Louise Black
Louise Black (b.1992) is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working on the east coast of Scotland. Through physiology, Black’s works investigate the female figure as a main catalyst point. In touch with issues of female identity, the body and the maternal as subject, she performs an investigation into alternative methods of seeing and being seen. A great example of her work is ‘Aching in the Loneliness of Detachment’, which is made of aluminium, steel, wire, nylon, wadding, thread, hair, and a darning needle. The piece is human-like in form, but also creates a sense of the grotesque. The viewer is left feeling unsettled.
You can find more of Louise’s work on her website and Instagram.
Wu-Ching Chang
Wu-Ching Chang is an award-winning animation director who earned an MA. Animation from the Royal College of Art in the UK. She has worked on commercial and independent animation, illustration, and game concept art since 2015. Her films approach multiple issues of females, modernity, and humanistic views. ‘My Grandmother is an Egg’ explores the fragility and resilience of a woman who faced oppression from unjust Confucian traditions in Asia. As quoted from the synopsis:
‘Egg is life per se. Eggs are fragile, but at the same time tough. My grandmother is an egg.’
You can find more of Wu-Ching’s work on her website and Instagram.
Sonia Alins
Sonia Alins is a Spanish artist with a unique personality halfway between Surrealism and Romanticism. Her poetic narrative shows recurring references to femininity, feminism, motherhood, and family. Her piece ‘Extraordinary Women’ is a choral portrait representing, in a surreal and poetic way, the pride of being a woman and the claim for our rights. The piece itself is vibrant and colourful, with a real excitement to it. The viewer is invited to be part of a group in a way which makes them feel proud and included.
You can find more of Sonia’s work on her website and Instagram.
Hollie Mackenzie
Hollie Mackenzie is an artist, lecturer, and a Doctor in Political and Social Thought at the University of Kent. Working in many different mediums, her installation ‘A Feminist Dwelling’ is inspired by Sara Ahmed’s ‘Killjoy Survival Kit’. Made of a tent, fabric, foam, fairy lights, card, airbeds, iPads, headphones, and a solar cover, a shelter is created containing feminist audio-visual material to empower and care for ourselves from within patriarchal and capitalist social spaces
You can find more of Holly’s work on her website and Instagram.
Jessica Bell
Jessica Bell is a contemporary sculptor dedicated to the realm of public and community art. Blending traditional techniques with modern design, Bell’s creations resonate deeply, offering narratives that speak to societal concerns and personal journeys. “Rest” is a collection of artwork that serves as a visual representation of the artist’s yearning for rest. This body of work commenced when the artist was at the threshold of motherhood, at 9 months pregnant, and culminated when her son reached 9 months old.
You can find more of Jessica’s work on her website and Instagram.
Tschabalala Self
New York based artist Tschabalala Self uses painting, printmaking and sculpture to explore ideas surrounding the black body. She constructs depictions of predominantly women using a combination of sewn, printed, and painted materials, traversing different artistic and craft traditions. Tschabalala draws inspiration from women in her life, whether personally acquainted or casually encountered, and they often become the archetypes for the subjects depicted in her artwork.
You can find more of Tschabalala’s work on her website and Instagram.
Juliana Huxtable
Juliana Huxtable combines and reinvents cultural histories, questioning the presentation and perception of identity in artworks that often use her own body. Huxtable delves into the intersections of race, gender, queerness, and identity, employing self-portraiture, text-based prints, performance, nightlife, music, writing, and social media. Her work ‘Untitled’ presents a prose poem that alludes to pop-culture and intellectual icons like Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes and Octavia Butler, while recalling issues that have plagued the black community in New York.
You can find more of Juliana’s work on her Instagram.
Olivia Sterling
London based artist Olivia Sterling paints vibrant and joyous slapstick imagery that carries an underlying tension and subtle critique of racialised perspectives. By challenging hierarchical power systems, her work disrupts and questions modes of control by envisioning a world where the roles of oppressor and oppressed are inverted. There’s a persistent sense of discomfort and ambiguity in Sterling’s art, like in ‘The Women Around The Table’ where cake is intertwined with flesh in the form of a gluttonous celebration as we question – is this cake, or a person?
You can find more of Olivia’s work on her Instagram.
You can find more of Cai’s work on his website and Instagram.
Ebun Sodipo
Ebun Sodipo makes work for black trans people of the future. Her work takes the form of diverse mediums in galleries, festivals, theatre, digital, print, sound, performance, text, installation, video, and sculpture. Ebun is guided by black feminist study with a methodology of collage and fabulation, uncovering and crafting narratives reflecting the presence, experiences, and inner lives of black trans women throughout history and into the future.
You can find more of Ebun’s work on her website and Instagram.
Corrina Goutos
Hamburg-based artist Corrina Goutos is an artist working with jewellery, objects and installation. Her work aims to dismantle the hierarchy between man and material, considering the political ecology of both human and non-human elements. In her interdisciplinary practice, cherished and overlooked objects converge and interact, whether through the intentional intervention of the artist or through natural processes themselves.
You can find more of Corrina’s work on her website and Instagram.
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Bethan Jayne Goddard
