Icon of the Week: Eddie Whittingham
Eddie Whittingham is the owner of Common Ground, a community-focussed social enterprise that, in exchange for purchasing a coffee, provides work and leisure space for Oxford’s residents. It is a sunny Michaelmas morning as I lock my bike outside Common Ground on Little Clarendon Street. Admitte
Chloe Chidume’s ‘Homage’: In conversation with Britain’s Best Young Artist
Chloe Chidume, 14 from Newcastle, won BBC’s Britain’s Best Young Artist 2023, making her the youngest artist to have had their work hung in the Tate. Her painting ‘Homage’ was selected by judges, Ricky Martin, Sadie Clayton, and Tate’s Director of Learning, Mark Miller. The piece l
Only Just: An Interview with No Love in the House of Gold
No Love in the House of Gold started as the liminal music project of Sam Cowell and Edward Spence, both from Sheffield, UK. What begun as a joke, the project has amassed millions of streams on Spotify, produced five albums, and currently boasts 200,000 monthly listeners. Sam, Edward, and I spoke via
Icon of the Week: Oliver Sworder
Oliver Sworder is a third-year biologist at Keble. He’s a campaigner with Just Stop Oil. What is your role with Just Stop Oil? So, I’m the local uni coordinator. I’m sort of making sure everything actually happens behind the scenes. How did you start working with them? I met Daniel Kno
The Allure of Black-and-White Cinema: A Recent Resurgence
Can embracing technological limitations bring us closer to our objectives in making art? Is engaging with the flaws of an artist’s medium the best way for them to transcend that medium? The filmmakers of today who are still working in black-and-white think so. Since colour film debuted in 1908 wit
Icon of the Week: Zak Machachi
Could you please introduce yourself? My name is Zak, I’m 25, I’m in the 3rd year of my chemistry DPhil, and I’m a trance DJ. How did you get into electronic music? My mum was pretty involved in the dance music scene back in the day, and so from a young age I would hear […]
The Gold Drawings: Evelyn De Morgan at Leighton House
As far as is known, Evelyn De Morgan made only seventeen ‘gold drawings’. Eleven of these are arranged along Leighton House’s basement gallery, tracing a filigree thread across the four dark walls. The room is low-ceilinged, and its walls are the same matte grey as the carefully selected woven
The Tolkien Brothers and their Shire: An Interview with Chris Tolkien
Chris Tolkien is J. R. R. Tolkien’s great-nephew, one of the few remaining relatives of Tolkien’s with first-hand memories of the writer. We meet at Chris’ garden nurseries just outside the Worcestershire town of Evesham, on the same plot of land that Hilary Tolkien bought when he moved to the
Community Facebook Pages are my Kardashians
“Did anyone hear strange noises at 4.00am this morning?” During one long night spent under the UV lights of Hertford’s (soon to be demolished) windowless library basement, I decided to join my local community Facebook page. In doing so, I hoped to feel the warm, albeit virtual, embrace of my s