Features Archives: 12/2023

“I can listen to one single piece of music for the whole duration of an artwork.”

Featuring: syringes, meat garlands and snowmen shaped pills.

Introducing: Civil War Santa.

Naturally, it’s not very Christmassy.

John Cole had one dream, and it involved not handwriting long letters come Christmas time.

“I went to the National Gallery looking for a Renaissance portrait of a dark prince.”

“It just kind of occurred to me to sculpt a cat, just out of the blue.”

“It’s like a pathway to enlightenment. It’s symbolic.”

A child killer in children’s handprints.

“The work weaves together humanity’s desire to defy gravity and embrace the cosmos.”

A long mythologised incident.

“There are things you can’t un-see.”