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In conversation: Alice Lenkiewicz
Meet Alice Lenkiewickz, an artist who seamlessly weaves the worlds of visionary painting and photography, guided by themes of intuition and mysticism. As a dedicated vegan and passionate advocate for animal rights, Lenkiewicz has harnessed her artistic talent to create powerful digital paintings that campaign against animal exploitation, specifically targeting factory farming. The artist's practice and beliefs stand in solidarity with fellow animal rights campaigners, striving for the welfare and justice of animals everywhere.
Joana Alarcão
7 de agosto de 2023
In conversation: Mia Bilbeisi
Meet Mia Bilbeisi, an artist who explores abjection through her work. Using found textiles and raw bodily imagery, she challenges societal notions of cleanliness and purity. By upcycling discarded materials, she highlights the destructive habit of rejection and invites the impure to coexist harmoniously. Her art blurs the boundaries between traditional craft and sculpture, subverting preconceived ideas and embracing the power of the abject.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
4 de julho de 2023
In conversation: Laura Donkers
Meet Laura Donkers, a multi-media visual artist, curator, and independent researcher who skillfully navigates the intricate spaces between nature, culture, and science. With a diverse range of methods and strategies, Laura's work delves into complex ideas associated with contemporary, historical, and cultural interpretations of place. Through field-based research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and socially engaged activism, she brings together artists, scientists, organizations, and communities to create conversations, actions, drawings, and public interventions.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
23 de junho de 2023
In conversation: Istvan Dukai
Meet Istvan Dukai, a former graffiti artist who has transitioned into a thriving career as a graphic designer. With a focus on logo design, abstract graphics, and nonfigurative patterns, Istvan's style is influenced by geometric tradition, constructivism, and op-art. His minimalist approach to colors and forms, combined with occasional rhythmic variations, produces captivating and illusion-like compositions. By stylizing natural elements into geometric shapes and expertly combining them, Istvan's work showcases the power of reduction and evokes a sense of sensuality. As a highly sought-after freelancer, he has gained recognition as a top graphic designer and art director for renowned European brands, utilizing his designs across diverse materials.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
8 de junho de 2023
In conversation: Tseng Yu-Chin
Get ready to meet the extraordinary artist, Tseng Yu-Chin, as we delve into the depths of his captivating artistic journey. Hailing from Taiwan, Asia, Tseng's creative path began as an experimental filmmaker and has evolved to encompass video, photography, and mixed media installations. Despite facing immense challenges and government suppression, Tseng's unwavering commitment to truth and self-expression has shaped his powerful body of work. Join us as we explore his exploration of the human moment and the disorderly state of human self-consciousness.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
2 de junho de 2023
In conversation: Sona Kim
Meet Seunga Sona Kim, a talented Korean artist based in Chicago. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Kim's artistic exploration revolves around the relationship between garments and the individual's persona and visual identity. Her artistic journey has expanded beyond wearable garments, encompassing paintings and sculptural works that have been exhibited in various cities including Chicago, Wonju, Seoul, Manila, and more.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
23 de maio de 2023
In conversation: Linda Pearl Izan
Meet Linda Pearl Izan, a mixed media practitioner based in the United Kingdom, whose artworks focus on political, environmental, gender, and cultural themes, seamlessly combining textile techniques with mixed media, ceramics, photography, and digital elements. By employing materials that align with her messages, Izan creates impactful pieces that provoke contemplation and commentary.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
17 de maio de 2023
In conversation: Jessica Russo Scherr
Meet Jessica Russo Scherr, an internationally exhibiting artist whose work examines the intersection of personal and universal themes. Using a range of media including drawing, photography, oil paint, and collage, Russo Scherr creates layered and evocative compositions that invite the viewer to contemplate their own place within the cultural and emotional landscape.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
9 de maio de 2023
In conversation: Flòra O. Hartyándi
Meet Flòra O. Hartyándi, an artist, art therapist, community worker, and traveller who believes that in art, everything is possible. The artist has a passion for giving new life to natural and human waste, transforming them into something new and unique, with their own stories to tell. Flòra draws inspiration from folk arts, symbols of different nations, and traditional techniques to create complex and alternative worlds that draw the viewer in and invite them to be a part of the story.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
4 de maio de 2023
In conversation: My Linh Mac
