Contemporary Artists

No I'm not talking about finding your big break in the 'big city' or the next 100x memecoin (gag). Im talking, as always, about art, about the beauty of our everyday, about all the little things that make up the lexicon of our lives. The moments of Sonder and Pareidolia only found through truly looking at a world beyond your own hands. So often art is held up and removed from the reality that birthed it, in doing so all the mess is cut away, like a magic trick or a film set f

Caught in the same breeze, waiting to see what their faces will look like when the wind changes. These flags are planted in the fertile soil of thought, oft over demanded and under supplied. They speak with the tongue of the masses on an identities minutia. For all the rigour given to these flags design they never hold fast to static guidelines, never truly the same from one glance to the next, yet always they are consistent in their presentation, as oxymoronic as we are. The

That is how one could best summarise the collaborative exhibitions that have taken place in Paris this last week. Hosted at the immaculate @ArtverseParis The gallery space transformed each day. Shifting between sculptural showcases, to flowing flags of identity captured in textile print, and through to street photography; demystified and elevated by record of its capture. All surrounded and supported by a consistent base of contemporary digital work This was an exhibition ser

No, not the "its 2026 and the rise of fascism has caused me to abuse substances" kind of breakdown (well okay, a bit of that kind). No, today I thought I'd write about my own work, providing both a technical and conceptual breakdown of the main processes I go through in creating a piece. So, lets make like a KOL in front of a pile of snow, and dive in. It starts with an idea, as simplistic and self evident as that sounds. Now sometimes theres only the kernel of an idea, som

This narrowing of scope is perhaps something all artists go through, an unintended but understandable fixation on each work as singular, resultant from the necessities of repeated practice and technical study. A need to improve skill x or y, so the art becomes exemplars of that practice, rather than that practice being integrated in to something larger. This can create an unintended loop wherein each skill is developed only in so much as to achieve proficiency, and then the n

When are you building on an idea, and when are you just repackaging it for sale, when is it inspiration that motivates creation, and when is it commodification that motivates imitation. It is a subject never far from striking a nerve, ask 3 artists what they think of it and you'll usually get 6 different opinions. Which honestly makes sense, there is no cut and dry answer, the subject is littered with nuance. The point of transition from imitated to inspired is as nebulous an

It is In fair Venice, where we lay our scene… It is 2017 and a monumental exhibition is taking place, spanning a combined space of 54000 sq/ft, at the time it would have filled an entire half of the MoMAs exhibition space single handedly if placed there. This gargantuan show is filled with promise, not least of all because it is by renowned artist Damien Hirst. Called “treasures from the wreck of the unbelievable” its plain speaking title actually hints at a show devoid of th

A sand castle is a celebration of the material, construction and concept act as one, fragility becomes mailability, impermanence adds exhilaration to the construction and pushes a form that must at least be aware of the tides imposed function. A castle on the sand is a clash of materials, the construction at odds with the concept, fragility and impermanence don’t show a second face here. The grandiosity and gross size of the walls will fall before shifting footing and the tid

“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.” — James Baldwin I first discovered Marius Carl a few years ago through the ever-evolving Web3 art scene on X. His work stopped me in my tracks — distinctive, eloquent, and impossibly modern, yet deeply rooted in something ancestral and polished. There was a sense of refinement in his visual language, a quiet richness that didn’t need to shout to make its presence felt. Even then, I could

In 2023 I had the privilege to interview an artist who, at the time, challenged my notions of abstraction and the synergy that existed in...

Look I'll just come out and say it, a lot of creatives need to get over themselves. This isn't just directed at the cryptoart space, this...

A digital surrealist with a razor wire lens. Alan (@alnboltn) doesn't just create art, he builds worlds that question the one we’re in....

The third artist profile shines a light on the digital abstract artist, CYDN (@c_y_d_n) Besides analysing the collection as a whole, I...

Surreal and cinematic, Karen doesn’t take photographs she builds emotional wormholes. Each photo is a portal composed with atmosphere,...

Sinisa, aka Primitive RE, is a self-taught contemporary visual artist based in Belgrade, whose versatility across mediums is nothing...

Colour, chaos, ceremony; the words that define the work of Axelia (@Axelia_Rose). Some artists document the world, Axelia distils it....

Archie Morley (@archmorley) has been an early presence in the Solana blockchain space since 2021. A multidisciplinary visual artist from...

Jo's (@sereneObscurity) art doesn’t just show you something. It reminds you of feelings you forgot how to name. Joanna captures fleeting,...

Not all visions of the future are sterile. In MycoGenesis, Goo (@goo_vision) imagines one that blooms; feral, fungal, and encoded in...

Some photographers document the world. Ali (@alijahanaraa) documents the fading of it. The silence between footsteps, the ache in motion,...