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.

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

Becki Ball Ikagi is a small collection of prints inspired by the colours and translucency

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

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

Smoke & Mirrors

Alice Laycock How interior design in social media can be used to help, not hinder. As

Let’s Play Dress Up

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

Ride the Highway

Imogen Hawgood ‘Americans were seduced into accepting the automobile as the embodiment of modern dreams,

Dawn on Proxima

Morgan Wright Speculative Zoology is a study in which scientists and artists predict the possible

Untitled (Hands 1)

Daniel Randall Untitled (Hands 1) was my first real step into digital media. Using paint to

Deborah Dickinson Friedrich Hegel once said, ‘art expresses the spirit of a culture or age.’ This notion

Finding Magic in the Everyday

Freya Elise I long for magic, I crave it in every piece of fiction I come across.

Architectural Vision

Lewis Wyatt Despite reaching my third year of studying photography at NUA, I have yet

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

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

Temporality through Form

Hannah Boyce Contemporary Wabi-Sabi draws on honest aspects of reality, for example, nature, natural processes

The Seventh Horse

Frances Hammond The convergence of illusion and reality was central to my illustrations of ‘The

The Reality of our Wildlife

Beth Graham It’s safe to say that we all live in somewhat of an illusion

Never Meet your Role Models?

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

Who Is In The Details?

Uzi Okotcha Sometimes we don’t know how to exist. A series of images depicting self-reflection

Looking through Children’s Eyes

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

You’re Out of Your Mind!

Gaby Regan Your mindset is what can influence reality. It takes thoughts and feelings to

Jake Mayes With these photographs, I wanted to portray reality and illusion with the use

Zara Liddell Whilst looking into Y2K nostalgia ‘Killa Cowgirl’ was created in collaboration between Zara Liddell

Sarah Mark Transcription is understood as phonetic, however, personally, I understand it as an idea of entering inside and

Does Art imitate Life or Life imitate Art?

Gigi Soh The answer towards the long-standing debate between “Art imitating Life, and Life imitating

Katie Billham We’re stood in front of the mirror again. Poke this, prod that. Stretch,

Imagined Reality

Sammy Tapp and Georgia Lauren Graham Painting and the collision with reality and illusion. The

Dissolution – Modern Day Dorian Gray

ALICE QUINN The main concept of my design was to show the narrative of Dorian

Seeing is Subjective

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

The Fifth Stage

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

Emily Mitchell illusion /ɪˈluːʒ(ə)n/ noun an instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception of a

Melina Wilde These ideas keep me here, rooted, transfixed to a spot, dissolving in absinthe,

The Great (Female) Indie Magazine Explosion

Amelia Naomi How the female voice has come to be heard through the rise of

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

Dreams and Memories: a Lyrical Essay

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

Fraser McCormick This is part of an ongoing self-initiated motion and print project, where I am

Reinventing Storehouse Online

My third issue to-date, and there’s an element of surprise encompassed within each process. Adopting

La Muralla Roja

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

The Global Project

Ollie Turner A newspaper design that emphasises the global warming crisis and pollution around the world

The Virtual Distraction

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

Jade-Ashleigh Archives and piles of collated images and objects scatter my studio, such as an

A False Reality

Holly Battle Virtual reality is an immersive experience which allows people to wear a headset

Escaping Reality and Illusion of Music

Jack Taylor Music is one of the most diverse and creative forms of artistic media

George Davison Words: George Davison, Graphic Communication, @gtd_stuff

After Hours in the Gallery

Ailish Beadle The gallery once the doors shut: imagine if all the art that we see

Poppy Corbett The aspect of reality is shown though the documentations of current youth culture,

Bewitched: The Regaining Popularity of Potions, Powers, Psychics and Planets

Cressi Sowerbutts What is it with witchcraft, the talk of tarot, problem-solving using planets? It

Object Not Found

Ellen Sibley After coming across the phenomenon of visual agnosia, a neurological disorder which affects

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