Pop Art

INTERVIEW | Qiurui Du

INTERVIEW | Qiurui Du

Qiurui Du is a Chinese artist and curator. He is committed to giving voice to young Asian artists and curating exhibitions to showcase their work. In his work, he observes people's lives from his unique perspective and brings the hustle and bustle of unique experiences around him into his works. Qiurui Du constructs a virtual world through his childhood fantasies and memories.

INTERVIEW | Polin Huang

INTERVIEW | Polin Huang

Polin Huang is a mixed-media painter based in New York City. Huang's paintings are a critique of female stereotypes, racism, and the influence of advertising media, language, and local culture. Her work considers the youth of today, who are often depressed about life or overly pursuing vague philosophies. These analyses are all told through cartoonish characters with bright colors, glittery accents, and a humorous gaze.

INTERVIEW | Agnieszka Stopyra

INTERVIEW | Agnieszka Stopyra

Agnieszka Stopyra (born in 1988) is an illustrator and graphic designer. In her fashion illustrations, she combines an expressive use of lines and subtle patches of colour, and in her graphic designs, she uses collage and combines it with surrealism and pop art, which she absolutely loves. The main theme in both these spheres is a woman with a whole spectrum of emotions, anxieties, inspirations, and her own micro-worlds.

INTERVIEW | Wowser Ng

INTERVIEW | Wowser Ng

Wowser Ng is a China-born, London-based visual artist. His work functions by appropriating fashion products and commodities. These sleek and gorgeous images depict Generation Z and the dangers of continuing to support materialism. He develops the painting practice of combining abstract and Pop with a visual narrative to reveal the pop culture under the influence of the current society.

INTERVIEW | Kohlben Vodden

INTERVIEW | Kohlben Vodden

Kohlben Vodden is an Australian-born self-taught artist living and working in London, UK. His obsession with psychological concepts such as identity and aesthetics is central to his practice.Focusing on abstracted figurative works in oil paint, he employs insights from psychology and uses a bold geometric style with intense colour palettes to command the viewers’ attention and communicate stories of identity.

INTERVIEW | Sergey Piskunov

INTERVIEW | Sergey Piskunov

Sergey is a Ukrainian artist based in Kyiv. A genre-defying painter passionately committed to exploring the core principles of hyper-realism, he seeks to redefine the genre with his breathtaking works. The Ukrainian artist creates a stunning anthology of works that he sees as a "burst of emotion," forcing the artist to turn inside out his soul and leave it on the canvas.

INTERVIEW | Lorette C. Luzajic

INTERVIEW | Lorette C. Luzajic

Every technical and philosophical facet of Lorette C. Luzajic’s art is committed to the application of mixed media, redefining the term to include concepts and ideas as well as tangible physical materials. This cross-genre pasticcio is born from and dependent on collage, which naturally experiments with subliminality, intercontextuality and the unexpected narratives that emerge from both playful and planned juxtapositions.

INTERVIEW | Emma Coyle

INTERVIEW | Emma Coyle

A small body photography series of floral images became the base for Emma Coyle’s abstract work. Her art began with each photograph being minimally drawn, taking away its 3-dimensional aspect, and then sized up on the board or canvas. Her work questions what can be considered a painting, how abstract art is evolving, and how artists can develop ideas to create something of their own.