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.
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.
Nestan Mikeladze (b. 1986) is a Georgian-born artist based in Tbilisi. She recently became a feminist, and in her work, you will see how a woman emerges from being blended and uncertain to bold and defined. She uses thin oil paints not only to convey transparency but also because it is an unpredictable medium. Her work has been featured in several art magazines and on Contemporary Art Collectors' platforms.
Julien Perreault is a Canadian artist and a former Naval Combat Information Operator with the Royal Canadian Navy. While Perreault’s work often explores the grandeur of nature, he is equally concerned with humanity’s increasing detrimental effect on the health of the planet. He is determined to use his work to call attention to the impending climate catastrophe and inspire meaningful change before it is too late.
Judit Nagy L. is a Slovak artist, currently living and working in Switzerland. She invented her method in 2015 and called it "IVVArt - In Vino Veritas Art Method ©". Judit is a mixed media painter who paints with real wine and soil samples from vineyards, to create portraits of selected wines. Judit likes to work with found objects and transform them into high-quality, recyclable artworks, which she calls ReMixArt.
Peter Politis (b. 1989) is an artist from St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. In his work, the contrast between black and white tends to emphasize shape, while the fluidity of ink emphasizes motion. Evocative inkwork can be seen as the distillation of what we call “thought” into something almost purely kinetic - though not necessarily focused, or premeditated. Of course, this is only one definition.
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.
RecluserDark is the pseudonym that hides Alba Gasset, photographer, visual and digital artist born in Barcelona. The visions that Alba projects in her pictures are a passion for industrial landscapes, ancestral and monumental architecture, sacred fields, forests, and abandoned and enigmatic places. All these "dark places" evoke with nostalgia and melancholy the life that one day had and now has due to the passage of time.
Sirui Yang is an emerging interdisciplinary creative thinker and practitioner from China, currently based in Australia. Sirui has a strong passion for exploring how aesthetic forms in nature have inspired the development of her jewellery project in creating its unique aura or atmosphere, as she wants to evoke her unique feelings of the vitality in nature. Her recent art practices encompass drawing and painting, digital illustration, photography also installation art.
Göksel Doğan is a professional sculptor and underground artist. As a professional underground artist, he produces cartoons, posters, graphics, fanzines, and webzines. He is decoding “meaning” throughout the found objects and collages, and he calls this self-process of decapitalization of things (an attempt to reproduce human meaning against capitalist means of production by using sculptural elements).
Amanda Dolly is a native of the East Coast and learned to paint and draw at the age of 14 from her high school art teacher, Ms. Fischer. She paints and draws to ground herself. It is said that these techniques, used over hundreds of years, have become embedded in our DNA. So through the process of painting on a canvas, she connects with her ancestors, using techniques that endure to this day.
Gerhard Petzl is a visual artist who works with bronze, stone, wood, mixed media, and chocolate and does not limit himself to any medium, technique, or shape. The exploration is the journey that brings him into unexplored areas and self-discoveries. He sails between 2D visuals, the classical way of drawings on paper or digital, and 3D sculptures and ends up often even in the field of Science.
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.
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.
Nastassia Bas was born in 1987 in Minsk, Belarus, and currently lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. Through her artistic practice, she tries to understand and feel the changes that happen to man and nature, how we interact, and how we influence each other. She is concerned about the search for a new interaction between man and nature, the search for harmony.
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.
Samruddhi Ramesh Duratkar is a Maharashtra, India-based student-artist who works mainly in body painting media. Environmental concerns are Samruddhi's primary motivation. She warns people against mistreating nature for financial gain and alludes to the ultimate futility of environmental destruction. Her response to what she sees as an injustice is specifically the artwork's foundation.
Uzomah Ugwu is a poet/writer and multi-disciplined artist. Her poetry, writing, and art have been featured internationally in various publications, galleries, and art spaces. She is a political, social, and cultural activist. Her core focus is on human rights, mental health, animal rights, and the rights of LGBTQIA persons. She is also the managing editor and founder of Arte Realizzata.
Mai Aboassi is an Egyptian-based contemporary artist. Born in Oman in 1997, she grew up in Cairo, Egypt. Mai Aboassi illustrates her feelings against a white wall that allows her voice to speak out for her silence. Her art subjects are based on her memories, emotions, and nightmares. She gets inspired by the past and the present, the psychological state of her mind, and all surroundings as she is interested in human behaviour and mental estate.
Ferró (Fernando Rial Dominguez) is a Spanish artist. A multifaceted artist, he performs in the street, and he paints on all kinds of materials, whether mannequins, irons, canvases, or Vespas. Color is their most important means of expression. His creations reflect rebellion through the opposing forms, the mixture of all colors, and the drastic changes from straight lines to curves, without a perfect visual or logical language.
Radna Segal was born in Kalmykia, a region in Southern Russia. Her textural, three-dimensional paintings feature dynamic composition and various experimental materials like plaster, foil, paint, glitter, and beads which create organic movement inspired by nature. Within her pieces, she uses an ancient, rare, and ornate Mongolian writing called “clear script,” that very few in the world know how to create.
