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.
Mingyue Qu is a forward-thinking product designer renowned for her innovative approach to integrating technology with user-centric design to create immersive digital experiences. With a foundation in tangible product design, Mingyue transitioned to digital platforms, where she excels in blending sensory technology with interactive elements. Her work focuses on enhancing user engagement through personalized and adaptive content.
Julissa Norman is an American artist from New York. She delves into the realms of asset creation, motion design, and VFX with a fervent focus. Her creative journey is fueled by her passion for utilizing data as a means to narrate compelling stories, transcending various domains, including mental health, abstract environments, and technology. She embarks on a quest to breathe life into immersive graphic illustrations that vividly animate her narratives.
Born in Dalian, China, Yuxiao Mu is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Boston, MA. Mu’s practice is driven by conceptual ideas surrounding memory, emotion, and storytelling; her work ranges from analog and digital photography and video to printmaking and painting. Her work has been exhibited internationally and nationally in Rome, Boston, and Minneapolis.
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.
Ning Chang is a jewellery artist based in Birmingham with a background in graphic design and illustration. In her work, symbolism deeply compels her, drawing inspiration from personal experiences and social issues to forge a profound connection with the audience. Specialising in designing exquisite jewellery, they employ enamelling and cloisonné techniques to create intricate illustrations.
Claudia Melo is an Argentinian artist based in Buenos Aires. She uses influences from the past mythology, oracles, neo-shamanisms and spiritual searches to create scenes that refer to the symbolic world. Her work as a 2D and 3D artist, AI artist, animator, collage artist, and multidisciplinary visual artist showcases a fusion of traditional themes with a contemporary flair.
Nicole Tran is an artist who uses photography and filmmaking to build her signature bold visuals. Her background in fine art is imbued into her photography, evident in her use of color theory and matte textures. Nicole builds a visual universe for the viewer to step into, developing character identities that are translated through styling and posing. She incorporates elements of storytelling to represent not only her own ideas but the ideas of others.
Dominik Szymański’s work revolves around feelings. With his approach to making the viewer aware of his feelings and to show them something that they haven't been aware of, Dominik comes to create art that evokes emotions – Nostalgia being the most important. Dominik uses the imperfections and the lack of one specific technique to give the art a meaning, to make it feel more human.
Rita Gaspar is a Portuguese self-taught embroidery artist based in Porto, Portugal. Rita aims to challenge the perception that embroidery is a simple craft reserved for grandmothers. Her artwork reflects a deep passion for portraiture and an enthusiasm for exploring the vast array of colors available to her. Rita dives into the exploration of harmonizing colors, fabrics, and human faces in unique and captivating ways.
Hanzhi Zhong (b. 1999) is a Chinese artist currently based in London. Hanzhi's artistic practice encompasses painting, printmaking, animation, and sculpture. Her work is deeply influenced by the impermanence of life and its profound connection to nature. Through her art, she delves into themes of life, death, and the complex array of human emotions entangled within.
Daniel Shane Sewell (b. 1978) is a visual artist who lives and works in Pattaya, Thailand. He collaborates with his son, Tristan Athit Sewell (b. 2013), on a wide range of creative projects. Daniel Shane Sewell is a visual artist who, alongside highly original video and sound work, produces lecture content dedicated to traditional techniques and methods from history.
Noura Alnasser is a Saudi artist, based in Riyadh. She mastered Arabic calligraphy, painting, sculpture and graphic design of all types, and she admire photography, and her passion led her in the past to learn and make cartoon films. Her journey of development in art has not, and will not, stop here. She is learning at her home in Riyadh every day, and she travels the world to inhale art from every culture.
Vivian Cavalieri is a visual artist based in Chincoteague Island, Virginia. Her three-dimensional miniature scenes prompt conversations on a range of global issues, including immigration and social justice. Her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions in the US and abroad, including London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Athens.
Margaret Asatrian is an Armenian visual artist born in 1994. Margaret Asatrian's art is the reflection of her inner world and vision of life. Her pieces express her identity and help to communicate her feelings with the utmost freedom and sincerity. Throughout the creative process, the artist liberates herself from every spiritual restraint, putting on the canvas her innermost feelings and impressions received from the surrounding world.
Mano Liliya was born in 1989 in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. She has previously worked and lived in Kyiv, and now she is based in Switzerland. In her artistic expression, the artist delves into the intricacies of duality, probing the coexistence of beauty with peril and the innate dual nature within phenomena. For her, art is a quest for answers to timeless inquiries regarding the nature of beauty, power, and fragility.
Alexandra Efimova is a young French artist of Russian origin. She relies on symbols, the main one of which is the human body, as the main carrier and exponent of symbolic value. The torsos applied to translucent backgrounds emphasize the dual nature of the physical shell, which is at the same time endowed with fierce strength and fragility.
Tâmisa Trommer is an award-winning artist, known for her mixed media delicate botanical signature. Inspired by childhood memories that comforted her during moments of grief, she finds in autobiographical events the inspiration to create floral compositions and bucolic scenes with a dreamy atmosphere, transitioning between figuration and abstraction.
Yi Zhu is inspired by the totem and pottery culture of ancient China, along with the papercutting techniques in the Han Dynasty of China. He utilizes deconstruction and reconstruction to create a new relationship among colors, with the perception of expansion and contraction of life. The creation of emotion from Yi Zhu is to awake the sense of life, empathy and love.
Zhengyuan Gao, known by his artistic alias Cooper, is an emerging artist with a rich and diverse background. In his paintings, Cooper embarks on a quest to uncover the hidden poetic essence of the episodes he confronted. Through brushstrokes, colours, and shapes, he weaves a tapestry of different kinds of logic, a poetic logic, delicately interlacing the threads of his imagination.
Iona Hassanscott is a 21-year-old artist. She is of mixed Scottish and Egyptian heritage but was born in South Wales, where she currently lives, studying mechanical engineering full-time at university. Iona’s favorite medium is oil paint. Her work is expressive and thought-provoking - inspired by the natural world and the intricacies of human and societal behavior.
