Arts

Aug 10, 20213 min read

Can we consider Gizem Karakaş’ “Attention! Attention!” art?

Bersun Kılınç “Today’s treasure may be tomorrow’s trash” Gizem Karakaş, the creator of the audio-visual art ‘ATTENTION! ATTENTION!’,...

Apr 18, 20213 min read

Animating the theatre and dramatising ma: will Studio Ghibli lose its touch?

Studio Ghibli’s Oscar-winning film Spirited Away will take the stage in Tokyo in 2022. Although this production has full artistic support...

Apr 9, 20214 min read

Ludwig Bemelmans and the legendary murals of The Carlyle Hotel

Artists throughout history have created and given away masterpieces in exchange for unpayable bills: think Vincent Van Gogh in...

Mar 22, 20212 min read

The art of ‘definism’ with Darrell Urban Black

‘Definism’ portrays various differences in human nature, from life’s everyday dramas to humankind’s quest to the under-standing self. “My...

Jan 25, 20214 min read

‘Now part of architectural briefs’: Instagrammable architecture, for the people or the p

By Maud Webster Instagram culture has seeped itself into everything we do, impacting our media, our health, body image, and how we...

Jan 20, 20211 min read

In Response to British Vogue: ‘The Body Issue’

‘The Body Issue’ was created as a response to an issue I read of British Vogue. I felt disappointed by the ostentatiousness and lack of...

Jan 4, 20211 min read

Degas dancers gone wild: The mix media works of Claudio Parentela

Born in Catanzero, Italy, Claudio Parentela is an illustrator and painter. Using a variation of mediums from paint to collage, Parentela...

Dec 24, 20204 min read

Making Christmas: the enduring legacy of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

Movies and Christmas go together like roast potatoes and gravy, and rightly so. It’s cold outside, you’re soporific from all the festive...

Dec 7, 20203 min read

The People’s Art Fair highlights the importance of Bristol’s artistic community

Tomorrow, organisers at the People’s Republic of Stokes Croft will kick off the Winter edition of their art fair, reminding us that the...

Nov 13, 20205 min read

In Frame | Preventing art inequality with Wayne Crichlow

Isabel Armitage in conversation with photographer and activist, Wayne Crichlow, on destigmatizing art, increasing accessibility, and...

Nov 3, 20204 min read

Comrades in Arts: ‘Don’t extinguish our creative fire’

A call to my fellow artists: let us wield our weapons of mass creation aloft and refuse to reboot and retrain Imagine working towards...

Oct 26, 20204 min read

Louise Glück and CyberFirst Fatima: Why is the UK determined to lose its culture?

By Hannah Green On the 8th of October, the Swedish Academy announced American poet Louise Glück as this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize...

Oct 19, 20205 min read

Album Artwork: Is it really that important?

By Alastair Bailey Phone screens, televisions, posters at the train station, cereal boxes, logos, the artwork on the front of an album;...

Oct 14, 20204 min read

‘Is that Supreme?’ Are football shirts being taken a step too far?

The football shirt has become a designer’s playground and the 2020/21 kit release has been no exception. From ombre sunsets to cobalt...

Oct 13, 20206 min read

In Frame | The Reno, guerrilla gardening and cherry blossom Part 2

‘You have to be a dove when you need to be a dove and a snake when you need to be a snake’ In conversation with Linda Brogan Continuing...

Oct 9, 20205 min read

In Frame | The Reno, guerrilla gardening and cherry blossom

By Elias Mendel ‘The white man is worth more and therefore he has more’ – in conversation with Linda Brogan Elias Mendel begins our...

Sep 25, 20202 min read

Showing the good, the bad, and the ugly in societies through street photography with Richard Barman

Richard Barman is a travel photographer from Assam, India. Seeking inspiration from Magnum Photos, Barman sees photography as a moment of...

Sep 21, 20202 min read

Artwork | Seeking solace by painting pictures by Cierra G. Rowe

Cierra G. Rowe is a fine artist from rural Kentucky. Her zeal for painting blossomed during adolescence and has, since then, continued to...

Sep 9, 20201 min read

Artwork | Kulorbandit, seeing the world through kaleidoscope eyes

Kulorbandit, a graphic designer and illustrator sees the world through a geometric kaleidoscope; depicting portraits of people through a...

Aug 20, 20201 min read

Artwork | Adam Riches and the furious expression of human emotion

Adam Riches is an emerging British painter and draughtsman who explores the rapid changeability of human expression and movement. Adam...