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1 week ago | 
plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus
17 min read In the first edition of our no-holds-barred debate series, Matthew Holman rounds up four leading art critics to discuss: does art criticism still have a pulse?
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1 week ago | 
plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus
8 min read After a period of restraint, Katy Moran lets rip – scaling up and stripping back in her new paintings at Pippy Houldsworth, inspired by the Hertfordshire countryside When Katy Moran named her latest exhibition, ‘Let’s Get Some Air’, at Pippy Houldsworth gallery, it wasn’t just a nod to the pastoral surroundings of her Hertfordshire home. It was a quiet exhale that captures the spaciousness that defines her new work, rooted in intuition, openness and the kind of deliberate stillness...
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1 week ago | 
plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus
Has your experience skateboarding influenced your painting? Not so much aesthetically but definitely in terms of determination. I think you learn so many things about pushing yourself as a skater, and the repetition of perfecting a trick. When I was designing skateboards I would make installations and photograph them and bring in other contemporary artists I wanted to collaborate with.
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1 week ago | 
plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus
10 min read Divine Machinery is an eerie aesthetic of malfunction and meaning lost in the feed.
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2 weeks ago | 
plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus
13 min read Armed with a half-baked plan, Benji Johnson ventured into the South African Karoo to make sense of the art and artists at AfrikaBurn festival We left at 4 am for the South African Karoo in convoy with two friends; four journeying four hours north of Cape Town, only stopping twice for coffee and to send last messages to loved ones. A rather large concern of mine was that AfrikaBurn as a festival has no mobile signal or data. It is designed to separate itself from the “default...
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2 weeks ago | 
plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus
2 min read Forget glossy success stories – our new podcast shares honest, unfiltered accounts from people who forged their own paths in the arts.
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2 weeks ago | 
plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus
8 min read Join us on Wednesday night for the opening of The Radar exhibition – bringing one of our most popular online series to life Plaster is excited to present The Radar, a new group exhibition featuring Nana Wolke, Lucas Dupuy, Fern O’Carolan, Katie Shannon, Lily Bloom, Bertie Garnett, Holly Lou Jones, Kevin Brennan, Claudia Martignetti, Ada Bond and Shauna Cribbin. The show features a selection of artists from our online series of the same name – a monthly feature that spotlights some...
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2 weeks ago | 
plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus
11 min read Milo Astaire embarks on a journey of nerves, nicotine and near-religious revelation with one of his art idols When you start an art magazine, you make a wish list of artists you’d like to feature. Those you grew up admiring and who have shaped and changed the landscape of contemporary art. Right on top of that list was Luc Tuymans. But you never really thought you’d get far enough to actually see it happen. There’s a girl, who later becomes my wife. I’m taking her around Tuymans’...
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3 weeks ago | 
plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus
17 min read After decades of bleak Communism, Albania is quickly becoming the new golden child of European tourism.
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3 weeks ago | 
plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus
5 min read In the first edition of our new art advice column, Greg Rook weighs in on taste, regret, and the long view Dear Greg, A couple of years ago, I bought a painting through a gallery I know well. The owner is a sort of friend and after a very passionate sales pitch and hearing the artist’s story, I felt emboldened to buy even though it was not my usual type. I am usually a prudent person, but this felt impulsive. Now, having lived with the painting for a while, I’ve realised I really...
