About the Artists * Press the names for more info
Leslie Lismore
Born in Belfast, N. Ireland, I travelled a great deal as a child, eventually settling in Surrey. I studied Art at Epsom School of Art, and Chelsea School of Art.
For my Masters, i studies Inclusive Design ant the University of Reading.
Xenia Gazi
Xenia Gazi has been living in various parts of the world – England, Tunisia, France, Egypt, Scotland and the United Arab Emirates. Currently, she resides in
Chicago (USA) where she studies MA program in Visual Critical Studies and continues her Studio Practice. She graduated from Coventry University in the UK in
2012 in Business Management and Project Planning. Xenia is a curator, self-taught visual artist, and designer.
Barbara Ann Michaels
Barbara Ann Michaels, Jester of the Peace, makes a career of the interplay of love, art, and comedy. She creates humorous participatory performances and
installations in which people self-express authentically, connect in sudden truth, and have transformational experiences before they realize it. In addition to
auto-biographical shows and writing, she devises interactive events as awakening takes on shared cultural experiences, e.g. voting, phones, olympics,
holidays, dinner, and weddings.
Arnaud Lacoste
On a good day, my mind wanders between the worlds of Art and Science.
I hold a PhD in biology and received training in graphic design. As a scientist, I create artificial biological systems. My scientific journey aims at inventing
novel kinds of medicines, but it also raises fundamental questions about the future of Humanity.
My work as an artist invites the viewer to reflect on how Humanity could be altered by human intervention.
Arent Weevers
“Time and time again, Weevers confronts us with physicality and pain, but also with the possibility of connection in moments of physical vulnerability.
His well-stocked digital shepherd’s bag will take him far on his path, not only as an artist but also as a guide for new sensory orientations.”
Ralph Spencer Steenblik
Acts from the philosophy that interdisciplinary collaborations infuse spaces with nuance solutions, and is interested in creating urban complexity and
intricacy on the macro scale and inspiring, interactive spaces on the micro scale. Incorporating advanced digital tools and sustainability offers new
opportunities to this ongoing project.
Micaela Signorelli
Italian-Chilean Visual and Performance Artist based in Sheffield. With studies in Arts, Theatre and Developmental Psychology, her interests include the
vast field of Philosophy of Performance, specially Extreme Performance Art. Recently graduated as MA in Theatre and Performance Studies from
The University of Sheffield. Admirer of Pedro Lemebel and Albert Camus, Micaela has participated in professional montages as an actress, director
and integral designer and has exhibited visual work in Italy, Chile, Spain and the UK.
Marcel Schreur
"I wish for my art to create a universe from a viewpoint of peace and tranquillity. I intend for my works to be expressive and passionate while delicate
in shape and composition. I very much like to work with colours and spend quality time on the execution but also on the concepts that I am trying to
communicate eloquently. I believe that my work can be defined as "Art of the Mind" but also as "Art of the Spirit", touching upon ideas and sentiments
that are important and too often neglected. I like my paintings to be able to speak to and intrigue the viewer" - this is how Marcel describes the
concepts behind his creations and his relationship to painting.
Javier Marten
My visual system is a synthesis of my perception of nature, life and the world. That world of the tangible and at the same time ephemeral diversity of
the forests of Costa Rica that prevails in my plastic proposal that I translate in sensual forms and metaphors.
Marco Guglielmi
Marco Guglielmi is visual artist and performer, videomaker and sound designer. He was born in 1967 in Rome, where he still works and lives.
He has over thirty-five years of experience in the field of the experimental research on sounds. Marco starts working in digital/analogue editing and
recording in the middle of the 80’s, being a pioneer in Italy.
Patricia Castillo-Bellido
My artwork led me to discover numerous forms of translucence, which involves the fragmentary decomposition of light – cold colors, reflected while
warm ones pass through the translucent environment. The effect resulting from the passage of light through translucent environments result in
opalescence. Currently, there is a wide range of translucent colors, conventional or unusual that I enjoy painting and feel the silence and music
of light and colors. Canvas and acrylic colors can be set to have translucent properties in the production process, by overlapping several transparent
veil colors I generate various degrees of translucence. Translucent paintings set and maintain enchanting, meditative ambiances, which leave their
impression upon one’s senses and spirit.
Pey-Chwen Li
Pey-Chwen Lin received her doctorate degree in Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong in Australia. Currently, she is the director of the
Digital Art Laboratory and a professor in the Department of Multimedia and Animation Arts at National Taiwan University of Arts. Since 2010, Lin has
been advocating for research and exhibitions of digital art in Taiwan. She also published the first digital art book in Taiwan, titled Taiwan Digital Art E-Files.
She has served as a judge for various competitions such as Taipei Digital Art Award, K.T. Art Award, Taiwan Art Award, Seoul International
Cartoon & Animation Festival, and AustraliaagIdeas International Design Competition, JAGUAR Asia Tech Art Prize, International juror member for
Accelerate@CERN Taiwan, a competition jointly organized by the Ministry of Culture and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), etc.
