An interdisciplinary artist currently based in London, Usamah Kise’s work combines illustration, mixed media, fashion, photography, and many other aspects influenced by an early love of graffiti. We sat down with Kise to hear more about the inspirations, processes,...

Despite the distance the pandemic imposed on us, Marouissa Mbaye and I chatted about her artistic practice and the various intentions of her work. She acknowledged that photography, like any art form, comes with the condition that every set of eyes that lay upon it...

Upon first inspection of the kind of work, Nigerian artist Williams Chechet produces, one thing is extremely clear; it is bold, colourful, full of personality and life. Chechet, born in Kano but raised in Kaduna, Nigeria, studied industrial design at Ahmadu Bello...

How did your journey start in photography?  What sparked your fascination for photography?Really simple, I got a present - a photo camera. Then I realised that my pictures look very different from other people's snapshots and I took it further. Although it took me a...

How has the livelihood of women changed over the last 50 years? Well, in a society still widely believed to favour their male counterparts, there are those who feel encouraged by certain initiatives that bestow sexual parity between both men and women, yet at the same...

Pop art a contemporary art movement that emerged within England and the United States in the late 1940’s to the mid to late ’50s. Described by themes and techniques drawn from the popular mass culture, pop art emphasised on the attitude given to the work rather than...

French-Cameroonian artist Raphael Fredeci grew up around the French island known as Corsica and Aix en Provence located in the south of the country. Fredeci admits people are often surprised to learn that he is in fact, more ‘Corsican’ than he appears to be. An...

“Love, madness, bravery and hope. An entire universe can be found in a single painting” Ricardo Cavalo was born in Salamanca, Spain, in 1982 in his father's painting studio fitting a glimpse of the fate of a young child, who was destined to become one of the world's...

With social media influencing and the ever-evolving branding of art institutions, it has become harder and harder for artists of the 21st century to ‘stand out from the crowd’. Artists might often feel obliged to push aside their artistic passions and instead focus on...

“My work started because I wanted to show another side of Moroccan culture, something more than that, and the imagery that they’d understand in the same way,”  Hassan Hajjaj, the Andy Warhol of Marrakech, has been working since the late 80s as a photographer is giving...

We had a conversation with the founder of Deconstructing Hyperreality: a collective of artists that aim to inform the public on the effects of consumption of imagery through technology. S [ H E ] D E V E L O P E S speaks about her experiences as a female artist in the...

In a time where super comics movies are at their most prominence, everyday heroes are not often celebrated. In Gotham city when people are in trouble, they switch on the bat signals in the sky and Batman appears to help solve an injustice. In London, you cannot walk...

Abstraction & Identity, the two words that artist Kezhia Quarcoo uses to describe her work and the themes that run through each of her personal projects. When you delve through the lens of Kezhia Quarcoo viewing her most recent work 'Considerate', its safe to say...

In 1985, Jean Michel Basquiat appeared on the cover of New York Times Magazine, titled New Art, New Money, dressed in a three-piece Giorgio Armani suit on a chair bare foot with his paintings in the background. Three years later, months before his 28th birthday,...