It's (not) A Sin: why the world has yet to recover from the AIDS crisis
Writing by Rhiannon Auriol. Illustration by Heather Baillie. Quick flex: I met the writer Russell T Davies once. It was 2015 and I was...
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- Feb 26, 2021
- 7 min
Art as an Antidote to Uncertainty and Isolation
Writing by Emma Lake. Illustration from Rattlecap Painting Session. 2020 was a year characterised by uncertainty and isolation, feelings...
- Feb 26, 2021
- 6 min
Art and Addiction: An Interview with Artists in Recovery
Writing by Ali Gavin. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. Mark Anderson founded Artists in Recovery (AiR) in 2018 after coming to a...
- Feb 26, 2021
- 4 min
Recovering From the Grip of Productivity and Purpose
Writing by Amy Life. Illustration by Bethany Morton. Enticing both visually and emotionally, Disney’s Soul seeks to question a deep...
- Feb 26, 2021
- 3 min
Did Covid-19 redefine art?
Writing by Antonina Dolecka. Illustration by Bethany Morton. Do you still remember museums? That mesmerising feeling of wandering through...
- Feb 6, 2021
- 7 min
I May Destroy You Being Snubbed by the Golden Globes Says Everything About the World We Live In
Writing by Claire Shankie. Illustration by Paola Valentina. Content Warning: sexual assault, racism The reactions to the exclusion of I...
- Feb 1, 2021
- 3 min
songs for your horoscope alignment
Writing and Illustration by Paola Valentina. Many reading this will have had, most likely, ample time for introspection and...
- Dec 18, 2020
- 6 min
country bumpkin
Writing by Levi Mitchell. Illustration by Caitlin Osfield. The Cairngorm scenery makes me ache. It’s so stunningly still, filled with...
- Dec 18, 2020
- 4 min
Solitude in New Mexico: Female Artists who found themselves in the Desert
Writing and Illustration by Isi Williams. Lockdown has been a difficult time for pretty much all of us. But as isolation took over many...
- Dec 18, 2020
- 4 min
An Isolation Soundtrack
Writing by Jessie Irvin Rose. Illustration by Polly Burnay. ‘Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that...
- Dec 18, 2020
- 3 min
Joseph Cornell: Surrealism’s Man in a Box
Writing by Emily Hughes. Illustration by Iz Gius. If eclectic and shabby-chic were to be epitomised by the works of one singular artist,...
- Dec 14, 2020
- 3 min
Boys in Skirts
Writing by Heather Baillie. Illustration by Paola Lindo Valentina. As gentle guitar chords float through the air, our protagonist walks...
- Nov 1, 2020
- 7 min
Queer Community, Clubbing, and COVID-19
Writing by Ruby Hann. Illustration by Antonia Popescu. A couple of months ago, in deep lockdown – empty-supermarket-shelves,...
- Nov 1, 2020
- 3 min
Beauty Through the Eyes of the Coloniser
Writing by Aasia Amein. Illustration by Yizhi Liu. The ideology of white aesthetic was imposed on a global scale stemming from colonial...
- Nov 1, 2020
- 4 min
Adolescence and Identity: give it time!
Writing by Deepali Chhabra. Illustration by Isi Williams. The confrontational question ‘what advice would you give to your former self?’...
- Sep 9, 2020
- 5 min
Queer Muses and Female Perspectives: Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
Writing by Sarah Simpson. Illustration by Sarah Simpson. First released in France in 2019 and in the UK in February of this year, Céline...
- Sep 9, 2020
- 4 min
Review of Verso LIVE: How to Build a Feminist City
Writing by Trisha Mendiratta. Illustration from Verso Books. How are our lives structured by architecture and the urban? What does a...
- Sep 9, 2020
- 7 min
Sexism in Hamilton
Writing by Isi Williams. Illustration by Isi Williams. For all purposes, Hamilton seems like a production I would absolutely adore. It’s...
- Sep 9, 2020
- 5 min
Feminism in Hamilton.
Writing by Sarah Broadwell. Illustration by Isi Williams. 'Tell your sister that she better rise up.' The groundbreaking musical Hamilton...
- Apr 28, 2020
- 3 min
Autonomy: Exhibition Review
Writing: Max Hunter Photography: Madoc Brophy (Instagram: @artistjeans) Whitespace is well named. This little gem set back a few blocks...
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