Vierdamme is the artistic duo of Marleen Vandamme and Dennis Vieren, a portmanteau that embodies the fusion of their distinct creative voices, exploring the depths of identity, emotion, and connection. Their work is deeply personal, reflecting an ongoing artistic conversation between two distinct yet harmonized perspectives.
Stephan Joseph Ravare Jr. transcends the title of mere artist. His work embodies the role of a storyteller, channelling ideas, confronting and breaking barriers, and honouring his Louisiana Creole heritage through his art. Viewing art as a catalyst for transformation and acceptance, Stephan uses culture and differences to not only cope with mental health but to inspire solace and creativity.
Roxana Casillas is a sculptor, born in Mexico City in 1964. Her work aims to celebrate the enigmatic aspects of femininity, delving into her own psyche as both the creator and the subject while offering viewers profound insights into the complexities of existence and the journey of self-discovery. Working primarily with contemporary sculpture, Roxana finds joy in the tangible and transformative nature of this medium.
Anastasiya Kao is a contemporary artist working in a unique technique that combines crystal, mirror, glass, and resin. Through her works, she explores themes of human boundaries, inner strength, and transformation, turning light and reflection into metaphors of consciousness and rebirth. Each of Anastasiya’s creations is a dialogue between fragility and resilience, destruction and regeneration.
Kevser Ugurlu is a Tokyo and Sydney-based contemporary visual artist whose practice is shaped by long-term engagement with drawing and painting. Grounded in a search for freedom and shaped by the desire to break away from systems of control and authoritarian structures, her work takes a critical view of social, political, and cultural realities, pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling.
Wanqing Zhang is a New York-based designer whose practice sits at the intersection of graphic design and installation. She specialises in addressing complex social issues, such as mental health and gender equality, by transforming research and insights into tangible, design systems. Her work investigates how design can shape understanding of identity, memory, and collective experience.
Lachlan Howard is a multi-media sculptor and photographer from Ocracoke, North Carolina. His work examines the uncanny and the uncomfortable and how we can benefit from accepting and embracing discomfort. He is currently a Sculpture and Expanded Media major at the Cleveland Institute of Art, a recipient of the Gund scholarship, and has previously been a Teacher’s Assistant for various programs.
David Miller is a London-born conceptual visual artist and storyteller whose work explores memory, identity, and constructed experience through AI-assisted image making. A Goldsmiths College graduate, Miller’s practice is rooted in narrative traditions of staged photography and psychological symbolism, creating images that sit between recollection and invention.
Anna Taraman was born in 1962 in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad), where she continues to live and work. Anna Taraman uses various techniques and materials, tries new combinations of colours and shapes, and freely moves between styles, which also helps her open new horizons. Her approach to creating works of art is based on the principle of openness.
Ashraf Malek is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist whose practice investigates space as a fluid, destabilised construct shaped by perception, memory, belief, and ideology. The recurring figure of the avatar in Malek’s work functions as an abstract extension of self, quietly testing issues of authorship, embodiment, and agency.
Hanke Wang is a U.S.-based new media artist and game designer working across character design, illustration, and interactive visual systems. His practice focuses on creating fictional characters and narrative worlds, often through a hybrid process that blends 3D character construction with 2D hand-drawn imagery. His latest project is Battle of the Mouse King, a narrative-driven card-based game.
Artem Mayer (b. 1989) is a guitar maker and contemporary artist based in Moscow, Russia. His work sits between luthiery and contemporary art, and his practice is guided by a simple principle: he makes what he personally wants to make and what gives him genuine enjoyment. If the result resonates with others, that is a welcome outcome, but not the starting point.
Julian Newme is a contemporary visual artist based in Vigo, Spain. His practice spans painting, digital art, printmaking, and hybrid visual formats, often incorporating text and image-based elements. Working across physical and digital media, his work reflects an ongoing engagement with contemporary visual culture and the emotional dimensions of experience.
Samah El Hage is a Lebanese-Swedish artist working in bold, abstracted, and cubist-inspired figurative painting. Her work explores identity, connection, and emotion through rhythmic compositions and layered colour, often centring on the human face and form as a visual language of feeling and memory.
Marcelo Guimarães Lima, PhD, MFA (b. Rio de Janeiro, 1952) is a visual artist, researcher and writer. In his latest series, Bestiary Series, the artistic representation of nature and natural creatures highlights our common conditions and the solidarity of all life in the planet that it is our common home and heritage to be cared and preserved.
João Sobreira is a visual artist whose practice interrogates the limits of painting by expanding it into processes of sound, performativity, and phenomenological research. Operating between material gesture and experiential perception, his work addresses notions of authorship, self-erasure, and the role of chance as a generative force.
Baron Hill is a young abstract artist based in Davie, Florida, whose work focuses on themes of emotion and self-reflection, often expressed through drawing. He uses art to dissect the roots of difficult emotions, sadness, anger, and guilt, capturing them in mostly detailed, intricate dark lines, swirls, arcs, and colors that emphasize their depth and intensity.
Maison Kira is a multidisciplinary visual artist and designer whose practice spans 3D and fashion design, painting, and graphic work. Driven by curiosity and experimentation, he explores the intersections of art, design, and contemporary culture, addressing issues like fast fashion and consumerism by transforming diverse materials into reflective, critical objects.
Madhat Design Studio is an artist due and architectural studio based in Los Angeles. Moe and Ed aim to craft worlds and scenes where both the natural environment and the architecture blend in a seemingly realistic yet abstracted style. Every drawing is planned and crafted with care to stimulate the suspension of disbelief.
Margherita’s work explores identity, emotion, and the feminine experience through abstraction and sound. Guided by instinct and rhythm, she moves fluidly between painting and music, creating spaces where colour and tone echo one another. Through her work, she searches for harmony between the visible and the audible, inviting viewers to pause, listen, and connect with their own emotional landscape.
In this interview, collector Francesca de Marco introduces Italian artist Yuri (Paolo Ornelli). lives in a tuff cavern in near-complete solitude, accompanied only by a mare and by the breathing of the seasons. Here, Yuri has shaped his personal aesthetics of resistance and impermanence. His works are fragments of the wall that encloses him, pulled out, carved out, wrested from his own shelter.
Rui Yang is a multidisciplinary artist and CG generalist based in New York. His work explores post-digital identity, cultural hybridity, contemporary events, and the reimagining of contemporary mythologies. With a practice in both industry and fine art, Rui’s expertise allows him to work fluidly across tools and platforms, creating artworks that blur the boundaries between media and narrative.
