Artychoke Zine (2025)

22/05/2023

Dear Artychoke Magazine readers, scrollers, supporters and collaborators, this is a quick announcement to say ‘SEE YOU SOON’!

After curating 10 wonderful issues with the astonishing contributions and works of over 60 artists and artistic collectives who have given their time and talent to fill our pages purely for the arts sake, we are taking a pause to digest all what we’ve achieved before we get cooking again.

We are not sure what shape will the future of Artychoke Zine take, but surely a spiky one!!

Keep up with the resistance and up and onwards with the arts!

Big hug,
AZ Team

15/05/2023

Last but not least, we want to share this ‘join the dots’ creation by our wonderful and long time collaborator Adolfo Redaño.

Adolfo is a graphic and motion designer from Barcelona who has been an Artychoke collaborator since our very first issue! Always trying to find his own voice, he prefers having fun than following trends. His nickname ‘noesadrede’ (not on prupose) states his determination to use chance in his creative process.

Follow the link in our bio and treat yourself to our Spring Issue 2023!!

To find out more about Adolfo’s work visit and www.noesadrede.club

02/05/2023

Ella Ballard is a kitchen manager and a baker based in Southsea. She likes exploring flavours, charity shops, cheese, coffee and collecting mugs.

For our Spring Issue 2023 centered around the theme of Abundance & Scarcity we asked her to bake a feature for us and the result is rather tasty, peeps!

‘I found a receipt from 2019 in which butter was £1.49 a block and eggs were £1. Nowadays, I rarely bake. Partly for the fact that it has become my job, but also because it’s become too costly.’

If this excerpt leaves you hungry, head to the link in our bio and get ready to devour Ella’s piece and those of our wonderful pool of collaborators!

26/04/2023

Tim Dunk is an internationally acclaimed photographer capturing images around the world remotely, who we have wanted to spotlight for a while and finally managed to get hold off for our Spring Issue 2023!!!

We asked him to play with the abundance or scarcity of light, and the result are this series of deep, visceral explorations of movement and expression that just seem to keep giving.

Visit Artychoke’s Spring Edition to rejoice in the beauty of Tim’s series and the work of all the artists that have@contributed to it!

Link in Bio or www.artychokezine.com

Models: Rose Lewis | George Bishop

19/04/2023

For our interview feature as part of Artychoke’s Spring Issue 2023, we had the pleasure to converse with Leeds based textile artist Andi Walker.

Using their work with garment and stitched narratives to challenge societal norms around gender and masculine femininity, we discussed the wonders of dressing up, their childhood in 1970s Yorkshire and the dichotomy between abundance and scarcity.

Get yourself a drink, follow the link in our bio and enjoy Andi Walker’s story.

photo credits: Chris Cloag | Boneshaker Photography | Unknown

01/04/2023

‘A proposal from Artychoke Magazine lands into our Years 8 & 11 classrooms at Les Escolàpies del Masnou School in Barcelona, engaging the students into exploring the concepts of Abundance & Scarcity through the visual arts and by the hand of their Arts teacher, Núria Franquet. The students get curious and motivated; excited for the perspective of featuring their art works in an online magazine edited from the UK.’

In light of the more and more precarius working conditions of teachers in the UK and in response to the almost extinct arts subjects from UK educational curriculums, our Spring 2023 Issue features an ‘In Tandem’ collaboration between a group of students and their arts teacher with the purpose of stressing the essential task of educators and the unvaluable impact of offering creative and artistic subjects to our youngsters.

Enjoy the fabulous outcomes of their explorations around Abundance & Scarcity through the link in our bio.

Happy scrolling and happy Saturday!

📷Núria Franquet & Xavier Franquet

17/02/2023

For our Winter Issue 2022 guest edited by in collaboration with the Year 3 students at , the young artists played with photography, poetry, music, movement, interview writing and even CLAY, guided by a bunch of professional artists.

By the hand of Michaela Lesayova, the kids explored muck, magic and mushrooms. After a trip to the forest school in the tipping down rain, each young artists received a slab of clay to experiment with.

Follow the link in our bio and check out our wonderful Winter Issue containing all their creations and get inspired!

24/01/2023

Hey! After a quiet time over the festivities we are back and ready to keep shouting about our Winter issue 2022, co-edited by Izzy Brittain in collaboration with the Year 3 students at Clifton Green Primary School.

Guided by photographer and social arts practitioner Coralie Datta, the kids got out and about, exploring the school grounds, practising observational and photography skills in search of the perfect cover photo, and here’s a selection of their fantastic images!

This issue - which content is all created by the kids - was part of The Institut of Everything by in collaboration with and lead by in collaboration with a bunch of artists from a variety of disciplines. Scroll through the Winter issue and treat yourself to some wonderfully creative art! Link in bio

21/12/2022

Right, our Winter Issue 2022 is out and is a wrap-up! Here at Artychoke, we are walking out of 2022 through the front door and this edition is without a doubt the ultimate door slam.

Our Winter Issue 2022 has been curated and guest edited by the unique and freakingtastic Izzy Brittain, and an inspiring bunch of Year 3 students from Clifton Green Primary School.

By the hand of Izzy and artists from a variety of disciplines, the young artists have created content, devised interviews, taken photographs, dirtied their hands in clay and immersed themselves into the wonders of the arts. Now, all their creations are for you to enjoy!

BIG THANKS to everyone who made this possible! Our hearts are full and are minds are stimulated!

Merry Christmas and an Arty New Year to you all!!

26/10/2022

Everett Pace wakes up sad and tries remembering that painting people and connecting with them in some level makes him happy.

