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Arts festivals


EAST MEETS FEST: How Europe's biggest free arts festival dipped a toe outside of the mainstream.


TRANS BELFAST: The four week long festival offering a foot up in the creative industries.




Body art


AAZMEEN SINGH: Video: She's still only 20, but Aazmeen Singh has already been practising as a professional henna artist for five years. She talks through her creative process and the cultural influences on her work.


MAKING A MARK: Video: Helen of Skullduggery Tatu knows a thing or two about handy needlework.




Collectives


UNDERCOVER: All designer-makers should join Hidden Art if they want their work to go global.


DIGITAL ART STUDIOS: Cutting edge technology right at your fingertips.


PLATS-FORM: The not so lonely life of an artist.




Curating


CRADLE TO CURATOR: For artist Helen Sharp, being a curator is a fascinating insight into people, places and praxis.


SHOP TILL YOU DROP: Taking inspiration from punk boutiques like SEX, A.M.U.T.I. invites all-comers to bring their work along and they'll try and sell it for you.




Exhibitions


IS IT ART?: What is artist Yara El-Sherbini playing at when she turns up at a pub as the quizmistress. Nathan Lyons delves for the answer.


THE ART OF CONSUMERISM: Artist Kate Pemberton strips down the relationship between art and consumerism to find head-turning ways to bring original work to Selfridges' shoppers.


SONOROUS FORMS: Video: A 22 screen digital 'Wave' forms part of Threshold artspace in Perth Concert Hall, and is home to Scotland's only permanent collection of contemporary digital art.




Graffiti


OFF THE STREET AND INTO THE BANK: Scotland is home to some of the hottest graffiti artists around. And some of them are actually earning a living from their art.




Installations


TUNNEL VISION: Our intrepid reporter Dan Davies takes a trip into the netherworld with Fierce artist Luke Jerram, who has used Birmingham's forgotten subterranean network of tunnels and shafts to create a catacomb installation of lost spaces.


BLOOMER'S BOGS: Video: Paddy Bloomer's penchant for assembling curious contraptions from found objects has produced many weird and wonderful results.


PROJECTING A VISION: Paul Clarke takes you deep into the weird and wonderful world of post-industrial design spaces with audio visual collective Modulate.


MURALS MATTER: Mark Ervine and Danny Devenny are two muralists with colourful pasts.




Sculpture


TAKING ON BROADWAY: Oregon artist Ed Carpenter is set to transform Belfast's cityscape with his towering Trillian sculpture making the Westlink traffic chaos worthwhile.




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