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Image shows Drawing by Ken Turner of an Action Space environment

Ken Turner: The Oldest Performance Artist In The World (probably) — Part III

03/03/2025

'It was hilarious. I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw the Queen coming.' Veteran performance artist and painter Ken Turner recalls high (and low) times from his Action Space project....

Book cover of Philosophy of the Home by Emanuele Coccia

The Home and the Heart — Apart at Last

12/06/2024

Theory meets anecdote in philosopher Emanuele Coccia’s new work....

The Gift of Surprise in the Community

12/11/2023

Emphasising the ‘public’ in public art initiatives...

Septuplet: How Art Can Nurture Radical Urban Immersion

04/05/2023

Embedded within our individual experience of life is the notion of consumption and presence, by which the parameters of human experience can be constructed (as much as it could be disrupted)....

Chantal Meza, Fragments of a catastrophe XIII. 2018

Do We Need a New Definition of Violence? Brad Evans on Art and Technology Pt 2

06/02/2023

Part two of Trebuchet's interview with Philosopher Brad Evans on violence, history and contemporary life. ...

Chantal Powell, Blood Moon (2021) Damian Griffiths

Primordial Whispers at Arusha Gallery

17/12/2021

An epistemological exhibition on forbidden philosophies, folk knowledge and intuitive spirits via Arusha Gallery...

The Small Infinite

14/07/2021

The gallery as a material is a place-holder and steward of sense, constantly exchanging the outside and the inside....

Concrete Art 1: Colour As Material

05/05/2021

The distinction between primary and secondary qualities, as provided by John Locke, tells us that secondary qualities are accessible only to one mode of perception...

Hannah Arendt As Inspiration

30/10/2020

Gallery builds entire 2021 programme around late political philosopher Hannah Arendt...

Embodying Art

16/07/2020

What is female identity in 2020? Multidisciplinary artist, Sofia Cianciulli, reconnects with her own sense of self and femininity through her practice....

William Kentridge In Praise of Shadows

03/10/2019

The pursuit of truth should not lead us to totalitarian certainty and William Kentridge proposes that art practice is the key to holding illusion and insight in balance. ...

Is God Dead? Ben Caplan Takes Stock

18/09/2019

The sense of historical evolution removes from us a responsibility of safeguarding the hard-won victories of the last 100 years... interview with Hirsute folksinging historian Ben Caplan ...

Escape to Berlin: A Travel Memoir

05/12/2018

Adrian Piper, on Personal Identity, Art and Teaching...

Philosophy and The God of Bleak Things

01/07/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;A/dropcap Russian Oligarch has written a philosophy book he hopes will turn out to be a best seller, writes Matthew Moore, Media Correspondent in The...