Tag: contemporary art

Explore 10 inspiring original artworks from Women in Arts Network’s Life, Love and Everything She Creates virtual exhibition, featuring artists sharing stories of life, love, creativity, and everything in between.

Mónica Nicolau creates textile artworks that transform as light moves across their richly stitched surfaces. Working with commercial cotton fabrics, oil paint, cotton batting, and free-motion machine quilting, she builds dimensional compositions that sit somewhere between painting and sculpture

Five art documentaries that offer fascinating glimpses into artists, the art market, museums, collections, and the stories behind the art world.

J Reeves creates flowing abstract paintings inspired by nature, memory, water, and the freedom of seeing something different in every shape. Working primarily in acrylic, she builds organic compositions without sketches or predetermined plans, allowing one form and colour to respond naturally to the next. Her paintings may suggest birds, fish, leaves, or sea life to different viewers, but she embraces that uncertainty as part of what makes abstraction personal. After spending years creating work based on what she thought others wanted, J eventually gave herself permission to paint more intuitively,…

Explore five artworks from Life, Love and Everything She Creates, a virtual exhibition featuring 50 women artists and their unique perspectives on life, love, memory, and everyday experiences.

Discover the creative journey of Joanna Pilarczyk, from her childhood in Poland and television-inspired colour palette to her vibrant figurative paintings in London.

This week’s art news highlights five stories from across the women’s art world, from new virtual exhibitions and international open calls to major exhibitions celebrating South Asian and Black women artists, and a new painting series by Spanish artist Juana González.

Discover five exhibitions to add to your fall art calendar, from contemporary Cuban women artists and Black women artists to a major Eva Gonzalès retrospective in Paris and an international virtual exhibition.

Juniper Sikora is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice begins with a simple but powerful act: paying attention. Working across photography, sound, installation, bioplastics, field research, and participatory experiences, she investigates water as both material and collaborator. She collects water from specific locations, records underwater sounds, photographs droplets, creates bioplastics that physically contain traces of place, and builds experiences that encourage viewers to touch, listen, and investigate. Her Water Response Atlas brings these encounters together as an evolving archive of photographs, recordings, samples, and observations. Across her work, Juniper is…

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…