Alizé Jireh’s art spans photography, videography, and music. Through her lens, she captures vulnerability, resilience, and authenticity. Her work invites viewers to engage with the world intimately.
Alizé’s art illuminates the beauty of everyday life. With attention to detail and emotional sensitivity, she creates works that deeply resonate with audiences and highlight our shared humanity.
Visual artist Mia Novakova uses the ambiguity of liminal spaces to create mysterious and thought-provoking artworks, absorbing viewers to interpret and question the state of reality. Wrapping objects is not new in art, but the way Mia does it triggers the concept of form cleared of function, meaning and time.
Looking closely at Aron’s art, you can feel that deep, unknown, earthly force that someone calls chthonic or hypochthonic. There is a strong connection with the unknown that makes you feel saddened and empty but engaged at the same time.
“The moody spaces of of American artist Aron Wiesenfeld thrum quietly with moments of melancholy and a deep sense of loneliness. His scenes are of dimly lit liminality: sparse, shadowy landscapes outside of borders where the wilderness and urban converge and paths or portals often appear. We don’t know whether the characters in them will take that road or make the leap beyond; they exist perpetualy at the threshold of thier own personal fable in the solitude of self reflection as they stare off into an enigmatic abyss.”
Jérôme Oudot Trëz, seamlessly intertwines drawing and digital creation. His artistic journey began digitally, evolving into a successful career as a "Layout artist" for 3D animation films. A transformative 2009 exhibition (Materia Prima Art Factory, France) marked a shift in perspective, revealing the captivating allure of his creations to art enthusiasts.
Blending traditional and digital mediums, Jérôme digitally reworks paper drawings, creating animated GIFs and limited edition prints. Bridging classical and digital artistry, he masterfully expresses emotion in drawing and a mechanical essence in the digital realm.
Inspired by German expressionists Nicola Samori and Olivier de Sagazan, Jérôme infuses violence and deformation into his work. Influenced by Hans Ruedi Giger and Zdzislaw Beksinski, he combines organic and mechanical elements, reflecting a fear of pain and death. Dave McKean's creative vision further shapes his multifaceted approach.
Dandelight embodies a graceful blend of art, nature, and innovation within our renowned 'Fragile Future' series. Each Dandelight is meticulously crafted using real dandelions handpicked during the annual DRIFT Spring Harvest, with every single seed delicately affixed to an LED.
This year's special edition is centred around a promising future, highlighting the potential of seeds and soil as they collaborate to foster fertility. DRIFT aimed for a sense of weightlessness through natural materials like sand and jute, while the base, cast in translucent white resin, encases dandelion seeds.
For a healthy new generation, we need to get the basics right! "This double dandelion version reflects a beacon of hope embodied in the promise of new life." shares artist Lonneke Gordijn, who is expecting her first child.
Robert Dawson’s ceramic art blurs the lines between tradition and innovation, motion and permanence, and challenges conventional perceptions of craftsmanship.
Dawson's creation, Spin, beautifully encapsulates the essence of motion blur, reminiscent of the technique used in animated movies. Just as motion blur aids in creating fluidity in film sequences, Dawson's manipulation of glaze and design captures a fleeting moment, freezing it in time while alluding to movement. The Blue Willow pottery design combines fixedness and the illusion of movement, showcasing the artist’s skill.
The plates symbolise clay’s history and transformation. Dawson cleverly incorporates circularity, a fundamental principle in pottery, by showcasing the spinning process as a visible final stage in decoration. This extends the traditional concept of pottery time, inviting viewers to contemplate the craft’s evolution.
His plates honour and represent ceramic heritage while pushing boundaries..
Pon Arsher, a self-taught artist, hails from Chisinau, the capital of Moldova. Since her early years, she found solace and a profound connection to her inner self through drawing, often opting for solitude over socializing with friends.
Her artistic focus has consistently revolved around humanity and the world of sensations. Her creations aim to acknowledge the trials of life, employing a harmonious blend of colour, texture, and motion to craft a captivating interpretation of these challenges. In essence, her showcased works mirror the universal concerns, inner struggles, and restrained emotions that touch us all.
