The Soviet textile artist Anna Andreeva (1917-2008) worked at the Red Rose silk factory in Moscow from the 1940s to the 1980s. Inspired by the Russian avant-garde, primarily the Constructionist movement, her work broke down simplistic divisions between high art and craft. Sean Sheehan The Constructivist movement, taking […]
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From migration to rebirth: A story of pain and liberation
Iranian painter Saye Sohrabi rose from the heart of repression to turn her canvas into a voice for silenced women. Migration wasn’t an escape, it was a rebirth; the awakening of a woman who redefines freedom through art, transforming pain into colour and silence into strength. “True artistry, for me, requires freedom, and I only found that outside Iran”, she says.
Poverty, the hidden driver of prostitution in the United Kingdom
It has become the only option for many women, but discrimination and prosecution are the only ‘solutions’ thrown at this problem of poverty and gender. (The Prisma’s Memoirs) César Amaya Sandino In the United Kingdom around 70% of women in prostitution are single mothers who do not receive […]
Dinner time
Many cookbooks are underused because sections in them – like starters/ hors d’oeuvre, desserts – tend to be given short shrift by those with busy lives and more in need of good ideas for an evening meal than culinary creations that might impress visitors in our home. Sean Sheehan […]
Hybrid voices: art and belonging in multicultural London
The result is hybrid, something different, other; not identical to the originary cultures from the ‘homeland’, and not wholly of British either. I met her on a Friday night. She was helping at a youth project in inner London, to which she had been invited by a mutual friend who […]
















