“I am my own tool”: Weaving and materiality in Ann Cathrin November Høibo’s work by Layla Leiman Weaving is central to Ann Cathrin November Høibo’s art. It is the main medium that she works in, but also a spatial metaphor used to create ...
Enigmatic architecture in the paintings of Matt Kleberg by Maria Zemtsova Texas-born painter Matt Kleberg was, in the early stages of his artistic career, initially drawn to imagery of the American South that figur...
Painter Tom Prinsell invokes natural history and medievalism alongside futuristic considerations by Rebecca Irvin When New York-based artist Tom Prinsell first started making paintings, it was a device by which to render his experiences of the world arou...
Memory, dream and light in the paintings of Minyoung Choi by Rebecca Irvin Painter Minyoung Choi’s fascination with visual art initially took the form of an interest in animation. Throughout her BA and beyond, howev...
“I am all the horses I’ve painted”: Douglas Cantor on capturing individual, personal experience by Rebecca Irvin Colombian-born painter Douglas Cantor creates bold, richly coloured works that incorporate text and symbols alongside human and animal figur...
Reaching the sky, conquering the sun: The work of Alessandro Fogo by Layla Leiman The visual language of Alessandro Fogo is mystical, metaphorical and ambiguous. In the painting At Eden’s Gate, a tall figure cast in shadow...
Painter Emily Ferretti on her merging of the observed and the imagined by Maria Zemtsova For Australian artist Emily Ferretti, maintaining an open-ended approach to creating is of utmost importance. Her process embraces perpetual...
“There is a journey that takes place”: The symbolic art of Christopher Davison by Layla Leiman “We have been disempowered by a rational tendency to deny our irrational roots, which are kind of an embarrassment to science, because scien...
Squiggly landscapes: Ryan Nord Kitchen by Layla Leiman The great French Impressionist master Claude Monet said, “For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes ...
Thom Trojanowski: “Making art is just part of daily life” by Maria Zemtsova Polish folktales meet sci-fi comics in Thom Trojanowski Hobson’s art. With a degree in painting from the Wimbledon College of Arts, London, ...
Slippery signification: In conversation with Emily Mae Smith by Layla Leiman Glistening droplets slide down highly polished android limbs, plump ripe fruit is laid out temptingly, saccharine sunsets glow behind perfec...
Wonderfully beastly: In conversation with Michaela Younge by Layla Leiman To try and decipher a hierarchy to Cape Town artist Michaela Younge’s felt tapestries is an exercise in futility. The Hieronymus Bosch-like ...
‘Flowers of Time’ by Daniel Correa Mejia by Rebecca Irvin Daniel Correa Mejía Lives and work in Berlin, Germany www.daniel-correa.com @daniel.correa.mejia What inspired you to be an arti...
From the deep: The mesmerizing work of Mevlana Lipp by Maria Zemtsova The natural world is magical, mysterious and ultimately unknowable. The Garden of Eden is the original metaphor for being, that unimaginable...
Subverting patriarchal myths: The wilfully feminist work of Jessie Makinson by Maria Zemtsova In Jessie Makinson’s surreal paintings, female figures emerge and dissolve from the landscape in the same instance. Like reflections on the ...
Poetics of space: Emil Robinson by Layla Leiman For Cincinnati, Ohio based artist Emil Robinson, painting is a study in the poetics of space. The canvas provides Emil a framework within wh...
