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Elspeth Walker

London
As seen in: Squarespace, The Boar, The Gallyry
Covers:  Visual Arts, Exhibition Reviews, Personal Essays, Books, Travel, and Creative Writing (fiction)
Writer, Reader & Avid Art Gazer | London | Youth Trustee at The Photographers Gallery | Copywriter Agora Digital Art/ Writer Compression Art ✨
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Gallery Space 36

Gallery Space 36

www.papeachupress.com — Gallery Space 36 is a quirky short story from a perspective of a picture frame looking out into its world around itself. Published in Papeachu Press Review Issue 4.
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Descoverartists Zine 2020

Descoverartists Zine 2020

descoverartists.com — Two articles: 'Whose Name is on the Plaque?' and 'Artists Need Adaptability', written for Descoverartists 2020 Winter Zine, explore the themes of process and collaboration in the art world today.
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Lethabo Huma: Painting Without a Brush

Lethabo Huma: Painting Without a Brush

Agora Digital Art — Lethabo Huma's artwork highlights how the medium of painting is no longer just for physical paint, but also digital brushstrokes...
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Exploring The Layers of Art

Exploring The Layers of Art

COMPRESSION Arts — Looking at the work of Chantay James we explore the physical and critical layers of her art, and how it is reshaping the art world. Chantay James, an artist that works in a variety of mediums, from performance to digital art, is working to subvert the narrative in Western art history and refocus on empowerment.
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Delving into the liminoid - Snow Yunxue Fu

Delving into the liminoid - Snow Yunxue Fu

Agora Digital Art — Exploring how one artist uses digital and new media art to play with our sense of reality and immersion, more than any other art forms can...
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The New Media Sculpture and Performance of Colette Bernard

The New Media Sculpture and Performance of Colette Bernard

agoradigital.art — Looking at how technology is enhancing pre-existing artistic practises. Elspeth Walker | Ed Francesca Gransden | 10 July 2020 Colette Bernard, a sculptor and performance artist from Louisiana, USA, is one of many artists now using new media to realise artistic ideas. Her work, which predominantly explores themes of humour, pop-culture and sexuality, lends itself well to the blend of physical and digital. She states that her ‘art reflects her queer and southern identity, while also playing with reality versus reality on the internet’.
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Looking at the signature style of jjf Fashion

Looking at the signature style of jjf Fashion

COMPRESSION Arts — Speaking to Jack Fenn, an illustrator and designer, we dive into the fashion world... For many the fashion world is something for magazines, a world that is on the surface, a sector of the arts that is hard to crack. Yet, despite the image cultivated by films such as ' The devil wears Prada', the reality is very different.
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My Career Is Fine

My Career Is Fine

COMPRESSION Arts — We explore the work of Erin Tse, and how lockdown has altered her practise. Throughout the duration of lockdown many have found their artistic practises changing. The abundance of time has allowed room for reflection, which includes examining the core of their artwork.
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Playground Rituals

Playground Rituals

Blackdogzine — Black Dog Zine, is a new publication that explores the folklore and traditions of Suffolk. My article 'Playground Rituals', delves into a personal past of maypole dancing, and a stark realisation this was not a normal thing for everyone's primary schools.
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Rock Bottom Never Looked So Good

Rock Bottom Never Looked So Good

NerveZine — An essay I wrote for Nerve Zine's third issue: Progress. The article explores how new lows in our lives can actually allow us to reflect on how far we have come in our own personal development.
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It's Not Easy Being Green: Maria Mahfooz's first solo exhibition delves into the digital and gr...

