Anonymous

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." - Virginia Woolf. Our ambition is to write women into history so that no woman will be named anonymous again.    

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Lana Simanenkova Animator and designer

Lana is an animator and designer at Animade. An animation studio I’ve always admired. I’ve been following Lana on Twitter for quite a while now and her work never fails to make me smile. Each piece is always full of character, wit and charm. Her animated gifs are a perfect combination of vibrant, bold colour and seamless animation.

Can’t wait to see more of her work!

Check out Lana’s website and follow her on Twitter.

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Yukai Du Animator

Yukai Du created a short film for TED-Ed about the Hubble telescope and how in 1995 it captured over 150 hours of one area revealing images of over 1500 distinct galaxies in just one minute part of the universe. Yukai was tasked with animating educator Alex Hofeldt’s narration and she was given complete visual freedom “as long as the images went well with the voice over”.

The animation, titled How small are we in the scale of the universe?, has been created in Yukai’s textured and vibrant style which uses pattern and smooth movements to create pace. The biggest challenge for Yukai was designing the transitions between the scenes.

The composition throughout the animation is thoughtfully executed and manages to communicate the huge scale of the topic. Using rich yellows, blues and reds the illustrator transports us to her interpretation of the universe, in all its technicolour glory. See more of Yukai’s work on her website.

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Catherine Hyland Photographer

Catherine Hyland has been travelling the many mountainous landscapes of China and Mongolia to captures its vast and eerily empty tourist destinations. In an ongoing series of work, Universal Experience, she explores scenes that depict beauty that have been developed to become tourist destinations. The mixture of nostalgia and abandonment help capture the intertwining of natural beauty and artificially engineered viewpoints.

www.catherinehyland.co.uk

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Alice Wietzel Illustrator

Alice Wietzel is a Paris-based illustrator with a penchant for printing. Currently in her last year of studying at L’École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, she is concentrating on specialised printing techniques which shine in her new zine, Solarium.

Her interest in printing techniques developed whilst interning at Riso Presto, when a few of them said they were going to make a book together. This book, Solarium, is now her baby, a tall A3 baby with five colour layers on every image and a lot of naked women getting sunburned as the day goes by with each page. The result is a zine full of pink hues, tan line and blushed cheeks.

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Marie Laurencin Painter and printmaker 1883 - 1956

Marie Laurencin was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d’Or.

Marie was born in Paris, where she was raised by her mother and lived much of her life. At the age of 18, she studied porcelain painting in Sèvres. She then returned to Paris and continued her art education at the Académie Humbert, where she changed her focus to oil painting.

Marie's works include paintings, watercolours, drawings, and prints. She is known as one of the few female Cubist painters, along with Sonia Delaunay, Marie Vorobieff, and Franciska Clausen. While her work shows the influence of Cubist painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, she developed a unique approach to abstraction which often centred on the representation of groups of women and female portraits. Her work lies outside the bounds of Cubist norms in her pursuit of a specifically feminine aesthetic by her use of pastel colours and curvilinear forms. Marie continued to explore themes of femininity and what she considered to be feminine modes of representation until her death.

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Ella Webb Illustrator

The work of Ella Webb is enchantingly nostalgic. Her intricate drawings of landscape diagrams take me back to my old geography lessons. However, her versions are filled with little gems of fine detail, making them much more interesting than your average GCSE ones.

Ella’s layered line drawings examine rocks, sediments and volcanos, combining minimal black line work with charming colour choices. Keen to understand more about her work, she researches into her pieces, taking photos whilst hiking and collect old 35mm slides.

Find more of her work on her website or follow her on Tumblr.

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Alexandra von Fuerst Photographer

Italian photographer Alexandra Von Fuerst focuses on objectification, creating inspiring works that transform her subjects into sculptural elements. Through her lens, the photographed subject becomes an inanimate object blending with its surroundings. As she shares, the colourful components of her work become a means to stress the relationship between space and subject. She's furthermore interested in shapes and forms, elements that play an important role in her work.

See more of Alexandra’s work on her website.

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Helen Musselwhite Artist

With a love and incredible skill in paper crafting, Helen’s paper obsession began whilst ripping open some Christmas wrapping paper as a child. It seems so fitting, that years later, she’s now illustrated this year’s Royal Mail Christmas stamps.

Go check out more of her work on her site, everything is so beautiful!

Credits:  Photos and illustrated stamps by Helen Musselwhite Art direction by The Chase

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Loes Heerink Photographer

Loes Heerink’s series, Vendors from Above, captures the traders of Hanoi as they cycle underneath a bridge, carrying their colourful goods on their bicycles to the local markets.

Having lived in Hanoi for some time, Loes explains that photographing the street vendors began as a personal project. She would spend hours at certain locations just waiting for vendors to walk underneath the bridge. She became fascinated for the women carrying their good, not knowing how beautiful their bicycles are, no idea how they create little pieces of art everyday.

