Swim #4
165 x 240 mm, 234 pages
London, UK
First published in 2017
Editor: Daniel Milroy Maher
Designers: Archie Nock, Samuel White
London-based arts annual Swim emerged ‘from a desire to showcase our friends' work’ back in 2017, and has since grown into an intelligent and well-designed platform for creatives, where the aforementioned friends sit alongside more established names on the pages inside.
Rather than simply presenting projects, each issue takes a more investigative approach, digging into ‘the behind-the-scenes workings of the artist’ through interviews, profiles and an array of visuals.
This fourth issue—their first since the pandemic—also sadly happens to be their last. Themed ‘Found’, it looks at how acts of finding either inform artistic production or become art itself, playfully reflected in a functioning scratchcard that makes for the front cover and also riffs on Peter Evan's scratchcard paintings inside, on page 170.
On the Journal:
‘Born from ‘a desire to showcase our friends’ work’, Swim does more than just that, offering a space to investigate process too. Fitting then, that page 23 of Swim offers up young artist Marvin Leuvrey, who is working in a space he describes as ‘the intersection of art and technology’. The left-hand page, a block of text, holds plenty of room for Leuvrey to delve into a detailed statement about his work. The behind-the-scenes aspect of Swim is at its heart – unlike other glossy art mags, this one has clarity and accessibility built in.’ Read more