Charlotte Colbert
1883 meets artist and film director Charlotte Colbert to discuss her art practice and find out more about her new movie featuring Alice Krige, Malcolm McDowell and Rupert Everett. A Franco-British multimedia artist whose work straddles film, photography, ceramic and sculpture, Charlotte Colbert likes to conflate reality and fiction. With a background in philosophy and an […]
In Conversation with Stuart Semple
1883 Arts Editor sits down for a chat with artist, curator, activist and all-round creative mastermind Stuart Semple to find out about his many projects and ask what he thinks the future hols for the arts in the digital age. A Van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery when he was a child and a […]
Lobsteropolis City: Philip Colbert’s first fully digital exhibition
Welcome to Lobsteropolis City: the virtual universe populated by British contemporary artist Philip Colbert’s lobster alter-ego creation. Following his successful Saatchi Gallery virtual exhibition in 2020, in which visitors could tune in remotely to be guided around by a robot lobster, this latest project brings Colbert’s imaginative universe to a new digital reality. Opening on […]
Ode to Africa: Marc Standing’s The Whispering Tongues at Grove Square Galleries
Opening this week at London’s Grove Square Galleries – one of the capital’s newest contemporary art spaces, launched in 2020 – The Whispering Tongues presents a new body of work by artist Marc Standing. Standing is an internationally exhibited and trained artist. Born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe, he obtained a Degree in Fine Arts […]
Simona Cozzupoli
An accomplished artist with a background in Art Criticism, Milan-based Simona Cozzupoli draws from the likes of Cornell, De Chirico and Magritte to create awe-inspiring shadow boxes where the mundane and the magical collide and merge. A master in the art of assemblage, Simona Cozzupoli takes everyday and found objects to make glass-fronted display cases […]
Lateral Geographies: an online residency programme for artists and curators
First conceived amidst the global Covid-19 epidemic to support creative professionals, Lateral Geographies is an online residency programme curated by 1883’s Arts Editor aiming to link artists, curators and audiences in new, challenging ways. The past 12 months have been one long exhausting slog for everyone, and only now we are starting to see the […]