FUTURISTIC DRAGON is a new arts and culture platform founded by creative director and cultural strategist John-Paul Pryor that offers twice weekly in-depth Interviews with trans-generational movers and shakers in the creative world, surfing the disciplines of art, photography, film, books, and much more besides.
Our editorial philosophy is very simple – to keep it human and share ideas, stories and works that inspire creativity and fire the imagination. Welcome to our world.
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GORDON CHEUNG
The British-Chinese artist on control and the invisible apparatus of existence
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ANASTASIA BLACKMAN
The American-Ukranian artist on distant intimacy and remote collaboration
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THE NEW AMERICAN PSYCHO
Photographer Lucas Alexander Wilson presents a new vision of Patrick Bateman
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REGINA KIM
The Korean artist on embracing diversity and traversing the surreal landscapes of the mind
“Algorithmic training data is ultimately an accumulation of biases society has repeated for centuries. Algorithmic control and patriarchal control are therefore fundamentally the same”
– Regina Kim
ART & IMAGE: The celebrated Korean artist REGINA KIM is an increasingly name-checked creative force whose hyper-modern surreal vistas invite the viewer to engage in a dance of projection that challenges the invisible scaffolding of social conditioning.
Read our EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with the artist on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to discover the ways in which we are all subliminally guided, and why true agency begins to be re-imagined at the moment art visualises the fractures authority seeks to conceal.
“I approach each piece emotionally each time, which is in harmony with depicting the colours I’m seeing. I think building a painting and building a song sit in a similar world” – Jack Coulter
STYLE & CULTURE:In an era increasingly dominated by algorithmic hyper-speed, the Belfast-born artist JACK COULTER offers a meditative counterweight, presenting a deeply analogue communion between human sensation and canvas
Read our exclusive INTERVIEW on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to find out how he came to view his rare from of synaesthesia as a gift that allowed him to translate sound to canvas.
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NICK WAPLINGTON
The renowned artist and image-maker on the nineties, Mizrahi and Alexander McQueen
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WILLIE CHRISTIE
The legendary photographer and filmmaker on surreality and artifice in image-making
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CHAZ GUEST
The American artist on energy, divinity and seeking the hue of humanity
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NATHANIEL MARY QUINN
The American artist on his iconic album cover for legendary rockers The Rolling Stones
“Creating the album cover for The Rolling Stones is an artistic honour – a dialogue with one of the most enduring forces in cultural history” – Nathaniel Mary Quinn
STYLE AND CULTURE: American painter 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 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with the artist on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to 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.
“Everything was imagined by someone before it was real – your jumper, your coffee cup, your headphones. It’s an act of creative thinking that creates the world around us” – Charlotte Colbert
PEOPLE & SOCIETY: Multimedia artist CHARLOTTE COLBERT is celebrated for sculptural and celluloid interventions that probe feminist critique, modern womanhood, psychological archetypes and the power of collective imagination.
Read our exclusive INTERVIEW on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to discover why she creates all-seeing portals for transcendence and has a quietly radical faith that imagination, exercised collectively, will remodel our future.
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MERYL MEISLER
New York photographer Meryl Meisler on excess and beauty at Studio 54
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ANNE VON FREYBURG
The Dutch textile maestro on femininity and challenging art world hierarchies
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DEREK RIDGERS
The legendary image-maker on shooting intimacy on the fringes of society
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RANKIN
The acclaimed British photographer on the creative paradox of AI
“The best relationships creatively are the love-hate relationships, because they're the ones that really challenge you” – Rankin
STYLE & CULTURE: The renowned photographer, publisher and provocateur Rankin has been capturing the cutting edge of pop culture in the eye of his lens since the early 90s, when he co-founded the style magazine Dazed and Confused, reshaping contemporary portrait photography.
Read our full INTERVIEW with the iconic image-maker at FUTURISTIC DRAGON to find out why he has been an enthusiastic adoptee of AI.
“Art is the closest thing we have to a time machine. And it shows how indebted we are tot the past and the future” – Maria Kreyn
ART & IMAGE: The New York painter MARIA KREYN creates tempestuous and masterful canvases invite us to step into metaphysical contemplation of existence in a stream of cosmic time without beginning or end.
Read our exclusive INTERVIEW with the artist on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to find out why there are stranger things in heaven and earth than we can possibly imagine.
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VON WOLFE
The masterful British painter on reimagining the role of the artist
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STACEY GILLIAN ABE
The African artist on womanhood and reclaiming traditional symbolism
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ROBY DWI ANTONO
he Indonesian artist on dream creatures, and creative transcendence
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GERED MANKOWITZ
The British photographer recalls shooting The Rolling Stones at home in The Sixties
“Truth has always been mediated, by the press, by propaganda, and by the selection of what is recorded and what is forgotten” – Von Wolfe
ART & IMAGE: The British painter VON WOLFE utilises artificial intelligence as a creative pathway in the painstaking creation of huge oil paintings that shake the very foundation of what one understands to be the conceptual role of the artist.
Read our exclusive INTERVIEW with the artist on FUTURISTIC DRAGON to find out why his embrace of generative technologies is an experiment in humility.
Get up-close-and-personal with artists from all over the world and unlock the mysteries of the creative mind.
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