Varnish Online

A collection of written art, assembled piece by piece. This curated gallery holds a mix of mature and emerging talent, where the breadth of voices creates a harmonious exhibition.

Patrons are invited to engage not with a single work but the complete collection – one that exposes varying techniques, styles, and accounts.

27. Your Roots Are Showing
Essays Helena Morgan Essays Helena Morgan

27. Your Roots Are Showing

The fellowship of a table-tennis club in what Paul Roberson, my former guitar teacher and dear friend, recalls as a “colonial port city at the far flung edges of a dying empire”…

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20. Taking Up Space
Essays Kim Aikman Essays Kim Aikman

20. Taking Up Space

On 15 February 2003, a month before I turned twenty-three, I attended the anti-war march in London, in opposition to the invasion of Iraq…

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