Painting

INTERVIEW | Mingxuan Zhang

INTERVIEW | Mingxuan Zhang

Mingxuan Zhang's artistic practice centres on the fluidity and de-symbolisation of the body, exploring the complex relationship between the body, space, and gaze through distortion and absence. She creatively incorporates ready-made fabrics from the real world into her paintings, capturing the transition between the “virtual” and the “real.” She currently lives between London and Hong Kong.

INTERVIEW | Ruoyu Gong

INTERVIEW | Ruoyu Gong

Ruoyu Gong is a New York-based painter. His work delves into the complexity of the human psyche in the theme of personal symbolism. Ruoyu sees painting as a way to uncover the veiled tensions within his psyche. Through this distillation process, he navigates the labyrinth of his psychological landscape that often lies dormant beneath the surface of daily life.

INTERVIEW | Mahta Salehi

INTERVIEW | Mahta Salehi

Mahta Salehi is an Iranian artist currently living in the US. In her recent paintings investigate psychological transformation and the tension between confinement and freedom by combining abstraction and figuration and using symbolic imagery. In her work, she uses experimental techniques and layered compositions to encourage viewers to interact with the shifting nature of psychological landscapes.

INTERVIEW | Yuyang (Lily) Wei

INTERVIEW | Yuyang (Lily) Wei

Yuyang (Lily) Wei is a Chinese-New Zealander artist currently living and working in London. Drawing on her own experiences growing up between New Zealand and China, a topic that concerns Yuyang's artworks is the identity crisis of Third-Culture Kids. Paintings in this section depict Yuyang's personal feelings of being part of a diaspora.

INTERVIEW | Filip Moszant

INTERVIEW | Filip Moszant

Filip Moszant's work is an intuitive rebellion against imposed socialization. At the core of his practice lies a deep engagement with form, texture, and movement. His paintings pulse with energy, shaped by unseen forces. Colours collide violently or dissolve into meditative softness, creating a balance between control and chaos. His acrylic markers and felt pens generate rhythmic gestures.

INTERVIEW | Marcus Brown

INTERVIEW | Marcus Brown

Marcus Brown is a sculptor, painter, inventor, musician, and educator. Brown developed a form of painting called Electro-sonic Painting in which the artist paints with sound/data-producing instruments. HIs mission is to create artworks that educate the public about important issues while transcending both media and societal boundaries.

INTERVIEW | Jason Fairchild

INTERVIEW | Jason Fairchild

Jason Fairchild is an international fine artist based in the USA, known for his dynamic large-scale abstract paintings. His work bursts with bold colours and expressive brushstrokes, creating immersive compositions that evoke movement, energy, and emotion. Drawing inspiration from the raw spontaneity of abstract expressionism, Fairchild uses sweeping gestures and layered textures.

INTERVIEW | Yiyang Chen

INTERVIEW | Yiyang Chen

Yiyang Chen is a PhD candidate in fine art at the Glasgow School of Art and an artist working across painting, moving images, ceramics, performance and writing. Delving into themes such as the monstrous, feminism, the erotic, flux, touch, gaze, the archive, and the non-binary, Yiyang Chen's research and practice explore the liveness and fluidity of bodies and material.

INTERVIEW | Celine Lam

INTERVIEW | Celine Lam

Celine Lam (b.1999) is a mixed-media artist in Brooklyn. Her current practice focuses on the polarities under the context of all matters. She uses marks and abstract images to depict contemporary issues which echo her generation. Lam often works with mixed media paper sculptures and paintings employing calligraphy practice paper.

INTERVIEW | Adonis Antoniou

INTERVIEW |  Adonis Antoniou

Adonis Antoniou is a Cypriot-Syrian artist currently based in Barcelona. His artistic practice challenges perceptions and provokes thought by addressing global issues such as borders, racism, and violence. Antoniou's abstract work, documents the essence of life, capturing raw emotions and moments. Each painting stands as a testament to the variability of daily life.

