Ernest Kankam, aka "BigCedi," is a multidisciplinary artist based in Ghana. His work is heavily influenced by Ghana's rich culture and history, as well as its socio-politics, and frequently incorporates memories, fantasies, and experiences. His works include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and videos. He experiments with various materials and uses vibrant and colourful images to convey his message.
INTERVIEW | YaXi Zhou
YaXi Zhou is a fashion designer. She mostly focuses on the emotional connection with human beings. She has always been committed to sustainable design, and she is currently working on using natural plants for fabric dyeing. Her latest project, Freedom from Shadow, was inspired by people's anxiety regarding their appearance and enables viewers to explore the stories and experiences behind the physical changes.
INTERVIEW | Lewis Deeney
Lewis Deeney is a Scottish painter, currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In his latest series, the Emergence Collection, the thread is meditatively layered upon the painted surface. Through mindful repetitive layering, complex patterns emerge and pockets of order disperse across the canvas. The emergent order created by the thread is contrasted with the expressive application of paint creating transcendent paintings with an iridescent glow.
INTERVIEW | Ruth Egon
Ruth Egon is a British artist based in Scotland. Uplifting and inspiring people through her bold colour palette, she hopes to engage people in their environment and explores nature through a positive and intriguing lens. Taking reference from abstract artists, her landscapes are a tapestry of beautiful abstract space and symbolic representations. She is fascinated by natural beauty and the human experience.
INTERVIEW | Marija Toskovic
Marija Toskovic's work is based on an abstract “self-landscape,” which aims to redefine the perception of an external projection of the inner identity. She is interested in exploring the idea of (im)permanence of the “other side” on the horizon and in the landscape, which defines the immutability of intimate geography in her work.
INTERVIEW | Jongbum Kim
Jongbum Kim is a New York-based designer, artist, and illustrator who explores the ideas of gender and multicultural communities through the medium of cloth. With a strong belief in seeing and experiencing the world firsthand, Jongbum’s designs are filled with color and symbolism, both literal and figurative, engaging the viewer and provoking them to respond.
INTERVIEW | Aomi Kikuchi
Aomi Kikuchi’s work is based on Japanese aesthetic principles and the teachings of the Buddha, such as “Wabi-sabi” and “Mono-no-aware”. It addresses infinity as the succession of fleeting and brittle activities. With freedom and flexibility, she combines acquired knowledge and experiment and creates art to inspire dialogue and reflection on these concepts through materials and aesthetic philosophies.
INTERVIEW | Chary Hilu
Artist and teacher of fine arts from Argentina, Chary Hilu is a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Argentina. Her works are conceived as a response to the sensations, feelings, and experiences evoked by extreme situations. They adapt to the context and are changed according to the context. They acquire an expressive power that results from the combination of technique and emotion.
INTERVIEW | Oussama Garti
Oussama Garti is a Moroccan architectural designer and artist trained at the Architectural Association in London. Fascinated by the infinite amount of similarities between macro and micro elements around him, Garti explores the idea of perception and works with extensive research to produce his work. His environment and observations fuel his creative process.
INTERVIEW | Marie Marchandise
INTERVIEW | Elvin Ou
Elvin Ou is a New York based multidisciplinary artist and a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute. He finds his inspiration in the intersection of digital media and the physical environment. With a background in interior design and interactive design, he believes that storytelling is the key to unlocking the nuance between digital and physical.
INTERVIEW | Sotiria Bramou
Sotiria Bramou works as a Visual Designer in the city of Athens. She moves and experiments by blurring the lines between visual & wearable art. Sotiria's work deconstructs the dominant social stereotypes and expresses her own values as a worker, as a female, as a designer. She gets inspired by the "abnormal", the "dirty", the "freak", and the "obscene".
INTERVIEW | Alexandra Fly
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.