Michael Isted, founder of The Herball, has a passion for botanical drinks and has worked with distinguished hotels and fashion labels around the world. Combining his skill for mixing beverages with his knowledge and understanding of plants, Michael created The Herball in 2012 to promote and celebrate the ways in which we can integrate plants…
Solid Light Works, running at The Hepworth Wakefield from 16 February to 3 June 2018, will be the first major UK exhibition of artist Anthony McCall in over a decade. Exploring all facets of his practice, the show includes the UK premiere of three “solid light” pieces. Known for his large-scale, immersive sculptural light installations…
The New Museum Triennial, opening 13 February, is the only recurring international exhibition in New York devoted to emerging artists from around the world. The event provides an important platform for a new generation of voices who are shaping the current discourse of contemporary art and the future of culture. Songs for Sabotage, the fourth…
Following several years working in kitchens across Europe, perhaps most formatively at Kobe Desramaults’ In de Wulf, Merlin Labron-Johnson was ready for a move to London. His first project, Portland, opened at the beginning of 2015 to critical acclaim, and the following summer Clipstone was born. Extraordinarily, Labron-Johnson received a Michelin star when he was…
Having established their London-based architectural studio MATHESON WHITELEY in 2012, Donald Matheson and Jason Whiteley’s completed projects include contemporary art galleries for Hollybush Gardens and Stuart Shave/Modern Art, offices for the fashion designers Peter Pilotto, and a feasibility study for a new rooftop gallery for London’s Science Museum. Currently working on a New York art…
Imagine spending your days gallivanting across the globe, with the sole purpose of adding to an archive of the world’s favourite everyday objects. Alisa Grifo and Marco ter Haar Romeny do just that with KIOSK, a roaming art and retail project they’ve run since 2005. The idea? Collect, share and sell the affordable household items…
Appointed as the Head of Fashion at London’s Royal College of Art back in 2014, designer Zowie Broach, a graduate of Plymouth College of Art and Middlesex University, first received acclaim for co-founding experimental fashion brand Boudicca. Set-up in 1997 with her partner Ben Kirkby, the line became recognised for its non-conformist approach, both in…
Known for being able to transform chaotic streets into reflective spaces, Robert Montgomery’s text art brings out the thoughts of the city’s collective unconscious through his billboard poems, dramatic light pieces or ephemeral fire hoardings. Responding to the psychogeography of Old Street, where elements such as William Blake’s grave coexist with a neo-liberalist architecture that…