Explore the enigmatic depths of the human psyche with captivating portraits and sculptures. With a focus on individual identity, Kinsella’s art invites you to dig into abstract concepts and discover the hidden realms of the self. Intricate geometric shapes are the core of a “fleshless portraiture".
These compositions meticulously peel away layers, exposing the uncharted nature of each subject's unconscious essence. Marked by a higher level of intricacy than previous works, "Anatomy of the Radiant Mind" showcases the artist's evolving practice, dedicated to shedding light on the elusive aspects of the subconscious self.
Jason Boyd Kinsella's second solo show with Unit London, Anatomy of the Radiant Mind, opens in one week.
En Iwamura's artistic exploration centres on transforming viewers' spatial experiences through site-responsive installations, drawing inspiration from the Japanese philosophy of "Ma." This philosophy, encompassing elements like distance, moments, and relationships, is a guiding principle in his work. Iwamura's installations allow viewers to engage with and discover their sense of "Ma" within the space.
In addition to installations, Iwamura creates ceramic characters infused with humour and serenity, inspired by the concept of "Ma”, which imbues tangible energy and emotions into his creations. These characters often feature repeated lines reminiscent of Zen Buddhist garden patterns.
He is an artist who enjoys exploring different styles and materials, such as ceramics. He likes experimenting with different colours and textures, sometimes mixing them by hand. He finds inspiration from various artists, including Ken Price, Katharina Fritsch, and Ugo Rondinone.
Iwamura sees ceramics as a universal cultural language, skillfully blending influences from Japanese traditional craft with a willingness to break conventions by infusing history with pop culture. He reimagines ceramics as a dynamic and evolving art form through his playful and skilful approach.
Ross+Kramer Gallery
Enter the captivating world of artist Eric Pause, where abstract figure paintings seamlessly blend multiple timeless moments into one stunning visual experience.
While most paintings capture a single moment, Eric Pause, an Ontario-based artist, aims to seize multiple moments in his striking figurative artworks. Drawing inspiration from the Italian Futurists, who merged time, place, and form, his art conveys motion and the passage of time through abstract shapes that overlap and intertwine.
Drawing various geometric shapes, Pause skillfully portrays figures in simultaneous states of activity and repose. His deliberate use of a restrained colour palette of blues, oranges, and white accentuates the composition's fragmented nature while providing a unifying element across his diverse acrylic paintings.
This artist is perfect for you if you appreciate drawings and illustrations with a mystical touch. Garis’ artworks always showcase magical elements and intricate compositions, emphasising details and textures.
Hailing from Indonesia, Garis masterfully weaves magical components and vibrant orange and cerulean blue girls as focal points in their work.
Let’s discover the captivating world of Nick Sheehy, an Australian-born artist and illustrator currently residing in the artistic hub of London.
Nick started his artistic career in the wild landscapes of Tasmania, where he sculpted with bronze. But fate took him away from art for some time. However, life brings us back to our true passions, and that's what happened to Nick. Living in London, he rediscovered his love for drawing, inspired by the city's lively low-brow art, illustration, street art, and graffiti scenes.
He uses his unique artwork to explore the world of dreams, creating mysterious and sometimes semi-autobiographical scenes. His canvas serves as a platform for the eccentric characters that resonate from his childhood imagination, infusing his creations with nostalgia and amazement.
Nick's art showcases an array of subjects that depict a wide range of emotions. His portfolio reflects his limitless creativity, featuring everything from fanciful creatures to dreamy landscapes, and some find a hommage to Bosch’s bestiaries. He enjoys drawing unique fauna objects, an exploration of his imagination showcased in exhibitions, publications, and even some client projects.
Tito Merello Vilar is an architect in Barcelona and a digital illustrator. He often creates many digital artworks on an iPad.
He is the type of artist who seizes the moment, trapped in “la tranquilidad” and the serenity of the golden hour sunlight.
Every creator has a distinct voice and unique tale in the vast universe of art. Eugenia Shchukina, an artist, has been making waves in the contemporary art scene and garnering attention. An artist of exceptional calibre, Schukina's work navigates the intricate labyrinth of the human psyche, striking a balance between realism and pop-surrealism.
