TOAST Magazine

Arts & Culture

Exploring the art world through the eyes of curators, artists, photographers and architects. Visits to studios, galleries, museums and homes.
Monthly Happenings | August

Five inspiring August events, from multimedia musings on the sea to the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

17 days ago
A Curator’s View | Alayo Akinkugbe

The art historian on challenging the Western canon and her new book, Reframing Blackness.

1 month ago
Brushstrokes of Belonging

Father and daughter artists Arthur and Isabella Timothy on family portraits and documenting the past.

2 months ago
Finding Life in a Lens

Photojournalist Giles Duley on documenting the lives shaped by war, and his new exhibition, The Things They Carried.  

3 months ago
TOAST Presents | A Lightness of Being

A look back at our event at Somerset House, celebrating community, craft and our seasonal concept.

4 months ago
Monthly Happenings | April

Five illuminating events to enjoy this month.

5 months ago
A Balance of Opposites

The polyphonic creative on connecting audiences to design and making the kinetic mobiles for our shop window displays.

6 months ago
A Curator's View | Jacqueline Sullivan

The gallerist on exploring lightness, memory, and the symbolism of the loving cup.

6 months ago
Mapping the Universe

How artists, in the pursuit of understanding, blur the lines between science and creativity.

9 months ago
Building a Creative Refuge With Happy Medium

Rett and Tayler Carraway, co-founders of the New York-based community art space Happy Medium, on championing self-guided art.

1 year ago
A Journey Through Pattern & Colour With Isobel Harvey

Creating vibrant paintings for our seasonal collection, Patterns & Pathways.

1 year ago
Patterns in Repeat With Artist Helen Booth

On creating meditative paintings from a nineteenth-century woollen mill in west Wales.

1 year ago
Erik Winkowski | Thoughtful Threads

Artist Erik Winkowski has created an original video for TOAST composed of a series of abstract animations.

1 year ago
A Curator’s View | Gina Buenfeld-Murley

The curator of The Botanical Mind on the patterns presented in nature and the universal symbol of the plant.

1 year ago
Upstate Explorations With Helen Toomer

The arts leader on fostering creative community and cultivating a summer camp mindset through craft.

1 year ago
March Avery | Depictions of an Endless Summer

March Avery’s leisurely summer paintings are explored in a new monograph.

1 year ago
A Curator’s View | Rosa Park

The gallerist on her unconventional arts education and fostering curatorial instinct.

1 year ago
A New Way with Seaweed

Harvesting marine algae at Yellowcraig Beach with textile artist Jasmine Linington.

1 year ago
The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art

Ahead of our Circle Pop-Up at the Barbican, we meet Lotte Johnson and Wells Fray-Smith, the curators of its major new exhibition, Unravel. 

1 year ago
The Beauty of Ephemera with Liaqat Rasul

The Welsh Pakistani artist on the politics of his process-driven craft and a milestone retrospective.

1 year ago
Playing in Nature with Artist Rosie Harbottle

Poetic oil pastel artworks inspired by our seasonal theme, Outdoor Pursuits.

1 year ago
Finding Purpose in Play with Gandini

Jugglers Sean Gandini and Kati Ylä-Hokkala on following instincts and pioneering new forms of theatre.

1 year ago
Fabio Almeida on Finding Beauty in Contrasts

Exploring the aesthetics of happenstance with the London-based Brazilian artist.

2 years ago
A Curator’s View | Charlie Porter

Creating the inaugural exhibition, Bring No Clothes, at Charleston’s new space in Lewes.

2 years ago