Dora Bond

3 weeks ago | plastermagazine.com | Dora Bond |Harriet Lloyd-Smith

16 min read Even Harriet Lloyd-Smith isn’t jaded enough to notice the London art scene is rising from the ashes. Once again, people are horny for going out, seeing stuff and being seen. So what exactly is the scene, and what’s changed?

4 weeks ago | plastermagazine.com | Dora Bond |Milo Astaire |Finn Constantine

10 min read Milo Astaire visits the cottage studio of British painter Rose Wylie, and finds an artist whose tour de force of life and humour is embodied in paint On a blustery, overcast day at the tail end of winter, I stepped out of Faversham train station and gave a taxi driver an address in the neighbouring village of Newnham. “Are you off to visit the artist?” the driver exclaimed. “Yes. How did you know?” “We are always dropping off people dressed like you at her place. She has a lot of...

1 month ago | plastermagazine.com | Dora Bond |Millie Walton

8 min read At a sensual new show of Tom Wesselmann’s work, Millie Walton meets the American artist’s former studio assistant to discuss his oft-misunderstood relationship with sex My first thought on encountering Tom Wesselmann’s two-metre painting of an erect penis is: why are men so obsessed with their dicks? I’m being reductive, but it’s also a question that underpins the Pop artist’s provocative choice of subject as well as the mixed reception to these works which were created between...

1 month ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Dora Bond

9 min read Dora DB and Izzy Bilkus are Plaster’s resident wannabe-gallerinas. Last night, they took to the town to report on the glamour, gossip and gunge from Mayfair to East London.

1 month ago | plastermagazine.com | Dora Bond |Millie Walton

8 min read At a sensual new show of Tom Wesselmann’s work, Millie Walton meets the American artist’s former studio assistant to discuss his oft-misunderstood relationship with sex My first thought on encountering Tom Wesselmann’s two-metre painting of an erect penis is: why are men so obsessed with their dicks? I’m being reductive, but it’s also a question that underpins the Pop artist’s provocative choice of subject as well as the mixed reception to these works which were created between...