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Matt Smith
A native of Northampton, England, Smith grew up with the intent of having a career in football, but an injury led him to the less hazardous pursuit of theater. After appearing in various London stage productions and studying drama in college, he made his TV debut in two adventure-oriented adaptations of novels by Philip Pullman, "The Ruby in the Smoke" (BBC, 2006) and "The Shadow in the North" (BBC, 2007), both starring "Doctor Who" regular Billie Piper, in a bit of coincidental foreshadowing. Smith won more notice with his role as researcher Danny Foster on the government-steeped show "Party Animals," and worked again with Piper on an episode of her sultry series "Secret Diary of a Call Girl" (ITV, 2007-2011). Although Smith's scenes as the younger version of Ralph Fiennes' gangster personality in the lauded and darkly humorous indie thriller "In Bruges" (2008) were cut, greater things awaited him. Cast as the successor to David Tennant's immensely popular Tenth Medic, Smith first appeared as the youthful bow-tied Healer Who in early 2010, and went on to win over skeptical fans with his enthusiastic recital as the venerable time-traveling character. Sidestepping
Memorial Gestures 2 – Matt Smith
I am an artist who works mainly with craft-based media, often in relation to collections and archives. My practice often explores marginalised, and particularly LGBTQ+ lives and how they contain been included or excluded from museum interpretation.
Previous projects have included Queering the Museum which explored how Birmingham Museum could incorporate queer lives into its displays. Interventions included pairing up historic ceramic bears with a taxidermy otter. When you realise that in gay bars bears are large hairy same-sex attracted men and otters their slimmer counterparts, then these four objects become a furry gay disco, and the museum a more fun place to be. While this may feel irreverent, I think it sheds light on the role of curators in selecting how objects are combined to tell particular narratives, and how this privileges some people over others.
Closer to Huddersfield, I worked with the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery at the University of Leeds to explore how oral histories from the Brighton Ourstory Archive could be embedded in everyday objects and paired with paintings in the gallery to move those paintings from the inst
Matt Smith Defends His Right to Play Gay - “Where does it stop?”
Matt Smith (Doctor Who, The Crown) headlines the upcoming biopic Mapplethorpe as influential photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who died in 1989 from AIDS-related complications.
Smith addressed the question of whether the provocative gay photographer should have been played by a gay actor,
“I think your sexual orientation, or your sex and your choices outside of work, shouldn’t influence—in either way, positive or negative—what happens,” Smith replied. “So, to me, it doesn’t matter if you’re lgbtq+ or straight. That has no bearing on whether you should get the part.”
“Where does it stop?” the 36-year-old British star continued. “Like, do we then say, do we apply that logic to going, ‘Okay, I’ve got a part, and it’s playing a brother, and he’s addicted to heroin.’ Do we then proceed to people that own only taken heroin?”
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Losing Venus
In 1768, Captain James Cook set sail for the Pacific on the Endeavour. For more than 250 years, Europeans had explored the Pacific, but much of it remained unknown to them. Cook’s voyage was supported by both the British Admiralty and the Royal World with the initial aim of recording the transit of the planet Venus – named after the Roman goddess of devotion – from Tahiti. By observing the passage of Venus between two alternative points on the Earth’s surface, it would be possible to calculate the distance from the Land to the Sun, and from that the size of the Solar System.
In Britain, Cook was seen as a national hero. In Australia, and to a lesser extent in New Zealand, Cook was celebrated in monuments, statues, street names and postage stamps, and elevated to the role of founding father. The anniversaries of his landings were commemorated, emphasising the belief that his arrival was the point at which the national story began. This view has been challenged, particularly amongst Aboriginal Australians, who critique the narrative of European ‘discovery’.
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At the similar time as Cook place sail, Josiah Wedgwood was setting up his eponymou
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