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CathARTic: The incredible and inspiring way vulnerable people are finding themselves through art
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CathARTic: The incredible and inspiring way vulnerable people are finding themselves through art

The creative arts organisation offers bespoke programmes to enrich health and wellbeing and inspire confidence and artistic ability

The Big Issue’s Christmas art wrapping paper is back – these are the stories behind the designs
Christmas

The Big Issue’s Christmas art wrapping paper is back – these are the stories behind the designs

The Big Issue’s eagerly anticipated festive wrapping paper is here. Here are the stories behind some of the designs

Behind the scenes of Rankin’s historic portrait of King Charles for Big Issue
King Charles III

Behind the scenes of Rankin’s historic portrait of King Charles for Big Issue

Celebrated superstar photographer Rankin on his royal cover shoot for Big Issue

Artist Sarah Lucas on tits, making something out of nothing and ‘living in quite terrible times’
Art

Artist Sarah Lucas on tits, making something out of nothing and ‘living in quite terrible times’

‘The art of resistance’: Big Issue vendors show off art skills at eye-opening Bristol exhibition
Art

‘The art of resistance’: Big Issue vendors show off art skills at eye-opening Bristol exhibition

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BE MORE GUS: Catch The Big Issue’s new cartoon series only in the magazine
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BE MORE GUS: Catch The Big Issue’s new cartoon series only in the magazine

‘Artist, iconoclast, anarchist, punk, hippie, rebel and romantic’: A personal tribute to Jamie Reid
In memoriam

‘Artist, iconoclast, anarchist, punk, hippie, rebel and romantic’: A personal tribute to Jamie Reid

Meet the Drummond Street Artists – the new art collective with histories of homelessness
Exhibition

Meet the Drummond Street Artists – the new art collective with histories of homelessness

Special art exhibition opens in Shoreditch to raise money for Big Issue
My Dog Sighs

Special art exhibition opens in Shoreditch to raise money for Big Issue

My Dog Sighs: ‘The power of art is it makes people look at the world in a different way’
Interview

My Dog Sighs: ‘The power of art is it makes people look at the world in a different way’

Rone: ‘Most of my works have been destroyed’
street art

Rone: ‘Most of my works have been destroyed’

The Bearded Explorer ventures into derelict buildings to reveal their secrets
Interview

The Bearded Explorer ventures into derelict buildings to reveal their secrets

Rust Bucket Workshop: Let’s change rubbish into an artisan delight
Artist studio

Rust Bucket Workshop: Let’s change rubbish into an artisan delight

Junker Jane brings the ‘creep factor’ to reclaimed art
artist profile

Junker Jane brings the ‘creep factor’ to reclaimed art

Artists are taking over old supermarkets and derelict buildings. Can they escape artwashing?
Urban art

Artists are taking over old supermarkets and derelict buildings. Can they escape artwashing?

Journey into a post-apocalyptic Manchester 
Manchester International

Journey into a post-apocalyptic Manchester 

Windrush at 75: Young people share objects that connect them to their past
Windrush

Windrush at 75: Young people share objects that connect them to their past

Banksy: Cut & Run is the closest we’ve come to seeing behind his mask
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Banksy: Cut & Run is the closest we’ve come to seeing behind his mask

Alma Singer: ‘Art can challenge what’s going on in the world’
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Alma Singer: ‘Art can challenge what’s going on in the world’

An Ordinary Eden: Intimate photos tell stories of home and homelessness
Photography

An Ordinary Eden: Intimate photos tell stories of home and homelessness

As Eurovision takes over Liverpool, ‘Izyum to Liverpool’ reminds us why it can’t be in Ukraine
Interview

As Eurovision takes over Liverpool, ‘Izyum to Liverpool’ reminds us why it can’t be in Ukraine

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Intimate portraits of home and homelessness at the new Centre for British Photography
home

Intimate portraits of home and homelessness at the new Centre for British Photography

Can you help solve the mystery of this Black flower seller in 1800s Hastings?
History

Can you help solve the mystery of this Black flower seller in 1800s Hastings?

A London arts charity that rallied to help Grenfell victims is being evicted after 24 years
Art

A London arts charity that rallied to help Grenfell victims is being evicted after 24 years

The Big Issue’s Christmas art wrapping paper is back and these are the stories behind the designs
Christmas

The Big Issue’s Christmas art wrapping paper is back and these are the stories behind the designs