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Expensive Materials

17/03/2021

To what extent do materials dictate the end price of the artwork?...

Matt Berninger - Serpentine Prison - Limited Edition Print

Trebuchet x Matt Berninger (The National) Ltd. Edition Print

16/03/2021

Trebuchet and Matt Berninger (The National) collaborate on a limited edition print in celebration of the deluxe release of Serpentine Prison...

Things: Gail Olding

10/03/2021

An excerpt from Trebuchet 9 : Materials. Conceptual Artist Gail Olding on the use of things. ...

Invisibility and Everything to All: Gavin Turk

05/03/2021

I think one of the interesting things about art as a project for me, is that I am trying to chase down ideas of reality or truth. Or the human condition...

Spectral Illuminations

24/01/2021

Light and perception experiments in the work of Barbara Kasten...

The Edge of Perception: An Interview with Kenturah Davis

24/01/2021

LA-based artist Kenturah Davis speaks to Millie Walton about her layered approach to image making and challenging conventional ways of seeing...

Faye Toogood’s Assembled Artworks at NGV Triennial

19/12/2020

As the NGV Triennial opens in Melbourne, participating artist Faye Toogood discusses light, materiality and how the Dutch Masters inspired her installations...

Painting the Collective: An Interview with Nengi Omuku

04/12/2020

As Nengi Omuku’s solo exhibition 'Gathering' reopens in London, the artist discusses how her interest in crowds was inspired by protests in Nigeria and her own isolation ...

Shot To Fame: Remembering Terry O’Neill

16/11/2020

'One Year On' Box Galleries highlights the late photographer Terry O'Neill's eternal talent. ...

Glitching Antinous_Chronometric Sculpture_Marjan Moghaddam_2018

The Digital Journey of Marjan Moghaddam

28/09/2020

Marjan Moghaddam is a digital pioneer whose work has stayed true to the revolutionary premise art should never be wholly expected....

Dominic Harris: Life as Art as Interaction

21/09/2020

Digital artist Dominic Harris creates beautiful work that captures the viewer’s attention with precise detail and vibrant colour, but it is only as we move closer that they come to life. ...

The Surrealist Practice of Twenty-First Century Populism

14/09/2020

‘Surreal’ is a word that many increasingly reach for, a (hopelessly inadequate) description for the daily cavalcade of cataclysmic and bizarre events we’re confronted by....

Tullio Crali Roarings of an Aeroplane, 1927 (Rombi d’aereo) Watercolour on paper 21 x 29 cm

Decoding our Futurist longings in the work of Tullio Crali

07/09/2020

An exploration of the talent, impact and vision of futurist aeropainter Tullio Crali...

Material Bodies Moving in Space

31/08/2020

The fabric of being in the work of Daisy Collingridge. An interview with a unique artists whose multimedia work combines, psychology, theatre, performance, and installation....

The Massurreal Deconstruction of Prof. Nadia Wahdan

24/08/2020

Interview with multimedia artist Prof. Nadia Wahdan. ...

Lovecraft, AI, and the Limits of Human Imagination

10/08/2020

The question highlights the field of discourse for how humans work with AI-generated content...

Screen Grabs and Future Constructs in the Work of Ian Francis

03/08/2020

Prismatic Reality Distortions: An intervirew with Painter Ian Francis. ...

The Roots and Ramifications of Boundaries

27/07/2020

Surrealist Lessons in Freedom of Speech. The Roots and Ramifications of Boundaries...

Massurrealism: Coining a Term, Founding a Movement

24/07/2020

Multi-platform, multi-media, post-modern and New York! An interview with the founder of Massurrealism James Seehafer on pop art technology and the future....

The Art Market and Surrealism

20/07/2020

Collecting Surrealism? There's so much choose from at an auction near you, wherever you are. Notes on the Art Market. ...

Surrealism, Over, Yet Everywhere: Mica McDonald and Sofia Mitsola

13/07/2020

“And now consider how passing a child on a swingCalling higher, higherCan bring back all that tender trauma of childhoodRealising that we don’t leave the past behindBut that it leaves...

Benji Reid: Beyond This Space

06/07/2020

The transcendent choreo-photolist work of Benji Reid...

Benji Reid announced as cover artist for Trebuchet Eight

02/07/2020

No gravity, upward visions. Manchester artist Benji Reid announced as cover artist for Trebuchet Eight: Contemporary Surrealism...

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...

Bartholomew Beal (1989-2019)

18/06/2020

Beal passed on Boxing Day 2019, aged 30. His legacy is an incredible body of work from 2012 onwards, and an outstanding inspiration to his contemporaries. ...

Blaxploitation and Black Beauty: Mickalene Thomas – beautés du mois

14/05/2020

This essay looks at the conception of black beauty in the 70s in terms of contemporary art. Mickalene Thomas' work draws upon popular culture and makes beautiful paintings from it....

After the hunt, 1870, by David Neal (1838-1915)

If the Lion Could Speak (…)

11/05/2020

This essay argues that animals are not so minded as to have language. Whilst they exhibit proto-typically linguistic calls, these never amount to exhibiting something like the structure of a language...