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: Photo of Jon Link, photographed by Ellen Kydd for Modern Toss. Jon Link has spent his career finding value in the stuff polite culture tends to overlook. Starting out in graphic design, record sleeves and magazines, he eventually…
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: Photo of Jude Kelly, hosting WOW. Jude Kelly has spent a lifetime creating spaces where people come together to listen, challenge one another and imagine a better future. Long before she founded WOW – Women of the World,…
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: Photo of Rosie Greatorex, Executive Director, Rio Cinema. For more than a century, the Rio Cinema has stood on Kingsland High Street, but its greatest achievement isn’t simply surviving – it’s remaining one of London’s most fiercely independent…
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…