The Radar: Beca Alcorta, Holly Jones and Ragini Bhow

Beca Alcorta

Beca Alcora is a Berlin-based sculptural artist. Her practice fuses mediums including acrylic, organic material, upcycled objects, aluminium and clay. Transcending the boundaries between arts and crafts, Alcorta’s Gothic-esque sculptures delve into the intricate role of magicality in ecodoom. Through her art, she explores the allure of sacralising destructive practices and the trust in supernatural forces as a means of collective (self-)deception. Her artefacts interrogate the transformative power of the otherworldly.

Age: 29

Birthplace: Frankfurt, Germany

Last dream you had: I danced with someone whose face was a shadow

Last thing you gossiped about: Past loves and delusions

Favourite art-world Instagram account: @_cruosia_

Favourite movie: I can’t decide!

Favourite album: Wyrdo by Palmistry

Favourite artwork: An untitled work by David Rappeneau

Favourite exhibition you’ve seen: This year it was ‘Main Body’ by Sally von Rosen at Trauma Bar und Kino

Loves: The fantastical creations of nature, dim lighting, the warmth of human skin

Hates: The crippling fear of fascism and ecological collapse, fungus gnats flying into my nose

Holly Jones

Graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2023, London-based multidisciplinary artist Holly Jones’ “fleshy nightmare creations” investigate the masculine, the feminine and the other through sculpture and photography, based on her own bodily experiences. Combining the grotesque, the organic, the industrial and the abject through actions of stretching, piercing and ripping, Jones’ work invites conversations about existing within the female or femme-presenting body.

Age: 24

Birthplace: High Wycombe, UK

Last dream you had: I don’t remember most of my dreams, but they are usually very intense, traumatic, or just odd. The last one I remember, I was trapped inside a hotel room in a glass skyscraper, watching people I knew below me at some kind of event. There was definitely more to it, but I don’t remember what happened!

Last thing you gossiped about: I don’t even know, something stupid at work probably

Favourite art-world Instagram account: @submit2darkmatter

Favourite movie: Suspiria by Dario Argento

Favourite album: It changes a lot, but currently it’s Some Girls Wander by Mistake by Sisters of Mercy

Favourite artwork: Haumupuia Rising (2018) by Lynn Lu

Favourite exhibition you’ve seen: ‘Dreamers Awake’, a 2017 group show at White Cube Bermondsey

Loves: My trinkets, facts about eels, silver jewellery, candelabras, the beach

Hates: Raisins, the smell of bananas, rudeness to service workers, my single-glazed windows, landlords

Ragini Bhow

Raised in Bangalore, India, Ragini Bhow has exhibited across India and Europe. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she paints and sculpts. Bhow incorporates crushed crystals in her paint pigment and works in a deeply meditative state, guided by her intuition and tuned into visions and dreams from her experiences in the Thar desert on the border of Pakistan and India.

Age: 32

Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

Last dream you had: Being pulled by a massive tsunami wave

Last thing you gossiped about: Leeches

Favourite art-world Instagram account: @leonoracarringtonestate

Favourite movie: The Love Witch by Anna Biller

Favourite album: All of This by Perera Elsewhere

Favourite artwork: Any ancient petroglyph

Favourite exhibition you’ve seen: Many but recently, Jack Whitten: ‘The Greek Alphabet Paintings’ at Dia Beacon, New York

Loves: Earl Grey, the uncanny, thunderstorms, dunes

Hates: Skinny jeans, paint drips, grafted cacti