Tim Youngs
Interests in literature and in visual art.
- Very pleased to now have a copy of Noon: an Anthology of Short Poems (vol. 2), edited by Philip Rowland, and to have a couple of poems in it, one inspired by Cliff Yates (and Gurminder Sikand) and the other inspired by @dradny.bsky.social. Both are among the several contributors.
- This book (and all others by @edinburghup.bsky.social) are half price this weekend from their website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-frederi...
- Glad to have seen this post and to now have my own copy of @bulldozia.com's book on Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846.
- Invigorated by last week's conference on 'Exploring Bodies and Corporeality in Travel Writing' at the University of Koblenz.
- I was especially pleased to begin my keynote by saying how much my thinking on form and medium was influenced by a quotation from Gurminder Sikand on her artistic practice and by @notjustdancing.bsky.social's brilliant Hôtel Amour (published by @serenbooks.bsky.social)
- Happy that two of Gurminder Sikand's paintings have entered the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
- I'm very much enjoying and learning from @notjustdancing.bsky.social's brilliant 'Hôtel Amour’ from @serenbooks.bsky.social , launched with, and illuminated by, excellent readings and discussion yesterday.
- Delighted to have been at the opening of the @museumarnhem.bsky.social iteration of the @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social touring show, 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes'. Thanks to all 3 tour venues for including Gurminder Sikand's works www.museumarnhem.nl/en/tentoonst...
- Very grateful to the TG Gallery, Nottingham, for having hosted 'Gurminder Sikand: Paintings and Drawings, 1994-2017'. Delighted to have seen Gurminder's art there again, four years after 'The Weaver of Songs', her exhibition of drawings from 2018-21, which closed just weeks before her passing.
- Great to see an exhibition of Gurminder Sikand’s work with the @jpw-routledge.bsky.social team after our meeting in Nottingham yesterday. With huge thanks to @timyoungs.bsky.social 🙏
- It was great to see you, Becky. Thanks for visiting the show.
- I very much enjoyed the preview at the Box, Plymouth, UK, last night of the @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social touring exhibition 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes'. It's on at the Box until 7th Sept. 2025 and I'm delighted that 3 paintings by Gurminder Sikand remain part of it.
- Congratulations, Deryn! I'm looking forward to reading it.
- Very much enjoyed the Ken Kiff exhibition at the Hales Gallery, London (on until 24th May 2025). Kiff was one of Gurminder Sikand's favourite artists.
- So pleased that Gurminder Sikand's painting, 'Planting' (AKA 'Among Trees C'), 1994, has entered the collection of @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social
- Gurminder Sikand's painting, 'Planting' (AKA 'Among Trees C'), 1994, recently acquired by @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social, is reproduced in the book Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscape edited by Eleanor Clayton (Thames & Hudson, 2024)
- Very pleased to have two poems in issue 27 of Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, and to follow two by @dradny.bsky.social, whose launch of his collection 'European Hymns' inspired the first of mine.
- Had a very enjoyable evening giving a talk on Gurminder Sikand's artwork. Great questions and observations.
- Delighted to receive today my copy of Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing: Decentring Epistemologies, eds Samia Ounoughi, Emmanuelle Peraldo, @afquaireau.bsky.social (Routledge, 2025). Very grateful for the keynote invitation that allowed me to be part of it.
- I learned from and very much enjoyed the conference on W. Somerset Maugham at Le Mans Université and am grateful for the keynote invitation that allowed me to attend.
- Pleased to have received my copy of 'Moving Identities Constructing the Self and the Other in Travel Writing, eds Winfried Eckel and Sandra Vlasta (Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg) (UWH), for which I'm happy to have supplied the preface.
- Glad now to have seen the Tate's touring show 'Women in Revolt!' in all three of its venues, most recently (and until 1st June 2025) at the Whitworth in Manchester, and Gurminder Sikand represented in each. A real pleasure also to have been in the company of the other artists and of curators.
- Enjoyed visiting the exhibition 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes' at the Hepworth Wakefield (on until 21 April 2025 and then touring), and very happy to see the three paintings by Gurminder Sikand that were selected for it.
- Delighted to receive 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes', ed. Eleanor Clayton (Thames & Hudson, 2024), with its reproduction of 2 of the 3 paintings by Gurminder Sikand that are in the accompanying exhibition at Hepworth Wakefield (on until 21st April 2025, and then touring).
