Interviews Platform

INTERVIEW | Sharon Rose Benson

INTERVIEW | Sharon Rose Benson

Sharon Rose is a multidisciplinary expressionist artist who delves into the essence of 'humanness' and community amidst an increasingly automated and dehumanized state of the world. Through mixed media creations, she fosters collective engagement to challenge societal norms, prompting revolutionary thoughts. She combines performance, theatricality, fashion, installation, sound and poetry.

INTERVIEW | Sonya Bleiph

INTERVIEW | Sonya Bleiph

Sonya Bleiph is an interdisciplinary artist, creative director, and educator, working in both traditional and digital visual arts, as well as the film & entertainment industry. Through the lens of surrealism, industrial hauntology, body horror, and paganism, Bleiph creates an eclectic world reminiscent of the phantasmagoric. Their recent projects focus on human inclination toward sentimentality.

INTERVIEW | Lily D'Olce

INTERVIEW | Lily D'Olce

Lily D’Olce (b. 1993) is a French artist and photographer who studied at the University of the Arts of London. With a background in classical music and modern dance, her reflections on emotional states and body performance developed into a sculptural photographic process. Her latest series features a continuum of figures in extension, soaring through both remote and industrialized settings.

INTERVIEW | Alina R.J

INTERVIEW | Alina R.J

Alina R.J. is a London-based multidisciplinary artist with a Central Asian background, currently pursuing her Master's degree at the Royal College of Art. Alina's recent research focuses on Eastern philosophies, Jungian psychology – specifically Individuation and The Self – as well as tools to reconnect with this part of our psyche, including meditation.

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 | Xiangyu Wang

INTERVIEW | Xiangyu Wang

Xiangyu Wang is a London-based digital media artist passionate about how to create poetic or interesting interactive installations, moving images, and performance art by new technologies. He focuses on the issues of the relationship between humans and nature and the impact of technology on the future to inspire the audience to reflect on the themes explored in his work.

INTERVIEW | Tianqi Liao

INTERVIEW | Tianqi Liao

Tianqi Liao is a visual artist with a Master of Arts in Arts Administration from Columbia University. As a photographer, she is intrigued by conversations that arise from the friction between societal norms and individual perceptions. Through her lens, she captures the subtle tensions and overt contradictions present in everyday life, to examine themes of conformity and resistance.

INTERVIEW | William Josephs Radford

INTERVIEW | William Josephs Radford

William Josephs Radford, a Spanish-born fine art photographer, challenges conventional thought processes through his striking compositions and thought-provoking subject matters. His photography delves into controversial themes such as sex, religion, gender, and identity to convey complex emotions and altered perceptions.

INTERVIEW | Andy Newmerge

INTERVIEW | Andy Newmerge

Andy Newmerge seamlessly blends traditional iconography with modern technology through his innovative use of reverse perspective. Drawing from ancient techniques, Newmerge reinterprets spatial dynamics within 3D digital art, challenging conventional visual norms. This method allows him to create thought-provoking compositions that bridge historical and contemporary art.

INTERVIEW | Donna Gough

INTERVIEW | Donna Gough

Donna Gough’s multidisciplinary art practice links elements from drawing, painting, sculpture, and light-based media, investigating ideas around our very existence and our ‘place in space,’ while exploring existential concepts of geometry as a universal language and Gestalt theories of our relationship with nature and the cosmos. She has exhibited in the United States, Germany, and Australia.

INTERVIEW | Vytautas Buinevicius

INTERVIEW | Vytautas Buinevicius

Vytautas Buinevicius is an architect, urbanist, researcher, and photographer based in Vilnius, Lithuania. His latest series, Hypervernacular, is an ongoing series of research on urban and rural areas in transition celebrating the ingenuity of non-professional designs driven by sincere care, the sensitivity of nature, “supervised decay,” pure practicality, and limited resources, unrestrained by mainstream or high-society architectural culture.

INTERVIEW | Gumi Lu

INTERVIEW | Gumi Lu

Gumi Guihan Lu is an interdisciplinary artist, originally from Chongqing, China, and now based in New Jersey, USA. She works at the intersection of technology, mythology, art, and culture. Her creative philosophy stems from a dual exploration of world order and personal memory, aiming to build a network of contrasts that are far removed from reality yet capable of explaining it.

INTERVIEW | Ana Pinho Vargas

INTERVIEW | Ana Pinho Vargas

Ana Pinho Vargas is a Portuguese artist, photographer, and painter based in Vila Nova de Gaia, Porto. Her latest series, Silêncio II, is the result of the junction of two coexisting universes: writing in musical scores and the artist in his most fragile physical humanity, revealing the intimacy of the eye through the close connection between the author and the person being photographed.

INTERVIEW | Nataliya Lemesheva

INTERVIEW | Nataliya Lemesheva

Nataliya Lemesheva is a Russian artist, currently living in Barcelona. Her artistic practice revolves around the concept of non-duality — the understanding that all phenomena are ultimately interconnected and indivisible. In her works, she strives to show the blurring of boundaries between opposites, such as light and dark, internal and external, familiar and foreign, abstraction and realism. 

INTERVIEW | Jietong Xu

INTERVIEW | Jietong Xu

Jietong Xu's artwork delves into the emotional connections between individuals through the medium of glass. Inspired by the intricate dynamics within her own family, she uses glass weaving techniques to bring thoughts and emotions to life. By wielding flames as her brush, she transforms glass into a medium that captures the delicate yet resilient nature of human relationships.

INTERVIEW | FEYU (Yu Li)

INTERVIEW | FEYU (Yu Li)

FEYU (Yu Li) is a Chinese multimedia artist and filmmaker based in London, known for creating alternative realities and fantasies using emerging technologies. Her practice researches emotional introspection, examining how technology shapes spatial, philosophical, and cultural infrastructures. She focuses on themes like agency, shame/desire, and cultural identities in digital landscapes.

INTERVIEW | Gís Marí

INTERVIEW | Gís Marí

Born in the Netherlands and based in Portugal, Gís Marí paints large-scale, abstract, expressionistic oil paintings. Gís Marí believes in old-world values. He works on a painting for many months and up to years. After constant conversation with the painting, he only puts his signature under his best work and destroys the rest.

INTERVIEW | Yunjie Huang

INTERVIEW | Yunjie Huang

Yunjie Huang's artistic journey is a captivating exploration of the intersection between the mystical past and the complex present. Drawing from the depths of archaeology, myth, fairy tales, and fantasy, her work in ceramics and illustration not only showcases her technical prowess but also her profound ability to weave intricate narratives that delve into the essence of femininity and power.

INTERVIEW | Qian Chen

INTERVIEW | Qian Chen

Qian Chen is a visual artist based in London and Xi'an. Her latest project, Dreamania, explores new dimensions of childhood memories, nostalgic culture, fancy dreams of irrationality. By observing and recording life trajectories, and reprocessing frozen memories, Qian create a tangible concept of spatial iteration, presenting the product of the interaction between daily life and dreams.

INTERVIEW | Rafael Alejandro López

INTERVIEW | Rafael Alejandro López

Rafael Alejandro López is a Swiss-Venezuelan filmmaker and graphic designer based in Los Angeles. Raised between countries in seemingly perfect opposition, Lopez's personal work explores flawed political systems and the duality of the human condition. Through the narrative micro-lens of human experiences and dance, Lopez's aesthetic oscillates between absurdism, fiction, and realism.