Monica Ragno is an Italian architect and artist practicing professionally in Genoa. Parallelly, their research focuses on what discarded materials can still offer, attentively listening to the material elements. Whether dealing with forgotten fragments, industrial waste, or construction components, the artist redeems these forms to explore their latent potential. Their work distances itself from the superficial condemnation of waste, recognizing within common elements a possi

Kate Vagurina is a London-based artist working at the intersection of industrial design and contemporary art. She has over a decade of professional experience in product development. She holds an advanced degree in furniture design from the Stieglitz Academy. Her design philosophy is rooted in functional minimalism, visual clarity, and the structural exploration of diverse materials. Alongside her commercial practice, Vagurina explores critical design, using everyday domestic

Youjin Um is a metal craft designer drawn to the natural properties of cold metal materials, particularly the clear and translucent qualities of silver. The creative process begins with preliminary drawings, followed by paper modeling to visualize form and understand the intended physical presence. The drawings are then transferred onto silver plates, where carefully placed marks guide the development of each piece. Through the gradual process of piercing, shaping, and expres

Silence is rarely empty. It gathers in the spaces between words, settles into rooms where something remains unspoken, lingers in the body after an experience that cannot be named, and lives within histories deliberately forgotten. Silence can be chosen, protective, intimate. But it can also be imposed—by fear, censorship, violence, exclusion, shame, power, or the quiet mechanisms of social expectation. Art has always occupied a complicated relationship with silence. It can sp

AYA-AI is an independent AI visual artist and creative director based in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She creates generative photography and moving images using artificial intelligence as her primary artistic medium, directing each work through original concepts, visual research, prompting, image selection, and cinematic art direction. Her practice explores contemporary Kazakh identity, women's experience, memory, and the emotional weight carried inside family and tradition. Rather th

Ruiqi Zhang is an independent visual artist working primarily across fine art photography and experimental moving image. Her artistic practice investigates the intersection of bodily limitation, identity politics, and psychological taboos. Approaching the medium from a deeply personal perspective, she utilizes domestic spaces, everyday objects, and mythological archetypes to critique societal constraints and explore the subtleties of human consciousness. Unbound by commercial

Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, Valerie Simmons grew up balancing competitive sports with art and dance classes—an early blend of discipline and creative expression that continues to shape her work. Simmons studied Fine Art and Photography in college, where she developed a strong technical foundation and a deep appreciation for visual storytelling. After graduating, she built a commercial photography career working with international clients across multiple industries. T

Chris Avis holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts, awarded with First Class Honors in 1994, and an MA in Art in Architecture, completed in 1996. After twelve years working as a senior manager in the arts, she returned to her studio practice in 2009. Since then, she has exhibited regularly in selected group exhibitions across the UK, Europe, and the Americas. In 2023, Avis was awarded Best Experimental Filmmaker at the Attic International Film Festival in Wales. Her solo exhibitions i

Water Almanac is an ongoing photographic series that observes water not as a visible subject but as a force that quietly transforms the world. Rather than documenting dramatic landscapes, I focus on subtle moments when water withdraws, freezes, evaporates, or remains hidden beneath the surface. These states reveal a form of presence that exists through traces rather than direct visibility. Throughout the series, rocks shaped by tides, frozen lakes, submerged algae, drifting m

Qianyi Zhu is an abstract artist working primarily in painting and etching, as well as pastel and mixed media on paper. Currently based in Glasgow, she is soon to graduate from the Glasgow School of Art. Her practice is grounded in a quiet exploration of inner landscapes, where remembered fragments of nature – trees, grasses, rivers, lakes, fields and urban edges – are revisited not as static images, but as shifting emotional states. Qianyi’s recent work examines the recurring

Igor Grechanyk is a sculptor and artist whose work blends philosophical symbolism, mythopoetic imagery, and a contemporary sculptural language. His creations are visualized fragments of spiritual experience, resonating with the collective unconscious and touching on the eternal questions of human existence. He gives form to the undefined, materializing spirit in bronze. Born in Kyiv into an artistic family, Grechanyk graduated from the Kyiv State Art Institute in 1984. His ea

Raymond Gorissen is a Belgian contemporary artist whose practice centers on three-dimensional assemblages and conceptual installations. Trained in painting, his work has evolved from canvas compositions into tactical arrangements of everyday objects, historical items, and industrial signage. Through these materials, he examines universal themes of politics, history, and individual freedom. ‘’After more than four years of war, international attention for Ukraine is waning at a

Haylee-Louise Hollohan’s work explores her lived experience as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, how she interacts with the wider world through her individual presence, presentation and persona - experiences echoed by other trans and gender fluid individuals, which in an increasingly hostile world often have to be silenced. T'bag This work - T Bag - shows my handbag in a range of women's toilets, including bars, pubs, cafes, restaurants, a supermarket, a church, and a motorw

Julie Baum is a French-born contemporary artist based in London. Working primarily in pencil, archival ink, and gold leaf, she creates highly detailed drawings in which birds, botanical forms, and restrained symbolic elements serve as carriers of emotion. Her practice explores connection, vulnerability, protection, transformation, and belonging. Rather than constructing explicit narratives, she is drawn to quieter moments: the distance between two figures, a suspended movement

Yagmur Karaman is a London-based moving image artist and animator working across 2D animation, 3D, stop-motion, live action, and projection mapping. She graduated from the University of the Arts London with a BA in Animation. Her practice combines experimental techniques with social and political themes, including identity, feminism, consumerism, capitalism, displacement, and fascism. Throughout her career, she has contributed to commissioned short films, music videos, public

‘’My art is my voice when words are not enough. Growing up in an abusive environment, painting became a way to process emotions I couldn't express and a refuge during life's most difficult moments. Each piece is an act of honesty, healing, and resilience, transforming pain into something meaningful. Creating is both catharsis and connection, a way to explore memory, emotion, and hope. Through my work, I invite others to reflect on the power of creativity to endure, heal, and com

Rita Omuwa Omozuafoh is a Nigerian multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Their practice explores the surreal dimensions of inhabiting a Black body, navigating migration, and unpacking identity as a route to self-understanding. Drawing on African spiritual motifs and traditional tarot iconography, Omuwa fuses symbolism with portraiture to create layered visual narratives. Their work includes the book layout and architecture for Ani Kayode'

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