Nione Meakin

Freelance journalist

Brighton

Travel, arts, lifestyle, features.

Nione Meakin

Freelance journalist

Brighton

Travel, arts, lifestyle, features.

The Taste Makers
Meet the artists taking inspiration from gastronomy to serve up work that is almost good enough to eat.
Christie's Real Estate
Arts
Gold in their hands
In the 16th century, Florence’s craftspeople were the best in the world. Now their descendants are bringing new life to a neglected part of the city...
N by Norwegian
Arts Travel
‘Mine’s an ayahuasca’
“I used to be like an open wound, hoping the audience’s laughter would heal me,” says Simon Amstell, giggling incongruously.
Viva Brighton
Arts
Modern love
Sarasota’s rich collection of midcentury architecture is celebrated in a bold design festival.
Celebrated Living
Travel Arts
The Life Aquatic
Graphic, gritty, and powerful: watercolor in the 21st century is anything but fragile and polite. Meet the artists challenging—and defying—conventions.
Christie's Real Estate
Arts
Laugh? I nearly died: The rise of stand-up tragedy
"It was Sunday night," the speaker begins. "I went home to my lovely wife, put my key in the lock and the lock didn't turn. That was when I realised my second marriage was over." "Thinking too much isn't a choice, it's a condition," offers another. "Some of us are born this way, and we get worse.
The Independent
Arts
New Wave Art
This January, a ground-breaking museum opens on the island of Lanzarote, where visitors will swap cameras for masks, and flip-flops for flippers...
Wizz Air
Travel Arts
Phil Grabsky - Art on film.
"Everyone thought it was a crazy idea when I first mooted it in 2009; who’d go to the cinema to see an art exhibition? But live screenings of theatre and opera were just taking off and I really felt audiences would go for it."
Viva Brighton
Arts
Chris Riddell on working with Russell Brand and the joy of drawing
Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell is exhorting children to do something creative every day, via his daily doodles on the Book Trust’s website. He is also a political cartoonist for The Observer and a passionate defender of public libraries. Nione Meakin found out more.
Sussex Life
Lifestyle Arts
Prime Movers
International art supremos Iwan and Manuela Wirth explain their winning strategy in Asia to Nione Meakin
Tatler Asia
Arts
Artist Helen Wells and her Victorian home in Hastings
Artist Helen Wells and her husband Mark moved to Hastings from London just eight months ago. They have certainly put their stamp on their five-storey Victorian home, finds Nione Meakin.
Sussex Life
Arts Lifestyle
How to experience art without using your eyes
Ever tasted a Francis Bacon painting? Listened to a Cézanne? Stroked the Mona Lisa's hair? At galleries across Europe, art is becoming a feast for all the senses. Nione Meakin investigates. Something strange is occurring n the world of art. In the past 12 months, visitors to some of the world's most venerable national institutions have pawed a Mona Lisa, sniffed glue in front of a Richard Hamilton collage and even walked off with exhibits.
easyJet Traveller
Arts
Hastings becoming a haven for a generation of artists
Hastings is becoming a haven for a new generation of artists, designers and craftspeople attracted by its dazzling natural light and affordable property.
Sussex Life
Lifestyle Arts Travel
Tim Winton on Albany, Western Australia
Albany is a chronically underrated city. It was the first European settlement in Western Australia and should have been the capital, but was annexed by the British in 1791. It's physically lovely, with the best natural harbour in Australia outside Sydney and lots of remnants of Victorian architecture.
The Guardian
Arts Travel
Jazz for beginners; learn to dig it
Louis Armstrong famously said that if you had to ask what jazz was, you’d never know. Brighton singer and BBC 3 broadcaster Claire Martin is a little more helpful.
Viva Brighton
Arts
Jackie Kay on being a writer
Jackie Kay MBE is a multi award-winning Scottish novelist and poet, currently Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. She talks to Nione Meakin about finding your voice, being loyal to your writing and the importance of being able to edit your own work... Coming out as a writer is as hard as coming out as a lesbian.
Arts

About

Nione Meakin

I'm a Brighton-based freelancer who writes travel, arts, lifestyle and features for papers including The Guardian and The Telegraph and magazines including VICE, Coast, Marie Claire, Grazia, Psychologies, N by Norwegian & Easyjet Traveller.

I like stories and people with a bit of quirk to them, which has led me down some fascinating avenues. I've written about travelling shop mannequins and British showmen; people who live on old minesweepers and lone Antarctic explorers; Cape Cod's missing cod, fashion for female priests, 'Glastonbury with guns' and timewarp B&Bs. I've interviewed art world power couples and rising-star playwrights; philosophers, astronomers and leading choreographers - and I just about make a living from it.

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HIGHLY COMMENDED: Features Journalist of the Year: Destination. Business Travel Journalism Awards 2019.

WINNER: Features Journalist of the Year: Industry Trends. Business Travel Journalism Awards 2017.