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Tim Stoner: “I knew I was fucked but my answer was to paint”

1 month ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Phin Jennings |Milly Cope

10 min read For 40 years, the London-based painter has been calling the shots and flipping the script In the 40 years that Tim Stoner has been painting, a lot has changed.
Emma Prempeh wants you to feel what you can’t touch

1 month ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Milly Cope

11 min read Prempeh’s paintings are troves of nostalgia, identity and matriarchal strength, as Izzy Bilkus finds when she visits the artist’s studio for Plaster’s guest editorship of Catalogue Magazine Issue 7.0 “I do feel lonely sometimes being a painter,” Emma Prempeh tells me as we sit down to chat in her South East London studio, where she spends many hours in solitude. “But I’m an introvert so I don’t mind. I remember back in the 2020 lockdown, everyone wanted to go outside but I just...
Li Hei Di: “I become more insane at night - I think everyone does”

1 month ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Milly Cope

10 min read Repressed desire, bad fashion choices and “living in eternal darkness”: Izzy Bilkus speaks with painter Li Hei Di ahead of their first UK solo show On a grey Tuesday afternoon I escape the relentless rain to meet painter Li Hei Di at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery as they prepare for their first UK solo show, ‘700 Nights of Winter’. My dampened spirits are quickly soothed by a hot cup of tea and the warm, vibrant energy emanating from the main gallery space, where Hei Di’s paintings...
Emma Prempeh wants you to feel what you can’t touch

Jan 8, 2025 | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Milly Cope

11 min read Prempeh’s paintings are troves of nostalgia, identity and matriarchal strength, as Izzy Bilkus finds when she visits the artist’s studio for Plaster’s guest editorship of Catalogue Magazine Issue 7.0 “I do feel lonely sometimes being a painter,” Emma Prempeh tells me as we sit down to chat in her South East London studio, where she spends many hours in solitude. “But I’m an introvert so I don’t mind. I remember back in the 2020 lockdown, everyone wanted to go outside but I just...
Where do you start with Seth Price?

Dec 2, 2024 | plastermagazine.com | Jacob Wilson |Milly Cope

14 min read Seth Price did his art education backwards, starting with experimental film and only recently turning to paint. Staff writer Jacob Wilson spoke with Price about going back to basics, testing out new tech and making “cool shit.”Where do you start with Seth Price?
Donna Huddleston’s next act

Aug 30, 2024 | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Milly Cope

8 min read Izzy Bilkus speaks to Donna Huddleston ahead of her first ever painting show “It used to be very clean and tidy,” Donna Huddleston tells me when we meet at her space in Acme Studios, east London, where she’s worked for 17 years. There are wooden tables covered in pots of paint, brushes, stacks of pencils and large canvases of half-painted figures propped up against the walls. Huddleston is listening to the mesmeric tones of Roger Eno, but with her first-ever painting show, at White...
Saura Lightfoot-Leon on leading Luna Carmoon’s wild debut film, Hoard

May 14, 2024 | theface.com | Jade Wickes |Milly Cope

When Saura Lightfoot-Leon, 26, the star of Hoard – one of this year’s most unusual, visceral watches – met the film’s director Luna Carmoon, they had an instant connection. “It was momentous,” Saura says, Zooming in from her home in London, her current base. “Her furry hat, the way she was sitting on the sofa, giggling… It was very special.
Anne Hardy’s freaky interlopers

May 7, 2024 | plastermagazine.com | Millie Walton |Milly Cope

11 min read In an upstairs room of a building in Shoreditch there is a hooded figure kneeling in front of a window. It has a tail, made from flattened tin cans, that runs from the bottom of its neck into a curved wooden stick resting on a pile of dirt. This is what you see first when you enter the space – the figure’s back, the soles of their mismatched high heels – and then, as you walk towards the window, their hands, palms up in a gesture that could be one of worship or despair. In front...
Li Hei Di: “I become more insane at night - I think everyone does”

Mar 28, 2024 | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Milly Cope

7 min read On a grey Tuesday afternoon I escape the relentless rain to meet painter Li Hei Di at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery as she prepares for her first UK solo show, ‘700 Nights of Winter’. My dampened spirits are quickly soothed by a hot cup of tea and the warm, vibrant energy emanating from the main gallery space, where Hei Di’s paintings are being installed. Kaleidoscopic flurries of colour flood the canvasses. Ethereal, amorphous figures swim beneath swirling ocean blues, while fiery...