Whispers in Dreams: Exploring the art of Kim Bo Yung
Her drawings serve as a way for her to express her trauma and life experiences, including visitations from what she identifies as "sentinels" in her dreams, her time spent in institutions, and her journey of personal self-discovery…
In Nature, Nothing Dies: The Power of the Death Tarot Card
Every human being fears death, and for good reason. For every new seeker of the Tarot - this card can be a bit tricky to handle. These feelings are usually fuelled by horror plotlines or supersitition…
Finding The Centre: The Interiors Of An Artist by Katie Doherty
I have always looked inward. I was called “thoughtful” and some would say I was always “living in my head”, often portrayed as a negative trait. As an adult I see this very differently now. I see that others were afraid of their own minds and projected that fear onto me…
Esoteric Matter: The Art of Dolorosa de la Cruz
Dolorosa de la Cruz is an artist based in Dublin, Ireland. Her Art is an ongoing enquiry into esoteric matters, capturing phantastical and talismanic mysteries in kinship with the chthonic and elemental through the female sensibility, incorporating ritual, research and visualization through occult practices…
DISORDERLY MAGIC AND OTHER DISTURBANCES by Richard Cabut
When someone describes their work as a meditation on (insert subject here), we expect a slow, quiet meander through thought, theory and maybe the odd jam recipe…
The Art of the Occult: A Visual Sourcebook for the Modern Mystic By S. Elizabeth
Artists have always been creating worlds. They were transforming the mundane into magic via their canvas and welcoming its spirit into the conscious world. This idea that we use what we have and transform it into something else is in essence - creating magic…
Self-publishing: The Women of the Underground by Katie Doherty
Self-publishing has a bad reputation. Those who see self-publishing as an opportunity to create and share art are slowly dismantling the old-fashioned notion that self-publishing is a failure on the artist's part for not being good enough…
Dark Feminine: The Art of Chris Madsen
My love affair with visual imagery took seed while I was working as a graphic designer. I began exploring the attributes that make an image meaningful to the viewer. What went into creating the work that pulled at my heartstrings?
“Apparitions” – Alexa Jade Frankelis and Stephen Romano Gallery
Alexa Jade Frankelis is a researcher and visual artist based in New York City. Before attending Stony Brook University where she received her BA in Art History and Criticism (Hons.), she had also attended the BFA Photography and Video program at the School of Visual Arts…
The Collages of Sacred Cuts
Jodie Day is an analog collage artist from London, UK, who works under the pseudonym ‘Sacred Cuts’. The name represents the ritual process she undertakes and the spiritual journey she embarks on through her work…
The Collection by Nina Leger
Jeanne is on a quest for pleasure. In her “memory palace” there is a plethora of images and descriptions, all of which contain her encounters with men. The men she picks up from the streets of Paris…
HEXENTEXTE - The Labyrinth: A Conversation on Anaïs Nin with Amanda Maciel Antunes & Katie Doherty
This a video recording of our conversation where we took Nin’s short story The Labyrinth, published in Under a Glass Bell (1948) to discuss Antunes and Doherty’s research and responses to Nin’s work with a focus on dreamlife, personal narrative, and pathways through the creative process…
Dark Entries: Surrealist Art by Doug Campbell
“A long time ago, as a child, I found the word ‘surrealist’ in a science fiction novel and asked what it meant. This was the first step on an adventure that continues until this day. I have since made friends with surrealists around the world through correspondence, collective games and contributions to publications and group shows…
The Canvas That Is Life: Poetic Living
In a life drenched in technology, the fast paced wheel of time and pressures of domestic life – leading a poetic life sounds impossible to some. To others it sounds pretentious. To all of human kind – it is a must…
Anaïs Nin in London
“Hello Pussy,” announced Anaïs Nin’s husband Hugh Guiler on Tuesday 27th July 1926 (note the precise date and time she recorded in her diary). “We are going to London tomorrow.” This first visit lasting but all of three days to what the poet T. S. Eliot had recently called an ‘Unreal City,’ is absent from the two major biographies of her life…