Modern Panic IX
Artists
In alphabetical order
Nikoo Bafti (UK)
Nikoo Bafti is a British-Iranian visual artist based in London. Influenced by the divine feminine and stories of unexplained encounters, Nikoo's work explores a playful side of mysticism with her depictions of enigmatic deities. Through her psychedelic, super-saturated palettes, Nikoo’s paintings encourage you to look behind a thinning veil to a hidden realm of goddess worship and arcane ritual.
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Anthony Bennett (UK)
Anthony Bennett is a multimedia artist based in Sheffield. His work addresses the perilous state of our planet/society. Often polemical, he continues to rage through the Anthropocene.
anthonybennettsculpture.co.uk |
Aiyla Beau (UK)
Aiyla Beau is a portrait artist specializing in emotionally stimulating fetish art. Hailing from Bristol she completed her BA degree at UWE and initially followed an adult modelling career, the experience of which now plays a huge part in her artistic process. Using her knowledge of the modelling industry, she styles, lights, directs and shoots her own photo-shoots to achieve the desired image from which the final artworks are created.
aiylabeauart.com |
BAHARAK (Iran)
Baharak Dehghan was born in Tehran, Iran. She loves to make paintings and drawings all the time, but she also works with other techniques and materials. In 2001 she moved to Amsterdam for more artistic freedom. In 2006 she graduated in fashion design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Baharak has always been fascinated by the mystery and ambiguity of surrealism. The last years she developed her own style in collage works, in which old papers and pictures are torn and placed over one another.
baharak.nl |
Simon Brewster (UK)
Simon Brewster was awarded a BA in Painting at Wimbledon School of Art, and an MA at Central St.Martins. He has held several solo shows in London and has taken part in a diverse range of group exhibitions including the ZAP Open, RA Summer Show, Discerning Eye and the Cosmos Show at the New York Hall of Science.
simonbrewsterart.com |
Liz Buckfield (UK)
Twisted. Out of kilter. Dystopian. The world what we created. Liz Buckfield’s work is applied onto discarded cardboard, a mix of collage, painting and drawing. Aimed to create a comically animated backdrop of modern day Britain. Liz illustrates places populated by consumed characters each pursuing their own road to ruin in a world busy ruining itself. She is currently living and working in the City of Bristol.
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Sherlaine Callender (UK)
Sherlaine Callender is a special effects artist based in London. She recently graduated with a BA (Hons) degree in Technical Arts and Special Effects from Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London. Sherlaine’s artistic abilities include sculpting, mould making, painting, fabrication, prosthetics and fx makeup. Her work is heavily influenced by mythology, hybrid and fantasy creatures and what she enjoys most about her work is the ability to bring her ideas to life and make them tangible through practical means.
sherlainecallender.com |
Chris Campbell (UK)
Chris Campbell is a recent graduate from The University of the Arts London, graduating with a First Class Honours degree in Technical Arts and Special Effects with his final piece “URSULA | REIMAGINED”. Chris’ interests lie within film and theatre and he has an adoration for figurative sculpture that can be combined with his love for organic forms and darker aesthetics. His passion for storytelling through visual means has helped his work develop into creature and character design that displays high levels of detail and realism, bringing the unimaginable into reality.
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Jixuan Chen (China)
Jixuan holds a BA diploma from Wimbledon College of Arts, then MA got a place in Royal College of Arts, and his painting will open up of Chinese traditional painting styles and Incorporating modern or contemporary ideas and we might say Kind of emanated from modern art ideas over the last century, in terms of Europe and America.
chenjixuan.com |
Gemma Costin (UK)
After failing art at GCSE dr.d embarked on a plethora of glamorous career paths: rat catching; building site labourer; cab office radio controller; burger van man, to name but a few. Then an old school friend asked him to help flyposting in central London so he jumped in. When this became a bit monotonous dr.d started cutting bits from billboards and moving them on to others to make new words and phrases. Pretty soon he was making his own posters and putting them up on walls, billboards and bus stops. Other 2D and 3D projects followed.
