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the flux review
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Marish – Interview
In an era where portraiture continues to evolve beyond representation, Marish emerges as a compelling voice redefining the boundaries between painting and sculpture. Born between the cultural...
Sarah Peters – Interview
Stream of Consciousness and the Power of Unfiltered Mark-Making In an era defined by curation, refinement and constant editing, Sarah Peters offers something strikingly different: a practice rooted...
David Ian Bickley – Interview
The Space Between: David Ian Bickley on Landscape and Digital Experience In an era where technology continues to reshape not only how we see the world, but how we experience it, David Ian Bickley’s...
Iskra Sale – Interview
In a world that often privileges speed, spectacle and surface, Iskra Sale turns instead towards stillness, precision and quiet transformation. Working primarily in graphite, white charcoal, gold and...
Romeo Bud – Constructed Selves
Painting identity in the age of the digital image In an era shaped by digital imagery, artificial intelligence and the constant circulation of self-representation, identity is no longer fixed, but...
Jie Huang – Q&A
Jie Huang is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice unfolds across installation, ceramics, painting and mixed media, translating the often unspoken complexities of emotional life into compelling...
Chi Kiu So (aka Jack So) – Q&A
Working at the intersection of memory, identity and technology, Chi Kiu So, also known as Jack So, creates conceptually driven works that probe the complexities of personal and cultural existence....
Andy Sylvester – Interview
British painter Andy Sylvester brings a quietly subversive edge to contemporary portraiture, working predominantly with acrylic on board and card to construct images that unfold slowly, layer by...




















