Magazine

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For Eija Vehviläinen, art is a means of escape from everyday life. She talks to us about studying graphic design, working as a freelance illustrator, and her love of floral design.

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Using objects she finds on the beach near her home in Brighton, award-winning artist Faye Bridgwater creates energetic marks on large canvases. We talk to her about her colourful work, the Sussex coastline that inspires her, and her experience of life as an artist.

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Full of authentic texture and detail, Brighton-based artist Julia Trigg’s richly coloured collages are made from the vintage ephemera she’s been collecting for a lifetime.

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Illustrator-turned-painter Emma Brownjohn finds inspiration in momentary memories, from a line of a poem to a glimpse of a fluorescent jacket in a grey city. Join us as she shares her experience of life as an artist with us.

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Nick Gentry is known for his unique, subversive form of portraiture that treats the human form not as a subject in itself, but as a void to be filled with rich historic material. The bold conceptual roots of this work explore collective identity, consumer waste, pop culture and found art.

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Only since the 1970s, with increased interest in women artists and feminist scholarship, has Frida Kahlo reemerged as an international cult figure. A feminist heroine, she is admired around the world for her frankness about femininity and her emotional fortitude despite decades of unhappiness in love. 

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A small but impactful group of designers belong to the Polish School of Posters; a ground-breaking art movement established in the wake of the Second World War. We examine the joyful – and truly original – designs curated by Polish poster experts Projekt 26.

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Celebrated for his political activism, his philanthropy, and his creation of an artistic language that resonates with diverse audiences, street artist Keith Haring’s popularity endures today. We explore how he, as an unlikely college dropout shot to international fame in the 1980s.

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As one of the only American artists associated with both the Dada and Surrealist movements, Man Ray was a key figure in the rise of early twentieth-century avant-garde art. Join us as we take a look at his accomplished career and the events that led him to create a sculptural piece called La Poire d’Erik Satie. 

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Crisp and minimal, Jemma Appleby’s exquisite charcoal drawings are so finely executed that they have a velvet-like quality to them. Find out more about the interplay between light and shadow in her architectural drawings.

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During the outbreak of World War II, a small but influential group of artists flocked to a small fishing village on the western coast of Cornwall. Learn more about their pioneering abstract works.

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We reflect on the artworks that cemented the poster boy of Pop Art’s enduring celebrity around the world.