Zhi-Jiang Shan is an interior designer known for his cross-cultural design sensibility and poetic spatial expression. He often draws inspiration from classical Chinese landscapes, local craftsmanship, and symbolic spatial rituals, transforming them into immersive environments that resonate with modern life. His projects are not only functional but emotionally engaging.
Doug Winter is a semi-sighted North American conceptual photographic artist and filmmaker whose artworks focus on the preoccupation of light and non-figurative forms. Doug's non-representational photographs of conventional objects and their environments are derived from the human body's resilience to adapt and accommodate a physical disability and emotional trauma.
Ruonan Shen is a visual artist and photographer based in London. Her work engages with gender expression and transformation, focusing on China’s emerging drag scene as a lens through which to question the boundaries of beauty, strength, and self-presentation. Shen creates highly staged environments that balance intimacy and control, presence and absence.
Yixuan Nie is a rising multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer based in New York, whose work has been celebrated for its bold narrative power and innovative vision. Originally from Beijing, she draws profound inspiration from the layered textures of hutong life, infusing them with global relevance and artistic depth. She also works across styling, printmaking, and illustration.
Can Cui, originally from Beijing and currently based in New York, is known for her sculptural silhouettes and thoughtful explorations of material. Her work combines technical precision with conceptual depth, often engaging with themes of identity, transformation, and emotional texture. Can continues to challenge conventional structures and explore the expressive possibilities of fashion.
Zhi-Jiang Shan is an interior designer known for his cross-cultural design sensibility and poetic spatial expression. He often draws inspiration from classical Chinese landscapes, local craftsmanship, and symbolic spatial rituals, transforming them into immersive environments that resonate with modern life. His projects are not only functional but emotionally engaging.
Based in London, Chinese artist Yuying Li translates ancient Eastern philosophies into contemporary visual narratives. Her work, which often features monoprint, ink wash, and mixed media, explores the "concretisation" of a spiritual home. She converges elements of the human body, nature, and deep space to blur the lines between them, echoing the Taoist ideal of "human and nature in one."
Kuan-Yu Chou is a Taiwanese visual artist currently based in London. Focusing on body memories and inner experiences, her work invites viewers into a silent, tangible visual realm that intertwines body, emotion, and dreams. Through paintings, photographs, and installations, she creates a space where the viewer can reflect on vulnerability, suffering, and survival.
Bee Jones (Motionmoth) is a queer photographer and visual artist based in Manchester, but hailing from West Yorkshire. Drawing on important sociopolitical themes such as sexuality and class, Jones consistently endeavours to push their own life's narrative and the stories of those around them into their work.
Jace Ambwani is an American artist and junior architect based in Berlin, Germany. Her early work explores themes of anonymity, familiarity, and spatial perception through painting, drawing, and printmaking. More recently, she has incorporated sculptural methods and materials to delve into themes of mortality and her evolving experiences of womanhood.
Rui Wang is a cross-disciplinary designer and creative artist working across visual design, art direction, and photography. His series Not Everything Was Seen explores absence as a form of presence, and love as something that resists full visibility. The images do not act as evidence, but as traces, fragments left by intimacy and time. Each frame suggests what is deeply felt but never fully seen.
KristofLab is a Budapest-based interdisciplinary artist. Transitory media, such as video and sound, play a central role in his practice. Through an interdisciplinary approach, KristofLab continuously seeks to expand and challenge his own perspective. In his work, he explores social concerns, including globalisation and its consequences, environmental issues, war, and social inequalities.
Doug Winter is a semi-sighted North American conceptual photographic artist and filmmaker whose artworks focus on the preoccupation of light and non-figurative forms. Doug's non-representational photographs of conventional objects and their environments are derived from the human body's resilience to adapt and accommodate a physical disability and emotional trauma.
Ari Mei-Dan is a Boston-based multidisciplinary photographer and filmmaker. Whether through portraiture, concert photography, or documenting the things around her, she strives to capture moments of high emotion and true human-ness. Her work draws inspiration from artists like Annie Leibovitz, Spike Jonze, Nick Ut, as well as the very people around her.
Esra Sakar (b. 1992, Istanbul) is a fine art photographer and visual artist whose work blends traditional craftsmanship with contemporary conceptual approaches. She draws on mythology, psychology, and archetypes to create visual narratives exploring memory, the subconscious, and identity. Her work has been exhibited internationally in London, Milan, Glasgow, Lancaster, and Istanbul.
R. Scott MacLeay is a photographer and videographer based in Brazil. He views all lens-based art as documentary, regardless of the subject. His new media art deals with existential themes, often employing the first person in performance-based work. He explores situations rather than moments and as such, his work is focused on notions of evolution, transformation and repetition.
Xi Liu is a Chinese interdisciplinary artist. She creates oil paintings, prints, and evolving ecosystem-based installations using handmade paper and pigments derived from plants. Rooted in Taoist and Buddhist philosophy and Jungian psychology, Liu's work explores impermanence, origin, and spiritual transformation.
Ziggy Yang is a Chinese installation and new media artist based in New York. His practice explores the complex dialogue between human emotions, cultural conditioning, and technology, positioning technology as both an interactive medium and a conceptual framework. Yang employs mechanical systems, programmable physical computing, artificial intelligence, and synthetic materials.
Cizzoe Yi Wang (b. 2000, China) is an interdisciplinary artist who grew up in the UK. She is working across installation, performance, sculpture, and documentary filmmaking. Conceptually driven and informed by her background in social anthropology, her practice explores human interaction as a structured game governed by societal rules.
Yanhua Feng is a Chinese-born artist based in San Francisco, with studios in Vancouver and Beijing. Working in acrylic on canvas, she constructs layered surfaces that hold contradiction. While abstract, her work is rooted in the emotional architecture of contemporary life, its intimacy and instability. Female bodies, domestic space, and unspoken gestures are all recurring themes.
Aylal Heydarova is an emerging Azerbaijani painter whose works span a variety of artistic styles and creative techniques, including pointillism, modernism, and abstract. Launched in April 2024, the #SAVINGBUTTERFLIES project celebrates transformation and resilience, reflecting the journeys of both butterflies and migrants.
Xuechen Chen, a dynamic architect and visionary visual artist, was born in China and is currently based in New York. Central to her work is the concept of layering, where elements like perspective, emotion, and media converge to create entirely new forms of digital art. Xuechen's belief in the power of layering leads to innovative, emotionally resonant creations.
