London-based artist Alfie Wright uses analogue photography to connect queer histories with queer futures, exploring cruising as sacred ritual and the subversive power of sexual deviance as an act of resistance. The public toilet as promised land. The park at midnight as sanctuary. Alfie Wright is interested in the spaces…
California-based South Asian visual artist Sneha Gindodiya paints a woman reaching toward a fading Persian and Kashmiri rug, building layered acrylic surfaces that dissolve as deliberately as the cultural memories they hold. Textiles are portable histories. Persian and Kashmiri rugs carry stories of labour, geometry and devotion across generations and…
Art director Sergey Zhigarev brings the printed matchday programme back to a Russian football club, pairing a strict typographic identity with a season-long series of illustrated posters that have grown from club publication into a recognisable visual language in their own right. The printed matchday programme has been quietly disappearing.…
Moscow-based illustrator Pashoot Ka creates a series of Procreate illustrations about Peter the Stone, a character who never moves while the world around him constantly changes, drawing from a found stone and a period of personal anxiety to build something quietly philosophical and quietly funny. In 2023, Pashoot Ka found…
London-based printmaker Oceana Masterman-Smith transforms paper into tactile sculpture through blind embossing, hand-carving designs into lino and pressing them into relief to create prints that shift and change as light moves across their surface. Most prints are read through ink. Oceana Masterman-Smith’s prints are read through light. Blind embossing is…
Brighton-based printmaker John Parkinson, known as Parky, brings colour and community spirit to a new junction in East Brighton, incorporating Edward Bawden-influenced angular forms and the graphic plant language of Angie Lewin into a spray-painted celebration of local life. Where Whitehawk and Kemptown meet, the road layout has changed. Through-traffic…
Graduating NID designer Neya Prabu reimagines how the Tamil script can be learned through visual relationships and form, developing an experimental publication in the Netherlands that grew from her grandmother’s teaching methods and became a way to share a part of her cultural identity through design. The idea did not…
Croatian graphic designer and visual artist Ivan Križan develops a series of digitally printed art photographs that isolate details from natural forms, placing them on the boundary between abstraction and figuration and rethinking what abstraction actually means. The word abstract is commonly used in art to mean something unreal, something…
Dublin-based printmaker Eimearjean McCormack presents a new series of fifty-eight limited edition risograph prints on Munken Paper, recently exhibited at The Royal Hibernian Academy, exploring the intersection of lived experience, memory and imagination through layered impressions of the natural world. The space Eimearjean McCormack works in is, by her own…
French, London-based artist Delphine Lebourgeois launches four limited edition prints that send flower-armoured rocket ballerinas into battle, each one hiding a small inner child beneath the defence. Delphine Lebourgeois’s warrior women have always moved as a troop. The Ballerina Collection sends four new recruits to join them, each one armed…
Greek art studio 11 Modern Muses, founded by Alexandra Tiligadi in Patras, extends four years of planner design into an undated collection that blends psychology, poetry and structure for people who don’t use a planner every day but want somewhere meaningful to land when they do. Not everyone uses a…
Nigerian-born ceramic artist and founder of Terravia Ceramics, Umar Abdulrasheed reinterprets traditional African pottery through a contemporary sculptural language, working between Nigeria and the United Kingdom to create hand-built and wheel-thrown forms that carry cultural memory through material restraint. Clay in Nigeria is not a neutral material. It is connected…
Australian photographic artist and creative director Sarah Louise Kinsella takes gel plate printing, street poster scraps and spray paint to the track, creating five handcrafted livery designs for the Ferrari 296 Challenge race series across Australia. These Ferraris are not road cars. They exist solely to be pushed to their…
Berlin-based artist and spatial designer Sabine Kelka translates the visual language of electrical circuit diagrams into large-scale silkscreen prints on textile, turning engineering notation into something spatial, physical and quietly disorienting. Electrical circuit diagrams have their own rigorous visual grammar: standardised symbols, precise connections, a language designed for clarity and…
Book artist, designer and writer Ruchika Nambiar produces a limited edition of five artist books that make a therapy transcript fully available and entirely unreadable at the same time, using mirrors and a flag book structure to explore the gap between transparency and vulnerability. In 2018, Ruchika Nambiar recorded a…
Seattle print artist and art director Ren Riley launches Fable & Fame, an upcycled micro fashion brand that merges medieval manuscripts, tattoo culture and 90s grunge into garments that treat sustainability, locality and the people who wear them as part of the art. Ren Riley and Ryan Axxel met and…
For its tenth edition, the Independent Paper Show moves north for the first time, landing at Soho House Manchester on June 9 and 10, 2026, with the industry’s most important paper producers, suppliers and makers under one roof. Tickets are free. There is something fitting about the Independent Paper Show…
Chinese-American contemporary spiritual artist Fung Cheung paints dreams, visions and psychedelic experience onto found mirrors in a solo show at Nepenthes New York, making the invisible spiritual dimension directly visible in the physical world. Every mirror Fung Cheung paints on is a found one. The decision is deliberate: rather than…
Denver-based lowbrow pop surrealist Blood & Gold reverses the production process, creating digital designs first and working backwards into linocut block prints to make something no machine reproduction could replicate: evidence of human hands. Blood & Gold builds his designs on an iPad first. Then, instead of sending them to…
Manchester-born, internationally-formed designer Patricia Shea has spent a lifetime developing a colour-saturated, maximalist pattern practice that began with watercolour on paper in New York and now exists across fabric, wallcoverings and digital print on demand. Patricia Shea did not set out to develop a unique style. “Developing a unique style…