A Conversation with Artist RITA OSIPOVA

We had no access to culture—no museums, galleries, or even a cinema—but I believe that gave me even more freedom to imagine new worlds, read science magazines, and experiment with whatever I could find.

A Conversation with Artist GIULIANO AMEDEO TOSI

The core themes currently driving my work are human transformation, ecological consciousness, and the tension between transcendence and collapse. I’m deeply interested in how the human experience is reshaped by climate anxiety, AI, and social fragmentation. My art doesn’t offer answers—it creates spaces of reflection, vulnerability, and expansion.

A Conversation with Artist EMELINE TATE

When you look at my work as a whole, you can see the influence of my childhood. I use plaster to cast my letters, or I make handmade letters with papier mache, and I use bright, happy colors that are inspired by my youth.

A Conversation with Artist AZIN YOUSEFIANI

My artworks juxtapose different forms and concepts regarding my cultural identity, in which a part of me is always missing, like a fragment of an ancient object. I have many contradictory feelings about the new version of myself, trying to compensate for my insecurities by using transformed patterns just like my transformed identity.

A Conversation with Artist NATALIA KUKULAS

It’s not a project that has challenged me. It’s the “artist” label that challenges me. It is so difficult to define who or what an artist is, and I keep asking myself every day if I am one. Is anyone who creates an artist? I think my challenge is my own mind.

A Conversation with Artist TIAGO CASTRO GOMES

Ceramics became my main refuge. It helped me process those losses, channeling my pain into many of the pieces I created. Therapy, together with the act of making art, allowed me to look at my wounds in a very raw and honest way. It wasn’t an easy process to go through—but it was one that truly healed me.

A Conversation with Artist PHILIP TYLER

I once said that I wanted people to have the same kind of experience in front of one of my paintings as they would listening to a piece of music by Elbow. I think we’re all sensing a time of change and foreboding; that’s part of the human condition, the realisation that we all struggle.

A Conversation with Artist MICHELE RAMIREZ

I was born in a farming community surrounded by orchards and open fields. The changing seasons and skies altered the local colors, and I was always struck by how light transformed ordinary objects, how this green was different from that green, or how the shift in shadow made faraway beauty tangible.

A Conversation with Artist OREST LUZECKYJ

My goal is to create a large collection of images that feel complete and iconic; monsters that people will instantly recognize and remember. I like to explore different moods within the subject, sometimes making the creatures cute and approachable, and other times eerie or unsettling. I enjoy playing with contradictions using color and emotion in unexpected ways.

A Conversation with Artist XUANRU WANG

Everyday conversation often felt inadequate for truly reaching the core of the things I cared about, sometimes making me seem long-winded. Art, on the other hand, offered me another language. It allows me to circumvent the logic of ordinary dialogue, enabling me to speak about things with greater precision, or sometimes, in a more circuitous way.

A Conversation with Artist MARK TIMMINS

My collage work explores the dark and unsettling aspects of human nature, embracing the uncanny and the absurd. My aim is to provoke thought, evoke emotion, and entertain.