Anish Kapoor

It's been a busy last weekend in London for a while! I kicked it off by going to see Anish Kapoor's exhibition at the Royal Academy with Nicola on Friday night. It was the final day (typical of me, but at least I made it this time) so the queue was massive. But we got through it by sipping a vat of mulled wine each and singing along to carols courtesy of the neighbouring choir. Anyway, I'd never seen much of Kapoor's work before but the whole thing blew me away. He uses a lot of wax, clay, mirror and fibreglass to build crazy sculptures. His most renowned piece from this exhibition would probably be a canon which is loaded every 10-20 minutes and then fired dramatically by a pouty amateur actor in a boiler suit to splatter a container full of deep red wax against the gallery wall. As we were there at the end of the run, there were mounds of this beautifully coloured wax all over the place from the past two months' worth of canon shots (far more than in the photo above). Some had hit the back wall, some had fallen closer to the canon but the shapes made by the splattering of wax were brilliant and the overall experience was (forgive me) a blast! Must say I'm glad not to be the one cleaning it up though! Go see him if you ever get the chance. x