in which remembrance is performed and interrogated in the work of Cecilia Edefalk and Gunnel Wåhlstrand. Schmetterling’s interests include issues of memory and trauma, postcolonialism and cultural globalisation, as well as…See More

New Scott exhibition opens in London to mark century since Polar expeditionThe centenary of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to the South Pole was celebrated last week with the opening of a new exhibition at Natural History Museum in London. On 17th January 1912, Scott and his four comrades reached the South Pole, a spectacular achievement that was sadly eclipsed by the realisation that Amundsen’s Norwegian team got there first.It’s a story known around the world, and this is in part…See More