Eugenia uses classique techniques to create her captivating art, preferring dry pastels on paper. Her works often find their way into private collections around the world.
At the heart of Schukina's artistry lies an exploration of the human psyche's volatility. She explores the potential of reducing fears and illusions by analysing symbols and interpreting various aspects of personality using contemporary artistic perspectives.
Eugenia’s artwork often features the moth, a representation of our elusive fears and intricate emotions. Her pieces suggest that these aspects, much like the delicate and unpredictable moth, persistently exist within us.
The Spectacle, The Tragedy, The Passion
The world is fortunate to witness the combined talents of husband and wife artists Darren and Trisha Inouye, who undertake the moniker of Giorgiko.
As creators with distinct artistic identities who met at the esteemed Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California - Trisha's passion for drawing intermingles effortlessly with Darren's fervent dedication to street art. This blending has created an extraordinary form that splendidly merges traditional painting techniques with modern urban influences derived from street art culture.
Their extraordinary creations have made a global impact by bringing individuals and landscapes caught in temporal displacement to life - all while passionately exploring themes encompassing dislocation, empathy, and purity from profoundly innocent yet intricately nuanced perspectives. The vibrant universe curated by Giorgiko resonates deeply within us as it magnifies our longing for sanctuary while traversing an uncertain world.
From March 15 to 16, 2023, the Moscow gallery Glubina hosted the exhibition "Forgotten Landscapes," curated by Narmina Askerova. This large-scale artistic event brought together works from 14 visual artists and photographers, along with a grand conceptual audio-literary performance titled "Lost in Between" by artist and writer Elena Timokhina. "Forgotten Landscapes" was dedicated to the artistic exploration of the existential rift between humanity and nature in the broadest sense. The participants in the exhibition, upon discovering this rift, took on various roles: explorers of the rift, apologists of the rift, mourners for the eras preceding this rift, researchers of the rift, and so on. The distance between modern humanity and nature turned out to be a rich field of potential meanings, a mystery, and a resource for drawing both inspiration and despair. "Forgotten Landscapes" serves as a multifaceted manifestation of the inevitable separation, where the positions and roles of people and natural phenomena are interchangeable and elusive, attempting to comprehend the irreversibility of this rift as both a socially nostalgic and eschatological phenomenon. Although the entire event represented a captivating cascade of artistic and performative delight, in this article we would like to focus on four participants who, in our opinion, realised the most distinctive and bold artistic concepts.
The reflection of the sprawling branches of an autumn leafless tree on a thin layer of water resting on some object in an urban environment. Ripples spreading from raindrops. Sandy park soil. Photographer Victoria Skutina sees the meaning of the rift between humanity and nature in the endless multiplication and deformation of reflections. According to her artistic concept, this rift has arisen due to the fundamental geometric difference between human-made fruits and those of the natural environment. Where nature is complex, fractal, and resists being divided into Euclidean primitives, the human dimension gravitates toward local, predictable forms and images. Of course, Skutina goes beyond merely observing that the surrounding environment is unconsciously complex, while human creation is consciously simple; nonetheless, this is an important assertion. Through her mesmerising and razor-sharp works, the photographer illustrates that this binary opposition exists but seemingly overcomes itself through the effect of one pole's reflection in another. A tree growing by itself can be mirrored on an ugly iron or concrete circle performing obscure social functions. The reflection of the tree is ephemeral, becoming a projection of one world onto another. Yes, this projection can easily lose its clarity with the breeze or a sudden downpour. However, it also signifies that the rift is theoretically surmountable or that it can be reconstructed by focusing on other, less noticeable connections between things and worlds.
