by Hannah Kane | Oct 6, 2014 | Culture
The 2014 Turner Prize exhibition opened this week at the Tate Britain. Showcasing the shortlist of nominees: Duncan Campbell, Ciara Phillips, James Richards, and Tris Vonna-Michell… This year’s collection of work is heavily weighted towards film and video, and...
by Hannah Kane | Oct 3, 2014 | Culture
PHOENIX’s assistant editor Mary-Jane Wiltsher gets a glimpse of acclaimed artist Hormazd Narielwalla’s cutting-strewn world to talk cubism, anatomy in art, and childhood memories of India… Crafting our GODS & MONSTERS issue spurred questions of...
by Hannah Kane | Oct 2, 2014 | Culture
We’ve taken creative image-making technology to new plains and now, proud of our achievements, we’ve printed the outcome on paper and created a good old fashioned book… Exploring and exploiting the boundaries between professional and run-of-the-mill...
by Hannah Kane | Oct 1, 2014 | Culture
The psychotropic brew used by the indigenous peoples of the Amazon can heal mental, and in some cases terminal, illness… as long as you’re prepared to take a long, hard trip The first time I drank ayahuasca I saw God, the second time I saw monsters. Let...
by Hannah Kane | Sep 30, 2014 | Culture
Illustrators Quentin Blake and Posy Simmonds discuss The Big Draw, a creative project that intends to get people drawing in public spaces across the globe Quentin Blake and Posy Simmonds are two of the UK’s most beloved – and most eclectic –...
by Hannah Kane | Sep 25, 2014 | Culture
As 20,000 Days On Earth recalls 56 years of Nick Cave, it seemed fitting to view the wry luminary’s most recent film on his 57th birthday, in the town he calls home: Brighton. The film is an ode to that place, in as much as it’s an ode to Cave’s...
