the flux review

Brice Gelot is a self-taught contemporary French artist, born in 1985 in Dijon. His creative passion began with street photography, skateboarding and graffiti culture. Over the years, he has broadened his artistic horizons to include painting and sculpture. Gelot has dedicated his life to creating artworks which express his message all over the world, moving to Australia and later to London.

Iona Hall is a silversmith and jeweller, graduating from Glasgow School of Art in 2018 and Bishopsland in 2019. Hall’s passion for objects, in particular boxes, comes from the aspect of discovery that they hold. A box is an object that can fit in the palm of your hand, however once opened it can reveal a sentiment of treasure. In all her work she strives to achieve that compelling feeling that you must pick this object up, a keepsake that demands further exploration.

Shilpa Shanker Narain is an illustrator, visual artist and graphic designer with 8+ years of experience in the professional graphics and design industry. Her body of work centres around conceptual artistic visuals, vibrant expression and detailing in illustrations.

After a foundation in art, Anne-Marie Ellis gained a degree in fashion design and enjoyed a successful career in fashion for over 20 years.  Owning a design consultancy with her (Menswear designer) husband,  Anne-Marie designed Womenswear for various luxury brands.  This design discipline and aesthetic vision influence Ellis’s artworks;  both in the use of colour and stylish subject matter.  A palette of muted greys and timeless black and white are enlivened with bright accents and the occasional flash of neon.  The textures of lace and the smoothness of glass are rendered in acrylics; she preferred medium.  She is as much inspired by Vermeer as she is Rene Gruau…  in her artwork, the dramatic darkness and strong light capturing the translucency of glass are influenced by the Dutch masters, while the graphic style and spatial awareness come from studying the great fashion illustrators.

Although best known for his performance pieces, artist Doug Wright aka Sugar Weasel the Clown is also a prolific painter, sculptor and illustrator. In his “Texas Moonshiners” series Wright captures the evolution of time and nostalgia by creating unique artworks using sarcoptic colour palettes, natural patinas and weathering, while integrating elements from classic American westerns and low budget horror films.

Ana Miljkovac was born in 1967 in Niksic. In 1987 she enrolled at the Academy of Arts in Cetinje (Montenegro)  graduating in 1992. In 2003 Miljkovac completed her master thesis titled Base and Sculpture – Realistically Imaginary Relations. She is a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy in Niksic and the co-author of four textbooks and three teacher’s manuals. Miljkovac has had 13 solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions and has participated in biennials.

Born and raised in London, Gary Miller was taught at a young age to repurpose and reuse materials to give them a second life. As a child, Miller’s grandmother, who was a seamstress in a couturier, taught Gary about fabrics, pattern cutting, hand sewing, and embroidery techniques, which he practised endlessly wanting to learn her craft.

Sally de Courcy was born in Canterbury, Kent. She obtained a first-class honours degree in fine art at the University of Creative Arts, Farnham. During which time she developed an interest in repetition using the casting process to make large-scale sculptures and installations.

Ace Alamillo is a visual artist from the Philippines. He obtained his degree in Studio Arts from Asia Pacific College School of Multimedia Arts.  His range of work includes paintings, collages, assemblages, and found objects which often drew on abstraction using lines and schematics and their association to his everyday life.

Born in a small town  Nils Gabrielsson begun to study philosophy from an early age thanks to his parents, who both studied philosophy at the university. I then travelled around Europe and I’m now settled in Italy where I work as a researcher at the university.

Michaela McManus is a visual artist based in Dornoch Street Studios, Glasgow. Her practice explores both personal memory and wider themes concerning the artifice and fragmentation of our post-modern, post-net era. Rooted in the relationship between the inaccessible and the non-existent, she uses the imagined landscape to represent the psychological space where memories are retraced.

Working in the language of landscape, topography and architecture, Brian Reinker’s colourful abstractions depict real and imagined places with the disciplined approach of an architect. The graphic and geometric elements he uses to create cityscapes, landscapes and atmospheric horizons are rendered in ways that communicate his emotional response to the landscape. Reinker’s aim is to distil and abstract the essence of these places, using a variety of techniques and media – including paint, ink, and collage on Dibond panels.

Tony Black’s bold and gutsy style – influenced by Pop Art, German Expressionism and Fauvism – is rooted in the kind of spontaneous art he enjoyed in his childhood, filling endless notepads with colourful and striking images.

Özlem Thompson was born in Istanbul, and although interested in art from a very early age, she obtained an undergraduate degree in biology and completed her master’s degree in botany with a thesis on the subject of ‘Exotic Plants and Their Usage in Industrial Design’.

John A Blythe is an artist and educator based in Oxfordshire. His practice is situated in and beyond the realm of light and time-based image-making. Blythe's interest is as much in the process as it is in the subject. In Blythe's current work, he is interested in the...

Samantha Louise Emery was born in London during the summer of 1968 to British fashion model Jenifer Wontner and Canadian Olympic Gold Medallist Victor Emery. Her late grandfather Sir Hugh Wontner became Lord Mayor of London in 1973 and her late great-grandfather was Arthur Wontner prolific British actor who famously portrayed Sherlock Holmes in many successful feature films throughout the 1930s.

Shelly Cook 49, was born in Reading but with family roots in Cornwall, she finally felt she came ‘home’ 25 years ago. Cornwall’s rugged industrial landscapes, beautiful coastlines and rich mineral heritage have driven her creatively for all these years

The experience of growing up on Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea in Greece, and Dimitra Skandali’s journey since then to build a community across the oceans, is central to her work. Carrying her island with her everywhere and it shapes the way she sees the world. Creating installations inspired by their exhibition spaces weaving together found elements from those locales to create ethereal forms; reminders of the sea, with its openness and possibilities, as well as its fragile and unstable limitations. The process of familiarizing herself with these new places through the search for materials helps to weave together points of connection in an ever-expanding web, even if only temporarily.