Miart 2021
Milan’s international art fair Miart makes a much-anticipated in-person return after COVID-19 hiatus. After enduring months of lockdowns and multiple waves of COVID-19, Milan – Italy’s financial hub and economic driver – is now gradually reverting to pre-pandemic normalcy, with the easing of social restrictions and the return of in-person events. Following a digital edition […]
Wells Projects
1883 Arts Editor meets artist collective Wells Projects to discuss their residency with Lateral Geographies, upcoming projects and how they see their work evolving in the wake of the digital revolution shaking up the art world. The past eighteen months have been some of the most challenging in our recent history. In addition to its […]
Manjit Thapp
Ahead of the opening of her solo exhibition at NOW Gallery, Birmingham born artist and illustrator Manjit Thapp sits down for a chat with 1883 Arts Editor to discuss her work addressing themes of feminism and female empowerment. Working across book covers, fashion, animations and movie zines, Manjit Thapp blends traditional and digital drawing to […]
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 […]