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the flux review
Carmela De Falco – Exhibition
Listening with Eyes, Watching with Ears Carmela De Falco. Sat 6 Jun 2026 to Sun 19 Jul 2026 by Vitto Giusti There is a particular kind of attention this exhibition demands, not the alert, forward-leaning attention of someone waiting to be told something, but the...
Carol Burns – Q&A
Carol Burns is an award-winning contemporary artist whose layered abstract paintings explore memory, identity, connection and the stories that shape human experience. Working through collage, paint, drawing and reclaimed materials, she creates richly textured surfaces...
Rachel Le Roux – Q&A
Rachel Le Roux is a British-Filipino contemporary artist whose practice centres on the female form, identity and the shifting experience of becoming. Through expressive figurative painting, she explores femininity, movement and the space between vulnerability and...
ρ ≠ 0 – Exhibition by K:art and ArtCan
Reclaiming Weight in a Frictionless World In June 2026, ArtCan collaborated with K:art, a London-based art organisation, to present ρ ≠ 0, a virtual exhibition exploring the persistence of weight, resistance and embodied presence within an increasingly dematerialised...
Dawn Fincham – Q&A
Dawn Fincham’s richly layered works transform fragments of the past into vivid, character-led worlds. Combining vintage engravings, found imagery, digital collage and direct painterly intervention, the London-based artist creates compositions that invite viewers to...
René Porter – Q&A
René Porter is an award-winning realist artist from Los Angeles whose practice spans oil painting and charcoal drawing. A graduate of Columbus College of Art & Design, she works across portraiture, still life, figures and cityscapes, using light to shape the mood,...
Wei Keong Tan – Q&A
Wei Keong Tan is a designer and artist whose ceramic practice explores the complex relationship between human control and the natural world. Born in Singapore and now based in Gloucestershire, Tan brings together an early background in product and industrial design,...
Greg Kent – Q&A
Greg Kent’s sculptural woodturning begins with an appreciation for the innate character of timber, its grain, burrs, colour and evidence of decay, but it extends far beyond the material’s natural beauty. Self-taught and later supported through a QEST Scholarship, Kent...
Kathryn Thomas – Q&A
Painting Light, Atmosphere and Wonder For Kathryn Thomas, painting is an act of attention: a way of meeting the shifting drama of light, colour and atmosphere before it slips from view. Trained in Fine Art Painting at Bristol Polytechnic, now the University of the...
John Carpenter – Interview
Scale, Colour and the Sculptural Language of Form John Carpenter’s abstract paintings are defined by a striking balance between boldness and refinement. Trained as an illustrator at the University of Westminster before completing his master’s degree at the Royal...
Chen Chen
Painting the Space Between Memory and Perception A Contemporary Practice Shaped by Colour, Emotion and Cultural Transition For London-based mixed media visual artist Chen Chen, art is a means of tracing the subtle spaces between memory, perception and emotional...
Neal Scrase – Q&A
Neal Scrase is a contemporary artist whose work moves between surrealism, portraiture and imaginative storytelling. Self-taught, he has been painting for most of his life, developing a practice rooted in inner vision rather than direct reproduction. His paintings seek...
Amarajyoti – Painting as Meditation
Amarajyoti is an artist whose practice brings together painting, meditation and a lifelong engagement with creativity as a form of inner exploration. Trained in Art and Design in the 1960s, she went on to teach art for more than 20 years before travelling to India and...
Kate Enters – Interview
Kate Enters is the founder and director of ArtCan, an international arts organisation dedicated to supporting artists through opportunity, visibility, community and fair payment. Founded in 2013, ArtCan has grown from a peer-led exhibition initiative into a...
Jenette Coldrick Morell – Q&A
Jenette Coldrick Morrell is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans more than five decades, moving between painting, pottery, printmaking, textiles and mixed media. Born in Cornwall in 1952, her early encounters with artists including Isobel Atterbury Heath...
Vikoi – Q&A
Vikoi’s practice unfolds through bold, colourful acrylic works that use playfulness as a way into more complex questions of identity, neurodivergence, mental health and the structures that shape contemporary life. Born in Somerset and self taught, she creates work...
Neil Eckersley – Q&A
Neil Eckersley’s journey from Olympic judo to contemporary abstract art is one of transformation rather than departure. A two-time Olympian and Olympic bronze medallist, Eckersley brings the discipline, resilience and intensity of elite sport into a visual language...
Alexander Stepanets – Q&A
Alexander Stepanets’ practice uses satire, allegory and a sharply controlled visual language to confront the psychological and social conditions shaped by violence, fear and moral collapse. Trained in printmaking at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Fine Arts,...