Louise Bourgeois by Annie Leibovitz. Last night we screened the film I directed, Mother Weaver, at Hauser & Wirth in NY. The film ~ made for The Forgotten Her Story ~ tells the story of renowned art collector Ursula Hauser and delves into themes of maternal absence or presence, birth and death through the lens of the female artists that Ursula has championed throughout her life, including Bourgeois. You can watch the film (20 mins) via the link in my profile. Annie Leibovitz’s show opened tonight at Hauser & Wirth. Some other images I love from the show: Patti, Spiral Jetty, Rick, Faith, Kamala, Iceland & Susan Sontag’s stone collection. 🖤
Louise Bourgeois by Annie Leibovitz. Last night we screened the film I directed, Mother Weaver, at Hauser & Wirth in NY. The film ~ made for The Forgotten Her Story ~ tells the story of renowned art collector Ursula Hauser and delves into themes of maternal absence or presence, birth and death through the lens of the female artists that Ursula has championed throughout her life, including Bourgeois. You can watch the film (20 mins) via the link in my profile. Annie Leibovitz’s show opened tonight at Hauser & Wirth. Some other images I love from the show: Patti, Spiral Jetty, Rick, Faith, Kamala, Iceland & Susan Sontag’s stone collection. 🖤
Louise Bourgeois by Annie Leibovitz. Last night we screened the film I directed, Mother Weaver, at Hauser & Wirth in NY. The film ~ made for The Forgotten Her Story ~ tells the story of renowned art collector Ursula Hauser and delves into themes of maternal absence or presence, birth and death through the lens of the female artists that Ursula has championed throughout her life, including Bourgeois. You can watch the film (20 mins) via the link in my profile. Annie Leibovitz’s show opened tonight at Hauser & Wirth. Some other images I love from the show: Patti, Spiral Jetty, Rick, Faith, Kamala, Iceland & Susan Sontag’s stone collection. 🖤
Louise Bourgeois by Annie Leibovitz. Last night we screened the film I directed, Mother Weaver, at Hauser & Wirth in NY. The film ~ made for The Forgotten Her Story ~ tells the story of renowned art collector Ursula Hauser and delves into themes of maternal absence or presence, birth and death through the lens of the female artists that Ursula has championed throughout her life, including Bourgeois. You can watch the film (20 mins) via the link in my profile. Annie Leibovitz’s show opened tonight at Hauser & Wirth. Some other images I love from the show: Patti, Spiral Jetty, Rick, Faith, Kamala, Iceland & Susan Sontag’s stone collection. 🖤
Louise Bourgeois by Annie Leibovitz. Last night we screened the film I directed, Mother Weaver, at Hauser & Wirth in NY. The film ~ made for The Forgotten Her Story ~ tells the story of renowned art collector Ursula Hauser and delves into themes of maternal absence or presence, birth and death through the lens of the female artists that Ursula has championed throughout her life, including Bourgeois. You can watch the film (20 mins) via the link in my profile. Annie Leibovitz’s show opened tonight at Hauser & Wirth. Some other images I love from the show: Patti, Spiral Jetty, Rick, Faith, Kamala, Iceland & Susan Sontag’s stone collection. 🖤
Louise Bourgeois by Annie Leibovitz. Last night we screened the film I directed, Mother Weaver, at Hauser & Wirth in NY. The film ~ made for The Forgotten Her Story ~ tells the story of renowned art collector Ursula Hauser and delves into themes of maternal absence or presence, birth and death through the lens of the female artists that Ursula has championed throughout her life, including Bourgeois. You can watch the film (20 mins) via the link in my profile. Annie Leibovitz’s show opened tonight at Hauser & Wirth. Some other images I love from the show: Patti, Spiral Jetty, Rick, Faith, Kamala, Iceland & Susan Sontag’s stone collection. 🖤
Louise Bourgeois by Annie Leibovitz. Last night we screened the film I directed, Mother Weaver, at Hauser & Wirth in NY. The film ~ made for The Forgotten Her Story ~ tells the story of renowned art collector Ursula Hauser and delves into themes of maternal absence or presence, birth and death through the lens of the female artists that Ursula has championed throughout her life, including Bourgeois. You can watch the film (20 mins) via the link in my profile. Annie Leibovitz’s show opened tonight at Hauser & Wirth. Some other images I love from the show: Patti, Spiral Jetty, Rick, Faith, Kamala, Iceland & Susan Sontag’s stone collection. 🖤
Louise Bourgeois by Annie Leibovitz. Last night we screened the film I directed, Mother Weaver, at Hauser & Wirth in NY. The film ~ made for The Forgotten Her Story ~ tells the story of renowned art collector Ursula Hauser and delves into themes of maternal absence or presence, birth and death through the lens of the female artists that Ursula has championed throughout her life, including Bourgeois. You can watch the film (20 mins) via the link in my profile. Annie Leibovitz’s show opened tonight at Hauser & Wirth. Some other images I love from the show: Patti, Spiral Jetty, Rick, Faith, Kamala, Iceland & Susan Sontag’s stone collection. 🖤
