I have always wondered how the brothers Gabriel and Victor Gomez, or The Wolf Boys, with their hypertrichosis syndrome, got on with school. Equipped with neither consideration nor compassion, most children can be very cruel, with their sharp tongues and stinging words. How did the brothers’ react to the jeers of their peers? [...]

The last time I stepped onto school grounds with the intention of attending a class was in 2004. Today, as I passed by throngs of youngsters making their way to school - some gleefully, some glumly - I was reminded of that thrill I experienced without fail every semester - that earnest desire to do [...]

Recently, I have been wondering about the control I have in my life. I like to think that I have complete control in my life - in my actions and my undertakings, but since life revolves largely, if not entirely, around cause and effect, can I truly say my actions are not mere reactions? To [...]

 
 
 
“[My work] unfurls across the panel, revealing a narrative like the story in a novel. It is most often a personal narrative, autobiographical in content that informs and is found in the finished work… The landscapes become maps or barometers of feeling, internalised responses, psychologically defined spaces while simultaneously being reflections on perception, light and [...]

I have never been to Ethiopia, and, before today, I never wanted to go at all. All that changed when I stumbled across Joey Lawrence’s Abyssinia series. Much has been covered of the nation in the media; the lingering image in my head is that of the 1985 famine: starving children with bloated [...]

“As an artist I endeavor to understand and accept human nature in all of its complex majesty. Painting allows me to share the processing of experience. I enjoy the storytelling aspect of art. Each painting shares part of a larger journey, starting from a naive and hopeful worldview to one that holds [...]

I have a love-hate relationship with Biology. It was a compulsory course, and in my young frivolous days, I did not particularly care to understand how things in nature worked. The only saving grace in my twice-a-week misery were the beautiful biological illustrations. Who would have thought such fascinatingly detailed sketches would appear in those [...]

Inventor Wilbur Wright on his airplane during a demonstration at Camp d’Auvours on this day, in 1908. Wilbur made a series of technically challenging flights including figure-eights, demonstrating his skills as a pilot and the capability of his flying machine, which far surpassed those of all other pilot pioneers.

Again and again, the focus of Slawomir Elsner’s work is “catastrophe’s dazzling beauty”. This series, titled “Windows on the World”, first draws you in with its furious light play and its sensual beauty, and conceptual aspects appear again on the aesthetic master plan in these large-sized coloured pencil drawings. The drawings are based on photos [...]

Feng Zhengjie paints striking contemporary women. With their coloured hair, richly hued clothes and luscious, expressive lips, the women appear irresistibly dazzling. And yet, the wandering expressions in their eyes render them elusive and enigmatic. Reminiscent of Warhol’s screen printed celebrities, Feng’s paintings reflect a vision of futuristic pop. His generic portraits of women are [...]