Berenice Sydney: Artist of the Floating Cosmos
Berenice Sydney (1944–1983), or ‘Berenice’ as she was professionally known, was a dynamic and hugely talented British artist who produced an astounding body of work in a career that was tragically curtailed by her death a little before her 39th birthday. In recognition of her outstanding contribution, her oeuvre, which comprised paintings in oil on canvas, drawings, prints, performance and costume
Avro Manhattan’s Firework Imagination
(b. Milan 1914; d. South Shields, Tyneside 1990) Those that knew Baron Avro Manhattan claim him to be one of the most remarkable men of the twentieth century. In 2014, however, on the eve of a major auction of newly discovered work, The Telegraph wrote an article that drew attention to the somewhat humble circumstances of his death in a