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Artist Sarah Graham on raising awareness for bipolar disorder and how art saved her life

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Sarah Graham has become a renowned British artist for her fun and joyful kitsch paintings, paying homage to familiar toys, sweets and brands from the 1980s and 1990s. She attempted suicide by overdose twice between 2005 and 2015 until she was sectioned in 2017 and then reclassified as Type 1 bipolar.

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New exhibition casts cowboy culture in a new light

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As a result, we've seen a lot of cultural works in recent years redefine cowboy culture, challenge traditional stereotypes and offer more nuanced portrayals, from the 2015 movie Brokeback Mountain about gay cowboys to 2021's The Harder They Fall, a Netflix Western featuring a diverse cast, including black and indigenous characters.

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New book by Ben Tallon explores what creativity is, and how to embrace it

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Following the release of his debut book Champagne and Wax Crayons: Riding the Madness of the Creative Industries in 2015, he launched the Arrest All Mimics podcast: a formal home for this series of candid long-form interviews. Society has taught us that innate artistic talent is a pre-requisite for creativity," he adds.

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Homebird: Ewa Smyk's beautiful hand-painted film depicts the power of self-belief

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In Homebird , we're introduced to a young artist called Nina, who moves to a new city. It was therefore important to me to include references to that specific place, which was crucial in shaping my personal, cultural, and artistic identity," Ewa tells Creative Boom. "I Homebird is her first short film.

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Somerset House art show revisits the last 50 years through the prism of horror

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Courtesy of the artist. An imaginative new art show points to how the horror genre influences rebellious artists and helps us to understand a chaotic world. In this way, the last five decades of British history are recast as a story of cultural shapeshifting, told through some of our most provocative artists. © Kerry Stewart.

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Artist Spotlight: Eleanor Taylor

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Bio: Eleanor Taylor is an artist and illustrator who lives and works in Hastings, UK. In 2012 she was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize and in 2015 won The Prize for Illustration. In 2019 she was accepted onto the Varda Artists Residency and spent two months in California living on a boat and making work.

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How photo licensing platform Stills is helping designers create the best work of their careers

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© Nolis Anderson, courtesy of Stills and the artist Are you sick of the same old stock options? Stills offers sophisticated search filters so you can search by category, artist, composition, orientation, colour palette, location, season, time of day, and more. Make the switch to Stills, the new standard in photo licensing.