Category: Artist Review

Hat (2019) and Rythm (2019) uses the bowler hat and salt to explore exploitation, labour, and memory. The work is set in a 19th-century factory building, and the lack of colour makes it seem as though you are stepping into the time period in which the exploitation of the working class was taking place. The…

Real and Unreal (2022) is an oil painting on canvas which successfully explores the concept of opposites. The still life consists of objects that have been halved (as in the case of the pumpkin and the fruit in the centre right) and in an imperfect form (the left fruit has warts and other imperfections). The…

Never Seen Before (2025) merges Castelan with the Earth, which has been created through a selfie and a photograph via digital manipulation. The result is that the trees and Castelan have become one with nature. This challenges the concept that humanity dominates nature or cannot be the same as nature, as within the photograph, it…

Headwires (2024) depicts a concrete wall with small cables through a photograph of a small section, allowing us to see the textures of the wall. The greyscale monochromatic tone of the work allows the viewer to examine between the shadows and the lights of the work. The shadow covers around a third of the wall…

When first viewing the work, Sweat for Generation seems like a simple contraption. Yet, as you get closer, you will realise that the work is a prompt page for ChatGPT connecting to a hand crank. Above the contraption, there is what looks to be paper or a receipt coming out of it, which seems to…

Greenwood’s series “Smoke and Mirrors” (2014) explores the subconscious, memory, and identity through the use of surrealist vintage imagery. Through monochromatic silkscreen prints, Greenwood creates a form of nostalgia and a mirror into the past, which allows the viewer to interact with the artworks by creating their own interpretations and perhaps entering the work themselves.…

Surge and Stillness (2024) is a watercolour painting that successfully replicates the rawness and power of volcanic tension through the flow of the lava and its clashing with its cooling and the creation of rock at the end. There is a great contrast between the lava cooling (and the resulting rock) and the vibrant, fiery…

Stulbach’s series Tel Aviv has captured the nightlife in moments of peace against what nightlife usually is (active and vibrant). The high-count, high-contrast photography has stripped the images of their colours instead, bringing the viewer to examine the light and shadow along with the compositional elements of the photos. Furthermore, many of the photographs utilise…

A Forever Young Soul (2024) features a female figure in the centre of the composition, who has been set against a golden background in which the colour emanates wisdom and a warm, welcoming feel. A pink tulip inside of a vase to the side of the woman complements her peaceful demeanour. The flowers at the…

The Poetry of Evolution (2010) contrasts well with the black background against the bones, symbolising regeneration. The black background may perhaps symbolise mortality and loss. The skeletal form created by the composition of the bones is a metaphor for the framework of life. Bones are the remains of life and eventually decompose to become new…