the flux review

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.

Viktoria Andreeva is a fine-art photographer, born and raised in Bulgaria. As a former ballet dancer, her love and passion for the art of movement have deeply influenced her aesthetic view. In 2015 she moved to Vienna to study Photography and Audiovisual Media at the College of Arts Die Graphische. Meanwhile, she started working on one of her biggest projects – a book about the many faces of ballet, containing personal interviews and photographic work of six professional dancers from the Vienna State Opera.

Steven Quinn is a London-based artist born in Belfast. Obsessed by collages, street photography and paintings, Steven Quinn likes to combine his own photography with cut-outs from old magazines and play with imagery to create often apocalyptic, sometimes humorous narratives. His most current themes are domesticizing nuclear, political and intergalactic conflicts.  Quinn graduated with 1st Class honours from the University of Ulster –MFA and has shown his work alongside names such as Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas at Tate Britain. He has also exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, the renowned Photographers gallery in Soho, the James Freeman Gallery and in various venues throughout London. Quinn has also been showing his work overseas: New York in 2009, Frankfurt in 2014 and, more recently, at the ARC Gallery in Chicago for the “I can’t breathe” exhibition.

Sam Haynes is a mid-career visual artist based in London, working primarily with sculpture and public art installations. She is interested in the physicality and materiality of forms, and the translation into a more accessible and friendly medium for a wide and diverse audience.Her abstract, geometric assemblages often incorporate found objects and materials which aim to reference different domestic settings and architectural spaces. This is reflected in the physical and geographical adaptability of Haynes’s practice, in terms of exhibiting and installation.

Lee Ellis is a British multi-media artist based in Bristol. His insatiable desire to create brings him to embrace different artistic mediums, from printmaking to drawing and painting. The artist has an expressive and bold style, immediately striking with his unusual...

Gonczanski is an Argentinian filmmaker, creative director and illustrator. He was born in the beautiful city of Buenos Aires Argentina. Developed a background in Advertising at the very young age of 18. At 25 he became the General Creative Director at the Leo Burnett Colombia.

Jean-Luc Almond is a British artist who received his First Class BFA in 2013 from the City & Guilds of London Art School. His paintings have won various awards, including The Cass Art Commission at the National Open Art Competition, Somerset House and The Best Painting Prize at the ‘Injustice’ Open Art Competition, La Galleria, Pall Mall, judged by esteemed art critic, Edward Lucie Smith. He has been featured as a Saatchi Art ‘One to Watch’ and in the ’20 Emerging Artists to Buy Now’ Collection on Saatchi Art’s homepage. He was shortlisted for the Le Dame Art Gallery Prize, resulting in a solo exhibition at Le Dame Gallery London and invited as a guest artist at Artrooms Fair, London. Notable exhibitions include Start Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, SCOPE Basel, Switzerland, The Affordable Art Fair New York, The London Art Fair and most recently The Other Art Fair, October 2019.

Daniel Tidbury lives and works on the sunny south coast of the UK in the small sailing village of Emsworth nestled between the historic cities of Portsmouth and Chichester. Tidbury’s creative talents have no bound, as a professional artist, graphic designer and photographer he is ever developing new ways to express himself. His abstract artworks come to life in various media often featuring landscapes, seascapes and skies. Tidbury set out as a painter in 2016 and has gained a generous following, his works bursting with colour and expression.