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 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!
Our Editorial Board
Millie Barker
Editor-In-Chief
Millie is a fourth year completing her joint honours in History of Art and Geography from London, England. With a background in the gallery sector, editorial work, and research, Millie possesses a keen interest in the art world and in fashion. She is fascinated by storytelling and its relation to place; the interactions of people to their environment across space and time, and the way these relationships can be mapped through visual culture.
Bringing experience from her time as News Editor, Millie looks to transfer her global outlook to grow the impact of the magazine, increasing its relevancy for the student body and beyond.
Hanna Yoon
Deputy Editor-In-Chief
Hanna is a third-year History of Art student interested in sculpture, film, and photography. She first fell for art through Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World, and by going to Art Basel and galleries across Seoul, Hong Kong, and London throughout her childhood. Lately, she’s spent more time with modern sculpture, especially how artists work with materials and the spaces their pieces sit in.
Working at Frieze Art Fair and Robilant + Voena got her curious about the business side of art. She also loves writing and spent the summer writing gallery reviews for Musée Magazine. For Hanna, all forms of art and media frame reality and tell stories, and she hopes to make the art world, market included, feel more open to the people looking in.
Ian Ziegler
News Editor
Ian Ziegler is a fourth-year student completing his degree in History of Art with Bible and Culture. He is from Columbus, Ohio. His love of art and art history was passed down to him by his mother and grandmother, who would drag him to every gallery and museum in every city they travelled to. He went from getting in trouble for disturbing the other people, and sometimes the art, in galleries to being struck silent by the beauty of the work.
As News and Opinions editor, his love of art has grown even more, expanding beyond what is taught in lectures and tutorials to the real-life stories of cultural heritage sites and the larger role art plays in our daily lives. If you asked him what his favourite work of art is, he might try to think of some niche piece, like Leonora Carrington’s Oink, Oink, but in reality, it will be Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. You can often find Ian in the library, often with one or two coffees in hand, rushing around like he is 30 minutes late to a 15-minute meeting, when he is actually just hyped up on too much caffeine.
Writers: Avant Woolsey, Avril Fenlon, Daphne Richard, Imogen Taylor, Linara Umiryayeva
Anna Barlow
Scotland Editor
Anna Barlow is a third-year Art History student from Newmarket, England. Growing up with Cambridge on the doorstep, she was first inspired by the Kettle’s Yard house — an anti-gallery of sorts. As a creatively inspiring and inclusive space, Anna became interested in Art History here at age fourteen.
Taking on volunteer work as a Gallery Host in her hometown and interning at art education charities and art fairs in London, Anna would like to enter the industry after her degree in the consulting and auctioning sector. However, with her upcoming position on the Art UK youth council, she hopes to contribute to the democratisation of this industry, making it easier for young people to enter.
Throughout the next academic year with HASTA, Anna aims for the Scotland writing team to be in closer contact with local Scottish artists and organisations for new interviews and features. Additionally, with her upcoming semester abroad at the University of Melbourne, she plans to write on the exchanges between Australia and Scotland for the section.
Writers: Anna Shevetovska, Megan Waughton, Tabitha Lawson, Tessa Rava
Josh Warnock
Born This Week
Josh is a final-year Art History student, currently completing his dissertation that considers Vanessa Bell’s modernism. From Scotland originally, his interest in art began with childhood visits to the Burrell Collection, National Gallery, Portrait Gallery. This interest has since expanded from the sort of objects found in the aforementioned institutions – finding film, music and literature equally as fascinating.
Those early visits left Josh curious about why people make art and what it is for, and that curiosity has stayed with him, now preferring to approach music, cinema or a novel in much the same way as a painting, asking what it is trying to say, how it says it, and what it reveals about the moment in which it was made. For him, the boundaries between these forms are far more intrinsic than they may seem, and much of the enjoyment derives from tracing the intertextual conversations between them.
As an editor, he hopes to continue HASTA’s transparent approach to art discussion, having it remain accessible to everyone, with a focus on bringing a new perspective to Born This Week.
Writers: Adamantia Selekou, Annabel van Grenan, Audrey O’Rafferty, Mili Medwed
Grace Liang
Features Editor
Grace is a third-year joint honours Art History and Management student from Atlanta, Georgia. Fascinated by visual storytelling, she is drawn to art’s unique capacity to convey nuanced personal emotions while speaking to universal human experiences. Her interests span a diverse range of mediums and eras, from the intricate craftsmanship of Chinese Jingdezhen porcelain to bold modernist painting and radical contemporary performance art.
Bringing a thoughtful, interdisciplinary perspective shaped by both of her fields of study, Grace is thrilled to join the editorial team at HASTA this year. She looks forward to collaborating with fellow student writers and contributing to the wider St Andrews Art History community.
Writers: Alice Caserta de Arruda, Eleanor Martin, Sakura Mogami, Saskia Dickinson, Sophie Thompson
Sadie McGraw
Reviews Editor
Sadie McGraw is a second year studying Art History and she has been writing for HASTA since her first year. She is originally from Pennsylvania and this summer, Sadie was an intern at the Centre for Maine Contemporary Art, working closely with the education and curatorial team. Outside of writing for HASTA, you can find her making art for Crafthouse or trying to pet every dog in St Andrews.
Writers: Erin Marks, Hana Naughton, Honey Greenley, Sam Dickinson, Wiktoria Iwaniak
