Hampstead Heath pond painted by John Constable to be restored after 140 years Branch Hill Pond will once again be a hotbed for wildlife in north London Evening Standard · Nov 17, 2022
John Constable’s favourite Hampstead pond to be restored after two centuries Branch Hill pond dried up in the 1880s. Now it will teem with wildlife again, as it did in the artist’s heyday The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2022
Classic artworks reimagined to show problems of modern world The re-imagined artworks were created by acclaimed digital artist Quentin Devine Wales Online · Nov 10, 2022
Classic artworks given modern makeovers to highlight issues facing the world today The paintings that have been re-imagined include John Constable's 200-year-old artwork, 'The Haywain', and Sir John Everett Millais’ 'Ophelia In The Stream' Daily Mirror · Nov 10, 2022
A list of all artworks Just Stop Oil have attacked Artwork on the list includes Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh, and John Constable’s The Hay Wain Evening Standard · Nov 9, 2022
Classic artworks given modern makeovers to highlight issues facing the world today The paintings that have been re-imagined include John Constable's 200-year-old artwork, 'The Haywain', and Sir John Everett Millais’ 'Ophelia In The Stream' Wales Online · Nov 9, 2022
Do we really care more about Van Gogh’s sunflowers than real ones? The Just Stop Oil activists are accused of tactics that will stop people listening. But ‘respectable’ protest is roundly ignored, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot The Guardian - UK · Oct 19, 2022
Hay Wain protesters deny criminal damage over National Gallery glue stunt Two climate change activists who glued themselves to the frame of John Constable’s masterpiece The Hay Wain have denied criminal damage. Evening Standard · Aug 31, 2022
Just Stop Oil: Eco-activists charged with criminal damage over Hay Wain National Gallery protest Hannah Hunt and Eden Lazarus staged the protest at the National Gallery in central London on July 4 Evening Standard · Aug 30, 2022
Climate change protesters glue themselves to frame of Constable’s Hay Wain The Just Stop Oil protesters also attached their own image of ‘an apocalyptic vision of the future’ to the picture. The Independent UK · Jul 4, 2022
Climate protesters glue themselves to National Gallery artwork Campaigners from Just Stop Oil pressure group reimagine The Hay Wain by John Constable The Guardian - UK · Jul 4, 2022
Eco-activist students behind Constable art attack at National Gallery bailed Police have been called to the exhibit which has been closed to the public Evening Standard · Jul 4, 2022
Light: Works from the Tate's Collection honours the body and its sensations – this is art which is meant to be felt Review: Light: Works from The Tate’s Collection, ACMI The Conversation · Jun 27, 2022
ACMI lights up with art from the UK's Tate Artworks from the UK's Tate galleries will go on show for an exhibition exploring how artists use light. AAP · Jun 15, 2022
The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2022 Fake views of Shot Tower in Constable’s painting of Waterloo Bridge Letters: Nick Rampley on the anachronistic appearance of a former South Bank landmark in the artist’s 1817 Thames skyline
The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2022 Gallery-goers take a twisted trip and history’s visionaries set sail – the week in art Ceramics smash against abstract art, a trans painter tells her story and crop circles get a late reappraisal – all in your weekly dispatch
The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2022 Radical Landscapes review – ‘Is loving green fields really wicked?’ It has some fabulous works, from a canal by Constable to a gnarled old tree by Tacita Dean, but this show’s radical v conservative thesis gets caught in the brambles – and the climate section is catastrophic
The Guardian - UK · Apr 29, 2022 Constable painting of Waterloo Bridge ‘transformed’ by conservation work National Trust puts artist’s largest work on display at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire after removal of yellowed varnish
The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2022 Charity linked to UK anti-onshore wind campaigns active again Analysis: Renewable Energy Foundation says it does not see renewables as a large part of net zero strategy
Daily Record · Apr 5, 2022 One of Falkirk's longest serving councillor steps down after almost 40 years David Alexander will not be seeking re-election in May.
The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2022 Anti-onshore wind campaigner put in charge of council’s ‘green masterplan’ Lincolnshire county council’s Colin Davie has vowed to ‘restart old fights’ and oppose new onshore wind
The Guardian - UK · Mar 20, 2022 In brief: Constable: A Portrait; Wivenhoe; The Enemy Within – reviews A revisionist biography of the English landscape painter; a murder mystery in Essex; and an inventive counterfactual detective story
Evening Standard · Feb 9, 2022 Londoner’s Diary: Constable’s beloved pond set for new lease of life WHEN John Constable painted a picture of Branch Hill pond for a friend, he was asked to create a landscape in which one could “feel the wind blowing on his face”. Now the Hampstead pond is to be restored thanks to a neighbourhood group.