An artist living in Brooklyn, New York City, Everett often has pastels on him in case a moment or encounter feels striking enough to try and capture on paper before it slips away. He’s not sure this brings him further in or out of the moment, but seems worth it when it’s happening.

Our Autumn Issue 2022 features a collection of his ‘Slippery Moments’ series from a trip he recently took with his best friends. He says that ‘drawing characters along the way made me feel less of an outsider.’

Take a walk through Everett’s trip by the hand of his instant patel portraits!

LINK IN BIO to our AUTUMN ISSUE

1.- The big dig
2.- Are You Waiting For Me To Leave?
3.- This Is What We Call a Finding
4.- The One I Want Is Booked
5.- The Real Revolution Is To Maintain Our Humanity

22/10/2022

Lewis Edwards, aka Eye.Fly.Art, is an artist, traveller and community worker. With roots in Yorkshire, his path has taken him through around forty countries; six of which he’s called home.

Dive into Lewis’s journey through the ‘bigger beauties and bastards of the world’ by way of our selection of his paintings featured in Artychoke’s Atumn Issue 2022.

Follow the link in our bio and discover the twisted and detailed work of .fly.art !!

18/10/2022

For our Autumn Issue 2022 dedicated to MIGRATION, we conversed with three wonderful women who shared their stories of migration with us.

Bintan Titisari is one of them; an indonesian textile maker and lecturer who, encouraged by her parents romantic stories about the old continent, move to Europe to study a Phd. Bintan now lives halfway between the asian archipelago and the UK, leading a complex yet fascinating hybrid life.

Read our full conversation with her through the link in our bio!

14/10/2022

As part of our Autumn Issue 2022 dedicated to MIGRATION, we spoke with three wonderful women who shared their stories of migration with us.

Tanya Bogdanovska is one of them; a digital artist from Ukraine who, in the space of forty-eight hours, had to evacuate her apartment in Kiev, leave her homeland against her will and start anew.

Read our full concersation with her through the link in our bio!
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11/10/2022

For our Autum Issue 2022 dedicated to MIGRATION, we interviewed three wonderful women who’ve shared their stories of migration with us.

Mahshid Alavi is one of them; an iranian dancer, photographer and filmmaker. The censorship and repression that artists - specially if female identifying - have to endure in Iran pushed her to move away and seek freedom elsewhere.

Read, share and spread her story through the link in our bio!

22/09/2022

Hey-ho! Our autumn issue is ready to go!

Our Autumn issue zooms into the notion of migration. A concept that first entered our cognition on the wings of swallows flying south in the winter, salmon battling upstream and turtles returning perennially to lay their eggs on the same beach.

Poignantly, and as we have aged and opened our ears to rest of the world, the meaning of migration has evolved from the wanderings of fauna to encompass the movement of people. Migration out of choice, for money, for love, for greater opportunities, for safety.

This issue explores art that centres on the migratory experience and crucially work by migrant artists. Whether pulled by the lure of a new place, or pushed by the forces within, migration is infused within the core of their work and we're excited for you to discover it.

Enjoy!

06/08/2022

Hey Resistors! Artychoke Zine needs you! We’re on the lookout for visual artists (of any discipline) for the cover of our Autumn Issue. Previous issues have featured the work of illustrator Mar Torrano, photographer Mar Casanovas, textile artist Rowan Riley and tattoo artist Albert Puigcercós. Please read full description below!

The Autumn Issue’s theme is Migration and the cover must also include an artichoke. Submissions must also consider that the magazine title, issue number, and tagline will be superimposed over the image, but you do not have to include this in your submission. The theme of migration can be interpreted in any way that you like, whether that's the migration of people, animals or movement in general.
 If successful:
We will contact you after 31st August, and your work will feature in the Autumn issue publishing on 21st September 2022.  Your work will always be yours, no matter whether you’ve submitted something pre-existing or an original work for Artychoke. We will share your work on our Instagram and Facebook, and it will be featured on our website indefinitely first as the current issue, and then as a past issue. We will always credit you, and we would appreciate that for any original works created for Artychoke if you could also credit/mention Artychoke Magazine, so we can continue sharing the love.   Here’s what you need to know to apply:
The Autumn Issue's theme is Migration.
All pieces submitted must relate to this theme, and also include an artichoke.
Any form of visual art accepted.
To apply: Please send your cover, along with a 20 word bio and any social media links you have to [email protected]
Deadline to apply: 31st August 2022  If you have any access needs or queries please get in touch.

06/07/2022

The ‘Spotlight’ feature of our Summer issue shines on Marianne Tuckman and her one-woman-show ‘The Dirt’. Marianne is a choreographer, performer, facilitator, and writer based between Berlin and Leeds. The communication of stories is what motivates her to make work that combines humour, poetic metaphors, guttural dancing and chat.

Her solo show ‘The Dirt’ responds to the CLIMATE EMERGENCY and the way it has invaded our most intimate spaces: our homes, our bodies and our visions of the future.

Check our Summer issue and find out more about Marianne and her honest, humorous and intimate work. Link in BiO.

| www.mariannetuckman.hotglue.me

27/06/2022

John Cloake is a Bedfordshire based artist, using print techniques, ink and watercolour. His work focusses on human self-expression, from the warmly sensual to the starkly political.

Our Summer issue 2022 showcases John’s poignant print series on Climates Crisis.

From John: ‘You would think that addressing the Climate Crisis would be the prime efforts of governments globally, yet incredibly it still feels like a resistance movement.’

Check out the full series of these bold and necessary linocut prints through the link in our bio or visit www.artychokezine.com

Find out more about John’s work at & www.johncloake.com

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