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Firstly, another 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 the third issue of ST.ART Magazine, a visually driven independent art magazine dedicated to promoting and exhibiting the creative talent of St. Andrews. As a platform to showcase the raw talents and inspired work of its contributing artists, ST.ART strives to champion creative freedom and vision. We are already in our second semester and working on the fourth printed issue and our joint exhibition with The ArtSociety, as part of the On The Rocks Festival. We hope to see you all there and, with your continued interest and support, we will be able to ensure that ST.ART becomes a platform that will do justice to the unbelievable creativity this town has to offer. 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.startmagazine.com or email us at startmagazine@standrews.ac.uk. We would thoroughly appreciate any support and feedback. Thank you.
MIXED MEDIA BY ANNA GUDNASON
“Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some detail; others are exaggerated according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.” Tennessee Williams. We all have memories that take us back; comforting thoughts of the happiest of times: connections to childhood, past romances, fleeting moments to whole lifetimes. The very slightest of things can remind us of those moments for always, those stages in our lives that seem to portray life at its best. A homey location, familiar face or rediscovered photo can inspire a rosy glow, that romanticized ‘warm fuzzy feeling’. Nostalgia is comforting, allowing us to indulge in times well spent. But be wary, it is also misleading. It implies disaffection. A disaffection with life at present and the desire to be lost in our past.
PAINTING BY Galina Netylko
PHOTOGRAPHY BY Celeste sloman
ILLUSTRATIONBY EMMA PARVIAINEN
PHOTOGRAPHY BY Johanna alltimes
CHILDISH PROBLEMS Economised furniture. Pink sofa covers, Stretched, to a perfect degree So that the edges did not bulge, And there were no sags, no sags. "Quietly.” Your Dad would tell me, "Shut the door” "Don't let the heat out, no don't..."
You always had guests in the guest room. We didn't have or need one. None of you were cooped up in your little cages With blinds for bars. I was two-in-one, Your mother's pet, My mother's hate. I wish it was like that now, But people saw the real me, Including you.
"Let me out.” You won't call or text me, And the time he shouted, Because I called you up And I stood, On all the stupid things Fake-shaking You do. For dramatic affect. But you all took it too seriously, But I guess it's alright now. I was destined to be the weak one. I got what I deserve. Your house was never my home How we'd all sit around the oblong And I was a fool for treating it table, so. And the food would smell good, But the seeds, BY RADHAIKA KAPUR Uch, the black grey seeds, I crunched And the bitter taste exploded And repulsed all my senses. And your room, With the fluffy cushions, And slide-out desk. You would always give me something From your purple drawers. It was special to me, And always smelt good: My mum won't use soap powder, Your mum buys it in huge cartons Pours it freely. Soapy, overtly clean bubbles Everywhere.
MIXED MEDIA BY SARAH MORTON
DRAWING BY Eliza prangley
PAINTING BY Anna steinmann
PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHARLOTTE ADLARD
DRAWING BY MELIS ANATURK
PHOTOGRAPHY BY Sage lancaster
DRAWING BY Cheryl mcConachie
DRAWING BY Jenni dimmock
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALEX BUDMAN
GRAPHICS TABLET PAINTING BY Monica burns
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ELEANOR QUINN
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY Renata grasso
PHOTOGRAPHY BY HASTINGS woolston
MIXED MEDIA BY LIZ JONAS
PHOTOGRAPHY BY NEHA SHASTRY
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS ANNA GUDNASON GALINA NETYLKO CELESTE SLOMAN EMMA PARVIAINEN JOHANNA ALLTIMES SARAH MORTON ANNA STEINMANN CHARLOTTE ADLARD HASTINGS WOOLSTON MELIS ANATURK ALEX BUDMAN SAGE LANCASTER CHERYL MCCONACHIE JENNI DIMMOCK MONICA BURNS ELEANOR QUINN RENATA GRASSO LIZ JONAS NEHA SHASTRY
WEDNESDAY 18th APRIL BARRON THEATRE
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 OUR FINAL PRINTED issue please email startmagazine@st-andrews.ac.uk
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