Mixed media

INTERVIEW | Naoual Peleau

INTERVIEW | Naoual Peleau

Naoual Peleau is a French artist working with photography. Her practice is largely experimental, with a focus on manipulating, transforming, and even destroying the image and its support. As a self-professed clumsy person, she embraces accidents and mistakes as an integral part of her creative process. Her research aims to strike a balance between accidental creation and successful experience.

INTERVIEW | Kun Zhao

INTERVIEW | Kun Zhao

Kun Zhao is a visual artist and educator whose practice spans painting, drawing, printmaking, and material expression. With a solid academic background and extensive teaching experience, Kun bridges traditional techniques with contemporary themes. Her latest series, Rose Window, explores the intersection of environmental concern and artistic expression, merging low materials with high art.

INTERVIEW | Ramzi Mallat

INTERVIEW | Ramzi Mallat

Ramzi Mallat is a Lebanese multidisciplinary artist based between London and Beirut. His artistic practice epitomizes the complexities of cultural identity within our ever-globalized society. Drawing from a rich tapestry of theological and folkloric knowledge from the Levant region, his work challenges the conventional notion of tradition as a civilizational legacy.

INTERVIEW | Shiyao Xia

INTERVIEW | Shiyao Xia

Shiyao Xia is a mixed media artist based in London, UK. She explores the concept of what is remembered as ephemeral and influenced by experiences felt at the time of observation. Her work is inspired by the small, unassuming things in the corner of our eyes that hold a multitude of hidden narratives. Looking for the relationship between memories and multiple meanings.

INTERVIEW | Mengjie Mo

INTERVIEW | Mengjie Mo

Mengjie Mo, originally from Yunnan, China, now resides and works in Detroit, U.S. Her life experiences coupled with extensive study and travel,  have instilled in her a critical perspective on societal issues. Mo uses her art as a means to challenge patriarchal norms and blur the boundaries that separate individuals, advocating for a more interconnected and inclusive world.

INTERVIEW | Jiayun Chen

INTERVIEW | Jiayun Chen

Jiayun Chen is an interdisciplinary artist who manifests ideas through forms of installation, ceramics, painting, and drawing. In searching for poetics and humor within failed translations, Chen investigates the aesthetics of failure in the experience of cross-cultural encounters. Having divided time nearly equally between China and America, Chen's artistic journey is heavily influenced by straddling the cultural divide between the two.

INTERVIEW | Chen Yang

INTERVIEW | Chen Yang

Renowned for their versatility and innovative use of mixed media, Chen Yang specializes in digital media art, moving images, as well as painting and sculpture installations. Their creative practice is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach, through which they investigate and articulate the nuanced dialogues between human societies and their habitats.

INTERVIEW | Xinyu Zhang

INTERVIEW | Xinyu Zhang

Xinyu Zhang, also known as DayDay, is a contemporary artist originally from Wuhan, Hubei, China, and currently based in New York. Drawing inspiration from daily observations, existential reflections, and a relentless curiosity to explore diverse materials, Xinyu's art is distinguished by minimalist lines and symbols, continually seeking a delicate balance between design principles and fine art.

INTERVIEW | Hadeel Alzoubi

INTERVIEW | Hadeel Alzoubi

Hadeel AlZoubi is a contemporary artist based in Toronto. Her artistic journey is a constant exploration of mediums and techniques. She thrives on pushing the boundaries of artistic expression by incorporating a diverse array of materials. Ultimately, Hadeel's art is an invitation to transcend the chaos of modern life and find solace in the simplicity of her creations.

INTERVIEW | Hee Sook Kim

INTERVIEW | Hee Sook Kim

Hee Sook Kim is an accomplished visual artist who has gained recognition for her work across the world. Kim has been the recipient of several prizes and she also had a site-specific installation at the Philadelphia International Airport. She participated in several solo and group exhibitions internationally and currently, she is a Professor in the Fine Arts Department at Haverford College, Pennsylvania.

INTERVIEW | Rubén González Escudero

INTERVIEW | Rubén González Escudero

Rubén González Escudero was born in Madrid in 1979, and based in Berlin since 2007. His work revolves around the concept of environment from a very broad approach, which would include not only the physical aspect but also the cultural and even technological aspects. It examines the complexity of urban spaces, social and cultural structures, and how they interact with each other.

INTERVIEW | Raine Storey

INTERVIEW | Raine Storey

Raine Storey is a Canadian visual artist based in London, England. Storey’s work combines her Fine Art and Art History degree with her ‘higher education’ at the ‘school of hard knocks’. It is the latter that led her examination into why she creates. Storey aims to contribute to the renewed identity of raw materials. The artwork recycles and preserves historic waste, including London’s House of Parliament restoration, to place back on the walls.

INTERVIEW | Sean Alistair

INTERVIEW | Sean Alistair

Sean Alistair is a queer, self-taught, Canadian-born artist currently residing in the Bavarian countryside of Germany. His art is a visual journal where he discusses the intense impact of seemingly mundane or innocuous experiences. Each of Sean’s mixed media works is completely sewn and created by hand over hundreds of hours and focuses on material exploration, found objects, recycling, and reworking old paintings.

INTERVIEW | Juyi Mao

INTERVIEW | Juyi Mao

Juyi Mao's artistic practice is deeply entrenched in exploring the alchemy of moving images and sound across varied formats. Mao is intrigued by the relationships that exist between people, space, and objects within contemporary life and socio-political contexts. His mixed media art installations are platforms where he dissects the essence of art and media, effectively bridging the gap between the artist and the audience.

INTERVIEW | Catarina Diaz

INTERVIEW | Catarina Diaz

Catarina Diaz is a London-based self-taught exploratory artist, not restrained by conventions or formal ways of interpreting the world. She explores various mediums, techniques, and methods according to her inspiration, dealing with the issues of female identity in contemporary times, the search for our true identity, and the reconnection to nature and essence juxtaposed with urban life and what it represents in our life.

INTERVIEW | Qinru Zhang

INTERVIEW | Qinru Zhang

New York City-based multimedia artist Qinru Zhang has been exploring identity, femininity, and uncanniness using digital mediums, including 3D animation and mixed reality. Through observing society's sexualization of femininity, Zhang appropriates, détourns, and normalizes feminine stereotypes to challenge existing gender norms. She advocates for freedom of choice in identity representations and calls for female empowerment.

INTERVIEW | Rebecca Yunjeong Lee

INTERVIEW | Rebecca Yunjeong Lee

Rebecca Yunjeong Lee is Korean born artist, originally from Seoul, South Korea. Yunjeong's work is a reflection of the past. Inspired by trauma suffered as a young person, her work is a self-portrait viewed through the lens of traumatic memory and is part of the process of moving forward with her life. Louise Borgeois, Tracey Emin and Francis Bacon all influenced the works, which were Yunjeong's first foray into using digital applications to create art.