Alexandra Gallagher – Q&A

Alexandra Gallagher – Q&A

Award-winning artist Alexandra Gallagher is a British multidisciplinary artist, who’s work takes the form of collage, street art, prints, photography and painting.  Gallagher’s work celebrates the surreal and sublime. ­Between the realms of memory, dreams and experience, her work looks beyond our subjective limits and often tells a story of inner imagination and thought. Often working within a series, each piece is visceral and organic, the artist never knowing how each piece will transform

Franziska Ostermann – Q&A

Franziska Ostermann – Q&A

As a conceptual artist, Franziska Ostermann’s medium is the word and the image. The central themes of her work are virtuality and identity. An important motif for Ostermann is the photographic self-portrait. Dealing with one’s being, online and offline, is the starting point of her work. The photographic self-portrait allows Ostermann to encounter herself. When the shutter is released, she is both the photographer and the photographed, in the same place. Is she doubled or split? Photographic splinters of our selves’ views represent our identity in a place that we cannot enter. The physicality itself becomes a barrier to its representation.

Rosie Emerson – Q&A

Rosie Emerson – Q&A

Rosie Emerson is an award-winning contemporary artist originally from Dorset, she studied and lived in London for 10 years.  She now resides on the South Coast and continues to work almost exclusively on representing the female form. Emerson’s figures draw reference from archetypes old and new from Artemis to the modern-day supermodel.

Diana Malivani – Interview

Diana Malivani – Interview

The Artist’s creative journey began at birth: Diana Malivani was born on the coast of the Black Sea, bathed in the riotous profusion of the colours of the Caucasus. Her love as a child for fairy tales and pictures later developed into a desire to convey, to those hearing and viewing her work, the great feeling for nature that enhances her life and the lives of those she loves.

Gert Kist – Q&A

Gert Kist – Q&A

Photography artist Gert Kist made a name for himself at Galerie Eduard Planting, with his male images printed on weathered wooden subphases. As a photography artist, Kist has recently gone through a period of development and transition. His subject matter has shifted and his photographs have since also become more layered – both in a figurative and literal sense.  In the new series of female portraits, there is a clear emphasis shift. No longer is the attention in Kist’s work solely on the male torso but focuses now on female faces that seem to want to either express something or in fact conceal it. Dashing women wearing extravagant costumes, jewellery, hair-dresses and masks. Something is happening inside these female portraits. The beholder can only guess, is intrigued and engages with them.

Juan Barletta – Q&A

Juan Barletta – Q&A

Juan Barletta’s works focus on consumerism and desire, his photo-realist paintings evoke an ambiguous duality of desire and beauty. Juan’s images of often controversial iconic figures within popular culture question the ideals of synthetic beauty and its imagined reality. He alludes to the falsity of images represented within the media and its distorted boundaries of what is real and artificial.