The White Pube Creatives Grant

Toby Rainbird (b. 1994, Jersey, C.I.) is a British artist and curator based in London. He recently completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, where he was awarded the university’s prestigious Hine Painting Prize. In 2016, he graduated with First-Class Honours in Fine Art from the Bath School of Art & Design, receiving the Outstanding Achievement in Fine Art Award. Rainbird has exhibited extensively across London, the UK, and internationally in Japan, Germany, and Canada. LINKS [...] Happy new year you lot!!!!!! New month means a new grant recipient, and we are happy to announce that we’ll be giving the 52nd monthly creatives grant to Bristol-based artist Francesca Dourado -> @francesca\_dourado. In the early stages of her practice as a ceramicist, Francesca makes work that looks like melting seashells, inverted glassy irises and perfect little relics from grandparents’ cupboards. We can’t wait to see more of it — aaand since we sent her a message offering her this month’s [...] The 49th recipient of the Creatives Grant is Nouria Bah! Nouria is a musician based in London, she sent over a link to her EP: Don B4. We really enjoyed the laidback smoothness of the work, so effortless and light. Nouria’s email made mention of the close harmonies she enjoys using in her work and it became all I could hear – the way voice and music moved together ever so tightly. Some parts tinkling like glass (instrument and voice) or doubling over like a drop shadow, cigarette paper between