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The Poorly Recorded Perfection of Mystic Priestess Anarcho-queer Siouxsie and the Banshees acolytes Mystic Priestess are a hook-laden, fishnet-wearing, smudged-lipstick outfit with more attitude than a wink at a funeral.

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In Sight of History

Burt Kwouk – John Claridge [dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]T[/dropcap]he era of media production has reached a knowing end of innocence.

The naïve and perhaps innocent flair of work created in the ’60s and ’70s seems to have exhausted itself culturally. The almost flippant monolithic nature of those large pronouncements seems impossibly innocent to us. That you could work in…

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Twin Temple a coven of virtue, a covenant of sacred sin.

Twin Temple a coven of virtue, a covenant of sacred sin.

[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]A[/dropcap]gainst the darkness of London’s January, concerts provide a communion for the rock fan starved of cheer.

Broke and despondent, how many of us spend the short days dragging ourselves from rank employment to bed and back? Too many and too deeply. We need release, we need joyous bats to scream and flap against the night sky, we need to Rock…

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Growing an Identity

[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]B[/dropcap]ll artists search for a personal language of expression through which to express a perspective.

Portraiture is not excluded from this statement because of its need to encapsulate the essence of its subject, rather it has a particular need for the language to represent the perspective of the artist with an honesty so that the subject is…

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Novatines - The Fear

Novatines – The Fear



So begins the new decade of flannel… 2020 the expectant year when time and  guitar coalesce into a jingly roar of twin turbine indie. Of particular note is that rare beast the Charvel Surfcaster guitar which despite being popularised by Scott Ian (Anthrax) and Steve Cropper never found a lasting audience. With it’s unique looks and shred pedigree this odd gem never truly graced many second hand…

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Symbolic Awards

Father with Partner by Marco Krauwinkel, 2018 © Marco Krauwinkel

“The BP Portrait Award is the most prestigious portrait painting competition in the world and represents the very best in contemporary portrait painting. With a first prize of £35,000, and a total prize fund of £74,000, the Award is aimed at encouraging artists to focus upon and develop portraiture in their work. Over the years,…

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Making Light Work

[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]T[/dropcap]he candle is not lit / To give light, but to testify to the night – Robert Bly

Light still has the power to compel and great art has been characterised by its relationship to that which reveals and in revealing, teaches. If darkness is the unknown then light is the teacher. We are manifest in knowledge and disappear without definition.…

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Photographic Reality

2013 Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, India – Justin Hession

[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]W[/dropcap]hen Louise-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre demonstrated Daguerreotype in 1839 painting was forever changed.

As Dominique de Font-Réaulx reveals in his book Painting and Photography: 1839-1914(2012) there is more to say “on the manner in which photography gave rise to a paradigm of representation…

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Nieto welcomes you to 2020

Nieto welcomes you to 2020

Paris based artist Nieto has a message for you… and it features Ants and Cars

“Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from wasp-like ancestors in the Cretaceous period, about 140 million years ago, and diversified after the rise of flowering plants. More than 12,500 of an estimated total of…

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Brains and Being

[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]W[/dropcap]hat do we capture in a portrait? What facet of being, of identity that we recognise, makes this work of art specific and revelatory?

Over the course of her far-reaching artistic career Luciana Haill has investigated these questions by looking at the means through which our perceptions reflect the unique equilibriums of our sensory…

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Portraits in Photography, Film and Drawing

Portraits in Photography, Film and Drawing

When you’re trying to make a portrait of somebody you know well, you have to forget and forget until what you see astonishes you. Indeed, at the heart of any portrait which is alive, there is registered an absolute surprise surrounded by close intimacy. I’ll certainly be misunderstood but I’ll take a risk and say: to make a portrait is like fucking. (Berger, 2013: 160)

Such is the collaboration,…

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Saucy, Piquant, With a Faustian Aftertaste

Saucy, Piquant, With a Faustian Aftertaste

[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]C[/dropcap]an there be a last version of Faust?

It’s a story with a long history and each generation has their own crucibles of pact and compromise. In Philipp Humm’s Expressionist exploration, The Last Faust(drawing, poems, film, and more), we are offered a contemporary take presenting itself via the narcissistic media of our age: social media and…

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Trebuchet Talks Events Homepage

Trebuchet Talks Events Homepage

[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]S[/dropcap]ince 2017 Trebuchet talks is an ongoing series of events in run by Trebuchet magazine.

Bringing together leading artists, scientists, and activists in front of a fractious audience the aim of the Trebuchet talks is to increase the community of active thinkers by providing a forum for discussion.

Archives of these talks can be found as po…

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Heaven's Above in Celestial Promise

Heaven’s Above in Celestial Promise

[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]I[/dropcap] like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence…

I think. I mean, they’re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend…I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don’t last; and stars and galaxies are…

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Mixed Media: The Christmas Song of Emily Maitlis & Fiona Banner

Mixed Media: The Christmas Song of Emily Maitlis & Fiona Banner

[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]A[/dropcap] fitting coda to the end of dark year newsreader Emily Maitlis and artist Fiona Banner have presented us with a song.

As a take on our times the news still has the vestiges of objective truth, if paper thin and a nostalgic trope, there is something in the urgent delivery that stands us to attention as we soak up the truthy dialogue.

Whet…

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The Finer Details of History

The Finer Details of History

A Throne in the West – M. Pironti

[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]W[/dropcap]hy the charge against photorealism? The province of child prodigies, technical masters and those considered savants Photorealism is a tag which signifies a great deal.

The quest for a photographic level of realism in painting is usually shunned by expressive artists who aim to present a view of the world…

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The Ghost Inside the Artist

The Ghost Inside the Artist

Trace Exhibition – Patrick Tresset

[dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”]P[/dropcap]aul’ has been described as an arm, a desk, a fairly simple robot, curious, imperfect, a medium, and perhaps ‘The Artist’.

In appearance, he’s a roughly articulated robotic armature attached to a desk holding a pen, and is controlled by a computer. Whatever wishes he’s capable of don’t come into the…