Issue 20

‘Reality & Illusion’

Release date: March 24th 2020

Reality is subject to the mind’s creation.
Diane Stein

Illusion can be interpreted as an essential factor within creativity. Then, so could reality. Human nature compels us to capture what we see as our own reality and to express that perception, in order to obtain validation or acceptance. Often simultaneously, illusions of thoughts, feelings, visions and cultures are essential to art.

We want issue 20 to show the convergence of art, reality and illusion.

Dreamscape

Hannah Game Photography: Hannah Game, Storehouse Content Team, @hjgamephotography

Ikigai

Becki Ball Ikagi is a small collection of prints inspired by the colours and translucency featured in Dale Chihuly's glass

Disentangle

Emma Chilicuisa Upon thinking about reality and illusion, I was flooded with loads of ideas right away, my first idea was

Expired Sky

Benjamin McLeister Using expired film on a slightly broken camera made for some interesting illusions. Each photo was shot in London on

Smoke & Mirrors

Alice Laycock How interior design in social media can be used to help, not hinder. As a generation, we are well

Let’s Play Dress Up

Emily Stewart Push your fingers all the way into the luxury of opera gloves, with the glamour of fur, an

Ride the Highway

Imogen Hawgood ‘Americans were seduced into accepting the automobile as the embodiment of modern dreams, urges, and passions’ Stephen Heller, co-author

Dawn on Proxima

Morgan Wright Speculative Zoology is a study in which scientists and artists predict the possible evolutionary outcomes of organisms that

Untitled (Hands 1)

Daniel Randall Untitled (Hands 1) was my first real step into digital media. Using paint to act as a green-screen, I

Obscurity III

Deborah Dickinson Friedrich Hegel once said, ‘art expresses the spirit of a culture or age.’ This notion illustrates the self-expression that is

Finding Magic in the Everyday

Freya Elise I long for magic, I crave it in every piece of fiction I come across. Life is so plain & dull & stale & I want

Architectural Vision

Lewis Wyatt Despite reaching my third year of studying photography at NUA, I have yet to truly narrow down why

Red Sea

Layla Weiss “Red Sea” is a series of shots I did for Kingsley. He approached me asking me to help

Booklet of a Thin City

Thomas Goddard My practice has always been rooted in reality and illusion, coming from an optical art background with influences such as Bridget Riley, my goal

Temporality through Form

Hannah Boyce Contemporary Wabi-Sabi draws on honest aspects of reality, for example, nature, natural processes and craftsmanship. Wabi-Sabi reconstructs these

The Seventh Horse

Frances Hammond The convergence of illusion and reality was central to my illustrations of 'The Seventh Horse', a short story

The Reality of our Wildlife

Beth Graham It's safe to say that we all live in somewhat of an illusion when it comes to our

Never Meet your Role Models?

Beth Graham “When I grow up, I want to be just like *insert name here*” It is fair to say

Who Is In The Details?

Uzi Okotcha Sometimes we don't know how to exist. A series of images depicting self-reflection and self-questioning conscious when reality

Looking through Children’s Eyes

Sean Goddard For children the physical act of drawing and creating is a key part of their development and helps

You’re Out of Your Mind!

Gaby Regan Your mindset is what can influence reality. It takes thoughts and feelings to make a change for each individual and

Double Double

Jake Mayes With these photographs, I wanted to portray reality and illusion with the use of double exposing film while

Killa Cowgirl

Zara Liddell Whilst looking into Y2K nostalgia ‘Killa Cowgirl’ was created in collaboration between Zara Liddell and Marnie Hubbard. Focusing on

Transcription

Sarah Mark Transcription is understood as phonetic, however, personally, I understand it as an idea of entering inside and extracting the object or structure

Does Art imitate Life or Life imitate Art?

Gigi Soh The answer towards the long-standing debate between “Art imitating Life, and Life imitating Art”, just like that of

Mirror Image

Katie Billham We’re stood in front of the mirror again. Poke this, prod that. Stretch, grab, twist, pull, until red

Imagined Reality

Sammy Tapp and Georgia Lauren Graham Painting and the collision with reality and illusion. The act of painting provides for

Dissolution – Modern Day Dorian Gray

ALICE QUINN The main concept of my design was to show the narrative of Dorian Gray, focussing on the decay

Seeing is Subjective

Lucia Calcagni When we see, what do we see? Is that what is actually there, or just what we want to be seeing?

The Fifth Stage

Vaineta Keraityte, Eleanor Needham, Luke McGarrigle, Drew Hardman, Lauren Walker and Chloe Boston With loneliness in the elderly rising in the UK,

Reality

Emily Mitchell illusion /ɪˈluːʒ(ə)n/ noun an instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience. a deceptive appearance

Absolved

Melina Wilde These ideas keep me here, rooted, transfixed to a spot, dissolving in absinthe, a sugar cube. The angels

The Great (Female) Indie Magazine Explosion

Amelia Naomi How the female voice has come to be heard through the rise of indie mags Magazines are the

Free

Chloe Turner free social obligations make me shove my fingers down my throat, i’m taught not to be proud of my

Dreams and Memories: a Lyrical Essay

Sean Hendley Nearing midnight, escaped from the proximity of my ‘roommate’, crouched on the floor of a hotel room, I

Anxiety

Fraser McCormick This is part of an ongoing self-initiated motion and print project, where I am visually communicating anxiety. Anxiety is

Reinventing Storehouse Online

Beth Graham, Gigi Soh, Hannah Game and Uzi Okotcha What a wild ride Issue 20 has been! With so many

La Muralla Roja

Erin Ruane La Muralla Roja, Spanish for ‘The Red Wall’, is a colourful postmodern apartment complex that is known for

The Global Project

Ollie Turner A newspaper design that emphasises the global warming crisis and pollution around the world for the global activist campaign,

The Virtual Distraction

Harriet Laws-Herd My interest in this project began with the idea of embodiment within virtual reality, this idea has been

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