uncivilised art

In our final extract from Issue 28, we travel to the future where art editor Caroline Ross meets salvage artist Jordan Tierney on the shore of a river to discuss her visionary post-collapse sculpture and practice.

~~ Repetition 1 ~~ There’s a certain physicality that I’m interested in, with performing. Especially...

Writer and artist Nina Elder finds herself falling into a dark crevasse on a small Cycladic island, later to create an installation from squid ink the islanders had collected. From Issue 28, a special issue on Uncivilized Art, with images from the issue by Nina and Liz Miller-Kovacs.

Uncivilised art practice takes place with an intense relationship with the living world. Cally Yeatman takes her sketchbook to record the shifting weather and sea on her home island in the Outer Hebrides.

Welcome to our autumn special issue on uncivilised art now available in our online shop. We set off today with an editorial 'tree map' of the book and the stunning covers by Canadian artist and forest activist Kyle Scheurmann.

Calling all artists and uncivilised art lovers! Submissions are now open for our twenty-eighth book, a special full-colour issue dedicated to the visual arts.

In the third post in our archive month, Hannah Close selects Australian artist Shaun Tan's story of interspecies reckoning in the halls of so-called justice – a tale that takes us into the heart of nature's wild ethics. From 'Issue 18 – FABULA'.

The final post for Our Dark Materials, series editor Caroline Ross speaks with artist and calligrapher Joumana Medlej about transformation, natural pigment and craft ancestors.

Calling all writers and artists! Submissions are now open for our special autumn issue ARK in collaboration with the Wilderness Art Collective.