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 […]
Demiurge: The Maker or Creator of the World by Sculptor Nicolas Dobkine
Nicolas Dobkine is a young 27-year old French sculptor who has taken his 1st sculpture, a 7 foot aluminium man called Demiurge, around France. From poolside at a 5-star Relais and Chateau Hotel, the Eiffel Tower, and a French castle, Nicolas has had to figure out a way to exhibit his artwork during the COVID-19 […]
Isolating Together: An outdoor photography exhibition marking one year of lockdown
Isolating Together is a photographic series and outdoor exhibition documenting stories of community, action and solidarity during Covid-19 by Kentish Town-based designer and documentary photographer Karishma Puri. A year ago, at the height at the first wave of the Covid pandemic, Karishma Puri, a Kentish Town-based designer and documentary photographer with an interest in […]
Duggie Fields
1883 is deeply saddened to announce British painter and all-round creative mind Duggie Fields has passed aged 75. With a career spanning fifty years, Duggie Fields was a true British institution. In September 2019, 1883 Arts Editor met the post-pop constructivist artist, as he liked to call himself, to talk art, fashion, and how he […]
ARTCRY
Led by a group of artists, creatives, agitators and producers, ARTCRY is a new fund for artists making work in response to social and political events in the public realm. At a time of great political turbulence and social unease — while we are held in the grip of a global pandemic and torn apart […]
Dr Ziba Ardalan — Parasol unit
1883 Arts Editor sits down for a chat with Dr Ziba Ardalan, the founder and director of one of London’s most distinguished art institutions — Parasol unit, to discuss the decision to close the gallery space in Hackney and find out more about her future projects. All good things eventually come to an end, as […]