According to Kseniia Chumakova, the main point of conflict in the rupture between nature and humanity lies not in creating a parallel "human ecosystem" in opposition to the natural habitat. It goes deeper and finds this rupture primarily in humanity's refusal to closely examine what surrounds them. It seems as if humans have fundamentally chosen not to contemplate natural things and to ignore what they do not understand within them. The rupture occurred when humans began to see in nature only what they chose to see. Consequently, Kseniia Chumakova's artistic project appears to be based on restoring to humans the motivation and time to contemplate nature. Her photograph "Nature" is both simple and complex, modest and provocative, compelling one to gaze into it. It seems to insistently exclaim, Identify me! Classify me! Find an explanation for me! This insistence emanating from the concise image of natural texture resembles the calls of New Age coaches demanding a break from the automatism of everyday life. Yet, Kseniia Chumakova also deconstructs this approach. She respectfully acknowledges that the human psyche optimises processes. Her works do not call for total mindfulness, grounding in bodily processes, or working with blind spots. On the contrary, she constructs meditative attractions that should work if not instantly, then in a very short time, rather than becoming a painful ordeal of yet another self-proclaimed course on transforming life in 21 days.
Yuri Kurganski is not only a talented digital artist but also a remarkable combination of ironic softness and romanticism. Where other artists become sarcastic and cut through the truth, he seeks opportunities to nurture lyricism, pastoral beauty, and humanity. His vision of the rift between nature and humanity is the most extravagant and touching. In his works, especially in “Autumn Jungle,” he comes to the realisation that it is not humanity that has severed its ties with nature but rather nature that has withdrawn into the shadows. Nature, not humanity, initiates the separation. The silent nature is both a mysterious, estranged figure and a mother all at once. Nature is present here, and yet it is absent at the same time. Nature has allowed humans to separate, but it continuously reminds them of its presence through traces and messages. The image of a glowing—almost biblical—tree amidst a dark artificial park, which resembles more of a model or a box filled with plastic trees, inexplicably stirs the heart and contains a powerful critical charge. This critique is subtle, non-obligatory, and indirect, yet it strikes directly at the mark. The rift exists; it is a paradigmatic event, but Yuri Kurganski seems to express on behalf of humanity that yes, we are still not ready for a complete break. We are probing at the unhealed wounds of our bodies and souls; we recall the golden age, but in truth, we have lost it not due to our own fault.
Elena Timokhina operates through a radical and breathtaking amalgamation of performative techniques: physical absence, deconstruction of verbal flow, semantic ambiguity, and post-dramatic structures. However, she does not deny the theme of rupture; instead, she complicates it, finding new depths and possibilities. Her performance becomes a crucial meta-commentary on the exhibition in particular and the global artistic process in general. Elena Timokhina conceptually chose to dwell in the interdisciplinary gap, yet she appropriates this rupture, which means she does not divide herself into human, nature, artist, performer, and writer. The main value of her work lies in the radical acceptance of herself and her lacunae. Her practice outlines new horizons for contemporary art and modern literature, horizons that are daunting to explore, but we must.
The key event of the two-day event "Forgotten Landscapes" was the audio-literary performance "Lost in Between" by writer, artist, and performer Elena Timokhina. This processual, meditative, and cross-genre work combined sound design, spoken word, and immersive participatory practices. The performance literally bridged the exhibition space, conceptual poles, the audience as a liminal entity, and the gallery space. Through her performance, Elena Timokhina summarised one of the main yet unspoken discoveries in understanding the rift between humanity and nature—within this rift, there are also fractures. This non-trivial idea arises in other gaps, in the divides between the possibilities of artistic mediums, in the divides between artists who seem united by the collective body of the exhibition but localised within their personal bodies.
Metaverse Greenhouse, Mat Collishaw and Danil Krivoruchko, Heterosis, 2023 © Snark.art
Heterosis - the increase in such characteristics as size, growth rate and yield of a hybrid organism over those of its parents.
Snark.art, the innovation laboratory supporting artists creating at the cutting edge of art and technology, announces Heterosis, a new series of digital artworks and an immersive metaverse experience by Mat Collishaw. Created in collaboration with digital artist Danil Krivoruchko and metaverse architect EL-GABAL, Heterosis is a project produced for the OG.Art platform which combines blockchain technology and art to create a unique experience for collectors.
