the flux review

Roberto Voorbij is a multidisciplinary artist apart from working with ‘ready made’ materials, he works with video, 3D Software and (digital) collage. Commerciality and public space are recurring themes in Voorbij’s work. What highly fascinates him about this is the underlying history, politics and marketing strategy of our seemingly neutral environment. His works are often socially critical. Another recurring theme concerns the art world/art market and the way in which the artist manifests itself here, as well as the autonomy of the artwork that’s being questioned.

Eugene Ankomah is also known as EA, is a UK based Artist, born in London UK to Ghanaian parents. Is one of the most exciting, gifted and versatile young artists in the UK today. A former child prodigy, he is a respected international multidisciplinary Visual Artist and personality with an ever-expanding reputation and prolific body of work. His innovative work has included painting (his primary practice), design, installation, costume, set design, digital art, sculpture, printmaking, performance, sound art and writing. Ankomah is also well known for creating different often challenging “characters” or “personas” designed to front his powerful but often political, social and community cohesion focused works (awarded many times). He is a unique, ever-changing Visual Artist often cited as an inspiration to many, especially young artists and creatives.

Questions of ‘shared space’ and ‘value’ of art arise when it comes from the city– the sum involves the means by which the art is made and the conditions that affect the artist. Mylo Elliot’s art is a complexity, a use of language and representation. Patterns are observed in writing, inherent structure- architecture, meaning and significance emerge. Working with single words and letters allows Elliott to construct fabric in painting and represent creative movement. By breaking down words in interaction, we can revalue what we already put into everyday communication.

Carp Matthew is a visual artist predominately working with oils. He is known for his dark, visceral and grotesque style featuring mutated lost characters, full of longing, despair and banality. Continually roving between subject and observer, Matthew’s visualizations are at once the artists’ own nihilistic and dark observations of contemporary society with all of its pitfalls as well as the artists’ own longing to understand and assimilate into the world around him. His abstract figures are often depicted in empty rooms or carrying out mundane and everyday tasks, whilst their true nature or feelings are revealed through mutated expressions or physical manifestations.

David Studwell is a contemporary British artist and printmaker who studied at Central St Martins School of Art. Having worked as an artist for over 20 years, Studwell harnesses the spirit of the sixties and seventies, the cult of celebrity and the legacy of Warhol to produce iconic screen prints. His works explore the darker side of fame, nostalgia and Americana-police mug shots of well-known stars show them at their most vulnerable, or at their most defiant. Private moments of icons at screen tests or during reflection become graphically public, produced in bold and vivid colours.

Rachel Megawhat is a London-based British artist. Now primarily working as an oil painter, she previously had a successful photographic career. She is currently working on a series of paintings of London. These small oils, described by some as dystopian depict small...

Award-winning artist Alexandra Gallagher is a British multidisciplinary artist, who’s work takes the form of collage, street art, prints, photography and painting.  Gallagher’s work celebrates the surreal and sublime. ­Between the realms of memory, dreams and experience, her work looks beyond our subjective limits and often tells a story of inner imagination and thought. Often working within a series, each piece is visceral and organic, the artist never knowing how each piece will transform

As a conceptual artist, Franziska Ostermann’s medium is the word and the image. The central themes of her work are virtuality and identity. An important motif for Ostermann is the photographic self-portrait. Dealing with one’s being, online and offline, is the starting point of her work. The photographic self-portrait allows Ostermann to encounter herself. When the shutter is released, she is both the photographer and the photographed, in the same place. Is she doubled or split? Photographic splinters of our selves’ views represent our identity in a place that we cannot enter. The physicality itself becomes a barrier to its representation.

Rosie Emerson is an award-winning contemporary artist originally from Dorset, she studied and lived in London for 10 years.  She now resides on the South Coast and continues to work almost exclusively on representing the female form. Emerson’s figures draw reference from archetypes old and new from Artemis to the modern-day supermodel.

The Artist’s creative journey began at birth: Diana Malivani was born on the coast of the Black Sea, bathed in the riotous profusion of the colours of the Caucasus. Her love as a child for fairy tales and pictures later developed into a desire to convey, to those hearing and viewing her work, the great feeling for nature that enhances her life and the lives of those she loves.

Photography artist Gert Kist made a name for himself at Galerie Eduard Planting, with his male images printed on weathered wooden subphases. As a photography artist, Kist has recently gone through a period of development and transition. His subject matter has shifted and his photographs have since also become more layered – both in a figurative and literal sense.  In the new series of female portraits, there is a clear emphasis shift. No longer is the attention in Kist’s work solely on the male torso but focuses now on female faces that seem to want to either express something or in fact conceal it. Dashing women wearing extravagant costumes, jewellery, hair-dresses and masks. Something is happening inside these female portraits. The beholder can only guess, is intrigued and engages with them.

Juan Barletta’s works focus on consumerism and desire, his photo-realist paintings evoke an ambiguous duality of desire and beauty. Juan’s images of often controversial iconic figures within popular culture question the ideals of synthetic beauty and its imagined reality. He alludes to the falsity of images represented within the media and its distorted boundaries of what is real and artificial.

Frank E Hollywood is an esteemed Dutch contemporary artist. Hollywood studied at the St. Joost academy of art in Breda, the Netherlands, where he early on sought out the boundaries of autonomous and commercial art. His works explore the tensions between the past, present and future. Not interested in simply reimagining the past, Hollywood draws on a collective visual memory of the past, to present us with something truly new and exceptional.

Alva Bernadine was born in Grenada, West Indies and moved to Britain at the age of 6 to London. Bernadine became seriously interested in photography at the age of 21. His first pictures were of London tourist spots and the next year he started practising her present style. Bernadine is self-taught and has never been an assistant.  He has worked mainly in the editorial field for the last 38 years completing projects for numerous national magazines and has had many profiles of his work in countries such as France, Spain, Italy, USA, Australia, Germany and, of course, Great Britain.