Intertwining discourses around labyrinths, social anxiety, and post-truth, Junshu Gu’s work is rooted in rhizome theory and draws from her 13 years of experience in interdisciplinary, culture-related media work and her profound expertise. Her practice incorporates painting, sculpture, and time-based media, appearing minimal and abstract, yet formally lithesome and precise.
Hanna Tzong-Han Wu is a Taiwanese choreographer and dancer based in Los Angeles, California. The dance language that lies between Western contemporary, hip-hop, and martial arts punctuates her signature style. Hanna is most interested in creating works that reflect on humans and humanity and believes that arts are the reflection of society. In her work she blends arts, culture, society, humans, and self.
Zihao Zhou is a Chinese fashion designer based in London. His art explores the connections between the macro and the micro, revealing the hidden wonders of the world. In 2024, he took a leap of faith and launched his own eponymous brand, Illogic, in London. With a blend of traditional craftsmanship and contemporary aesthetics, Zihao aims to carve his unique mark in the fashion industry.
Tong Tong is a cutting-edge fashion designer and creative based in New York City. Tong's designs draw inspiration from a rich tapestry of influences, including personal memories, a profound passion for fashion history, and an adventurous exploration of materials. His collection Home Alone draws inspiration from a cherished childhood memory, the clandestine explorations into his parents' wardrobe.
Qibai Ting is an artist currently based in Beijing and London. Her practice mainly focuses on narrative objects and sculptural installations. Qibai is interested in stargazing activities, and she considers her works as “constellations”. Living very close to forests and mountains, she identifies with the philosophy of nature and practices within landscape.
Haige Wu is a Chinese artist and illustrator with a practice spanning London and China. Her work blends traditional techniques such as lacquer painting and woodworking with contemporary methods, exploring themes of regional culture, feminism, and identity. Currently experimenting with felt for its dual qualities of softness and strength, Haige’s innovative approach has garnered international recognition.
Chu Ling-Jung, born in Taiwan in 2000, is an artist focused on feminism and consciousness. Her works often explore the unease in women's body shaping and gender perception under a patriarchal society and present these themes through deliberate bodily transformations. Chu Ling-Jung 's creative forms are diverse, including performance art, video, and found objects.
Yunjie Huang's artistic journey is a captivating exploration of the intersection between the mystical past and the complex present. Drawing from the depths of archaeology, myth, fairy tales, and fantasy, her work in ceramics and illustration not only showcases her technical prowess but also her profound ability to weave intricate narratives that delve into the essence of femininity and power.
Snow (Xueyi Huang), originally from Zhuhai, China, is a digital media artist, celebrated for her integrative approach that bridges Eastern philosophy with Western digital practices. Her art delves into the narrative of memory, identity, and emotion through digital expression. She employs technologies like coding, generative art, machine learning, and augmented reality to challenge traditional perceptions and engage audiences actively.
Kangqi Zou is a New York-based fashion designer and an esteemed alumna of Parsons School of Design. Her work is recognized for its unique fusion of cultural heritage and contemporary aesthetics, focusing on themes of identity, femininity, and societal roles. Her designs engage in a thoughtful dialogue between form and concept, exploring the nuances of identity and societal roles.
Lisha Liang is a Chinese artist currently living in Italy. Lisha Liang's artistic endeavors are deeply rooted in the exploration of gender dynamics and the pervasive issue of gender-based violence. Motivated by a growing concern for these societal challenges, Liang's work serves as a conscientious reflection and an invitation to engage with the feminist discourse.
Norino Shi is an award-winning digital artist, illustrator, director, and visual narrative artist. Born in China and currently based in New York, her works mainly focus on females, Asian immigrants, and uncertainty about the universe & life and death. Considering herself as a Global Citizen, she aims to create a free spiritual world by stepping out of the shackles of space and time.
Xinyu XuXX is a Chinese-born, London-based artist and screening organizer. Xinyu XuXX’s practice focuses on feminist eroticism and cares about the erotic capacity to form connections - transmit energy and empathy across time/territory, creating a moment of intimacy. Her work is interested in how image as a non-human body creates visionary erotic experiences as a method for activism, inhabiting space for those bodies behind it.
Tribambuka (aka Anastasia Beltyukova) is a London-based multidisciplinary artist, award-winning illustrator, and animation director working predominantly in painting and printmaking. Her practice is concerned with the themes of shifting identity, home, and belonging. As a British artist with Russian roots, she takes a critical approach to the complexities of her heritage through a contemporary lens of feminist and mythological thinking.
Hui Long is a photographer and creative director who brings a unique perspective to the art world. Her work focuses on themes exploring femininity and self-discovery, using her own personal experiences and memories as a source of inspiration. Through her art, she invites viewers to delve into the complexity of the human experience and to consider how our past experiences shape and define us.
Qiao Ban is a Chinese artist currently based in Germany. Her work primarily focuses on social issues in China and Germany, especially through her perspective of a foreigner, her sense of belonging, and her perspectives on life in a familiar and unfamiliar country. She hopes her work is open and interactive, without a definite answer. The result is a visual reflection of images, text, and materials and an art exhibition.
Latifah A Stranack is an Anglo-Omani artist based in London. Her work is about female empowerment, identity, sisterhood, and intuition. She creates her compositions using archival imagery, historical art references, fashion magazines, and photos of her body or people she knows. Mythology, current affairs, and history also thread their way through her work.
Caitlin is a multidisciplinary surrealist completing her master's degree at the University of Sunderland. Working with a plethora of mediums, Smith favours relief printmaking processes & painting, acrylic being her preferred choice. At present, her practice explores the figurative narrative of the internalised femme fatale, conjuring fragmented paintings and prints.
Contemporary interdisciplinary artist Fatima Jamil attempts to address critical cultural issues of our times, especially in the context of women. Franks attempts to address factors that stigmatize the role of the female gender. By witnessing a burgeoning rise of progressive thinking in women, especially in the East and Islamic world, her work illustrates these growing and adapting times of multiculturalism.
Susan Hensel makes sculptural textile works from a feminist perspective combining mixed-media practices with fabric and embroidery across digital and manual platforms, transforming personal experience, private and public spaces, and notions of beauty, through the alchemy of color, scale, lighting and placement.
Alexandra Holownia is a performance and interdisciplinary conceptual artist who made actions in public space, costumes, sculptures, drawings, video, text, lectures. Alexandra Holownia's works touch on taboo topics related to gender. She demonstrates against exclusion, discrimination based on age, sexism, and patriarchal structures in women and men's private and public relations. Calls for socio-political tolerance, acceptance of human rights, and freedom of sexual self-determination.
