Martha Tilston
Tilston is a master of evocative lyrics; a particular favourite on Lucy & the Wolves is the beautiful Lucy of the album’s title.
This issue celebrates bold risk taking from the raw concept to actual mechanics. We are encouraging you to welcome new experiences, take a journey, and invite adventure. In art, we look at the mammoth scale of Jonathan Wateridge’s new show, Another Place, and his clever juxtaposition of reality and fantasy. Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera opens at Tate Modern this summer. Spanning a variety of lens-based media, it offers an illuminating perspective on subjects both iconic and taboo. The Jerwood Contemporary Makers show examines the grey area between art and craft, presenting a conceptual exploration of making. Meanwhile, newcomer Sean Raggett redefines contemporary portraiture through iconic image making.
In film, actress and director, Rachel Ward looks at the isolation of the Australian outback with intricate and subtle filmmaking. The Secret Cinema project is back, exploring the immersive new way to experience film. In music, Frightened Rabbit chat about emotional and personal influences. We also look at the role of the producer in creating and shaping the albums we love. Writer, Adam Ross explores Hitchcock through his debut, Mr Peanut, and author Michèle Roberts’ new book, Mud, looks at complex relationships. Finally, Marc Rees’ new performance with the National Theatre Wales takes over an entire town.
With previews and reviews of some of the best events this season, this issue will set you up for the summer months to come.
Tilston is a master of evocative lyrics; a particular favourite on Lucy & the Wolves is the beautiful Lucy of the album’s title.
Upbeat and sunny, Allo Darlin’s eponymous debut is warm and fuzzy. It’s happy music reminiscent to The Go-Betweens’ “striped sunlight sound”.
The new record from Alabama-born Dan Sartain encompasses vintage rock ’n roll and blues within his Southern tendencies.
Jane Weaver’s 5th LP is the first to be released on her own label, Bird Records, and is a more fully-realised concept album than her previous offerings.
Released on their own label, this is UNKLE’s fourth full-length album. It is a fantastic collection of joyful soundscapes, electronica, live drums, strings and percussion from The Heritage Orchestra.
Scotland and Indie rock bands go hand-in-hand. Hailing from this breeding-ground of talent is Frightened Rabbit.
Although singers often get all the credit, it’s the producer that does all the heavy lifting. Creating a great album or single takes hard work, and the producers have to play a lot of roles to make it happen.
Being a seminal figure in the formation of Abstract Expressionism, Gorky laid the foundations for many artists to follow.
Every single thing that we see from advertising and packaging to media and digital screens is designed. It’s so commonplace now, we don’t even see it.
Higonnet explores her fascination with “collections”, and how an individual’s taste within a contemporary era are captured in personal art ensembles.
In 1970s London, Susanna is living with her mother, and knows nothing of her father. Under a false identity, she begins an affair, which will only end in disaster.
Learning To Lose is a captivating novel, which tells the stories of complex lives as they collide in contemporary Madrid.
In the thrilling debut novel, Mr Peanut by Adam Ross, reality twists and turns as the past collides with the present.
Marc Rees transforms a Welsh town into a stage, unveiling and exploring the charms and stories of this seaside community through a creative trajectory.
Since 2003, Fiona Bradley has been the Director of Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery. She emphasises the importance of new work in the context of a consistent and developing artistic practice.
Humanising forbidden love, with breathtaking cinematography, Beautiful Kate explores the effects of place, isolation and burgeoning sexualities.
Jonathan Wateridge’s latest show opens at All Visual Artists. It depicts scenes from an imaginary film creating interplay between narratives of fact and fiction.
Challenging the traditional notions of craft through design intervention, the new wave of DIY raises the bar for contemporary making.