This exhibition presents Geraldine Leahy’s exploration of the impermanence and volatility of fragile littoral environments under the escalating pressures of climate change. Focusing on coastlines reshaped by severe weather events, the works trace how debris—plastics, netting, rope, wire, corroding metals, toys, and remnants of eroding shoreline homes—becomes embedded within sand and tidal ecosystems. These incongruous objects entangle with seaweed and grasses until distinctio

Digital art has long since outgrown its origins in speculative design and technological novelty. Today, it stands as a fully formed language—fluid, boundaryless, and deeply human. In this 97th edition of Art Magazine, we step into the richly layered world of digital creativity, showcasing a vibrant international spectrum of artists who use the digital not simply as a tool, but as a mode of thinking, seeing, and feeling. Our featured artists traverse a wide range of media: fro

Cheng Xie is a London-based artist and designer working across graphic media, installation, jewelry, and speculative storytelling. Trained in digital media design and visual communication, her work reflects a strong interest in feminist narratives, cultural displacement, and post-human intimacy. Cheng’s practice weaves together personal mythology and socio-political critique through iterative processes of printmaking, material experiment, and world-building. Her recent works

Yucen is an artist and researcher working with installation, moving image, and system-based practices. Their work is situated within the field of Creative R&D (Creative Research and Development) and focuses on the relationships between digital assets, protocolized systems, and mechanisms of life support. Through research-driven artistic practice, Yucen examines how contemporary technological systems reorganize survival as a managed, executable process. Their work draws upon re

Lewis’s work acts as a conduit between art and science. The supply of information from science fuels the production of visual material, which communicates the knowledge of a scientific endeavour. In short, Lewis’s work focuses on dealing with complex thoughts, ideas and facts within nature and science. Some explore those in which we seem to be overshadowed and overpowered in comparison by the vast distances, size or quantities. Others investigate moments of extreme power, cre

Miriam Habibe is an emerging Welsh-based artist of BAME South Asian heritage whose creative journey embodies resilience, identity, and self-discovery. After years devoted to parenthood and a full-time career, she has returned to her artistic roots, crafting deeply expressive works that bridge tradition and modern experimentation. Drawing inspiration from craft forms like weaving, she merges abstraction and mixed media techniques, forging an artistic voice that is uniquely her

Born in 1999 and raised in Bacau, Romania, Laura Candet is currently exploring the alarming increase in femicide in Romania and around the world. Experiencing the gender gap firsthand, her visual art conveys the frustration and powerful emotions felt during these turbulent times. With significant achievements in the artistic and academic fields, Laura Candet combines theoretical and practical study for a good artistic representation of her subjects. The artist has won multipl

Flowers have followed humanity through every chapter of its visual history. They have been painted as offerings and symbols, studied as scientific specimens, woven into myth, politics, grief, devotion, and desire. In art, the floral form has never been merely decorative; it has carried coded meanings, emotional weight, and cultural memory. In Volume 96 of Collect Art, dedicated to the theme Floral, we return to this enduring subject not as a genre of the past, but as a living

Natalie established her professional painting career upon relocating to Shropshire in 2003, following comprehensive studies in Fine Art and postgraduate work in Stage and Set Design. Originally from Cheshire, she cultivated a passion for drawing from an early age. The floral shop opened by her parents provided further artistic inspiration; unsold flowers brought home became her frequent subjects, often rendered life-sized with colored pencils, a formative stage in her develop

Wurm is an artist, educator, and curator engaged in expanding the community forum for contemporary art dialogue. Having lived in California, where she received a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and Europe, where she received an M.A.R.C.A. from the Royal College of Art in London, Jan Wurm has honed an eye for social patterns and conventions. She currently divides her time between Berkeley and L.A. and her hand between drawing and painting. As an artist, Wu

The Floral series operates as an investigation into colour and pictorial structure through the motif of flowers. Rather than functioning as descriptive representations, floral forms become vehicles for the negotiation of large chromatic fields, occupying a liminal position between figuration and abstraction. The genre’s renewed institutional visibility, evidenced by recent exhibitions such as those at the Saatchi Gallery in London, situates this work within a broader contempo

Richard Heley is a Painter, live performance painter, interactive painter with children, International performance poet, and storyteller: a wild surrealist, philosophical dreamer, beautiful colourist, and wacky storyteller with universal poetry.

Lewis Andrews moved to Leeds in 2016 to study a BA(Hons) in Fine Art at Leeds Arts University. After graduating in 2019, Lewis continued to work in Leeds. In 2022, Lewis completed his Postgraduate Fine Arts Degree also at Leeds Arts University, graduating with a Master's Degree in the Creative Arts. During his Master’s Degree, Lewis’s practice became deeply focused on the methodology of translating information and data from sources within science into artworks. Lewis has cont

Born in 1999 and raised in Bacau, Romania, Laura Candet is currently exploring the alarming increase in femicide in Romania and around the world. Experiencing the gender gap firsthand, her visual art conveys the frustration and powerful emotions felt during these turbulent times. With significant achievements in the artistic and academic fields, Laura Candet combines theoretical and practical study for a good artistic representation of her subjects. The artist has won multipl

Thomas is a photographer based in North West London. He graduated from the University for the Creative Arts with an Honours degree in Photography & Video in 2012 and specialises in horticultural & abstract photography.

Paola Bertoncini is a visual artist working primarily with digital collage. Her practice focuses on the fragmented body as a narrative space where identity, memory, and transformation intersect. Through the use of photographic fragments, geometric interventions, and organic elements, her work investigates themes of healing, visibility, and reconfiguration after trauma. Her ongoing series Body Fragments explores the body not as a unified form, but as an evolving structure shaped

Abibat Adedayo is a Nigerian artist, known for her expressive landscape paintings that capture nature’s beauty through color, light, and movement. Her work explores themes of transformation, serenity, and self-discovery, using landscapes as metaphors for personal and universal journeys. Her ongoing project, The Traveler’s Path to Serenity, documents moments of transition through bold compositions and rich hues. Abibat’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at th

Bahar Talebi Najafabadi is a visual artist from Isfahan, Iran, now based in London since 2023. She uses different methods to create her artwork, including charcoal, chalk, and oil painting. Bahar's artistic practice is defined by exploration; she embraces a diverse approach to express her emotions through oil paint. Her work reflects the transmission of human feeling, using colour, style, and pattern as essential means of communication with viewers. Currently, Bahar focuses on t