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Welcome to our biggest and best issue so far, Remedy Issue 4 ‘Colour’. Bursting with inspiration, we celebrate and showcase some of the best talent from across the globe, including Austria, New Zealand and France, not bad for what started out as a London based magazine! It just shows what you can do with determination and real talent. Want to be part of it? Join our group on face book. Want to get featured? Send us a cover letter and examples of your work to mail@remedymag.co.uk. Thank you to all of those who have been supporting Remedy magazine including Computer Arts magazine and all of our national and international readers. We know you’ll love this issue as much as we do, so sit back, relax, and enjoy! Farhana Jaffer
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Remedy Remedy Issue 4 Designed, edited and produced by Farhana Jaffer. Featuring: Ria Dastidar Eric Ouaknine Sebastien Poirier Aleksei Bitskov Greg Alexander Meena Kadri Christopher Koller Ismat Jaffer
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Presenting 10 Aleksei Bitskov
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24 Slumside Colour Meena Kadri 32 Tributes
Disclaimer Reproduction of all editorial/images in any form is strictly prohibited without prior permission. Remedy cannot be held responsible for breach of copyright arising from any material supplied.
34 Introducing Christopher Koller
38 Catch up Ismat Jaffer
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Destiny Remedy gives
a sneak peak of some of the images from the ‘Destiny’ exhibition in France.
“Destiny” is a photographer’s unique interpretation of a moment in time captured by the lens for eternity. The theme of the exhibition foretells the future of the next generation of makeup artists, 06 www.remedymag.co.uk
each creating a harmony of beauty, colour and texture to tell a story using jewellery and decorative accessories. Destiny presents the themes of life and nature using the acute eye of the photographer to reflect a world of human expression and art.” Photographer Eric Ouaknine
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Photographer: Eric Ouaknine Make up / hair: Sebastien Poirier Jewelry: Suna Moya Models: Fiola Lee, Shay David Levy and Rose G. www.remedymag.co.uk
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Aleksei Remedy proudly presents the outstandingly talented Russian illustrator Aleksei Bitskov.
When and why did you start doing illustration? I think everybody was an artist at some stage of his or her life. As a child I created hundreds of masterpieces on paper, walls and in public places, however my illustration period of life started later, at university, where I studied Russian Philology. That time I draw on lectures. A few years later London’s creative vibrations got me into LCC. It was an experimental step, but it changed a lot. Do you have a role model? Yes, I have lot’s of
people. They all have one or two qualities, which I think I have to develop in myself. I see the illustrations and think “Wow, that so cool, and it is similar to what I am doing. And then, wow, it is great, I would never do something like that, but it is really great stuff, and so on. Whose work do you love at the moment? Chinese watercolors, Asian art, contemporary artists and illustrators like Jim Bradshaw, James jean, Roman Dirge, Maurice Sendak, Tuve Jansson and lots more including different kinds of animation. I easily get inspired. It is like falling in love - bang - and you already there. www.remedymag.co.uk
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Where do you see yourself in 10 years from now? Well, hopefully I’m going to be more useful to others. I see myself working in an animation studio, or meditating somewhere in Kathmandu Valley. Through your work you seem to be exploring all sorts of creative avenues, what drives and inspires you? I am like a scientist
these days. I am exploring new illustration approaches, new ways of expression in order to bring something new to this creative field and to get a place here for myself. I am still student after all. What projects are you working on at the moment? I am doing “The shaman’s journey” picture-book for my MA in Camberwell, and beside that creating some stuff for different illustration awards. Some of my work that I did for Macmillan
Children’s Book Award 2009 was highly commended by the judges last month and we had an exhibition at Foyles gallery. What did they tell you at university that was helpful? It was not the words, it was the atmosphere itself which was helpful and inspiring. What didn’t they tell you at university that they should have? Can’t say really. I missed few lectures, to be honest. Do you ever get a ‘creative block’, if so, what do you do to overcome it? Oh, yes it happens. Did you know that right in the centre of a hurricane it’s a calm and relaxing atmosphere? So I
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am just relaxing into that, getting into the centre of the “creative block� and it dissolves. If you imagine yourself as a creative block, you become really creative at this point. In your opinion, what role does illustration play in the big wide world today, what effect does it have on us? Illustration as a form of art might be really close to revealing the nature of all things. Illustration plays with pictures and emotions. During the day we see pictures of this world and we 14 www.remedymag.co.uk
get into all sort of emotions. While changing its form, illustration is always going to be relevant to our lives either like advertisement, fun, education, or any sort of visual creativity. After all our own life is an illustration of our deeds. (e-e-e-e, its too philosophical).
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SLUMSIDE COLOUR Celebrating the vibrant diversity that is India. By Meena Kadri “When I was 6 years old I won a Kentucky Fried Chicken colouring competition and have been involved in Visual Communications ever since. I’m from New Zealand which I’ve always considered a very lucky place to be from. After completing a degree in Anthropolgy and some creative wanderings in film & design I set up a graphic design company: Meanest Indian in the Land and later started teaching design at university. Spent a few years in Hong 24 www.remedymag.co.uk
Kong followed by India for a another couple of years teaching at the National Institute of Design (NID) followed by last year in Europe from where I dabbled in writing for the occasional publication, including Monocle magazine and the Guardian Weekly. Am happiest when global roaming with my eyes wide open and my camera ready for action.” Meera Kadri, Wellington, New Zealand.
