In FRUIT, Trackie McLeod’s latest exhibition, the artist takes his experience of growing up gay in Glasgow at the turn of the millennium as a starting point for interrogating the amusing and embarrassing ways that boys and young men are expected to embody masculinity.
RECONSTRUCT sees deconstruction and upcycling not only as a creative business model in a saturated market mired by overconsumption, but as a necessary tool in modern life.
Lourdes has achieved something few others have: making a name for herself for being exactly who she is. Model, muse and polymath it-girl Lourdes gets personal in a game of 21 Questions.
Alice Vink (aka Dirtydms) is a Rotterdam-based DJ, her work, at once delicate and industrial, natural and experimental is a valuable insight into how one artist’s work morphs across various mediums.
Nigh on the release of her new music, Edinburgh-based rising star Nikhita joins us for a walk through the woods to discuss her writing process, on-stage persona, and the line between life and her work.
Captured by Stephen Lister is a selection of images from our PLANET LUNCH opening night: a gorgeous party with long term collaborators and new friends we wish we could relive.
In this collaboration with Ponyboy, we chat with founders Dill and Reece about the collaborative ethos that drives their work, and their strive to contribute to the ‘historical archive of queer and trans beauty’.
We catch up with Izzy Gorman-Buckley – Editor-in-Chief of Sick Love Zine – to talk about exploring underground art worlds, and platforming the individuals that create and experiment from within them.
We caught up with artist and performer Huss to discuss using his platform to champion queer liberation, and using the internet to mourn, rant and create.
It’s fitting that our shoot with Flora, designer of Glasgow-based label Solace, takes place in the middle of the woods. With a design style that wears its love for the natural world and the Scottish environment on its sleeve, Solace feels deeply rooted in place.
Fresh from her international tour and summer festival run, we caught up with Nilüfer Yanya to discuss her latest album, PAINLESS, and her ever-evolving relationship with her own music.
As their summer of festival sets and party hosting draws to a close, Peach invite us to their studio for a personal tour and insight to their origins and manifesto for the future.
In our feature with Purina Alpha, we go beyond the makeup, looks, and music to talk lifting up your community, asserting your identity, and getting pissed off.
With a soaring online presence PJ Harper creates sculptures that feels equally at home on a bedroom table as they do in a gallery for a global exhibition. Talking us through his process, his plans, and future ambitions, PJ sheds light on the mystery behind his work.
Fetish, magic, and surrealism collide in the work of SHREK 666 and Lucid. As individuals and as partners, both performers move through Scotland’s creative circles, embodying gothic folklore whilst innovating the country’s club scene.
It’s exciting to see an artist like Spent gain traction in the music scene. With infectious electronic beats, and a lyrical ability that sees them move between powerful and unbothered from one line to the next, Spent’s sound appears as effortless as it is unpredictable.
Still to release any music online, the five-some is finally ready to digitally debut. LUNCH chatted to Anna, Eilidh, Josh and Tom about the serendipitous origins of the band, the theatrics of world-building on stage, and most importantly, their pre-gig snacks.
We chatted with one of our original made-to-order designers, S-BA here at LUNCH to discuss the origins of the brand, seasonless collections, and of course, an ideal lunch in the studio.
As her name would suggest, Heléna is a stellar individual championing for greater diversity both inside the music community and out. LUNCH chats about her own growth as a young Black artist and what completes her signature performance look.
DJ Plantainchipps is gaining swift traction in the city’s music scene. The multidimensional artist is also releasing her own recordings under her real name, Nwanneka, including her most recent magnetising single, Soil.
Oliver FJ Jones discusses the origins of his namesake brand, delves deeper into his sustainability thoughts, and also his plans to develop his identity as a young designer.
Polish DJ and producer VTSS, aka Martyna Maja is busy. True to her High-Speed Techno, VTSS isn’t slowing down. LUNCH chats to her before she jets off to the Netherlands and Poland for the weekend.
Trackies’ anthropological work blends a documentary narrative of growing up as queer and working-class in Glasgow with a social criticism lens of pop, lad, and subculture.
Despite being a breakout act TAAHLIAH is quickly carving out a name for herself as one of Scotland’s most exciting names in the electronic music scene. LUNCH met with the artist as she discusses her autobiographical EP, Angelica.
German-American artist DeWolfe immortalises photography by LUNCH in caricature form. The results are authentic to DeWolfe’s stylistic practice and a personal take on portraiture as he becomes the subject.
LUNCH sat down with the front woman Lucia to chat about the band’s latest releases, being a woman in the industry and how her lyrics, glisteningly raw as they are, are to be used as a musical confessional for the younger generation.
Personal reflection fuels the work of Scottish illustrator Rosalind Shrinivas. Photographed in the LUNCH debut drop, she tells us more about her expressive practice.
To take pause and watch Katie James, Scottish dancer and movement director, whimsically perform on our small screen should be taken as a moment of solace.