Meet My Linh Mac (Millie), a talented multi-media artist, visual designer, and art educator based in Chicago. As we approach the celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Millie is excited to introduce her latest project, Co Tich Viet, a beautiful Vietnamese folklore children's book series created with hand-cut paper art. What makes this project even more special is that it is zero-waste, and all the materials used are recycled. Each book in this ongoing series is a testament to Millie's passion for unique mediums and storytelling, as she pours her heart and soul into creating intricate and colorful illustrations that bring to life the rich stories of Vietnam.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
28 de abril de 2023
In conversation: Chen Gao
Meet Chen Gao, an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Detroit and Chicago. With her work spanning across free drawing, photography, writing, installation, and performance, she explores the concept of ideal freedom and the power of unconsciousness and dreams. Gao's art is not just a form, but an atmosphere that conveys a sense of void.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
18 de abril de 2023
In conversation: Paul James Kearney
Paul James Kearney discovered the darker side of the gay community in Brighton, where chemsex parties were enabled by smartphones and hookup apps. The artist observed people of all ages and professions partaking in chemsex, including educated and seemingly normal individuals. While not judging or vilifying drug users, the artist aims to raise awareness of the global epidemic of chemsex through their art, continuing the much-needed conversation about this issue.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
11 de abril de 2023
In Conversation: Xiaodong YU
Xiaodong YU is a renowned Chinese artist who has made significant contributions to the world of printmaking and digital art. Xiaodong's artistic vision is deeply rooted in his advocacy for the balance between humans and nature and his works are a testament to his commitment to coexisting harmoniously with the environment, serving as a powerful reminder of the importance of environmental conservation.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
21 de março de 2023
In conversation: Ryota Matsumoto
Ryota Matsumoto is a world-renowned artist, designer, and architect who is widely regarded as one of the forefathers of the postdigital art movement.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
1 de março de 2023
In conversation: Xiaofan Jiang
Xiaofan Jiang is a transdisciplinary designer, artist, and the founder of Underground Art And Design. Jiang uses design-led methods to construct frameworks for engagement and story-telling, uplift voices for marginalized communities, and amplify their visions for a more equitable future.
Joana Alarcão
21 de fevereiro de 2023
In conversation: Katrin Spranger
Katrin Spranger is a London-based visual artist working on the intersection of sculpture, jewellery, and performance. Her work explores dystopian narratives that engage with environmental issues including the depletion of natural resources.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
14 de fevereiro de 2023
In Conversation: Gulbin Ozdamar Akarcay
Gulbin Ozdamar Akarcay is a Turkish photographer and researcher whose works reflect her commitment to understand the cultural, ideological, environmental, and sociological order of the world, as well as the ordinary structures of daily life, by reading, using and producing images, which will hopefully open up new doors to the future.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
31 de janeiro de 2023
In conversation: Michael Kwong
Michael Kwong is a pop art and abstract expressionist painter creating art pieces that combining eastern culture characteristic and western painting technique together.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
10 de janeiro de 2023
In Conversation: Beata May
In Beata May's works, she emphasizes the independence of women and the heroism of many women across the world. As a painter, she works with brush and paint to create art that escapes the present showing a deep fascination for art as an experience, a dialogue, a story to be heard and comprehended.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
13 de dezembro de 2022
In conversation: Lexygius Sanchez Calip
Lexygius Sanchez Calip is a Filipino-American art practitioner and scholar whose practice and philosophy work in accord, investigating how his sensibilities discern into something tangible, and how that form it takes becomes wise and clever.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
29 de novembro de 2022
In conversation: Meg Peters
Meg Peters is a poet, human rights activist, writer, and former sailor. Born and raised in Connecticut, she has called many places home from Massachusetts to Italy. With an academic background in international law and global affairs, her poetry reflects changing global environments and the interpersonal experiences that occur in settings from the sea to large metropolitan cities.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
22 de novembro de 2022
In Conversation: Triss Qian
Triss Qian is an illustrator and animator whose practice explores the possibilities of physical computing as a tool for urban residents to embrace nature.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
3 de novembro de 2022
Intersecting scientific theories and human creativity: the poetic practice of interdisciplinary artist Kenneth Lambert
Kenneth Lambert’s conceptual approach captures the contemporary zeitgeist by transposing themes found in science to illuminate current social issues and rising anxieties of our time.