It's Not Easy Being Green: Maria Mahfooz's first solo exhibition delves into the digital and gr...

agoradigital.art — Her latest exhibition, It's Not Easy Being Green , had to be moved to online due to Covid-19, creating a new, unintentional, layer to her digital artwork. With the opening occurring online, and the exhibition being held via live stream on YouTube, or stories on Instagram, Mahfooz's work played with a digital location and the real one of her room.
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Art on the Outside

Art on the Outside

COMPRESSION Arts — Exploring if the trend of artwork being placed outside galleries is more than just advertisement? In recent years many galleries or museums have started to expand outside of the confines of their interiors and place work outside.
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The Therapeutic Art Practise of the Needleworking Nurse

The Therapeutic Art Practise of the Needleworking Nurse

COMPRESSION Arts — Introducing the Needleworking Nurse who turned towards art to switch off from the outside world. As the conversations around mental health have increased over the past years, many have turned to art as a source of mindfulness. The use of colouring books, paint sets, ceramics, and sewing kits, have led to a creative bloom in order to process the world around.
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Five creatives who are more than just muses

Five creatives who are more than just muses

thegallyry.com — Throughout art history, many artists have turned to a single obsession to inspire their practise: their muses. These muses have become the source of many great works, with their images being reproduced in various ways. Yet, who are the people behind the faces we see over and over again in gallery spaces?
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ISSUE 5 | Re-Side

ISSUE 5 | Re-Side

Re-side Zine — A piece of creative prose, 'Ode to Clouds, featured in the fifth issue of Re-Side zine- on the theme of hope.
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Ears for listening

Ears for listening

moonhoodmagazine.com — I've always been a talker, something that my friends put up with, and others learn through one encounter. I don't mean to be, it's a symptom of going off on tangents and not having an inner thought process. But when I was twenty, moving to a different country, my perception towards conversations changed, and not just because I didn't know the language.
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When Harry Met Sally, And We Met Marie

When Harry Met Sally, And We Met Marie

https://www.dearmovies.co.uk/product/issue-five-friendship-digital-download — An essay exploring the importance of the relationship between Sally and Marie, in Nora Ephron's classic 'When Harry Met Sally', for the DearMovieZine's fifth Issue 'Friendship'.
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Jackie Kay's 'The Lamplighter': Tuning into History

Jackie Kay's 'The Lamplighter': Tuning into History

projectmyopia.com — The Lamplighter is a poetic radio play that explores the British role in the transatlantic slave trade, honing in on the lost voices and experiences endured by female slaves.
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How artists are using social media to bring the everyday to life

How artists are using social media to bring the everyday to life

thegallyry.com — Social media is the powerhouse of this technological age, a constant stream of things to read, see, and interact with. For many it's a platform of expression and over the past few years there has been a rise in artists, especially illustrators or graphic designers, turning to platforms such as Instagram or Twitter to post their work and promote their messages.
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Going back to analogue

Going back to analogue

www.moonhoodmagazine.com — A few years ago, during an art project, I stumbled upon a relic of the past, that in years to come would revolutionise the way in which I looked at the world around me: a film camera. With constant bombardment from screens and image perfection, ‘going back to analogue’ helped me detox and reconnect with the space around me, something very important in the high-stress lives we lead today.
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Box-ticking and last-minute modifications: the inaccessibility of art galleries

Box-ticking and last-minute modifications: the inaccessibility of art galleries

theboar.org — A recent tweet by Ciara O'Connor, a writer for the Irish Sunday Independent newspaper, called to attention her experience of not being able to appreciate the Tate Modern's current Olaf Eliassion exhibition, In Real Life, due to its inaccessibility for wheelchair users. This has sparked a conversation about how accessible art galleries and the visual arts are. In an age where there are so many ways to create a space that is inclusive for all, it bodes the question: why are public spaces still so geared towards the able-bodied population?
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What art taught me about appreciating the naked body

What art taught me about appreciating the naked body

thegallyry.com — Featuring my own artwork, this article is first person essay exploring how painting the female body during life drawing classes taught me to be comfortable with the female form. Looking at how the so-called imperfections are actually features we should all revel in, the piece highlights how art helps to us to celebrate our features rather than create a desire to change them, like a lot of media today.
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How to fit reading into a busy schedule

How to fit reading into a busy schedule

theboar.org — The Easter break is often far from what it says on the label - a break. With essay stress, revision, and trying to fit in a society tour, there can be little time to actually relax with a book.
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The evolution of the female body in art

The evolution of the female body in art

theboar.org — This feature explores the turbulent relationship between the female body and art. From being an objectified muse to a site of personal exploration, the female body has always been prevalent in the art world, thus making it an important theme to map across art history.
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