Sentences with phrase «early ambitions»

For the first time, the book's author, Miguel de Baca, joins the artist's daughter, Alexandra Truitt, in a conversation about the artist's early ambitions as a writer and visual artist, her gravitation toward the theme of memory that ultimately transformed her practice, and the resonances that her extraordinary body of work has for us today.

After doing his National Service in the Royal Air Force, Bowling went on to study art, despite earlier ambitions to be a poet and a writer.

Ma's early ambition was to be able to drive from Montreal to Quebec City and stop every hour at one of his outlets.

In contrast, the current no - wi - fi policy fosters a vibrant community feel that's more in line with the brand's environmental ethos and social conscience, she says, also pointing to early ambitions to evoke the «Penny University» spirit of old English coffeehouses.

Helped by these footholds, Mantel escaped to university, married, and began to write, ultimately fulfilling her early ambition («to distinguish myself in my generation»).

«Given these unexpected outcomes related to our early ambitions, standards bodies are looking for innovations to overcome the shortcomings of past approaches.

I think Arsenal failing has something to do with the Gunners lack of early ambition to win the league like Chelsea have had and won it.

Although the environmental issues he is tackling are now different, Bourtourault's early ambitions are unalloyed.

His parents» professions shaped Washington's early ambition to launch himself into show business: from his minister father he learned the power of performance, while hours in his mother's salon (listening to stories) gave him a love of storytelling.

Jason Solomons talks to Oscar - winning film - maker Kevin Macdonald about his Russell Crowe starring thriller State of Play and his early ambitions to work for The Guardian

It is a good ending, but it does not live up to the expectation set up by the film's earlier ambition.

His early ambitions were to play football for England and to be a bomb disposal expert so that he could blow stuff up.

The timing turned out to be quite significant in relation to our early ambitions for apps.

However, predictable gameplay sequences, and the same repetitive formula sees effortless puzzles and simple enemies throughout, and that means Deadfall Adventures doesn't live up to its early ambition and is a game we could have probably all done without.

But it's an earlier ambition of his that allows us to see Concerto in Black and Blue as a personal work with implications for us all, and to grasp its intertwined poetic and political resonance.

Inspired by Jackson Pollock, Hantaï had an early ambition to reinvent painting.

Musson's early ambition to be a comic book artist is clearly apparent in this series.

Bill had early ambitions to be a silversmith, but quickly changed his focus to architecture after seeing the work of Le Corbusier.

Yael Bartana's stylised documentary Summer Camp (2007) is a powerful, complex twin - screen work which plays with time, mirroring and music to ambiguously interpret Israeli politics and the early ambitions of the kibbutz.

Yet she insists that her early ambitions lay in architecture, not in gesture, and that she feels closer to the voluptuous classicism of Renaissance Italy.

In order to refresh and re-start his earlier ambition, he has studied at the Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, CT, the Washington Art Association in Washington CT, the National Academy of Design and the Art Students» League in New York City.

Originally conducted in the Groucho Club, Obrist is portrayed as a fictional character, the pair are seen conversing in bars and moving through colourful streets and strip clubs as they discuss Bickerton's early ambitions to be a writer, his passion for surfing, island life and dialects of the English language, amongst a host of other interests and influences.

The artist discusses his early ambitions to be a performaer, a conductor, and an actor.

Speaking candidly, my early ambitions were largely inspired by television, and they ranged from being a policewoman (Juliet Bravo) to a barrister (Perry Mason).

Meanwhile «Tesco law» contenders such as Co-operative Legal Services have publicly replaced their early ambitions with more modest aspirations of growth.

We've seen Google Wave, then Buzz, and Google + has backed off from its early ambitions as a «compete with Facebook» social network.