Joana Alarcão
Embodying an Ecopsychological perspective, artist Itit Cheung builds a conversation around the notions of diversity, connection and Human rights.
Featured Thai-Chinese artist Weera It ITTITEERARAK, cross-disciplinarity practice focuses on climate issues and the post-pandemic era to bring awareness to ecophysiology and the importance of the environment's connection with humans.
Joana Alarcão
The sense of Algerian identity permeated through the art of Leila Bakouche.
Leila Bakouche photographic storytelling practice creates a parallel dialogue around Algerian identity and intrinsic human behaviors.
Joana Alarcão
2 de agosto de 2022
In conversation: Mike Petrakis
We had the opportunity to interview Greek contemporary conceptual artist Mike Petrakis whose art is inspired by a wide range of ancient and contemporary urban imaginary to create a parallel dialogue around modern social and individual atmospheres.
Joana Alarcão
Circular ceramics - In conversation with artist Sara Howard
At the exhibition, there was a collection of Sara’s ceramics on display, called ‘Circular Ceramics Collection: Cup, Bowl, and Plate’.
Emma Thomson
2 de junho de 2022
In conversation:
Sarah Strachan
This interview offers an insight into the world of a transdisciplinary artist Sarah Strachan, who navigates environmental changes through meaningful engagements with people, landscapes, and materials. Through printmaking, painting, and ceramics, the artist crafts installations that blur the boundaries between art forms, often incorporating sound and moving imagery. Ultimately, her work beckons us to question habitual perspectives, inviting exploration of the liminal spaces found within objects, materials, and the spaces they forge.
Joana Alarcão
16 de agosto de 2023
In conversation: Zhang Fan
Today we are speaking with Zhang Fan, an artist living and working in Wuhan, China. Zhang Fan's unique perspective on life and his thought-provoking critiques have gained attention and sparked reflection in the midst of challenging times. With a deep understanding of the fragility of existence and a desire to shed light on pressing societal issues, Zhang Fan invites us to delve into his profound insights.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
13 de junho de 2023
In conversation: Sève Favre
Our featured artist today is Sève Favre a Swiss and Belgian creative force, exploring painting, drawing, installation, and digital art. Through interactive artworks, immersive installations, and thought-provoking experiences, Sève invites viewers to engage with landscapes, colors, and the urgent topics of climate and social change. The artist's art embodies the ideals of integration, diversity, and action, seamlessly bridging the gap between art and audience.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
6 de junho de 2023
In conversation: Chris Wilmott
In this interview, we speak with Chris Wilmott, an acclaimed artist and writer whose collaborative work received a nomination for the 8th International Marianne Brandt Award in 2022. With a background in business and the water industry, Chris's artistic endeavors explore themes of coastal cities, art intersecting science, human security, social justice, and uncertainty. As a non-scientist board member of Climanosco, Chris actively promotes climate science accessibility, while also participating in the Tran-Generatives 2030 network for sustainability transformations. Recently, Chris served as a panelist at the 2023 E4HS conference, highlighting the vital role of arts education in human security.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
30 de maio de 2023
In conversation: Jacob Yandle
Jacob Yandle is a talented artist whose work delves into the depths of American archetypes and their intricate connection to classical representations of timeless emotions.
