Image Credit: Photograph of Jan Lennox, Director of Watermans Arts Centre. Jan Lennox’s route into the arts began not in a gallery or theatre, but with a trombone on the outskirts of Liverpool. Raised among cornet and trombone players, she…
Image Credit: ‘Queer Migrations’ by Bold Mellon. ‘you are all who came before, you are all who will come after’: queer & migrant artists on belonging, hope & desire What does it mean to move – across borders, between languages,…
Image Credit: B. Åkerlund. Courtesy @bcompleted B. Åkerlund has spent her career proving that “too much” can be a superpower. The Swedish-born fashion activist, stylist, costume designer and creative director began styling at around 17, without fashion-school training and, crucially,…
Image Credit: Photo of Simon Casson, 2026. Full disclosure: I’ve known Simon since the late ’90s. So when I say I effing love what he does, you should know I’m hardly a disinterested observer. It’s hard to deny, he’s a…
Image credit: Normies Study Group, presenting OBJECTIFICATION. The intensive workshop takes place 10:00-16:30, Thursday 10 September, followed by the live body installation 21:15-22:45, Friday 11 September at UNCENSORED Festival. With Matilde Flor Usinger, Ruben R and workshop participants. For Lidia…
Image Credit: Bea Taylor Searle, co-founder of Peckham Digital. Photographed by Mati Granica. Bea Taylor Searle didn’t set out to build one of London’s most exciting creative technology communities. Her journey began with a curiosity about art, before discovering the…
Image Credit: ‘Dreaming with Flamingos’ by Yinka Ilori. Google Arts & Culture. Part of Creative Intelligence, 11-13 September at the Southbank Centre. southbankcentre.co.uk Keri Elmsly and Jazia Hammoudi are cultural instigators in the best sense: curators and strategists drawn to…
Image Credit: Portrait shot of Joe at Light House, photographed by Ki Price. The first thing you notice about Joe Corré isn’t rebellion. It’s generosity. Not generosity in the conventional sense, but in the way he speaks about ideas, craftsmanship…
Image Credit: Daughters of the Wire photographed by Andre Pattenden. When Clive Lyttle founded Certain Blacks in 2015, he did so with a simple but radical belief: artists should be free to make the work they want to make, not…
Image Credit: Taken by Tallulah and Mirabelle Haddon. If you’ve ever wondered what might happen if contemporary dance, live cinema, sculpture, queer performance, mythology and a bucket of melting ice collided in the basement of a Victorian town hall, Mirabelle…