- Sorry not to have been able to make it tonight to the preview of the exhibition 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes' at the Hepworth Wakefield, on until 21 April 2025 and then touring. Delighted that Gurminder Sikand has three paintings in it hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/for...
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- Congratulations. It sounds great. I look forward to reading this.
- Enjoyed an excellent few days with fellow members of the Traveling Bodies project at the University of Koblenz this week.
- I'm unaccountably late to Edwin Morgan but enjoyed reading this week much of 'Take Heart: Selected Poems' in the 'Edwin Morgan Twenties' series from Polygon in association with @carcanet.bsky.social (2020)
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- Just thought you'd throw it out there. (Am I right?)
- Copies of my chapbook, 'Managed Woodland', are now sold out (though there is a 'Notify When Available' button). Thanks to those who bought it and of course to the Red Ceilings Press for publishing it. www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page...
- Pleased to have an essay on 'British Travel Writing, 1770–1914' published in the online section of Routledge Historical Resources: British Culture, Literature and the Arts across the long Nineteenth century. routledgelearning.com/rhr-culturel...
- Pleased to have a new poem in issue 26 (Sept. 2024) of Noon: Journal of the Short Poem. Thanks to Philip Rowland for taking it. noonpoetry.com/issues/
- Pleased to see Alice Correia's curatorial article for Art UK on 'Gurminder Sikand: interpreting the work of a South-Asian diaspora artist': batch.artuk.org/discover/cur...
- Very glad to have been able to launch my chapbook, 'Managed Woodland', at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, which in 1989 hosted a group exhibition that included work by Gurminder Sikand, the subject of many of the poems. Delighted to have been shown statements Gurminder provided on one of her paintings.
- Glad to have seen 'Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider' at Tate Modern.
- Happy to have received copies of my new chapbook, 'Managed Woodland: Poems for Gurminder Sikand' (Red Ceilings Press, 2024; cover image a detail from Gurminder's painting, 'Clouds, 1993).
- Gratified to read Rory Waterman's post, on the other place, that he doesn't think it's because he's a family friend that he finds my poetry chapbook, 'Managed Woodland' from the Red Ceilings Press, 'profoundly moving, understated, vibrant. It just IS'.
- I've written a few lines about my 'Managed Woodland' chapbook. Brief version: when I read Douglas Dunn's 'Elegies' in 1985 I didn't anticipate publishing a chapbook in a similar situation, or that the personal would be only a starting point. timyoungs.weebly.com/news/new-cha...
- Very grateful to @carolebromley.bsky.social, Cliff Yates and Adrian Buckner for the generous words that appear on my new poetry chapbook, to the Red Ceilings Press for publishing it, and to artist Gurminder Sikand for inspiring it and for the cover image www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page...
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- Thanks Alex. Coincidentally, I saw your post moments after finishing checking the proofs of my next chapbook, poems for Gurminder.
- Thanks Alex. Any contribution, such as it is, only possible thanks to Gurminder Sikand, whose painting ('The Journey', 1987), this is.
- Pleased that Gurminder Sikand's painting 'Woman in a Landscape' (c.1987) is (at the time of writing) on display at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich (UK) with other objects from their permanent collection. Looking forward to seeing it there.
- Pleased to receive the catalogue 'Gurminder Sikand: Early Paintings' with a foreword by Nathaniel Sikand-Youngs and a fine essay by Nicholas Alfrey (London: Maximillian William Gallery, 2024). The catalogue includes 23 full-page plates.
- A happy day viewing one of Gurminder Sikand's drawings at the British Museum and then attending the opening of an exhibition of her early paintings at the Maximillian William Gallery (on from 16th May - 29 June 2024). www.maximillianwilliam.com/exhibitions/...
- Very pleased that one of two drawings by Gurminder Sikand acquired by the British Museum this Spring is on show there in the exhibition Contemporary Collecting: David Hockney to Cornelia Parker, which runs until 29th September 2024. www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
- Alice Correia on 'Where Are All the British Asian Artists?' (Pleased to see mention of Gurminder Sikand.)
- Very happy to see one of Roshini Kempadoo's wonderful photos of artist Gurminder Sikand (1960-2021) in Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s-1990s Britain, ed. Joy Gregory and Taous Dahmani (2024).