According to Loes, Hanoi’s street vendors are often female migrants that spend most of their days trying to make a living selling fruit, vegetables, snack and other small items.

She now aims to turn this series into a book to highlight the beauty of Hanoi’s vendors and has almost finished a successful Kickstarter campaign.

See more of her work on her website or go check out her Kickstarter project.

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Lana Crooks Artist

Working with pieces of hand-dyed wool and silk, Lana recreates the sun-drenched skeletons of snakes, birds and humans. She considers her works to be “faux specimens” as her delicate sculptures blend science, art and fantasy.

See more of her work on her website.

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Gunjan Aylawadi Artist

Paper is an essential tool in craft making and its versatility offers endless creative possibilities to artists and crafters alike. A particular fan, Gunjan Aylawadi, transforms thousands of strips of paper into striking 3D sculptures.

Her process begins by cutting paper into sections and curling them around thin wires that create paper strings. Each string is then glued on top of one another to build depth and texture. Once completed, her work could easily be mistaken for woven fabrics.

See more of her work on her site or follow her on Instagram.

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Kate Kato Artist

Influenced by a childhood fascination with botanical illustrations and collecting bits of natural ephemera, artist Kate Kato crafts detailed sculptures of the various mushrooms, flowers, and beetles found within the Welsh valley where she currently resides. The sculptures are typically built to accurately reflect the size of their subject, each constructed out of recycled bits of paper that Kate tints with natural dyes.

Kato’s work will be a part of the upcoming exhibition “Paper” at Confluence Gallery in Twisp, Washington from October 15th through November 19, 2016. You can purchase Kato’s sculptures either online through her Etsy, or in-person at The Craft Centre and Design Gallery in Leeds, UK.

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Brooke Holm Photographer

Brooke Holm is a New York based photographer whose work traverses dramatic landscapes, conceptual still life, considered interiors and architecture.

The salt field landscapes that she captures are based within the UNESCO Heritage site of Shark Bay and in her eyes provide “a visually stunning example of nature and human intervention entwined.” Shot from above, the salt ponds and harvested fields create graphic compositions with painterly textures in soft ice-cream hues.

See more of her work on her website or purchase her artworks on Modern Times.

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Emily Forgot Graphic artist

Emily Forgot has created a surrealist series of 3D work, trying her hand at artworks beyond the printed page.

Using processes and materials uncommon to her current practice, the collection includes a series of objects depicting architectural scenes. Inspired by drawings of buildings and spaces both real, remembered and imagined, the sculptures use perspective and bold geometric blocks of colour, made from layers of painted wood.

Her work is on display as part of Neverland, Emily’s solo show at KK Outlet is on until 30 September.

www.emilyforgot.co.uk

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Mary Harriet Jellett (also known as Mainie Jellett) Painter 1897 - 1944

Irish painter, stage designer, writer, lecturer, and administrator, one of the most important pioneers of modern art in her country. She was born in Dublin, where she studied at the Metropolitan School of Art before spending two years (1917–19) at the Westminster School of Art in London, where Sickert was among her teachers. In 1920 she went to Paris, where she studied with Lhote and then with Gleizes (along with her friend Evie Hone) and she returned to visit Gleizes regularly until 1932.

By 1923 she was painting in a completely abstract, Cubist-inspired style. Her work in this vein prompted derision when exhibited at the Dublin Painters' Society, and she devoted much of her energy—throughs essays and lectures—to trying to overcome conservative attitudes in Ireland, which was then culturally isolated. In the 1930s figurative elements reappeared in her painting, and her later work included landscapes and religious subjects. She also made designs for the theatre and ballet. Jellett died young of cancer, but the year before her death, her campaigning on behalf of modern art bore fruit in the founding of the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, of which she was first chairman. This was an exhibiting society that became the main venue for avant-garde art in Ireland for many years.

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The bed we loved in was a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas where we would dive for pearls. My lover’s words were shooting stars which fell to earth as kisses on these lips; my body now a softer rhyme to his, now echo, assonance; his touch a verb dancing in the centre of a noun. Some nights, I dreamed he’d written me, the bed a page beneath his writer’s hands. Romance and drama played by touch, by scent, by taste. In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on, dribbling their prose. My living laughing love – I hold him in the casket of my widow’s head as he held me upon that next best bed.

Carol Ann Duffy Anne Hathaway from The World’s Wife

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Evelyn De Morgan Painter 1855 - 1919

Evelyn De Morgan was an English painter whose works were influenced by the style of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. She was a follower of Pre-Raphaelist Burne-Jones. Her paintings exhibit spirituality; use of mythological, biblical, and literary themes; the role of women; light and darkness as metaphors; life and death; and allegories of war.