INTERVIEW | Timothée Mahuzier

INTERVIEW | Timothée Mahuzier

Timothée Mahuzier is a French artist, based between Paris and Normandy. In his work he pays particular attention is given to using environmentally friendly and local materials. In his series Verdures, environment is presented rather than imitated, generating rich density through the plants' proximity to the canvas. These open-ended works serve as catalysts for individual experiences.

INTERVIEW | Bîstyek

INTERVIEW | Bîstyek

Bîstyek is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in painting, sculpture, and drawing. Renowned for his bold use of color and expressive lines, he blends elements of graffiti, street art, and abstraction while also creating figurative paintings on various surfaces and 3D wood sculptures. His work primarily reflects on his personal journey, from his marginalized upbringing in Syria to Canada.

INTERVIEW | Neryhs Wo

INTERVIEW | Neryhs Wo

Neryhs Wo is an emerging independent artist from Hong Kong. Her practice explores the contradiction of hoping to be found and understood but doubting the existence of total understanding between minds. She expresses this through various media such as poetry, paintings, illustrations, public installations, and performances. Neryhs sees her art practice to be a form of unconditional love she gives to life.

INTERVIEW | Pavel Bulva

INTERVIEW | Pavel Bulva

Pavel Bulva, born in 1991 and currently based in Minsk, is an artist whose work serves as a profound exploration of religious and philosophical themes, offering reflection on the vices and societal challenges prevalent in an era of mass consumption and archetypal narratives. His art delves into the depths of existential loneliness and immortality, provoking thought and contemplation on the human condition.

INTERVIEW | Leon Phillips

INTERVIEW | Leon Phillips

Leon Phillips is a contemporary painter currently based in Vancouver, Canada. He employs the materiality of color to evoke a visceral response in viewers, infusing color with structural significance rather than mere decoration. Phillips’ gestural work explores perception and embodiment through the materiality of color, aiming to immerse viewers in a corporeal experience.

INTERVIEW | Karolina Zgłobicka

INTERVIEW | Karolina Zgłobicka

Karolina Zgłobicka, a Polish artist based in Valencia, Spain, explores themes of relocation, memory, and the everyday objects that anchor us to our personal histories. Karolina Zgłobicka's art reflects on the intricate relationship between cherished objects and the memories they evoke, prompting the viewer to reconsider their connection with the material world and the passage of time.

INTERVIEW | Shouhui Lu

INTERVIEW | Shouhui Lu

Shouhui Lu is a Chinese self-taught artist. He believes that the best teacher is nature. He has been committed to the exploration and innovation of paper painting language, creating works with a contemporary spirit on traditional rice paper. He tries to express the problems that tiny individuals are experiencing and encountering in the current society through his works.

INTERVIEW | Theo Lopez

INTERVIEW | Theo Lopez

Theo Lopez draws inspiration from movements like Musicalism, Russian Constructivism, and the Blaue Reiter, cultivating a poetic relationship with material, line, and color. His creative process harmonizes reflection and spontaneity, awakening hidden melodies within his work. He employs full-body gestures to infuse energy into his non-figurative art, echoing the dynamism of historical avant-gardes.

INTERVIEW | Miguel Bragança

INTERVIEW | Miguel Bragança

Michel Bragança is a Portuguese painter and artist with a degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto. In their artistic practice, there is a need to define who they are as they exist, which has been a constant research theme and a reason for their ontological questioning and introspective process, which in turn are connected to their artistic practice.

INTERVIEW | Tanapol Suriyachottakul

INTERVIEW | Tanapol Suriyachottakul

Tanapol Suriyachottakul is a Thai artist born in 2001 in Bangkok. He approaches his art with a methodical, almost analytical mindset, likening his process to solving equations. Central to his work is the concept of Nihilism, which he portrays through calculated compositions and symbolic objects like mannequins and metallic forms. His paintings construct a world of distorted realities.