the flux review

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.

Ind Solnick graduated from Wimbledon College of Art in BA Fine Art Painting in 2017. Her practice is based in collage, across mediums of painting, writing, and sculpture. She builds narrative structures that explore human-planetary relations in the context of climate change. How do we approach thinking about our place among the life forms of a planet that we are simultaneously destroying? How do we justify, as artists, the perpetual creation of new objects in a world already so filled with them?

We are delighted to introduce Shyamolie Madhavji to our Q&A’s.  You can also view her work in The FLUX Review- V2 Virtual exhibition.   Allow me to start by introducing myself as a passionate visual artist, textile designer, and freelance set designer. Being brought up in a family full of art lovers and established artists it is no surprise that I have inherited this creative talent too. Raised in Mumbai,

Finding a harmonious language between drawing, printmaking and painting, Paula Menchen experiments with each material deconstructing the surface and transforming each medium and their rules into one. Having majored as a painter at University, she uses painting as a means of experimentation, playing with the ideas of vast spaces typically using landscape and seascapes as inspiration and a starting point. She is not looking for a formula to reproduce but rather a constant curiosity with a sense of discovery.

Today we’d like to introduce you to Patricia Figueiredo who is also featured in our exhibition V2. I live and work in Rio de Janeiro. Initially, my creative process found a place in my education in architecture, a place that served as a trigger for my development of a creative-artistic vision that ended up emerging in other media

Born in Athens and currently based in Singapore, Emi Avora is drawing subject matter from her every day; her sketches and images of public and personal spaces focus on the interior and still life

Deborah Gardner’s practice is process-led, materiality, multiplicity and mutability are key themes. Proximity and distance, surface tension and scale play vital roles in encountering the work; for example, a recent work concerning imagining the surface of the far side of the moon considered ways to collapse a cosmological scale to a human dimension or in another work inspiration came from studying botanical structures. Her sculptures consider the vibrancy of cell, plant and geological structures and our relationships with them, such as imagining plant life in future environments. Many sculptures explore networkable assemblages, such as hives and colonies and the growth structures of physical phenomena and are especially interested in the power of adaptability as an ongoing sculptural process.

Anthony Gow’s current body of work explores the subject as a poetic proposition impacted by interruption, memory, lament and introspection. Some of these works are created as a still life on a digital canvas that combines photography and painterly marks. 

Maxim Timofeev is a contemporary Russian artist and a member of the Creative Union of artists of Russia and the International Federation of artists. He was born in 1988 in Saratov. The works reflect the awareness and understanding of the multidimensional nature of the Universe. The simultaneous existence of an infinite number of parallel versions of universes, life in superposition, and the perception of duality as a paradigm of human consciousness.

Mazarine Memon is a Neo-Impressionist painter living in Toronto, Ontario.  Memon was born in Bombay (Mumbai) to an eccentric, fun-loving, Zoroastrian (Parsee) family. By default, she is an endangered species as there are less than 70,000 Parsees left. Memon is of Iranian ancestry, Indian by birth, Italian at heart, and Canadian by choice. She works out of The Art Brewery, her studio where she is constantly embarking on new ventures and projects. Memon’s current project is an art book that will help artists ‘define their style’ and ‘overcome creative blocks’

Paul Ayers studied Fine Art at Falmouth College of Arts in the 1990s. He has exhibited his work in the Royal Cornwall Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, the Discerning Eye Exhibition, the Royal College of Art, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath and the Royal West of England Academy of Art, Bristol.​ He is primarily a painter, although also explores ideas through printmaking and alternative photography (screenprinting, collagraphy and cyanotype).  In his painting practise he explores the physical qualities of oil paint and the myriad variety of textures, light effects, colour and illusions that can be achieved with them on a flat surface. So, while his work represents objects in the real world, he strives to give the painted surfaces of his works an intensity and physical presence.

I am a St Andrews based author, artist, curator, and bookmaker. In 2014 I established Entropie Books to publish small fine print editions of my poetry, literature, artist books, drawings, and pamphlets. My artistic and literary practice incorporates the arts of poetry, printmaking, bookbinding, typography, papermaking, and chine-collé to present my literary texts and abstract geometric drawings in an exact and deliberate visual form.