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Transforming the decorative into dissent

Discover how embroidered messages by two ‘troublesome’ women in 19th-century asylums are mirrored in the therapeutic quilting work of writer Rachel May.

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Breaking the rules of online dating

Artists are taking on the trolls of Tinder and the gremlins of Grindr to question the limits of online dating.

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The Key to Memory: Use art to articulate

Danny Rees explains what William Utermohlen’s self-portraits can tell us about how and why we remember.

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The Key to Memory: Mark it out

Sarah Bentley explores what a papier-mâché figure from Japan can tell us about how and why we remember.

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  • Heuchera 'Silver Scrolls'
  • Scrolls, grids and teardrops. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1975.
  • Kakejiku hanging scrolls depicting heroic figures. Colour woodcut, 1870s.
  • Red scrolls, stars and darts with cerise saltires. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1968.
  • Red scrolls, stars and darts with cerise saltires. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1968.
  • Three purple scrolls with a dense red grid superimposed. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1970.
  • Left, eight rows of verticals, gates and loops; right, eight rows of gates and scrolls. Watercolour by M. Bishop, ca. 1977.
  • The coats of arms of Roger du Plessis and Jeanne de Schomberg and scrolls before a panorama of Liancourt. Etching by I. Silvestre.
  • A Chinese lucky charm decoration of of a scholar with scrolls and with children at his feet. Colour woodcut by a Chinese artist.
  • Beneath the broken equestrian statue of William III a group of robed politicians, including the Duke of Wellington, attack with scrolls Morrison the Mayor of Dublin, who collapses. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.
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