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Q&A – Maria Pierides
Maria Pierides renders in colour the stories of the physical and emotional landscapes that formed in her experience of being born in Greece, growing up in England and Cyprus and now living and working in Wales.
Q&A – Kailyn Deyn
Virtuous Magic Self taught or art school? I am a combination of self taught and art school. I started painting and drawing at age 3, as soon as I could wield my mothers overlarge paintbrush. You can see one of my first paintings on Facebook. I ignored my...
Q&A – Gina Parr
Gina Parr works predominantly in the medium of painting, but also photographs when traveling: her way of painting whilst on the move. Her work is driven by autobiographical themes and natural reference, exploring the human condition through connections to place, time, space and memory. She has exhibited widely in galleries and art fairs in the UK and completed commissions in The Middle East, Belguim and London.
Q&A – Wojtek London
Wojtek is a Polish artist living in London. On his journey to understanding his own path he studied fine art as well as graphic design and make-up. His art is intuitive and combines a fascination with organic bodies and how they interact with the spiritual aspects of being. He believes life is formed from both light and darkness and both are essential for a balanced existence.
10 Questions with Ray Gumbley
Gumbley is originally from ‘Back a Back’ Street, Aston in Birmingham, and is a photographer inspired by people, dance, haiku poetry, fashion, tattoo’s, classical and contemporary art and burlesque culture. Currently he has a studio based in Long Eaton, situated...
Interview – James Stanford
Photo credit - Lucky Wenzel In the following interview we speak with American artist, photographer and entrepreneur James Stanford. A pioneer in the digital arts movement, leader in the development of the Las Vegas arts community, founder of his own publishing house,...
Fanny Rush: Portrait artist using her contemporary eye with traditional old master techniques
Fanny Rush is a London-based portrait painter working internationally. Her distinctive artistic talents have gained her commissions from high-profile and influential people taking her to some of the most extraordinary and exotic places in the world.
Samantha Louise Emery – Interview
Profile image : Colin Gaudet Artist Samantha Louise Emery creates large scale multimedia portraits of influential female trailblazers, the modern female icons of our generation inspiring others through their actions. In celebration of International Women’s Day 2020,...
Interview – Janet Cawthorne
How has your experience of teaching both Psychology and Art impacted your own artistic style? A background in Psychology certainly laid the foundations for many conceptual elements. Focal areas for artwork have included ambiguity, differing viewpoints, empathy,...
Dan Hall – Eternal Youth
Photographer Dan Hall makes his debut at only 17 years old with a crowdfunded show entitled ‘Eternal Youth’ at JM Gallery in London from Friday 6 to Sunday 8 March 2020. ‘Eternal Youth’ showcases bold snapshots of contemporary identity. Striking portraits depict the...
Steve McQueen
Delighted that the next edition of The FLUX Review will be interviewing the curators of the forthecoming Steve Mcqueen exhibition at the Tate Modern.
Katie Hallam – The Beautiful Error
Technology consumes us all in today’s society. I am interested in the relationship we have with all digital technologies and as a Photographer I am intrigued in exploring the construction and deconstructing of digital image data, coding, pixels and the ‘glitches’ that...
Tracy Watt – Artist
Tracy Watts' idiosyncratic paintings provide a psychological confrontational, and at times emotive response to the figurative in art. Her nudes and portraits are instantly recognisable in style. At times approaching the self as both creator and subjective feminine she...
Helen Dyne – Glass Artist
Dyne was born into an artistic family her mother a sculptress her grandmother a painter. She learned from a young age that she had a natural passion for the arts. Dyne did not take the path of Art College as it was frowned upon by her father. Consequently, It was...
Filthy Lucre review – peacock problems for Whistler the avant-garde cowboy
V&A, London
Darren Waterston’s remake of the painter’s opulent Peacock Room is a vision of dripping stalactites, decay and ruin. But this ‘showette’ all feels rather ordinary – unlike Whistler’s work
The big picture: crash and dash at the demolition derby
Gregory Halpern’s images of the macho midwest include the strange, Mad Max-ish allure of ramming junk cars
Art obscured by a forest of phones
Guardian readers contribute to an ongoing discussion about the role of the smartphone in cultural experiences
David Smith review – self-made man of steel
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, near Wakefield
An exhilarating retrospective of the American sculptor showcases his intuitive marriage of metal and abstract form