“I’ve been dreaming so much recently”, Danielle Swindells says. “I’ve been dreaming about people who used to be in my life who have passed away”. She pauses.  “I dream that one day, we all meet again. Something like that”.   Brit Seaton smiles. The two artists are old friends who met whilst at different universities in…

“Things are going pretty well at the moment”, Tarek Lakhrissi tells me over the phone as he leaves his Paris studio. He’s getting ready for an upcoming solo show titled ‘I wear my wounds on my tongue’ which opens in two weeks at Kevin Space in Vienna. The installation draws from the work of queer…

Commemorative plates, which almost exclusively recall royal weddings, coronations and jubilees, are often associated with dusty charity shops or antique dealers. Manchester School of Art graduate Martha Tayler subverts these expectations in her ceramic artworks, replacing royal babies with imagery that reflects modern pop culture such as Stomzy’s ‘Heavy is the Head’ album cover and…

On Juneteenth last year, a day commemorating the emancipation of African American people from slavery, members of St James Parish gathered at the Buena Vista burial site in Louisiana. A video posted to YouTube shows mourners clutching bouquets of flowers whilst others hold black umbrellas to protect them from the hot sun. The group had…