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hive arts

02 Dec

Exhibition Review: Annemarie Farley – ‘Lament’ in Cyanotype

David Simper0 CommentsVisual Arts & Exhibitionsblackpool arts scene, cyanotypes, hive arts, photography

Monday 24th November 2025 saw David Simper catch the service 61 bus to the Church Street HIVE gallery, where Annemarie Farley was opening her show 'Lament' featuring her cyanotypes on glass. This event was extremely well attended, numbers being boosted by members of the Royal Photographic Society, there to view this unique show and to give Annemarie her certificate as a chartered member of the society. The pieces are roundels of glass carrying exquisite cyanotype images of flowers, some framed, others mounted on slices of tree trunk, which gives an interesting more 3D effect. The subject's detail is caught with…

25 Aug

Art review: How I Learned to Stop Worrying – An exhibition by John Marc Allen

David Simper0 CommentsVisual Arts & ExhibitionsArt, art exhibition, atomic threat, blackpool arts scene, dr strangelove, hive arts, nuclear war, protect and survive, the bomb

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] John Marc Allen's exhibition brings home the reality of the continuing atomic age and its potential consequences. Those of us who lived through the existential dread of the 70s and 80s, thought that we'd got away with it when first the Berlin Wall fell followed by the Soviet Union. Now the threat of nuclear destruction seems to be back. As I write, things are hotting up in the Taiwan Strait, over something that could be described as a trivial matter, but not to the Chinese government. Not to mention the continuing Ukraine war. At the bottom of the road…