Sentences with word «bedsit»

He makes fire leap from drains; and has transformed a condemned bedsit in London into a magical cave of copper sulphate crystals.

Novels also give you tiny details you didn't even know you needed — how a telephone worked in a house of bedsits, for example.

Hiorns is an artist best - known for his alchemical interventions: last year he filled a disused London bedsit with 75,000 litres of copper sulphate, transforming it into a grotto encrusted with an intense blue layer of crystals.

Not the single mums who have been shipped out of London and dumped in damp bedsits with their kids.

Before communities were torn apart, before young mums were sent away from their support networks and housed in dingy damp bedsits with their babies.

The house was split into bedsits — home to five people.

Over the course of the year, Hiorns sealed a disused bedsit and filled it with 90,000 litres of liquid copper sulphate, which after a time encrusted each surface of the apartment with crystals.

Every person featured in the photos was far from home, stranded in a camp or a ramshackle bedsit.

Hobart's greatest gift might be producing restaurants doing huge things in spaces smaller than a Sydney bedsit.

I picture you sat in an attic bedsit with the curtains forever drawn, at the centre of your universe, dispensing your sermons across the ether on anything and everything in a God - like manner.

In British households television is increasingly used as a «babysitter», while children's bedrooms have become «media bedsits» with computers, games consoles and widescreen TVs taking the place of dolls houses or model aeroplanes.

The property is made up of around 43 cramped bedsits, which were clearly never intended for families.

It has to be said our coffee corner resembles a grotty bedsit rather than a frontier of science.

But with a great script and a perfect cast, this is Richard Curtis back on the boil: triangle sandwhiches of melancholy washed down with sugary cups of sci - fi tea, alternating between the idylls of the British seaside and comfortable leafy bedsit London.

From the idle chatter from Slimane's bedsit friends, to the heartening dinner conversations of the family, there is a delicate sense of humanity that contrasts itself against the gloominess of the Port town of Sѐte.

Yeah, DQVIII... I remember playing that sat in a dank little bedsit, was it really ten years ago?

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's Tate Modern exhibition features an installation made in 1985 of a Moscow bedsit, its walls lined with political posters.

The Paddington bedsit he moved into was caked in inch - thick soot, and the city had a distinctive and all - pervasive smell that has, thankfully, been consigned to memory.

The graphic novelist Daniel Clowes presents intricate tales of adolescent paranoia, while Charlie White's video American Minor follows a teenage girl through pastel - tinted bedsit reveries.

Over the past two decades, other commissions have included Susan Philipsz's Surround Me in 2008 in the City of London; Roger Hiorns's Seizure, 2008 / 2013, originally in a council bedsit in South London and recently relocated to Yorkshire Sculpture Park; and Rachel Whiteread's House, completed 20 years ago in October 1993.

For contemporary artist Roger Hiorns, a former council flat in London was the canvas for his blue masterpiece, Seizure, created by covering the small bedsit with copper sulphate solution.

Travelling expenses and loss of earnings incurred on abortive contact journeys: Southend - on - Sea bedsit payouts for breaks which had to be cancelled.

I will always remember as a student nurse I went on a home visit to see a lady with schizophrenia who lived in a run - down bedsit.

The lack of affordable housing is every government's worst nightmare but one enterprising architecture firm has come up with a novel solution to turn a rows of out - of - use garages into cosy # 11 - a-week pop - up bedsits.

For this couple, restoring a Victorian townhouse back into a family house after it was chopped into a series of bedsits, was a loving act that speaks to their passion for design and details.

Christina Reti recently restored a London townhouse, previously converted into bedsits, back into a family home.

There was also the installation of Roger Hiorns's Seizure 2008/2013 — a copper sulphate chamber relocated from its initial home, a condemned London bedsit.

Family units often consisted of mothers looking after children alone in tents or bedsits, their husbands killed in conflict or separated as a result of other circumstances.

With my bedsit and job offer I have a finger - hold on normal life.

When we get to my bedsit, we discover that the electricity hasn't been connected yet so we sit in the dark, drinking cheap cider and chatting until the time comes for them to leave.

My new home is a bedsit in a predominantly Asian area of town.

The government meanwhile chooses to let down local residents further by removing controls on bad landlords - those bedsit barons who make tenants» lives a misery and whose neglect can cause widespread grief for their neighbours.

«He was in a bedsit in Earls Court and there would often be signs there saying: «No blacks, no Irish, no dogs» and by blacks they meant anyone who wasn't white.»

This problem has been compounded by estate regenerations which have meant thousands of people have been moved away from their support networks and entire families have been forced to live in bedsits, as their old homes have been torn down to make way for luxury apartments.

The bedsits at Boundary House were clearly not designed to have so many people living in them.

The bedsit has been their home for the past eighteen months.

After a series of complaints by residents, Newham council are now removing people from the bedsits and have stopped sending families there.

How deep the irony that invocation of Aneurin Bevan is all too often little more than a gesture of contentless radicalism, much in the manner of a faded Che Guevara poster ironically adorning the walls of an undergraduate hipster's bedsit.

The party was more bothered with pleasing its own fissiparous cliques; the wannabe Dave Sparts, the bedsit revolutionaries, the local government crackpots who refused to set a rate, the headbangers of Militant.

It's not necessarily about going from a mansion to a bedsit, or from a jam - packed social calendar to the lifestyle of a hermit.

But having arrived in London first, and not knowing a soul in this capital, I took my mother's advice and registered as a volunteer in the Belgrave Children's Hospital [9], which was just around the corner from my bedsit, which I rented at # 10 per week (1976).

All models get four - wheel drive, a 3500 kg towing capacity and are larger than many London bedsits.

Kastandra's offers self - catering accommodation in a private cottage, a bedsit and also in a family unit in the quiet suburb of Mount Croix.

With interiors reminiscent of a bedsit from the 1970s, the peeling wallpaper, stained sofas and bright orange bar all add to the retro fun.

In 2009, Hiorns was nominated for the Turner Prize for his critically acclaimed work, Seizure, a massive crystallization within the interior of a bedsit in a condemned South London council estate.

Giles Woodrow, 33, London: The exhibition made me think about the possibility of undiscovered geniuses working in bedsits.

In 2009, Hiorns was nominated for the Turner Prize for his critically acclaimed work, Seizure, a massive crystallization within the interior of a bedsit in a condemned South London council es - tate.

The idea was already fully formed; Ghost, an appropriately spectral cast of a bedsit room in North London, was the obvious starting point for what would eventually become House: as Whiteread explains, «I'd finished [Ghost] and thought, «Ooh, I'd quite like to do a whole house next».»

A Blue Plaque proposal has been submitted to English Heritage to honour the French artist Yves Klein (1928 - 62) who lived in the Cromwell Road, in a bedsit from 1949 - 1950.