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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…
ACCEPTANCE: Looking at the Outside, Seeing Inside
Giulia Paratelli explores what acceptance means, and the different journeys different bodies embark on, all hoping the reach the same point of complete peace…
Per Wimmer: Astronaut & Adventurer
The idea of venturing beyond our planet still leaves one awestruck, spellbound and glassy-eyed. Much like life itself, space travel is a plunge into the...
‘Childhood Lasts A Lifetime.’ Baroness Floella Benjamin on Ethical Media
Question: What do you get when you cross showbiz with British politics? Answer: Baroness Floella Benjamin.
The Bouncer With the Big Heart: Naylor Harrington
Ah, bouncers. We’ve all had experiences with them. A good one is a god, a bad one a burly sod. But Naylor Harrington, is a great one...
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...
Sport & Solidarity: Speaking to DJ Ron
The problem with clubbing is that it also creates a sort of phony euphoria fuelled by booze and stimulants. Ron, a veteran of this life, understands this…
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…
A Calling and a Career: The Handbags of Ethan K
Unlike many designers nowadays who preach their message from high-up Fashion Olympus, handing down back-breaking stilettos and impossible size-nothing separates for us to suffer in, Ethan works with his customers, whom he affectionately calls ‘collectors’.
Valery Demure: Forever Golden
The mastery displayed by Valery and her designers was rousing, exhilarating, thrilling. And it reclaimed jewellery for the modern woman…