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We can never get enough of American artist Chris Johanson. For two decades, this California-born artist has been transforming commonplace ideas and totally human thoughts into wildly colourful, expressive stories. His personality is as much an enigma as his work, simultaneously ambiguous and authentic. Using an array of mediums, from paint to wood, Chris’ work has been a long running comment on consumerism, capitalism, cult spirituality, self-help and a musing on our old friend the sun.

You may recognise his positive, acid-y work from the iconic documentary Beautiful Losers and the Mission School art...

Seoul-based designers Kimchi and Chips aren’t your usual creative studio. Their repertoire includes 3D projects, installations and curated light sculptures. Yes, you read correctly. Light sculptures. Kimchi and Chips specialise in creating imaginary realities and digital environments for humans to immerse themselves in. Their work is very experimental and combines conceptual art with science to create floating sculptures and optical illusions.

Kimchi and Chips is Elliot Woods, a digital media artist, technologist, curator and educator from Manchester and Mimi Son, also a media artist born and raised in Seoul. The two banded together in 2009...

Apparently Melbourne has gone cray cray for clay clay. Don’t get us wrong, we’re not complaining. There’s not much we love more than a carefully crafted vessel with a beautiful glaze. And if Melbourne isn’t opening up gorgeous, light-filled, leafy retail spaces filled with these beautiful objects, how else are we going to feed our obsession of replacing every cheapy mug in our cupboard with a work of art?

Our favourite new Haven of Pots is Guild of Objects in the humble suburb of North Melbourne. It’s an exhibition, workshop and retail space for...

We love stumbling across talented, hard working babes and it seems the Collins family have got this situation down-pat. Anna Collins is an aspiring ballet teacher, studying dance full-time in Canada’s National Ballet School. She also happens to be the younger sister of another incredible artist, Petra Collins. After seeing Anna collaborate with Petra on a couple of beautiful projects, we decided we had to find out more about this talented 19 year old all-rounder in between her dancing, singing, modelling and being a strong, inspiring voice for girls in the blogosphere. We talk dream collabs, balancing work...

Aidan Koch makes comics. Though, you won’t find any bold, black line work, gaudy speech bubbles or conventional superheroes here. This talented New York-based creative is known for her sophisticated, dream-like narratives, studying human interactions and small moments in delicate mediums.

Studying Aidan’s work and pinning her down is a tough job; is she an illustrator, a comic artist or a contemporary artist? We’re inclined to lean towards all three. After being showcased in highbrow institutes like MoMA and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, anyone saying these works are just comics can go dig...