Nua Collective Releases Anecdotes Issue 03
Nua Collective releases Anecdotes Issue 03, a 64-page contemporary art publication featuring artist essays, visual practice and creative reflections.
The Giving Project: After Hours
Josh Stein’s The Giving Project: After Hours follows the relationships that emerged from giving artworks to strangers. Through photographs taken in late-night and off-hours spaces, the project documents where these encounters have led—across lower Manhattan, Monmouth County, and the Napa Valley—turning ephemeral exchange into personal record.
How to express a feeling
Enrique Hernandez reflects on how to express emotion when words are not enough. Through drawing, painting, resin, gouache and expressive lines, the work explores raw feeling, texture, vulnerability, eroticism, and psychological depth—holding the tension between strength, exposure, and the crude reality of human fragility.
and yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self
Katrīna Tračuma’s “and yet a trace of the true self exists in the false self” unpacks the “Circle of Life” meme as a cyclical evolution story—comic, bleak, and strangely tender. The series visualises a modern domestic dinosaur, linking present life to ancestral death, from dino nuggets to wrapped flesh.
Ancient Ground
In Ancient Ground, Anne Martin Walsh reflects on vestiges and indentations—traces in the landscape formed by human intervention and the earth’s natural processes. The accompanying work layers collage, acrylic and oil, holding marks like evidence: part history, part erosion, part memory. Read the full piece in Anecdotes Issue 01.
Pre-Mobile Era
In Pre-Mobile Era, John Murray considers the human–phone relationship as something symbiotic: we’re attached to our phones, and they’re attached to us. Through drawing and painting, the series records this mutual dependence, anchored by a study of an office secretary from the pre-mobile age.
Ráth – A Time Past
Maria Markham’s Ráth – A Time Past explores Irish ringforts as landscape memory. Grounded in research, the work maps history, archaeology, and place through photo transfer, stitching, ogham notation, and layered markings. Thread becomes a linkage across time—an act of mending and a postcolonial reflection on land.
Censorship and Iconoclasm in Art: Fear, Power, & Expression
Lucy Lambe explores censorship and iconoclasm as anxieties about art’s power—how images provoke fear, moral policing, and institutional control. From Michelangelo’s censored nudes to contemporary interventions, the essay argues that restricting art denies its role as mirror, catalyst, and force for change.
Exploring the beauty of the breakdown
Caoimhe Heaney explores the beauty of the breakdown—how change, even when painful, can open space for growth and new meaning. Her layered photomontages hold imperfection gently, finding quiet strength in vulnerability and revealing the unseen beauty and fragility that emerges through transformation.
Anecdotes — Issue 02 (Winter 2025/26) Is Now Live
Anecdotes — Issue 02 (Winter 2025/26) explores perception, resistance and creative process through contemporary artworks, essays and studio reflections from Nua Collective artists.
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