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featured creative - artist Julie Brixey-Williams

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featured artist David Bez

Featured Artist & Photographer Kit Martin

Featured artist - Olana Light

Featured -Jane Mote - Journalist

Artist - Alison Griffin

Featured artist - Jojo Taylor

Featured artist - Elena Thomas

Featured artist - Ashley Hanson

Featured artist - Susan Williams

Issue 51 - Featuring-Richard Kenton Webb

Artist - Jay Rechsteiner

Featured creative Mahtab Grimshaw

Issue 47 - Catriona Robertson

Artist - Benoit Maubrey

Featured creative - Doug Fishbone

Issue 44- Featured creative Sal Jones

- Artist -Amanda Couch

Guest Artist - Alexandra Huddleston

issue 40 - Demeter Dykes

Artist -Mike Nelson

Special guest - Paul Bonomini

- Artist feature - G Bekken Wand

Gallery owner - Kurt Beers of Beers London

Special Guest - Music Manager - James Foster -

Featured - creative - Artist Jezzelle Kellam

Artist - Chibuike Ifedilichukwu

Artist - Lorraine Clearly

Curator - Amy Oliver - The House of Smalls

Artist - Simon Willems

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Issue 63 - Exhibition - Graffiti

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Issue 61 - Exhibition - Cont. Conversations

Issue 60 - Exhibition - Textile Art

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Artist: Natasha Tresadern-jones

@SomethingTeariffic

Audacitea

Description: This work forms part of an ongoing series exploring the outward manifestation of emotion through female figures, each embodying a distinct emotional state, in the series so far, there are Audacitea (boldness), Defiantitea (unapologetic resistance), and Dominicitea (embodied supremacy). The series engages with the theme of Changing Patterns by interrogating the ways women navigate and sometimes break societal scripts imposed upon them. Drawing on the notion that “power is everywhere,” these figures are not passive subjects of the discourse, but active disruptors. They embody the possibility of altering ingrained behaviours, challenging performative roles, and asserting agency within entrenched systems. The use of tea as a medium is deliberate. It is humble, domestic, and culturally loaded, previously the artist explored themes associated with pause, hospitality, and tradition, but here it becomes an instrument of transformation. The organic stains, resembling ancient maps, evoke personal and collective journeys towards self-definition. Each mark carries the weight of ritual and repetition, yet hints at deviation and change. In Audacitea, the figure’s stance channels courage in the face of expectation, and flame-like hair visualises the intensity of suppressed emotions bursting into visibility. Also captured is the quiet, enduring strength needed to keep pushing against constraint. The series pours a spectrum of resilience, showing that change is not always loud or instantaneous, but can be enacted through persistence, self-awareness, and the refusal to conform. Through material, form, and symbolism, this series suggests that while we are shaped by the systems we inhabit, we also have the power to redraw the lines.

Artist: Yuliia Tarnovska

Spin Cycle Chaos

Description: Spin Cycle Chaos reflects on the feeling of being trapped in cycles that are hard to escape. The figure in the painting is caught in a restless swirl, echoing the way daily life can sometimes feel like a loop, work, responsibility, and expectations that keep repeating no matter how much we want to break free. The image takes inspiration from something very ordinary, a washing machine cycle. What is normally a background routine becomes a metaphor for the bigger patterns we live within, social rules, family roles, or personal habits that keep turning over and over. There is a sense of motion and turbulence, but also a question of whether that chaos could lead to change. Using acrylic on canvas, I worked with layered brushstrokes and contrasts in tone to create both movement and tension. Some areas feel smooth and flowing, while others are broken and sharp, suggesting the push and pull between comfort in routine and the desire to disrupt it. Within the “Changing Patterns” theme, Spin Cycle Chaos asks whether we can ever truly step outside the structures we grow up in, or whether freedom comes from finding new meaning within them. It captures both the weight of repetition and the possibility of breaking through it.

With this painting I am exploring the possibility of transformation within systems of performativity and power. This theme resonates deeply with me—not just intellectually, but personally and urgently. I am currently incarcerated. From within this institution, I have had to confront, question, and challenge the very structures that shaped and confined me. Michel Foucault’s assertion that “Power is everywhere” rings powerfully true when your daily existence is defined by the overt mechanisms of control: surveillance, punishment, and erasure. And yet, even in this environment, I search for the cracks in the system—small moments of resistance, creation, and connection that allow for agency, however fragile. This is my wiggle room. My artwork reflects this struggle and this hope. Inspired by the notion of changing patterns—not as rebellion for its own sake, but as a mode of resilience—I use reclaimed materials and layered techniques to visualise transformation. It is an act of refusal: to be flattened, silenced, or reduced. It is also an act of belief: in humility, heart, and the persistent possibility of change. This current theme speaks directly to my lived experience and artistic inquiry, and I hope the work may contribute meaningfully to the discourse you're curating. I remain deeply committed to exploring the intersections of power, identity, and freedom through both visual and sonic practices—and to connecting with platforms like yours that are open to voices from the margins.

Artist: Jenna Fox

@jennafoxartist

For four years I have been searching ways to change my patterns, to push against self imposed artistic boundaries and tap into versions of me that could create alternative work.

I discovered that by using alter egos and relenquishing control to them by writing their narrative I could generate new work that was different to my typical practice.

This installation is by my alter ego @eva_ava_artist

It explores the imposed boundaries and discourse we follow by the performativity of how we dress our children.

Artist: Ruth Fuller

@ruthstephaniefuller

I didn't realise I wouldn't see you again

Description: These paintings are part of a series and so this description is relevant to them as a group (so is repeated for each work as it refers to each one). The titles provide context specific to individual paintings but also aims to open them out. I like to explore the unsaid and the unseen in the familiar and the domestic. My recent paintings are small (7” x 5”) oil paintings on cradled board. I have been referencing interior physical and psychological spaces and Englishness with wallpaper like patterned areas. The work hints at a kind of domestic or self repression, patterns of power which are passed from generation to generation, but which always have the potential to be broken because of the psychological tensions that lie underneath. Thoughts and feelings rather than visual representations emerge in the paint; they are emotional maps and describe internal white noise chatter. Underneath most of my current work there is at least one other figurative painting, which is present but invisible, hidden work that has been ‘wallpapered’ over in paint. The wallpaper like areas in my paintings often break up however, and sometimes seem torn or worn away, to show a different form of truth alongside the presentable façade of pattern. The surface of the painting seems like it could be peeled away or might slip off the board. I aimed to make pattern alive through colour and content, like fever dreams on walls, and the paintings include forms which are seemingly recognisable, but which are uncertain, a bubbling sense of subconscious trouble that also delves into the uncanny.