Madeleina Kay Art

I was sent some news yesterday which disturbed me a bit, so I wanted to write a blog post to reflect on it... To briefly summarise the...

I have some very sad news to share – my beautiful, White German Shepherd, Alba died on Thursday 10th October 2024. She had just turned...

Photos from the March for Rejoin which have appeared on Alamy Stock - I may buy some of these in the future when I decide to make another...

Bruce Tanner took so many lovely photos at the NAtional Rejoin March III that I thought he deserved a dedicated blog post! I have known...

Just to make the third march for Rejoin a bit more fun, I managed to contract a bladder infection a couple of days before. In addition to...

I decided to invest in some of the professional photos from Alamy Stock in order to make a quality photo book documenting my creative...

I've found the news and social media coverage of the far right, racist riots difficult to cope with in the last couple of weeks. This...

Retirement has radicalised my Dad – he never used to be this protest-y. I took him on his first ever protest march (against Brexit) in...

My Dad invited me on an environmental protest march in London - which I find funny given that I took him on his first ever protest march...

Yesterday I was chatting to someone about the experience of being drawn for a portrait artwork - I wanted to send them some examples,...

Culture Strike Art and Museums in an Age of Protest. I read this book about a year ago and was really taken with Raichovich’s principled...

I was looking forward to reading 'Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.' by Barbara Kruger but I wasn't expecting to be as engaged with...

I particularly enjoyed this book which my Dad gave me for my birthday. It was small and succinct but had some great content that is very...

This book by Clare Hunter was fascinating but I found it difficult to get into its rhythm. It felt quite jolty in terms of abruptly...

I first read this book about a year ago, after attending an author talk / book signing / karaoke (it was an eclectic affair) event in...

(With the exception of Tolstoy’s War and Peace) I’m not sure I’ve ever been so glad to get to the end of a book, 'Sharon Hayes' by Julia...

I picked up the ‘Women for Peace – Banners from Greenham Common’ book by Charlotte Dew, at the Book Art Bookshop during the Low...

We arrived in Liverpool the night before, since some bus-replacement-bollocks meant the quickest train journey was going to take 3 hours...

I decided to go full-star for the upcoming march in Liverpool on Saturday 23rd March as I am in need of a bit of sparkle, especially...

On the same day that I helped drag a drowning man out of the swimming pool (why does all the drama happen at once?!) I discovered that a...