Working predominantly with oil painting, clay, and photography, artist and social justice advocate Anrike Piel (b. 1993), with womanhood in focus, contributes her perspective on the enduring impact of intergenerational trauma on individuals and society, the plight of refugees, and societal reflections. Her work aims to catalyse change, challenge perceptions, and advocate for a more empathetic world.
INTERVIEW | Nipun Manda
Nipun Manda is a multidisciplinary US artist of Indian descent. Art has always been an important part of his life. His paintings incorporate globalization with their own multi-ethnic heritage, believing that paintings convey his rich experience. For Nipun, Art is a universal language that enhances the awareness, as well as the understanding of other cultures.
INTERVIEW | Peiting Huang
Peggy Peiting Huang is a multidisciplinary artist pushing the boundaries of creative expression. Born in Taipei, she is currently based in London. At the core of Peggy's artistic narrative lies a compelling exploration of personal identity intricately interwoven with the dichotomies of traditional and contemporary Taiwanese culture, offering viewers a glimpse into the nuances of her heritage and the ever-evolving cultural landscape that shapes her worldview.
INTERVIEW | Alexander Pom_Pom
Alexander Pom_Pom is a Russian artist, currently living and working in Bali. In his works, he creates an emotional space with references to the collective unconscious and classical works of art. In search of the sacred nature of the human soul, he turns to the archaic animal nature hidden under layers of social attitudes and cultural context. His latest series Ad Bestias! is the recognition and worship of the animal nature in man.
INTERVIEW | Roxana Casillas
Roxana Casillas is a sculptor, born in Mexico City in 1964. Her work aims to celebrate the enigmatic aspects of femininity, delving into her own psyche as both the creator and the subject while offering viewers profound insights into the complexities of existence and the journey of self-discovery. Working primarily with contemporary sculpture, Roxana finds joy in the tangible and transformative nature of this medium.
INTERVIEW | Sofiya Bokareva
Sofiya Bokareva is a young talented multidisciplinary artist who positions herself as an artist integrated into several different directions - sculpture, painting, ceramics, drawing, and design. Sofiya combines her creative work with curatorial activities in the field of art, holding the position of Associate Director and official representative at Art-Prime Gallery.
INTERVIEW | Paulette Gutierrez
Paulette Gutierrez’s work can be identified by intricate, bold-colored organic shapes. Gutierrez is a Mexican American artist born and raised outside of Detroit, Michigan. Gutierrez is interested in using the organic material she encounters while studying biology as inspiration for her work. The intricacy of organic materials and organisms, when looked at closely, serves as the substance to abstract.
INTERVIEW | Marta Dominguez
Marta Domínguez is a software engineer and artist based in Spain. Although she paints and draws from an early age, it is with sculpture that she explores the themes that interest her most. Giacometti and El Greco have influenced her use of figurative forms. Only recently, she has looked for recognition as a full artist. She is inspired by nature in her mountain studio, where she finds her models.
INTERVIEW | Laura Bull
Laura Bull is a 22-year-old Birmingham-based artist whose work is characterised by vibrant oil paintings and, more recently, sculptures resembling human form. Her practice explores the relationship between surface and touch, analysing the value of objects through vibrant oil paintings that primarily depict hands and gestures. Her work is influenced by a desire to critique the ways in which the female body is often objectified in contemporary culture.
INTERVIEW | Dave Kwinter
Dave Kwinter is a San Francisco based artist, originally from Toronto, Canada. After years of painting with acrylics and digital art software, Dave has discovered the delights of assemblage. Working in three dimensions is much more fun for him than being confined to two. The components of his sculptures come from thrift stores, flea markets, and eBay. More than once, something he picked up from the sidewalk ended up in an art piece.
INTERVIEW | Göksel Doğan
Göksel Doğan is a professional sculptor and underground artist. As a professional underground artist, he produces cartoons, posters, graphics, fanzines, and webzines. He is decoding “meaning” throughout the found objects and collages, and he calls this self-process of decapitalization of things (an attempt to reproduce human meaning against capitalist means of production by using sculptural elements).
INTERVIEW | Gerhard Petzl
Gerhard Petzl is a visual artist who works with bronze, stone, wood, mixed media, and chocolate and does not limit himself to any medium, technique, or shape. The exploration is the journey that brings him into unexplored areas and self-discoveries. He sails between 2D visuals, the classical way of drawings on paper or digital, and 3D sculptures and ends up often even in the field of Science.
INTERVIEW | Samira Debbah
Samira Debbah is an artist, painter, and sculptor based in Morocco. Her work is an interpretation of everything she is and what she connects with the most in life, especially her sentimental side. She likes to create art that allows the spectator to create a debate between him and the work. She doesn't limit herself to just one style or concept. She likes to play with shapes and nuances to create a unique combination.
INTERVIEW | Céline Sicard
Céline Sicard is a contemporary French artist. All her projects have in common the desire to surprise the visitor with unexpected visions that invite to a poetic or shifted journey. She borrows from various techniques to create contemporary masks as an intuitive artist. All her pieces have a ceramic base, but also incorporate basketry to create an interface between art and nature, between the useful and the useless.
INTERVIEW | Moti Bazak
Moti Bazak makes use of recycled materials to create thought-provoking, often abstract images inspired by the existential aspects of modern life. Moti has started off with sculpture and wall art, currently embracing traditional photography and digital art. Moti grew up in Israel, where he first began developing his self-taught style. Since then, he has won several awards and had his work exhibited across the United States, Europe, and Israel.
INTERVIEW | Felipe Farme D'Amoed
Felipe Farme D'Amoed was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has lived in the US for the past ten years. In his sculpture, the artist uses plastic and rebar to torture the trunk blatantly. By suffocating the piece, impeding it to breathe and recover, he transfers agony to the offender. Asphyxiation kills all living beings. In each confronting medium, the artist elucidates our concern for the soul and place in the world.