Fluid states of matter: The transition between memory and present consciousness in Xiuching Tsay’s molten compositions by Rebecca Irvin25 February 2021 Growing up in Chonburi, Thailand, artist Xiuching Tsay initially focussed on science-based academic study while treating her natural inclina...
Casting spells: Rebecca Munce takes us inside her whimsical world by Layla Leiman20 February 2021 Once upon a time in the enchanted kingdom of Canadian artist Rebecca Munce’s creation, lives a motley band of shapeshifting symbolic charact...
“Selfish, sulky creatures”: The primal, childlike nature of painter Georg Wilson’s folklore-inspired goblins by Rebecca Irvin8 February 2021 With a practice grounded in art research, painter Georg Wilson draws on the folkloric histories and storytelling traditions of rural England...
Delivering art to a non-exclusive audience through freely accessible curated content at KubaParis by Rebecca Irvin2 January 2021 Berlin and Bonn-based curatorial duo Nora Cristea and Saskia Höfler-Hohengarten run KubaParis, an artistic platform and creative space withi...
The everyday uncanny: Painter Johnny Izatt-Lowry’s defamiliarising of the familiar by Rebecca Irvin17 December 2020 Johnny Izatt-Lowry takes images and objects from the quotidian world of daily existence and transplants them onto the plane of the subconsci...
Ebb and flow: In conversation with Loren Erdrich by Layla Leiman12 December 2020 Water is a paradoxical element. It flows in the direction of least resistance, but as it does it slowly works on the environment, smoothing,...
Interior landscapes: In conversation with Kimo Nelson by Layla Leiman9 December 2020 Landscape art, once chiefly the domain of the picturesque, has gained a new urgency and political charge in recent times as the world grappl...
Uncovering the fluidity of the human animal: the shifting states and worlds of Kinga Bartis’s paintings by Rebecca Irvin26 November 2020 Hungarian Transylvanian-born artist Kinga Bartis creates vivid, dreamlike landscapes inhabited by figures both ethereal and carnal. Having i...
Kaleidoscopic vision in Isabella Cuglievan’s textile-inspired abstract paintings by Rebecca Irvin5 November 2020 Lima-based painter Isabella Cuglievan weaves together a palette of vibrant yellows, turquoise-blues, deep purples and burnt oranges to creat...
Repetitive loops and endless possibilities: the virtual cartoon dream-world of Bridget Mullen’s paintings by Rebecca Irvin20 October 2020 For New York-based artist Bridget Mullen, the most important aspect of making art is the making itself. Painting, as Bridget sees it, takes ...
“When I paint I must lose myself without knowing the way”: In conversation with Tal Yerushalmi by Layla Leiman14 October 2020 Like an archaeologist, Tal Yerushalmi sifts through the debris of history, the remnants of past societies – artefacts and fragments of craft...
Ethan Stuart: Playing with history and memory, symbols and metaphors by Layla Leiman11 October 2020 Ethan Stuart’s paintings are deceptively simple. Flora and fauna feature in many of his compositions, where acrylic paint or crayon is appli...
Showing up: In conversation with Matt Haywood about the importance of being open to process by Layla Leiman2 October 2020 Working from a studio housed in a 150-year old refurbished barn outside Detroit, Michigan, Matt Haywood has given himself over to the proces...
Like looking through the window of a moving car: In conversation with Claudia Keep by Layla Leiman22 September 2020 Landscape painter Claudia Keep shies away from the grandiose and the impressive, the main attraction and picture postcard view. Instead, wha...
The subtle dynamism and asymmetrical symmetry of Angela Heisch’s geometric paintings by Rebecca Irvin12 September 2020 New York-based artist Angela Heisch began her journey into painting working under the influence of surrealist artists such as René Magritte,...
A garland of associations, family stories, and unfortunate coincidences in the work of Siggi Sekira artmazemag9 September 2020 Siggi Sekira Lives and works in Vienna, Austria www.siggisekira.com AMM: What inspired you to be an artist? When did you ...
