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Artist Sarah Graham on raising awareness for bipolar disorder and how art saved her life

Creative Boom

She attempted suicide by overdose twice between 2005 and 2015 until she was sectioned in 2017 and then reclassified as Type 1 bipolar. If you want to pop along to Sarah Graham's upcoming show, you can visit Arkley Fine Art gallery in Hitchin from June. To discover more about her work, visit sarahgraham.info.

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Colourful portraits celebrate the success of London's refugee entrepreneurs

Creative Boom

All have had to overcome adversity to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams in sectors ranging from fashion and fine art to food and beverage and social impact. Lightcraft Family Razieh Then there's Max, a Sri Lankan Tamil who sought asylum in the UK in 2015 and faced persecution and mistreatment before battling PTSD.

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Craig Berry on working for Nomad & how changing cities has helped push his creative skills & confidence

Creative Boom

Fresh back from Amsterdam, where he previously worked as a junior designer for Superunion and later Ogilvy Social.Lab, Craig Berry is now part of the team at Nomad , the rising London studio founded by Stuart Watson in 2015. Up until then, I studied Fine Art. We discover more about his journey so far.

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F5: Leyden Lewis Loves the Internet, Pork Belly Buns + More

Design Milk

They specialize in creating poetic, culturally sensitive spaces that emphasize the importance of fine arts, design, and structure. One of the things I love about collecting art is its ability to communicate ideas and reflect feelings. What fine art refers to as “mediums,” architecture calls “technologies.”

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Diverse Expressions: 5 Artwork Themes to Discover at The Other Art Fair Brooklyn This May

Colossal

Carrie Lipscomb, “Blocks (small)” (2024), thread on fine art paper Embossed and Embroidered Guided by pure geometries, Brooklyn-based mixed-media artist Carrie Lipscomb explores space and texture, urging viewers to engage with the subtleties in found materials.

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Wildlife Intertwine in Finely Rendered Mythological Worlds by Lauren Marx

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“From Our Flesh” diptych (2015), Pen, ink, colored pencil, graphite, and gel pen, 17.75 ” Marx studied Fine Art at Webster University and draws inspiration from zoology, mythology, scientific illustration, and Northern Renaissance themes. . x 10 inches.

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Daniel Shaffer on drawing as attention seeking and a lifetime of Cartoon Network

Creative Review

.” Today it’s also how he pays the rent, having pursued illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Shaffer has been working as a freelancer since graduating in 2015 and boasts a client list including the likes of the New York Times, the Washington Post, OkCupid, Adweek and Wieden + Kennedy.