Interview with Briar Tucker

Born and raised in the countryside of New Zealand, Briar developed a passionate imagination and explored her creativity through art. After college she attended Elam, School of Fine Art, graduating in 2007. She spent a few years in Auckland working and creating, before packing it all up to travel and explore the world for almost a decade.

Interview with Luia Corsini

Luia is an Italian-American artist, born in NYC on the 31st of December in 1994. Her passion for art originated growing up in Rome, Italy. Her time there allowed her to develop a keen eye and an appreciation for beauty and culture. Luia then moved to the Swiss Alps for two years, where she lived her daily life exposed to the rough yet refined beauty of nature.

Joi Murugavell

Humour and play are integral in the life and art of Joi Murugavell-- a lesson she learned from her father as an elixir to life’s absurdities. Behind the laughs lies a desperate desire to understand her world - away from the influences of family, friends and culture. Like a string in a maze, her art is the process by which she navigates the layers she’s acquired along the way.

Interview with Per-Inge Isheden

Per-Inge Isheden was born in a small countryside town in the middle of Sweden. He started painting while still a child, inspired by his mother who was an amateur artist.He studied at the Konstfackskolan in Stockholm 1957-61.After working 13 years as an art teacher, 1961-74, he started his career as a professional artist by creating a science fiction cartoon for adults. As a professional artist he has regularly showed his works at galleries and art fairs in Stockholm and other places in Sweden, in Berlin, Copenhagen and London. 2018 he will exhibit in Vienna.

Interview with Daria Domnikova

Daria Domnikova is a designer, artist, illustrator and a maker of all things beautiful and useful. She was born in Pyatigorsk, Russia, and immigrated to Canada to pursue education in design and art when she was 18. She’s been working as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer since graduating from Ontario College of Art and Design University with a Bachelor’s degree in Illustration and is currently living and working in Toronto, Canada.

Bo Song

When I was younger, I never attended any art academies to learn how to paint or draw, mainly because I never really had an interest in the arts. It was not until I got married and had children that I suddenly decided to take up painting. In 2008, I enrolled in an arts academy program at the Hyundai Department Store Culture Center. At what I then considered to be the relatively late age of 40, this was my first ever experience in learning how to paint.

Interview with Jan Zhou

I grew up in Shanghai in the 70s and 80s. We didn’t have many choices at the time. My studying was limited to classrooms and text books. The first time I was exposed to art was attending an art history lecture while I was studying the mechanical design in college. It marked a turning point in my life. Immediately, I was drawn to art as a means of self-expression and I started to learn drawing and painting. It was then that my artistic talent was recognized; I made up my mind to be a fashion designer because I thought that would be the more pragmatic choice.

Interview Hasti Sardashti

Iranian born artist living in London. She is always on the move. Moving through time & spaces through body & mind. Making art is for Hasti an attempt to stay in here & now -a vital practice to maintain stability, calm and fluidity in daily life. Making art is for Hasti like belonging to a place, having a home , like having a space where she can connect to the most genuine of herself and her immediate existence.

Interview with Jennifer Pazienza

The daughter of Italian immigrants, Jennifer Pazienza born in Newark, New Jersey, began making art as a child in her mother’s kitchen. She earned a Bachelor of Art Education at the William Paterson College of New Jersey and completed a Master of Art Education in 1985, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Art Education in 1989 at the Pennsylvania State University.

Interview with Ira Stein

Ira Stein is a trained artist, a Vietnam veteran, former commercial airline pilot, and a renown jeweler. With such an interesting and varied personal background, his works convey a well-rounded, multi-dimensional and inventive interpretation of the world surrounding us. His sculptures, mixed-media collages, and figurative paintings all provide a glimpse into the psyche of an artist grasping with the notion of genetic essentialism viewed from the perspective of the troubled, the vulnerable, and the erotic nature of the human condition.

Helga Palasser

Helga Palasser is an Austrian sculptor skilled in working with a great variety of different materials. Starting her career with an apprenticeship for sculpting in Bad Kleinkirchheim/ Austria in 1989, she has always been attracted by the possibility of going abroad with her work. Since then she has travelled to many different places around the world, leaving her sculptures in California, Zimbabwe, Nepal, France, Germany and Denmark.