Megan Williams

2 weeks ago | creativereview.co.uk | Megan Williams

The commemorative quilt dedicated to the lives of 384 people lost to AIDS has taken over the Turbine Hall in the London museum Tate Modern is displaying the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt in a temporary display that is both spectacular and sobering at the same time. The initiative stems from a Stateside project started by American activist Cleve Jones, who began to make a quilt in his backyard in 1985 as a way for him and other people to honour loved ones lost to AIDS.

2 weeks ago | creativereview.co.uk | Megan Williams

Powidzkie Lake is the largest lake in the Wielkopolska region in central Poland. It is a curious place. Swathes of holiday-goers flock to its manmade beaches. Relics of a pre-historic settlement lie preserved at the bottom of the water. And just a short distance away sits a substantial Soviet-era military base, which is now Poland’s largest military airfield, currently home to over a thousand US troops.

2 weeks ago | creativereview.co.uk | Megan Williams

Cinema’s most famous ball, Wilson the Volleyball from Cast Away, has been revived as part of The Odyssey of Wilson, a digital campaign raising awareness of the threat to the world’s oceans, and the importance of UNESCO’s scientific frameworks in documenting and addressing it. The platform was developed by Africa Creative in collaboration with environmental non-profit Onda Azul Institute and tech company Vivo to coincide with the UN Ocean Conference in Nice.

3 weeks ago | creativereview.co.uk | Megan Williams

We speak to Simz’s long-time collaborator Jeremy Ngatho Cole at creative studio Yout about making the visuals for her new record, and his experiences of working with such an ambitious artist who sits outside the major label system When Little Simz’s 2021 album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert was released to widespread acclaim and later awarded the Mercury Prize, there was a sense that the music artist (real name Simbiatu Abisola Abiola Ajikawo) was finally getting her flowers. It seems fitting...

3 weeks ago | creativereview.co.uk | Megan Williams

The animation process in creative duo Tom and Matt’s film is “powered” by the river’s kinetic energy to highlight the need to protect the UK’s waterways To mark World Environment Day 2025, London-based creative duo Tom Wrigglesworth and Matt Robinson have released a charming short film that cleverly uses nature as the basis of the animation.