Emerging Out of a Crumbling Flank of Earth

Nicole Asares is a visual artist known for her distinctive use of textured lines, combining zen-doodles with playful patterns like dots, curves, and orbs to produce dynamic, expressive paintings. Inspired by the whimsy of cartoons and the charm of everyday life, her...

Valerie Chua's (1987) artistic practice revolves around the appropriation of image stock and both personal and public film images as her primary subject matter. Her works capture the complex and multifaceted nature of identity construction, often overlooked in our era...

Shireen Co (b. 1997) is a visual artist and art writer based in Quezon City. Primarily a painter, her focus is on the domestic, finding an extensive source of pattern and variation in the different permutations of everyday objects. The ubiquity and familiarity of...

Pablo K. Capati III’s (b. 1975) ceramic practice centres upon the rigorous and demanding method of wood firing. Using an anagama kiln that he constructed at his studio in San Jose, Philippines, Capati fires his works for a number of days so that the unglazed forms...

Bandung-based Addy Debil (b.1993) is widely known as a street artist, where his signature characters can often be seen in the doodles and murals he made on the city walls. With his uniquely approachable visual style, he fluidly navigates through various art scenes,...

Visual artist and sculptor Anna Orlina (b. 1992) has been exposed to the art world ever since she was a child. Glass as an art medium is not only one that she chose, but one that she was also born into. Her father, Ramon Orlina, has been a self-taught coldworking...

Kim Borja (b. 1999) is an emerging artist hailing from Manila. Captivating her audience with an inverted and luminous palette, meticulously honed through her affinity for color blending in acrylic, evoking a myriad of emotions – sincerity, solace, and warmth. Borja...

Artist, cultural worker, and teacher Rosa Mirasol is an advocate of slow and mindful living. Mirasol shares her love of pottery with various communities across the Philippines through Clay Meditation and Clay Autobiography Workshops.

Based in La Union, potter and photographer JD Yu explores techniques that encapsulate the rawness of the natural world. Inspired by his immediate surroundings, his work is textured with the experience of living by the sea. Yu graduated from the De La Salle University...