Featured Posts
Original
Vol 2
Featuring TV Personality, Presenter, and Model Maura Higgins
Halise Karakaya
Some of us look to books for our solace, some religious, some people. Halise Karakaya tells her audience to look on further. In her work we are called to the heavens to imagine a new world unbound by our physical confinement and encouraged to recognise the connectivity of our souls.
Return of Rock
For decades, Denmark Street has existed in rock mythology. A narrow Soho strip once crowded with guitar shops and rehearsal rooms, it helped shape British music history.
ADMT
When ADMT walks on stage these days, he carries more than a microphone; there’s a lived-in honesty that colours his lyrics. The Doncaster-born musician has always been a storyteller, but his new work is marked by a quiet urgency.
All Time Low
All Time Low’s Alex Gaskarth on Independence, Intention, and the Community That Carries Them. “It’s fun to experience your music again through everyone else’s eyes.” When All Time Low, long-standing titans of the pop-punk genre, announced new music, speculation buzzed louder than ever.
OBTUSE (°)
For two nights, in the convivial confines of Brick Lane’s Galleria Objects, the first in a series of events developed through curatorial platform Obtuse Archive, set out to translate its central metaphor into a physical, multi-sensory experience. The exhibition was one that strived to occupy the “unsettled zone” between structure and resolution.
Ella Maisy Purvis
In a world where on-screen representation still lags behind lived reality, Channel 4’s latest crime drama, Patience, is making strides to bridge the gap. The gritty psychological thriller introduces audiences to Patience Evans, a brilliant but socially misunderstood investigator, played by the fiercely talented Ella Maisy Purvis
Julia Wolf
The word pressure conjures up a multitude of emotions. It’s universal; everyone has felt its hand at their neck, gently tightening. A presence lingering just beneath the surface of our dominant feelings. For Julia Wolf, this pulsing sensation quite literally defines her newest album. Pressure is a confessional, an act of emotional exorcism that doubles as genre-defying songwriting.
Linnea Berthelsen
Few characters divide audiences quite like Kali. First introduced as the runaway from Hawkins’ lab who hunts down her old abusers, she is a character driven by an uncompromising, vigilante sense of justice. She can manipulate perception with her super powers. And she has a tendency to manipulate the people around her, even the ones she cares about.
Treatment Menu
In contemporary capitalism, every need finds its market. From the logic of commodified healing, Naz Balkaya’s Break-up Kit imagines the aftermath of love as a curated delivery service for the newly single. This work gathers objects against a sterile white background, and in their arrangement, I make out the shape of a face.
Mei Pang
Original Magazine x Mei Pang: “I have always been in the arts. I originally went to art university for traditional drawing and painting with a minor in screen printing. Realised that I am a very mid painter, I knew I couldn’t make the big bucks in traditional canvas painting. Took a break from that, reset myself, worked for the government for a little bit…”
Charlotte Roberts
Original Magazine x Charlotte Roberts:
“I’ve always wanted to remain mysterious in all aspects (even in real life), so it doesn’t come naturally to me to share much of myself on social media. I try to share things that people can connect with—whether that be art, food, or information.”
The Cure Iconic Images Gallery
This summer, Post-punk icons The Cure, are to headline the Isle of Wight Festival. Original Magazine attended an evening at London’s Iconic Images Gallery, exhibiting photographs of the band and other musical paragons,