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.
River is a visual artist and graphic designer specializing in digital design and large abstract canvas work. While her work is visually striking with intense color, her work is also known for her deep narratives on Māori culture, in particular, her recent canvas works look into museum repatriation. She wants people to understand colonisation and the devastating impact it had not only in Māori but all indigenous cultures.
Jiahan Fan is a visual and illustrative artist whose work reflects the every day possibilities of the imagination. Operating in a variety of materials and media, Jiahan specializes in combining visual art with the function of creating valuable and beautiful artworks. She draws inspiration from Popism, Generation Z, and Chinese culture to create work that employs the strategies of these disciplines while providing a visual experience for the viewer and participant.
Negentrop is a transnational collective of artists started by three sisters in Cornwall, UK, in 2022.Their aim is to visually respond to Cybernetic and Eschatological themes emerging in Science, Philosophy, and Art and, through this, develop new unknown ways of working visually & collectively. Negentrop believes individual creation is an 'obsolete' and 'manipulated' ideal and that we have entered a creative era that is unknown, unbound, and unhuman.
As an artist, Tsuki D Sureiya has always been drawn to the world of the unseen. From the spiritual to the financial, they explore themes of artificial intelligence and peer-to-peer digital cash in their bold yet soft, and technical yet natural style. After studying business, they found a passion for creating pixel art animations on an app, which sparked a lifelong interest in experimenting with images.
Stanko Gagrčin is a multimedia artist from Serbia. Although the process of creation is primarily intuitive for Stanko, the theoretical grounding through formal education allows him to always reflexively return to his works and has influenced the diversity of media and artistic genres through which he has expressed himself, positioning his work in a great plurality of aesthetics, sensibilities, and styles in the contemporary moment.
Marlene Jorge’s process is made of impromptu expression and unforced outbursts, and her compositions are like a personal diary, with works stemming from volatile emotions that well up within her mind and inquisitive spirit. She tries channeling her creative urges in order to produce unique artwork by extracting all creative juice from daily emotion-triggering activities as much as from more personal, deep realms.
Nemanja Regodic is a Serbian artist, from Novi Sad. Through his artistic experience, Nemanja tries to incorporate the motifs he encounters in everyday life and mix them with his own perceptions. They are very often strange or ominous, often evoking a certain feeling of mystery or unease. He continues experimenting with the drawings and creating his work through digital tools.
Mid-Emerging Artist Alice Shapiro (b.1946-) began her art career as a portraitist in pastels, oils, and acrylics and found digital creation to be a life-changing creative direction in her art career. Shapiro's influences are Bauhaus, Surrealism, the Collagists, Pop Art, and Installation. Spiritually and creatively, Shapiro sees herself as an interpreter-connector, with collage being the most significant medium to express the relevance of her work.
Fadilah Mahmud is a Digital Artist based in Sydney, Australia, and has been practicing her craft for over ten years. Her work is a window into her experience as a female, first-generation Muslim migrant living in suburban Australia. First and foremost, she is inspired by the community. Much of her work is influenced by the humble and hard-working people that make up the thriving suburbs of south-west Sydney.
Maximilian Girardi is a young Italian artist. He loves colorful drawings and solid colors because he thinks they give positive feelings and help him to be happy. He is also a lover of patterns, which he draws by hand to convey memories and give character to the works. The artist thinks that "ha.nds," in addition to aesthetics, can communicate messages, emotions, and memories.
Danquis Johnson is a music producer, experimental film artist, and actor from the greater Philadelphia area. Danquis’ work consists of a fusion of painting, film, nature, and sound. Danquis is most fascinated with the exploration of experimentation through both physical and digital media. Through the exploration of these unpredictable equations, he has to envision the metaphysics turning into the physical as he is separate from reality.
HetHeru RaatMut, aka Vanessa Marshall, is a Kemetic Priestess and Shaman. She is a digital, mixed media, display, and installation artist. HetHeru is also a cultural educator, feminist, human rights, and climate change activist. She owns and operates a clothing retail business called Kultural Adornments. NU World Kulture is her digital and mixed media art collection.
Nikki Gal is an American-born digital artist based in Boston, Massachusetts. Gal expresses the importance of mental health awareness throughout her pieces, giving those a meaningful yet strong take-away. Her latest series, STATE OF A WOMAN, is a series of digital pieces that construct a firm image of different mental health disorders. Gal's mission is to not only make mental health a topic of conversation but a topic of conversation through creativity.
Desirée Jung is a Brazilian artist currently living in Vancouver, Canada. She has published translations, poetry, and fiction in several magazines around the world. Writing, for her, is a hopeless attempt to capture light. Her most recent work, a series of video poems about memory, landscape, and what is not-all out there, has been screened in several film festivals around the world, and can be found on her website.
Bilge Ugursu is a Berlin-based abstract artist. She describes her style as figurative abstract expressionist and uses mixed media in most of her artworks. Ugursu has developed a unique concept by combining her classical paintings with digital art to create a smooth synthesis without rules and conceptualizations. You can see both brush strokes and digital pixels in her artworks.
Luisa Vicente Isola is an Argentinian artist and architect. In her work, she tries to create metaphorical images of emotional states that have allowed her to speak of realities both certain and intangible, images that invite to be examined through a deeply emotional contemplation. Her works invite the viewers to connect through them with their own self, allowing them to have another perception of it.
Pamela Chrabieh is a Lebanese-Canadian visual artist, researcher, activist, writer, and consultant with 20+ years of international experience. At the crossroads of Western Asian iconography, calligraphy, and digital arts, Chrabieh’s artworks express pieces of wounded memories by sublimating reality. Each icon is an experience of the sublime that lurks within and beyond the ambiguity of traumas in a quest for the healing of life.
Philippe Chevalier (whose artist name is Philoxerax) is a French digital artist. Combining his skills as a programmer and an artist, the materials for his new works are mathematical formulas and dimensionless geometric objects called fractals, which he assembles, superimposes, interweaves to obtain new compositions, images never seen before, which evoke those tiny and secret worlds.
David Fleshman is an American artist based in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a painter and digital designer, his artistic work has an important place in today’s art world by merging both traditional and digital artwork in one cohesive style. His work is inspired by Alan Fletcher, Herbert Bayer, Max Miedinger, Irina Furman, Paul Cezanne, and Wayne Thiebaud.
