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Words by Marissa Cox. 24-year-old China-born Ritchie Chan is flying the flag for emerging Chinese fashion designers, artists and creatives. He heads up Triple-Major, a fashion collective based in Beijing that enables designers to produce their own collections and present them internationally, as well as inviting international artists and designers to exhibit their work in... Read more
You know you’re doing something right when you get signed to Brownswood Recordings – a label run by one of the most influential names in electronic music, Gilles Peterson. Gang Colours’ break came when Ghostpoet, who signed to the label in 2010, requested his debut single to be remixed by the young producer. This brought... Read more
Pancake day just got a little bit more exciting (if that’s possible). We like some weird and wonderful art, here at Art Wednesday, but this has whetted our appetite too. Created by experimental food experts Polly Betton and Andrew Stellitano and shot by Dominic Davies, the photographer for Heston Blumenthal’s The Big Fat Duck Cookbook, forget... Read more
Words by Emily Steer. Generally, we get so excited by the Whitechapel Gallery bookshop that we often forget why we went into the gallery in the first place, instead leaving laden with a library’s worth of books. Luckily this time, we had heard such good things about Zarina Bhimji’s 25 year spanning exhibition that we... Read more
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To the untrained eye Colin Glen’s line drawings may not look like much – in fact you’re probably looking at them and thinking ‘I could do that’, but there’s much more to these images than meets the eye. Glen went through quite a process to get to the finished versions and that’s what makes his... Read more
Our favourite illustrator, the very talented London-based Margot Bowman has designed an exclusive lid sticker for Kiehls’ bestselling facial cream, their Ultra Facial Oil-Free Gel Cream, to celebrate Earth Month – the month of April. Kiehls will donate 100% of every pot sold to Trees for Cities – a charity that inspires people to, you... Read more
Scottish born Montgomery has just opened his first solo show at KK Outlet in Hoxton Square. As part of his show (which caught our beady eye, being East London residents an’ all) he has hijacked three advertising billboards around Old Street and adorned them with anti-capitalist poems – a running theme throughout his work as... Read more
Words by Emily Steer. After our interview with David Bailey, which was let’s face it, rage inducing, it was a delight to be sat down for morning coffee at Redchurch Street’s Allpress café, with three (despite being very busy) amiable and communicative young female artists. Sophie Alda, Emily Evans and Leonie Lachlan are all relatively... Read more
‘My paintings aren’t about art issues. They’re about a feeling that comes to me from the outside, from landscape. … Paintings aren’t about the person who makes them, either. My paintings have to do with feelings’. – Joan Mitchell, 1974 We love this quote by American-born artist Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) whose late paintings are now on... Read more
Wahey! We’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to Beaty Heart’s show at Roundhouse Rising on Friday night. If you’d like them to be yours, all you need to do is head over to our Facebook page (here) and click ‘like’ on the wall post about this competition. We’ll then be in touch... Read more
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