{"product_id":"once-upon-a-time-in-an-oxford-road-train-station","title":"once upon a time in an oxford road train station","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArmaghan Butt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by Manchester's modernist architecture and everyday life, Armaghan combines text, digital illustration, printmaking and animation to explore memory, observation and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArmaghan Butt is an artist based at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/venturearts.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVenture Arts\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in Manchester.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArmaghan's practice explores stream of consciousness, typing processes and modernist architecture. His six-month collaboration with The Modernist saw him work on their Architectural City Guide to Manchester, travelling specific routes across the city to create fineline drawings of his favourite buildings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis highly detailed, observational style — clean, single-line draftsmanship — gives the impression of a direct yet off-kilter tracing from life. Generous areas of negative space let his modernist structures hover mid-air, with blank patches of sky and whited-out trees cutting through the concrete and slicing across the tops of buildings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis project was supported by Venture Arts project facilitator Jacenta Sellars, and curated by Sarah Boulter, curator at Venture Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArmaghan exhibited for Venture Arts at Manchester Contemporary Art Fair 2025 and has been commissioned for murals around the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in collabration with Venture Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e48pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eB\u0026amp;W illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e150mm x 150mm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"the modernist","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57477723881845,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6829\/4349\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_b70b5d5c-01b7-446a-977e-c6705d43731f.jpg?v=1785932146","url":"https:\/\/the-modernist.org\/products\/once-upon-a-time-in-an-oxford-road-train-station","provider":"the modernist","version":"1.0","type":"link"}