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Women in Revolt! - Art for More Than ‘Art’s Sake’ | Nour Ghannam
How does art shape the political? Is it really true that art is ‘for art’s sake’? The way in which art and artists engage with the...
May 7, 20246 min read


Literary Intertextuality in Emerald Fennel’s Saltburn | Chloe Joyce
Emerald Fennel's unhinged class thriller 2023 film Saltburn, follows scholarship student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) who befriends the...
Jan 22, 20245 min read

Smells like Teen Spirit | Nour Ghannam, Salma Amin
How does music shape our adolescent experience? In the words of Katrina McFerran of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, “the way that...
Dec 5, 20234 min read


Van Gogh: Madman or Genius? | Fela Callahan
Van Gogh’s art was one of the first to particularly resonate with me. I remember going into my secondary school library to take books...
Mar 24, 20235 min read


Thoughts on The National Opera's Tosca | Luna Hills
Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ tells the tragic story of opera singer Floria Tosca, who fights to save her lover, the lone artist Cavaradossi, from...
Nov 6, 20222 min read


What is a portrait?-Looking at Donald Rodney's 'A Land of Milk and Honey II' | Aliya Mueller-Koegler
What exactly makes an artwork a portrait? The Tate defines it as ‘a representation of a particular person’, whereas the Merriam Webster...
Oct 2, 20223 min read


Swimming Upstream: David Hammons’ Revolutionary Art | Renee Bel-Momodu
Emerging as a key figure in the landscape of American art over the last fifty years, David Hammons’ heterogeneous practice has...
Dec 13, 20213 min read


The Sinister Revolution of Punk Rock | Irine Teneishvili
Influenced by the dissent against authorities voiced by psychedelic rock in the 1960s and characterised by Jim Morrison’s transcendent,...
Nov 22, 20214 min read


‘Story telling is a political act’ – Polly Creed’s Lecture | Mia Spiller
On Tuesday 16th November, Polly Creed gave a lecture on Art and Activism- Making Politically Engaged Theatre & Film. During the talk she...
Nov 18, 20212 min read

60s Body Art: A Cultural Fad or a Feminist Revolution? | Eve Scott
Emanating in the counterculture of the liberated 60s, the phenomenon of body art marked a dramatic upheaval of the portrayal of the self....
Nov 18, 20215 min read


Looking back on Carols at St Margaret’s | Rhiana Thomas
Last Monday guests flocked to st Margarets church for an evening of Christmas cheer. I was in the choir, right in the midst of the action...
Dec 10, 20191 min read


‘Grief is the Thing with Feathers’ by Max Porter. A review of one of the decade’s most i
Told through chaotic and unconventional prose, ‘Grief is the Thing with feathers’ explores grief felt after the loss of a loved one and...
Nov 25, 20191 min read


Why ‘Animals’ Is A Masterpiece | Jacob Seager
Continuing on my first review of ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’, I have decided to write about my favourite album of all time, also by Pink...
Mar 13, 20192 min read


English Literature: What does it mean to today’s youth?|Aashna Shaikh & Alaa El-Hannach
Photograph: Queen Alexandra Sixth Form In the UK, the number of students studying A-Level English Literature has been in decline, with...
Feb 14, 20193 min read


Understanding ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ – Pink Floyd | Jacob Seager
Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ is one of the most famous and best-selling albums of all time. A flagship release of the progressive...
Sep 12, 20183 min read


the day I saw the rainbow rise | Krizzel Mapaye
(note: this is going to be a personal outlook on my experiences of the Pride Parade; the experience is different for everyone who comes...
Aug 11, 20182 min read


11 Artists you are not listening to – why? | Yinka Aresa
I recently discovered a new band that are now my favorite band in the world. But the thing is that they are so talented it’s gross and...
Mar 11, 20183 min read


This ‘feeling’ | Anonymous
Am I being stupid? It’s almost been over a year and I am still unable to overcome this feeling- a feeling that I can’t describe, a...
Mar 3, 20182 min read


Spoken Word Review-Alchemy Nights | Mia Kitty Barbe-Willson
Alchemy Nights @ Looking Glass Cocktail Club on Hackney Road Alchemy Nights are a collective of singers and spoken word/poetry performers...
Feb 25, 20181 min read

“You know how you feel when you don’t know how you feel? That’s how I feel.” | Ariella Raz
Like the two emotions you feel are intersecting but there’s no exact way of describing it, so your mind gets confused. You’re confused...
Feb 12, 20181 min read
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