Lately dr. d has been installing a range of faux street signs for the passing public, with warnings such as ‘Curfew - Social Cleansing’. This poster was displayed at the London Design Museum’s ‘Hope to Nope’ show (2018) which explored design’s role in dictating and reacting to major political events. However, along with many other participants from around the world, dr.d removed his work from the exhibition when the Design Museum rented their atrium to arms dealers. After 23 years of visual activism he has recently left the day job to focus on even more urban doctoring and start the world’s first personalised street art pavement messaging service ‘Worship The Ground’ @WTGOps (Insta/Twitter). @WorshipTheGround Facebook. dr.d aka @Subvertiser all channels www.drdlondon.com |
dEmAnD tHe ImPoSsIbLe (UK)
Jason Royce Started Documenting The Environmental Protest Movement After Studying Fine Art Photography . He didn't document it in the traditional sense . He wasn't looking for photographs to be selected for newspapers . Instead recognising the importance of the movement . Knowing this was a unique time and type of protest that probably wouldn't be recreated in the future . So recognising the importance of capturing the spirit he became a protester himself and photographed as one.
jasonroyce.co.uk |
Jeromie L. Dorrance (USA)
Denver, Colorado. When viewed as an ongoing process of experiments, life is like information built on the collective human experience. Our brains are primitive collections of old decisions, dominated by programs like fear and hunger. Like the human brain, technology is never perfect.
God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates Google..... jeromiedorrance.com |
Drakula Approved (Romania)
Sonia Tibacov was born in Romania in 1989 to a family of artists, and grew up in Transylvania. She moved to the UK in 2009 to study graphic design, and currently works as a visual artist in London and owns a jewellery/accessory business called Drakula Approved. Her favorite subjects are insects, joyful demons or any other odd creature willing to pose. Her specialty are intricate miniatures. In her free time, Sonia loves exploring the city and occasionally doing photography.
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DT500mag (UK)
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Andreas Rod is a photographer / creative director/artist. Arthur Sopin is a creative director/writer/artist. They have been studying and freelancing for more than 10-15 years within the fields of art, photography, creative direction, fashion, journalism, TV, video production, etc in NYC, Berlin, Oslo, and London…. This way they have developed their original style with a metamodern narrative.
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DYSPLA is an award winning studio and directing duo producing and developing the work of high functioning dyslexic + neurodivergent storymakers. Lennie Varvarides and Kazimir Bielecki are Arts Council England funded artists who work in film, immersive theatre, installation & digital art. Their current work focuses on the Neurodiverse Aesthetic, trailblazing at the forefront of neurodivergent creativity.
dyspla.com |
Ella Guru (USA)
Ella paints in traditional oil on canvas, taking inspiration from painters like Caravaggio and Velasquez. She casts burlesque performers in Biblical scenes with a modern twist, gaudy and gorgeous, symbolic and sublime. Her work is based on performers, characters and audiences in clubs in London, Amsterdam and Berlin. She explores the dark side, Tarot and myth, the bizarre and the beautiful, the tortured and the mysterious. Drag is of particular importance; the changing of identity through costume and disguise. Her paintings are open to interpretation; each person brings their own story to their appreciation.
ellaguruart.com |
Gelidelune (Italy)
Francesca Bonfatti in art (Gelidelune) is an Italian Photographer and Video performer.
Her experimental artistic work starting from complex and mysterious perceptive mechanisms, explore the thresholds of the unconscious through the ritual action mediated by images, words and movements. It's a search which has as its starting point the implicit dialog we have with our body, the continuous flow of trade and information between us and it. The subjects and themes of the work flow from coextension between the real world and the mental world, a "place - space" where they experience a journey of knowledge and refinement. francescabonfatti.com |
Mia-Jane Harris (UK)
Harris’ work delves into the curious, fascinatingly odd and morbidly beautiful. She aims to intrigue the viewer and pull them in to her world with strange objects and morbid curios to manipulate their emotions on the subject of mortality - life, death & resurrection. She wishes to challenge the inevitability of our disappearance after death by preventing decay and rescuing ‘junk’. She gives a second life, an artistic resurrection, to deceased animals and second hand objects in the hope that in return this second chance she gives them will help her live on through these creations when she is gone. Her creations are about overcoming the fear of nothingness by accepting death as a thing of beauty and using preservation and up cycling to show that if you can stop decay and disappearance then you can have some sort of control over your own demise.
mia-janeharris.co.uk |
Luke Francis Haseler (UK)
Luke Francis Haseler is a visual artist, based in London, with a growing art direction practice for a range of creative fields. Passionate about transforming unused spaces for work and exhibition purposes, to facilitate the creative process, collaboration and the opportunity to engage audiences with the arts in the flesh. His current body of figurative oil paintings pursue forms which focus on themes about our inheritance of a culture of violence, the confrontation with the beast of desire and the sacral fictions which engage our humanity.
lukefrancishaseler.com |
Ben Hopper (UK)
Ben Hopper is an artist using photography as his main medium, and people as his main subject.
