Contemporary Classics
I Love Dick’s Cover Is a Deliberately No-Frills Public Transport Provocateur
This was a book that seemed almost impossible to ignore. But its wild popularity was in no small part due to Peter Dyer’s genius cover design.
Sara Anstis Celebrates Female Sexuality with Humour and Tenderness
“Nudity isn’t always erotic but the nudity in my drawings usually is”
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John Walter Owes More to Punk and DIY Culture Than Art School
The London-based artist delights in veering from naff pop-culture references to serious studies into the HIV virus. Maximalist to the core, his work is a joy to behold.
Studio Visit
6a architects on Designing for Galleries and Artists
The much-lauded practice has a knack for creating remarkable spaces, ranging from the recent South London Gallery extension to Juergen Teller’s photography studio.
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The Design Studio that Wants to “Reconnect People to Creativity”
Hato Studio isn’t just nifty with a risograph printer: underscoring all their output is a drive for “co-creation”, inspired by Japanese culture and the Arts + Crafts movement.
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Theodora Allen’s Ghostly Paintings Hark Back to the Middle Ages
The American painter’s latest body of ethereal works reference the plants that contributed to the first widely used anaesthetics.
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James Shaw Makes Domesticity Look Strangely Sexy
Odd sounds emanate from James Shaw’s studio, housed inside a landmark of London’s Brutalist architecture. The RCA graduate’s quirky design ideas are all cooked up here.
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Bettina Samson’s Paris Studio Is a Maze-Like Utopia
Getting lost in byways of her studio complex to the north-east of Paris, sculptor Bettina Samson finds a perfect reflection of her own transformative process.
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Jonathan Trayte’s Technicolour Sculptures Are Strange and Sexy
In Jonathan Trayte’s delightfully bonkers work, you are as likely to discover a giant bronze vegetable as you are a neon-lit palm tree.
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The Painter Documenting London’s Social Housing
Frank Laws peers through the windows of housing estates to uncover the interior lives within. The tables are turned on him as he opens up his London studio.
