Matt Gale’s work examines systems and relationships, exploring unusual or unexpected pairings of partners as a means to reference the queerness of the natural world…
Practice-Based: Quilting the Lesbian Archive, Sarah-Joy Ford
I stand in cold stacks. My hands run over the pale green boxes scored with pencil marks. I rummage…
Adejoke Tugbiyele’s Hybrid Forms and Second-Skins
Adejoke Tugbiyele describes her practice as ‘hybrid’; reflected in both her approach to making and the physical forms that manifest in many of her works…
The Charleston Doll’s House: “A home for whoever you want to be.”
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. This well-known aphorism can be easily applied to Lot Kessels’ Charleston Doll’s House, a miniaturised rendering of the historic East-Sussex home associated with the Bloomsbury Group…
LJ Roberts’ Queer Epics
Daniel Fountain speaks to LJ here about the relationships between craft, identity and queer theory, and how this manifests itself in their practice…
Spotlight: Oz Bender’s Deconstructive Craft
Our spotlight this month is the emerging mixed-media artist Osgood (Oz) Bender who uses craft and material processes as a foundation to explore concepts of body modification…
Excerpt from LOTE by Shola von Reinhold
Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinhold’s decadent queer literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics and beauty, while interrogating the removal and obscurement of Black figures from history…
Editorial 7: Crafting the Body
The physical, bodily processes of crafting go (often literally) hand in hand with artistic creation…
‘The Party’: A response
You always have to have something to do at a party, whether it’s performing or hiding. (I’ll try out my wink)…
Exhibition Review: Aria – Tomás Saraceno
Tomás Saraceno’s installation work at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi seeks to introduce the viewer to climate activism by serving gorgeously engorged balls, plant-filled terrariums, and aero-dynamic light displays…
Review: Tools for Life – Johanna Unzueta
‘I grew up working with my hands’, recalls Johanna Unzueta. ‘My mum always said I learned to weave and knit before I learned to read and write. Hands are tools for me and I can’t disconnect that’…
“JE EST UN AUTRE” by Violetta Liszka
Violetta Liszka’s project harnesses wire sculpture, photography and poetry to explore the boundaries between human interiority and the exterior forces that shape emotional and bodily experience…
Spotlight: Private views & hidden beauty in Xuan Ma’s jewellery
Xuan Ma offers new perspectives on the ways in which the human body interacts with design and craft. By using mirrored metal surfaces and straight lines that run alongside the curves of the body, abstract parts of the human body are reflected and made visible…
Nude Me: Enam Gbewonyo
Artist, curator and founder of the Black British Female Artist Collective, Enam Gbewonyo is an exciting talent in fibre art; working at the boundaries between craft and fine art, her multimedia practice weaves new narratives of identity and belonging that counter stereotypes of race and gender…
‘The Feminine Mistake’ by Giacinta Frisillo
In the United States’ poor excuse for a health care system, a ‘pre-existing condition’ is a medical condition that began before a person’s health coverage went into effect…
