INTERVIEW | The Mad Woman:Collective

INTERVIEW | The Mad Woman:Collective

The Mad Woman:Collective is a UK-based, independently run art brand. It's a home for all types of ghouls and ghosties, creatures and weirdos, creating art, poetry, books, short films and photography. The brand was born in May 2025, and since then, they have had their work sold in exhibitions, published photography books online, donated and fundraised for charities and lots of other lovely things.

INTERVIEW | Courtney Nichelle Coble

INTERVIEW | Courtney Nichelle Coble

Courtney Nichelle Coble is a multidisciplinary sculptor whose practice investigates psychological containment, repetition, and internal systems of pressure through materially dense resin forms. Working primarily with epoxy resin embedded with everyday objects, Coble compresses symbolic matter into restrained, mask-like structures cast from her own likeness.

INTERVIEW | Haïfa Melliti

INTERVIEW | Haïfa Melliti

Haïfa Melliti is a visual artist and intuitive pianist based between France and the Mediterranean. Her work explores the sacred feminine, emotional memory, and inner healing through symbolic female portraits she refers to as Déesses (Goddesses), Presences, and Guardians. Her visual language is defined by recurring symbols, and each artwork functions as a visual talisman.

INTERVIEW | Nano Nasty

INTERVIEW | Nano Nasty

Nano Nasty is a multidisciplinary artist and founder of the creative brand Nano Nasty. Currently based in Spain, she is known for her expressive, intuitive, and enigmatic works that span painting, sculpture, installation, and participatory art projects. Her practice explores themes of sensuality, material experimentation, and artistic alchemy, often inviting audience interaction and participation.

INTERVIEW | Long Phi Tran

INTERVIEW | Long Phi Tran

Long Phi Tran (b. 1989) is a Vietnamese ink painter based in Ho Chi Minh City. Working with traditional East Asian ink on paper, he develops a restrained monochrome language that examines scale, solitude, and the fragile position of the individual within systems of power. His practice merges material discipline with conceptual inquiry, allowing emptiness and contrast to function as psychological and structural tension.

INTERVIEW | Anastasiya Kao

INTERVIEW | Anastasiya Kao

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.

INTERVIEW | Kevser Ugurlu

INTERVIEW | Kevser Ugurlu

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.

INTERVIEW | Wanqing (Rita) Zhang

INTERVIEW | Wanqing (Rita) Zhang

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.

INTERVIEW | Lachlan Howard

INTERVIEW | Lachlan Howard

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.

INTERVIEW | David Miller

INTERVIEW | David Miller

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.

INTERVIEW | Hanke Wang

INTERVIEW | Hanke Wang

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.

INTERVIEW | Artem Mayer

INTERVIEW | Artem Mayer

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.

INTERVIEW | Julian Newme

INTERVIEW | Julian Newme

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.

INTERVIEW | Marcelo Guimarães Lima

INTERVIEW | Marcelo Guimarães Lima

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.