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...
Narrative hidden in the surface: Çağla Ulusoy by Layla Leiman A modern day nomad, Turkish born artist Çağla Ulusoy’s abstract art is an assemblage of fragments and traces of the many spaces and places s...
Double exposure: Tenderness and entanglement in Tahnee Lonsdale’s painting by Layla Leiman The flowing, folding, intertwined and twisting forms in Tahnee Lonsdale’s paintings offer a dual narrative of innately personal recollection...
A meeting of two worlds: Ken Gun Min by Layla Leiman LA based artist Ken Gun Min blends together Eastern and Western influences in his fluid, gestural painting. He is inspired by art traditions...
Landscapes that glow. Nick McPhail’s LA paintings by Layla Leiman Nick McPhail’s paintings glow. They radiate the saturated hues that characterize the light in Los Angeles. Nick’s paintings typically depict...
Know your history: In conversation with gallerist Tristian Koenig by Layla Leiman For Melbourne based gallerist and curator Tristian Koenig, art is the driving force of life. Having worked across a range of fields within t...
Henry Curchod: “The more you know, the less you know.” by Layla Leiman Our preoccupation with nostalgia is something that interests Iranian-Australian artist Henry Curchod. Reflecting on the etymology of the wor...
Between intuition and intention: drawings by Nasim Hantehzadeh by Layla Leiman The organic, amorphous forms that populate Iranian-American artist Nasim Hantehzadeh’s large-scale drawings occupy a space between abstracti...
Straddling the two and three-dimensional with Milly Peck by Maria Zemtsova The soft humour and definitive emphatic detail of mundane scenes in the work of Milly Peck are hypnotizing. Playing with the motifs of gestu...
Forming and folding space: In conversation with Sanne Maloe Slecht by Layla Leiman Sanne Maloe Slecht’s studio looks like a whirlwind has passed through it. Paint splatters everything, printed references are strewn about an...
“I want to paint like there’s no tomorrow”— in conversation with Zander Blom by Layla Leiman “I have believed in the idea of perpetual change as a vehicle for innovation and discovery in painting for a long time,” South African artis...
