the flux review

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).

Olabamiji Yemi Tubi, commonly known as O Yemi Tubi and also known in the art world as MOYAT was born in 1955 in the city of Ibadan, Nigeria, West Africa. His BFA Degree was obtained from Valdosta State College, Valdosta Georgia USA where he majored in Graphic Design. He was awarded an Art Scholarship and a plaque (Excellence in Fine Art) 1984 by South Georgia, Douglas Georgia, USA.

Tara Leaver is a British artist whose abstract landscape paintings evoke the sensory experiences of immersing in the natural landscape of her home on the coast of Cornwall. She is happiest near – or preferably in – the sea, where she swims as often as she can. Leaver immerses herself in the multi-sensory experience of it, taking photos underwater, looking and feeling into the abundance of life above and below the waves. Back in the studio, Leaver weaves together elements from the photos, memories, and gathered seaweed, to distil those experiences into paintings.

Through painting, Heidi Best explores physical and psychic emotions stemming from personal experience, female identity, sexuality and the presence of the body. The dynamics between Best and a physical projection through gestural painting are reviled through the growing connection between her and the environment which the work develops.

Patricia Henríquez (Mexico, CDMX, 1967) is a visual multidisciplinary artist. Her experimental animated short films have been screened at festivals, museums and cultural institutions at America, Europe and Asia.

Henríquez has received several national and international grants, prizes, awards and distinctions in experimental short films animation, painting and drawing.  She is a member of Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte 2019. Henríquez has exhibited individually in museums and cultural institutions in Mexico and cultural institutions in Spain, China and the USA.

Barbara Vandendriessche worked for 20 years as a director and set designer at the theatre. But more and more, photography, which she initially regarded as a sideline but invaded her professional path. Vandendriessche discovered how her experience within the theatre influenced the language of her photography and experienced a sense of “back to basics”, of re-sourcing.

Anne-Marie Michel is a photographic artist based in London. Her current project ‘Sisters of the Road’ is a series of portraits of American female truckers and the landscapes they travel. The upcoming book tells the individual stories of the 40 women, in their own words, alongside their portraits.

Dominique Vitali is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in embroidery and printmaking. Her work focuses on her personal experiences living within the confines of a female body, exploring sexuality, religion, and body image.

As an explorer of the mysterious universe of oil painting, Jerusalem based abstract-surrealist artist Alexey Adonin, has dedicated over a decade to convey his vision of hidden otherworldly realms connected with a timeless source of inspiration. Adonin was born in Slutsk, Belarus, in 1973. He graduated in 1993 from the State Art College named after A. K. Glebov, Minsk, Belarus. In the same year, he immigrated to Israel. Since 2002, Adonin has exhibited locally and internationally. His works have also been acquired by notable private collections worldwide.

Anil Mistry is a mixed media artist based in Berkhamsted, UK. His work is focussed on creating new interpretations of urban landscapes that are abstract in nature, compelling yet warmly familiar. Following a childhood interest in art and design, Anil began to experiment in his late teens with typography, graphic design and photography, making gig flyers by layering imagery using photocopiers, scissors and glue. Later, software such as Photoshop and Illustrator became his tools of choice for compositions, starting a commercial career in digital graphic design.

Moonmambo has worked in creative fields for eighteen years so far, including graphic design, fashion, art, illustration and advertising. She has worked for agencies including McCann Erickson and has collaborated on projects for Rolling Stone magazine. In Milan, she got involved in the world of street art, a style she developed and refined in the city of Amsterdam where she lived on and off for seven years.