about hasta
Welcome to HASTA, the history of art magazine affiliated with the University of St Andrews’ School of Art History. Publishing for the first time in 1983, we are the longest student-run publication associated with the university. Historically we have published in print, but since 2015 we publish weekly online with an annual print edition that features the best articles from the year.
We publish a variety of art and art history related articles ranging from features on forgotten artists to the highlights of St Andrews’s fashions shows. At HASTA, you can expect at least five articles weekly articles, including feature-length studies; global art news coverage; coverage on the arts in Scotland; and biographies about individual artists.
If you are passionate about art history and the art world, then HASTA is the magazine for you! If you are interesting in publishing for HASTA, you can submit articles to hasta@st-andrews.ac.uk
the committee
editor in chief
Sophie Turner
Sophie is a fourth year Art History undergraduate, after two years on the magazine she will oversee the publication. Living a stone’s throw away from the South Downs, its chalk hills and views across to the channel have inspired her own artistic practice from a young age. Her early delight in the landscape has stuck with her throughout her degree; her interests lie in the abstraction of the landscape and representations of the garden within British twentieth century art. Having recently studied and worked abroad in the Netherlands, Sophie has also developed a special interest in Dutch sculpture, recently curating a collection of modern Dutch plaster casts for the Museum Beedlen aan Zee.
With HASTA celebrating its 40th Anniversary, Sophie is excited to showcase the magazine and its history. As editor-in-chief, Sophie also welcomes admissions from non-staff writers (across schools and disciplines) who can submit to be published alongside the magazine’s weekly articles.
assistant editor in chief
Madina Burkhanova
Madina is a third year Art History student from Uzbekistan. Her interest in the discipline stems from her love for acrylic portraiture and landscapes. Since beginning at St Andrews, Madina has been particularly passionate about Islamic art, especially in relation to politics and artistic practices across the Silk Road.
This year, she hopes to document her travels and art history findings in the ancient cities of her home country.
social Media manager
Jessie Calvert
Jessie, our Social Media Manager, is a fourth-year Art History and Modern History student. Her love of studying art history stems from her interest in historical portraits, which ignited her passion for other artworks inspired by the past. Her favorite artists include those who masterfully depict historical scenes, such as Paul Delaroche and Jacques-Louis David. These artists transport viewers to bygone eras, using their canvases to encapsulate the essence of past cultures and individuals.
Jessie is captivated by the idea that art has played a pivotal role in influencing and shaping social consciousness throughout history. As such, she believes in the power of art to inspire change and create a better future for all. Just as historical paintings provide windows into the past, they also serve as mirrors reflecting the present, reminding us of the importance of preserving our world and its stories for generations to come.
features Editor
Olivia Feather-Moore
Olive is a fourth year art history student from Harrogate. Her interest in art history lies in its contemporary relevance to visual culture. Her favourite work to date is John Berger’s infamous Ways of Seeing. Olive is always looking for new ways to understand and explore how visual documentation narrates the establishment’s version of history (which so happens to be the dominant one!) from oil painting to graffiti to advertisement to social media. It is her belief that art forms cultural understandings of social relations, gender, power and status.
Olive paints in her spare time and has found that her modules from ‘Arts and the Environment’ to ‘Art Beyond the West’ has informed much of her work during her time at St Andrew’s. She is also a graphic designer for the student-run arts group Capture Collective, and the social media and events coordinator for the St. Andrews branch of Sexpression.
Writers: Jesse Anderson, Isabelle Holloway, Jake Erlwine, Dawn Lui, Nathasha Long.
news editor
Mary Whitlock
Mary, our News section editor, is a fourth year art history student from Kent. Once described at school as having been “seduced by the arts”, Mary is particularly passionate about the contemporary art scene, and making it accessible and enjoyable for all. Brought up on visits to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mary was a keen artist from a young age and views her art practice and study as inseparable disciplines.
During her time both in St Andrews and on her year abroad in Padua, Italy, Mary has developed a wide range of art historical interests: Renaissance architecture, public sculpture, surrealism and romanticism to name but a few. She hopes to write her dissertation on Wassily Kandinsky and colour theory.
Writers: Mia Hart, Calla Mitchell, Elizabeth Gillet, Katriona Hannah, Esme Franks.
scotland EDITOR
Ami Melville
Ami, our Scotland Editor, is a third year studying English and Art History from Upstate New York. Growing up, surrounded by the gorgeous landscapes and rolling hills of the Hudson River School movement, she feels her surroundings greatly influenced her passion for art history.
Her art historical interests range from Early Netherlandish painting and the Dutch Golden Age to the Italian Renaissance, with particular fondness for artists such as Hieronymus Bosch, Sandro Botticelli and Johannes Vermeer. She is very excited to be contributing to HASTA for a second year and looks forward to sharing the wonderful world of Scottish Art with everyone.
Writers: Brynn Gordon, Annabel Coughlan, Karen Phan, Blanca Hahn, Kasia Middleton.
born this week editor
Zachary Vincent
As Born this Week editor for HASTA and a 3rd Year Art History and Modern History student, Zachary is able to indulge his greatest passion: falling down artistic rabbit holes and discovering artists whose stories are told too infrequently. Hailing from rural Colorado in the United States, he is particularly interested in artists living transatlantic and international lives.
He is interested in the study of Modernism beyond the West and has undertaken research in the development of national cultural heritage policies across Latin America. He looks forward to further investigating the ways in which the exploration of individual artists’ lives can introduce questions for the whole discipline of art history.
Writers: Valerie Kniazeva, Toby Berryman, Kayleigh Wiseman, Aliya Trovoada, Alice Linman.
Reviews editor
Nicole Entin
Nicole is a fourth-year Art History and English undergraduate, originally from Toronto, Canada. After writing for Features in 2022/23, she is thrilled to be the editor of the Reviews section in its inaugural year.
Nicole’s research interests concern the reciprocal influence of art and literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on practices of illustration, representations of theatre, and women pioneers of photography. She is also a 2022 Laidlaw Scholarship recipient for a research project focusing on challenges to Victorian gender roles and tradition embodied by Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographic illustrations of Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King. Nicole is passionate about promoting cultural programming for young people and recently developed workshops centred on widening access in the arts with local schools and non-profit organisations.
Writers: Lucian Willey, Lucy Evans, Matilda Kay, Elle Borissow, Anna Marweld.