Since 2007, Hopper has been creating fine art photographic projects from his base in London, focusing on contemporary circus, dance and nudes. Through his work, Hopper showcases beauty of the human form and utilises his photography to explore sexuality, challenge identity and gender. He strives to raise awareness surrounding nudity censorship and social taboos. therealbenhopper.com |
Evelyn Jean (UK)
Evelyn Jean is a multimedia artist from London. He has a passion for making art that captures his innermost fears and pleasures, whilst questioning the actual purpose of these emotions.
After a music career spanning 13 years he became increasingly frustrated at limits of the medium and began practicing art as a method for performance and expression of his real feelings. His work covers many mediums including painting, filmmaking, performance and installation. He is hugely influenced by a large diverse range of artists from many mediums. Evelyn is a self-taught artist who has participated in several group shows throughout Europe, and aspires to create an emotional understanding over technical superiority in his work. evelynjean.com |
Julie Light (UK)
Julie Light is fascinated by the implications of medical imaging, leading her to explore how people visualise their bodies at a microscopic level, particularly with reference to cells and mutation, and how that influences a sense of embodiment and identity. Currently inspired by growths and tumours, both in and out of context, she juxtaposes objects and ideas and explores tensions and contrasts, in particular how the organic and the manmade coexist.
julielight.co.uk |
Qixuan Lim (Singapore)
Qixuan Lim, born-and-raised in Singapore. Lim creates uncanny ceramic sculptures of miniature sleeping babies, tiny torsos, utensils, hearts (occasionally with teeth), animal skulls, pigs, and forearms—most of them about the size of a thumbnail.
Lim started sculpting about six years ago. At the time, she was working on an art show during which she was mentored by Pann Lim. Her fixation on baby heads and other body parts grew out of a fascination with the tactility of flesh and skin. Lim admits to always being drawn to what many people call "creepy-cute"—creations that manage to be simultaneously ugly, gross or creepy while maintaining an adorable quality. "Compared to many artists, I am actually quite shy with my works and never take the initiative to write to people or galleries to look at my work," Lim says. "This is also why I am glad for Instagram, because the platform is so social and it gives my work the exposure I will otherwise not receive." www.qimmyshimmy.com/ |
Jimmy Kim (USA)
Jimmy Kim is a concept designer and industrial designer who is known for his digital illustrations that are focused on robots and dystopian future.
As a child, Kim had a fascination for robots in science fiction movies and video games, which led him to start his career as an entertainment concept designer later on. After moving to the United States from South Korea in 2010 to pursue his passion in art and design, he attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he majored in Entertainment Design. His illustrations often include robots that have human-like body structure, and behave as if they have human emotions. Though his fictional illustrations, Kim questions the idea of being ‘human’, and explores different futures that rapid development of artificial intelligence can lead to. As a concept designer, he has made contributions for various film and tech industry in the US including companies such as Snap Inc., the maker of Snapchat app. He currently works as a concept designer at Brain Corporation, a San Diego based AI/Robotics company. www.deadlyjimmy.com |
Rebecca Mason (UK)
Rebecca Mason is a UK based artist using light to convey the darkness within human life, existence and emotion. Exhibiting widely in London since mid 2013, her detailed and distinctive quasi-poetic creations are described as an extraordinary mix of truth and beauty through which she is able to engage her audience with brutal observations about life, love, money and culture using her honest, and often humorous, interpretation of the modern world.
