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Josh Lowe recently went to Cornwall to visit the least well known of the UK’s Tate galleries and take in their latest exhibition, ‘Object:Gesture:Grid- St Ives and the International Avant Garde’. Now he’s here to tell us why the work of Lily Van Der Stokker is like Juno as re-imagined by Roman Polanski.

While most illustrators are willing to artfully display dried out animals on their shelves and bookcases, Camberwell graduate Katie Brookes has gone one step further, incorporating a variety of stuffed animals into her work. We visited her home to ask her about her work and dig through her freezer full of cadavers.

For those of you not interested in mediocre pro bono art installations, the Duveens Commission is essentially the squeaky voiced little brother to the Turbine Hall’s slick graduate lothario. The 2010 exhibit is Fiona Banner’s ‘Harrier and Jaguar’ and this is what Joshua Lowe thinks of it.

Working under the alias ‘shine’, Clément Soulmagnon is a supremely talented illustrator/director/3D wizz kid from Paris. He spoke to us about the origin of his nickname, his love of birds and why so many of his animations feature adorable boy-meets-girl love stories.

A few weeks ago Anna went to the Lazy Oaf Drawing Club event to hang out will illustrators, draw on balloons and get drunk for free. While she was there she was impressed by a mysterious guy drawing a ‘massive pink lady’ on the wall – she was impressed. But after a few free ciders she forgot to ask his name. Luckily for her and us providence brought them together.

Joe Wood creates surreal collages with a mixture of found imagery. They explore flora and fauna, mountains, forests, gold, Indians, triangles and circles, earth, wood, geometry, symmetry, stones, feathers, moons and feel like artifacts from some ancient shaman ritual. We caught up with him at his house in Brixton to talk about his work.

It is said that if you spend 10,000 hours practicing anything you will become a virtuoso. If that’s true it’s pretty clear that Winnie Truong has spent well over 10,000 hours in the company of her colouring pencils. We spoke to her about her fantastic illustrations and had a look around her Toronto studio.