Chelsea Gustafsson’s Comfort Kills
The Australian painter Chelsea Gustafsson's new work are little nuggets of pleasure. It's the minute little scratches of detail that make the works sing. For her solo show 'Comfort Kills', showing in August at ...
Artist Vs Artist Interview: Camilla d’Errico and Travis Louie @ Haven Gallery
Creating magical worlds that pique imagination, Travis Louie and Camilla d’Errico’s artwork will leave you feeling inspired. Instantly drawn to the many curiosities of each artist’s interpretive visions, they h...
Gaia Reborn: An Exclusive Interview with Danijela Krha Purssey & Yasha Young of Urban Nation
Gaia Reborn: The first museum exhibition curated by Beautiful Bizarre is a full-on immersive experience featuring 50+ artists at Berlin’s Urban Nation Museum of Urban Contemporary Art. The seed for this show was planted when the Director, Yasha Young, saw com...
Nick Sheehy: Spinner of Wilds
A weird, wonderful world. Through his pop-surrealist art, Nick Sheehy transports us into a realm that feels fantastical in its beauty, as well as in its danger. Frogs take part in dancing rituals. Octopuses bir...
Interview: The Manic, Fetishistic and Dark Surrealism Of Ulorin Vex
You may know Ulorin Vex from her alternative model years, and you certainly may have encountered her illustrations either under the names of Malady Charlotina, Ulorin Vex or her real name, Christiane Shillito. ...
Fight Like A Girl: The Digital Art Of Justin Gedak
If you read a lot about artists these days, you will notice a recurring theme: overcoming hardship and finding power in your own wounds. Of course, it is a timeless, universal theme, but nowadays, human beings are not afraid to show their weakness and to use i...
The Energising Properties of Open Dialogue: An Interview with Martine Johanna
Martine Johanna is a Dutch artist whose work touches on themes of loss, grief, and inadequacy; the processing of both inner and outer worlds and how we deal with things. Her work is so much deeper than pretty p...
Interview With Laura Grace: Power of Color
Human eyes are able to see about 360 different colors. The vitality of heightened saturation in art has captured viewers throughout art history. Viewing art that has bright colors is known to affect your mental...
Interview: Leigh Bongiorno And The Importance Of Portraits In Our Digital Age
In our digital age, we are surrounded with more and more faces than ever. Every social media you open will instantly project selfies and pictures of people, friends or strangers in front of your eyes. But, unfortunately, we are also living in an age where we a...
Anthony Lister: The Enigmatic Artist
Anthony Lister is a globally recognized Australian artist that enjoys pushing boundaries. That quality within him I find both fascinating and frightening at the same time. I say this as I enjoy his offbeat pers...
Primal Impulses & Curious Beauty: is 2019 the Year of the Dark Art Movement?
To both repulse and enchant, art can bind you within a paradoxical state of emotion. For some this uneasiness is preferably avoided, yet there are many instances over the centuries which example humanity's lust...
Feminine Ethos: An Interview with Natalia Berglund
Indeed, there is no shortage of creativity and inspiration when looking upon the mixed media portraiture of Natalia Berglund. There is intensity and empowerment, a pensive sight even while her subject’s vision is often shielded, and a compositional elegance in...
Kazuhiro Hori: Something Is Troubling in The State of Dessert
It can be odd to link the line spoken by Marcellus in Hamlet with the surrealistic, hyper-realistic paintings by Japanese artist Kazuhiro Hori aka Chardin Chardin (a 2018 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Art Prize Wi...
Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Haunting and Daunting Paintings That Captivate The Eye
Rose Freymuth-Frazier is a figurative oil painter originally hailing from Nevada City, California. A 2018 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Art Prize Finalist, her work has been exhibited on a global basis and her...
Facing Dualities: An Interview with Horacio Quiroz
Horacio Quiroz is a pop surrealist artist who lives in Mexico City, Mexico. Despite working as a Creative Art Director for twelve years, Horacio perpetually was tugged by the pull and craving for visual arts. After spending over a decade accelerating his art e...
Spinners of Dreams: An Interview with Colin and Kristine Poole
When a collaboration begins with a vibrant, exuberant dance such as a tango… how can it not grow into a creative force of engaging and simply moving pieces of art. Just like the intensity of a dance, their jour...
All is illusionary, a dream or a feeling: An Interview with Tanya Shatseva
When I last spoke with Tanya Shatseva back in 2015, she was a young woman exploding onto the art scene, as vibrant and full of life as the paintings she created. Not much has changed on that front; though it’s ...
Fashion, Fetish and Freedom: The Ethical Avante-Garde RITUAL
“Somewhere out there in the universe there is a dream being dreamed that will save us all. In this time of crumbling eco-systems and rampant apathy, the dreams of the artists are the best chance we have to get to the other side. We have to dream of something b...
Reflexive Vision: An Interview With Zara Monet Feeney
Los Angeles-based painter, Zara Monet Feeney, is changing the way we look at figurative art. The artist, who received a BA from UCLA and an MFA from the Laguna College of Art and Design, sets aside traditional ...
The Dreamlike Figurines of Vipoo Srivilasa
As a Thai born Australian ceramicist, Vipoo Srivilasa creates awe inspiring, childlike figurines that perfectly blend the two cultures of his identity. Behind these fun, colourful and whimsical creations, Vipoo...