the flux review

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.

Jack Savage is a fine art photographer and conceptual artist. Born in Northampton, England (1980) – He was educated at Nottingham University, where he carries an MA in American Studies and Film. Winner of over 100 international professional photography awards.

Catherine Ryan is a Dublin based artist who studied glass design at the National College of Art and Design and has been creating paintings and collages since 2007. Her work evolved from a fusion of influences including painting, sculpture, street art and found objects.

John Cowen is an artist making work about the environment and mankind’s impact on the planet. He studied Fine Art at university, specialising in painting, which led to a twenty-year career working as a designer and art director.

Francesca Alaimo is an Italian-British artist based in London. She is a self-taught mixed media artist who creates interventions on paper through manipulation and transformation of materials and images, using prints, water-based oils, acrylics and wax.

Henriette Busch is a painter and digital artist living and working in St Albans, who studied Fine Art at the University of Hertfordshire. Henriette has been making art for over 15 years, and has exhibited widely in the UK since 2003. Her vibrant and exuberant work is in private collections in England, The Netherlands, Germany, USA and Dubai.

Having studied art at school, Adam Jacobs took a prolonged break – not producing any pieces until after he had finished university. Once Jacobs moved to London from Essex he didn’t want to just sit in front of the television every night. He decided to get back into art and has produced around three pieces a year since 2005.

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.