Firstly, a huge thank you to all of our contributing artists and the ST.ART team itself. Their incredible talent and efforts are what drives this project and makes such a venture possible.
Welcome to ST.ART, a new magazine dedicated to promoting the work and incredible talent of the University of St Andrews’ community through a uniquely expressive medium. By providing an outlet for students to express themselves artistically, we hope to inspire a multiplicity of perspectives and attitudes in our artists and provoke the kind of thought and debate in our readers that befits the vibrant and charismatic community in which we live. This magazine is an acknowledgement of the power artwork possesses to inspire and entertain as well to draw attention to the issues that concern us all. Whilst we aim to provide each quarterly issue with a general theme, we pledge never to censor or restrict our artists’ attempts to illustrate their views and recognize the deeply personal nature of their contribution. To ensure this we have chosen not to sell commercial advertising opportunities as a means of financial support, as we believe that our limited space should be afforded to the efforts of our contributors uninterrupted and in its entirety. Above all, the aim of ST.ART Magazine is not to make you happy or sad, excited or calm, inspired or dejected, although it may do any or all of those things! The aim simply is to get you to pause. And think. Remember, a picture truly can speak a thousand words. Enjoy.
For further information, artwork and ongoing special features please visit us at www.st-artmagazine.com or email us at startmagazine@st-andrews.ac.uk. We would thoroughly appreciate any support and feedback. Thank you.
PHOTOGRAPH BY Celeste sloman
The winds of change will blow your way; No hope for sun or rain. They twist and turn and strike at you Encircling you with pain. Attack as well they will your plans They whoosh away your dreams They have no answer; they light no path They muffle all your screams. The leaves they whisk up Fall always to the Reasons why they brown Stay reasons never
all around us ground and wither found.Â
For winds to blow; leaves to decay It is the natural order Sprout some wings; fly high above The leaves will seem much smaller. So ride the winds, breathe in their airs With hope you must not part, Winds move us on, and clear leaves from The path to a new start. BY ANON
ILLUSTRATION BY EMMA PARVIAINEN
DRAWING BY JENNI DIMMOCK
PAINTING BY MILLA BRYDEN
PHOTOGRAPH BY JAKE THREADGOULD
ILLUSTRATION BY JAKE WHITEHEAD
PHOTOGRAPH BY Neha shastry
MIXED MEDIA BY MICHELLE AU
PHOTOGRAPH BY ELEANOR QUINN
ILLUSTRATION BY TOBY MARSH
HENNA BY KATHRYN PLUNKETT
PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANCESCA ALTAMURA
ILLUSTRATION BY
Miranda burnett-stuart
PHOTOGRAPHS BY NICOLE horgan
WATERCOLOUR BY Anna steinmann
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It seemed fitting, however clichÊd, to adopt 'new beginnings' as the theme for our first issue. It is an exciting time for everyone, however hectic and stressful. We have just ushered in another academic year. For many this time marks the start of a new adventure and for others the home stretch before bigger and better things. New beginnings are full of prospect and dreams, with change comes a great sense of hope. That is not to suggest that things are crystal clear or easy but a new start beckons. Do not fail to recognize the opportunities of a new beginning, embrace it. A life’s moments are few. Whatever your circumstance we hope that you found something to relate to within this quarter's issue.
DRAWING BY Melis anaturk
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS MELIS ANATURK CELESTE SLOMAN NEHA SHASTRY FRANCESCA ALTAMURA TOBY MARSH JENNI DIMMOCK ANNA STEINMANN JAKE THREADGOULD MICHELLE AU MILLA BRYDEN ELEANOR QUINN JAKE WHITEHEAD EMMA PARVIAINEN KATHRYN PLUNKETT NICOLE HORGAN MIRANDA BURNETT-STUART
THE TEAM Editorial Team Editor in Chief: Toby Marsh Managing Editor: Jenni Dimmock Creative Director: Alex Budman Ass. Creative Director: Marian Casey Copy Editors: Emilia Westlin and Marthe Embretson Online Features Editor: Cheryl McConachie Photography Editors: Neha Shastry and Francesca Altamura Web Designer: Hillevi Gustafson Business and Advertising Team Publisher: Toby Marsh Associate Publisher: Jenni Dimmock Marketing Director: Johanna Pollick Advertising Director: Nicole Horgan Ass. Advertising Director: Sophie Klasan Finance Director: Freddie Edmunds Circulation Director: Kate Schofield
To submit work for next quarter!s issue please email startmagazine@st-andrews.ac.uk THEME
OBSESSION
Art has no other purpose than to brush aside‌the conventional and accepted generalities, in short everything that veils reality from us, in order to bring us face to face with reality itself {Henri Bergson} An artist's job is to say the most with the least {Andrew Hamilton} The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable {Lucian Freud} The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it {Banksy} A picture is a poem without words {Horace} Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it {John Lennon} A man paints with his brains and not with his hands {Michelangelo} An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have {Andy Warhol} A picture is worth a thousand words {Napoleon Bonaparte} A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament {Oscar Wilde} An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world {George Santayana} Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it {Samuel Butler} Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known {Oscar Wilde} Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos {Stephen Sondheim} Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered {Al Capp} Bad artists always admire each other's work {Oscar Wilde} Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea {John Ciardi} Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better {Andre Gide} Let each man exercise the art he knows {Aristophanes} So you see, imagination needs doodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering {Brenda Ueland} Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything {Eugene Delacroix} We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth {John F Kennedy} To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong {Joseph Chilton Pearce} ST.ART MAGAZINE 2011 I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time {Orson Welles} Painting is just another way of keeping a diary {Pablo Picasso} Art is either plagiarism or revolution {Paul Gauguin} Every artist was first an