‘You choose art pieces very consciously, female artists who work within the theme of motherhood.’—Manuela Wirth. Ursula Hauser’s life is one of remarkable resilience. Despite facing hardship up–growing up amidst war and austerity, catching pneumonia as a baby, and facing the loss of her husband aged 34–she has gone on to build one of the world’s most impressive collections, with a particular focus on female artists. ‘My role model was of course my mother. She inspired us,’ adds Ursula Hauser. Directed by Lily Cole, ‘Mother Weaver’ offers an intimate glimpse into Ursula’s life, revealing the personal stories and artistic influences that shaped the Ursula Collection. The artists featured include Pipilotti Rist, Louise Bourgeois, Luchita Hurtado, Ida Applebroog, and Alina Szapocznikow, to name a few. Following the thread of weaving as a practice passed down from Ursula’s mother to her daughter Manuela, ‘Mother Weaver’ explores themes of maternal absence and presence, birth and death, through the lens of these female artists. Watch the film and discover more about Ursula Hauser and the artists in her collection on The Forgotten Her Story’s website. Film: @lilycole #MotherWeaver #TheForgottenHerStory #LilyCole #UrsulaHauser #HauserWirth #WomensArt
The Mother The Weaver ~ ~ finishing touches ~ coming soon ~ 🎥
Whilst battling stage four cancer, my brave and brilliant friend @kateveritywilson wrote a book! ‘Prospects’ is poignant, insightful and incredibly witty. Semi-autobiographical, Prospects is about a woman haunted by reality whilst chasing dreams. It holds a harsh and humorous mirror up to our society’s race for health and wealth in a game that often leaves us sick and poor. The book made me laugh out loud many times, and moved me to tears in others. Photos I took of Kate last year after a double mastectomy. 🎶
Whilst battling stage four cancer, my brave and brilliant friend @kateveritywilson wrote a book! ‘Prospects’ is poignant, insightful and incredibly witty. Semi-autobiographical, Prospects is about a woman haunted by reality whilst chasing dreams. It holds a harsh and humorous mirror up to our society’s race for health and wealth in a game that often leaves us sick and poor. The book made me laugh out loud many times, and moved me to tears in others. Photos I took of Kate last year after a double mastectomy. 🎶
The Mother The Weaver: the trailer for a new short film I have been directing which tells Ursula Hauser’s story through the lens of some of the artists she has championed; in conversation with Pipilotti Rist and Ursula’s daughter Manuela Wirth. Pipilotti Rist, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Luchita Hurtado and Ida Applebroog are some of the incredible artists whose work and archives I explored to make the film. The film is presented by The Forgotten Her Story; produced by Park Pictures. The film was inspired by the exhibition ‘The Mother & The Weaver’ at London’s Foundling Museum which explored the complex role of the mother in art from @ursulahausercollection. Deep thank you to everyone who worked on this! We look forward to sharing the film soon. #UrsulaHauser #TheForgottenHerStory #HauserWirth
In designing this collection for @byskydiamond I took inspiration from the work of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint. I wanted to set the stones upside down, to reflect the geometry of Hilma’s work, and also suggest the ancient Hermetic concept “as above so below, as within so without”. The diamond is nestled inside, like a secret, a promise, being held by the jewellery. The black rhodium was chosen to symbolise the black of carbon, and highlight the light of the diamond. The colours also play on the implicit duality in my name: lumps of hard black coal alongside delicate white lilies. I wanted to work with Dale Vince and Sky Diamond as their work is an incredible example of the “wizard” approach to environmentalism — focusing on innovation rather than abstention or behaviour change. People like buying and wearing jewellery. They have done so for thousands of years! So how do we make jewellery without it costing us the world? Is there a way to design products so they give back in the process? Can businesses contribute solutions, rather than perpetuate problems? Those are the questions Dale sought to ask and answer in founding Sky Diamonds, and it’s beautiful to see them realised. Photos by @clovergreenstudio 🍀
In designing this collection for @byskydiamond I took inspiration from the work of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint. I wanted to set the stones upside down, to reflect the geometry of Hilma’s work, and also suggest the ancient Hermetic concept “as above so below, as within so without”. The diamond is nestled inside, like a secret, a promise, being held by the jewellery. The black rhodium was chosen to symbolise the black of carbon, and highlight the light of the diamond. The colours also play on the implicit duality in my name: lumps of hard black coal alongside delicate white lilies. I wanted to work with Dale Vince and Sky Diamond as their work is an incredible example of the “wizard” approach to environmentalism — focusing on innovation rather than abstention or behaviour change. People like buying and wearing jewellery. They have done so for thousands of years! So how do we make jewellery without it costing us the world? Is there a way to design products so they give back in the process? Can businesses contribute solutions, rather than perpetuate problems? Those are the questions Dale sought to ask and answer in founding Sky Diamonds, and it’s beautiful to see them realised. Photos by @clovergreenstudio 🍀
