Izzy Bilkus
Izzy Bilkus is an editorial assistant at Plaster. She was previously at NR Magazine.
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Izzy Bilkus speaks to father-and-son duo David and Jacob Gryn about their new townhouse-turned-gallery
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13 min read
Interval Gallery is here to break art world bad habits
Interval Gallery is here to break art world bad habits
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Interval Gallery is here to break art world bad habits
Kristy Chan talks yearning for autumn, angry paintings and wrestling with “so much crap”
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Kristy Chan: “Painting feels like an endless stew”
Kristy Chan: “Painting feels like an endless stew”
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Kristy Chan: “Painting feels like an endless stew”
Tau Lewis talks thrifting, mythology and struggling with goodbyes
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Tau Lewis: “Sometimes dark places are perfect”
Tau Lewis: “Sometimes dark places are perfect”
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Tau Lewis: “Sometimes dark places are perfect”
After a period of restraint, Katy Moran lets rip – scaling up and stripping back in her new paintings
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Katy Moran: “How do you retain the energy of the accident?”
Katy Moran: “How do you retain the energy of the accident?”
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Katy Moran: “How do you retain the energy of the accident?”
Divine Machinery is an eerie aesthetic of malfunction and meaning lost in the feed. Izzy Bilkus explores how this social media trend has been seeping into contemporary art
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God in the machine: decoding the art of Divine Machinery
God in the machine: decoding the art of Divine Machinery
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God in the machine: decoding the art of Divine Machinery
Lorena Lohr talks cowboys, tombstone portraits and the ineffable pull of the road in her latest series
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Lorena Lohr and the motel myth
Lorena Lohr and the motel myth
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Lorena Lohr and the motel myth
Billy Parker, Izzy Bilkus and Dora DB are back with another Thirsty Thursday of gallery openings
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Thirsty Thursday: “What if we kissed in the Pret X Emalin Gallery smoking area?”
Thirsty Thursday: “What if we kissed in the Pret X Emalin Gallery smoking area?”
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Thirsty Thursday: “What if we kissed in the Pret X Emalin Gallery smoking area?”
Izzy Bilkus finds pleasure and pain in an unusual artist pairing
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You can’t juice a dry fruit: Sylvie Fleury curates Matisse
You can’t juice a dry fruit: Sylvie Fleury curates Matisse
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You can’t juice a dry fruit: Sylvie Fleury curates Matisse
Final Hot Desert founders Marina Moro and Ben Anderson discuss running a gallery from their flat
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What’s it like to live in an art gallery?
What’s it like to live in an art gallery?
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What’s it like to live in an art gallery?
Dora DB and Izzy Bilkus head out on the lash to get the low down of Thursday's London art scene
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Plaster’s Thirsty Thursday on the art gallery circuit: “Lollage is power”
Plaster’s Thirsty Thursday on the art gallery circuit: “Lollage is power”
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Dora Densham Bond
Plaster’s Thirsty Thursday on the art gallery circuit: “Lollage is power”
Emma Prempeh's paintings are troves of nostalgia, identity and matriarchal strength
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Emma Prempeh wants you to feel what you can’t touch
Emma Prempeh wants you to feel what you can’t touch
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Emma Prempeh wants you to feel what you can’t touch
The Ukrainian painter’s first UK solo show is a monument to friends, lovers and not rushing
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Sergey Kononov doesn’t like to be rushed
Sergey Kononov doesn’t like to be rushed
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Sergey Kononov doesn’t like to be rushed
Donna Huddleston on her first ever painting show at White Cube
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Donna Huddleston’s next act
Donna Huddleston’s next act
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Donna Huddleston’s next act
Zombie clubbers and airbrushed toilet paper: Izzy Bilkus explores the trend of tasteless art
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The rise of ‘ugly’ art: “I think the internet has deeply, spiritually poisoned us”
The rise of ‘ugly’ art: “I think the internet has deeply, spiritually poisoned us”
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The rise of ‘ugly’ art: “I think the internet has deeply, spiritually poisoned us”
Alexandra Metcalf turns Ginny on Frederick into a time capsule
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Spiralling with Alexandra Metcalf
Spiralling with Alexandra Metcalf
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Spiralling with Alexandra Metcalf
Orfeo Tagiuri discusses his latest series about the beginnings of a budding romance
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Orfeo Tagiuri on etching love’s delicate dance
Orfeo Tagiuri on etching love’s delicate dance
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Orfeo Tagiuri on etching love’s delicate dance
At Michael Werner gallery, Raphaela Simon's work has taken a darker turn
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Raphaela Simon’s phantoms of pain
Raphaela Simon’s phantoms of pain
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Raphaela Simon’s phantoms of pain
'Le monde comme il va' ('The world as it goes') reveals contemporary artists’ heightened awareness of the present
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Excess, paradox and instability at the Bourse de Commerce
Excess, paradox and instability at the Bourse de Commerce
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Excess, paradox and instability at the Bourse de Commerce
Gabriel Moses discusses his upcoming book, Regina.
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Gabriel Moses on a life shaped by women
Gabriel Moses on a life shaped by women
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Gabriel Moses on a life shaped by women
Izzy Bilkus speaks with painter Li Hei Di ahead of their first UK solo show
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Li Hei Di: “I become more insane at night – I think everyone does”
Li Hei Di: “I become more insane at night – I think everyone does”
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Li Hei Di: “I become more insane at night – I think everyone does”
Paloma Varga Weisz's latest project in Paris involved her studio being watched by the public 24/7
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Paloma Varga Weisz on making art like nobody’s watching
Paloma Varga Weisz on making art like nobody’s watching
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Paloma Varga Weisz on making art like nobody’s watching
‘10 Seconds’, a new show by Alexis Hunter serves up bloodied manicured hands, bulging crotches, flaming high-heels and hammer-yielding destruction
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Alexis Hunter has ten seconds to get your attention
Alexis Hunter has ten seconds to get your attention
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Alexis Hunter has ten seconds to get your attentionPaul Hameline has curated ‘Happy Accidents’ at Galerie Sultana in Paris
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Paul Hameline’s Happy Accidents: “The world is kind of fucked, kind of messy. (So are we, no?)”
Paul Hameline’s Happy Accidents: “The world is kind of fucked, kind of messy. (So are we, no?)”
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Paul Hameline’s Happy Accidents: “The world is kind of fucked, kind of messy. (So are we, no?)”
New show at Kunsthalle Wien aims to normalise the naked breast
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Get over tit! New show busts the great boob taboo
Get over tit! New show busts the great boob taboo
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Get over tit! New show busts the great boob taboo
The Polish painter, photographer and filmmaker reimagines the mythological figure of the 'Mamuna' in her debut exhibition at Pace London
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Paulina Olowska’s feminist take on folklore
Paulina Olowska’s feminist take on folklore
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Paulina Olowska’s feminist take on folklore
A new exhibition at the Centre for British Photography shows how the 'godmother of punk' pictured the scene, while questioning the gender politics of its pioneers
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How punk was pictured by photographer Caroline Coon
How punk was pictured by photographer Caroline Coon
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How punk was pictured by photographer Caroline CoonBrooklyn Museum zines show celebrates the political, niche and sometimes freaky history of artist-created zines
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Is print still dead? Brooklyn Museum zines show says no