Katy Swainston

Articles by Katy Swainston

String puppets. By unknown makers (Sinhalese). MOA Collection: Eh149, Eh147, Eh164, Eh144, Eh142 | Photo courtesy of Alina Ilyasova, courtesy of Museum of Anthropology at UBC

The theatrical world of puppets

May 20 2019 Culture

String puppets. By unknown makers (Sinhalese). MOA Collection: Eh149, Eh147, Eh164, Eh144, Eh142 | Photo courtesy of Alina Ilyasova, …

'With wings like clouds hung from the sky'

April 22 2019 Art

Chinese Canadian brush painting artist Lee Nam went largely unrecognized when he worked with Emily Carr in Victoria in the 1930s. Five years ago, Montreal-based artist Karen Tam began the difficult …

Gauri Gill, Untitled from Acts of Appearance series, 2015–ongoing, archival pigment print. | Photo courtesy of Gauri Gill

Performance photography from India

April 8 2019 Art

Pushpamala N, Sunhere Sapne (Golden Dreams), 1998, hand-tinted black and white photograph | Photo courtesy of Shumita and Arani Bose …