Her work has been exhibited in major art venues and museums all around the world such as Queens Museum in New York, The Globe Museum of Women’s Ignite
project in USA, Exit and Via Art Festival in France, WRO Media Art Biennale in Poland, 404 Art Festival in Argentina, Italy and Moscow, Taipei Biennial,
Taiwan Biennial, Art Stage Singapore, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, The Museum
of Contemporary Art Taipei, etc. In 2015, Lin and her work were featured in a 40 year edition of Chronicles of Contemporary Taiwanese Art, published by Artist Magazine.
Laura Soprani
Laura Soprani (1967) is an eclectic designer, painter, sculptor and photographer known as a special effects specialist for cinema and TV in national broadcasts.
Less known, but most significant, is her work as a curator and artistic director for cultural events, exhibitions and installations. She currently teaches at the
Fine Arts Academy in Bologna, Italy.
As a conceptual artist, Laura experiments with alternative materials reworked in new textures and volumes in an ironic and provocative “dada” key.
Dan McCormack
"BIO I studied Photography from 1962 - 1967 at the Institute of Design in Chicago and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1967 to 1970.
I began photographing the nude with Wendy, my wife while in graduate school. Then for over forty years I explored various techniques and processes while
photographing the nude as a central theme. In 1"
Karel Stoop
Karel Stoop has been born (1951) in the south of The Netherlands in a numerous artistic family, which made that he was introduced to painting already at a
very young age. He had an academic art education in The Netherlands and studied multimedia at the university in Barcelona. He made plenty of journeys to
Asia, Middle East, North Africa, USA and all over Europe. He lived periods in Amsterdam, Ibiza and Barcelona and made exhibitions all over. His works can
be found in private collections and some museums. Actually he lives and works in a small village in the province of Lerida (Spain)
Sari Fishman
Applies science in art, part of traditional photography and creates abstract images with lights and movements. In 2016, she performed the Psychedelic
Self-Portrait performance for the Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception of San Francisco (Exploratium), during which she captures, in a random way,
he movements of the public. Each of these movements create different images, filled with a light of intense colors and at the same time imperfect,
that reflect Fishman's concept of femininity.
Emanuele Biagioni
Emanuele is seduced by nature’s beauty, by the colours of “his” land, by the mist rising from a far to shadow the contours of the churches. It is an emotion
expressed in poems of colours and images, in childhood memories, in fleeting remnants of scenery. The force and at the same time the gentleness of that nature
are poured into his vibrant paintings as if together with the veil of colour the anxiety of a melodious, profound and essential verse where spread on the canvas,
his painting give us the sensation of a “journey” made by the philosopher and poet to gather inspiration from the vision of nature and “jot down” the memories
to give rise to the beauty in the pictorial images. This interpretation is confirmed when Emanuele paints from life some of his best work.
Mahmud Manning
Mahmud Manning is an Urbanist and Illuminator who trained at The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture (V.I.T.A. MA) and at the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul,
where he honed his skills of TES-HIB under two Turkish Masters, Semih Irtes and Mamure Oz.
He is concerned with the unifying aspects of Mathematics, Astronomy and other sciences where beauty can be brought out and acknowledged within the
visual form. Architecturally he looks to enhance and help bring out the social dynamic within the built form.
Keith Zudell
I believe any work of art has beauty when the elements of the composition achieve a harmonic and structural unity. I strive to accomplish this by the brush
strokes that I uses in the creation of the painting. I am not striving for photo-realism. My aim is to paint what I see as accurately as I can, and also to communicate
an atmosphere of color, light and a timeless feel. I use thick heavy brush strokes to give breath and movement to each painting. Light is used to guide the viewers
eye to elements of the painting. Pointing them to selected objects so they may see the common in a new or distinctive way. My struggle as an artist is to always
go further in this pursuit, to enriches my work with a look of understood reality but still have a ambiguous element. So that the viewer might envision more than
a single interpretation, not just literal or realistic but metaphoric or abstract.
Karla Valle-Palma
My name is Karla Valle-Palma, I am an American Citizen and well-known artist in my native country, Nicaragua. I lived in Miami, Florida for 18 years, being a citizen
of USA and returned to Nicaragua in 1996. I have dedicated myself passionately to the art of oil painting for 15 years. Among my work I have done 20 collective
expositions in Nicaragua and recently in I presented my first personal one which turned out to be very successful. I just received art courses in Firenze, Italy,
at“Sacred Art” sculpture school. I have been invited to participate in Venice, Italy, at Palazzo Flangini, with two artworks and I participated also at Future Landscapes,
another exhibition by Architect Luca Curci in Venice, Italy, in Bogota, Colombia in the exhibition ‘INGRAVITY” at Jorge Jurado Art Studio and many more.
