Beneficial Shock! is an award winning magazine for film lovers and illustration enthusiasts that champions progressive thinking from contemporary image-makers.
Bessa (Barbora Kmecova) is a Slovak illustrator who's playful, proportionally-challenged figures wiggle, whirl and dance their way through imaginative worlds of wonder, yet are always grounded in a thoughtful, conceptual reasoning....
With a distinctively evocative approach, Aleksander Walijewski has steadily built up a dynamic portfolio of work for an enviable roster of clients who hire him for an ability to convey both a...
Ian Whadcock is an Illustrator and Senior Lecturer at Manchester School of Art who's research interests focus on landscape, boundaries and narrative through practice-based enquiry. A regular contributor to Beneficial...
Tomekah George is an artist based in Sheffield, UK. Her illustrations have featured in digital advertising campaigns, packaging, pottery, children’s books and animations across the US, UK & Europe.
www.tomekahgeorge.com/
UNITOM is a visual arts orientated bookshop and print/editions gallery offering a hand-picked selection of cultural inspiration, located in the heart of Manchester’s Northern Quarter on Stevenson Square.
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Limbo
(Ben Sharrock, 2020)
Separated from his family, a young musician anxiously waits to hear about his asylum request while staying on a remote Scottish Island. Read our piece on the isolation and desolation of the refugee experience in issue 7: Together/Apart
