Introducing True Romance: Print Designs chosen for an exhibition curated by...
I am really pleased to share the designs that have been chosen by East End Prints to appear as part of the True Romance exhibition opening today at 70 Paul Street (full listing info here). Helen...
View ArticleLondon Art Fair 2015: Review
After some years attending the London Art Fair I have a fair idea of where to find the artists that will catch my eye. Here’s what I loved at this January’s show, held at the Business Design Centre in...
View ArticleKickstarter: Support the GroCycle Urban Mushroom Farm
Adam Sayner and Eric Jong are the guys behind GroCycle, a social enterprise that takes used coffee grounds and turns them into delicious gourmet oyster mushrooms! Just as their Exeter based business...
View ArticleA Review of the Rad Science show by Hero of Switzerland
On a tip off from East End Prints I scrambled down to the catch the last few minutes of Rad Science, put together by illustration collective Hero of Switzerland. I arrived at the 5th Base Gallery with...
View ArticleWhen Shadows Return to the Sea: An interview with Martha Bean
Martha Bean by Simon McLaren. Martha Bean is a hotly tipped singer songwriter with a classical training. An accomplished multi-instrumentalist, she has already played alongside some well known names...
View ArticleNew Designers Celebrates 30 Years: an interview with One Year On curator...
Jewellery by Rheanna Lingham, photography by Emma Dalzell. Rheanna Lingham trained as a jewellery designer on the brilliant Middlesex University course (read my review of the 2015 graduate show here)....
View ArticleNew Designers 2015: The Best Jewellery Design Graduates
New Designers part one is a jewellery lover’s paradise. First up this fabulous embroidered jewellery by Melissa Martinson of Huddersfield Uni, who has worked with AIDS sufferers in Africa using local...
View ArticleThe Moonlandingz at the Lexington: Live Review
Making their first visit to the Big Smoke, those most inglorious sons of mythic Sheffield suburb Valhalla Dale, The Moonlandingz, have already made a big impression on the airwaves, with the track...
View ArticleAn interview with Claire Powell: Amelia’s Colourful Colouring Companion...
Artist Claire Powell describes how coming late to illustration has been no bad thing, why dance inspired her colouring book artwork, how to make an award winning animation in your spare time and the...
View ArticleVideo: The Anchoress – You and Only You Feat. Philip Reach
The Anchoress is a new project managed by Drowned in Sound supremo Sean Adams featuring the feisty Welsh lass also known as Catherine Anne Davies – a songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and...
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