rebeccamasonneon.com |
Seamus Moran (UK)
Seamus Moran MRBS, was born in 1963 in Burton on Trent. He graduated with a Ba (hons) in Ceramics with Glass from Birmingham polytechnic in 1984 and went on to work in the potteries in Stoke on Trent as a sculptor and mould-maker. In 1988 he moved to Cornwall. He started exhibiting in galleries in 2002. His work has been shown around the UK and in 2008 won the People’s choice award at The National sculpture competition at Liverpool’s Bluecoat 2 gallery. In 2013 he was shortlisted for the Threadneedle prize at The Mall galleries in London for his work “Urban Burka”. In 2014 he won first prize at Passion for Freedom with “Harness” which was then show by the Royal Armouries throughout 2107/2018 at their three UK venues, including the Tower of London. In 2016 he won “Best installation” award at the National Open Art Competition.
seamusmoran.com |
Liam Brandon Murray (UK)
Liam Brandon Murray, a UK sculptor and artist that crafts baroque-like garments formulated from deeply layered urban elements and fabrics creating an overwhelming wearable artwork. There’s so much thought put into each garment, an almost microscopical attention to every detail, stitch, and finish that make each piece one of a kind. It’s not unnoticeable that Liam often incorporates religious elements and iconography into his designs, claiming he wanted to be a religious artist as a small boy. If you look closely, you’ll see Jesus on a cross, cherub angels, and church edifices. And there’s a hidden meaning behind this, you bet.
Not only does religion take a significant part in his designs, there’s eccentric glances of what would humans wear when they come to terms with their alien origins and star heritage. Liam’s wearable pieces cover the human form top to bottom, leaving no area untouched, from gow. Liam uses a mix of different formulas he calls “a cauldron”, containing an interesting mix of materials, including liquid foam for stretch, latex, stretchy fibers, and stretchy paints, among other things. Once it’s on the fabric, he injects the back so it seals and becomes watertight.ns to hats, shoes to coats and even wedding dresses. “It’s my goal to get the art world to accept that as a piece of fine art. It’s just as good, if not more so, than a standing sculpture. This thing has to work, it has to move. [Costume and fashion designers] deserve more credit in the art world, I think.” www.liambrandonmurray.co.uk |
Muazma Mushtaq
Muazma is a 22 year old British artist from East London, currently residing in Morden, South London where she lives with her husband. Her work is dealing with death and morals…
When the night is dark And the end is near Only those who’ve gone Are the ones we fear Little line is so thin You can barely see Any minute from now And you all can be free From the worries and stress That make up all our lives Between living and dead Swimming deep sea of lies When the dead speak - we listen If we hear what they say For we’re busy with living Every manner and way Teaching morals and stories And advice's for life Some can speak really loudly For they’ve seen what it’s like And they start to speak through you Then you’re no longer there Like a doll, like a voodoo With a hypnotised stare In the time of the listening Of the words from inside From the darkness of wisdom From the deep void of time And that time shall come quickly Though it looks like it’s far Could be just around the corner On a bus, or a car Let’s enjoy our dear friends This astonishing party And invite all your friends Who would like to get arty We’ll be weighing your hearts It all will be fine And don’t worry 'bout me I will come when it’s time www.instagram.com/muazma_mushtaq |
Dominic Negus (UK)
Dominic was trained at the London College of Printing as a graphic designer & he has been making a number of works over the years. The death of his father six years ago prompted a career change. His work follows an overarching theme using a breadth of media and an academic interest in the Psychology of death, it is deeply personal yet universal and invites others to reflect on their own experiences of loss. He has exhibited nationally & internationally, including: The London Group, Modern Panic, Moscow Museum of Modern Art & EWAD Kyoto, Japan.
dominicnegus.com |
Neo Fung (Poland)
Piotr Bockowski is a London-based body performer & video artist, as well as fungi media researcher at University of London. He curates Chronic Illness microbe performance event at his squatted sewage The Dungeons of Polymorphous Pan in Holloway. Loves violent dance to industrial sound.
