Glesni Trefor Williams

University of Bologna Master’s graduate in Arts and Culture Management, experience in various contemporary art scenes including La Biennale di Venezia, Fondazione MAST and Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Her writing focuses on the evolution of contemporary visual arts and their interlinked exhibition spaces.

Lampoon, Joanna Vanderham is wearing Fendi total look. Photography Andy Hoang, styling Kayleigh Swan

«More death, more sex, more politics», the second season of Irvine Welsh’s Crime

Psychedelic, hypnotic: the all-consuming screens of Yuri Ancarani’s Atlantide 2017-2023

Cityscapes and empty bleach bottles; Hicham Gardaf, In Praise of Slowness

Controversial, Shakespearean: Sonia Boyce wants the public to talk, reflect and react

Absurdity, masculinity, and a nude Cary Grant: Kurt Kauper’s take on painting

Paul Smith: Boring when a product is sustainable. If it’s not, it’s a problem

Adam Jones: stitching together Britpop, pub-chic and the Union Jack into sweater vests

From self-irony to eroticism to cultural identity, Julie Poly’s artworks do not shy away

Garogosi, wearable sculptures leading the way on sustainable practice in jewelry making

Lorenzo Vitturi’s art blurs the line between reality and fiction through hybrid creations

Nikola Uzunovski – the Macedonian artist prompts a dialogue between man and his surrounding environment

History of Night and Destiny of Comets, Gian Maria Tosatti – from a provincial to an urban asset

«The idea of transparency can be ideological and political» David Spriggs talks with Regine Schumann

Capturing chaos on unprimed linen. The lysergic still life canvas of Pedro Pedro, California

Body positivity – From architect to visual artist, from Moscow to Milan

Are we ever completely still? Yann Marussich’s investigations of immobility through performance

The Kingdom Choir – the British choir reintroducing Gospel music into the mainstream

Oway – «Don’t Black Out The Future»: a manifesto against wasteful design and consumer habits

Is ‘under observation’ a synonym for ‘safe’? Aldo Giannotti presents Safe and Sound

Mostyn Gallery, North Wales. Being at the periphery of the art market is a blessing

It could be a political agenda: flowers to investigate African historical narratives

Lampoon / Transition – Patrick Procktor, a British artist in the 60s, is still leading the way

Glesni Trefor Williams

cinema

«More death, more sex, more politics», the second season of Irvine Welsh’s Crime

In conversation with Scottish actor and producer Joanna Vanderham as she delves into her role, working alongside Irvine Welsh and future plans in the industry

Glesni Trefor Williams

Exhibitions, the art field

Psychedelic, hypnotic: the all-consuming screens of Yuri Ancarani’s Atlantide 2017-2023

In conversation with Italian video-maker Yuri Ancarani, as he navigates modern-day Venice, the push and pull relationship with nature, and loneliness

Glesni Trefor Williams

Exhibitions, the art field

Cityscapes and empty bleach bottles; Hicham Gardaf, In Praise of Slowness

In conversation with award-winning Moroccan contemporary photographer Hicham Gardaf, whose eyes examine the transformations of social spaces

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Humanities, the art field

Controversial, Shakespearean: Sonia Boyce wants the public to talk, reflect and react

In conversation with award-winning British artist Sonia Boyce, as she navigates through Black British history and its relationship to the present day

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Humanities, the art field

Absurdity, masculinity, and a nude Cary Grant: Kurt Kauper’s take on painting

«All great paintings are great whether it’s Giotto or Picasso because of the way the volumes move through space». In conversation with American painter Kurt Kauper

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call to action, Exhibitions

Paul Smith: Boring when a product is sustainable. If it’s not, it’s a problem

Architecture had already arrived at minimalism, but not in car design – Sir Paul Smith in conversation with Oliver Heilmer, head of MINI Design

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Collections

Adam Jones: stitching together Britpop, pub-chic and the Union Jack into sweater vests

