Maria Kozak is a painter and new media artist living and working between New York and Warsaw. Her family emigrated from Poland in 1983 at the height of martial law and she grew up navigating the two cultures. Her drawings and paintings are intuitive expressions of her inner world based loosely on society, nature and the sublime. They are about the absurdity of being a human, the dark comedy and the parts of the unconscious mind that we normally try to hide or ignore. There is always a duality present— whether darkness/light, control/surrender, stillness/movement, the real/artificial. Her virtual work is about the tension between repetition and change as we renegotiate what it means to be human in the digital age; with the boundaries between ourselves and others constantly being redrawn. She has a light approach to social commentary, always seeking to provide a sense of levity and connection.

Kozak’s work is found in collections nationally and abroad. She has recently exhibited at Sotheby’s, The Detroit Public Library, and The SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Her work has been featured on Artsy, Cool Hunting, and in the WSJ. Kozak was recently awarded an NYFA/NYSCA grant and a Schusterman Foundation Fellowship for her work in emerging technology. She is an alumni of NEW INC, the New Museum incubator for art and technology.

Australian born Artist and designer, Born in Sydney and based in Byron Bay, Gorrow spends his time surfing and honing his skill as an artist and designer. Steve’s work includes photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, installation, and video. His commercial work (projects), as a designer and art director with various surf and skate brands, musicians, and architects have won Australian and International design awards.

French painter Stanislas Piechaczek brings to his canvas a distinct, fresh conversation scattered between figuration and abstraction. His work often sits in the midst of an unusual break of relaxed vibe and quirky dialogue. Stanislas was born in the Centre region of France. He moved to Australia in 2013 and lives in Noosa Heads with his wife and two daughters. From an early age, Stan was drawing and writing poetry which developed over the years into a passionate love of painting.
Stanislas draws his inspiration from his own journey and expresses himself through creative experimentation.

My ideas start from nature and take shape when I add a human into the environment. I may notice the shape of a rock, and see how it mirrors the female figure. I may see an animal in its wild habitat and remember that we were once wild too. I may swim through plastic in the ocean and wonder how it feels to be a fish with trash in its home. My art is a result of my desire to reconnect with the natural world — especially through water, the element we all came from. My art is also a movement — to inspire appreciation and passion for taking care of our planet and ourselves.

In my photographs I strive to activate the imagination and open the eyes of the viewer up to the beauty we often do not see in the world, in humans, in ourselves. I like to take my viewer out of the reality they’re used to experiencing and help them see through a new, feeling lens. For example, the plastic in my photographs represents the impact humans have on the ocean — suffocating, not-meant-to-be-there. A human wrapped up, side by side a sperm whale who is vast, at home and free, shows how we’re all inhabiting & impacting this world together.

My art is a statement that we can find beauty in everything, and that in order to preserve and restore the beauty of our world, we must open our eyes to see things as they are — raw, real and natural. Not how we want to see them — enhanced, skewed, edited.

Holly Chippindale is a travel and landscape film photographer and super8 videographer. Picking up her first professional film camera 6 years ago, she creates using a film medium and equipment restored between the 1970s-1990s. This balance reveals a nostalgic undertone and a feeling of summers past to her visuals. 

Her travels have seen her jet-set from the Italian Riviera, to the French Countryside, to the retro Mexican seaside town of Acapulco and more – where she has been continuously inspired by the alluring backdrops she has had the pleasure of capturing. Her work is imbued with a strong sense of aesthetic exploration and storytelling, usually along the Mediterranean coastline. Travelling with her era’s past Super8 and 35mm film camera, she is inspired by mesmerising landscapes, glistening waters and the raw beauty in the people of summer.

2022 Young Guns finalist, Gabriel Novis is a Brazilian director and cinematographer whose filmmaking approach reflects a lifetime of travel and cross-cultural experiences around the globe. Novis uses rich, cinematic imagery to create nuanced portraits of the people and places he portrays—resulting in a directorial style that elicits a strong sense of adventure and the unique feeling of discovering the unknown.

Novis can tackle any set environment; from large-scale, traditional productions to lean, run and gun shoots on the road. His passion for film is matched only by his love of surfing, which has taken him around the world and created invaluable opportunities for storytelling. In his 2021 campaign for OAKLEY, Novi directed surf icon and gold olympic medalist Ítalo Ferreira, juxtaposing his status as a global surf champion with his humble roots as the son of a fisherman from a small coastal town in North Brazil. The film earned critical acclaim, including a Bronze Clio Sports award, Vimeo Staff pick, and finalist at Ciclope and one point four awards.

Novis’s collaborations as a director and DP include global brands like Nike, Chloe, Louis Vuitton, Corona, Oakley, Samsung, Coca Cola, Getty Images and Remy Martin. He has an insatiable curiosity and appetite for new experiences, and continues to travel the world to discover the next captivating story.

Self-taught photographer Famke van Hagen grew up in the Netherlands where her childhood consisted of endless travels where she got immersed in to different cultures. At the age of 20 she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the arts. Photograpy had always been an obsession for van Hagen and she found satisfaction in capturing raw, natural beauty on camera. 
Her strength lies in shooting on location with all natural light, captivating dream like scenarios.

Archie Geotina (b.1987) also known as Chichimonsta is an artist who exhibits freely indoors , outdoors, in the streets, with communities and in public spaces. His work catches the attention of people who are not typical museum visitors. His work mixes Art and Action; it tackles themes such as empowerment, freedom, community and identity.

He is known for blown-up photographs he takes or collaborates on and collages to make renaissance era-like artworks. his outdoor installations – fly post artworks which he installs on buildings walls, wood panels, or any surface he can apply it to.

 In June 12 2020 , He launched the wildly popular and viral PEARLS. A powerful photo series that invites viewers to immerse themselves in the strength and beauty and fierceness of Filipino Women. This series of photographs has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar in the US among other publications and is still circulating around the globe.

RizRizRizz is a renowned painter sculptor and ceramist his artworks has been exhibited in several cities around Europe and Indonesia. He has upcoming exhibitions around the USA.
The works on display consists sculptures paintings and ceramics. His figurative paintings reflect his own memories often evoking feelings of nostalgia.
Through depictions of female form, animals, flowers and various objects in soft colors and rough and wild brush strokes Rizz’s work offers an intimate look inside his feelings and life experiences full of drama, trauma, tragedy and comedy all wrapped in one satirical work.

Rizz’s sculpture exhibits figures residing in the paintings.
These work represents a 3D manifestation of the many forms of his passion and formal instincts as an artist, which has become he baseline for his creative thought process that is inspired by tradition yet it revolted against their ideal forms.

What do you love most about your work?
the pleasure that never ends

What piece of art would you invest in, if you would have unlimited budget?
Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights

What are your favourite things about your
neighbourhood?
I have a beautiful neighborhood my house next to the mental health center

What are your favourite songs that moves you, inspires you?
Ricordandoti – Piero Umiliani

Do you have any rituals, that you like to practice?
making jamu in the morning

What we don’t know about you?
my shoe size is 42

What are your dreams for the future?
I don’t have a vision for the future but I’m living in the moment