We are delighted to introduce Shyamolie Madhavji to our Q&A’s. You can also view her work in The FLUX Review- V2 Virtual exhibition. Allow me to start by introducing myself as a passionate visual artist, textile designer, and freelance set designer. Being brought up in a family full of art lovers and established artists it is no surprise that I have inherited this creative talent too. Raised in Mumbai,
Finding a harmonious language between drawing, printmaking and painting, Paula Menchen experiments with each material deconstructing the surface and transforming each medium and their rules into one. Having majored as a painter at University, she uses painting as a means of experimentation, playing with the ideas of vast spaces typically using landscape and seascapes as inspiration and a starting point. She is not looking for a formula to reproduce but rather a constant curiosity with a sense of discovery.
Today we’d like to introduce you to Patricia Figueiredo who is also featured in our exhibition V2. I live and work in Rio de Janeiro. Initially, my creative process found a place in my education in architecture, a place that served as a trigger for my development of a creative-artistic vision that ended up emerging in other media
Born in Athens and currently based in Singapore, Emi Avora is drawing subject matter from her every day; her sketches and images of public and personal spaces focus on the interior and still life
Deborah Gardner’s practice is process-led, materiality, multiplicity and mutability are key themes. Proximity and distance, surface tension and scale play vital roles in encountering the work; for example, a recent work concerning imagining the surface of the far side of the moon considered ways to collapse a cosmological scale to a human dimension or in another work inspiration came from studying botanical structures. Her sculptures consider the vibrancy of cell, plant and geological structures and our relationships with them, such as imagining plant life in future environments. Many sculptures explore networkable assemblages, such as hives and colonies and the growth structures of physical phenomena and are especially interested in the power of adaptability as an ongoing sculptural process.
Anthony Gow’s current body of work explores the subject as a poetic proposition impacted by interruption, memory, lament and introspection. Some of these works are created as a still life on a digital canvas that combines photography and painterly marks.
