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ARTS AND LITERATURE
Editor: Zoe Wallace

From Script to Screenplay: Almodóvar’s Figuring of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' in 'All About My Mother' | Isabel Soole-Sanchez
Manuela standing against a poster of Huma’s Blanche, aesthetically unified through the colour red. Symbolic perhaps of the grief they...
Feb 287 min read

A £40M Fabergé Egg Could Be Hiding in St. James's | Lilya Osmani
A lost Fabergé egg worth £40 million could be hiding in plain sight, maybe even near St. James's Park. Could you be the one to find it?...
Feb 33 min read

The Surreal Discipline of Dalí: A Guide for Aspiring Painters | Sophia Verai
Salvador Dalí, master of surrealism and spectacle, did not only excel in creating unforgettable images of melting watches and dreamlike...
Dec 29, 20244 min read


Does Truth Exist in Literature? | Zoe Wallace
In a world so firmly grounded in the empirical, governed by the numbers of the bank, the predictable ticking of the clock, and the letter...
Dec 20, 20244 min read

Smirnenski & His “Story of the Ladder" | Sophia Verai
Hristo Smirnenski is one of Bulgaria's most cherished poets and writers of the 20th century, known for his socially conscious and deeply...
Nov 10, 20245 min read

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, Rule the Waves! | Elizabeth Kalu
Vanity Fair ’s March 1997 magazine issue stands as an emblem of '90s Britain. "London Swings Again” was the outrageous headline, a cheeky...
Oct 20, 20245 min read

Bilibin: Blending Art Nouveau with Folklore | Sophia Verai
Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942) is widely recognised for his intricate, vibrantly detailed illustrations inspired by Russian folklore, mythology...
Oct 15, 20243 min read

‘Ophelia’: Fresh Eyes and a Sound Mind | Sophia Verai
Editor's note: This entry won joint 1st place in the English Association's 2024 Betty Haigh Shakespeare Prize. The editor of The Rose...
Oct 13, 20245 min read


Klimt: The Art Nouveau Virtuoso of Gold and Symbolism | Sophia Verai
Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) was an Austrian painter, highly influential in early 20th-century art. Known for his lush and decorative style...
Oct 6, 20244 min read


Mucha: The Master of Art Nouveau | Sophia Verai
Born in 1860 in Moravia (now the Czech Republic), Alphonse Mucha is one of the most celebrated artists associated with the Art Nouveau...
Sep 25, 20243 min read

Dominion: Hirst Brings Unfamiliar Feeling to our Most Familiar Works | Cleo Bador
Myra Hindley’s mugshot, at 9 by 11 feet. The image at the center of headlines and much controversy following its display in the 1997...
Sep 18, 20243 min read

The Controversy of Marina Abramović: Art or Self-Destruction? | Clara Biancelli
Marina Abramović is a name which has made itself more and more relevant in the art world over the past few years, due to her uniquely...
Jul 10, 20243 min read

Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 7) | Danny Andrews
Click here to read Part 6 Subnautica and Player Agency: The Issue of a Map Boundary The previous article in this series started the...
Jul 5, 20247 min read

Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 6) | Danny Andrews
Click here to read Part 5 Section 3: Manipulation of Player Agency Subnautica and Player Agency: Threat and Challenge The previous...
Jun 29, 20244 min read

Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 5) | Danny Andrews
Click here to read Part 4 Subnautica and Atmosphere: Behavioral design in the Mountains and the Dunes The previous article in this series...
Jun 19, 20244 min read

Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 4) | Danny Andrews
Click here to read Part 3 Section 2: Subnautica’s Atmosphere - Visual Design, Sound Design, Behavioral Design Subnautica and Atmosphere:...
Jun 15, 20244 min read

Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 3) | Danny Andrews
Click here to read Part 2 Subnautica and Solitude: The Sunbeam The previous article explored the second main element of Subnautica’s...
Jun 12, 20245 min read

Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 2) | Danny Andrews
Click here to read Part 1 Subnautica and Solitude: The Degasi Both of the two main sub-plots of Subnautica also play an important role in...
Jun 4, 20242 min read

Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 1) | Danny Andrews
This is the first article in an exciting series that explores a video game's mechanics, themes and effect, in the same manner any other...
May 28, 20244 min read

The Role of Renfield in 'Dracula' | Sophia Verai
Dracula as a novel betrays a complex relationship with the Victorian conception of insanity and mental illness. It follows, then, that...
May 18, 20243 min read


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
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