THE MAGAZINE
Guest Artist: Danya Adriana, 17, Malaysia
Seventeen-year-old Malaysian painter Danya Adriana turns heritage, architecture, and city life into bold abstract worlds. Read on to see Malaysia through her eyes.
Guest Artist: Long YuJun, Tokyo University of the Arts
Guest artist Long YuJun explores gender and sexual diversity through a deeply personal, emotional lens, using texture, fragment, and colour to question fixed identity. Read on.
Guest Artist: Mikako Ohmatsu, Tokyo University of the Arts
Guest artist Mikako Ohmatsu treats memory as a luxury material: fragile, elusive, and always on the verge of dissolving. Through faded photographs, translucent skins, and locket-sized relics, she constructs quiet, intimate worlds where the past flickers in and out of view. Read on.
Guest Artist: Kazuto Muraki, Tokyo University of the Arts
Contemplate the tension between external perception and inner selfhood through the work of Kazuto Muraki, a Tokyo University of the Arts painter whose still, grain-textured images explore the fragile border between memory and identity.
Guest Artist: Motomitsu Fujiwara, Tokyo University of the Arts
Meet Motomitsu Fujiwara, the rising Tokyo University of the Arts painter whose canvases blend spiritual memory, Indigenous history, and a belief that true art speaks beyond language. From dandelions as divine messengers to mammoths roaming sacred Uluru, Fujiwara’s work reimagines faith, childhood, and primal expression for a contemporary world hungry for meaning. A quietly electrifying TWoA spotlight on an artist you’ll want to follow now.
Guest Artist: Emma Cormier Simola, Student, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
How can art reclaim the female body from imposed expectations? In this guest contribution, Emma Cormier Simola, a student at the Courtauld Institute of Art, reflects on her sculptural and photographic work exploring the female experience, sexism, and self-representation—inviting women to take control of their own image and challenging the gaze that has long defined them.
Guest Artist: Joseph Cornelius, 18, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
How does illustration bridge imagination, storytelling, and artistic technique? In this guest feature, Joseph Cornelius, an 18-year-old illustrator and Courtauld Institute of Art student, reflects on his creative process, influences ranging from cartoons to Studio Ghibli, and why illustration remains a powerful and often underestimated form of visual expression.
Guest Composer: Daniel Liu, Clare College, University of Cambridge
How can constraint become a source of freedom? TWoA explores how Daniel Liu, a composer at Clare College, University of Cambridge, builds a “musical machine” from repetition, permutation, and intuition—drawing on precedents from Igor Stravinsky and Michael Tippett to reflect on process, structure, and memory in contemporary composition.
Guest Artist: Ginevra Mastrocola, 19, Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan
For Ginevra Mastrocola, art is both refuge and reckoning. In Monomania, created while still a student at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, she stages a sparse, meditative installation that asks viewers to sit with silence, uncertainty, and the fear of creative inadequacy — revealing how vulnerability itself can become a material for making.
Guest Artist: Sara Cancelliere, Accademia di Brera, Milan, Italy
For 18-year-old artist Sara Cancelliere, art is both a universal language and an intimate act of self-discovery. In this TWoA guest feature, Cancelliere discusses Sogni di un viaggio (2022), a mixed-media self-portrait exploring the idea of the journey—at once physical, emotional, and unconscious. Created while studying at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, the work reflects a young artist’s search for identity through memory, material, and imagination.
Guest Artist: Caroline Williams, City & Guilds of London Art School
Returning to art after raising a family, Caroline Williams explores sculpture as intimacy, illusion, and transformation. In this TWoA Guest Artist feature, she reflects on plaster, colour, and figuration during her Foundation studies at City & Guilds of London Art School—from Miyazaki-inspired fantasy to unsettling realism.
Guest Artist: Florence Penry-Jones, City & Guilds of London Art School
Inspired by music, memory, and emotion, Florence Penry-Jones transforms sound into colour and movement. A TWoA guest artist feature on painting as therapy, rhythm, and release.
Guest Artist: Isabella Guadalupe Araiza-Fortson, 16
Water becomes myth, memory, and metaphor in the work of sixteen-year-old digital artist Isabella Guadalupe Araiza-Fortson. Drawing from Celtic legend, Mexican folklore, and contemporary animation, her images explore why women and water are so often entwined across cultures. From siren-like figures to desert mountain veins, her art blends magical realism with deeply personal reflection. Read on for more.