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As a woman and particularly one working in art, I've found the growing focus on women artists at galleries and museums absolutely exhilarating. Women's voices that just a decade ago were local and marginalised are now mainstream and global. Notably, large institutions like Tate have been programming considerably more women solo shows. The last edition of the Venice Biennale finally achieved gender equality after 124 years with 53% women artists. The museum show Artimesia at the National Gallery, the first major exhibition in the UK of Baroque painter Artimesia Gentileschi- who continues to be woefully left out of much of the historical canon- is another significant step towards better representation of women in art. It suddenly feels like the campaign for gender parity in the art world is picking up pace.............

 

Our first artist interview of 2021 is with Emily Unsworth White, a painter, collagist and textile artist living and working in Bristol. Her multi-disciplinary practice explores nature as a holy sanctum, drawing on themes of religion, fellowship and storytelling. With a palette of natural hues and pigments, materials such as sheep's wool, twine and hand-dyed fabric, Emily's body of work holds connotations of the primordial. Forming a serene cosmos of flora, fauna, paganism and ethereal figures, Emily depicts nature as a sublime otherworld- something or somewhere to be cherished and worshipped.

Like falling down a rabbit hole, Stewart Swan takes us on a journey that burrows deep into a mysterious world full of obscure histories, mythology and age-old phenomena. His chosen subjects, some of them from history, others from legend, tell stories of the intangible, capturing our imagination and arousing our curiosity.

Laura Lakin is an award-winning interior designer based in London. An expert at transforming properties into homely, characterful and stylish spaces, Laura's projects span grande town-houses, warehouse apartments and most recently a mews cottage in the heart of Peckham. We've been collaborating with Laura since the very beginning, sourcing and installing art for her and her clients, and enjoying every minute of it. Busy with her next project, Laura has taken some time-out to share her experience working as an interior designer and to talk about her own practice as well as art from an interior design perspective.

 

Jorunn Mulen is a painter living and working in Bergen, Norway. With a MA in Illustration & Authorial Practice from Falmouth College of Art, UK, Jorunn's visual narratives are concerned with persona and the complex stories, secrets and histories that manifest on the surface. Showing her work in London, LA, Tokyo and across Italy, Jorunn has received worldwide recognition for her alluring portraiture. To learn more about her artistic practice and the inspiration behind her work, I asked her the following questions.......