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OBSESSION
Firstly, another huge thank you to all of our contributing artists and the ST.ART team itself. Their incredible talent and efforts are what drives this project and makes such a venture possible.
Welcome to the second issue of ST.ART Magazine, a publication dedicated to promoting the work and incredible talent of the University of St Andrews’ community through a uniquely expressive medium. We have been extremely fortunate, after the launch of our first issue, to be able to take the project forward and publish another magazine showcasing the outstanding talent of St. Andrews. As the close of the semester gets ever nearer we look forward to next year. Hopefully with your continued interest and support we will be able to ensure that ST.ART becomes a platform that will do justice to the unbelievable creativity this town has to offer. Above all, the aim of ST.ART Magazine is not to make you happy or sad, excited or calm, inspired or dejected, although it may do any or all of those things! The aim simply is to get you to pause. And think. Remember, a picture truly can speak a thousand words. Enjoy.
For further information, artwork and ongoing special features please visit us at www.startmagazine.com or email us at startmagazine@standrews.ac.uk. We would thoroughly appreciate any support and feedback. Thank you.
PAINTING BY Madeline lucas
PHOTOGRAPHY BY Eleanor quinn
PHOTOGRAPHY BY Jake threadgould
This quarter’s theme is ‘obsession’- an idea or thought that preoccupies or intrudes on your mind. Obsession is one of the more painful and distorted aspects of passion; closely associated with emotions such as hate; love; joy and despair. Is obsession unwelcome or just uncontrollable? We all act compulsively about something- what is it for you? Obsessions are not legitimate worries like studying for exams, paying the bills or typical relationship issues. Obsessions are considered far removed from normality, from our daily lives and everyday worries. It’s a deep feeling of need. It’s a feeling you can’t control.
DRAWING BY Miranda burnett-stuart
PHOTOGRAPHY BY Charlotte adlard
DRAWING BY Emily arbis
PHOTOGRAPHY BY Renata grasso
ILLUSTRATION BY EMMA PERVIAINEN
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHANNAH ALLTIMES
DRAWING BY Jenni dimmock
PHOTOGRAPHY BY Alex budman
DRAWING BY Jasper hamlet
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MIXED MEDIA BY Melis anaturk
MIXED MEDIA BY Lorcan o!brien
PHOTOGRAPHY BY Celeste sloman
DRAWING BY Eliza prangley
Passion
is
the
genesis
of
abandon,
obsession
session
the
measure,
heart-break
the
result
ILLUSTRATION BY Toby marsh
PHOTOGRAPHY BY Neha shastry
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS MELIS ANATURK CELESTE SLOMAN CHARLOTTE ADLARD RENATA GRASSO ALEX BUDMAN TOBY MARSH JENNI DIMMOCK NEHA SHASTRY JAKE THREADGOULD EMILY ARBIS MADELINE LUCAS ELEANOR QUINN JOHANNAH ALLTIMES EMMA PARVIAINEN ELIZA PRANGLEY LORCAN O’BRIEN MIRANDA BURNETT-STUART JASPER HAMLET
THE TEAM Editorial Team Editor in Chief: Toby Marsh Managing Editor: Jenni Dimmock Creative Director: Alex Budman Ass. Creative Director: Marian Casey Copy Editors: Emilia Westlin and Marthe Embretson Online Features Editor: Cheryl McConachie Photography Editors: Neha Shastry and Francesca Altamura Web Designer: Hillevi Gustafson Business and Advertising Team Publisher: Toby Marsh Associate Publisher: Jenni Dimmock Marketing Director: Johanna Pollick Advertising Director: Nicole Horgan Ass. Advertising Director: Sophie Klasan Finance Director: Freddie Edmunds Circulation Director: Kate Schofield
To submit work for next quarter!s issue please email startmagazine@st-andrews.ac.uk THEME
NOSTALGIA
Art has no other purpose than to brush aside‌the conventional and accepted generalities, in short everything that veils reality from us, in order to bring us face to face with reality itself {Henri Bergson} An artist's job is to say the most with the least {Andrew Hamilton} The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable {Lucian Freud} The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it {Banksy} A picture is a poem without words {Horace} Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it {John Lennon} A man paints with his brains and not with his hands {Michelangelo} An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have {Andy Warhol} A picture is worth a thousand words {Napoleon Bonaparte} A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament {Oscar Wilde} An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world {George Santayana} Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it {Samuel Butler} Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known {Oscar Wilde} Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos {Stephen Sondheim} Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered {Al Capp} Bad artists always admire each other's work {Oscar Wilde} Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea {John Ciardi} Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better {Andre Gide} Let each man exercise the art he knows {Aristophanes} So you see, imagination needs doodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering {Brenda Ueland} Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything {Eugene Delacroix} We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth {John F Kennedy} To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong {Joseph Chilton Pearce} ST.ART MAGAZINE 2011 I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time {Orson Welles} Painting is just another way of keeping a diary {Pablo Picasso} Art is either plagiarism or revolution {Paul Gauguin} Every artist was first an