In designing this collection for @byskydiamond I took inspiration from the work of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint. I wanted to set the stones upside down, to reflect the geometry of Hilma’s work, and also suggest the ancient Hermetic concept “as above so below, as within so without”. The diamond is nestled inside, like a secret, a promise, being held by the jewellery. The black rhodium was chosen to symbolise the black of carbon, and highlight the light of the diamond. The colours also play on the implicit duality in my name: lumps of hard black coal alongside delicate white lilies. I wanted to work with Dale Vince and Sky Diamond as their work is an incredible example of the “wizard” approach to environmentalism — focusing on innovation rather than abstention or behaviour change. People like buying and wearing jewellery. They have done so for thousands of years! So how do we make jewellery without it costing us the world? Is there a way to design products so they give back in the process? Can businesses contribute solutions, rather than perpetuate problems? Those are the questions Dale sought to ask and answer in founding Sky Diamonds, and it’s beautiful to see them realised. Photos by @clovergreenstudio 🍀
GAIA collection I designed for @byskydiamond featured in @graziauk ~ carbon negative diamonds made from the sky & recycled gold ~ some thoughts from our conversation on things and more thiiiiings ~ ‘Economic growth is still the dominant business model. If the model is still based on selling products, newness and making new stuff, then we are still in this fucked up situation – trying to produce more clothes, more objects, more things, every year, year on year and it’s pieces that aren’t designed to last so people buy again and again,’ she sighs. ‘It isn’t just fashion – we see it in all industries, from cars, electronics, furniture. The level of consumerism is just insane. I don’t think it necessarily makes people happy. It’s based on the value system of needing more, which I think plays out in the mental health impacts on society at large.” Impassioned by the idea of resisting disposability in favour of more precious, long-lasting pieces and encouraging people to upcycle rather than buy new, she’s cautiously optimistic. ‘But I do think there are deeper systemic questions that we also need to be brave enough to ask ourselves.’
GAIA collection I designed for @byskydiamond featured in @graziauk ~ carbon negative diamonds made from the sky & recycled gold ~ some thoughts from our conversation on things and more thiiiiings ~ ‘Economic growth is still the dominant business model. If the model is still based on selling products, newness and making new stuff, then we are still in this fucked up situation – trying to produce more clothes, more objects, more things, every year, year on year and it’s pieces that aren’t designed to last so people buy again and again,’ she sighs. ‘It isn’t just fashion – we see it in all industries, from cars, electronics, furniture. The level of consumerism is just insane. I don’t think it necessarily makes people happy. It’s based on the value system of needing more, which I think plays out in the mental health impacts on society at large.” Impassioned by the idea of resisting disposability in favour of more precious, long-lasting pieces and encouraging people to upcycle rather than buy new, she’s cautiously optimistic. ‘But I do think there are deeper systemic questions that we also need to be brave enough to ask ourselves.’
GAIA collection I designed for @byskydiamond featured in @graziauk ~ carbon negative diamonds made from the sky & recycled gold ~ some thoughts from our conversation on things and more thiiiiings ~ ‘Economic growth is still the dominant business model. If the model is still based on selling products, newness and making new stuff, then we are still in this fucked up situation – trying to produce more clothes, more objects, more things, every year, year on year and it’s pieces that aren’t designed to last so people buy again and again,’ she sighs. ‘It isn’t just fashion – we see it in all industries, from cars, electronics, furniture. The level of consumerism is just insane. I don’t think it necessarily makes people happy. It’s based on the value system of needing more, which I think plays out in the mental health impacts on society at large.” Impassioned by the idea of resisting disposability in favour of more precious, long-lasting pieces and encouraging people to upcycle rather than buy new, she’s cautiously optimistic. ‘But I do think there are deeper systemic questions that we also need to be brave enough to ask ourselves.’
