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FLARE-UP at Goldsmiths CCA: Illness, Disability and Contemporary Art

Charcoal-style line drawing showing a seated figure with their back turned, surrounded by handwritten phrases about illness, disability, neurodivergence, Deafness, care, access, rage, joy, mourning, and resistance. A sketch of Goldsmiths CCA appears in the background, with the phrase “The body refuses to be neatly displayed

Goldsmiths CCA’s FLARE-UP explores illness, disability, neurodivergence and Deafness through contemporary art, access, care, activism and embodied experience.

Tracey Emin: New Prints, Survival, and Tate Modern’s 2026 Retrospective

Tracey Emin’s new lithograph series I Need tomorrow arrives alongside her Tate Modern retrospective, reframing her work through survival, illness, printmaking, and the art of continuing.

Studying Art from Inside the Virtual

Black and white cinematic image of an artist studying art through a laptop in a virtual gallery, surrounded by paintings, notebooks, art history books, and Second Life imagery.

Studying art as someone who creates in Second Life has changed how I understand space, material, and presence. My practice doesn’t sit neatly inside the traditional idea of the studio. It moves between screens, avatars, regions, textures, objects, scripts, photographs, video, and lived digital experience. Second Life isn’t just a tool I use to display … Read more

Finding Peace in the Repetition

Black and white image of an artist sketching at a wooden table beside a peaceful garden pond, with a bridge, gazebo, flowers, notebooks, and the phrase Finding Peace in the Repetition.

The Self Being project has made me think differently about the value of ordinary, repeated tasks. Not the dramatic parts of making art. Not the polished final outcome. The day-in, day-out actions that often feel mediocre while they’re happening: setting things up, adjusting details, documenting work, moving materials around, checking sound levels, thinking through space, … Read more

The V&A’s Rising Voices and the Overdue Widening of the Art World 🌏🎨

Black and white image of an artist writing in a gallery with portraits on the wall, a laptop showing Rising Voices, and text about recognition, representation, and diverse stories.

The V&A’s Rising Voices exhibition brings together over 70 works by 40 artists from 25 countries across Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It is about time.

On Preparation, Privacy, and the Strange Comfort of Being Invisible

Black and white editorial image of an artist writing at a desk beside a laptop showing a Second Life landscape, with books, camera, candle, notebooks, and a lighthouse view outside.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, public health expert, legal authority, or qualified to tell you what to do about anything. These are personal reflections on a strange week of headlines, not instructions. There are some weeks when the internet feels less like a source of information and more like a badly supervised laboratory. You … Read more

RaglanShire ArtWalk and Why Second Life Art Still Matters 🎨🌳

Black and white image of an artist planning a RaglanShire ArtWalk visit at a desk, with a laptop, sketchbooks, camera, and a village gallery scene outside the window.

The 21st Raglan Shire ArtWalk runs across five Second Life regions from 17 May to 14 June 2026. Over 100 artists, hedgerow galleries, sculpture parks, poetry slams, and a kite parade. Virtual worlds are not dead. They are just quietly building culture.

National Honour Our LGBT+ Elders Day 🌈

Black and white editorial image of an artist reflecting at a desk with books, photographs, a laptop showing LGBT+ elders, and a garden memorial thanking LGBT+ elders outside the window.

16 May is National Honour Our LGBT+ Elders Day. A day for the people who survived criminalisation, Section 28, the AIDS crisis, and decades of erasure. Their history is not decorative. It is evidence.

A Year of Building the Work Into a World

Black and white image of an artist writing a year-in-review at a desk, with a laptop showing virtual builds, notebooks, photographs, candles, and a Second Life-style creative world outside.

This last year has been one of the most intense and formative periods of my art life. Not just because of what I made, but because of what the practice became. It stopped being a collection of pieces and started being an ecosystem: physical, digital, written, performed, archived, and very much alive.

Roxksie on Substack

Black and white charcoal-style drawing of a hand holding a pencil and writing the name “Roxksie” on a blank sheet of paper.

Fiction, essays, and reflections on art, digital culture, memory, and speculative worldbuilding. Original short fiction including cli-fi, dark literary fiction, and collaborative work. The written arm of the SL Random Art Crew practice.