the flux review

Marc Standing is an African/ British/Australian artist who was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He obtained his BAFA honors degree from the University of Cape Town in South Africa with distinctions in painting.

Valia Paella is an artist fascinated with art dynamics, the artist pays particular attention to multilevel and deep research, discovering counterintuitive metaphors. Paella is a new media artist, trying to retrieve a new sort of “AI” implicating “Art and Information”...

Viv Owen captures vivid, gestural oil paintings that reveal a fascination with emotional states, with the help of unwitting accomplices captured from feature films and the television screen. Subtle in scale: a whisper in the ear rather than a shout across the room,...

David Hicks is a street photographer – I love to walk the street, hang out on corners, and chat to whoever about anything. I like humanity. From human beings to anything that has a human touch. I like normal life. Almost banal life. I like to see how people live their life on a day to day basis. Their surroundings. Where they put things. Where they hang out.

Born in Dumfries, Scotland, Alison Johnston studied at Edinburgh College of Art under Elizabeth Blackadder, Sir Robin Philipson and Harry More Gordon. Following graduation her career flourished in illustration and animation for Oscar-nominated “Fireman Sam” and “AArdman Animations”.

Marina Tsaregorodtseva is a Fine Art Still life and Portrait Photographer who lives and works in London, United Kingdom. She was born in Vologda, Russia in 1978.  She completed a degree in accounting and finance in 2000. Moved to the UK in 2009. Moving to another country had a huge impact on her life: loneliness, inability to share experiences, and impressions with close family kind of forced her to restrain personal feelings.

International award-winning Artist Stephanie MacKenzie, is a vibrant talent. Multiple layers, brilliant colours and intricate designs unite through storytelling and blended archetypes bringing lush dimensions to her work.    Immerse yourself into a high saturated universe with artist Mackenzie. Intense colour and vivid brushstrokes are created through movement while listening to a range of music. Mackenzie uses the vibration of sound to submerge herself into her self conscious and let her inner voice speak through each gestural movement. Using form, space and colour to communicate an infinite number of patterns. Expressing her ideas by creating a visual language through her contemporary Art. Dive into the labyrinth of Mackenzie’s inner existence.

Originally from the french part of Switzerland, Sève Favre was introduced to arts from a young age but decided to follow an academic study first Art History at University. She supplemented her literature degree with secondary school teaching. She continued her education by taking several seminars and workshops in the visual arts, notably at the Ceruleum School of Art in Lausanne.

Master of Fine Art’s alumna, Ema Mano Epps and Jyoti Bharwani are nearing the end of their two-year residency at City and Guilds of London Art School. Previously graduated from St Martins, these two female artists represented the student voice through the pandemic and took part in the Board of Trustees. This shared journey naturally facilitated a collaborative path of making artwork alongside their own practices.

French artist Sonia Ben Achoura generates innovative works of art at the intersection between art and science. With a background in psychology, her fascination with human nature at the present stage of evolution (characterised by pervasive interaction with technology)...

Lewis Buttery was born in 1995 and is an artist from Leicester, UK. at the beginning of the 2018/19 academic year, he moved to London to study Fine Art at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London) full time. 

With all projects by Ana Maria Lima Dimitrijevic, there is a sense of excitement about the possibilities of expression. She is devoted to translating her experiences, challenged by the flickering nature of memories. Through rediscovery, descriptive writing, repetitive handmade processes and music she creates intimate responses which invite a more sensitive understanding of daily life. She exploits the versatility of photography to develop playful encounters with her animations, prints, paintings, objects, multimedia performances and intervention art which becomes part of common experience.

Sally de Courcy was born in Canterbury, Kent. She qualified in 2016 from the University of Creative Arts, Farnham with a first-class honours degree, scholarship and master’s with distinction in Fine Art. She is interested in the repetition of cast objects and works in different mediums including bronze. The objects are re-assembled to reveal a narrative.

With the sound of crashing sea waves and the hot feeling of sand under bare feet, Marina Emphietzi’s story starts in Famagusta, Cyprus. Her family’s childhood home built along the scenic coastline, she spent most of her days by the beach. It’s here that she came to know the limitless freedom of the Ocean. Surrounded by the vivid landscapes of Cyprus, art came naturally to Marina. Her heart’s desire was to study art, although she would pursue a successful career in hotel management and marketing before finally achieving her life-long dream. She has studied at the prestigious schools of Central St-Martins and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMASS).

Ashima Kumar is a visual artist. She has been working at the cutting edge of Graphic Design and Fine Art. Her style is a unique fusion of doodle art with traditional mediums and digital media. She juxtaposes graphic simplicity with painterly strokes. Her serene artworks aim to “penetrate the deepest part of us where no words exist.”

Shannon Gardner appreciates the spontaneous process of nature and strives to explore Earth’s unearthed beauty and imitate its natural imperfections. Her interest in the macabre began while studying nature and the paranormal at a young age.