GAIA collection I designed for @byskydiamond featured in @graziauk ~ carbon negative diamonds made from the sky & recycled gold ~ some thoughts from our conversation on things and more thiiiiings ~ ‘Economic growth is still the dominant business model. If the model is still based on selling products, newness and making new stuff, then we are still in this fucked up situation – trying to produce more clothes, more objects, more things, every year, year on year and it’s pieces that aren’t designed to last so people buy again and again,’ she sighs. ‘It isn’t just fashion – we see it in all industries, from cars, electronics, furniture. The level of consumerism is just insane. I don’t think it necessarily makes people happy. It’s based on the value system of needing more, which I think plays out in the mental health impacts on society at large.” Impassioned by the idea of resisting disposability in favour of more precious, long-lasting pieces and encouraging people to upcycle rather than buy new, she’s cautiously optimistic. ‘But I do think there are deeper systemic questions that we also need to be brave enough to ask ourselves.’
GAIA collection I designed for @byskydiamond featured in @graziauk ~ carbon negative diamonds made from the sky & recycled gold ~ some thoughts from our conversation on things and more thiiiiings ~ ‘Economic growth is still the dominant business model. If the model is still based on selling products, newness and making new stuff, then we are still in this fucked up situation – trying to produce more clothes, more objects, more things, every year, year on year and it’s pieces that aren’t designed to last so people buy again and again,’ she sighs. ‘It isn’t just fashion – we see it in all industries, from cars, electronics, furniture. The level of consumerism is just insane. I don’t think it necessarily makes people happy. It’s based on the value system of needing more, which I think plays out in the mental health impacts on society at large.” Impassioned by the idea of resisting disposability in favour of more precious, long-lasting pieces and encouraging people to upcycle rather than buy new, she’s cautiously optimistic. ‘But I do think there are deeper systemic questions that we also need to be brave enough to ask ourselves.’
GAIA collection I designed for @byskydiamond featured in @graziauk ~ carbon negative diamonds made from the sky & recycled gold ~ some thoughts from our conversation on things and more thiiiiings ~ ‘Economic growth is still the dominant business model. If the model is still based on selling products, newness and making new stuff, then we are still in this fucked up situation – trying to produce more clothes, more objects, more things, every year, year on year and it’s pieces that aren’t designed to last so people buy again and again,’ she sighs. ‘It isn’t just fashion – we see it in all industries, from cars, electronics, furniture. The level of consumerism is just insane. I don’t think it necessarily makes people happy. It’s based on the value system of needing more, which I think plays out in the mental health impacts on society at large.” Impassioned by the idea of resisting disposability in favour of more precious, long-lasting pieces and encouraging people to upcycle rather than buy new, she’s cautiously optimistic. ‘But I do think there are deeper systemic questions that we also need to be brave enough to ask ourselves.’
GAIA collection I designed for @byskydiamond featured in @graziauk ~ carbon negative diamonds made from the sky & recycled gold ~ some thoughts from our conversation on things and more thiiiiings ~ ‘Economic growth is still the dominant business model. If the model is still based on selling products, newness and making new stuff, then we are still in this fucked up situation – trying to produce more clothes, more objects, more things, every year, year on year and it’s pieces that aren’t designed to last so people buy again and again,’ she sighs. ‘It isn’t just fashion – we see it in all industries, from cars, electronics, furniture. The level of consumerism is just insane. I don’t think it necessarily makes people happy. It’s based on the value system of needing more, which I think plays out in the mental health impacts on society at large.” Impassioned by the idea of resisting disposability in favour of more precious, long-lasting pieces and encouraging people to upcycle rather than buy new, she’s cautiously optimistic. ‘But I do think there are deeper systemic questions that we also need to be brave enough to ask ourselves.’
Beautiful moments adventuring with trees, cliffs, stones and Aurora Solá’s mind 🌞 for The Plant Magazine 🌱 ~ grateful for 2 years of exploring landscapes together ~ Aurora’s intro to our conversation : “Sintra is a place frequently cloaked in fog and other less apparent forms of mystery. The name itself derives from Cynthia, the Greek goddess of the moon. Legends and tales of apparitions are as easy to come by as the natural springs that dot the Promontorium Lunae. Its oak forests house species from almost every latitude, product of the massif’s genial climate, Portugal’s long colonial traipsings and the local noblesse’s penchant for botanical competition. Lily and I went for a stroll through some of our fa-vourite paths in Sintra. It would, perhaps, have been better to stare in silence at the thrumming, waving, bristling presences that surrounded us. But as Sintra’s spirits gestured to us, we gave in to words, and along the way the conversation touched on eleven different animals, as well as angels, demons, other horned creatures and then, too, on the wayward power of intelligence.“ Photos by @irishumm ~ @theplantmagazine @carolmontpartstudio @carolmontpart @sighlab
