A Portrait of Prisons: the Justice Arts Coalition
by Niall Walker "This is about communities and healing and finding new ways of addressing harm that are not punitive" A selection of the...
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- Jan 13, 2021
- 6 min
Saucy Sez And The Poetics Of Hope
Josh Mcloughlin writes about Saucy Sez's latest art show at Outpost in Norwich 'when everything has gone to shit'.
- Jan 12, 2021
- 5 min
Sounding Trauma: Hearing the Language of a Syrian Prison
Forensic Architecture’s collaboration with Amnesty International leads the pathway towards a new forum for human rights investigations
- Oct 29, 2020
- 1 min
COMIC: America, I Never Agreed to Have You in My Head
by Famous Female Artist Before bed and in the morning, after my shower and unprompted, all my life, I have learned so many things about...
- Oct 27, 2020
- 1 min
Archive, Exchange, and Process in a Pandemic: Conversation Between Leanne O'Connor and Larissa Shaw
At the beginning of lockdown, O’Connor and Shaw began communicating remotely to discuss the impact of the pandemic on their creative work.
- Oct 20, 2020
- 2 min
GALLERY: Garbage Disposal Unit
by Lydia Swinney Click image for full size and gallery Through working on this project, I wanted to develop a series of work that...
- Oct 14, 2020
- 1 min
Manasvini Sn: Expressions Of History
Manasvini is a fine artist and illustrator from Bangalore, India. For our seventh issue, Solitude, we share with you one of her zines.
- Sep 8, 2020
- 1 min
DR: ME: Collages from Lockdown
Created during lockdown, this series of collage works by DR.ME emerged from an idle head space during this time of isolation.
- Jun 23, 2020
- 2 min
In Prison Under Lockdown: The Awards Connecting UK Prisoners With Artistic Practice
Koestler Arts is a charity offering over 2000 art awards to prisoners across the UK. We looked at the impacts of pandemic on their entrants.
- May 8, 2020
- 4 min
Her Pixel Story: The Female Photography Collective Telling Kashmir's Story
Her Pixel Story is a female photography collective based around the captivating shores of Dal Lake in Kashmir.
- Apr 17, 2020
- 2 min
Art in Quarantine: Sam Della-Valle
COVID-19 has forced artists into lockdown. We take a look at the quarantine art of Sam Della-Valle.
- Apr 13, 2020
- 3 min
A Month Of Sundays: COVID-19 As Told By Webcams
"There is a tension that now bubbles between two or more humans within a given space. It's a different world."
- Apr 1, 2020
- 2 min
Self-Isolation: Art From Beyond The Quarantine #1
by Niall Walker "I didn't like my reality, so I made a new one." The Radical Art Review exists as a platform for inspiring resistance and...
- Feb 13, 2020
- 1 min
Art Without Boundaries: The Landscapes of Mark Noble
"Art has no boundaries. It doesn't divide us, and it has no favourites." We meet landscape artist Mark Noble.
- Nov 21, 2019
- 4 min
Stories of Migration with Salma Zulfiqar
Artist and Activist Salma Zulfiqar talks about the healing power of storytelling through creativity and her Migration Blanket project.
- Nov 10, 2019
- 9 min
Ways of Belonging: In Conversation
WAYS OF BELONGING brings together young female artists from Birmingham: Anisa Fazal, Farwa Moledina, and Sabiheh Awanzai Mahmoud.
- Jul 25, 2019
- 1 min
The Justice Arts Coalition
Justice Arts Coalition is a US-based organisation working to provide a platform for artists within US prisons and the justice system.
- Jul 25, 2019
- 1 min
'What You See Is What You Get. Like A Pineapple.' Meet The Kirkwood Brothers
Born in Glasgow, the Kirkwood Brothers' playful work hopes to open up a dialogue around the unspoken experience of mental health.
- Jul 25, 2019
- 19 min
'Meet Me at the Deep End': Queer Archives and Swimming Baths with Caleb Steer
"I’m trying to find the way trans life belong in memories of communities and places." Interview with Caleb Steer.
