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.
Chérie Jerrard is an English artist with a background in fashion, design, graphics, street art, and illustration. Her career has been shaped by a desire to push boundaries, moving away from the rigid expectations of perfectionism and commercial constraints. Now focusing on real-world engagement rather than digital sharing, Chérie invites audiences to experience her work in physical spaces.
Beatrice Sartori is a contemporary collage artist based in Switzerland. Self-taught, she has developed her own technique of artistic cutting and collage, a discipline that she explores with passion. Her style is precise, graphic, modern, and colorful. She addresses themes that are close to her heart, such as joy, respect, and peaceful relationships.
Lavinia Munteanu is a Romanian architect and visual artist, currently living in the South of Germany. She is interested in spatial concepts and their development over time. As a freelance visual artist and author, she explores the common ground between architecture, art, and literature. Her sources of inspiration range from history to depth-hermeneutics.
Khaila Batts is a multidisciplinary artist rooted in her Black American identity, navigating the intricate intersections of memory, identity, and societal narratives. With a dynamic approach to storytelling through color, emotion, and technology, Khaila Batts continues to provoke dialogues and challenge preconceptions in the contemporary art landscape.
Savina Ražnatović is a visual artist from Montenegro, currently residing and working in Florence, Italy. Her artistic practice covers various mediums, adapting to intriguing themes that spark the imagination. Currently, she focuses on collage and digital art, exploring the interplay between analogue and digital manipulation. This fluidity strengthens her work's essence, forming her artistic signature.
Aline Cavalcante (Brazil, 1980) is a visual artist and photographer, base in São Paulo. Her work is focused on emotions, and she seeks to represent through memories the relationship between people and space. Analogic and digital collages, interferences, and photo assemblies with repetitive effects are the basis of the works that have already participated in exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, besides having received recognition in international awards.
Acquaetta Williams utilizes the feelings, thoughts, and memories inspired by African images to express their relevance to contemporary African American women. She has worked in a variety of mediums, including acrylic paint, glass, paper, canvas, and wood. The materials are diverse, addressing the surface and the depths of each form and connecting them to the stories that emerge from these environments.
David O’Flynn is a collage artist from Cork, Ireland, now living in Hamburg, Germany. His style is his own, and it consists of a variety of surreal themes with a vintage flare. He describes creating collage art as exploring the world of imagination, taking the audience out of reality. It allows people from all over the world to connect through art and communicate their experiences, message, and hopes for the future.
Billie Mae is a 23-year-old analog collage artist based in Connecticut with a passion for music and movies. In their work, Billie likes to portray a sense of surrealism and entertain abstract ideas, most of which come from their own writing. They mainly work in collage, using magazine cuttings and adhesive, but are also known to write and draw, as well as be an active member of their local music scene and community.
James Johnson-Perkins is an award-winning British artist who currently lives and works in the UK and China. His practice draws from themes of memory, nostalgia, and play. His VIDEOSTALGIA work, ‘Four Films in Reverse’, combines important and poignant places, with filmed performance to camera and nostalgic music to explore the many aspects of change.
