Art is often seen as shocking, provocative and confrontational. It is the one place where we are free to push the boundaries and explore taboos; to criticise and comment on society in a way that other mediums might not afford us. For many people, just to evoke a reaction - positive or otherwise - is the purpose of art. However, especially when we are young, some of us may not think our art through thoroughly, responding very much on impulse to that spark of creativity, or

I'm not much of a person for musicals. I saw that one with the roller skates as a child, but nothing else until recently. It's frankly bizarre to watch people spontaneously bursting out into song (same goes for Disney). I'm not much of a theatre goer in general. It's not that I don't like theatre - there is something to be said for live performance - but, rather, I don't know what to see. With film, having studied film studies at college, I know what actors, writers, dir

I rushed away from work yesterday afternoon so that I could catch the tube into London to see Matthew Barney’s film/opera, ‘River of...