If someone asked you to tell them something you did not know, what would you say? Would you answer about the weather? Winning lottery numbers? What you are going to have for dinner next Friday night? I can probably tell you one thing it wouldn’t be though; and that is about the work and lives of Bristol’s street sex workers.
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Cracked Battery are new theatre-adjacent production company who, in their own words, seek to recharge and reanimate over used narratives in storytelling. Esther Bancroft talks to director Clodagh Chapman and producer Hope White about their debut production Untitled Party Project 5.3.
Read MoreEmily Carrington-Ball is a London based artist specialising in shibari art, creating sensual art that explores sexuality and gender through the beauty of shibari bondage. . We talk to Emily about how she has amalgamated her love for shibari and the kink scene with her talent as a visual artist to create a niche career making and selling beautiful art work, both off the shelf and commissions, what exactly shibari is (and isn’t), setting up a business in lock down, and how the curious can discover more about shibari.
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Naomi Williams is a photographer from Bristol who specialises mostly in gig photography and portraiture. We sat down to talk to her about her favourite gigs, favourite photos and when it all changed for her.
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Rosie Caley has a huge amount of strings to her bow. Rosie paints; taking on fine art commissions and creating murals as well as working as a painter and decorator. Additionally Rosie works in textiles, and builds geodesic domes. She talked to us recently about how she has used her skills to move from a 60-hour week office-based career in engineering, to fulfilling her dream of working for herself as an artist and maker, and also how the pandemic has affected her work.
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My name is Maria Quintin and I’m an artist! I grew up in the woods of Vassals Park in Oldbury Court, and am a nature girl at heart. This is definitely greatly reflected in my work.
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When it comes to body image and our appearance, too often, the self-talk which we’ve developed is negative. Most of us would never speak to friends or loved ones in the way that we speak to ourselves about our appearance.
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Cutting edge technology and fine art are not two things you would often associate, however abstract artist Sally Coulden’s latest project brings the two worlds together in style. By combining augmented reality and art, Coulden has created a unique performative experience which transforms the space you are in into Sally’s studio, complete with easel and rug being used as the markers for the AR.
Read MoreIllustrator Ruth Stewart has been been drawing since she could hold a pencil. After studying illustration at the University of Westminster, then a couple of years partying and managing bars in the wilderness of South London she picked up her pens again & decided to start sharing her work on social media. She now works freelance as an illustrator, specialising in portraiture, sign-writing & lino-printing; as well as dabbling in tattoo design & mural painting.
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It was a massive pleasure to get to know visual artist Jessica-Tayler Cain over video chat recently, and to discover more about their eye-popping, Manga-tinged assault-on-the-senses digital art and it’s origins and influences. As one of the south-west’s emerging new talents, since graduating from Bath University in 2017 they have fully rooted themselves in the local Bristol art scene, and they hope to hang around a bit longer making their mark.
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Ivy-Louise is a mixed media artist working from Bristol. She is also a 26 year old mum with ADHD and partial hearing loss. We recently spoke to her about what drives and inspires her, and the importance of art and creativity as an outlet during challenging times.
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Ben Davies and Sonia Wargacka are the founders of DoesItFeelGood.com, a global social impact video production collective based in Bristol. Recent film school graduates and travel enthusiasts, due to the pandemic they are currently grounded back in Bristol, and that is where I recently caught up with them, courtesy of a now well-known online meeting space.
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Morgan is a socially engaged artist and her latest commission has been setting up an alternative art school for marginalised people called The Factory Art School, at the National Trust owned The Workhouse in Southwell, Nottingham.
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My name is Libby Parfitt and I’m a graphic designer and illustrator based in Bristol. I currently work 9-5 as a graphic designer for two magazines, but my side hustle and main passion is illustration, so I take on freelance jobs and personal projects in my own time. I like to draw, paint murals and sew things.
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Specialising in illustration and murals, she inspires herself using an eclectic mix of sources including 90’s cartoons, sci-fi, pop surrealist art and latin folklore to create her adult illustrations for ‘forever teenagers.’
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