How gorgeous is the bright and breezy work of illustrator Heather Gatley? She achieves this wonderfully airy yet dynamic effect with a mix of handmade and digital processes, using pencil, ink, collage and paint. Among her impressive client list – which includes Louis Vuitton, The Times, Conde Nast, the BBC and Virgin – are Penguin Books who commissioned the beautiful book jackets (above and below) for a series of Paul
Fancy a Foxy Blonde or a Dark Dunter this weekend? These are just two of the 60 beers, ales and ciders up for tasting at the Dunfermline Beer Festival, one of Fife’s liveliest and most enjoyable events. The Festival, which also features live bands and a beer fuelled disco, is hosted jointly by the local Rotary and rugby club at the Glen Pavilion. Local beers on offer this year include
We met under a shower of bird notes. Fifty years passed, love’s moment in a world in servitude to time. She was young; I kissed with my eyes closed and opened them on her wrinkles. ‘Come,’ said death, choosing her as his partner for the last dance. And she, Who in life had done everything with a bird’s grace, opened her bill now for the shedding of one sigh no
Both destructive and restorative, the work of Korean born artist Jukhee Kwon sees books shredded and manipulated until they become something whole and monumental – they sometimes even become trees. Her work is inspired by artist John Latham who also used ideas of disintegration and the book, once changing the form of Greenberg’s Art and Culture by getting his students to chew the pages into a liquid. Jukhee Kwon studied Fine Art
The music of Scottish band BMX Bandits penetrated the depression of producer Jim Burns when nothing else could. The therapy continued when Jim decided to make a film about the Beach Boys-influenced band. The Bandits front man, Duglas T Stewart has also suffered bouts of depression – the subject of his single ‘Serious Drugs’. Both film maker and musician will be speaking at a screening of the film Serious Drugs as part
‘Designed to bring some joy to even the most gloomy of winter days’, this collection of well crafted scarves, hats and gloves combines classic styles with bold patterns. Hilary Grant, an exciting new knitwear label based in Orkney, has just been selected for Cultural Enterprise’s Fashion Foundry business incubation programme set up to support ten of Scotland’s most promising fashion designers. The pieces in the range are knitted and hand finished
Like many female artists, the name of 1950s New York street photographer Vivian Maier is not as well known as her that of her male peers. It’s not the fault of some anti feminist conspiracy however: Maier showed her work to no one. Instead this strange, solitary individual worked as a nanny in New York and Chicago, all the while taking picture after picture and storing them away in lockers.
The cover to Joy Division’s 1979 album Unknown Pleasures is as bleak and enigmatic as the music itself: a series of jagged white lines against a black background that’s been recreated in tattoos, clothing, and animation. In a clip for New York’s Visualized Conference, former Factory Records graphic designer Peter Saville explains the origin behind the cover, which represents the frequency of the signal from the first observed pulsar or
Today Glasgow Women’s Library opens a preview of an exhibition to celebrate its 21st anniversary. It’s come a long way since the damp freezing shop front in Garnet Hill staffed by volunteers. The Library has commissioned 21 Scottish artists and 21 writers to produce work for the exhibition which opens today, 21 September. Artists include Ashley Cooke, Kate Davis and Ruth Barker – who has produced the silk scarf printed