Tummy Ache #04

Tummy Ache is a British slow-fashion brand and magazine that is using fashion and art to open up an honest conversation surrounding mental health, and empower those struggling to feel seen and powerful. 

In this issue: 

Treated as a private shame, loneliness is an emotion steeped in ideas of failure, invisibility and unlovability - yet it affects almost a quarter of the UK.

Featuring work from artists and writers such as Celia Paul, Haseeb Iqbal, Samra Mayanja and Vida Adamczewski, The Lonely Issue traces the breadth of the emotion - from creative possibility and heightened sensitivity, to the rise of AI companionship, the fetishisation of boundaries, sexual dissociation, and the raw isolation of grief.

Vol. 4 is Tummy Ache’s largest issue yet, and acts as a testament to a collective cry for community in an age shaped by individualism, gig work, and dissolution of locality by online spaces. It is both an examination and an offering - a testament to the human need for connection.

London, England; 147x210mm; 176 pages