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.
Liza Odinokikh is a Russian artist, currently living and working in Saint Petersburg. She works in various media, including painting, graphics, and objects. Liza addresses the themes of personal identity and introspection. Through the practice of emotionally figurative therapy, dreams, automatic writing, and other techniques of working with the unconscious, the artist finds evidence of the possibility of influencing and controlling her consciousness.
Billy De Luca is a non-fiction and short story writer and visual artist practising in Madrid. His fields of knowledge are based in the arts and culture spheres, including fashion, contemporary and modern art, and travel. His cultural background has heavily influenced his perspectives. In this article, he delves into the production and ultimately the core meaning of Japanese conceptual artist On Kawara.
Rūta Matulevičiūtė is a painter and interdisciplinary artist. She is based in Vilnius, where, with five colleagues, she co-founded the artist-run space and studios "Tapytoju studijos". Her method is consciousness-based creativity with a focus on personal development. For this reason, she focuses on meditation, psychology, ancient traditions, and, most importantly, the broad Baltic mythology rooted in Indo-European culture.
Gianluca Lattuada is an Italian artist, who was born in 1988. Currently, he lives and works between Milan and Madrid. The recurring themes in Lattuada’s work are the energy of bodies, eroticism, violence and the transience of life (“memento mori” philosophy). His work has two goals: to give an overview of the issues of contemporary society and to create a new vision of the world that can help taking a step forward tomorrow.
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.
Xuanlin Ye tasks himself with finding a new genre of visual expression that is representative of the contemporary Asian geopolitical psyche without the influence of Western stereotypes. The two main strands of his work include taking the imagery of traditional Asian tropes and questioning it on the canvas in a humorous or insouciant way through the physical manipulation of paint.
RUNA (aka Rute Norte) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. She is now finishing a Master's Degree in Painting, at Fine Arts Faculty, University of Lisbon. Her paintings can either refer to a memory, or be simple ideas and concepts that pass at the moment. As an artist-traveller, she writes travel chronicles accompanied by photos and tells a story through this trimediality: text, photography, and painting.
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.
Alicja Klimek is a Polish artist, based in Krakow. She delves into the subconsciousness, destroys the false identity, and finds in humans the Truth that flows from the very nature of existence. What you are looking at grows. She sees the potential in this unique time. This is the perfect time to Return To The Inside, in which she follows the Law of the Desert.
Sophie Ruoyu Zhang is a Chinese artist, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Working as a "diffraction apparatus", her practice utilizes multiple natural materials (napa cabbage, wine, coffee, etc.). Her oil painting, printmaking, and performance respond to and reinterpret the natural objects that are in a limbo of recognition, permeating poetics on the threshold of the subjecthood, the recognizable and the representable.
Painting is just like a bridge for Michael Kwong, linking himself and the outside world together. He can express his attitude toward life and his thought about things, and more importantly, he can interact with people through his artworks. He wants to use his painting to spread a positive power to people and bring a better and prettier world to people through his paintings.
Haoxuan Chen is a Chinese artist, based in Changsha. Chen Haoxuan often paints teenagers in different scenes, and those teenagers are symbolic and can be seen as his own narrative about himself. There will also be frequent images of black cats, for whom the black cat is symbolized by the other. These objects are very important to him, and they are related to them, and then uses strong colors to express their concern for their relevance.
Allan Linder is a prolific, award-winning artist with more than thirty years of experience producing a wide range of artwork using multiple mediums and subject matter. He fabricates paintings, drawings, digital artwork, mixed media artworks, and sculptures, using a variety of materials and substrates. His recent work Cityscapes are a collection of hand-painted artworks scanned at high resolution and digitally painted.
West has established a unique painting language that has been created through the combination of original and derived techniques, executing paintings that represent the now as he sees it. In his ongoing series Borderline Painting West works within abstraction and focuses on colour, energy, form, and technical expansion. His broad range of methodology forms bodies of work that are dynamic and non linear.
Yunah Seo is a South Korean artist, currently based in London. Her practice considers the internal and attempts to visualize inner reactions relating to personal circumstances, consisting of beliefs, emotions, perceptions, philosophies, and the notion of creation. She combines images and memories from her own life, laying them out across her materials in order to consider and develop intuitive insight into her life.
Linda Lin likes both the texture of sand and stone and the mottled feeling of watermarks, so she has been researching how to simultaneously present the simplicity of texture and the fluidity of watermarks in her pictures. She tries to find a strange harmony in this contradiction and finds a space of balance between Western classical sculpture and Eastern traditional artistic conception.
Lena Silva is a contemporary, figurative, classical artist, of Portuguese origin, and she has resided most of her life in the United Kingdom. She enjoys working with a variety of mediums, from pencil graphite to pastels and watercolours. However, her favourite medium to work with is oils because of their texture, vibrant colours, and flexibility of shading and blending.
Silvia Felizia is a contemporary abstract artist born in Argentina and currently living in the USA. Her work talks about the presence - and the power - of art made by women, and rethink how women see their lives in the current world and keep growing no matter what society and stereotypes dictate, bringing a different dimension of liberation and knowledge.
Wei Ting Chen was born in Tainan, he uses a lot of childhood memories and symbolic figures such as teddy bears, antique toys, intuitive graffiti drawings, costume characters, and so on. With a background in literature, his painting started as diary recordings, which tend to be in a written form. In order to seek more opportunities for exchange with artists and new projects, he currently lives and works in Tokyo.
Cynthia Grow's work is informed by literature, poetry, philosophy, and film. She explores the interstices between art and language, engaging themes of memory, desire, and complex interpersonal relationships, playing on the idea of ambiguity, the liminal, and the spaces in between. Her latest series, Love Letters, is a collection of love letters by famous lovers throughout the ages.
