Home is where the art is, by Grafters Collective at Hypha HQ
7 May 2025 • Tom Glover
Grafters Collective, a network of twenty emerging artists who are either from working-class backgrounds or have faced barriers to the art world
Author: Tom Glover
Tom Glover is an art writer. He has written for British GQ, Plaster Magazine, and Unemployed Magazine, alongside exhibition catalogues for Bakersfield Museum of Art, California, and JD Malat Gallery, London. He runs the art initiative at the Mansion Bar and Cafe. He was longlisted for the 2024 Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism. He publishes a regular Substack, The Glover Compartment, and he is working on his first book.
Junyi Lu: (Cosset) at the Sunday Painter
20 March 2025 • Tom Glover
The exhibition was a solo show by Junyi Lu, an artist not much older than me. It comprised mostly wall-based mixed-media pieces over two floors