RUARIDH NICOLL
JOURNALIST & WRITER, HAVANA
Ruaridh Nicoll is the former editor of the Observer Magazine and the author of two novels, White Male Heart and Wide Eyed.
Though he comes from the Scottish Highlands, Ruaridh spent much of his young adulthood traveling far from his home. Recalling his childhood for an autobiographical sketch he wrote, "There was no television at home, the signal could not penetrate the glen's high walls and so I spent the hours of darkness reading". His career as a writer and journalist has included roles as the Environment and Science Correspondent for Scotland on Sunday; the Washington, DC Correspondent for the Observer; and the Southern Africa Correspondent for the Guardian. He now lives and works in Havana.
Browse his favourites below, or watch his video here.
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Ruaridh's Top 3 Artworks:
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Francisco Alejandro Vives
"Francisco Alejandro Vives' ALONSO-MODERNO-TROPICAL NO.9, 2012-13, apart from it's lovely echoes of Ed Ruscha, pleases me because it speaks to the incredibly beautiful 1950’s homes and offices in Havana whose clean lines have grown wonky with time and lack of care"
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Michel Pou Diaz
"I like all Michel Pou Diaz’s work here very much. I have a particular fondness for the campesino images because they bring back all the people I've met in the Cuban countryside, but then to see an image of one of the rafts Cubans, just like those photographed, use to try and get to the US is heartbreaking"
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MARI CLAUDIA GARCÍA
"Mari Claudia García's installation of five bags is wonderful, as it’s bags like these we use to go to the fruit and vegetable markets, where Cuba’s problems with food supplies can sometimes be most marked. So they seem the perfect medium for her disheartening images"
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