Donna Gough’s multidisciplinary art practice links elements from drawing, painting, sculpture, and light-based media, investigating ideas around our very existence and our ‘place in space,’ while exploring existential concepts of geometry as a universal language and Gestalt theories of our relationship with nature and the cosmos. She has exhibited in the United States, Germany, and Australia.
INTERVIEW | Vytautas Buinevicius
Vytautas Buinevicius is an architect, urbanist, researcher, and photographer based in Vilnius, Lithuania. His latest series, Hypervernacular, is an ongoing series of research on urban and rural areas in transition celebrating the ingenuity of non-professional designs driven by sincere care, the sensitivity of nature, “supervised decay,” pure practicality, and limited resources, unrestrained by mainstream or high-society architectural culture.
INTERVIEW | Gumi Lu
Gumi Guihan Lu is an interdisciplinary artist, originally from Chongqing, China, and now based in New Jersey, USA. She works at the intersection of technology, mythology, art, and culture. Her creative philosophy stems from a dual exploration of world order and personal memory, aiming to build a network of contrasts that are far removed from reality yet capable of explaining it.
INTERVIEW | Ana Pinho Vargas
Ana Pinho Vargas is a Portuguese artist, photographer, and painter based in Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto. Her latest series, Silêncio II, is the result of the junction of two coexisting universes: writing in musical scores and the artist in his most fragile physical humanity, revealing the intimacy of the eye through the close connection between the author and the person being photographed.
INTERVIEW | Nataliya Lemesheva
Nataliya Lemesheva is a Russian artist, currently living in Barcelona. Her artistic practice revolves around the concept of non-duality — the understanding that all phenomena are ultimately interconnected and indivisible. In her works, she strives to show the blurring of boundaries between opposites, such as light and dark, internal and external, familiar and foreign, abstraction and realism.
INTERVIEW | Jietong Xu
Jietong Xu's artwork delves into the emotional connections between individuals through the medium of glass. Inspired by the intricate dynamics within her own family, she uses glass weaving techniques to bring thoughts and emotions to life. By wielding flames as her brush, she transforms glass into a medium that captures the delicate yet resilient nature of human relationships.
INTERVIEW | FEYU (Yu Li)
FEYU (Yu Li) is a Chinese multimedia artist and filmmaker based in London, known for creating alternative realities and fantasies using emerging technologies. Her practice researches emotional introspection, examining how technology shapes spatial, philosophical, and cultural infrastructures. She focuses on themes like agency, shame/desire, and cultural identities in digital landscapes.
INTERVIEW | Gís Marí
Born in the Netherlands and based in Portugal, Gís Marí paints large-scale, abstract, expressionistic oil paintings. Gís Marí believes in old-world values. He works on a painting for many months and up to years. After constant conversation with the painting, he only puts his signature under his best work and destroys the rest.
INTERVIEW | Yunjie Huang
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.
INTERVIEW | Qian Chen
Qian Chen is a visual artist based in London and Xi'an. Her latest project, Dreamania, explores new dimensions of childhood memories, nostalgic culture, fancy dreams of irrationality. By observing and recording life trajectories, and reprocessing frozen memories, Qian create a tangible concept of spatial iteration, presenting the product of the interaction between daily life and dreams.
INTERVIEW | Rafael Alejandro López
Rafael Alejandro López is a Swiss-Venezuelan filmmaker and graphic designer based in Los Angeles. Raised between countries in seemingly perfect opposition, Lopez's personal work explores flawed political systems and the duality of the human condition. Through the narrative micro-lens of human experiences and dance, Lopez's aesthetic oscillates between absurdism, fiction, and realism.
INTERVIEW | Daniella Uchendu-Oji
Daniella Uchendu-Oji is a designer and animator whose journey is a testament to the fusion of traditional art and digital innovation. Balancing her roles as a designer, animator, and startup developer, Daniella integrates her expertise in digital art with her entrepreneurial spirit. Her projects reflect her dedication to innovation, sustainability, and the intersection of technology and creativity.
INTERVIEW | Todd Williamson
Todd Williamson is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist. His art is like a deep dive into a world of subtle abstractions, where every piece has a kind of ethereal calm and a determined presence. He brings his pieces to life through a process-oriented technique of layering, sanding, grinding, and detailed brushwork—each step pulling out an inner connection into his world.
INTERVIEW | Bianca Bartley
Bianca Bartley, a Jamaican Psychology graduate from the University of the West Indies, launched her jewellery line 'Peace-is of Bianca' in 2008. Bianca aspires to create an umbrella brand offering a diverse range of products and services. Targeting consumers seeking unique, personalized products, the brand caters to individuals looking to stand out and embrace individuality.
INTERVIEW | Suly Bornstein-Wolff
Suly Bornstein-Wolff’s latest project, Vessels, is part of the Personal Structures exhibition at Palazzo Mora in Venice, held on the occasion of the 2024 Venice Biennale. In the installation, the white glass objects represent a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and with their smooth reflective surfaces that symbolize beauty, symmetry, and perfection.
INTERVIEW | Xinyu Wo
Xinyu Wo is a Chinese visual artist now living in New York. Her art aims to explore the connection between human nature and social reality, triggering viewers to reflect on their inner worlds through visual presentation. By dramatizing images to increase tension and using surrealist techniques to arrange elements, she aims to attract viewers to explore the meanings behind her works.
INTERVIEW | Wanrong Zhu
Wanrong Zhu is a multimedia visual artist from China and based in London. Her work focuses on the relationship between AI and society. Her latest series, the Dream Series, three distinct works, each delving into different facets of the human psyche—death, inner shadows, and anxiety—drawn from the artist's meticulous collection of 100 recurring dream archives.
INTERVIEW | Snow - Xueyi Huang
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.
INTERVIEW | Chun Yao Chang
Chun Yao Chang is a New York-based Visual Effects Artist. Specializing as a VFX Compositor, Matte Painter, and Environment Artist, Chang creates visual effects for films, TV episodes, and commercials. Chang breathes life into the static through a delicate dance of light, color, and motion, inviting viewers to journey beyond the mundane and into the extraordinary.
INTERVIEW | AMIANGELIKA
AMIANGELIKA is an award-nominated new media and experience artist based in London. Her practice revolves around exploring the interconnection between image and sound as well as machine-human interaction, resulting in performance-based and installation-based works. She creates fully generative, real-time rendered pieces that react to live inputs through audio or motion tracking sensors.