“Black American music exists within the DNA of The Rolling Stones. Their deep reverence forms the bedrock of the band’s artistic identity” – Nathaniel Mary Quinn”
The Chicago-born NATHANIEL MARY QUINN is an increasingly name-checked contemporary artist whose deconstructed portraiture has been chosen by legendary rockers The Rolling Stones to grace the cover of their much anticipated forthcoming album Foreign Tongues..
Read our INTERVIEWwith the artist on FUTURISTIC DRAGONto discover why his own past reads like a narrative of the blues, and discover the process that led to the creation of the iconic album cover.
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ROBY DWI ANTONO
The Indonesian artist on dream creatures, strange visions and creative transcendence
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ROBERT MONTGOMERY
The poet artist on hierarchies, radical spiritualism and finding true purpose
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ABE ODEDINA
The British artist on identity, studying Platonic forms and the magical mundane
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HALEY JOSEPHS
The American artist on awakening to deeper existence and breaking open the head
“I feel like you can learn a lot from just looking at a cloud formation, from star gazing, or looking at sunset or sunrise” – ˙Haley Josephs
The American artist HALEY JOSEPHS seeks to immerse the viewer in the vast mysteries of being – awakening us from the grey sub-reveries of day-to-day existence to authentic presence in the moment. As such, she opens small portals where acute awareness and sensory perception converge.
Read our full INTERVIEW with the artist on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to discover why she believes the journey from birth to adulthood is positively luminescent no matter what the challenges.
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MANOLIS ANASTASAKOS
The Greek artist on mythologies, spiritual identity and the machinations of time
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ANTONY DALEY
The British artist on exploring the beauty of the cosmos via both art and science
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YIFAN JIANG
The Chinese artist on reality as dreamtime, and why all art contains a kernel of narcissism
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JOSE PARLA
The Cuban abstract artist on the healing energy of light and coming out of a coma
If you look at these works, they're all about a surge of light producing beams of energy. We can't function without that energy – the sun, the light; it's the energy that we have in our body” – Jose Parla
The New York-born Cuban artist JOSE PARLA explores an interplay of form that blends the strange calligraphy of optic nerve stimulation with painterly abstraction, asking us to consider the phenomenological beauty in the unconscious apparatus of being.
Read our full INTERVIEW on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to find out how he was fundamentally changed by a brush with death, and why he has hope that one day the species will transcend beyond a perpetual state of war.
“Femininity is very important to me. I consider woman as the source of creation, the bringer of life” – Agata Przyżycka
The rising Polish artist AGATA PRZYZYCKA creates sumptuous and surreal abstractions that are both dreamlike and imbued with subtle eroticism. Her work layers lush colour and figurative suggestion to evoke states of desire and introspection, inviting you to deep dive into unfettered reverie.
.Read our full INTERVIEW with the artist on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to discover why she is constantly reaching for sublime intimacy in an art practice that elevates her own mental health.
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STACEY GILLIAN ABE
The African artist on reclaiming womanhood and the challenging identity tropes
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REGINA KIM
The Korean artist on embracing diversity and traversing the surreal landscapes of the mind
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EMMA STERN
The American artist on feminist tropes, digital avatars and creating mythical rock stars
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SILKE WEISBACH
The rising german artist on working with living materials and metabolic intimacy
“I’m interested in how our concept of nature has been shaped across different historical and cultural frameworks” – Silke Weisbach
The German artist SILKE WEISBACH employs painting as a laboratory for attending to the ever-shifting ties between living matter and technological intervention, and reminds us that the world we inhabit is made of compounds that communicate, conjoin, and alter one another.
.Read our full INTERVIEW with the artist on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to discover why she proposes art as a practice for leaning into the strange chemical conversations at the root of life..
“II think through losing people, whether that's through separation or through death, you find a way in yourself to deal with impermanence”– Gill Button
The British artist GIL BUTTON deals in melancholy and the beauty of impermanence, creating emotive existential canvases from the flotsam and jetsam of our digital image-heavy era. Her sublime explorations of the human condition are widely celebrated and she has exhibited globally
.Read our full INTERVIEWwith her on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to discover how overcoming despair brought her to the canvas.
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MARIA KREYN
The American artist on creation myths and tempestuous emotional resonance
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SAM JACKSON
The British artist on classicism and reframing art history for a contemporary audience
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CAO JIGANG
The Chinese artist on Taoism, finding meaning in emptiness and reaching for the sky path
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JIM SHAW
The American artist on suburbia dream logic and the detritus of consumerism
"Everything in life is magical … I think of paintings as tools of enchantment; as things that spark off questions” – Abe Odedina
The award-winning architect-turned painter ABE ODEDINA employs his art practice in order to experience the profound in the everyday and find the magical in the small details of existence.
Read our INTERVIEW with the artist on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to discover why His most recent work incorporates ideas from classical philosophy and applies them to the contemporary paradigm.
“I am more connected to the world when I am painting, and even though it is solitary, it doesn’t ever feel lonely”
– Sophie Kipner
The artist SOPHIE KIPNER celebrates sensual connection on surreal canvases that map out her fantasies, but she is equally adept in writing, as her debut novel The Optimist is testament to. Her work in both mediums traces the tender ambiguities of desire with vivid, unsettling clarity.
Read the INTERVIEW on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to find out why she believes every mode of expression is equally important in the pursuit of joy.
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