All in Interview
Dr. Joe Ferry holds several academic degrees including that of Ph.D. Dr. Ferry is a Grammy Award Winning Record Producer as well as an Award Winning Filmmaker and author. Though having never taken an art lesson in his life, Dr. Ferry has developed a unique style that is quickly becoming very popular in the USA and Europe.
Jae Young Park was born in Korea in 1973 and graduated from Sunhwa Arts Middle School and Kaywon Arts High School. He also holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Chung-Ang University.
From 2003 to 2021, he had 15 invitations and solo exhibitions. In addition, he has received several special awards. 2021 London Art Biennale “Painting Award”, 2021-2020 Aesthetica Art Prize/Future Now: 100 Artists Selection, KNOT Award Excellent Artist Selection, CICA Museum of Art 'Korean Young Artist Selection, Korean Art Award (3 times), Special Exhibition Art Song Eun Art Award, Received the Seoripul Art Award, and participated in famous groups such as Hangaram Art Museum, Sejong Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, and Seoul Arts Center. In 2007, the work sold out at Christie's in Hong Kong.
It was also exhibited and sold at 2020 SCOPE NY, 2019 Asia Contemporary Art SHOW, 2019 ART ASIA, KIAF2007, DOORS ART FAIR 2015 and 2018, and Affordable Art Fair Milan.
How do you go about beginning a new piece? Do you have an idea already in mind, or do you start working with materials or sketches to find the departure point?
The process begins with immersion in a specific topic, research information and attempt of studying it from various sides. After pondering for a while and determining material, form, colour and texture, I begin to create. However, I still am open to some changes in this stage as I believe in evolving during the making process.
Did you have an idea from the beginning of what you wanted to create?
After a year of experimenting with the technique and the basics of weaving, including making flower scenes and then small portraits, I got a larger loom, where I immediately started with my clear statement for African women.
Alexandros Reichenbach was born in Aschaffenburg (Germany) on 21.02.1998. He grew up billingual, as his parents were German (Father) and Greek (Mother). By the age of two (2000), he moved with his parents to Thessaloniki (Greece). There he attended a german kindergarden and afterwards a greek elementary school.
Imaginative, aesthetic, thought-provoking, they are the traits of Momo Meng's artwork. Momo loves observing society, exploring the deep emotions of humans and animals, and capturing them in her art. She creates works to be the voice for the voiceless, the powerless, the hopeless, in order to fight against the absurd, the violence and inequalities. She wishes her creations could resonate with the audience, raise their awareness, and be the standing point to fight for a better future, a better society which has variety, equality, unity, a healthy environment, and respect for all living beings.
What are your ultimate career goals?
My main career goal is constant work, this is a creative process, this is the creation of new works of art, this is the creation of new artistic images. When I create new works of art, I live, for me it is a sign of life.
Born September 12, 1954 in Klockrike, Sweden. Grew up in Märsta just north of Stockholm. Been living in Uppsala for 35 years and since 10 years back, now living in Gävle. Studied at Lund University and Stockholm University, graduated in law at Uppsala University. Worked for the past 30 years in various managerial positions within universities as well as in municipal and private operations. The interest in culture has been around since my childhood. My father was an initiated collector of mainly fine clocks and exclusive glassware. Through my father I was surrounded by history and beautiful things. My mother was politically engaged, why politics often discussed at home
She studied Fine Arts, at Hampstead School of Art. London U.K & Photography, in Kingsway
College London,U.K. She received an award on a group of sculptures she created (1995) from “The Foundation for Supporting Artists of the United Kibbutz Movement”. She was awarded "The International Giotto Prize” in (2019) Lisbon Portugal & also awarded The “Leonardo Da Vinci International Prize” (1/2020) in Florence Italy.
Sampy Sicada is a Manchester-based artist and designer from Hong Kong. Currently residing in Savannah, Georgia. He mainly practises art in a traditional medium such as graphite, colour pencils and oil paints. He runs a Youtube channel critiquing film and television and has had his works exhibited in over 20 galleries internationally.
