the flux review

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.

After a 27 year career in the City, Charles Binns decided to enrol at Central Saint Martins to study MA Contemporary Photography, Practises and Philosophies in 2018, graduating during the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020. His art is about loss.  Loss of biodiversity, loss of pristine natural habitats and loss of cultural diversity. His practice asks how is it that humanity finds itself on the brink of environmental catastrophe and what does this say about us, both individually and collectively.

As a photographic artist from London, Hannah Debson grew up surrounded by galleries and fashion publications that sparked her interest in the beauty of the human form. Debson studied history where she became fascinated by the human journey and the emotions that underpin all human activity. She began to look at the use of culture to express and construct the human experience and became inspired by how beauty and fashion can be part of this.

Ellaya Yefymova is a Ukrainian artist living and working in Kiev. She has a medical diploma and an unlimited love for science, art and the human body. Most of her paintings are made in assemblage technique that allows to engage multiple senses and to interact with the paintings physically.

Dreaming with her eyes wide open. Angelica Tcherassi strives to express with her designs what inspires her in daily life: Family, Happiness, Desires, Dreams, Light. Her products and interiors give voice to a unique eclectic approach in which all merges to perfection. Tcherassi works as an Independent Product Designer, Creative Director  & Artist with a worldwide heart and vision. The overlapping analysis of craftsmanship and technology play an important role in her designs as well as materials and functionality in itself. For her, it is vital through her designs to shine a light into the world through her creations. Injecting good vibes into spaces and our daily lives is a choice, it’s a lifestyle.

Miguel Sopena is an artist and photographer originally from Valencia, Spain, but now based in Croydon, South London. He decided to change direction and become an artist as he was finishing his doctorate in theoretical physics at Sussex University in Southern England. Miguel went on to complete a part-time Fine Art Foundation BTEC at City College Brighton and Hove and a Portraiture diploma at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London. A highly experimental artist, Miguel combines his ongoing interest in figuration with a developing abstract language in which he explores themes of memory, emotion, and the passage of time. Colour, composition, and the material properties of the painting medium itself are key to Miguel’s painting process.

Polly Bennett (b. 1996) graduated from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2018 and in 2019 completed The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers Decorative Surfaces Fellowship. Subsequently, she is an Honorary Freeman of the Painter-Stainers, and also a member of the Wilderness Art Collective, a group of creatives whose work discusses the natural world.

Anne von Freyburg’s practice rethinks textile and the decorative within the tradition of painting. It embraces and subverts the female gaze, the feminine and pretty. Historically, craft and decoration have been perceived as lesser than the “intellectual” fine arts. By combining them, von Freyburg challenges this underlying hierarchical system.