This essay explores how belief can break down existing perceptions of reality and create new forms of understanding. Inspired by my fieldwork on Nuo Tang Theatre in Guizhou, I use painting to express chaos, mystery and the continuous cycle of destruction and reconstruction.
This essay explores the possibilities and limitations of challenging anthropocentric perspectives through contemporary painting, examining representation, material agency, and artistic control alongside critical reflection on my own non-human-engaged artistic practice.
An essay discussing how collage sculpture translates the sensory experience of a city trip into an inner map, through psychogeography and colour theory.
What are we waiting for? And why do we keep going? Through conversation and artworks this video podcast explores how promises of a better future shape our choices, our efforts and our experience of the present.
The essay explores the nature of images and imagination, questioning how images exist beyond representations or as products of the mind. It considers their power to shape, influence and transform us, and the possibility of encountering different realities through imagination.
This reflection reviews and documents the emotional journey, choices and struggles, and discussions about creative methods I experienced throughout my entire painting practice.
A doll came to life. She participates in a government breathing campaign, but more importantly reacts to a “well-made” video essay on AI video model data operations.
An essay exploring what pain leaves behind through woodcut and fragile paper installation, reflecting on how making, exhibiting and encountering an artwork transform bodily experience—and what remains beyond the reach of its material traces.
The theme of this essay explores the possibilities of figurative painting and the impact of images on the human subject. I argue that an figurative image encompasses more than just a character or a perception of reality; it serves as a medium for uncovering unrecognized meanings, understanding one’s psyche, discovering connections with the world, and even defining one’s autonomous identity and state of being—particularly for the painter.
This essay explores how contemporary artistic practices critically reflect on the attention economy.
A poetic illustration of a person desperate to go beyond the looking-glass, seeking their hidden self beyond the visible reflection.
An essay discussing an artist’s reflection on how everyday encounters with plants, material experiments and tactile experiences can encourage ecological awareness.
A reflection exploring how failure and shame become working methods in my practice-led research on water through making and writing.
This essay critically explores the concept of “art as a living entity” and examines the dynamic and reciprocal relationships between the artist, the process of making, the artwork and the viewer.
This essay examines how fire, dust and water mediate human perceptions of time, memory and embodiment, exploring their symbolic and material significance in art and how digital technologies transform sensory experience through simulation, interaction and computational control.
This essay engages with our unusual relationship and perception of animals, often influenced by science, myths, folklore and language. Gina discusses how this research influences her practice.
Exploring how patriarchal ideals of femininity are constructed, internalised, and challenged through literature and cinema.
An essay including journal entries reflecting on how fieldwork can be used to engage with the non-human world.
This essay collects some of my written sketches from the woods near my home. Further, it explores the contemporary relevance of a human-nature connection.
Sally Redway asks the sculptor John Summers about his working method which involves ongoing and dynamic relationship with his sculptures.
An essay discussing the nostalgia of early technology, the anxieties of surveillance capitalism, and hope in creativity.
An autoficitonal story following The Juggler, who walks up the road to The Work in the morning. At the end of the day she walks home. Sometimes she juggles as she walks. During this time, her mind wonders. Her mind is held in the up- down, throw catch, left right, behind the back rhythm. Even to simply hold the ball as she walks, listening to its sand innards shifting, provides an object of focus for her.
This is a documentation of the human experience- are you human? Have you experienced any of this?
A slow film to engage with and invite the viewer to reflect on their connection with water.
A video essay discussing the relationships and interactions between humans and instruments from an artistic perspective with specific reference to embodiment and process, theories and visual/sound artists.
This hybrid essay explores the deep time of the beach as a stage for confronting the end of the world
If the voice of free will cannot be heard once it leaves the gray zone, then let it loop within itself—helping you preserve a clear, untainted sanctuary deep in your mind.