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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Check out the work of our guest artist, Caroline Williams, of City & Guilds of London Art School.

Check out the work of our guest artist, Florence Penry-Jones, 19, of City & Guilds of London Art School.