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Tributes Remedy takes a look at pioneering people from the past and present, who have achieved incredible things using only their talents. Remedy is dedicated to promoting talent within the creative arts today, but recognizes and commends those who have fought in their own way, using their talents, for a better life, so that today we can live freely, express our talents and are able to achieve incredible heights. This is REAL talent, be inspired‌
Remedy tributes Mary Somerville (1780-1872) Mary Somerville’s family, like many others, thought girls should not be educated. Mary ignored what people thought and taught herself. When she was 15, she became intrigued by an algebra problem in a magazine. She began to listen to her brothers maths lessons as she sewed in the same room, and studied books. Her first husband 32 www.remedymag.co.uk
disapproved of clever women, but died three years after their marriage, leaving Mary enough money to be independent. She continued to study mathematics and astronomy. In 1812, she married William Somerville. He encouraged her work and introduced her to other scientists in London. In 1826, she presented a paper to the Royal Society which described her experiments in solar magnetism. She was regarded as
an academic freak by both men and women, but Mary’s abilities were at least recognized. She was asked to translate many foreign books into English and wrote her own books and papers. The Royal Society placed a bust of Mary in its hall. When Mary died in 1872, women were still not allowed to study at universities in Britain. But 7 years later, several women succeeded in establishing a college just for women at Oxford. They named it Somerville College.
Remedy tributes Harriet Tubman (1821-1913) An incredible woman, who against all odds, with determination and belief, achieved the unthinkable. Harriet Tubman was born a slave in Maryland. From the age of 6 she had to work hard for her owner or be whipped. Harriet longed to escape to the north where she would be free, but she was 28 before her chance came. A Quaker woman who lived nearby heard that Harriet was about to be sold to the Deep South and told her of an escape route. Harriet took it. For two nights and a day, Harriet walked from Maryland into
Delaware to the house she had been told of. Then, she walked again to Wilmington near the border with Philadelphia. Slave catchers were looking out for her, but, disguised as a workman, she walked straight past them to the home of another helper. The next night, she walked into Philadelphia. Harriet often returned to the south to rescue groups of other slaves. She was still legally a slave herself, so she risked great danger. She rescued her brothers and even
her parents. When slavery was at last abolished in 1865, Harriet continued to speak out for the rights of women and newly freed black people. Harriet made nineteen journeys into the south, and led over 300 slaves to safety. When she was asked how it was she was never captured, she replied that she went only where God sent her. www.remedymag.co.uk
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KOLLER
Introducing the freaky, unique and incredibly talented make up artist from Austria, Christopher Kollor. When did you get your first creative idea that led you to want become a make up artist? I’ve always been interested in fashion, but then, when I began studying at a fashion school I really realized my passion when I was 14. For the perfect look not only the outfit counts but the make up also has to be flawless. That’s when I discovered my love for make up. 34 www.remedymag.co.uk
What inspires you? Everything and Nothing. To date, what are you most proud of? That I have done make up for people like Robbie Williams (in Lovelight) without ever actually undergoing a professional training for make up, or any sort of make-up artist school. Describe what it is like to be a make up artist? I love my job. For
me it is being part of a whole, and that’s what is so beautiful about it. Are you conscientious about using cosmetics that have been tested on animals? As sad of an issue that is- I have to be visually oriented and as long as the make up full fills its purpose I would use it-no matter how it has been made or what testing it has undergone.
If you could spend a day with any other make up artist, who would it be? Definitely Pathmac Grath- She made the looks for all the shows and she is as freaky as I am. It would be amazing to be part of her team. Who do you look up to? I look up to people that can go through self-actualization, even in times of financial crisis and to all people that really live their dreams.
What advice do you have for anyone wanting to become a make up artist? To have a high demand for yourself and to be willing to distance yourself from the norm and be different. Be yourself. Make sure that you are aware that in this branch of work, not all that glows or shines is gold.
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Illustrator Ismat Jaffer gives Remedy an update of her latest work. “Recently I have been working on a street wear fashion project for Brag Boutique through university. This project was both 38 www.remedymag.co.uk
a group and solo assignment. The owner of Brag set a brief to design for a specified client, and each group were given someone different to design for. Our group were given SKIPtheatre, a unique
performance theatre company made up of three female Goldsmiths graduates. We set up the label, Betty’s Revenge, and chose the circus as our theme. We were restricted on the colour palette, as we
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of Communication on the 10th of June. I submitted these illustrations as part of my individual work, and they show how the complete look could work along with the garments I have designed.�
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Images by Jacqueline Colley, Sufian Ahmed, Ismat Jaffer and Anneka Sandher.
Remedy is dedicated to promoting real talent within the creative arts, if you think you’ve got what it takes to shine in Remedy, get in contact. Please send a covering letter and examples of your work/ a link to your work online to: mail@remedymag.co.uk Please note, due to high response volumes only successful applicants will be contacted. Good Luck!
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