Category: Art

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle

Loitered Lens: Public Image Limited

Bowie may have snubbed the closing ceremony, Fatboy Slim may have been caught miming by the second loop of the supposedly live soundtrack, and the faint strains of the Sex Pistols may well have been...

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Loitered Lens: Drunken Balordi [Photos]

'The night started with what appeared to be an Irish folk band taking the stage – Drunken Balordi comprised a singer/acoustic guitarist wearing an Irish pub t-shirt, bass guitarist, violinist,...

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[NSFW] John Palatinus: Vintage Male Physique

“There was a whole group, a small community of dedicated people who wanted to show their progress. I think it is important when you are young and beautiful to be photographed so you can look back...

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Loitered Lens: Jurojin

'Although during the first few songs, they came across as your standard four-piece doomy metal band with powerful vocals and formulaic song structures, when their turbaned tabla drums player joined...

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Loitered Lens: The Members

The Members are: JC Carroll, Chris Payne and Rat Scabies...

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Araxie Kutchukian: Beyond

Araxie likes to keep it fresh, sees her paintings as a platform, a stage for the contemporary and antique at the same time. Changing scales and working against the viewer’s expectations make her...

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Metropolis; Hawks and Sparrows; Pigsty

In a nice antidote to blockbuster season, there is much food for thought to be had in three of this week's DVD releases. (I doubt the debate surrounding the Batman shooting will last for long, and...

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Korean Eye 2012: Saatchi Gallery

This month there are many things inspiring me, but one that really catches the eye is the arrival of contemporary Korean art from 33 artists including Debbie Han, Seon Ghi Bahk, Ji Yen Lee and Myung...

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Ben Young: Victory Gallery, Oregon

Ben Young i think i’m free When I was given the role of art writer for Trebuchet magazine I knew instantly that I wanted to write about new and emerging artists to relay exhibitions that people...

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Invisible in London: Understanding Invisible Art

Anyone living in London will have noticed that in preparation for the Olympic Games, a myriad of shiny new buildings, facades and artworks are materializing all over our City. This weekend I...

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Loitered Lens: Americana International

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the...

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About Trebuchet

Honest and Unmerciful. What do you want to think? What you read makes you what you are. Sounds a bit strident we know, but we believe it....

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Rock and Roll Poet – Mike ‘Stick’ Tyler.

Something of a mystery, Mike Tyler has a sort of brash appeal that comes close to being the ironic supernova of the archetypal hipster. With Erection Mike Tyler’s latest ‘release’,...

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Kids Company: Royal Academy of Arts

Homelessness, abuse, poverty. Who do you envisage? How can they put themselves in this situation? Why don’t they just get a job like everyone else? Today’s society has become accustomed to these...

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Loitered Lens: Roddy Radiation

'Roddy Radiation may have played guitar in The Specials, but when you’re watching his band, the Skabilly Rebels, do Specials songs without Terry Hall, it feels more like watching a wedding covers...

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Yann Novak/Robert Crouch: Fata Morgana

Yann Novak’s last artwork, the album Presence, was an impressive tableau of ambient noise, deeply evocative and intriguing, yet desperately missing a visual element. A multimedia artist working...

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Tinsel Edwards & Twinkle Troughton: A Mini Retrospective

A kidnapped banker, an some escaped fairies and a body of work that has sprung from a duo of artists who’ve collaborated since childhood…. Until the 19th July, artists Tinsel Edwards...

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Loitered Lens: Screamin’ Sugar Skulls

‘a nightmarish peek into a world our parents warned us about if we were caught masturbating, didn’t finish our homework, eat our greens or say our prayers at bedtime’. So says Col. Jon,...

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Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill signing

GOSH IT’S A HIPPY Sightings of the world’s best known comic writer are rarer than hen’s teeth these days. Gosh were honoured by his presence on a cloudy Saturday afternoon, seated...

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Loitered Lens: The Damned

Founding members of The Damned, Brian James & Rat Scabies, performed the classic first Damned album Damned Damned Damned in its entirety...

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The Victorian English Gentlemens Club + Fever Fever : Live

'Every review calls us a "Norwich three-piece"…. No, "FEMALE-FRONTED Norwich three-piece"….' Fever Fever bemoan halfway through their set. And I guess this...

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Pandamonium : Signal Gallery

The rather cheeky Signal Gallery has challenged all of us, from the panda lovers to the miserable cynics, to see this exhibition and remain with our hearts unmelted. They believe it can’t be...

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Loitered Lens: The Indegenerates [photos]

'they worked so well together it was hard to believe they had barely reached puberty. Sweat and sebum, hormones and hairgel – it never gets old. If you like great new fresh rock and roll...

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Ian Francis: 10,000 Years from Now

The degraded space shown in Francis' work appears aged, as the layered scenes hang on the canvas, caught in motion, peeling with time and abrasive in action. ...

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CONCEPTION: An exhibition to create dialogue and duplicity

Two artists, two cultures, two cities, two media. In this two-part exhibition spanning London and Belfast, the vibrant, acid coloured figurative canvases of Darren MacPherson are hung alongside...

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Emma Sywyj: Malaysia [Photos]

‘The unnatural colours came out my interest in the kitsch nature I found there. Again the town I was in was abundant in nature with jungles, mountains and tropical islands. Yet the town was...

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Loitered Lens: Happy Mondays [Photos]

Photos of the Happy Mondays in concert...

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Kapow! Comic Convention: BDC, London

KAPOW COMIC CONVENTION Way back in the nineteen seventies super hero comics were only for the lonely (males). Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons nails the stereotype perfectly: bad hair, lousy posture,...

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Loitered Lens: Bez [Photos]

Tripping and sunny as the buck himself, Bez. Caning it at the O2, Brixton....

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Morocco [Photos]

Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes Traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies Ducks and pigs and chickens call Animal carpet wall to wall American ladies five-foot tall in...

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