the flux review

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.

After completing a BA in Fine Art at Falmouth College of Arts, Katie Jamieson went on to train at RADA as a scenic artist in theatre and film. She believes working in theatre gave her a foundation to explore creativity in a dynamic and multifaceted way. The range of skills and techniques Jamieson  acquired during this time has enabled her to develop her own individual style and practice as an artist in her own right. Jamieson’s   practice incorporates both painting and sculpture. She likes to move constantly in and out of these two disciplines exploring surface, texture and form. Fragility and the transient nature of life, are two themes that she keeps revisiting whether creating large scale paintings or hundreds of small-scale objects.

Val Murray has always been fascinated by the ordinary places, objects and activities which make up the world she inhabits. How do humans and their environments, natural and built, interact? Murray is interested in Mabey, Tsing et al’s ideas of complex interrelations between species and survival in a ruined planet through ‘wonderous attention’ and ‘creative curiosity. She documents examples of entanglements aiming to make tangential reference to human impact on the natural world rather than to ‘preach’

Working primarily with calligraphy inks, graphite and liquids, such as tea,  Carne Griffiths’ fascination with drawing focuses on the creation and manipulation of the drawn line. Images explore human, geometric and floral forms, in a combination of both literal and abstract translation and in response to images and situations encountered in daily life. Images are recorded in a dreamlike sense onto the page where physical boundaries are unimportant. His work creates a journey of escapism that focuses on scenes of awe and wonder, projecting a sense of abandonment and inviting the viewer to share and explore this inner realm.

Orlanda Broom was born in the United Kingdom in 1974. She studied Art and Design at the Cheltenham School of Art in England as well as at the Winchester School of Art in Barcelona. She has worked as an artist ever since earning her master’s degree in 1997. Broom has completed large-scale commissions including the 4x4m piece for the lobby of the new Four Seasons Downtown New York and a large abstract for the Mandarin Oriental in London. Her work has also appeared in exhibitions in London, Paris, and South Africa. The artist lives and works in Hampshire on the southern coast of England.

Jen Kiaba is an artist and educator who grew up in the infamous Unification Church, a religious group referred to by popular media as “the Moonies” and a primary example of a cult. After escaping a forced arranged marriage, she fought her way out in her early twenties. After leaving the cult she went on to earn her BA

Vicky Martin is an international award-winning fine art professional photographer from the UK. Her first introduction to photography was whilst studying art and design at college in the 90s, she fell completely in love and found it to be a natural fit creatively, realising that this was what she wanted to do with her life she went on to dedicate her studies to photography. Initially, she started out photographing in black and white but later moved on to colour and now tries to utilise the colour in her photographs to benefit the overall narrative.  Since 2008 after Martin was awarded a prestigious bursary she has been developing her professional career in photography.

Kayee C is a fine art photographer born and raised in Hong Kong before relocating to France a decade ago. She uses techniques of self-portrait and digital composite to create storytelling images to explore the dynamics of relationships on different levels. Her works can be humorous, dramatic or melancholic staging of a variety of human interactions.

Sarah Rocca is a self-portrait artist who explores the beauty she sees in the darkness of life. Where you might feel tension or discomfort, Rocca feels a sense of peace and ease when delving into subjects like fear, anxiety and death. This fascination with darkness and beauty can be seen throughout Rocca’s work as she aims to create pieces that ask the viewer to see themselves through her eyes. Rocca’s work portrays single subjects, often in uncomfortable positions, signifying the challenges we face mentally and physically throughout our daily lives. Rocca aims to explore subjects which society would rather sweep under the rug and what social media hides; female sexuality, anxiety, mental health, grief. These are topics which everyone will encounter throughout their lives yet for many they are topics you don’t speak of. Rocca uses her art as a way to tell her own story which allows the viewer to feel like they can relate in one way or another.