Heterosis will see participants cultivating and breeding virtual flowers that grow in a hyperrealistic metaverse ‘greenhouse’ – a digital recreation of a grandly decorated wing of London’s National Gallery, abandoned and reclaimed by nature. Each flower will be a one-of-a-kind, unduplicable digital artwork, but the works, both individually and collectively, become meaningful via the community that is created. Based on innovative technology, Heterosis invites collectors to participate in an art ‘game’ where their interaction determines the outcome of the works. The participatory nature of Heterosis means the artwork could not exist in any context other than on the blockchain.
Mat Collishaw and Danil Krivoruchko, Heterosis, 2023 © Snark.art
Upon minting, each collector receives a Heterosis flower with unique DNA code and the combination of a few basic traits. Through hybridisation, collectors can discover advanced characteristics or mutations, and unlock new species, colours, patterns and forms. Their actions and engagement with one another will determine how the creation of new species and increasingly exotic and elaborate blooms unfolds. They become the agents of digital evolution and digital art collaborators.
Mat Collishaw and Danil Krivoruchko, Heterosis, 2023 © Snark.art
The digital flowers have been developed using SideFX’s Houdini – a powerful 3D animation and visual effects tool used in blockbuster films, commercials and video games – and are rendered on Redshift. Uniquely, the hyperrealistic flowers are created via a process of hybridization that is not predetermined, requiring advanced technology to generate the dynamic content. The metaverse ‘greenhouse’ was developed using Unreal Engine, the state-of-the-art gaming technology to allow collectors to interact with one another and freely explore the environment no matter where they are in the world. The technology means they can have an interactive, collective experience on any device with exceptionally high-quality visualisation.
Mat Collishaw and Danil Krivoruchko, Heterosis, 2023 © Snark.art
To hybridize, collectors must pay the flower’s owner a breeding fee. Collectors themselves set the prices for hybridization which can reflect if significant resources have been spent to create a new rare and exciting combination of genes. These dynamics create two separate markets – one for the purchase digital flowers and another for selling the opportunity to hybridize your flower.
Mat Collishaw and Danil Krivoruchko, Heterosis, 2023 © Snark.art
Heterosis builds on Collishaw’s practice and cross-disciplinary approach which sees him engage with developments in technology and unafraid to venture into unfamiliar terrain. He says of the collaboration:
“I wanted to create an artwork that could not exist in any context other than the metaverse. The digital network that forms the basis of Heterosis allows all the participants and components to come together, bringing the artwork to fruition. The fact that the work can evolve through time, depending on what the owner will or won’t do, was something very interesting for us. Danil managed to encode all the different traits into DNA and designed an evolution process. These mechanics, are essential to the Heterosis project and are especially valuable to us as something that’s possible only in a decentralized space”
Mat Collishaw and Danil Krivoruchko, Heterosis, 2023 © Snark.art
“This is the most complicated digital art collection I have ever worked on. Mat wanted Heterosis NFTs to be real flower species. A real life reference, which is super complex on the one hand and so familiar to everyone on the other, meant that even the goal of achieving a photorealistic visual was technologically very complex”
Since 2012, Kim has been working with digital software to develop a visual language of shifting multidimensional gradients that explore the interconnectivity between physical and digital consciousness. Previewed at our solo booth presentation at Art SG in Singapore, SuperBlue v.3 creates a digital Zen experience, using visual guides and healing sound frequencies to encourage a meditative state.
It is a digital meditation experience that uses visual guides and healing sound frequencies to create a meditative state. The collection of 100 NFTs is created by Krista Kim and Efrén Mur, with music by Ligovskoï.
Every edition in this release comes with an accompanying Infinite Objects physical display screen
For the 2023 edition of ART SG in Singapore, Unit London presents a solo exhibition of new digital and VR artworks by pioneering artist Krista Kim.
Undoubtedly, talent is 99% of sweat and 1% of genius. Exploring Grisha’s works proves this many times, bringing joy and delight by just looking at them. The attention to detail is beyond compare and the speed paint skills (you can watch below) are just mind-bending.
Grisha has full success on Tiktok and recently landed on the NFT scene with full potential to shine bright like a prodigy
Self-taught ballpoint pen artist and conceptual self portrait photographer Adewale Mayowa shares amazing talent and skills through the NFT journey
