ARTAKSINIYA / GO FIGURE / POSTURE

ARTAKSINIYA / GO FIGURE I think we all try to  express our inner world by different means. It`s a matter of disposition.  I show my entity by drawing. I love it because it helps to incarnate bodiless ideas swarming in my head into something palpable.  I draw until my eyes tell me to stop. You  know this [...]

FRIDAY LATE, ‘BEATONESQUE’ DRAWING WORKSHOP.

Less ‘Beaton-esque’ in style but certainly ‘Bright Young Things’ in spirit, our drawing workshop at the V&A Friday late was lots of fun.  Armed with a work sheet and many with a glass of wine it was nice to see the boldness with which most people tackled the page and the subject.  6 people drawing [...]

GOING ‘BEATON-ESQUE’.

As part of the V&A Friday late project celebrating the work of Cecil Beaton ,  the editor of  Slashstroke Magazine David Poole will be running a fashion illustration work shop. Come along and have a go if you think your ‘Beaton-esque’ enough.  This Friday the 24th 6:30 to 9:30pm. Lots of other events on as well.

MAARTEN VAN DER HORST/ SS12

MAARTEN VAN DER HORST / CHIC SHAM Words we use often at Slashstroke Magazine are clunky, mash up, right side of wrong and fun, not clever words but you get it, we like our information slightly twisted but its always a celebration of instinct and oddness combined with dedication and skill. The energy of how [...]

CURATING CHANGE

CURATING CHANGE: REMOTE SPACE Accessibility of ideas is of course a good thing but beyond the mass of personal blogs of  borrowed references it is becoming increasingly harder to establish a sense of origin and context. But the open space of shared information has made way for the rebirth of the Curator, recognising  the opportunity [...]

HAPPY 2012′s

HAVE AN EVENTFUL TWENTY TWELVE ! /-