the flux review

Kio Griffith is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, and arts writer working across themes of social issues, geopolitics and migrating cultures, through multimedia, craft and technology-based works including graphic design, 2D and 3D objects, time-based sound and video compositions, performance, computer programming, writings, installation, and publishing.

Delighted to introduce art student Kelly Wu to The FLUX Review Q&A’s…

Jeremy Gluck is an artist working as a neurodiverse, non-linear fine artist in digital art, film, installation and mixed media. Uncompromising works confront the viewer, encouraging a physical, sensitive, or conceptual experience of each. Radical artistic engagement is the mission statement. Embracing pre-conceptual mind-language art. 

Yurim Gough was born in Korea, a country with a historic tradition of ceramics.   Gough was a fashion designer and by the age of 30 had been designing high heeled shoes for over ten years in Seoul then in Tokyo and London.   Gough emigrated to England in 2007, the first time she had set foot outside Asia. Learning English from scratch and being influenced by the radical change in culture Gough went back to being an artist, which was always her first calling. Starting with life drawing and experimenting with other media, Gough found herself drawn to her cultural roots in ceramics. 

Rosemary Hurrell  graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 2017.  Initially inspired by traditional needlework Hurrell’s work gravitates towards abstraction, sculptures are created using free motion machine embroidery on soluble film which is subsequently dissolved, shaped, and dried.

Pam Glew is a contemporary British artist, known for her unique bleaching technique on vintage flags and fabric. Antique American quilts, brocade and old jeans are dyed black and painted freehand with mixed media paint. The portrait slowly develops in the painting process resulting in an image emerging from the textile. Glew is often commissioned by large brands including Armani, Red Bull and Microsoft, exhibits internationally and is found in public and private art collections worldwide.

Tamara Savchenko is an artist-explorer who never likes to be put in a box with the label on it.  Savchenko has experienced life in so many ways that it is impossible for her to stick to one form of art.

Savchenko has lived in four countries, graduated as a doctor and has a PhD in medicine – she has worked as a librarian, a researcher, taught anatomy in a medical school in Russia; a sales assistant, an Avon representative, a science technician and finally a science teacher in the UK.  In addition to beening a mother of two children and a wife to a successful professor of physics.

Philip James Chandler is a 29 year old portrait and figurative painter, currently based in  North Yorkshire, England.

His paintings are derived from continued fascination and research of the human body, specifically the figure and the mind that occupies. Drawing on his own experiences and those of others, he explores subjects such as aesthetic satisfaction, mental health and their abstraction.

Although she grew up in an artistic environment, Kuala Lumpur-based Peisy Ting did not set out to be an artist, but a lingering affection for art and design which led her to Birmingham City University, UK where she graduated with a degree in Visual Communications in 1999. Upon her return to Malaysia, she then spent more than a decade and a half as an art director in advertising before taking a heartfelt leap to pursue her hidden passion to paint.

Katie Hallam is fascinated with the complexity of a digital image and also the unpredictable nature of how an image can be altered either intentionally or via the simple product of an error; a glitch. These errors in technology are normally fleeting moments or ‘hiccups’ in transmission where screens freeze, break up the data, crackle the sound or fuzz out completely! We all find these errors a lot less tolerated and something that just shouldn’t happen in ‘today’s world’ as we continue to strive for perfection and instant, seamless results.

We are delighted to introduce the talented artist Aphra O’ Connor to The FLUX Review.  Aphra assembles pattern and form aiming to create a dynamic equilibrium within her work, bringing together 2d and 3d design in coadunation and absolute equivalence.  This balance is critical in allowing Aphra to unite sculptural forms and drawn patterns in a new dimension that is both flat and solid.

Day Bowman is a graduate of Chelsea School of Art and London University whose painting lies on the axis of abstraction and figuration.

In 2012 she was commissioned to produce a series of giant posters for Weymouth Station, host town to the Olympic Sailing and Paralympic Sailing Events. Internationally her work has been selected to represent the UK at Nord Art Germany (2013) and her work was part of a four art museum tour in China with Contemporary British Painting (2018). Most recently, her work was awarded First Prize in the Anima Mundi Painting Prize Venice Biennale 2019 and for the Bath Arts Open Painting Prize U.K. 2019.

Chris Horner is a British artist who lives and works in Hampshire. He received his BA in Fine Art at the University for the Creative Arts in Surrey, UK. He also completed his MA in Fine Art at the University for the Creative Arts in Surrey in 2018.

Horner’s artwork explores the relationship between artist and material where he transforms pre used building materials into painted sculptural artworks. All of his works originate from an invented movement known as an ‘Unknown working process’, the key word in this description is ‘unknown’ as this means to not know and to animate characteristics of the unfamiliar.

Day-z is a London born artist who graduated in Fine Art from Central St Martins. With a pencil as the main tool of choice, Day-z fuses techniques learned from the old and new masters with contemporary ideas found among street art and advertising.  Day-z was awarded the Derwent Art Prize ‘People’s Choice Award’.

Sarah Pooley’s work focuses on paintings, which can be seen as a study of artificial simulations through the exploration of social spaces and their use of industrialised technology.  The creation of consumerist social space deliberately aims to manipulate experience and affect visitors through the use of architecture, elaborate interior design and artificial lighting; technology is increasingly present within these social spaces.

Laurence Causse-Parsley  (LAC) was born in France, educated in Paris and Britain, LAC’s first solo exhibition took place in India in 2003.  Lac lived for 10 years in Asia, India, Taiwan and Thailand. Relocated to London in 2010 where she set up her studio at Make Space Studios in the vibrant London South East. Shuttling between countries and cultures, LAC takes the freedom to select materials from changing contexts, the result being a very distinctive style best described as contemporary, dense, vibrant, and evocative.