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New Ways Of Seeing: Favianna Rodriguez On Social And Cultural Justice In Print
California-based artist Favianna Rodriguez holds many roles and titles. What they all have in common is the aim to empower fellow creatives disrupt the status quo of social and cultural justice
New Ways Of Seeing: Adrian Brandon On Police Brutality In Colour
In this powerful series dubbed “Stolen”, Adrian Brandon features Black individuals whose lives have been cut short by police brutality. He uses time as a medium to define how long each portrait is coloured, with one year of life equating to one minute of colour
New Ways Of Seeing: Donna Bassin On Grief Through Film
Drawing from her experience as a clinical psychologist, award-winning artist Donna Bassin explains how she came to capture the portraits of people who feel “invisible and un-entitled to their place in this American moment.”
New Ways Of Seeing: Safwat Saleem On Belonging With Graphic Design
Safwat Saleem has known many home countries across his lifetime. Inspired by a sense of belonging, his “Concerned But Powerless” series combines many different mediums to create satirical work that explores the social issues foregrounded by the election of Donald Trump
New Ways Of Seeing: Sharon Walters On Under-Representation Through Collage
For the London-based artist, her ongoing series “Seeing Ourselves” is as much about an exploration of under-representation than it is about celebrating her own “Blackness”. Here, she discusses creating hand-assembled collages to empower fellow Black women
New Ways Of Seeing: Peter Drew On White Australia In Street Art
Australian born Peter Drew rose to prominence thanks to his art that depicted victims of the “White Australian Policy”. Speaking to GRAZIA, he reflects on how his work has evolved into street art and his hope to connect different identities
New Ways Of Seeing: Daniel Arzola On Gender Rights With Digital Illustration
By using digital tools, Daniel Arzola has discovered how to share his work on gender and LGBTQI+ rights from his home in Venezuela, without the work ever being destroyed. “That is ‘Artivism’ for me,” he tells GRAZIA
New Ways Of Seeing
German poet Bertolt Brecht once said, “Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.” In GRAZIA’s latest cultural series, New Ways Of Seeing, we explore the work of seven creatives who, through art, attempt to decode the changing world we find ourselves in