The purpose of a TV advertisement is – obviously – to get whatever product or service it is advertising into the viewer’s mind. This is often achieved by launching straight for the viewer’s mental jugular, implanting an indelible,...
Many of the characters in The Party, Sarah Solemani’s excellent ITV adaptation of Elizabeth Day’s bestseller, are struggling to grasp who they are; trauma concealed beneath poise and charisma. This certainly goes for Lady Katherine, the...
Y ‘ou could call claiming that I hate the way I look and then making a show of self-portraits hypocritical or obnoxious,” says Issy Wood. Sitting on a shabby sofa in her large east London studio, the 33-year-old American-born British artist...
Some fine composers go missing after their deaths, partly because they can no longer promote their music, or partly because they pass out of fashion. British ones, perhaps because of the (wrongly) perceived insularity of their musical idiom,...
