the flux review

Aphra Shemza is a UK-based multimedia artist. She is the granddaughter of the well-known abstract painter Anwar Jalal Shemza. Inspired by her grandfather, her work explores Modernism, her Islamic cultural heritage, sustainable practice and creating art for all. As an...

‘Covid 19 hit the country before I could even graduate from university. Once home and with the job market looking bleak, I was still keen to keep my creative side going. I took to the garden shed to create new designs in different mediums. Throughout the summer of 2020, I used Alcohol inks to produce a range of designs, using various techniques and continued this into the festive season, adding silver and gold to bring some sparkle. Being an abstract designer, I love the bright colours and textures alcohol inks create. I took my design forward by producing cards and coasters to sell in my local area. Continuing to be creative during lockdown has helped my mental health and kept my passion for textiles alive. Going into 2021 is much the same as the year before. I wanted to focus and take this time to add new designs to my portfolio and getting my work recognised’. Francesca Gillett

Sharon Alviz was born in Barranquilla Colombia. She grew up near the ocean, so she can easily connect with spaces that represent expansion, geometric atmosphere, and nature. She studied advertising, yet photography became her true passion. Upon completing her career,...

Toby Messer is an artist living in Barnes, South West London. He draws on many influences when painting, including the unspoilt landscape and dark and untouched areas – real and imaginary – of Richmond Park.  On his artist journey, landscape hasn't always meant pure...

London based Simona Ruscheva graduated from Fine Art Painting in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. She held her first solo show in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2018 and has also participated in various group shows across London, including Royal Institute of British Artists Annual...

Born and raised in the boroughs of East London, Matt Dwyer a self-taught mixed media artist has been taking paint to paper as far back as he can remember. His talent was recognised early at the tender age of 11. In later life going into his late teens he was in...

The main subject for Yaroslava Liseeva’s works is the Nature with its forces and energy. We live in the world where everything is inconstant and changing, moving and interconnecting. The life is very complicated and simple at the same time. There is always chaos and order.

Gary Nicolls is a technical artist with a camera rather than a photographer.  He sees the image in his mind then sets about taking all the images to create what he has visualised.  This takes Nicolls all over the world to get elements for each composition.  Deliberately, Nicolls art tells a story, whether it is a 6 image series or a 450 page trilogy. He is inspired by the way Caravaggio and Vermeer were able to focus the viewer on the subject of their art by the use of light.  This realisation completely changed the way he worked.  Dali made Nicholls realise that if you can imagine it, you can create it, you just need to learn how.

British artist Claire Milner was famously commissioned to create the Blue Marilyn portrait for Rihanna, but her personal body of work is made up of paintings inspired by her time spent in Africa and focusing on social and environmental issues. Mother and Child, alongside five additional works were acquired by CamFed, an organization helping fight poverty in Africa by educating and empowering girls. Milner’s artworks are held in a number of private collections, including Rihanna’s Blue Marilyn. The portrait has appeared on The Official Website of The Estate of Marilyn Monroe, and has been showcased by Swarovski. It was included in a special edition of Vogue Paris which was guest edited by Rihanna who featured the work in a profile of her favourite things. Milner’s portrait of Amy Winehouse appeared in an exhibition curated by the Amy Winehouse Foundation to mark what would have been the late singer’s 30th birthday.

As a British-born artist living in Gloucestershire Adele Riley is surrounded by some of the most natural and inspiring surroundings in the UK, well-placed to benefit from a huge variety of light, texture, and drama – perfect for inspiration.

Born in Sri Lanka into an artistic family, Kos Cos began drawing and painting at an early age. In the golden age of hand-drawn signage, his playground was his father’s agency workshop, where Cos studied and practised brush skills after school. In 1999, Cos moved to Hong Kong to work in the advertising and film industry.

Cam Linh Huynh is a French self-taught analogue photographer, who brings her lomo cameras everywhere. From the countries that she explores to Paris and its surroundings. Huynh likes to share her travel experiences through dreamy photographs: single shot or multi-exposure. No photoshop – just a blend of instinct and love. Huynh focuses on feminism as well as intersectionality issues. With her specific technique, she aims to shed another light on subjects and enhance the voices of minorities.

Thelma Pott was born in 1984. She lives and works in Porto and London. After finishing her studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, she took her MA in Curatorial Studies at the Royal Academy of Arts of the University of Coimbra in Portugal. In 2013 she won the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Project Grant.

Cameroonian born, London based Violeta Sofia, is a visual artist and photographer, best known for her celebrity/fashion photography and political paintings. After moving to London from Spain, she decided to study Media at Thames Valley University and photography at East London University, before becoming a freelance photographer. Her work brings together aspects of Pop art with a combination of poignant messages and imagery.

Gordon Ellis-Brown’s practice oscillates between social and environmental concerns ranging from ancient history to pop-culture, sustainability to space science; interests he credits to growing up in a seaside hotel in the 1970s, as well as childhood memories of American Westerns, the Apollo space missions and the unworldliness of television tropes broadcasting alien visitations.

Fred Fabre began his varied and colourful career as a drawer and animator before turning to video journalism, working in many of the world’s conflicts. He moved to London in 1997 and has worked on various projects as a BAFTA-winning director of photography before moving on to painting full time after doing an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art in 2007. Recently Fabre won the Refresh Art Award (Prize of Our Times 2019).