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Discovered Magazine

The Discovered Magazine goes to print on Friday 22nd March.

Discovered Magazine Cover 8"x10"

It will be 160 pages, and will be printed on recycled paper in black and white. It is designed in a style reminiscent of art magazines from the earlest days of modernism. It will contain profiles of all the artists in the form of a five question Q&A, called the Discovered 5Q, a commissioned piece called Novuscule, two pieces by Julia Priest, called The Death of Genius? and Art and the Intellectual, and a piece by Newton Granger, translated by Julia Priest, called The Art of Transgression. There will also be pages featuring the exhibited works by the artists.



The artists are...

Mary Pappalardo
Kasia Rutkowska
Dermot O'Donnell
Miriam Smithers
Regina Halpin Weber
Brid Connolly
Fiona Marron
Chris Oddie

A page from the 5Q by Bríd Connolly

A page from the piece by Newton Granger






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