International Women’s Day

Meet the Guts Gallery-exhibiting artist using paint as a form of art therapy, producing stimulating work as cool and calm as her outlook on life.

Side Hustles: In lockdown last year, best friend duo Niamh Ferrier and Saskia Puxley lost their hospitality jobs. Fresh from uni and without income, they decided to set up their own tooth gem and nail art business-from home, rising to success one cuticle, and molar, at a time.

Documenting the Instagram generation through analogue photography, the artist’s new book, What She Said, pairs today’s female punks with the visceral, at times hard to swallow diary entries she wrote as a 15-year-old outcast living in 1980s California.

The beauty business has been one of the hardest hit by the pandemic. Against a backdrop of lockdowns, shoddy government guidelines and virtual appointments, we speak to beauty workers who remain hopeful against all odds, ingeniously adapting to a situation beyond their control.

Free Periods, the campaign she started as a schoolgirl, helped alter government policy. Now, in her new book, the 21-year-old offers guidance on fighting for change, whatever your cause.