A feature on phenomenal women artists exhibiting at the Venice Biennale for Twin Magazine including Cathy Wilkes representing Great Britain and Eva Rothschild representing Ireland.
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An in depth feature on fearless feminist artist, activist and writer Mira Schor. After years of dedication to her intimate sensual style, Schor has only recently started to get more of the attention she deserves. “I’ve identified three stages of a women artist’s career,” she told me. “Young and naked, still too young and not dead enough”.
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Florence Peake’s performative, activist practice coaxes her audience out of a place of passivity. She engages with the political climate and drags her spectators along with her. ‘Empathy Hole’, her latest show at Bosse & Baum gallery, addresses the oppressive nature of being silenced. Peake says. “It that feels like the real violence we still encounter today is that inability to be able to get your voice heard.”
Read the whole interview on Good Trouble. A magazine devoted to the intersection of arts and culture with protest and resistance.
Censored by the Fascist regime, marginalised by the establishment and unknown to the public, Carol Rama spent most of her life languishing at the sidelines of art history. Today we appreciate this cult figure whose raw, erotic, aggressive and unashamedly female work resonates with our contemporary psyche. We talk to four artists and discover how prescient and influential her work has proven for many artists working today.
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Deep in the Missouri Midwest, above the 250-mile stretch of Interstate 70 that connects St. Louis with Kansas City, a billboard read: 'Keep Abortion Legal'. Artist Aleksandra Mir’s stark political message jostled for attention with adverts for casinos and burger joints.
Read the full article on Good Trouble, a magazine devoted to the intersection of arts and culture with protest and resistance.
Judith Bernstein has been creating provocative, unapologetic, feminist artworks for close to half a century. After being frozen out of the art scene for much of that time, this undeterred artist is finally getting the recognition she deserves.
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The scoop, hot hangouts, conversation starters and all the news on what's new. In this article for Baku Magazine I fly the flag for London, spilling the secrets of our beloved city.
Baku is a quarterly magazine published by Condé Nast in London and sold worldwide.
Cyber art collective The Coven put the grit back into girliness. Fuelled by an activist spirit, they rip up outdated ideas of femininity with their provocative shows and zines, bewitching the art scene and internet kids alike.
See the full feature in Dazed Magazine summer issue or online here.
Interest in ceramics has soared as artists push this ancient medium in new and unusual directions. I bring together four of the most exciting artists working with this sculptural medium – Emily Jane McCartan, Gudmundur Thoroddsen, Lucy Whitford and Renee So –to explore exactly what it is they're doing differently and why it's having such an impact.
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Marlene Dumas's current mid-career retrospective at Tate Modern is a remarkable journey through the mind of a politically engaged female artist. Remarkably it's her first European retrospective but she has been long admired and influential to artists of her own and younger generations. Ryan Mosley, Boo Saville, Sigrid Holmwood and Antony Micallef discuss the impact of the legendary Dutch artist on their own work.
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If Lara Croft had a taste for Jeff Koons sculptures, her pad might look a lot like Lawrence Lek's video game vision of the Royal Academy. Titled Unreal Estate, the Xbox dystopia won Lek the Converse x Dazed Emerging Artists Award this Spring.
See the full article in the Dazed Magazine summer issue.
Paris is tired. New York is obsessed with success, London is extortionate and Berlin is reaching saturation point. Artists need cheap space and in each contemporary art hub, they’re being driven to the fringes of the city. From Athens to Warsaw, we explore ten alternative art cities that are on the rise offering a cutting edge scene and the space to experiment.
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UK art legend Steven Claydon shows in spaces from LA to Berlin but he has always called Britain home. Born and bred in London he studied at both St Martins and Chelsea when empty warehouses and offices were plentiful and the perfect home for artists. Claydon has watched as London’s housing crisis has peaked and the city has been remade for the offshore rich. He explains how to survive as an artist in Britain when the odds are stacked against you.
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Right now we exist at hyper speed. Creatives battle for attention across a myriad of platforms and new names emerge faster and harder. The competition is intense. So what’s the best way to get in on the action? Should we jack into cyberspace or make contacts IRL? We find out how best to stand out, get noticed and get loved with champion of fresh young talent, curator and writer Francesca Gavin.
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Artist collective K-HOLE break the mould. Working outside the gallery space and flirting with big business, they ride the line between commercial venture and creative collab. “Everyone has a little bit of anxiety that we might be pranking them,” they told me. I talk to K-HOLE about trend forecasting and why it is that Normcore went viral.
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With streams of stats showing female artists are underrepresented in spaces from museums to biennials it seems the art scene is still a boys' club. Curator Sarah McCrory, maverick Artistic Director of Glasgow International Festival, Emerging Artists Award judge, and impassioned supporter of female talent sets out her views on women in the art world. Check out her tips on how to blaze your own way, shake things up and get represented.
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Champion of web-savvy artists, with an sharp eye for young talent and an incredible career to date, curator Lauren Cornell worked collaboratively with artist Ryan Trecartin to curate Surround Audience, an exhibition exploring the future of culture though the art of today. The epic group show features 51 artists which remarkably includes more female names than male. I talked to Cornell about tech, gender and how she made this sadly unusual statistic happen.
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Let’s face it, art school can be a bitch. The old-school, anarchic vibes have long since been crushed by the reality of economics. Times are tough for aspiring creatives. Luckily, Tim Marlow, Royal Academy director is on hand with his tips on how to survive.
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With spiralling student debts and soaring rents, it's a testing time to be creative in Britain. The Converse x Dazed Emerging Artists Award offers and invaluable platform to artists at the moment they need it most. Meet the finalists for their take on how to succeed as an artist in Britain today.
Find out more about who made the cut for the Converse x Dazed Emerging Artists Award 2015 as we speak to the finalists ahead of their appearance at the Royal Academy of Arts.
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