INTERVIEW | Darious Shan

INTERVIEW | Darious Shan

Darious Shan is a media artist and designer working across speculative design, interactive media, and moving image. Darious Shan’s artistic practice investigates how objects, technologies, and narratives can carry emotional weight across time and imagined futures. Her work often positions design as both a protective medium and a poetic form of misinterpretation.

INTERVIEW | Natalia Shamrai (Kolpakova)

INTERVIEW | Natalia Shamrai (Kolpakova)

Natalia Shamrai (Kolpakova) is an award-winning graphic artist and designer from Kyiv, Ukraine, specialising in art and fashion. Now based in Falmouth, UK, she creates intricate graphic designs digitally printed on silk, transforming them into both wearable accessories and interior art pieces. Her work, rich in narrative and symbolism, bridges the gap between fine art and fashion.

INTERVIEW | Ningrui Liu

INTERVIEW | Ningrui Liu

Ningrui is a transmedia artist working in and across the creative fields of film, music, performance, dance and spoken word. Her work explores speculative narratives and the unknown, drawing on both Chinese cultural frameworks and contemporary sound art. Her recent project, Film of Changes, investigates the aesthetics, philosophy and ethics of a traditional Chinese form of cleromancy, I Ching.

INTERVIEW | Elena Popova

INTERVIEW | Elena Popova

Elena Sergeevna Popova (b. 1982, Moscow) is a visual artist living and working in Cyprus. For her, painting is her way of slowing down time and holding on to what would otherwise be lost. She finds inspiration in the sea, in music and dance, and in the fragile emotions that pass quickly in human life. Her works carry a sense of stillness, a quiet space where the viewer can stop and simply feel.

INTERVIEW | Krystyna Vinogorodska

INTERVIEW | Krystyna Vinogorodska

Krystyna Vinogorodska is a European artist and a graduate of the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture. Her work bridges classical training with experimental forms of contemporary art. She creates spaces where time dissolves, placing the viewer in a threshold between past and future, between what has been forgotten and what is yet to come.

INTERVIEW | Nike Kama

INTERVIEW | Nike Kama

Nike Kama (b. 1979, Aktau, Kazakhstan) is a Berlin-based artist whose work embodies the spirit of naïve painting, driven by an unwavering belief in the transformative power of love, colour, and symbolism. Though not academically trained, Kama has forged her own artistic path, expressing emotions and life experiences through images that radiate joy and positivity.

INTERVIEW | Rodrigo Alpizar Sánchez

INTERVIEW | Rodrigo Alpizar Sánchez

Rodri is a Mexican, Muslim emerging artist, lawyer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist living in Dubai. He aims to help people in Mexico's courts while pursuing a career as a famous artist. To achieve this, he moved to the U.A.E., brought his guitar, and began developing his skills. He has visions and brings them into reality; it's about raising others' hearts through Rock.

INTERVIEW | Julia Posta

INTERVIEW | Julia Posta

Julia Posta is a Hungarian photographer based in the UK. She focuses on abstraction and experimentation. Inspired by the fluidity of watercolour, she brings its organic spontaneity into her photographic process. She works to create images that blur the line between accident and intention. Her work invites the viewer to pause and engage with the beauty of impermanence.

INTERVIEW | Kamila Hyo Hlobil

INTERVIEW | Kamila Hyo Hlobil

Kamila Hyo’s artistic practice is rooted in oil painting and explores the interplay of space, light, and colour. Her creative process is not a linear act of execution, but a slow unfolding, a shaping and transformation of the subject over time. Each motif undergoes a silent metamorphosis while remaining anchored in its essential nature, as if suspended in a timeless moment.

INTERVIEW | Julio Merino

INTERVIEW | Julio Merino

Julio Merino is a visual creative specialised in photography and graphic design, based between Seville and Cadiz. With a technical background in Image Capture, Lighting, and Graphic Design, his work stands at the intersection of visual storytelling, branding, and art direction. His photographic approach is defined by a strong sense of composition, intentional use of light and colour.

INTERVIEW | Sapphire (Shiyu) Zhang

INTERVIEW | Sapphire (Shiyu) Zhang

Sapphire Zhang (Shiyu Zhang) is a Chinese female artist based in the UK. Her interdisciplinary practice merges psychology and art, drawing on an early background in spatial design to explore the relationship between space and human emotion. Working across collage, abstract painting, and installation, her work centres on examining and reconfiguring the structure of emotional experience.

INTERVIEW | Luna Xue

INTERVIEW | Luna Xue

Luna Xue is a versatile visual artist whose practice spans painting, installation, 3D art, and bookmaking. With a background in illustration and extensive experience in the arts, her work explores themes of female identity, intergenerational trauma in Asian families, and sexual violence, blending traditional techniques with contemporary perspectives.

INTERVIEW | Marika Junikajtes

INTERVIEW | Marika Junikajtes

Marika Junikajtes is a mixed media artist based near Frankfurt, Germany. Her work spans expressive portraiture, abstract compositions, and fantastical worlds, each rooted in personal experience and emotional symbolism. She paints on canvas using acrylics, oils, and pouring mediums. Her portraits explore themes of identity, vulnerability, and strength through a lens of abstract realism.

INTERVIEW | Shan Lyu

INTERVIEW | Shan Lyu

Shan Lyu is a London-based Chinese artist, writer, and music producer whose multidisciplinary practice explores the intersections of sound, space, and information systems. She combines creative writing, sonic composition, and interactive installation to investigate how spatial structures shape perception and how information circulates within social and cultural contexts.

INTERVIEW | Xiuzhuo Zhou

INTERVIEW | Xiuzhuo Zhou

Xiuzhuo Zhou is a photographer and narrator of the inner world, whose work explores the subtle interplay between emotion, memory, and philosophical reflection. In Silent Infrastructures, Zhou explores how architecture and infrastructure quietly shape perception and control. The series omits human presence, focusing instead on built forms and synthetic materials that structure modern life.

INTERVIEW | Johanna Arganbright

INTERVIEW | Johanna Arganbright

Johanna Arganbright is a figure painter in Missoula, Montana. Much of her work is centred around intimate and lonesome activities and feelings; she is inspired by the small moments that are often overlooked and shines a spotlight on them. There is beauty in the simple, lonely moments; she wishes to emphasise that with her work and make unspoken connections between people.