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March 8, 2021

Five Poems

A selection of poems by LUKE GRIFFITHS. II Nurse your pain with chocolate milk and sprinkles Till your belly is full with chocolate joy Until..

March 7, 2021

The Struggle for a Room of One’s Own in Lockdown

MAYA WILSON AUTZEN reflects on how Virginia Woof’s 1929 polemic A Room of One’s Own is still poignantly resonant nearly a century later. Re-reading..

March 6, 2021

Niki de Saint Phalle and the Catharsis of Performance

EMMA GABOR discusses how Nikki de Saint Phalle’s Shooting Paintings utilise sensations of violence and rebirth to promote a journey of catharsis for both the..

March 2, 2021

We Once Spent Our Days Sleeping

A story by FRANCESCA KURLANSKY. 1. Whilst the stench of death hung like a cloak on our shoulders, we shuffled through the house, exchanging..

March 2, 2021

Interview: Boon & Baum

JOE BOON and ANNA BAUMGART are the collaborative duo BOON & BAUM; having both studied Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins, they began working together during their Sculpture MFA..

February 22, 2021

growing pains

A poem by ARIANA RAZAVI. i. It is exciting, refreshing a new start that my heart has yearned for a hope that I have..

February 8, 2021

The Unstable Familiar

A prose piece by DAWID MOBOLAJI. I’m here. One long-haul flight and four hours of driving later – of meandering through unpaved roads and..

February 8, 2021

IMMATERIAL GIRLS: Trans Women in Synthesis

ZAC ANDERSON discusses the power of SOPHIE and other pioneering trans women in the music scene, looking forward to their upcoming fundraiser for the Black..

February 7, 2021

I See it Differently

MATILDA EKSTRÖM reviews I See It Differently, a series of short documentaries shown at Bloomsbury Festival 2020. I See It Differently, shown as part of..

February 5, 2021

Defoe, Disease and Death in London

CRESSIDA O’KELLY draws a parallel between Defoe’s account of London’s ‘Great Plague’ and today’s Covid-19 pandemic. Daniel Defoe was an eighteenth-century journalist, political polemicist..

February 4, 2021

Virtually had it with the Virtual Exhibition

SILAS EDWARDS discusses the rapid rise of the online exhibition and questions whether a virtual visit can really ever match up to seeing art in..

February 2, 2021

From Snapchat to Spielberg

BARNABY HOWE explores the origins and success of smartphone films. In 2008, South African director Aryan Kaganof released the film SMS Sugar Man to..