Danya Adriana 9/13/25 Danya Adriana 9/13/25

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.

Long YuJun 7/25/25 Long YuJun 7/25/25

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.

Mikako Ohmatsu 6/27/25 Mikako Ohmatsu 6/27/25

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.

Kazuto Muraki 5/2/25 Kazuto Muraki 5/2/25

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.

Motomitsu Fujiwara 3/21/25 Motomitsu Fujiwara 3/21/25

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.

Emma Cormier Simola 11/1/24 Emma Cormier Simola 11/1/24

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.

Joseph Cornelius 10/18/24 Joseph Cornelius 10/18/24

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.

Daniel Liu 5/31/24 Daniel Liu 5/31/24

Guest Composer: Daniel Liu, Clare College, University of Cambridge

Composing can be similar to creating a puzzle. Find out from composer Daniel Liu (final-year student at Clare College, University of Cambridge) how to construct a short ‘musical machine.’