Shopping, Issue 655

Affordable Art: Getting Started - Susanna Beaumont

Buying and owning art can bring both pleasure and profit, and you don’t need stacks of cash to get started. We begin our guide with some tips from a prominent gallery owner...

Affordable Art: Getting Started - Hugo Brown

Buying and owning art can bring both pleasure and profit, and you don’t need stacks of cash to get started. We begin our guide with some tips from an established collector...

Donate your pants to Zimbabwe and Ethiopia

Lingerie emporium Boudiche has found a charitable use for unwanted bras and knickers, as Claire Sawers discovers...

Shoppulse ideal site for those who like to get in first?

‘We’re sending you over to Topshop right now’, the website Shoppulse tells us, with a slight trace of urgency in its cyber tone. A useful new portal, it tells you what new lines of clothes, shoes and accessories are added daily to high street and…

Cash in your attic?

A Bit like an online version of Cash in the Attic, the website www.valuemystuffnow.com lets you send off photos of art, jewellery, music merchandise, ornaments etc, then receive a valuation direct to your inbox. It’ll cost you (valuations start at…

Concrete Wardrobe showcase

Carrying on its tradition of showcasing a ‘Maker of the Month’, Broughton Street’s Concrete Wardrobe shines its light towards Teresa Green during May. The textile designer silk-screens flying birds, sketches of coffee pots and scribbled doodles onto tea…

Pop-Up Flower Shop

Flower arranger Charlotte Lawson (or Lotte to her friends) will be running a pop-up flower shop in the Made in the Shade Maisonette in De Courcy’s Arcade, Glasgow, on Sat 8 & Sun 9 May. She’s a fan of vintage containers to display the posies and…

Affordable Art: Moyna Flannigan

For her dark and slightly disturbing painted caricatures, Flannigan – who was born in Scotland but received her MFA from Yale – has built something of a cult following. www.doggerfisher.com/artists

Affordable Art: Alice Myers

A Jerwood Photography Award winner in 2008, Myers – an Edinburgh College of Art graduate – produces photographic series which take in action portraiture and documentary urban landscapes. www.alicemyers.net

Affordable Art: Luke Fowler

Primarily known for his video works, which have won him the Derek Jarman Award and the Donald Dewar Prize, and have been broadcast on Channel 4. www.themoderninstitute.com/artists/9

Affordable Art: Craig Mulholland

Born and based in Glasgow, Mulholland uses a variety of media and his work takes many forms, incorporating video, music, sculpture, text, sound works and drawing. www.sorchadallas.com/artists/3

Affordable Art: Ellie Harrison

About to complete an MFA at Glasgow School of Art, Harrison produces art that encompasses high-concept installation, sculpture and printed work. www.ellieharrison.com

Affordable Art: Alex Frost

Frost’s drawings and ceramic reliefs are painstakingly composed, particularly the hand-pixellated effect of his continuing series of Blind Drawings. www.sorchadallas.com/artists/11

Affordable Art: Jonathan Owen

Found photographic collages, papier mache drainpipes and grand metal sculptures are all part of the Liverpudlian Owen’s diverse output. www.doggerfisher.com/artists

Affordable Art: Paul Chiappe

A Kirkcaldy-born graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, Chiappe produces pencil-drawn reproductions of old black and white photographs. www.paulchiappe.co.uk

We Saw You...

Andrezj Sliwa, student, 20, Mexico. Magdelena Slowik, student, 19, Poland. HIM: I can’t even remember where I bought my stuff! Although my Vans were definitely from Schuh. I’m half Polish-half Mexican, and I picked up my t-shirt and jeans somewhere…