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.
Ran Fuchs, an Australian artist and global nomad, is driven by two intertwined passions: an undying obsession for wildlife and nature and an exploration of the fine line separating reality from consciousness. Ran's fascination with the natural world converges beautifully with his enduring interest in traditional Japanese arts, specifically kachoga and sumi-e (ink painting).
Napoleon M. Haboc is a quinquagenarian industrial product design freelancer and an emerging contemporary artist based in Qingxi Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China. He has two main mediums in his art: colored textured acrylic paint on the mat board and a monochromatic crosshatched bamboo fine debris art, respectively. A combination of nature and intention is the two phases in his artistic approach to his colored art medium.
Hanyu Mu is a talented artist and animator hailing from Beijing, China, and currently residing in Atlanta. With a diverse range of skills, Hanyu excels in various artistic mediums, including illustration, traditional painting, 2D animation, and storyboarding. Through her artistry, she masterfully constructs immersive narratives, channeling her emotions and unrestrained imagination.
Eva Reiska is a visual artist from Estonia, working primarily with installation art and painting. Facing depression in her 20s, real birds that she had been keenly observing reminded her of the preciousness of the present moment and freedom. She began creating these reminders for herself through art and, like birds, after graduating, she migrated, traveling to different countries and recording her experience into drawings every day for five years.
Nugzari Novikoff is a self-taught artist from Tbilisi, Georgia. He is an artistic experimenter, and paints a variety of subjects, transfers sudden ideas to the canvas, and tries to capture the emotions, movements, and moments to share with the viewer. His painting style tends mainly to a realistic representation of painted objects. He is a member of the International Guild of Realism, Eyecandy Frankfurt, National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society.
Marika is a visual artist based in Barcelona with a diverse background in design, illustration, and painting, giving her a holistic vision of the creative practice. In her work, she is interested in the never-ending journey of unlearning, erasing, and rewriting what one would define as identity. Her pictures invite viewers to dive into their innate curiosity and sense of wonder while encouraging exploration and (self) reflection.
Matthew Morpheus (Serhii Matveichenko) is a visual artist born in Ukraine. He currently lives in the United Kingdom, after living in Ukraine and Tel Aviv. Serhii is one of the flagships of contemporary art, and the artist's works fully convey the entire atmosphere of the 21st Century New Age concept, with its unique new cultural diversity and unusual genres and ideas.
Maria Fernandez is an Argentinian artist, currently based between Melbourne and Barcelona. Fernandez works predominantly with the painting medium and also sometimes with photography. She is inspired by the diversity of textures and colours drawn from nature and by objects and materials that have been used, has aged, and have then been discarded. She is interested in the history embedded in these objects, in their texture of decay.
Lola Yiting Zhang is a concept artist specializing in the entertainment industry. Her unique perspective and sensibility empower her to extract design inspiration from the most unexpected sources. She's always on the hunt for the bizarre and often overlooked elements in nature. Lola's design aesthetics are deeply rooted in her fascination with exploring the untamed beauty of unconventional forms.
Ronny Reinecke is a German painter and visual artist. In his painting, there are different ways of approaching because feelings and emotions never stand still; otherwise, it would mean a standstill. Art sorts out his feelings and thoughts about moving subjects with the digital world at my side. In painting itself, spontaneity gives chance a little room to grow. With the pursuit of art, he has come to realize what art is.
Qixin Chen was born in 2001 and raised in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Through mixed media and installation, she focuses on the existential anxiety arising from transitional society and culture, which threaten the fundamental values and state of being of individuals in a pervasive and widespread manner. She believes that this painful emotional experience creates a collective emptiness, isolation, and fear.
Alex Bonsanthy is a self-made artist. But he considers himself to be a late disciple of Van Gogh and an unofficial bastard of Picasso. He likes the impression of colors and forms in either realistic or abstract paintings. His artworks should transmit magic and creative energy using expressive colors and forms. He is a fan of Free Art and uses Geometry as a method to abstract the forms and lines of reality.
Born in Italy, Roberto Sabatini was raised in a family of photographers. While he was influenced by their choices, it wasn't until recently that Roberto adopted photography as a visual art. He is not only interested in showing beauty but also in evoking concepts and emotions. His works range from representational to abstract within this realm. In his recent works, he is focusing on reinterpreting famous artworks and exploring motion blur.
Laura Bull is a 22-year-old Birmingham-based artist whose work is characterised by vibrant oil paintings and, more recently, sculptures resembling human form. Her practice explores the relationship between surface and touch, analysing the value of objects through vibrant oil paintings that primarily depict hands and gestures. Her work is influenced by a desire to critique the ways in which the female body is often objectified in contemporary culture.
Francisco Faustino is a Portuguese artist, based in Lisbon. The series Daydream” focuses on the use of frame burn and flashing the film rolls to develop photographs that show the duality between the cold, rational energy of the physical world and the warm fantasy of what it means to daydream. All the photographs were taken on a 35mm film camera in 2022.
Josune García is an abstract artist based in San Sebastian. Through her artistic practice, Josune opens up to a dimension of mental stillness, transcendence, and dissolution with the absolute. She seeks to release energy through creative chaos to find internal harmony. Josune’s work is characterized by the use of color, the fluidity of the spills, and the random strokes that converge in a visual dance with organic reminiscences.
Cesar Mammadov (b. 1988, Baku, Azerbaijan) is one of the most prominent young Azerbaijani brush masters. In Cesar Mammadov’s paintings, joy of existence is combined with a friendly interest in the smallest details of life, and the romantic glorification of the beauty of nature goes hand-in-hand with a display of creations of human hands in the foreground, figuratively and sometimes in the literal sense of the word.
Yahan Wang is a digital artist, visual designer, and curator currently based in New York and was born in Wuhan, China. She works on digital images, motion graphics, and interactive videos, which are generated from coding. Yahan's digital image works have explored glitch aesthetics and how the glitch culture challenges the idea of 'perfect design' in most digital media production.
Mariia Raskin is an award-winning abstract artist born in 1979 in Kazakhstan and is currently Turkey-based. In Mariia's artworks, there is always a mystery to be solved by the viewer. Her artistic process is to combine strong imagination with her impression from fantastic movies and scientific research about the universe that she has ever seen or read. Her latest series are «Fantastic Creatures» and «Fantastic Landscapes».
Juan Sebastian Diaz is a Colombian artist, based in Bogotá. His work takes viewers on a virtual journey through time, technologies, and occult forces, raising questions about contemporary relationships with the image. His body serves as the medium and he engages in a dialogue between performance and media arts, with a focus on constructing critical readings of image production and reproduction in contemporary contexts.
