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Sonia Delaunay at Bastian Gallery
This review has been a while in the making, and writing it has been filled with a good deal of hesitation. I wrote the first draft, which...
Maria Dragoi
Jun 13, 20214 min read


Intimacy in Turner : A Visual Essay in 20 Details
Before I saw Turner at theTate Britain, I thought of him as an artist preoccupied with the massive. I knew him for his grandiose battle...
Maria Dragoi
May 26, 20212 min read


Long Awaited Laughs and Giggles with Bedwyr Williams: MILQUESTOAST Southwark Park Galleries Review
On a dazzling day of May, I got an opportunity to attend the preview of Bedwyr Williams’ new exhibition at the Southwark Park Galleries,...
Majka Wankiewicz
May 17, 20213 min read


A Deafening Roar: Was J.M.W Turner's Slave Ship predicting the persistence of systemic racism?
J.M.W Turner's The Slave Ship isn’t a visual depiction of the Atlantic Slave Trade, it is an emblem of remorse, a totem of inhumanity, a...

Garance Querleu
May 12, 20218 min read


In Conversation with Veronika Čechová : Curating 'The Alchemist'
Edited for length and clarity. 'The Alchemist' is on show at Gossamer Fog in Deptford until the 16th of May, 2021. M: I want to ask how...
Maria Dragoi
May 9, 202113 min read


Art In the ‘Apotopic’ Space: Defiling_the_Virgin
In this essay I want to discuss the urge for revelation. Several weeks ago, I was writing in my notes app as I was sitting in Alexandria...
Maria Dragoi
Apr 26, 20219 min read


Why Art Matters, continuing the tradition of curiosity
Godelieve de Bree has been Strand Magazine’s Art Editor for the past two years, a colorful time throughout which the journalist offered...

Garance Querleu
Apr 20, 20213 min read


ART IN THE ‘APOTOPIC’ SPACE : AGE OF INSTAGRAM
Ever since I started making art ‘seriously’ - i.e. in a studio, I have wrestled with how to share it on social media, a process that has...
Maria Dragoi
Mar 30, 20218 min read


A New Artistic Landscape - In Conversation with Alya Hatta
This piece originally appeared in the Strand Magazine's 2021 Spring Issue. When we imagine our post-pandemic world - what social,...

Ketki Mahabaleshwarkar
Mar 24, 20218 min read


The Digital Age for Art – Opportunities with Caution
Image: Gage Walker Whether it’s Tik Tok, YouTube, Instagram or Facebook, the digital age offers many different platforms for many types...
Maria Makurat
Nov 23, 20203 min read
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