How would you describe yourself and your artwork?
My artwork is very colourful energetic and powerful it has a lot of feeling and emotion in it shamrocks are abstract mini or figurative and they all are somewhat bold and strong.
How would you describe yourself and your artwork?
I consider myself to be a physically and spiritually active and curious person. Everything in the world around us is interesting to me; from myself studying, questioning and discovering interesting things about how people behave in society in general to my daily enjoyment, exploration, and discovery about how observing and investigating nature and all natural and man-made objects and how they can be combined to work for me to create communication art that stimulates the understanding of something familiar into something that becomes new in the process of manufacturing new meaning. I am constantly fascinated about how I can naturally spark my mind to have creative ideas at any given moment to help fuel my conceptual illustration art-making just by observing making art from anything that crosses my path as I journey through life in the world around us.
Did you have an idea of what you wanted to create right from the beginning?
I always knew what I wanted to create. I was always passionate about classic stories, but I wanted to give them a twist. I try to show the psychological part that all these stories have and demonstrate that, no matter how old the stories are they are still very current. In my opinion, that is why people are attracted to my work because one way or another they identified themselves with it.
Petra Štefanková studied graphic design and film and TV graphics in Bratislava and Prague, and she took a short course at Central Saint Martin's, University of the Arts London. She has worked on advertising, editorial, animation and publishing projects for the University of Udine in Italy, Lynda.com, Microsoft Games Studios, Orange, The Guardian, The Economist, Popular Mechanics, Dialogue Review and Future Music. She collaborated with VooDooDog Animation in London on the animated title sequence for the Hollywood film Nanny McPhee 2. She is an author, designer and illustrator of books Moje malé more, Don't take my dreams from me, Čmáranica a Machuľa. Petra Štefanková is a winner of many awards, such as Channel4's 4Talent Award 2007, Minister of Culture of the Slovak Republic Award 2019, the Artist of the Future Award 2020, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London. Her works have been published in many publications and exhibited all around the world.
Roxana Werner paints on different surfaces using oil and mixed techniques. Her work is developed by investigating the history and culture of different places that inspired her. She said: “When I stand before the canvas, I feel like a writer whit a blank page. My painting is committed narration; it hides neither the dark nor light side of reality.
Aomi Kikuchi is a textile artist based in Kyoto, Japan. She holds a BFA from Kyoto University of Art & Design (Japan) and an MFA from Pratt Institute (USA). Aomi has exhibited her work throughout the world including at Woman’s Essence Show 2020 (Rome), The Body Language 2021(Italy), and will exhibit at Art Laguna 2021(Italy).
My artworks are a series of paintings of people. I often focus on the eyes to help emphasize the emotions and to enhance communications between the viewer and the piece. Each painting has its own story to tell, and the faces, the texture, the emotions, and the artist helps to tell that story. I enjoy painting in the expressionist style but with the ultimate control of the brush strokes and surface texture.
There are lots of ways to express art, with music, painting, sculpture, dancing, theater, and etc. Nature itself is the most perfect art that exists. The sound of the birds singing, the sound of the sea, the wind blowing, we reproduce with the music; a variety of incredible colors, thousands of shades, light, shadows, we reproduce in the painting; the movement of the seawater, of the leaves of the trees, we reproduce with the dancing.
In my work on the image of Nature, well beyond the visual aspect, it is in fact our intimate relationship with it that I try to express, and in particular at the sensory and emotional level... My research on the transmission and the expression of emotions is a visual writing a little subliminal, which creates the perception amplified by the very great "presence" of the subject exposed to the glance... One can find a certain "spirituality" in the general direction with my artistic research, in the direction where I try to capture precisely that which "does not see"...
Bryce Watanasoponwong is a Thai-Australian photographer who makes evocative photography of encounters within our global cities. He has a highly experimental process involving both digital and analogue techniques, which pushes elements of his work into intriguing visual abstraction.
