Gore - Plaster Magazine

Do artists make the best horror film villains?

Features Opinion – Words: Oskar Oprey – 8 min read

“I make art until someone dies”: In defence of on-screen art villains

“I make art until someone dies”: In defence of on-screen art villains

Words: Oskar Oprey

How gore in art has swung between taboo and trend

Features Opinion – Words: Doron Beuns – 8 min read

Gorecore: how art got a new taste for gruesomeness

Gorecore: how art got a new taste for gruesomeness

Words: Doron Beuns

Bloodscape X, 1987, Andres Serrano (American, born 1950). Silver dye bleach print. © Andres Serrano, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Brussels

Bloodscape X, 1987, Andres Serrano (American, born 1950). Silver dye bleach print. © Andres Serrano, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris/Brussels

Art and blood have had a long and ferocious affair, but why do artists keep returning to blood as a subject and material?

Features – Words: Emily Steer – 8 min read

Blood is thicker than paint

Blood is thicker than paint

Words: Emily Steer

Agnes Questionmark tells us about an alternative world through her failed experiments and hybrid creatures

Interviews – Words: Sara Quattrocchi Febles – 7 min read

Agnes Questionmark: artist and living science experiment

Agnes Questionmark: artist and living science experiment

Words: Sara Quattrocchi Febles