@YOUREMERALDLIFE @HOSTBARNABAS @WINTERPRIDEUK ART AWARDS FINALIST LANA YANOVSKA

KEZIA DAVIES TALKS TO ART AWARDS FINALIST LANA YANOVSKA Tell us a bit about yourself and your practice. I am a Ukrainian photographer and video artist, living and working between Frankfurt (Germany) and Vöcklabruck (Austria). In my work, I explore the perception of gender and sexuality and challenge the viewer to look closer at her- […]

@YOUREMERALDLIFE @HOSTBARNABAS @WINTERPRIDEUK ART AWARDS FINALIST STEPHEN DOYLE

KEZIA DAVIES TALKS TO ART AWARDS FINALIST STEPHEN DOYLE Tell us a bit about yourself and your practice I’m a recent graduate of C.I.T Crawford College of Art and Design. My practice is predominately painting and drawing with an interest in instillation. I’ve always had an interest in portraying figures. My graduate show consisted […]

@YOUREMERALDLIFE @HOSTBARNABAS @WINTERPRIDEUK ART AWARDS FINALIST B-SIDE

KEZIA DAVIES TALKS TO KATIE, PARTICIPANT OF ART AWARDS FINALIST B-SIDE Click image to play Into Dust film Tell us a bit about yourself and your practice I am a student currently studying at Sixth Form and have campaigned relentlessly for an inclusive environment within schools for LGBT+ people. Through my own sexuality I began […]

@YOUREMERALDLIFE @HOSTBARNABAS @WINTERPRIDEUK ART AWARDS FINALIST RYAN DRISCOLL

KEZIA DAVIES TALKS TO ART AWARDS FINALIST RYAN DRISCOLL Tell us a bit about yourself and your practice I was born in the US and raised in the UK, British mother and American father that was part of the United States Air Force, which means I traveled a lot as a child. I started drawing […]

@YOUREMERALDLIFE @HOSTBARNABAS @WINTERPRIDEUK ART AWARDS FINALIST SOPHIE AKEHURST

KEZIA DAVIES TALKS TO ART AWARDS FINALIST SOPHIE AKEHURST Tell us a bit about yourself and your practice Born and raised in East London 40 years ago, my journey has taken me to many spontaneous places; from living in the Caribbean in and out of a decade, teaching, observing, assisting/fluffing to the last 5 years […]

@YOUREMERALDLIFE @HOSTBARNABAS @WINTERPRIDEUK ART AWARDS FINALIST JANEC VAN VEEN

KEZIA DAVIES TALKS TO ART AWRDS FINALIST JANEC VAN VEEN Tell us a bit about yourself and your practice I’m a taxidermy artist. I use taxidermy to tell stories about things that interest me, often in an anthropomorphic way that reveals something about human nature and how bizarre we are as a species, but also […]

@YOUREMERALDLIFE @HOSTBARNABAS @WINTERPRIDEUK ART AWARDS FINALIST TUGBA TIRPAN

KEZIA DAVIES TALKS TO ART AWARDS FINALIST TUGBA TIRPAN Tell us a bit about yourself and your practice Whether it’s visual image/footage or performance, my practice is almost always born from a desire to understand the complicated human condition and look for meaning & context in the fast changing world of our capitalist era. I […]

@YOUREMERALDLIFE @HOSTBARNABAS @WINTERPRIDEUK ART AWARDS FINALIST HABIB HAJALLIE

KEZIA DAVIES TALKS TO ART AWRDS FINALIST HABIB HAJALLIE Tell us a bit about yourself and your practice Born in Southeast London, I am a 22 year old, recent Fine Art Graduate from Loughborough University. My Sierra Leonean and Lebanese heritage tends to feed directly into my practice. I look to convey a sense of […]

@YOUREMERALDLIFE @HOSTBARNABAS @WINTERPRIDEUK ART AWARDS FINALIST TEO ROBINSON

KEZIA DAVIES TALKS TO ART AWARDS FINALIST TEO ROBINSON Tell us a bit about yourself and your practice I’m a Camden born and raised interdisciplinary queer transgender Jewish disabled neuro-diverse artist and activist emerging into the London art scene, after achieving a BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. My art falls […]

@YOUREMERALDLIFE @HOSTBARNABAS @WINTERPRIDEUK SELECTION PANELLIST SUZANNE VAN ROSSENBERG

MO BRADSHAW TALKS TO ART AWARDS SELECTION PANELLIST SUZANNE VAN ROSSENBERG Tell us a little about yourself and your experience with the Emerald Winter Pride Art Awards? I moved from the Netherlands to London to do a PhD at Middlesex University after having worked as an artist and project manager in both cultural and human […]