Tag: contemporary art
Ellie Goodliffe brings her background in microbiology into a vibrant fine art practice that explores illness, human biology, mental health, motherhood, and the complexities of being human. Working across acrylic, alcohol ink, abstraction, and experimental processes, she transforms scientific subjects and difficult experiences into colourful, emotionally charged artworks. From cancer cells and neurodegenerative disease to menstruation, addiction, and mental health, Ellie uses art to make complex and often uncomfortable subjects more accessible, thought-provoking, and visually compelling. Her practice embraces both scientific precision and emotional expression, allowing biology and art to exist…
From drawing fundamentals and painting techniques to contemporary art and career advice, these five YouTube channels offer genuinely useful resources every artist can return to.
Life, Love & Everything She Creates is now live as a virtual exhibition by Women In Arts Network, bringing together women artists exploring life, love, creativity, memory, identity, and everything that inspires them to create.
A roundup of the latest art news from August 20–30, highlighting women artists, women-led exhibitions, overlooked art histories, and inspiring developments from the art world.
Discover five art podcasts that make learning about art, artists, and creative careers easier to fit into everyday life, from art history and contemporary practice to the realities of building a sustainable art career.
Discover four upcoming open calls for women artists, from international exhibitions and competitions to publishing opportunities with deadlines approaching soon.
Discover five unexpected places where artists can find real opportunities for commissions, exhibitions, murals, and installations beyond traditional galleries and museums.
Kea Elisa’s paintings turn travel, memory, and homecoming into layered contemporary works, combining acrylic, spray paint, oil pastel, embroidery, pearls, and natural pigments. From her Atlantic sailing journey to her Stitched Dreamscape series, discover how places and experiences become part of her artistic language.
The Beauty of Still Life invites artists to slow down, look closely, and discover the beauty and stories hidden within ordinary objects. With the deadline extended to August 30, artists now have more time to submit their unique interpretations of this timeless genre.
Annie Richard’s intricate beadwork brings together nature, geometry, mathematics, memory, and a deeply meditative creative process. Since discovering bead embroidery in 2019, she has worked with thousands of individual glass beads to create detailed compositions featuring mandalas, circular forms, and geometric patterns. Inspired in part by her mother’s lifelong connection to beadwork, Annie sees mathematics and art as complementary ways of understanding the world. Her recent use of watercolour beneath the beadwork adds a more fluid and unexpected element to her otherwise precise practice.