Discover the stories of artist that shaped culture and stirred up conversation within the industry

In Conversation with Usamah Kise: “Giving a voice for the voiceless”
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,...

In conversation with Maroussia Mbaye
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...

The Hyperflux collection by Williams Chechet
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...

A conversation with Yana Rits
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...

A Celebration of Women (International Women Day)
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...

Fred Ebami: The King of Pop Art
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...

Raphael Federici, A Spirited Sailor
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...

Ricardo Cavolo, A Complex Illustrator
“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...

Appreciation Vs Appropriation in the Modern and Contemporary Art World
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...

Hassan Hajjaj – The Andy Warhol of Marrakech
“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...

Takashi Murakami: Sitting at the Epicentre of Progressive Pop-Culture!
For those unfamiliar with the name Takashi Murakami, his long, unruly mane, salt & pepper-tainted beard and eccentric taste in clothes, however, may be enough to mentally place him in your Instagram feed standing alongside some of your favourite pop-culture icons....

Julia Lang: The Creative Genius Behind Brands Strategies and Success
"I don't dress for the job I have. I dress for the job I want." - Julia Lang Up until only 15 years ago, professional careers were defined, not only by what you did for a living, but how well you carried out your role. Of course, factoring in such determinants as...

In conversation with the founder of Deconstructing Hyperreality
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...

Dreph, The Quiet Hero
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...

Who is Kezhia Quarcoo?
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...

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art Overdose, The Legacy Of A Black Star
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,...