Interviews

Expressionist Portraits by Kieran Smith

Kieran Smith is a peculiar and talented artist. He is able to mold and manipulate extremely complicated types of materials and obtain impressive results. Industrial glues, adhesives for tiles and sand are such difficult media to adopt for art. But Kieran has taken the challenge to make this materials live and flexible to his purpose to represent incredibly vivid and expressionist portraits. His experimentation on art materials  is continuously evolving, so we will see even more great artworks from this talented artist. Carlo Tozzi st-Art founder & art director Where have you grown up?  I was born in a sleepy town on the British south coast called Eastbourne in 1980, but grew up in a province called KwaZulu-Natal on the east coast of South Africa, in a city called Durban. I moved to Amsterdam in 2011.   What is your artistic background? I come from a pretty normal, middle class, politically progressive family with a cultural interest that was more focused on music than on art. So I studied the cello as a child and played at a semi-professional level until my 30s. I was always encouraged to pursue what interested me, and it was in high school that I discovered and […]

Art

Bernadette Sterk: ‘Portraits of Myself’

Bernadette Sterk is a young dutch self-taught artist currently living in Utrecht. She comes from an artistic family as her uncle and cousin are quite re-known artists in the Netherlands.