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Interview with Australian Artist Patricia Casey

Patricia Casey is an Australian artist whose work combines photographic montages with embroidery, to create complex images that are both seductively beautiful and psychologically unsettling.

Interview with artist Cecil Gresham

American artist Cecil Gresham, works predominantly with DLSR and SLR photography, but also has a distinct painting style, absent of structure. His images incorporate an abstraction of facts.

Aeshetica Chats to Artist Jo Holland

Jo Holland makes photographic prints without the intermediary of either camera or negative, directly exposing the object through the focusing lens onto what becomes a unique lifochrome print.

Interview with artist Bijan Rashedi, Washington DC

Washington DC-based artist Bijan Rashedi’s abstract oil paintings have been a great compliment to the sophistication needed for decorating industrial interiors, law firms, private collections and more.

Broken

Family dysfunction remains throughout in Broken , Rufus Norris’ powerful film of Daniel Clay’s novel of random cruelty and forced teenage evolution.

The Creation of a World

Punchdrunk’s new production, The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable, invites audience members to immerse themselves in a world created exclusively for them.

Evoking Nostalgia

Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr are not only well known for being outstanding British photographers, but for capturing the English landscape with familiarity.

Perceptions of Light

A major three part retrospective of artist James Turrell displays his pioneering explorations of light, space and time.

From Artist to Art

Oscar winning director Fernando Trueba’s latest film, examines the relationship between the artist and the model, against the backdrop of World War II.

The Art of Sound

Fresh perspectives on listening are offered at South London Gallery in a show utilising sound sculpture and performance to explore the moment of hearing.

Olafur Eliasson

Referring to his role as an artist as one that is “to create a situation in which the viewer is at the centre”, Eliasson’s main preoccupation is the audience.

Photographic Paintings

Gail Albert Halaban traced the steps of legendary artist Edward Hopper, travelling to Massachusetts to record the houses he painted 100 years before.

Local Natives

Californian notes of catharsis, melodic intensity and momentary euphoria.

WeeGee: Murder is My Business

Weegee’s unique documentary portraits of New York crime scenes coincided with the end of the Depression, the repeal of Prohibition, and a governmental crackdown on organised crime.

Documenting the Surreal

Combining colour, everyday objects and portraiture, Blackmon’s works are endlessly fascinating, and every return glance reveals a new angle or shape.

Lee Miller in Fashion

Described by Life photographer David E. Scherman as a “renaissance woman”, Lee Miller balanced a career as a model and an incredibly talented photographer.

Alternative Utopia

Joyce Carol Oates’ story of political disillusionment, feminine power and the naïvety of youth is brought to the screen once again by director Laurent Cantet.

The Complete Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid is a phenomenon. The first woman to win the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in its 26 years, she defined a radical new approach to the field.

Experimental Photography

The analogue is increasingly marginalised in a digital climate that sees images everywhere; in this context the value of art photography is constantly questioned.

Women Artists of the New Millennium

A comprehensive study of the progress of feminist art, The Reckoning demonstrates the enormous influence female artists have had, and continue to have.