Artist Profile

Bodies of Time: Lorraine THIRIA on Surfaces, Memory and the Imaginary

Artist Profile, Interview / April 23, 2026

Lorraine THIRIA is a contemporary french artist, whose practice moves fluidly between painting, photography, writing, and material research. Her Art is anchored in a singular visual world shaped by walls, matter, memory, and time. Trained in mural art and visual arts, and having arrived at photography through painting, she treats surfaces as living skins that […]

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Melvin Edwards: New Political Vocabulary of ‘Lynch Fragments’

Artist Profile / April 4, 2026

Melvin Edwards (1937–2026), who died last week at 88, was a Houston-born sculptor and activist who was raised during segregation and portrayed Afro-American lives in abstract terms. He first studied painting at the University of Southern California before turning to welding in 1959. Building on this distinctive artistic foundation, Edwards crafted intricate, abstract assemblages from

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Maryam Saeedpoor: Witness from Within

Artist Profile / April 3, 2026

Maryam Saeedpoor is a Tehran-based Iranian photographer whose theatrically staged portrait work has made her one of the most significant visual voices documenting the lives, resistance, and interior worlds of Iranian women. Born in Tehran in 1984, she operates at the intersection of art photography, photojournalism, and quiet defiance, creating images that are simultaneously intimate

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Sadegh Tirafkan: Reimagined War Memory of an Iranian Artist

Artist Profile / March 28, 2026

We are now witnessing many wars. War on terror, war for oil, for power and so on. War creates a historical milieu; it divides history, memory and life into two: before and after the war. In the ongoing context of war, this article, as part of a series on war and art, examines the artworks

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Who is BELGUR MANDAVI? The Story Of Ghotul, Tribal Art and Anonymity

Artist Profile, Culture & Heritage, Dying art / March 13, 2026

The idea of art for tribe and tribal people is not quite aligned with the world view of it. Art isn’t exquisite for the the tribe it is integrated in their life the way food is. Art is playful, experiential, raw and real. That’s what one feels when they look at the art created by

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Art of Ugur Gallenkuş: Fragments of War and Collage as Witness

Artist Profile / March 11, 2026

The art of Turkish collage artist Ugur Gallenkuş proves that wartime is not only about war but also about thoughts and movement against it. As attacks against Iran have begun following the Russian-Ukrainian war and Israel’s ongoing aggressions in Palestine, anti-war art creations are also gaining attention on social media. Ugur Gallenkuş’s works are a

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Malak Mattar: A Homeland Painted in Memory, Art After the Bombing

Artist Profile / March 9, 2026

War shapes people’s socio-political life and, thus, their artistic expressions, and it changes like any other experience. Palestinian artists Malak Mattar, whose lives and experiences with prolonged conflict have been personally affected, depict war as a mirrored experience with details. The experience of war, like other experiences, leaves its imprint, and following it, one can

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Wild World: An Animal Map of the Planet by Anton Thomas

Art Of The Day, Artist Profile / March 6, 2026

When artist-cartographer Anton Thomas began sketching Wild World in his Melbourne apartment during the quiet months of 2020, the world outside had shuttered. Yet, in that isolation, Thomas opened a vast landscape — an entire planet reborn through coloured pencil and pen. Over three years, he meticulously drew 1,642 animal species from every ecosystem imaginable. These included

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Threads of Memory: War and Diasporic Identity in the Art of Samar Hussaini

Artist Profile / March 5, 2026

In a world where conflict frequently shapes society, War continues to play a major role in political, historical, artistic, and cultural tales. Ongoing geopolitical concerns, such as unexpected attacks and conflicts in the Middle East, serve as a reminder that War is an enduring reality that transforms civilisations, geography, memory, and identities rather than just

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Asim Waqif’s Ecologies: Fractured Cities and Living Materials

Artist Profile, venice biennale 2026 / March 2, 2026

Asim Waqif, an Indian artist, traverses architecture, ecology, and the vibrant life of cities to create art, representing India at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Waqif, born in Hyderabad (1978), trained as an architect, has become an artist and created a vocabulary of alluring atmospheres, sculpture, installation, and video. Through artwork, Asim Waqif examines how materials,

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