The Big Issue - UK (2021-03-01)

FROM 01 MARCH 2021 BIGISSUE.COM | 29

MUSIC

Taylor Swift is revisiting

the past so she can take

control of her future

Hannah Westwater

FILM

The tale of Jamal

Khashoggi’s murder is

like a horror movie

Bryan Fogel

BOOKS

Let’s hear it for

the girls! The voices

we must take seriously

Emily Layden

STREET ART

The work on this page is

created by people who

are marginalised. Contact

street.lights@bigissue.

com to see your art here.

To see more and buy

prints: bigissueshop.com

At least half of the profit

goes to the artist.

Untitled

By Andrew Howard

“I have been doing a series of what I think of as

emotional and psychological descriptions, as a kind

of self-exploration and self-portraiture,” explains

long-time regular Street Art contributor Andrew.

“But this can be quite challenging, and so a change

to more abstract work, where one is primarily

concerned with colour and shape, becomes a nice

change, and a rest from introspection. I am drawn

to the work of people like Barbara Hepworth and

Ben Nicholson, and I like to use their work as a

starting point for my own.

“Lockdown has given me lots of time to work, and

I find the opportunity to produce art a useful one. I

have also reduced the amount of alcohol that I drink,

which improves the quality of my work, and my drive

to produce art. Art has been a good friend during

these rather isolated months.”