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This artist blows by Anikka Weerasinghe (March 2009)

The young British Muslim artist Sarah Maple has been at the centre of controversy since first bursting onto the art scene at the end of 2007. Interview by Anikka Weerasinghe

Pitmen painters by Steve Platt (February 2009)

Six days a week they toiled down the mine, making art in their spare time after attending a Workers Education Association art appreciation class. The Ashington Group of miner-artists is the subject of a witty and wise play by Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall, currently showing at the National Theatre, that has much to tell us about art, culture and the working class, writes Steve Platt

Big art and Perspex panels by Steve Platt (August 2008)

From graffiti and street art to massive corporate-funded structures such as the Ebbsfleet Landmark (the size of the Statue of Liberty, twice as tall as Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North), public art has never been more in vogue. Steve Platt, a reformed ‘graffitist’, surveys the artistic landscape