Why The Studio is now the engine behind Creative Boom

Aug 25, 2025

IRL Leeds, one of The Studio’s in-person events. Photography by Michael Godsall) Sixteen years on from starting my platform in a spare bedroom, we’re still here to support creatives. But now our private community is powering everything we do… the...

Sandra Poulson’s Haunted House 

Aug 25, 2025

The Surrealists understood that so much depends on context: What is ordinary lining a glove, for instance, becomes grotesque in a teacup. Angolan artist Sandra Poulson — who studied fashion in Lisbon and London, and lives between the latter, Angola’s capital,...

The Life-or-Death Art of Hamad Butt

Aug 25, 2025

LONDON — There is something both frightening and fascinating about a sculpture that could kill you. Hamad Butt’s Familiars (1992) is a series of three sculptures that, if broken, could toxify the air and cause significant harm. “Familiars 3: Cradle” resembles a huge...

The Life-or-Death Art of Hamad Butt

Aug 25, 2025

LONDON — There is something both frightening and fascinating about a sculpture that could kill you. Hamad Butt’s Familiars (1992) is a series of three sculptures that, if broken, could toxify the air and cause significant harm. “Familiars 3: Cradle” resembles a huge...

When Chinese Astrology Becomes Portraiture

Aug 25, 2025

Portraiture has always been a slightly misleading art form. A good portrait gives the viewer the sense that they can peer into the essence of the sitter. It’s a glimpse, a passing moment in a person’s life. But to know someone more fully, we have to...