The Mask of Dionysus

If we were to visit the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens 2,500 years ago, we might have seen Thespis of Icaria playing out one of his tragedies – his voice...

In Drayson’s 2019 photographic series Effects To Compound Regions , we are presented with a furred leonine character – the artist – whose face is digitally manipulated to become ambiguous....

Bonafini in turn directly confronts the idea of the mask throughout history and mythology. Her incorporation of adapted traditional craft techniques makes the viewer highly conscious of the artist’s hand...

Each of these artists is conscious of how an image or motif is loaded with a cultural and historical context, and how a contemporary audience reads images as fluently as...