- May 5, 2019
- 4 min
The Scottish Feminist Judgments Project
The SFJP explores and exposes how outcomes of legal cases could differ if reasoned from a feminist perspective.
- Mar 31, 2019
- 2 min
Exploring the Animate and the Artificial with Photographer Micaela Mau
Using the camera to reveal a vitality in inanimate objects, Micaela Mau’s photographs mystify the real and animate the artificial.
- Mar 31, 2019
- 3 min
DISTANCE: The Myth of Separation
"Distance: a false construct that exists between humanity and nature." By Georgia Preece.
- Mar 31, 2019
- 2 min
Swollen Utopia
"How do we write the collective story of our times while desperately writing our own narrative?" asks artist Sean Campbell.
- Mar 18, 2019
- 1 min
Society of Drowned Persons
Joseph Clark's images come from a place of contemplation on the current ecological crisis and a sense of panic of survival for humanity.
- Mar 1, 2019
- 2 min
Ash, Restoration and Resurrection
In Of Gathering Rain, South African artist Hanien Conradie uses soot ink made from burnt plant oils to create her landscape work.
- Feb 13, 2019
- 2 min
The Eco Art of Rachel Honnery
"I like to think of plastics as a material artefact, disintegrating and transforming both physically and functionally..."
- Feb 11, 2019
- 2 min
Reimagining the Sublime with Amory Abbott
A series of mountainous charcoal landscapes, erupting with waterfalls and carved with valleys, these works are mystical and monumental.
- Jan 26, 2019
- 1 min
Wildfires on Canvas
When painter Sarah Winkler looks at a landscape, she sees a geological narrative; a history of dialogue between the land and the elements.
- Jan 6, 2019
- 1 min
The World of Ronan Park
Between Ronan Park's prolific body of portraiture shoots lurks a different kind of world, one notably lacking much human life.
- Jan 6, 2019
- 1 min
Illustrator Laura Op't Eynde's Sinkholes
In this series, Op't Eynde explores her recent fascination with sinkholes: a natural phenomenon where a hole emerges in the ground.
- Jan 6, 2019
- 1 min
Alone Together
David Ellingsen uses his work to critique and examine the relationship between the human and natural world.
- Dec 11, 2018
- 1 min
Migration and Alienation
Denitsa Toshirova expresses her own experience of alienation as a result of migration, in her project Cold Memories.
- Nov 24, 2018
- 1 min
London's Last Banger Race
Alex Warner uses his camera to record the last ever banger racing event at the now demolished Wimbledon Stadium.
- Nov 19, 2018
- 2 min
The Expatriate is not a Migrant, and certainly not an Immigrant
A multidisciplinary artist living and teaching in London, Kennedy-McNeill uses her practice to examine inherited and constructed identity.
- Oct 16, 2018
- 1 min
Natalia Poniatowska on Homesickness
Natalia Poniatowska uses the camera as a tool to confront the emotional truths of homesickness and a sense of belonging.
- Oct 16, 2018
- 1 min
The Otherworldy Photographs of Flannery O'kafka
In this series, O'kafka continues her exploration of what she describes as her 'almost history'.
- Oct 11, 2018
- 1 min
Internal/External Body Performance
With a background in theatre design, Kinga Oktabska's work explores bodily mutations and anatomical processes in relation to performance.
- Sep 11, 2018
- 1 min
The Camera, Anonymity and Surveillance
David Whitelaw's project starts a conversation about present-day concepts of identity and contemporary surveillance.
- Sep 11, 2018
- 1 min
The Radically Playful Art of Mia Rewitz
Mia Rewitz is an artist and photographer whose work expansively examines the tangled nature of mortality.
- Sep 11, 2018
- 1 min
Spotlight on Photographer Timothee Lambrecq
Reykjavic based filmmaker and photographer Timothee Lambrecq is a prolific self-taught photographer with an impressive portfolio of work.