Helen Turner is the Artistic Director and Curator at E-WERK Luckenwalde, a functioning Kunststrom power station that explores ecological practices and contemporary art.
New York based artist, Lou Patrou answers Kollektiv Gallery picture interview question with an extreme spectrum of colour with tribalistic faces, masks and animals.
Marianthi Aldridge is a Brighton based illustrator, she tells Kollektiv. "I enjoy giving myself restrictions in terms of colour, process and format which steer me in a certain direction towards a final product. Too many options scare me. Therefore a lot of the time I work backwards and let the mediums I use dictate where the design is going. I enjoy not thinking into anything too much."
"In our work we explore the past, present and future from social to ecological development of human life, individual and collective. We think about nature's gesture on everyday life, with simple acts or behaviours with which the viewer can identify through. We create minimal actions, constructive compositions, collages and installations. We explore the deliberately fragile, naturally ephemeral and discuss the difficulty of establishing links on contemporary urban space.”
Felicity Hammond researches the simulated domestic settings and constructed worlds of the ‘renders’ that illustrate architects’ proposals. She photographs digitally manipulated images from property developer’s billboards and glossy brochures and prints them directly onto moldable acrylic sheets, which are contorted into beautifully crafted, often large scale, sculptural objects.
Kat Rose is an illustrator and writer from the South of England. Her work primarily focuses on human connections, sentimentality and the surreal. She likes sunsets, old toys, synth pop, the colour red and she also likes to make zines and eat raspberries in her bedroom studio.
I’m an illustrator living and working in Amsterdam. I try to create simple and stylised work with witty concepts. I tend to draw characters which I sometimes bring to live in a small little gif.
Alex Aleksyuk is the fashion director of Disobedience in Saint Petersburg, Russia. All Alex's life he's loved creating, it didn't have to be clothes – anything. Alex is concerned how emotions and experiences can be expressed through photography, collage, installations, and clothing. How to use these tools to conduct a dialogue.