Lenses of Life
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A Necessary Devotion: Eunjo Lee’s Digital Mythologies of grief
In London’s digital underground, a new mythology is being coded. It is a world where stones are sung to sleep, where data cables erupt like mineral veins through synthetic skin, and where the act of…
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Luxury Gowns and Smashed-Up Phones: In the playful world of Nicholas Hanson
Master tailor and artist extraordinaire Nicholas Hanson presents his sophomore exhibition “In the Garden of the Happy Dead” at Savile Row and talks about his love for his parents, collecting weird and wonderful things and…
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Innocence Transformed: Matteo Bernardini’s An Afterthought – Part 2
His short film is the only faithful screen adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan truly ends. A meditation on childhood, bereavement, and growing-up: how the filmmaker carried the fairy-tale through without remaining heartless.
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Illustrated Nightmares: Matteo Bernardini’s Political Fairy-Tales – Part 1
The award-winning Italian filmmaker has worked on films with Christopher Nolan and Peter Greenaway and directed music videos for Moby. When lockdown hit, he created ‘Illustrated Cinema’, a handmade technique that captures the sweet and…
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zena Blackwell paints what we don’t post
The Cardiff artist Portrays The Messy Days of motherhood and refuses to paint the instagram version of childhood.
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From Humour to Heaviness, Bianca Beneduci Assad Puts Humanity Back in Art
Bianca Beneduci Assad is an illustrator who turns vulnerability and emotions into tender and colourful illustrations. Through humour, honesty and above all, humanity, her art explores what it means to be human in today’s world.
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Reclaiming the Narrative: Larissa Sansour’s Manifesto on Palestinian Artistic Freedom
The London-based artist explains how Palestinian creators are seizing control of their stories through unexpected genres—from sci-fi to Western comedy—refusing the limited forms they’re “allowed” to use.
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From Memory to Colour: Through Their Hands and Eyes, Palestine Breathes
When words fail to express feelings, artists are here to defend, resist and remember what matters most. Meet Beesan Arafat and Halima Aziz – two inspiring women transforming memories into resistance.
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Painting Palestine: Dana Barqawi’s Visual Resistance
For Dana Barqawi, creativity begins with archaeology. What began as a childhood expression has evolved into something more urgent: visual defiance against colonial erasure.
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The Art of Many Hands: Haya Zaru on Sculpting Memory, Resistance, and Belonging
Haya Zaru is a Palestinian designer with a legacy that hums quietly: in the clatter of metal, the rhythm of ritual, and the language of memory passed from one pair of hands to another.
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