Artist features
Every month, ArtULTRA highlights the work of an emerging artist.
Read more about our emerging artists in these special features.
Ella Louvaine
SPIRA, MBE
Ella Louvaine Spira is a global nomad. Ella draws on her experiences of travel and collaboration with other artists to create (...)
Jess
PEMBERTON
Jess Pemberton is an emerging collage artist based in Penryn, Cornwall. Her work explores the boundaries between physical and digital spaces (...)
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Raki
NIKAHETIYA
Raki Nikahetiya is a New Delhi-based interdisciplinary artist. His work is a mix of conceptual and process-oriented art that seeks to interrogate identity and belonging in the 21st century (...)
Marcos
HENSON
Having studied Illustration at London College of Communications until 2020, Marcos is fascinated by how illustration can be much more than images accompanying a text(...)
Karwea
SHARRATT
Karwea Sharratt is an emerging painter based in London. Their works often depict figures in ordinary places: at a swimming pool or in front of their home. Karwea paints these calm scenes of public life (...)
Yoram
CHISIN
Israeli-based painter Yoram Chisin creates abstract works that explore the conflicting realities of war and beauty. Yoram fuses his love of fabrics and colours with working through his own emotions of pain (...)
Alba
URQUIA
Alba is interested in expressing the (sometimes absurd) duality of the human condition caught between the tangible material world and the intangible world of ideas (...)
Diana
OLIFIROVA
Asked about films and filmmakers that inspire her, Diana suggested Playtime and Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati. As she says, Tati made ‘pure film’ without much use of dialogue. (...)
Mirella
BANDINI
Inspired by natural landscapes and the female form, Mirella Bandini is an emerging artist who works mainly with ceramics and metallic found objects. (...)
MAMIMU
Working across a variety of media from digital prints to xR (Extended Reality) motion graphics, MAMIMU creates colourful designs and animations that help fulfil her mission to inject more optimism into the world. (...)
Teresa Zerafa
BYRNE
Teresa Zerafa Byrne is a London-based multi-disciplinary artist who explores embodied perception and memory. (...)
Megan
ALEXANDER
Megan Alexander is a full-time fashion artist and illustrator based in the Scottish Highlands. Using thick pressed watercolour paper, Megan is able to layer watercolours and then inks. (...)
Emmanuel UNAJI
"Everything I do is intentional. I use controversial, iconic or lesser-known subjects, and I question how the public consumes their images offered up by the media." (...)
Matilde
MERLI
"My process reflects my personality; I never finish one thing, I’m impatient for the next thing, I act on impulse. I imagine and also forget things quickly, so I must capture these fleeting images rapidly & release them on canvas." (...)
Farnaz
GHOLAMI
Farnaz is a London-based painter, printmaker and installation artist. Her practice explores geographical and cultural forms of dislocation through ambiguous landscapes and empty interiors. (...)
Sophia
HOWARD
Following the first lockdown, and the painting series called In My Skin which reflected her feelings of claustrophobia and frustration, Sophia turned to the exploration of the body. (...)
Sky
CAESAR
Sky Caesar is a 22-year-old writer and artist living in South London. She recently co-created a multi-media exhibition ‘L.E.G.A.C.Y.’ which re-evaluates Black History Month. (...)
Dwayne
BRIMAH
Dwayne is a self-employed illustrator and graphic designer. Having studied graphic design and illustration at the University of Hertfordshire, his training is reflected in his technical approach to creating artistic work. (...)
Nina
ROBINSON
Having studied photography in Cardiff, Nina didn’t immediately pursue her interest in photography, deciding to develop different skills in the digital arena instead. Five years on, she returned to photography. (...)
Matt
DOSA
What got Matt into art was graffiti, which he practiced obsessively as a teenager. Today, he has left the street for the studio, where his media of choice are canvas, paper, acrylics and spray paint. (...)
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LUNA
COLLECTIVE
The Luna Collective includes the four London-based artists Amy Wiggin, Blandine Bardeau, Misa Gott, and Gina Morton. As a group, they are interested in materiality, divinity in nature and a powerful sense of femininity. (...)