Finnish #artist Petri Eskelinen created ‘The Labyrinth’ to see how plants would adapt and survive in constrained conditions.
He wrote – ”They would have to make choices. During this time there were several changes of power, drama and death, but also new young ones which would eventually take over”.
Jingyi Li is an #artist who works with textiles to explore collective histories, emotions, and experiences.
She uses unconventional materials and techniques as the foundation of her work, which focuses on feminist narratives.
Crystal Schenk's #sculpture ‘Have and Have Not’ is a means of exploring contemporary inequality.
Shopping trolleys are usually seen amid mass consumerism – their connotations change once they’re found outside a supermarket car park. They can hold a livelihood, or become a “vehicle of survival”.
‘Which Way the Wind Blows’ is a multimedia #artwork series by Hagar Vardimon that explores time and memory.
She stitches horizontal threads into found imagery, obscuring the figures beneath – they become blurred, as unrecognisable as distant memories, as though being swept away in the wind.
Tim Wilson’s evocative #paintings depict interior spaces with an ethereal haze.
The settings feel entirely still – centring reflection and contemplation in each composition.
Arizona-born artist Aaron Morse creates expansive, psychedelic #artworks that explore both human and environmental concerns.
His #paintings draw on a wide range of influences, including the mythology, heritage, and cultural complexities of the American Southwest.
Bastien Cuenot’s #artwork explores the growing hybridisation of nature and technology.
Through #sculptures, #installations, and visual devices, he examines the boundaries between the organic and the artificial, the living and the industrial.
Mauro C. Martinez creates works inspired by the digital age and the absurdity of online life.
His #art explores society’s intense image consumption, contrasting this with the traditional practice of oil #painting – a vastly different approach to image-making.
Tokuhiro Kawai’s #exhibition ‘Altarpiece of Cat Adoration’ explored the bond between humans and the animals they love.
The #artist believes these relationships carry empathy and companionship – which could model how to transcend division and difference in our contemporary world.
In #artist Female Pentimento’s #photographic works, nature is a means for exploring darkness and light.
They take inspiration from spirituality, ecology, and science fiction.
Renowned land artist Andy Goldsworthy works with natural materials to create his ephemeral, masterful works.
His sculptures are temporary but highly intricate, with an innate meditative quality – seamlessly blending into their surrounding landscapes.
YoungJu Joung's #paintings of softly lit urban dreamscapes feel intimate and lived-in.
Using traditionally made hanji paper, she adds depth and texture to her works – the material’s light-absorbing qualities enhance the warm tones of her pieces.
In #artist Cathleen Clarke’s wintery, windswept works, figures emerge from and retreat into vast, glowing landscapes.
Her #paintings feel ethereal, exploring the fragmented nature of memory – there’s an element of recognition, balanced by distance and the otherworldly.
#Sculptor Tung Min-Chin explores human emotion and the mind through his smoothly sculpted works – with trapped bodily forms serving as metaphors for internal struggle.
Gordon Mortensen is one of the finest woodcut reduction print #artists – with up to 64 colours in a piece, they take up to three months to make.
To achieve the painterly colour dynamics in his prints, he works from #watercolour studies, adding impressive texture through depth and layered patterns.
This 1921 #painting of a sweet pug puppy is called ‘Siegfried’. Created by #artist and illustrator Thomas Theodor Heine, little more is known about the dog other than its name.
Anna Ruth explores the human condition through her immersive and symbolic #paintings.
Her practice reflects timelessness, fragility, and transformation in the natural world. Narratives unfold throughout, drawn from continually evolving personal symbols, memories, and fragments of mythology.
#Artist Rebecca Manson creates ceramic works inspired by nature and what we can learn from observing it.
Her series of sculptural wings is created with thousands of individual clay “smushes”, clustered and layered to look like feathers in a kaleidoscope of colourful glazes.
In Guim Tió Zarraluki’s #paintings, figures are often resting and reclining.
Through his work, the #artist explores transitional states of sleeping and dreaming – of uncertain landscapes, fragmented realities, and disjointed time.
A sense of journeying, solitude, and boundaries or borders all frequently punctuate Barry McGlashan #paintings.
He’s inspired by a constellation of influences – like memories of places he’s visited, film scenes, photographs, literature, or details from the lives of #artists and pioneers.
In his ASCII #artworks, enigmatriz contrasts digital aesthetics with traditional imagery – employing characters and keys to create distinctive collages. He calls them “overlays between two different worlds.”
‘Night Swimming’ by Paul Ferney 🌔
In his series of oil paintings, Paul holds on to balmy, fluorescent-lit nights spent poolside.
Jiyoung Park captures the calm of nature in her works 🌿
In contrast to the breakneck speed of modern life, her compositions centre rest and serenity.
Kevin Yaun paints semi-abstract works, layering perspectives on top of one another.
His compositions are grounded in intimacy and familiarity, then refracted to produce a sense of disorientation and ambiguity. This process is rooted in his exploration of space as something that resists confinement.
#Photographer Oliver Mayhall creates monochrome surrealist works based on personal experience and the world around him. Experimentation with props, lighting, and texture evolves his compositions.
Nancy Friedland explores light, landscapes, narrative, and the concept of the family album in her #paintings. She uses her own photos as source material – drawn to the magic of imperfectly translating one medium into another.
”Darkness allows the mind to wander, but it is given shape by light.”
By #drawing in ballpoint pen, Dadu Shin removes the question of colour from the equation – focusing on imagery instead.
His soft, tender works are created through layering and mark making – becoming a medium for exploring identity, emotion, and domesticity.
Photographer Letizia Le Fur creates wondrous works that tread the line between fantasy and reality.
She treats light and colour like a painter would – having trained in the medium before turning photography.
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Artist Jacques Monneraud creates stoneware ceramic works that are unbelievably similar to cardboard – by recreating textures, shapes, and colour in incredible detail.
The series is underpinned by “the idea that one should not trust appearances.”
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