Jacob's artistic endeavors are deeply introspective, exploring the intricate relationship between American archetypes and the timeless, universal emotions that pervade humanity. He is fascinated by the cyclical nature of history and the profound connections that can be forged between our contemporary understanding of the world and the historical perspectives communicated through art.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
25 de maio de 2023
In conversation: 5537=FERR
Fernando Holguin AKA 5537=FERR is a contemporary British artist originally from Mexico whose art practice is diverse, ranging from painting to sculpture, photography, video, installation, writing, film, and performance. The artist's work is a reflection of the surrounding environment and contemporary issues, a mix of contemporary conceptual art and neo-expressionist style, infused with a poetic and humanitarian view. Through his art, Holguin seeks to detach the audience from materialistic and consumerist ideas of happiness and instead find beauty in everyday life.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
11 de maio de 2023
In conversation: Bianca Turner
Bianca Turner is an artist whose work explores the evolving essence of life and nature, while also bringing awareness to societal issues. Her compositions aim to inspire hope and success for the future, encouraging individuals to take responsibility for their actions and be a catalyst for change.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
2 de maio de 2023
In conversation: Julia Lux
Julia Lux is a multifaceted multimedia artist, performer, sculptor, environmentalist, and activist based in Berlin. Lux is a passionate advocate for community building, citizen science knowledge transfer, and eco-somatic activism, with a focus on post-growth and eco-feminism. Currently, focusing on researching post-natural, dark, and queer ecologies, animism, and animalism to rewild and revive our collective mythology and reconnect with the more-than-human worlds.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
25 de abril de 2023
In conversation: Lee Ellis
Lee Ellis is an American contemporary artist currently based in the south of France whose works reinforce the ethos of the strength of community by giving the audience a glimpse at the overwhelming power we have together.
Insights of an Eco Artist
11 de abril de 2023
In conversation: Elizabeth Hynes
Elizabeth Hynes is a visual artist interested in metaphysics, technology, social justice and abstract and economy/ecology mathematics.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
7 de março de 2023
In conversation: Aradhita Parasrampuria
Aradhita Parasrampuria is a sustainable materials researcher and textile designer originally from India and based in New York. Aradhita combines synthetic biology with fashion to create climate-conscious, ethical, and affordable textiles in an effort to replace toxic petroleum-based materials.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
8 de fevereiro de 2023
In conversation: Ana Kim
Ana Kim is a South Korean-born surrealist painter who calls herself an artist who creates a new genre and translation through miscellaneous rearrangement of animals and nature, and her practice is pursuing modern surrealism.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
20 de dezembro de 2022
In conversation: Maria Myasnikova
Maria Myasnikova (b. 1997) is a Russian born artist, curator (ReA! Art Fair) and teacher who lives and works in Milan. She works primarily with oil paint, spray paint, wood and found objects creating what the artist call Abstract Sculptural Assemblages.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
25 de novembro de 2022
In conversation: Sangmin Tang Lee
Sangmin Lee, born in South Korea in 1993, is a Korean artist best known for portraits featuring Korean queer individuals, including himself, through his practice of representing his subjects by utilizing his interdisciplinary approach to art-making.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
18 de novembro de 2022
In conversation : Jay Golding
Jay Golding creates drawings and paintings that primarily depict human subjects from all walks of life - often in relation to their environment.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
27 de outubro de 2022
In conversation: Mikaya Petros
Mikaya Petros is an abstract artist born in Milan whose works breathe a dream dimension that absorbs all the contradictions and peculiarities of our era. Symbolism and Time are investigated, broken down and recomposed in a metamorphic vision, a reflection of a mirrored and parallel world.
Insights of an Eco Artist Team
14 de outubro de 2022
Human and nature: the naturalistic paintings of Yaroslav Leonets
Featured Ukraine artist Yaroslav Leonets embodies the battle for communication and connection by exploring the atmospheres surrounding him while striving to portray the beauty behind nature and human interaction.
Joana Alarcão
Teapot Trust: Art Therapy Charity
Writer Emma Thomson has been undergoing art therapy in order to help her deal with some of the feelings and symptoms experience due to her sleep disorder called Narcolepsy with Cataplexy. Here Emma tell us about her experience.
Emma Thomson
In conversation: Leonardo Flores
Professional illustrator Leonardo Flores creates illustrations depicting
the relationship between the animal and the industrial. And how that is expressed both individually and collectively. We had the chance to interview Flores, who lead us through his experiences as an artist.
Joana Alarcão
Because Representation Matters- Interview with the founder of They Did I Can Too.
In the Platform -They Did I Can Too – there are sections such as profiles on historical individuals, career information,and interviews of individuals from minority ethnic backgrounds.
Joana Alarcão
Interview with Interdisciplinary Visual Artist KristofLab
"Landscapes are transforming. The human footprint is so united with the natural environment that “untouched area” has become a separate concept, and human presence can be felt everywhere. "
Joana Alarcão