London-based artist Ikeda Moody-Golding takes us on a nostalgic and trippy voyage through a whimsical world filled with surreal landscapes, uncanny faces, butterflies, flowers and distorted, doll-like inhabitants. Moody-Golding works across a wide colour palette, ranging from monochrome sketches to muted pastels and luscious candy-colours to explore themes centred around dreams and the subconscious.
Age: 27
Location: London, UK
Last dream you had: Probably something to do with my boyfriend
Favourite exhibition: The last one that really impressed me was Emma Stern’s ‘Penny and the Dimes: Dimes 4ever World Tour’ at Almine Rech, London
Favourite object you own: My scrunchie
Favorite art-world Instagram: @_quickwit_
Favourite movie: Mirrormask by Dave McKean – it inspired my art style a lot as dreams are a recurring theme in my work
Favourite artwork: I came across this artist in Sicily inside one of the towers at Aci Castello. He’s called Jean Calogero and his art book was open on a page that is now one of my favourites: Girl with Birds
Loves: Snails
Hates: Salt
End-of-year goals: To delve more into oil painting and explore sculpture. I also want to start planning a solo exhibition
The recent work of Danish painter Anders Davidsen captures the ephemeral beauty of the sun meeting the horizon. Through the medium of oil painting, he creates an intricate dance of light and atmosphere, where the relationship between the two dissolves. Davidsen carefully prepares his canvasses and applies paint in a delicate manner that conjures a subtle radiance, enveloping the viewer in a muted yet enchanting glow, seeking to invoke a feeling similar to gazing into the setting sun – a fleeting moment of strange expansiveness.
Age: 36
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Last dream you had: My friend decorated the stairway in my apartment building to look like a cave
Favorite exhibition: One that comes to mind is the prehistoric exhibition at the National Museum of Denmark. Some of the objects are very moving – the skill and humanity emanate from them.
Favourite object you own: My drawing and writing book
Favourite art-world Instagram: There are so many good ones. I love @curio_esoterica, it’s full of alchemical and esoteric images along with some really informative context. And @painterspaintingpaintings!
Favorite movie: I honestly don’t know. I watched The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky once, at just the right time in my life. It was a great movie-watching experience.
Favorite artwork: Choosing a favorite is impossible. What comes to mind is seeing L.A. Ring’s ‘After Sunset’ when I went to a gallery as a teenager for the first time.
Loves: Being outside, making a fire, smiles from loved ones.
Hates: I don’t like to hate anything, nothing good comes of it
End-of-year goals: Having our family settled in the new place we’re moving to. And to be making good and meaningful work
British artist Edward Oliver works across sculpture, performance and installation. Using functional objects as driving forces to play with material, Oliver places his audience between desire and discomfort and seeks to reconfigure social perceptions and constructs of identity through the queering and abstraction of objects. Looking at spaces that uphold gendered values, he interrogates masculinity as a source of analysis in relation to the objects entangled in these spaces. Oliver is interested in exploring the acquired anthropomorphic qualities of desire and sexuality in objects and how to re-engineer them.
Age: 23
Location: Dorset, UK
Last dream you had: Driving lessons with Naomi Campbell
Favourite exhibition: ‘Nelken’ by Pina Bausch
Favourite object you own: My pencil case
Favourite art-world Instagram: @jerrysaltz
Favourite movie: The Handmaiden by Park Chan-Wook
Favourite artwork: Lewis Walker’s performance Compete for Me
Loves: Kiwis, Sarah Ahmed, Virginie Despentes and discipline
Hates: Closed-mindedness
End-of-year goals: You’ll have to wait and see…
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