Category: Art

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

Emma Sywyj: Royal Wedding

01/04/2012

Emma Swywj's reportage from the most recent royal wedding updates iconic imagery of British celebrations. Photographer Emma Sywyj talked to Trebuchet last month. On her methods for shooting the...

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Trace Elements: The Others

27/03/2012

I caught the closing minutes of a TV property show last night. A couple had chosen (for couple, read girlfriend) the new home they were going to move into, with the main criteria being she wanted a...

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Loitered Lens: Icarus Line

25/03/2012

A band at their peak in full force… Icarus Line burns up the stage.  Icarus Line are becoming the new band to catch this season. Supporting Killing Joke on the 8th of March at the...

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Trace Elements: iLove

20/03/2012

Neuroscience reveals the brain’s love pleasure chemicals are usually released for 1½ to 3 years max. In other words, being in love should last you roughly as long as your next mobile...

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Emma Sywyj: Interiors

18/03/2012

'The work was born out of a photography project I started at university. 'At the time I was moving every year to a new accommodation, from halls to shared houses. This is the way when...

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Bill Drummond Presents: SURROUND: Damascus in London

15/03/2012

Bill Drummond - My Arab Spring - Part Two...

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Trace Elements: Mars & Venus, Mum or Dad?

13/03/2012

There are countries where little boys and little girls grow up to marry their mums and dads. The UK is one of them. It may sound wrong, very wrong, but it’s human nature. So that includes you....

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Loitered Lens: Killing Joke

12/03/2012

Photos of Killing Joke at the Roundhouse in March 2012...

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Rashid Rana: NAE at Hyson Green

12/03/2012

Rashid Rana’s: Everything Is Happening At Once ...

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Polymath

10/03/2012

Polymath, 14th April 2012, GV Art Gallery, 49 Chiltern Street, Marylebone, London W1U 6LY ....

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Trace Elements: Romance

06/03/2012

When writing fictional characters, a basic rule is females say it, males show it. In the real world this reveals itself most dramatically when men and woman date, then stop. He’ll often just...

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Loitered Lens: Various Cruelties [PICS]

04/03/2012

Various Cruelties at the 100 Club. Photos of a sold-out gig...

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Emma Sywyj, Photographer: Interview

02/03/2012

Photographer Emma Sywyj has a wry approach to her craft. Sean Keenan interviews Emma Sywyj about her photography and travelling in the UK. ...

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Transition Gallery’s ‘First Thursdays’

29/02/2012

As we approach the end of February, the galleries of East London start buzzing in anticipation for the First Thursday of the month – the day it all happens. I talk to the Director of Transition...

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Trace Elements: Trying it on

28/02/2012

Picture a clothes shop: A customer walks in, eyes a garment, tries it on, says they love it, tells the assistant they’ll definitely be back tomorrow to buy. They’re never seen again....

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Tate Modern: Yayoi Kusama

22/02/2012

A review of Yayoi Kusama 2011 Tate show by UK artist Nicola Anthony...

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Trace Elements: Can I Have A Word?

21/02/2012

Several months back at an advertising agency I won’t mention (coughs Billington Cartmell) I was pitching potential straplines for a Panasonic camera campaign. Its artwork featured a suited City...

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Loitered Lens: Saxon [Pics]

19/02/2012

One of the leading bands in the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Saxon bring the denim and leather good-times once again!  Wikipedia, is a consensual tool where people build myths, there are...

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LS Lowry at Nottingham Lakeside

15/02/2012

Shooting the White Elephant Like an understanding that only those of us affected would realise (viz., the changing tide and motion, moving beyond motive and motivation, holding kindness and...

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Loitered Lens: Steve Dior [Pics]

12/02/2012

Sid Vicious's last bandmate standing, Steve Dior performs an intimate show, captured live by Trebuchet photographer Carl Batson.  Carl Byron BatsonPhotographer, published poet, former party...

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Trace Elements: Catch My Pitch

07/02/2012

Picture this: An Oscar-winning super producer, a TV network super suit, their brand new Central London indie offices, and me in the hot seat (it’s still warm from the legendary actor...

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Loitered Lens: Bethia Beadman [Pics]

05/02/2012

Bethia Beadman, A chanteuse in a strip club, g-string jokes don't get more apt than this, nor voices as sweet.   She has a great website you should investigate. All images Copyright Carl...

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Hockney at the Royal Academy

04/02/2012

How David Hockney’s work nearly got me laid There is only one option. Just walk in. I make it a mere metre inside the front door of the gallery and, “errrr-hummmm, excuse me, have you got...

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IMPRINT at the Serpentine Gallery 2012

02/02/2012

The Fabelists – coming together to launch an event that crossed many boundaries.Serpentine Gallery’s Centre for Possible Studies, 21 Gloucester Place, 
London W1U 8HR...

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Trace Elements: Namedropping

31/01/2012

Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Robert Pattinson Name-drop a celebrity in a digital headline and extra clicks are guaranteed. They’re like the sugar that tempts mouse-holders to nibble at your...

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Loitered Lens: Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones [Pics]

29/01/2012

Bill Wyman may never live his larger than celebrity life with the Rolling Stones down. And he probably doesn't want to. But putting aside his great interest in metal detectors, his other love is...

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Ernesto Neto: Spaces of Transformation, Edges of the World

28/01/2012

Ernesto Neto is a quirky and charismatic artist who has fascinated me with his tactile, porous artworks for years. His talk for ‘Topology at Tate Modern’ began with a lyrical wordplay on...

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Trace Elements: Marketing Copy

24/01/2012

“How old are you? And are you married with children?” I was asked by a potential client last week in Canary Wharf. My top of the range anti-wrinkle cream allowed me to subtract vainly for...

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Savage Nomads. Carl Batson

Loitered Lens: Savage Nomads

22/01/2012

The Savage Nomads are a great London band that have been doing good things and making the right sort of noise. Our man Carl Batson likes these kids. He knows their habits, he watches their styles...

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Trace Elements: Off Course

17/01/2012

I used to live across the street from Hamburger University, where McDonalds teach staff the innermost secrets of the McMuffin, Happy Meals and Going Large. Unusually for a seat of learning, it was...

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