Alina Szapocznikow

The next Artist You Need To Know is Alina Szapocznikow (1926 – 1973). She was a Polish artist primarily known for her sculptural artworks that were fragmented and corporeally unsettling interpretations of the human form. Surrealism, Nouveau Réalisme [New Realism] and...

Vanessa Baird

The next Artist You Need To Know is Vanessa Baird. Baird is a Norwegian artist who works mostly in drawing but also has mounted large scale installations of her works. She has carved out a space for herself as one of Norway’s foremost visual artists since the 1990s...

Sarah Lucas

The next Artist You Need To Know is Sarah Lucas. Lucas is an artist who works in photography, sculpture and installation : for more than three decades, she has carved out her own space as one of Britain’s most important contemporary artists. She is arguably the most...

Amy Friend

The next Artist You Need To Know is Amy Friend. Friend is a Canadian artist whose practice incorporates installation and collaboration – with an eye to community – under the larger umbrella of photographic methodologies. History, time, land – memory...

Mala Iqbal

The next Artist You Need To Know is Mala Iqbal. Iqbal is an artist who focuses primarily on paintings and drawings and has worked in both oil and acrylic. She also has “a very robust sketchbook practice, which is a kind of engine for my brain and eyes and hands....