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Creative Writing and Critical Theory

Works that engage with writing and theory – adopting and challenging dominant forms, and taking inspiration from writers and thinkers.

Cognitive Dissonance in Black and White
by Margaret Susan Botchway
The Garden Grumbo And the Terrible Smell
by Maya Randall
Call Me – Hollie McNish Poem
by Maya Randall
Sketchbook Pages
by Lisa-Carlotta Küsters
ClydeGO
by Lima Zhao
An Exercise in Tethering-to
by Aurora Bucca
A moment of extreme psychic tension; a threshold between death and the birth of a new self. Drawing from the mythic birth of Hades, god of the underworld. The self is not gently transformed, but dragged into becoming through the internal collapse of the old. It captures the final stage of psychic compression, when the old self has nearly died but has not yet released the new form. Visually, the body is curled, veined, and clenched a deathly shell of flesh containing a smoldering coal. The figure doesn’t represent new life in the traditional sense but the emergence of a consciousness forged in the aftermath of trauma, a self that could only exist because the former one didn’t survive. The figure is a tomb and a womb simultaneously. It gives context to the flesh as both container and evidence; the skin of the old self wrapped tightly around the genesis of the next. The myth of Hades doesn’t end in joy or closure; it hovers in the trauma of transition, the brutality of transformation, and the sacred violence of becoming something that has never existed in one’s self before.
Inner, Outer, Center, Self
by Shannen Muhl
Original Matters (2024)
by Jonny Keen
Masquerade I, Oil on Canvas, 250x170cm 2025/6
by Hope Dunlop-Lynn
Peculiar Company, Oil on Canvas, 100x100cm 2025
by Hope Dunlop-Lynn
Bench I, Mahogany, Oak, Beach, Pine and Walnut wood, flame torched and stained, finished with a gloss varnish 126x45cm, 2026
by Hope Dunlop-Lynn
You”ll Never be a Zebra, Oil on Canvas, 110x170cm, 2026
by Hope Dunlop-Lynn
Call a Priest, Oil on Canvas, 105x105cm, 2026
by Hope Dunlop-Lynn
Turn Dial, Oil on Canvas, 100x100cm, 2026
by Hope Dunlop-Lynn
Poetry 1-6
by Hope Dunlop-Lynn
Extending Design
by Lois Levi
Curiosity
by Fae Lael Borodiansky
The Fext
by Fae Lael Borodiansky
The Young Girl and Other Modes of Production
by Mary Woods
Posters of the Palestinian Left
by Jacob Heaton
Human Chess (2024)
by Jonny Keen
The Goldfish
by Luyao Wang