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Brendan O'Neill (N.I)
Brendan O’Neill graduated from the University of Hertfordshire BA Hons Fine Art 1994–1997 before completing a Masters in Fine Art at University Ulster from 2002–2004. O’Neill worked as a visiting lecturer in the Fine Art Department at the University of Hertfordshire from 1999–2002 and was awarded a three-year studio fellowship at the Digswell Art Trust 1998-2001. He co-directed at Catalyst Arts, Belfast, from 2004–2007. Between 2007 - 2016 he worked as the Gallery Coordinator and Studio Administrator for Queen Street Studios & Gallery, Belfast.
brendanoneill.info |
Cian O'Neill (Republic of Ireland)
Cian O’Neill is an Irish painter, writer, musician and graduate of Chelsea College of Arts School of Painting based in East London. Before Chelsea he took foundation studies at Central Saint Martins and was chosen for both ‘Xhibit’ and ‘Futuremap’, in which the University of the Arts, London showcases work by select students from across its colleges. He has been shortlisted for the East London Painting Prize, the Catlin Arts Prize and mounted a joint exhibition at the Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury. O’Neill’s artistic practice is focused on oil painting and work on paper in pencil and inks, with anatomy, botany and quasi- structural or architectural form fused in series of works which cohere thematically, whilst remaining specific onto themselves. His development was influenced by various painters running the range from photo- to surrealist and the formal qualities of the work place it somewhere close to painterly tradition but not quite of it: they have their own [il-]logic, and inhabit their own unique space.
cianoneill.com |
Francesco Orazzini (Italy)
Francesco Orazzini is an Italian visual artist, painter, illustrator and animator.
He was born in Livorno in 1988 and raised in Rosignano Solvay where his hometown hosts a daunting industrial chemical plant that is in direct conflict with nature’s splendor. Growing up in such a contradictory environment superimposed with Christian art and pop TV mania, Orazzini developed bodies of works that comprise imaginary dark and grotesque themes that are simultaneously critical and satirical; narrations of human behavior in the social, spiritual, and political spheres. He obtained an honors degree in Illustration and Animation from the European Institute of Design of Rome and then moved to New York City where he worked as a freelance illustrator and as a studio assistant and then México City, where he still resides and works full-time as a freelance visual artist. He held solo exhibitions and participated in several collective exhibitions in galleries and museums of America and Europe. He illustrates books and currently gives workshops on both painting and illustration, focusing on aesthetic semantics and symbols. francesco-orazzini.com |
Clara Payas (Spain)
Born in Catalonia (Spain) Degree in Fine Arts. University of Barcelona. Until 2010 she worked as a wall painting restorer in different official centres and cultural institutions, and running a heritage conservation company in Barcelona, within which she have done many works in emblematic monuments of Catalonia (Spain). Between 2010-2014 combined her personal artistic work with teaching art techniques at the University in Barcelona . Since 2014 she work exclusively as a visual artist.
clarapayas.com |
Pei Ling Ho (Taiwan)
PEI-LING HO (Taiwan) is an interdisciplinary artist. She is studying in School of Visual Arts with an MFA in Fine Arts. Through performance, video, photography and mixed media, PEI-LING explores questions of gender identity and perception within various contexts, ranging from the conflict between exotic and local culture and the legitimacy of parents under social system, and drawing from her experience growing up in Taiwan.
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Lindsay Pickett (UK)
Pickett;s work features recordings he sees in dreams. He goes to many places when asleep, the camera he takes with him is his imagination
Pickett's main practice involves painting with oils on canvas, linen and board. He starts with a basic study of a composition idea, and takes it further as a small watercolour painting as a final idea, finally developing it more as the finished oil painting. He creates a visual reality that can be convincing at times with an virtigo inducing surreal realism lindsaypickett.co.uk |
Gianluca Pisano (Sardina)
Born in Sardinia, he has lived in London since arriving in 1996. The focus of his work is on the human figure, re-interpreted to include contemporary themes. It is important for his work to return to the medium of painting and the traditional methods. The abstract and conceptual aspects of his paintings are contemporary, however their execution recalls the Baroque, especially the painters who pursued and developed Tenebrism.
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Patrick Rowan (UK)
Patrick Rowan's work is an exploration of audio-visual ideas through the combination of analogue and digital experimentations. Rowan uses sound and video as devices to play with the viewer's perceptions of time and reality. He explores ideas surrounding metaphysics, psychological mindsets and the digitisation of society, delivered with an underlying dose of absurdist humour. Rowan often recycles found imagery, sound and text, making these components his own by applying experimental manipulative processes to them, painting his work with an intriguing otherworldly aesthetic.
patrickrowan.net |
Elina Rudzite and Black Storm Films (UK/Latvia)
Elina, the author of masks, is Camberwell College of Arts graduate specialising in painting, sculpture, screen printing, at the moment learning puppetry and stop motion animation. Her work is inspired by natural forces, both - material and intangible, the art she enjoys the most is Outsider Art and paintings by Hieronymus Bosch.
