A Day at the Zine Fair
Several versions of Zayn Malik’s disembodied head pout at me from a pile of old Vogue copies, The Guardian’s Feast magazine, printed stills from Bend It Like Beckham, Pritt Sticks, left-handed scissors and stacks of multi-coloured paper. I pick out a particularly sulky portrait from Malik’s q
Review: Thamesis
It’s midsummer: night’s veil is at its thinnest, the boundary between reality and magic at its most porous. Thamesis, a queer solo show written and performed by Nathaniel Jones and directed by Leah Aspden, plays out under the blue light of the riverbed. Taking us with him on his winding course t
Review: OUFF Short Film Festival 2023
Set 1: Absurd and Experimental (Monday, 30th January) By Coco Cottam The first night of OUFF’s Short Film Festival did not disappoint. Themed Absurd and Experimental, each of the four films screened shared a desire to provoke. Personal highlights included DaVinci (Hugo Max and Bora Rex), a film th
Repatriation and Reconnection: An Interview with Saba Qizilbash
Saba Qizilbash is an excellent storyteller, which is fitting for an artist whose work is so concerned with narrative, from the interrogating and reworking of old narratives to weaving together new ones from the fragments of neglected histories. Burrowed into a corner of Blackwells’ Caffè Nero, sh
Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism
Sophia Fuseli burned her husband’s drawings. Of the tossed sheaves, around fifty were spared and temporarily decorate the walls of the Courtauld Gallery. Each page is a giddy mass of penwork – confident strokes of graphite and washes of pale ink – so that Henry Fuseli’s (1741-1825) sketches
Artist of the Week: Bora Rex
Bora Rex is, in his own words, a maker. Tell us a bit about yourself. I personally find it difficult to talk about myself as an artist, even though that’s probably close to true. Balancing a creative practice alongside work at Oxford really makes you weigh things up. It also makes you wary of
Review: Every Brilliant Thing
How do we know what makes life worth living? By making it our mission to find out, to notice and write down the small things: a colour, a song, an interaction with someone you love. ‘Every Brilliant Thing’, the one-woman play by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe, sets out to do just this. This