New York-based Rita Ackermann is a contemporary Hungarian-born American painter, celebrated for her abstract, corporal works touching on notions of anthropomorphism and femininity. Often featuring nymph-like women and allusions to fairy tales, her paintings examine adolescent ennui through a particular language of gestural mark-making. Born in 1968 in Budapest, Hungary, she studied at the Hungarian…
In 2016, London’s Southbank Centre announced Bengi Ünsal’s appointment as its new Senior Contemporary Music Programmer. Leaving her previous role as Director of Salon at the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, she leads on programming Southbank Centre’s wider gigs programme, including the arts centre’s hallmark contemporary music festival, Meltdown, and a new late-night electronic…
Arranging and rearranging abstract installations composed of collected scraps and everyday items has earned Cathy Wilkes recognition from art institutions internationally, and now an appointment by the British Council to fill the British Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019, running from 11 May to 29 November. Wilkes’ solo exhibition at the British Pavilion…
Interior architect, furniture designer and art director Sussy Cazalet was born in London, where she works on a range of personal and commissioned projects in her home-turned studio, established in 2012. Soft colours, natural patterns, and organic materials are central to Cazalet’s interior designs – her distinctive aesthetic being “the 70s meet Japan.” She told…
Visitors to the Whitney Biennial last year were left feeling stunned and disturbed by a virtual reality installation, entitled “Real Violence”. The piece, though preluded by an over-18 age restriction and a warning, invited viewers to don a VR headset and noise-cancelling headphones to watch its creator beat a man to death on a Manhattan…
Bred in the world of fashion with both her father and brother active in the industry, Alice Casely-Hayford has been named Digital Editor of British Vogue. This is a new role at the evolving publication under Edward Enninful’s stewardship, who she began reporting to this week. As the head of the Vogue digital team, Casely-Hayford is…
The story of Luke Brooks and James Theseus Buck meeting is unconventional, aptly setting the tone for their offbeat fashion label Rottingdean Bazaar. Though Brooks and Buck were both students at Central Saint Martins, they were two years apart and only knew of each other vaguely, through mutual friends. It was their body hair that…
Pushing your way through the hordes of tourists and day-trippers on a Saturday afternoon, it’s nearly impossible to imagine Brick Lane deserted. However, Lulu Kennedy nostalgically remembers a time when Shoreditch was a “ghost town” and the now flourishing fashion scene was still in its humble origins. 20 years on, Kennedy is the figurehead of…