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Sound Garden: Riding Sonic Waves Through Kew’s DNA With Daisy Elektra
In connecting Kew and war-torn Ukraine with sound waves and flowers, Daisy Elektra keeps showing us the very oneness of life…
East Meets West: The Wet-Plate Photographer Reviving Polish Folklore in Earls’ Court
A visit to Magda Kuca will remind you that photography can be more than thoughtless snapping. Sometimes it feels like haunting communion with the past…
‘A Unique Form of Time-Travel’: Meet YouTube Star & Rare-Book Dealer Tom Ayling
Tom Ayling has over a million followers: impressive, given that his content is focused on rare books and manuscripts…
‘I Have To Do Risky Stuff’: Meet The UK’s First Sikh Conductor
This is a first for Britain: never before has a Sikh led an orchestra in the UK…
‘A Very Intimate Procedure’: Åsa Johannesson’s Queer Lens in Photography
Åsa Johannesson’s bid to give her sitters a voice allows them an empowerment denied by even the most majestic of portraits…
Hunting for Light: Xavi Buendia’s Photographic Philosophy
While many rush past the chaos of the city, photographer Xavi Buendia stands still, hunting for light to capture…
‘So Much Freedom’: In Conversation with Maria Korolevskaya
‘The ability to create entire virtual worlds opens up limitless possibilities for how we engage with art. There is so much freedom…’
The Alluring & The Liminal: In Conversation with Sian Fan
“My work reflects on the pervasiveness of technology and how it contrasts with the physicality of being human, for better or for worse. In mixing these mediums, our physical and spiritual sides collide with our digital presence.“
‘Art is For Us, and Beyond Us’: In Conversation with Cellist Abel Selaocoe
Perhaps Selaocoe’s extraordinary life has something to do with his extraordinary sound…
Multi-Hyphenate Masterminds: Anna Kameneva and Kristina Kretova
‘We are creators, really, not designers’, shares Anna. This statement encompasses their entire way of living; theirs is a free-wheeling spirit…
Event Architect: Meet Christopher Mills
If the word ‘fabulous’ could sprout legs and saunter out of the Oxford English Dictionary, Christopher Mills is just about what you’d picture…
Behind the Silver Screen Scenes: Dan Walden
In a sultry back room, Dan Walden, one of the last remaining commercial analogue projectionists in London, prepares for action...
Frances Segelman: Celebrity, Sculpture, & Common Sense
Frances Segelman, also known as Lady Petchey, is a self-taught sculptor known for carving celebrity subjects in-front of a crowd in just 2-hours…
Gareth Fuller: Meet the Map-Maker
Fuller is an artist. His pieces plot the city in symbols, allowing us to play within them as we decipher the landmarks we know through associations and pictorial codes…
Photographer in Residence: Meredith Sherlock
Her art lies in pouncing upon the pedestrian; sniffing out then seizing a subject we thought we knew; then capturing it in such a way that it lifts you once again…