Billie Muraben

London

Arts and Culture Writer, Editor at Freelance

Arts and culture writer, editor and lecturer.

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PIN–UP | ARTIST MIRANDA KEYES IS CHASING THE VANISHING POINT

1 month ago | pinupmagazine.org | Billie Muraben |Miranda Keyes

“I find the term ‘glass artist’ frustrating,” says sculptor Miranda Keyes. “I think the binary nature of describing my work as ‘glass art’ ties in with a real ambivalence about the material. Glass isn’t taken seriously, maybe because it's so seductive.” Keyes, who works from a beautifully-lit studio in south London, learned how to sculpt with glass on her own terms, training in bronze at university in Scotland and during a stint working at a foundry in Germany.
Medieval monasteries inspire design show at The Ragged School

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Billie Muraben

In ‘þe Sellokest Swyn’, which translates as ‘our most magnificent boar’, curator Jermaine Gallacher has brought together a group of artists united by their relationship to their medium. ‘They are all masters of their material,’ Gallacher says.
Post-modern: an Art Nouveau post office turned museum of modern art

2 months ago | worldofinteriors.com | Billie Muraben

Postmodernism defies definition, its most consistent qualities being the embrace of complexity, high and popular culture. PoMo, Trondheim’s new museum of modern and contemporary art, which has just opened, seeks to walk this line through its programming and design, welcoming a range of perspectives and experiences. Occupying an Art Nouveau post office built in 1911 by the Norwegian architect Karl Norum, the museum has been developed by India Mahdavi, in partnership with architect Erik Langdalen.
Breathing to Life: Meriem Bennani at Fondazione Prada

Nov 28, 2024 | canvasonline.com | Billie Muraben

Meriem Bennani’s solo exhibition For My Best Family at Fondazione Prada brings together two works which explore the dynamics of conversation and collectivity in the human experience through installation and film.
Peter Ghyczy’s Medieval castle skyrocketed into the space age

Nov 14, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Billie Muraben

On an autumn evening in 1971, furniture and product designer Peter Ghyczy sat in the overgrown garden of an abandoned 16th-century castle in the Netherlands. It had belonged to his wife, Barbara Ghyczy’s family for three centuries, but it was run down, with water leaking in and sheep roaming through the garden. The family had tried to sell the castle to the municipality for the equivalent of one euro, but it wasn’t interested.
The Spirit of Paimio brings new life to the modernist landmark

Oct 29, 2024 | wallpaper.com | Billie Muraben

Aino and Alvar Aalto’s “cathedral to health”, completedin 1933, was designed to provide the breathing space, support, and holistic care required to rehabilitate tuberculosis patients before the development of a medical treatment and cure. A true “gesamtkunstwerk” — or “total work of art” — the Aalto’s considered every detail from the buttercup yellow corridors, to the curved edges of walls, chairs, and steps, and the ‘no-splash’ angled sinks, to optimise patient wellbeing.
Gabriela Sans decks out her family home in Deià

Oct 19, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Billie Muraben

For Gabriela Sans, Deià has always been a refuge. Her parents had bought a house in the village when Gabriela’s mother was pregnant with her, and she had spent every winter there since her birth. ‘My father would perform stories with wooden puppets. I would paint, and make ceramics,’ she says. As teenagers, Gabriela and her sister continued to stay at the house, helping to maintain it, and animating the space with friends and drawn-out dinners.
The radical designer making weaves in Medellín

Jul 6, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Billie Muraben

Chris Wolston first went to Colombia on a Fulbright Scholarship in 2012, at the University of Antioquia in Medellín. He worked with the Pre-Columbian ceramics archive and scoured the city’s tiendas – the market stands selling locally made, industrialised craft objects – looking for pieces, and researching material approaches.
V & A’s gallery: Victor and Apolline Lugger’s soulful Hampstead home

Jun 11, 2024 | worldofinteriors.com | Billie Muraben |Ollie Tomlinson

Victor and Apolline Lugger’s kitchen emanates conviviality. Objects, artworks, photographs, fridge magnets and toys form a layered backdrop as Victor animates the space – preparing lunch at the central island. The dynamic of the Lugger’s kitchen reflects the design approach that Big Mamma restaurants — the group for which Victor is CEO and Apolline designs the interiors – are famous for: welcoming, opulent, characterful interiors and open kitchens, with the chef at the centre of the action.
PIN–UP | ALCOVA, ETC.: MILAN BEYOND THE FAIR

Apr 26, 2024 | pinupmagazine.org | Billie Muraben

“This moment of calm is incredible,” says Joseph Grima, co-founder of Alcova Milano as he sits in the living room of Villa Bagatti Valsecchi, where a storm has temporarily lifted the crowds from the bustling exhibition. Since Grima co-founded the itinerant design platform with Valentina Cuiffi in 2018, they have hosted exhibitions in a bakery, cashmere factory, military hospital complex, and former abattoir.