The artists to look out for in 2021. Even without a pandemic, January is never the easiest month. What’s getting us through though, is thinking about what we’ve got to look forward to, and get excited about, in the year ahead. Having compiled a list of the artists on our radar for last year, we’re revisiting who we're watching for 2021.
For Dohee Kwon, travel and music are the driving inspirations for all her work. Currently based in Seoul, Korea the up-and-coming illustrator is hyper-fluid in her medium, with her work appearing on zines, mirrors, tour posters, T-shirts, and even Vans shoes.
Rio Sipos, aka i am baby king, is as well known for their distinctive hand poke tattoos as they are for cofounding queer Berlin tattoo collective Fantasy along with six of their friends. Made up of Rio, Yeda, Rozita, Anny, Theo, Coco, and Aron, Fantasy was born out of the crew’s dissatisfaction with Berlin’s conventional tattoo studios.
To close off our series we speak to Dean George, whose output spans creative direction, film direction and photography, with a client list that includes Nike, Adidas, Stone Island, Matches Fashion and Puma.
Overlooked narratives and the mundane are key themes running through Olivia’s work, and this aesthetic extends to her wider approach too. She’s determined to make the arts heritage institutions and arts education more accessible and representative of their local communities. Here she shares her insights on everything from starting out as a creative, to building confidence, to the value of peer feedback.
Photographer Ian Watts has been documenting Notting Hill Carnival since the '70s. We caught up with him for his insights into his own beginnings with Notting Hill Carnival, the difficulties of carnival’s media portrayal, and what the celebration means to him.
Kim Van Vuuren, Sarah Firth, Lucas Hesse, Will Pacheco and Ignorance1 reflect on why merch is a lifeline.
Photographer Conor Clinch's 'Fighting Silence' project aims to dismantle the stigma around male mental health. We caught up with him to chat collaborating to create T-shirts for a cause you believe in.