Flux Pavilion – UK Tour
Josh Steele, aka Flux Pavilion, kicked off his 13-date headline “Standing On A Hill” tour in Cardiff last night. Check out a bit of background on the man and pick up tickets from Ticketmaster or Livenation to go to what should be a huge event. He was one of the founding members of Circus...
Saturday at Screentest
The Saturday at Screentest continued to demonstrate the vast talent of the student film-makers through the inventive and unique films that we viewed. Unique was certainly the word to describe the experimental film screening which was our first stop. Experimental films are known to contain hidden meanings or strong imagery that can either engage the...
StArt Chart – March
The StArt Chart is back and we have decided to reduce the amount of artists featured to bring you a compact, focused selection of the best up and coming artists out there every month. It wasn’t easy compacting it down to 5 this month as there a lot of new faces out there bring something...
Album Review – Guided by Voices
2011 may very well be remembered in music history as the year of re-unions, as we witnessed (amongst others) the likes of Pulp, The Darkness and even The Stone Roses getting back together. But Guided by Voices have bucked the trend by actually releasing an album, and in double quick time as well one might...
A Photographer’s Fashion Week
To give you more of an insight into what we as a team are up to at StArt, we’re going to cut out the middle man and write some of our own articles, so expect to see some updates from myself (Jack), Jonny and Kate in the near future. I’m kicking things off with a...
Freemans Fashion Writing Competition
At StArt Magazine we’re all about trying to get your work out there in the world, and if we can’t help, then we’re happy to point you to the people that can. That’s why we’ve become an official associate of the Freemans Fashion Writing Competition. Fashion is a key agenda here at StArt and so...
David Vail
David Vail is a 2nd year Editorial and Advertising Photography student at Cheltenham University in Gloucestershire. David works between Cheltenham and London and predominantly shoots fashion photography. We caught up with him to ask him a few questions. The images provided are from one of David’s most recent projects entitled ‘Bedlam’. How did...
One Down
The image above shows the cover of The Sun newspaper 8 days ago following the inevitable killing of Muammar Gaddafi by the rebel forces that had hunted him so mercilessly. While Gaddafi was indisputably an evil dictator, what cannot be ignored is the space of time between this cover, and the featured image for this...
The StArt Chart
Here at StArt magazine we thought, what kind of self-respecting magazine would not have a recurring, rhyme-based article? And so the StArt Chart was born, in all it’s poetic glory! Written by our very own Jonathan Baker, the idea of said ‘StArt Chart’ is to compile a monthly top 10 list of the up-and-coming artists...
Student Profile: Alex Finlay
Name: Alex Finlay University: Nottingham Trent Course: Photography BA (Hons) How did you become interested in photography? My interest began when I decided to take the subject on at A-level. I bought my first camera shortly beforehand and began to teach myself by trial-and-error and gradually improved. I really enjoyed studying photography at A-level...
Primary Colours
Marianne McGurk is a fine art fashion photographer who uses 3-D design to create handmade objects, costumes and scenes referencing intrigue, surrealism and the fantastical. Marianne’s work confronts the viewer with identities or in some cases the lack of, which brings intrigue, producing images which are fascinating and thought-provoking. Marianne studied Fine Art Sculpture at...
Our Man in Moscow
Elliot Murphy, studying English at the University of Nottingham, has provided StArt magazine with an incredibly informative discussion on New Labour’s support of Russian atrocities in Chechnya. Tony Blair’s friendly relationship with Vladimir Putin since his election has elicited ‘British complicity in some of the worst horrors of our time’, writes Mark Curtis – namely, Russian state terrorism in Chechnya,...
