Semi Zine talks to Cath Garvey. Through satirical illustrations artist Cath Garvey creates discourse on mental health and modern female sociology. Her work aims to quietly empower women and also offer humour through surrealism on very real subjects.
Read MoreEast London based portrait and documentary photographer Bettina Adela talks to us about her work and practice, what inspires her and what she aims to achieve through her artwork via the exploration and representation of black narrative.
Read MoreInspired by the concept of anthropocene and evolving through discursive collaboration UK graduating photographic artist Paige Middleton has created a contemporary, abstracted body of work to highlight the human ecological impact on our surroundings.
Read MoreGraduate multidisciplinary artist Loraine Lynn or Loranitude has recontextualised everyday objects to challenge the concept of tradition and binary definitions within sociology. Redefining their place in space.
Read MoreKlavdia Balampanidou talks to us about her intimate photographic series on self reflection; using photography as a tool to overcome and bring to light the affliction of mental illness.
Read MoreLondon based portrait photographer Lizzy Nicholson talks to us about her views on modern fashion photography and why she's determined to break down fascism within the industry. Her portraiture celebrates real people and avoids archetypes. Enter Lizzy Nicholson - the post modern photographic activist.
Read MoreGraduate, writer and published photographic artist Stephen Shaw considers the social, urban and domestic semiology within an estate in Blackpool where he grew up. This body of work aims to deconstruct life on the fringes and bring to light the poetic value found within the community. Using a unique inside perspective to capture the place where he grew up.
Read MoreCreating female empowerment centred work through a post modern dybbuk utilising photography and performance Vain VVitch creates an accessible medium for women to create their own strong contemporary voice within the confines of art.
Read MoreIggy Smalls, a Norwegian born photographic artist but otherwise currently internationally renowned and practicing visual storyteller, talks to us about her recent work in Gibraltar, Spain. Delivering a narrative reflective of the space surrounding her, the cultural environment and the people.
Read MoreVisual artist Andreea Andrei talks us through her archival polaroid work, capturing her close friends and strangers with an editorial flair and a strong narrative. Her polaroids capture ephemera and momentary nuances within a portrait, these qualities are mirrored well in the medium she's chosen to work with giving this work a strong conceptual backbone.
Read MoreSofia Velasquez, a Berlin based visual artist, talks about her photobook Fernbeziehungen. - an unapologetically subjective documentation of personal recollections in the form of short narratives. Her work reflects her ideas on memory, youth, space and existentialism.
Read MoreVisual and street artist Shane O'Malley spoke to us about his work Duality. A series of geometric colour collages creating fragmented whole shapes. The series mimics the frailty and fragmentation of his own mind while trying to dealing with his own mental health issues.
Read MoreFrench photographic artist Helene Antorini spoke to us about her recent work Hubris. A photographic body of work depicting the greed of men and it's influence on nature. Through the use of allegory and semiotics comes a sombre narrative on the Greek term Hubris - an excessive self pride or confidence; a term used in Greek tragedy to denote mans defiance of the Gods.
Read MoreRussian born, German photographic artist Natalia Danner talks to us about her work on Environmental Urban Exercises and how the ongoing project seeks to externalise the subjective beauty found in urban environments. Instead of focusing on grand architectural giants Danner looks for isolated street corners which carry a subdued beauty in their design.
Read MoreItalian visual, performance and photographic artist Lucilla Bellini talks to us about her series My Name is Lolita. A discursive photographic performance questioning the ideals of beauty within modern media and how those ideals define female representation.
Read MorePhotographer David Macías creates a photographic series titled Time to Pretend documenting socio-cultural banality and ritual emphasising the divide in social and economic class in modern day life.
Read MoreInspired by the art of Guy Bourdin and David Hockney David Rodriguez creates a colourful series influenced by pop art and surrealism. An electric blue pool in a disembodied geometric space and the people who can be found here. A photographic series heavy in concept and form.
Read MorePhotographic artist Alison Resac creates cinematic imagery with a strong narrative centred around the female gaze. Her work is an unapologetic celebration of being female and her work stands as a statement on her own perspectives in sex and gender but also a very intimate reflection of herself. Her fashion based photographic work seeks to empower women and create a discursive on their role as protagonists in modern art.
Read MoreRia Bauwens, a photographer and visual artist, creates intuitive collage artwork where the emphasis is on fluid artistic expression. Her work aims to create a new narrative through the abstraction of found imagery - distorting the initial intent into her own artistic representation.
Read MoreMargaret Inga Urías creates graphic art work across a range of media as a catalyst to discourse on a narrative connecting her individual pieces into a larger cohesive body of artwork. The narrative is a sociological one exploring our subconscious and conscious interconnectedness to each other and our surrounding forma in objects.
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