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23/07/2026

‘Karim Farhat in Conversation with Timothy Gatenby’

At first glance, Tim Gatenby’s paintings are disarmingly funny. Cartoon characters are juxtaposed with art historical compositions, fast-food logos appear beside religious iconography, and familiar images are distorted until they become faintly unsettling. The joke lands immediately, but rarely remains purely humourous.

-MADE IN BED’s Interviews Co-Editor, Karim Farhat

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17/06/2026

‘Alexis Kleeman in Conversation with Rachel Parker’

Rachel Parker is the President of The Society of Women Artists and holds a degree from Cambridge University in Land Economy, focused on property, economics, and law. Rachel first worked as a Chartered Surveyor, then later in Asset Management for nearly ten years, where she learned the importance of communication, relationship management, strategic thinking, and uniting people for a cause. Rachel then took a break from this industry to focus on her family, before pursuing a Diploma in Portraiture at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art in Chelsea. She developed her professional network and exhibition standards, as well as pursuing her passion as an artist inspired by her mother.

MADE IN BED’s Interviews Co-Editor, Alexis Kleeman

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30/05/2026

‘Eliza Palmer in Conversation with Errol Theunissen’

MADE IN BED has the privilege to be joined by Errol T for this interview, as we ask the up-and-coming artist some questions about his recent rise in popularity. His works paint scenes of intimate domesticity, the safe joy of childhood, and the warmth of interpersonal connection. Errol T tells us of his experience in the art world, his close connection to his Zimbabwean heritage, and his goals for the future.

-MADE IN BED’ Editor and SMM, Eliza Palmer

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28/05/2026

‘The Work Doesn’t Stop: Alayo Akinkugbe on Writing, Institutions and Cultural Shifts’

In the wake of 2020, following the murder of George Floyd and the global resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the art world witnessed a surge in attention towards Black cultural production. This moment prompted an urgent reckoning with histories of exclusion, reshaping exhibitions, publishing, and institutional priorities. Yet as quickly as that momentum gathered, it began to recede. In this interview, writer, curator and art historian Alayo Akinkugbe reflected on writing her book Reframing Blackness, navigating the shifting visibility of Black cultural production, and the limits of institutional change. Speaking with us, she considered what remains after the ‘wave’ passes, and why, for many practitioners, the work was never about the trend in the first place.

-MADE IN BED’s Agents of Change Editor, Arielle Etheridge

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21/05/2026

‘Alexis Kleeman in conversation with Alban Leroux’

Alban Leroux is a furniture restoration expert trained in France at the “Association Ouvrière des Compagnons du Devoir du Tour de France, with an official creation date in 1941, but it from Xe century before JC.” Alban now has a workshop in Wallis House, Brentford and has worked on furniture for some of the most prestigious houses and museums in the United Kingdom and France, including Versailles, Chambord, Dumfries House, and Chatsworth House, also known as Pemberley on the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice series. Alban has been restoring historical and creating modern furniture for nearly twenty years and has developed his career as an industry specialist, often working for high-profile clientele and accepting commissions for unique pieces of furniture or installation of textile-covered walls with his unique approach, passion for the craft, and love for creating and preserving furniture and interior decor.

-MADE IN BED’s Interviews Co-Editor, Alexis Kleeman

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20/05/2026

‘Rama Duwaji, Bad Bunny, and the Return of the Metaphysical’

In a constantly turbulent world, celebrities and political figures increasingly function as symbols of the present, embodying both its tensions and its escapist desires. Yet in the portraits of Szilveszter Makó, these figures appear curiously removed from such volatility. By rendering highly visible public figures in states of composed stillness, Makó transforms them into near-metaphysical icons, reflecting a broader cultural impulse to stabilise and aestheticise instability through image-making.

-MADE IN BED’s Features Co-Editor, Xenia Chudinova

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19/05/2026

‘Karim Farhat in Conversation with Andrew McIntosh’

Andrew McIntosh’s paintings feel alive without depicting any life form at all. His solo exhibition I Hope This Transmission Finds You Soon presents colossal mountain landscapes drenched in deep reds and interrupted by glowing celestial forms. We met Andrew at School Gallery in Folkestone during the opening of the exhibition, where he guided us through the paintings before the gallery slowly filled with visitors.

-MADE IN BED’s Interviews Co-Editor, Karim Farhat

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06/05/2026

‘Artist of the Month: Nadia da Silva’

Nadia da Silva is a Portuguese-born artist raised in Canada whose practice explores shifting terrains of identity, culture, and faith, approaching them as unstable forces that continually reshape the self. They investigate what it means to inhabit the feminine body within structures that seek to define it. For Nadia, the body is both an intimate archive and a contested site. Their work embraces beauty, tension, and otherness; they explore conflict, displacement, and memory. Throughout the work, Nadia seeks not to offer solutions but rather to create a suspended field of tension within a world just beyond reach.

-MADE IN BED’s Features Co-Editor, Xénia Chudinova

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01/05/2026

Music as Material: How Sound Shapes Visual Experience in London Exhibitions’

Contemporary exhibition-making has progressively shifted beyond the limits of simply looking, now creating spaces that activate multiple senses through immersive and interdisciplinary approaches. With this shift, sound has evolved into a material in itself, capable of engaging audiences by guiding their movement through space and reshaping how the visual counterparts to sound are perceived. This creative exchange between the audible and visual manifests through two distinct, yet comparable, London exhibitions. In both the V&A East Storehouse and Serpentine Gallery, music no longer functions as a supplementary backdrop, but a crucial component in restructuring how exhibitions are presented, experienced, and understood.

-MADE IN BED’s Features Co-Editor, Ashley McCullers

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30/04/2026

We are now in the Zodiac Season of Ta**us, with Ta**uses thought to be patient, reliable and practical.

Famous Ta**us Artists:
Albrecht Durer
Tamara de Lempicka
Cy Twombly
Salvador Dali

Horoscope for Ta**us:

« 2026 is all about going deep, Ta**us. Your year starts with encouraging you to connect on a more compassionate level with yourself and others. Until mid-February, you’re learning what it means to really show up emotionally, especially with friends and family. Aries, your psychic twelfth house becomes your cosmic classroom, bringing more introspection, solitude, and hopefully healing. This time is less about surface-level self-care and more about confronting fears, cutting emotional burdens, and releasing the baggage that’s been weighing you down.

Your birthday season from late April to late May is a major reset moment, so take full advantage of it. As the sun lights up your first house, you feel re-energized, and a lot more tuned in to your needs. This is a perfect time to set new goals and make a more conscious effort to be happy, whatever that means to you (hint: it doesn’t have to be the same as anyone else). » - Horoscope.com

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