TOAST Magazine

Arts & Culture

Exploring the art world through the eyes of curators, artists, photographers and architects. Visits to studios, galleries, museums and homes.
Monthly Happenings | January

Five inspiring events to start the year, from a plant portraiture exhibition to a folk music performance.

1 month ago
Spontaneous Currents

Jazz bassist Joel Grip on the art of improvisation and the interplay between music and dance.

1 month ago
Objects of Significance | Ruth Guilding

The design writer and historian on five precious objects and the meaning behind them. 

1 month ago
Choral Kinship

Musical trio Woom on finding harmony and improvising melodies for their new EP, To Slow You.

1 month ago
A Curator's View | Lauren Shooster

Gallery owner Lauren Shooster on curating a library of objects and fostering curiosity in Sag Harbor, New York.

2 months ago
Everyday Alchemy

Artist Rebecca Cox on layering colour, texture and memory, and creating the artworks for our Festive Prize Draw.  

3 months ago
Colour Beneath the Earth

Jonathan and Wilf Wright on preserving heritage, art and colour at Clearwell Caves.

3 months ago
Tuning In

Musician Alice Boyd on creating an immersive soundscape for our seasonal concept, The Curious Mind.

3 months ago
Uncovering Craft

Art historian James Fox on preserving craft, returning to childhood creativity, and his new book, Craftland.

3 months ago
The Curious Mind | Art Study

Presenting the winners of our competition, in which we invited your creative responses to our seasonal concept, The Curious Mind.

4 months ago
A Look Back | The Curious Mind at 14 Cavendish

Workshops, performances and the spirit of lifelong learning.

4 months ago
Monthly Happenings | August

Five inspiring August events, from multimedia musings on the sea to the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

6 months ago
A Curator’s View | Alayo Akinkugbe

The art historian on challenging the Western canon and her new book, Reframing Blackness.

7 months ago
Monthly Happenings | July

Five inspiring events for your July diary, from folk art to an exhibition on resistance curated by Steve McQueen.  

7 months ago
Brushstrokes of Belonging

Father and daughter artists Arthur and Isabella Timothy on family portraits and documenting the past.

8 months ago
Finding Life in a Lens

Photojournalist Giles Duley on documenting the lives shaped by war, and his new exhibition, The Things They Carried.  

9 months ago
TOAST Presents | A Lightness of Being

A look back at our event at Somerset House, celebrating community, craft and our seasonal concept.

10 months ago
Monthly Happenings | April

Five illuminating events to enjoy this month.

10 months ago
A Balance of Opposites

The polyphonic creative on connecting audiences to design and making the kinetic mobiles for our shop window displays.

11 months ago
A Curator's View | Jacqueline Sullivan

The gallerist on exploring lightness, memory, and the symbolism of the loving cup.

1 year ago
Mapping the Universe

How artists, in the pursuit of understanding, blur the lines between science and creativity.

1 year ago
Building a Creative Refuge With Happy Medium

Rett and Tayler Carraway, co-founders of the New York-based community art space Happy Medium, on championing self-guided art.

1 year ago
A Journey Through Pattern & Colour With Isobel Harvey

Creating vibrant paintings for our seasonal collection, Patterns & Pathways.

1 year ago
Patterns in Repeat With Artist Helen Booth

On creating meditative paintings from a nineteenth-century woollen mill in west Wales.

1 year ago