Category: Artist Review

Culture Review (2024) invites the viewer into what Tomic considers our ‘Modern Inferno’. The work is part of the series ‘Mapping Approximation,’ which utilizes collage to assemble cultural detritus, history, and a commentary on the state of our world in the present day. The work is a collage on cardboard, which also helps to create…

Swim Up Bar (2023) creates a relaxed environment with the calmness of the people within the painting who look to be engaged in conversations. The water has great reflective depth, which enhances the relaxing atmosphere of the painting. One can also see the sunlight, which ripples on the surface of the pool’s water and blends…

Utopia (2024) is an acrylic and ink painting on canvas produced by Petta’s solo exhibition project, Dreamland Chronicles. From the title of the work and the exhibition project’s title, we can understand that the work explores the idea of a utopia in the context of a dream. The painting uses highly saturated colours and seems…

Angel of Protection (2024) is an acrylic painting which shows remarkable usage of geometry and colour theory. The painting is centred on a vertical axis divided into two connected hemispheres and a triangle. The top half of the painting contrasts with blue and orange, which brings together the calmness and warmth of the orange and…

Head #1 (2023) turns leather, fabric, and steel into a head. Fabric and leather (though leather is less so) are quite fragile and could represent the human self. However, another interpretation could be that leather, a by-product of cow skin, is an aged and dead flesh on the head. The industrial materials, for example, the…

Memorial Bench (2024) is a photo montage in which a bench sits at the bottom of the work with a floating giant rock with what looks to be a fossil within it above the bench. The environment in which these two objects sit within looks desolate yet quite peaceful at the same time. The background…

Sunflowers and Roses Reflected (2025) presents a bouquet of sunflowers and roses that are realistically painted and vibrant. They are set against a digital reflection on the artwork’s lower half, in which their colours are inverted. This inversion of colour creates an immediate contrast to the work while allowing the viewer to see more details…

NEW YORK WE LOVE YOU (2020) is a very personal work which explores Khalil’s experience of disconnect and longing in New York during the COVID-19 pandemic. The photograph presents the city which “never sleeps” as quiet and empty. At the centre of the composition, Webster Hall’s marquee holds the words: “NEW YORK, WE LOVE YOU”.…

Symbiosis (2024) explores the contrast between humanity’s culture of fast fashion wastefulness and the potential to reverse this change with sustainable materials that recycle themselves. Using hand-knitted textiles, straw, and mycelium, Zhang has created a living artwork that comments on the issues mentioned above with humanity. However, the work is a physical example of a…

Rusty Water (2024) is set beneath a bridge in Larsson’s hometown which with this context gives the photograph a nostalgic and contemplative feel. The rust coloured wall (and the water as well) along with the diagonal sunlight going through the composition guides the viewer and creates a calming scene. Interestingly, the water’s colour and the…