Journal of Apples
The Journal of Apples showcases some of the diverse creativity that the apple inspires, allowing selected artists and experts to share their own perspectives and tell their history living with this iconic fruit.
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Kashmiri Apples
Home, JournalKashmiri Apples – A Weapon of Resistance – they may have become the main embodiment of this restive territory’s economic and political identity.
Contemporary Herbarium of the Orchard and Fruits of the Press
JournalArtist/Art Teacher Roselyne Corblin and Visual Artist/Artist-Botanist Pascal Levaillant describe how they have made a Herbarium
Billy Apple
JournalIn London, on Thanksgiving Day 1962, New Zealand-born artist Barrie Bates changed his name to Billy Apple®, a name that forty five years later became a registered trademark.
The World According to Apples
JournalA poem by George Venn, who meditates on the full cycle of the apple’s experience of natural process.
Apples & India
JournalFrom temperate to tropical, exotic to every day by Priya Mani, who explains the fascinating history of the apple in Indian cookery.
M.Legrand – Incubator and Creator of the Michelin
JournalM.Legrand – Incubator and Creator of the Michelin by Pascal Levaillant and Marie-Thérèse Mériot – the apple history of Yvetot, home of the Legrand family.
Apple Varieties
JournalAlison Turnbull created ATX 2012 Apple Varieties in 2012 for the exhibition ‘With an Apple I will Astonish’. It’s a systematic representation of the apple world through language brought to life via an apple colour chart.
The apple label art of Anne Rook
JournalAnne Rook is a French artist residing in London. She works in a number of different media including drawing, animation, installation and sculpture.
Brigitte Hofherr and the old apple varieties
JournalGerman artist Brigitte Hofherr is both a painter and as a botanical artist, Brigitte is self-taught.
Yosuke Amemiya and the search for the Universal Apple
JournalYosuke made his first melted apple in 2004, life-sized highly realistic yet distorted fruit that blur the distinction between reality and fiction. His melted apple sculptures are intended to deceive the viewer’s eye.
Inspired by Pissarro: Spring Summer Autumn Winter
JournalApples & People have commissioned artist Richard Gilbert to produce a sequence of paintings as a contemporary response from Herefordshire’s countryside to Pissarro’s work.
Painting apples with Elisabeth Dowle
JournalElisabeth Dowle is one of the world’s most respected painters of fruit and flowers, producing detailed and accurate studies. Although she studied at Croydon College of Art she says that she is largely a self-taught botanical artist.
Wilding Apples
JournalWilliam Arnold describes his work with apples in an historic mining landscape in Cornwall in South West England.
Golden Apples and Strudel
JournalA specially commissioned film from Vienna about making apple strudel and accompanying article describes the cultural and culinary interchange between the Ottoman Empire and Christendom that shaped this Austrian favourite.
Beauty in Rottenness and other apples
JournalDesigner and maker, Natalia Kossentino describes how she became the apple craftswoman of the Netherlands in this new Apple Journal article.
The Apple: Served Three Ways
JournalA taste of apples through time, with three historical recipes tried, tested and adapted for the contemporary kitchen by food historian Tasha Marks.
Apples & Pears in Hereford
JournalThe Museum of Cider in Hereford has curated an exhibition of apples and pears in honour of Gillian Bulmer (1935-2021). Compiled with the help of fruit growers and cider makers in Herefordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire, and Wales, the exhibition features over 360 plates of fruit.
The Chosen Fruit
JournalIn poetry and literature the apple is often a microcosm of our own existence – often mapping the seasons, the taste of youth, the ripening of age.
The Health Benefits of Apples
JournalPeople who eat more fruit have a lower risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, dementia and depression – by Dr Nicola Bondonno from Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia.
Xincai Tan
JournalWritten by Xincai Tan, ‘Píng Guǒ Shì Jiè’ tells of the domestic apple originating in the Tian Shan, the Heavenly Mountains on China’s western border, and spreading around the world from east to west.
Tōson Shimazaki
Journal‘Hatsukoi’ or ‘First Love’ is a poem written by Japanese author and romantic poet Tōson Shimazaki which tells the story of dreamy love and growing up, set amongst apple trees. This commission is read by Masayo Sasaki with a piano accompaniment.
The Holographic Properties of the Apple Crunch
JournalThis is the story behind the discovery that an apple crunch sound has holographic properties, rendered visible by using a CymaScope to produce the holographic images and video.
Mangzi Tian
JournalMangzi Tian is inspired by nature’s imagery especially apples and estimates that he has painted some two hundred apples over the last 15 years.
Artist Barnaby Barford’s obsession with the apple
JournalIn recent years, Barford has become obsessed with the Apple and has been looking at the world through its lens, using the humble fruit to explore fundamental questions driving human nature, especially our anxiety afflicted society and our incessant need for more.