New Zealand–born, UK-based artist Cas Campbell works across ceramics, handmade paper, sculpture, and installation to explore humanity’s deep connection to nature. Drawing on evolutionary history, queer identity, motherhood, neurodivergence, and overlooked lives, Campbell’s practice weaves the personal with the historical. Their recent ceramic works construct alternative icons inspired by boundary-breaking female and queer figures, reframing ideas of gender, care, and permanence. In this in-depth interview, Campbell reflects on their journey from painting and installation to clay, the impact of becoming a young parent, and the slow development of a research-driven studio practice. The conversation offers an intimate insight into an emerging artist reshaping contemporary ceramics through tenderness, and resilience.
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Marcus Jansen, a globally renowned contemporary artist whose bold, emotionally charged works confront the complexities of modern life. Known for his distinctive fusion of street art, abstract expressionism, and social commentary, Jansen’s paintings explore themes of power, surveillance, and the human condition in an ever-changing world. From his early roots in graffiti culture to international acclaim, his journey is as compelling as the art he creates.
An in depth interview with Mate Orr, one of our Open Call winners, a young artist making waves on the international stage, talking about his work, how it all began for him and what is next.
Joanna Grochowska is a contemporary artist exploring transhumanism and human enhancement technologies. Her work contributes to the dialogue about morphological freedom and the future. The conceptual basis of her art are the notions of Transgression and Singularity. The dominant theme is the transhuman and posthuman figurativeness. She received the MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; an alumna of the Jewish Open University of Shalom Foundation, Poland; member of the Humanity+ organization. Patron of the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw and the Frist Art Museum in Nashville.
