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the flux review
Xiaoxiao Song – Q&A
Xiaoxiao Song is an artist whose practice moves between observation, material sensitivity, and a quiet yet powerful exploration of human connection. Working across painting, drawing, and visual storytelling, her work reflects an attentiveness to subtle emotional...
Alex Billingham – Q&A
British artist Alex Billingham works at the intersection of live art, film, visual practice, performance, sculpture and digital media, creating immersive worlds where vulnerability, survival and transformation take centre stage. Based in the West Midlands with an...
Claudia Borgna – Q&A
Claudia Borgna’s practice unfolds as an unflinching act of self-examination, where the personal is not only political but sacred, unstable, and in constant negotiation. Moving away from a long engagement with environmental crisis as subject, Borgna turns inward,...
Dasha Wesel – Q&A
Dasha Wesel is a Philadelphia-based visual artist who translates the structural logic of engineering into vibrant, geometry-driven explorations of human experience. Born and raised in Belarus, she synthesizes technical precision with a personal visual language forged...
Victoria Plotnikova – Q&A
Victoria Plotnikova’s practice unfolds at the intersection of personal testimony and collective memory, where visual language becomes a means of articulating experiences that resist direct narration. Working primarily in printmaking including linocut, and colour...
Eleni Koumara – Q&A
Working under the name Eni Jewellery, Eleni Koumara creates pieces that exist in a delicate balance between strength and refinement. Her work is deeply informed by the natural world, where organic forms and tactile surfaces become a starting point for exploration....
Zheni Warner – Q&A
Rooted in a lineage of painting yet firmly shaped by her own distinct voice, Zheni Warner’s practice unfolds through a deeply intuitive and materially rich engagement with the canvas. Born in Bulgaria and later based in the UK, her early exposure to art came through...
Obiaje Andrew Ejiga – Interview
In a moment where questions of identity feel increasingly urgent and visible, Obiaje Andrew Ejiga (b. 2003, Nigeria) approaches portraiture as both a site of introspection and a space of confrontation. Now based in the UK, and a First Class graduate of Duncan of...
Minos Palace Resort, Crete
A New Language of Wellness for 2026 As the notion of social wellness continues to shape the future of travel in 2026, a quieter yet more intentional shift is taking place. Wellness is no longer confined to the private rituals of the spa; it is becoming something...
Helen Birnbaum – Interview
Helen Birnbaum’s sculptural practice operates within a space of tension, where fragility and resilience coexist, and where the boundaries between the human condition and the natural world begin to dissolve. Working across both monumental installations and more...
Amy Coyne – Interview
Amy Coyne operates within a space where the tactile and the psychological converge. Working across felt-based character creation and film, her practice draws on the unsettling language of horror to explore something far more complex than fear alone. Beneath the...
Kwong Kwok Wai – Interview
In the work of Kwong Kwok Wai, painting becomes a form of navigation – not through fixed geography, but through the shifting terrains of memory, identity and place. Drawing on the visual language of cartography, his practice unfolds as a deeply personal mapping of...
Liz Pangrazi – Interview
Working from her studio in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Liz Pangrazi has developed a distinctive painterly language rooted in intuition, emotional clarity, and a deep connection to the natural world. Largely self-taught, her practice has evolved outside of formal academic...
Fernando Velázquez – Interview
In an age defined by acceleration, distraction, and endless noise, Fernando Velázquez paints as an act of resistance. His work is a meditation against the velocity of modern life – a gesture toward stillness, toward doubt, and toward the fragile humanity that persists...
Chris Silver – Interview
Chris Silver, a Glasgow-based artist, emerges as a compelling voice within contemporary painting, where instinct, emotion and material converge with striking clarity. Drawing from a rich lineage that spans Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and Fauvist intensity, his...
Holly Nerreter – Interview
Holly Sabine Nerreter’s practice is rooted in a deeply personal and emotionally attuned exploration of the human condition. Born in Nuremberg and now based in Greenwich, London, her journey has moved across countries and disciplines, shaping a body of work that is...
Seye Sanyaolu: Illustrating Identity
Emotion, and the Power of Character In a contemporary visual landscape increasingly shaped by speed, replication, and algorithmic aesthetics, the work of Seye Sanyaolu offers something more considered, more human. Rooted in storytelling and driven by a deep...
Elizabeth Benson – Interview
Beneath the Surface: Elizabeth Benson’s Material Dialogues In Elizabeth Benson’s practice, material is not simply a medium, but a point of departure. Based in North Wales, her work unfolds through an attentive exploration of how substances behave in relation to one...