Jessica Mitchell

Jessica Mitchell’s practice highlights humanity’s relationship with beauty and the negative effects that come from trying to define it.

Jesse McMahon

Jesse McMahon is a multimedia artist. Drawing influence from avant-garde music and film, he creates experimental installations and video.

Jasmine McKnight

Central to Jasmine McKnight’s work is the use of artificial colours to create other worldly atmospheres and disorientating experiences.

Emilia Brassington-Jones

Using experiences of mental illness, Emilia Brassington-Jones creates visual representations of her mind through line and illusion.

Elinor Williams

Elinor Williams is an illustrator and animator. She is an artist living with chronic illness, and her work is driven by a fascination with human anatomy.

Deborah Sisk

Deborah Sisk is a sculpture and collage artist whose work explores her own extraction of personality, as a woman sacrificed to undervalued roles.

Chloe Wong

Chloe Wong’s practice pays close attention to the details of everyday items. She surveys textures, colours and natural beauty that is found in decay.

Chelsea Stephenson

Chelsea Stephenson focuses on re-creating the created. Her main interest surrounds landscapes and seascapes, with a focus on plastic waste.

Annabel Scott

Annabel Scott’s practice is inspired by popular culture, demonstrating the way that urban and cultural areas affect the way art is viewed.

Tallula Scrimshaw

Tallula Scrimshaw is best known for her installation pieces; tactile sculptures made from scrim and plaster or clay hang and drape to create tension.

Recalibration:
The June / July Edition

This issue is about realignment and hope. As humans, we need to understand our place in the world and the fragility of this ecosystem.

Reality Usurped

KangHee Kim distils the everyday, transforming it into something altogether different and utterly fantastical – encouraging imagination in viewers.

A New Conversation

Through bold costume, colours, pageantry and performance, Athi-Patra Ruga asks meaningful questions about how to decolonise the art sector.

Portraits in Isolation

Julia Keil’s self-portraits reference works from the worlds of film and fine art to express familiar experiences whilst living in global lockdown.

Powerful Narratives

World Photography Organisation outlines the principles behind successful visual storytelling through technical and conceptual innovation.

Design as Resolution

How can architecture create a more inclusive and connected world? Lina Bo Bardi offers vital lessons about how to rebuild and repurpose.

Tapping into Nature

Humanity’s interactions with nature are swiftly being rewritten. Makoto Azuma investigates this idea through large-scale botanical installations.

Colour and Motif

Diane Villadsen builds on our appetite for candy coloured compositions. Dreamlike tones move from blush pink and lemon yellow to soft lilac.

Body as Performance

Photographs from Nana Yaw Oduro provide the manifestation of thought and emotion, expressed through bright colours and physical movements.

A Visual Playground

Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda’s images redefine the conventions of structural photography with an aesthetic inspired by metropolitan living.

Towards the Horizon

Six N. Five develops the idea of “non-spaces” that captivate the attention, providing a visual oasis that is neither real or artificial; inside or outside.

Aesthetica Art Prize:
Dive into the Archive

Dive into previous Aesthetica Art Prize shows and get inspired by boundary-pushing photography, video, sculpture and more.

Artistic Restoratives

Danielle Becknell’s eclectic and diverse practice is driven by personal experiences that become the narrative. The creation of each artwork is a healing gesture – an intuitive expression of physicality shaped by perspectives of nature and unprocessed elements intended to both release and replenish.

Aspiration and Innovation

When André Fu completed The Upper House hotel in Hong Kong 10 years ago, he quickly became an overnight sensation. A new book explores.

Alias Trate: Technicolour Malaise

London-based Canadian artist Alias Trate visualises the human condition through abstraction. He works from the subconscious.

5 Online Photography Shows

International galleries continue offer to audiences art experiences from home. New photo shows span portraiture and documentary.

Through the Frame

Circling around ideas of visual boundaries, margins and fringes are the works of Fabien Dendiével. The photographer extends the concept of the frame.

Altering the Register

Isaac West’s portraits are luminous. Deep reds, cobalt blues and velvet greens are paired with painted lines on playing fields and soup cans.

The Story of Artnet

How Artnet’s founder Hans Neuendorf rose from the rubble of WWII Germany to transform the landscape of the art market.

Inner Landscapes

“I often think about my drawings as a run-on sentence that never ends.” Shara Hughes’ colourful works are rooted in the subconscious.

Making the Space

Heather Agyepong’s latest series, in support of MIND, responds to the life of African American performer and activist Aida Overton Walker.

The Virtual Stage

Founded nearly a decade ago, teamLab is known for its interconnected, “borderless” installations. These digital experiences push the boundaries.

Seminal Photography Shows

Discover some of the historic photography shows that shaped the medium during the 19th and 20th centuries – including those at MoMA.

The Space Between

Encounter Contemporary, London, opens a virtual solo presentation of Nicolas K. Feldmeyer, featuring time-lapsed films and digital renders.

Aesthetica Archives: Street Photography

Street photography involves candid images within public places. Aesthetica selects examples from the archives, from the mid-20th century to now.

Layering Ideas

Garrett Arreguin, also known by the moniker “Grafik”, is a Creative Director and designer originating from Orange County, California.

International Center of Photography: Art Online

The International Center of Photography, New York, is dedicated to photography and visual culture. Aesthetica selects online highlights.

Turbulent Decades

Samanthe Rubell, Senior Director, Pace Gallery, is responsible for the gallery’s online sales initiatives. She discusses a new online show.

Aesthetica Art Prize: Women Photographers

Get inspired by women photographers creating compelling visual narratives. These images travel the world, tell stories and reframe the landscape.

Inspiring Conversations

London’s Design Museum – like many around the world – is currently closed. In response, it is pushing into the digital realm with live streams.

Digital Competition: #AestheticaLockdownArt

Now is the time for creativity and innovation. Aesthetica is launching a new social media competition for international artists in isolation.

The Ethics of Documentary

Lars Boering, Managing Director, World Press Photo Foundation, discusses the 2019 contest entries, and the essence of “truth.”

5 to Read: This Month

Aesthetica selects five new art, design and photography books for May 2020. These titles reflect on the meaning of progress today.

Nocturnal Networks

Doorways, staircases, windows and curtains haunt the images of Indonesian photographer Ferdonio Damanik, offering the taste of worlds beyond.

Louisiana Channel: 5 Videos

Louisiana Channel is filled with arts and culture videos to watch from home. Aesthetica selects five interviews featuring lens-based artists.

Poetry in Collaboration

The Broad has launched a new interactive series featuring poets working in a variety of styles to respond to specific artworks in the collection.

VE Day 75: Digital Stories

8 May 2020 marks 75 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe. We bring together online arts, photography and history resources.

Retouched Realities

Amelie Satzger’s retouched photographs reveal an arranged visual world filled with autobiographical motifs, mirrors, balanced fruit and cube rooms.

Aesthetica Archives: Alex Prager

Alex Prager became a photographer overnight. Her cinematic practice evolved after she came face to face with an image by William Eggleston.

National Portrait Gallery: Art Online

National Portrait Gallery, London, holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. Aesthetica picks highlights to explore from home.