Sean Keenan, Author at Trebuchet

DYN: A Self-styled Rival to Surrealism’s Gaudy Dominance

23/06/2020

Farewell to Surrealism - The Dyn Circle in Mexico traces the attempts of artist Wolfgang Paalen to escape history and reshape experience from the unlikely location of Mexico City, during the Second...

Triple Threat: Charlotte Branson [Interview]

05/12/2017

In conversation with pop's brave new hope for hopeful, brave pop...

Live at Ronnie Scott’s: Nitin Sawhney

01/12/2017

Heavyweight vinyl, heavyweight venue, heavyweight talent...

A Last Minute Change of Heart (James Heather)

14/08/2017

James Heather's beguiling piano etude suggests interesting things to come on Ahead of Our Time records...

A dynasty of design: SHH Architects

01/08/2017

Generations of architectural elegance applied globally...

Building the Spirit: Steyn Studios (Architecture)

13/07/2017

Designing the spirit, Steyn Studio set an eye on the eternal ...

A Gravitas of Culture: Joseph Chidlaw (Interview)

24/05/2017

A new and vibrant voice in contemporary painting, Joseph Chidlaw talks to Trebuchet about his art and influences...

Look On My Works, Ye Mighty. And Grind.

19/04/2017

Buried hubris and follies of personality along southern France's Atlantikwall...

Unexpected, Imaginative Experiences… with Whalley Range All Stars

03/04/2017

Security stopped us because we Went Too Far.... Whalley Range All Stars prove the power of theatre...

Our job, as puppeteers, is to disappear: Frolicked Outdoor Puppet Theatre

16/03/2017

Puppetry has a quality that allows us, as puppeteers, to get very close to people...

Disbelief is right there all the time: Maynard Flip Flap

11/03/2017

Some audiences are horrible. Maynard Flip Flap's Rick Allen dares to voice the forbidden truth....

Art can provide a mirror to people’s lives: Company Chameleon

10/03/2017

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‘I’m sure she knew she was talking to a puppet’: The Flying Buttresses

04/03/2017

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaprebuchet applies its right to invoke Henson’s Law. (Henson’s Law: Even the world’s best CGI will look dated in a...

Emotional Journeys Beyond the Fourth Wall: Cirque Bijou

13/02/2017

Busy? Hell yeah! Embracing the moment and making an impact with Cirque Bijou...

Is It OK if I Take A Quick Shot? The Trials of Curation

06/02/2017

Art, controversy, exhibition. In introduction to the curator's metier...

Dedicated to the Bird We Love (Oriental Sunshine, Vinyl)

25/01/2017

Round Two records unearth a rare (and unlikely) Norwegian psychedelic folk sitar rock album. Yes they do....

Urban(e) Legends: Prodigal Theatre & The Urban Playground Team

16/01/2017

Fourth wall on the street? Not our style at all....

Documents of the Disturbed. Alva Bernadine, New Photography

31/12/2016

A very suburban sort of smut permeates Bernadine's latest series ...

Outside of the music, it’s a little quiet…. Dead Light (Interview)

15/11/2016

Dead Light, makers of 2016's intricate electro/ambient/classical apogee, discuss their debut album....

Heads Up For a Load of Hieronymous Bosch

27/08/2016

Sneaky September Madrid getaway? Add Bosch at the Prado for some cultural heft...

Monette Loza: Sculptures Monumentales, Hossegor (France)

20/08/2016

Freed from the confines of the gallery, sculpture trails offer an artist some room for manoeuvre...

Toto, We’re Not in Cannes: San Sebastian Film Festival

03/08/2016

A genuine cinematic showcase without the silicone and glass fibre of Cannes...

Une Femme Au Soleil: Montreuil Theatre, Avignon

16/07/2016

Searching for the mean streets amongst Avignon's pleasant boulevards...

Vinyl Rarities, No Cratedigging. Scandi Gems on Round Two Records

04/06/2016

Firebeats Inc., Undertakers' Circus and Kare and the Cavemen signal an untapped wealth of Norwegian rock...

Unwarmed. How The Last Frontier of Global Warming Stays Frosty

31/05/2016

Exploring the cold, sluggish band of deep ocean that resists the global meltdown...

Stylotone luxury vinyl edition of Khartoum 620

Soundtracking the Great Game: (Stylotone Vinyl Reissue of Khartoum)

28/05/2016

Frank Cordell's epic soundtrack receives a lavish vinyl reissue...

Grainy nihilist post-industrial ain’t what it was (Sonny Lanegan)

23/04/2016

Boasting some solid grooves, Sonny Lanegan's industrial rock is immersive, if not hugely original...

All Heroes Must Fall. Farewell to a Space Oddity (David Bowie)

12/01/2016

Bowie drew from the symbols and semiotics of myth, contemporising archetypes which have been crucial to humanity's concept of itself since time unrecorded....