Tag: contemporary art
Sarah Rutherford is a British painter who returned to her artistic practice after stepping away from painting to pursue a career in marketing. Working primarily in oils, she creates portraits and still lifes that look beyond surface appearances to explore character, emotion, and the stories objects carry.
Cristina Chirilă creates layered portraits that explore the complex emotions, memories, and contradictions beneath the surface of a recognisable face. Working across painting, photography, and installation, she uses fragmentation, blurring, and overpainting to challenge how we see and understand identity.
From Sophie Calle’s major UK exhibition to Mira Schor’s feminist paintings and Saya Woolfalk’s imaginative worlds, discover five important art news stories highlighting women artists from this past week.
Paulina Wróblewska creates lifelike acrylic paintings of big cats, capturing their strength, vulnerability, and quiet dignity through detailed fur textures, carefully observed anatomy, and expressive eyes. Entirely self-taught, she developed her practice through digital drawing before moving to canvas, where she found greater freedom to express emotion.
Women in Arts Network is launching its first-ever print magazine, inviting 50 women artists worldwide to showcase their work. Submit up to three artworks for a chance to be published, receive artist features, and win a $500 award.
Discover how Ukrainian artist Anna Shkinder brings ancient vessels to life through expressive acrylic paintings, nature-inspired textures, and stories of memory, emotion, and human connection.
Linda Edwards creates paintings rooted in the landscapes, traditions, and everyday life of Saddleworth, where she has lived for more than thirty years. Working mainly in oils, she captures quiet streets, changing light, local characters, natural landscapes, and community traditions, treating her paintings as a kind of visual diary of the place she calls home
Kavya Sharma creates textile-based artworks that bring together embroidery, drawing, and installation to explore memory, care, the body, and women’s lived experiences. Rather than choosing a medium first, she begins with an idea and allows the work to determine how it should take shape.
This week in the art world: five stories every artist and art lover should know, from Nilima Sheikh’s MoMA debut and Imelda Cajipe-Endaya’s National Artist recognition to feminist art exhibitions and new opportunities for women and non-binary artists.
October is bringing a full calendar of exhibitions, art fairs, openings, and opportunities for artists. Here are six dates and events worth adding to your art calendar this month.