Bonnie Friend - The Glass Magazine

Glass experiences stylish hospitality at LaLit London

October 23, 2017

WHEN I think of the LaLiT London, I think of vivid cobalt blue, the kind that adorns the ceiling in their magnificent Great Hall, otherwise known as the Baluchi restaurant. It’s the stuff a Maharaja’s palace mi...

Glass visits Burgh Island Hotel, Devon – a little 1920s magic on a private island

Bonnie Friend

March 27, 2017

Europe, Feature, Travel, United Kingdom

FOR those who have never heard of Burgh Island Hotel, it is a one of a kind location. The only hotel on a private island in the UK, it was built in 1929 and remains true to its art deco roots, accessed across a...

Antonia Campbell-Hughes – the actor who’s thinking her way to the top …

Bonnie Friend

November 17, 2015

Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature, Television

Taste the difference. The actor who’s thinking her way to the top … The first thing that strikes me about Antonia Campbell-Hughes is how thoughtful she is when it comes to talking about her work. You get th...

Thinking about your world in my own world – Glass meets artist Leyman Lahcine on the debut of his show at Maison Bertaux, Soho, London

Bonnie Friend

September 23, 2015

Art, Feature

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Chatting to Leyman Lahcine you get the impression that this is a man who would be able to keep himself entertained with his own thoughts even if he sat inside a paper bag all day. “Do you like London ...

Noel Fielding Dancing between the title £

Dancing between the title and the canvas – Comedian Noel Fielding brings his unique brand of art to the Royal Albert Hall

Bonnie Friend

March 31, 2015

Avant Art, Feature

Dancing between the title and the canvas – Comedian Noel Fielding brings his unique brand of art to the Royal Albert Hall Art is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Noel Fielding, but to...

The colour of black and white

Bonnie Friend

June 12, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

“Inspiration comes from Iran’s society and also from the women around me,” says Afshin Pirhashemi, which seems a perfect and succinct way to describe the subject matter in his array of dramatic blac...

A new dimension

Bonnie Friend

June 5, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Glass Celebrates, Glass Talents, News, Photography, Travel

I don’t think there is anything quite as inspiring as the great outdoors, particularly when its multifaceted appeal isn’t just limited to the organic forms of the environment itself but also its h...

Putting art first – Nelson Santos brings fashion and art together

Bonnie Friend

May 13, 2014

Art, Fashion, Feature

To have one creative career and achieve success is remarkable, to have two is practically unheard of – but for Nelson Santos that’s exactly what’s happening. Having made his name as a fashion designer, he has a...

Against the clock

Bonnie Friend

May 5, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

Art doesn’t have to be pretty, it doesn’t even have to be something that you like, but it’s a pretty universally acknowledged truth that for art to be successful it has to be inspiring, none more ...

It’s a kind of magic

Bonnie Friend

May 1, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

On a chilly evening, hopefully one of the last remaining few, I sat drinking copious amount of tea with Jonny Briggs. This is a man with whom conversation will never need alcoholic lubrication. To see the wor...

Expect the unexpected

Bonnie Friend

April 22, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view ... Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it,” said the uncompromisingly wise, Atticus Finch, in Har...

Seeing is believing

Bonnie Friend

April 16, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

You don’t have to travel very far these days before someone starts talking about the negative effects of TV, computer games, and the generally diminishing effects of technology on the imagination. “Where w...

The dirty F word

Bonnie Friend

April 10, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

“Feminism” sometimes seems to have become an utterly filthy word in the last decade or so. For every person who believes that the 21st century woman is a feminist by definition of the time in which they were ...

Through the eye of the beholder

Bonnie Friend

March 27, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, News

“The world breaks everyone, and afterwards many are strong in the broken places.” Perhaps Hemingway had a little insight into our ongoing romance with semi-destruction in his rather poignant line ...

Against the trend

Bonnie Friend

March 26, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

Fashion in any field is a peculiar thing because to really be at the forefront of it you almost have to be the one who’s totally ignoring it. Such is the enduring case of two of the most influential artists...

Battle off the canvas

Bonnie Friend

March 21, 2014

Avant Art

The battles for social ideals have always been hard won, and that is if you deem them to have been won at all. Whatever stage you consider the society around you to be at, these are not wars that ...

Simply does it

Bonnie Friend

March 19, 2014

Art, Avant Art, Culture, Feature, Glass Talents, News

In a world of perpetual information, constant conversation, and complex debate, it is an unbridled breath of fresh air and a proverbial sigh of relief to come across someone whose view liberates you from th...

Lessons from the Elders – The Maasai dance to change the myths of tourism

Bonnie Friend

March 17, 2014

Culture

“When I was 16, my father was the most ignorant man in the world. By the time I reached 21, I was surprised at how much he had learned in five years.” Mark Twain was a man of many words, and a fair few it seem...

A Tale of Two Endings – Art from the past contemplates the future at La Fine di Dio, a new show at the Gagosian Gallery, London

Bonnie Friend

March 5, 2014

Avant Art

Walk into a stark, white room at Gagosian gallery on Davies Street, and you will be greeted by a smartly dressed little boy kneeling in front of a Pepto-Bismol pink, two dimensional, giant egg, hu...

Many truths, many expressions

Bonnie Friend

February 25, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Feature

“Over the last two decades Rwanda has changed enormously … but there’s still a tendency to try to represent it, particularly visually, in relation to genocide”, says Dr Zoe Norridge, curator of the forthcom...

Hold still

Bonnie Friend

January 30, 2014

Avant Art, Feature

This February, Luxembourg & Dayan London, highlights Lucien Freud’s unique creative vision by exhibiting two key nude portraits by the late artist. If there is one thing Lucien Freud is known for, as...

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