the flux review

Exploring curating and art-making as a methodology that suggests the human condition is more complex than it is currently understood, Alexandria (Ally) Zlatar examines, instigates and provokes notions of the individual experience through specifically focusing on the philosophical discourse, body image, embodiment and ethics. Zlatar acknowledges there is a power within the un-well body and believes there is tremendous value and potency through examining these subjects through the contemporary art lens.

Paul Alty is a Liverpool born and bred musician and award-winning lighting designer with an unhealthy interest in all things that combine music and sound, lighting and lasers and all other art forms into immersive sensory experiences.

As a musician, Alty has released music digitally since 2013 and currently has 13 releases on iTunes/Spotify etc. Of particular interest is his series of Behind The Clock albums – these are a soundtrack to a story dealing with time, space, mortality and our position in space and time and the story is the foundation for a number of multimedia installation pieces he is working on.

Brought up in Belfast, Warren King was given a thorough grounding in painting and drawing from an early age by his cousin Brian Audley, a lecturer in art at Queens University. Frequent trips to the Antrim coast set in motion a lifelong love of nature – references to the vibrant colours of rural Ireland and endlessly kinetic power of the sea can be found in many of the paintings he produces. As an abstract artist, King firmly believes in capturing the essence of energy, movement and spontaneity that nature, in its purest form, offers us all.

Michelle Mildenhall is a UK based artist, whose work explores fetish subcultures, drawing influences from a broad range of sexual fetishes including rubber fetishism, BDSM and sexual objectification. Through her bold imagery, Mildenhall examines both empowerment and vulnerability often by fetishising iconic personalities in her distinctive pop art style. Her work is confronting and has the power to shock and move the viewer, a feeling that is increased further by the use of a restrained palette, seducing the viewer into a world of disconcerting beauty. By using popular but somewhat taboo BDSM themes, her artworks exude sexual association but never touch on obscenity.

Robert P. Clarke is a new media artist using photography, video, sound, digital media, drawing and performance. His main influences are figurative works, everyday life and capturing a moment or action. Clarke has exhibited widely in the United Kingdom in Galleries and has been published internationally in art books.

Born in Dumfries, Scotland, Alison Johnston studied at Edinburgh College of Art under Elizabeth Blackadder, Sir Robin Philipson and Harry More Gordon. Following graduation, her career flourished in illustration and animation for Oscar-nominated “Fireman Sam” and “Aardman Animations”. Johnston now draws her inspiration from her highland home. Her paintings, oil on canvas, are normally produced in Alison’s studio but the main work takes place in the landscape.  

Caroline Duffy produces realistic, contemporary portraits and satirical pieces that focus on the complexities and idiosyncrasies of the human condition and emotion and how, or if, it evolves over time. Often referencing nostalgic Americana standards, but finding a new lens to examine it through, she looks to both popular culture and fine art to challenge, scrutinize and define the guiding beliefs and ideals in our ever-changing society. If there is anything we need these days, it is humour, so she has also produced a series of paintings that are playful and hopefully poignant, often poking fun at or questioning past and present views, art and more. Likewise, she strives to produce realistic, contemporary portraits that celebrate the human spirit. In these portraits, Duffy intermixes realism and abstraction to better relay the underlying emotional ties between herself and the model she portrays. Consequently, Duffy’s approach varies widely and each individual painting finds its own way to tackle questions regarding the human spirit and how we relate to one another.

Amy Crouch’s recent work focuses on ways that can interupt the circles and she achieves this by layering different colours on un-printed canvas, removing sections of the circle and disrupting the traditional conventions of a painting.  This has, more recently, led Crouch to looking at different and bigger interruptions that she could create within her art. 

Christopher Dear has exhibited in galleries, music events and public spaces across Australia, LA, Miami, Spain, Mexico, Costa Rica and England. He became involved with the music industry at an early stage of his career and started producing large-scale artworks and backdrops for music events. This began the journey of his art and music being intertwined Dear’s paintings and designs are musically synesthetic and when exhibited with music, of all varieties, the sounds cascade though the design and resonate in the patterns. A unison of sound and vision. His painted canvases and mixed media works are adorned with gold leaf giving them reflective and illusionistic qualities. With a Modern futurist style, his paintings radiate vibrancy and colour. Dear also DJ’s electronic music under the name ‘Cosmic Vortex’.

Jorge Chamorro (Madrid, 1972) is a graphic designer, teacher and artist.  He obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1995, he then worked for ten years as a graphic designer in several studios and agencies. In 2005 he started to work independently, developing communication projects for different clients and personal projects. Chamorro produced his first collage collection in 2006, and it has since become an irreplaceable art form he also teaches graphic design, typography, visual identity and collage. His work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally.

Rebeka Elizegi is a collage artist, art director and graphic designer based in Spain.

In parallel with her exhibitions, which have a more artistic and personal feel, her collages have also appeared on the covers of books and magazines, not to mention on albums and posters and as part of decorative projects. She has also published various illustrated books that are based on collage.

Meraki Vagary invites us to question our relationship with the organic world by exploring nature as a medium. Synergistic practice produces expressive and often vibrant outcomes; seamlessly fusing the natural world with contemporary art and highlighting our lack of...

Alberto Petrivelli was born in Orvieto, Italy. Owing to his father’s work, he moved from town to town for the first decade of his life, settling in Tuscany, where he grew up and stayed until his early 20’s. He moved to London in 2003; his early work was mostly...

Stimulated by the concept of colour interaction, Francesca Edward’s installations explore the dialogue that is created between the painted surface and the colour illuminations when colour changing sequences are projected on top of the canvases.

Fiona Eastwood lives and works in East London. She graduated from Camberwell School of Art in 2014. Eastwood was selected for the John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2014) and Hans Brinker Painting Prize (shortlisted) Amsterdam (2013). Her works are held in private and public collections including the Priseman-Seabrook Collection. She has exhibited at the London Global Art Fair Olympia and has been selected for the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts twice.

Sam King’s practice explores the human condition on an individual and social level. Distorting the body to reveal our suppressed desires and repulsions, his work disrupts constructed notions of identity in order to trigger a primordial reconnection with the self. The...

Alexis Vanessa Ramos was born in Woodland Hills California in 1998. She earned her BA in Visual Art from California State University, Northridge in 2020. She has received awards and recognition, including the McDonald’s Franchise Tuition Assistance Scholarship and the Annual Visual Art Award from the Arts Club of Pasadena.