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Costanza Savarese and Lara Genovese (IT)
Costanza is an internationally renowned concert soloist and a vocal performer with an astonishing vocal range (more than 5 octaves). Los Angeles Global Music Award winner. First classical guitarist featured on Classic Rock. Extreme/experimental vocals expert. “Federico Fellini 2018 Prize” winner for innovation within the performing arts field. Designs her costumes and make-up, considering them an integral part of her performance concepts. Founder of the REFORMO trademark together with her brother Guglielmo.
Lara is an Italian Director/ Designer, Photographer and Founder of Naiad Productions Ltd. Originally an Architect, after 5 years in Hong Kong as a show productions designer for Walt Disney Imagineering she returned to London to pursue the entertainment industry fully.You can find her working in Set Decorating teams for feature films, Producing and Directing new theatre projects and shooting Dress rehearsals, Concept shoots and portrait photography. reformo.it naiadproductions.com |
Marc Savior (Canada)
Marc Savior’s paintings describe unseen solitude places on the edge of destruction. Dark and mysterious environments, where the intimate experience is exposed, unraveling a sense of our inner discontentment.
While much of the imagery in his work is in fact drawn from things observed during his experiences, the material itself is often even more so. Marc’s surfaces are held together by a network of well-understood sequences of color, along with a torturous process and crude precision. marcsavior.com |
John Sharp (UK)
Jas Singh (UK)
Jas Singh graduated from Central St Martins in 2012 with a BA Fine Art specialising in 4D. His work addressed social and political current affairs particularly through the medium of dissonant audio. The work dictates the medium that he employs. Recent life changes resulting in neurological complications had forced Jas to take a hiatus in making. He recently returned to making and reconfigured his method of practice from audio dissonance to considering visual overload with the same intent. Currently based in StudionAme (Leicester) he is deeply engaged with a live network of artists to explore social and political parameters collaboratively and revisit pre-hiatus projects.
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Matthew Stradling (UK)
Matthew Stradling is represented in many art collections in Europe, America, the Far and Middle East . Born in Hertfordshire in south-east England, Matthew now works from his studio in North London. His work has been exhibited internationally and he has had fourteen solo exhibitions in London, Liverpool, Paris and Ottawa.
Matthew Stradling paints the body in sumptuous detail. The jewel-like colours belie the sometimes painful content. He delves into the realms of sex and death with delectation, making the painted flesh sparkle even as it speaks of its own fragility. matthewstradling.com |
Greg Wilcox (USA)
Greg Wilcox uses photography, drawing, and video to distract himself from full employment, under employment, and no employment.
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Mira Yankova (Bulgaria)
Mira Yankova is born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She graduated the National Art Academy in Sofia and has a Master degree in "Cinema and television direction in New Bulgarian University." She works as an artist, designer, animator and director in the field of cinema and animation.
In her recent visual works, she deals with the exploration of the internal hidden drives in the personality and the social system. She creates short absurd films rich with symbolism and some sort of dark humour. The artistic animations of Mira Yankova are deliberately rough - drawed, confusing and upsetting. They are loaded with unconscious imports and seem oddly comic. They offer the viewer a disturbing narrative that aims to bring him out of his comfort zone and direct his attention to the real inner engines of human behaviour. vimeo.com/user10698554 |
Vort Man [USA]
Vort Man makes art everyday. You can view his daily collages on Instagram @thevortman. He hasn’t missed a day since 31/12/13.
Vort Man focuses on endurance art. The journey really is the destination artistically speaking. Painting, screen printing, photography, collage are his favorite mediums. Now a father, life living on the road behind. He really just wants to make art everyday. That is what makes him an artist. He strives to create what doesn’t exist while embracing popular culture and using its funny characters for his own amusement. He has often had a strong fascination with celebrity and they are regularly present in his collage work. thevortman.com |