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Kindah Khalidy is a painter and textile designer based in California who has our hearts in a bit of a mess with her wonderfully playful and exciting abstract works. She’s super talented, and makes the kind of work that makes you want to pick up a brush and canvas in a big white room and just go absolutely bananas. Her paintings, which explore the layering and relationships between colour, shape and line are vivid and energetic and when we look at them we just can’t help but smile.  

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Katie Scott is an illustrator from the UK, impressing eyeballs the world over with her highly detailed, eye catching drawings. Working from her plant-filled studio in north London, Katie’s daily life is all about plants — studying them, being surrounded by and caring for them, and drawing them in her distinctive illustrative style. When Katie went to art school at 17, she discovered the world of illustration and thought ‘yeah, that’s for me’. She became preoccupied with drawing flowers, plants and animals, referencing anatomical illustration and natural history artwork. Her big break came with creating artwork for Bombay...

Oscar Grønner is an Oslo-based, internationally adored illustrator and artist. He’s been working up an interesting and versatile portfolio of drawings in the last couple of years, and been commissioned by the likes of The New York Times and Apartamento for his approachable and instantly recognisable style. This Norwegian creative holds a somewhat secretive presence online, and seems to like to let his drawings do the talking for him.

Oscar’s repertoire spans both digital and traditional mediums, and he swings between both seamlessly. His world consists of an odd bunch of characters, going about their...

Tom Polo is a very exciting visual artist living and working in Sydney. When you look at Tom’s work, you can just tell the dude’s got a sense of humour. His work uses text and semi-abstract forms to explore the anxiety and of the human condition. Putting a magnifying glass over our expectations, disappointments, failures and stresses and flipping them with a sense of humour. We all know humour is used as a coping mechanism, with anxiety and self-deprecation often sitting side-by-side. Tom uses his canvases and murals as a space to create these emotive, twisted, beautiful portraits of human...

Los-Angeles based Steven Harrington is an illustration machine not to be messed with. His output is enormous and folio reads like a Best Of for cultural institutions of the last 20 years. We’re talking sneakers for Nike, cans for Coca-Cola, murals for Colette, and branding for the mother-flippin’ Olympics, man! And (we’re not finished) most recently, a homewares series with IKEA, consisting of a 5-pattern collection filled with rugs, bowls, plates, ceramics, pillows, stationary, duvets, bags and more. Name a global brand ruling it in the cultural sphere, and Steven’s probably worked for them.

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