

The Future is Illustrated: On the opening of the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration and the power of human craftsmanship.
Isabella Jones Bartle The new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration... Photo: Isabella Jones Bartle On a relaxed Monday evening, I tuned in to the BBC to watch British illustrator Quentin Blake draw whilst talking about his new Centre for Illustration. Sitting in his blanketed wicker armchair in his home studio, his pen glides and excitedly dances across the paper. A constant chatter about characters and stories arises as Blake leans closer to his desk and presenter and fello


Beyond Surface Appeal: The Cosmetic World of Art and Design at Isamaya Ffrench’s Studio Iron
Honor Cockroft Blurring boundaries at Saatchi Yates... Photo: Courtesy of Saatchi Yates Make-up artist Isamaya Ffrench blurs the boundaries between art practice and the practical at Studio Iron. There is something deliberately unstable about Studio Iron, the inaugural exhibition of Isamaya Ffrench’s newly launched design company. Installed at Saatchi Yates, the show unfolds across the vast open gallery space in a convergence of art, design and installation. Materials and surf


A 'Tree of Encounters': The Quiet Radicalism of Serpentine’s 25th Pavilion
Eliza Pritchett a serpentine, designed by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo, LANZA atelier. Exterior view © LANZA atelier, Photo Iwan Baan, Courtesy Serpentine. Now in its 25th edition, LANZA atelier's Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo design a humbly impressive pavilion for Hyde Park's Serpentine Gallery. After a quarter-century of increasingly complex temporary structures, the most significant milestone in Serpentine history is also its least flashy. a serpentine, t


