STORIES

Reflecting on her experiences from across the full spectrum of the industry, DJ, curator and Nine Nights co-founder Shannen SP discusses the diasporic experience, the anxiety of artistry and the future of UK dance music.

Artist and hand-dyed tights designer Chanel Alorsan discusses side hustles, the legacies of immigration and the importance of failure.

Through constant experimentation Ruby Kinnear-Jones has found a definitive style that finds beauty in imperfection. Her ceramics have a raw, natural quality to them, like undiscovered objects from the deep.

A painter by trade, it was little over a year ago that Matilda swapped brush and canvas for scalpel and wax, and though you would not know by looking at them, her pieces are the product of an artist still grappling with the possibilities and challenges of their craft.

Holly Macleod spent her time on furlough designing her latest collection, featuring bright snake imagery printed on semi-transparent materials; her playful use of surrealist graphics and vivid colours serving as the perfect antidote to pandemic gloom.