«The next collection will be more granny, more Welsh – your Nain going down to the pub with a lace collar on, and she’s drinking a pint». The punk nostalgic by Adam Jones

Glesni Trefor Williams

Exhibitions, Humanities

From self-irony to eroticism to cultural identity, Julie Poly’s artworks do not shy away

The artistic meeting at the intersection between fashion and pseudo-documentary photography. In conversation with Ukrainian visual artist Julie Poly

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call to action

Garogosi, wearable sculptures leading the way on sustainable practice in jewelry making

Capturing a moment in glacier history: British artist Sevan Garo Nigogosian brings together man and glacier in his one-off wearable sculptures

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Lorenzo Vitturi

Lorenzo Vitturi’s art blurs the line between reality and fiction through hybrid creations

Creating new meaning through art «My work is a continuous research, combining elements that could not coexist in the real world due to nature or geography»

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Digital intelligence, Exhibitions

Nikola Uzunovski – the Macedonian artist prompts a dialogue between man and his surrounding environment

I travelled from Italy to the Meteorology Department at the University of Helsinki in Finland to study the arctic climate, its temperature, wind speed and humidity, to understand which materials could be incorporated in the artificial sun

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Exhibitions

History of Night and Destiny of Comets, Gian Maria Tosatti – from a provincial to an urban asset

In conversation with Gian Maria Tosatti. A reflection on the Italian industrial landscape and man’s relationship with his immediate and less-immediate environment

Glesni Trefor Williams

Humanities, Lampoon issue 25

«The idea of transparency can be ideological and political» David Spriggs talks with Regine Schumann

Visual artists David Spriggs and Regine Schumann discuss the role of transparency, both in its physicality and concept: fFrom material, to object, to luminance constraints

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Capturing chaos on unprimed linen. The lysergic still life canvas of Pedro Pedro, California

«Online everything becomes flat, which is how many people consume art today and I think my paintings work well seen via the digital». Bringing back the still life for digital consumption

Glesni Trefor Williams

Exhibitions

Body positivity – From architect to visual artist, from Moscow to Milan

Former architect turned visual artist, Tatiana Brodatch explores love and nudity: «My plasticine people are the actors. The photographs and the stop-motion are the play»

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Humanities

Are we ever completely still? Yann Marussich’s investigations of immobility through performance

«My work is about pain, accepting it, going with the flow of pain, to not feel it, not be affected by it, and this has been my work for over thirty years»

Glesni Trefor Williams

Humanities

The Kingdom Choir – the British choir reintroducing Gospel music into the mainstream

«We came in as strangers and we left as family»: The The Kingdom Choir was on stage in Milano, in Via Spiga, for a celebration made possible by Ralph Lauren

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call to action

Oway – «Don’t Black Out The Future»: a manifesto against wasteful design and consumer habits

«Don’t consume the future, consume responsibly», Oway’s commitment to go beyond with sustainable cosmetic products, design and distribution

Glesni Trefor Williams

Exhibitions

Is ‘under observation’ a synonym for ‘safe’? Aldo Giannotti presents Safe and Sound

Our blasé attitude towards the overuse of technology, can in turn become state surveillance, mass collection of personal data

Glesni Trefor Williams

Wales

Mostyn Gallery, North Wales. Being at the periphery of the art market is a blessing

Llandudno, a seaside town on the Northern Wales coastline, Lady Augusta Mostyn, gave the first donation – in 2010, the gallery reopened its doors after a £5 million refurbishment

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Humanities

It could be a political agenda: flowers to investigate African historical narratives

Flowers for Africa is the winning project of the Prix Marcel Duchamp. Kapwani Kiwanga is urging the public to question existing historical narratives in African decolonization

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Lampoon issue 23

Lampoon / Transition – Patrick Procktor, a British artist in the 60s, is still leading the way

Post-war, post-austerity, and post-conscription: the oil paintings, watercolors and photographs of Patrick Procktor testifying societal change in 1960s Britain