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 Arty 12 - Alex Michon, I've Got A Horse |
Frustrated by opportunities for emerging artists to voice their opinions and concerns and inspired by seminal punk zine Sniffin’ Glue, artist Cathy Lomax started Arty in April 2001. It was described by fellow artist Alex Michon as ‘an antidote to the kind of dry, critic led writing about art which was becoming increasingly out of touch with the kind of work which was appearing in minuscule galleries throughout the land’
From its first issue Arty has tracked the ups and downs of the UK art world and the subjects it is preoccupied by from a unique perspective; that of the artist. In its 25 issues to date it has critiqued the famous, the infamous and the as-yet-to-be-discovered and put subjects such as Britishness, romance, scandal and architecture under the spotlight. Made up of the drawings, photographs and words of over 40 contributor-artists, Arty doesn’t demand that they write like academics, art critics or journalists but simply that they’re true to what it means to each of them to be an artist. In 2004 the Arts Council funded the compilation book, ‘Arty Greatest Hits’, which included the best of the first 16 issues.
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