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Leah Oates

Biography Leah Oates has a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and a M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Fulbright Fellow for graduate study at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Oates has had solo shows in the NYC area at Susan Eley Fine Art, The […]

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Petr Václavek ( PBV )

Curatorial Reviewby Oleksandr Dyvnich Cycle of Civilization is a series of graphite drawings made in 2023 by Czech self-taught artist Petr Václavek, working under the name PBV. The series carries a double origin: a meditation on civilisational decline and, beneath that, the intimate crisis of accompanying a daughter through her final hours. This layering — […]

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Tea Lazić

Biography I am Tea Lazić, an artist from Croatia. I hold a master’s degree in Comparative Literature and Sociology, as well as a high school diploma in Interior Design, and through my art I try to weave together all of my passions and the skills I’ve gained throughout my education.I am in love with exploring […]

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Esther Wiederhold

Curatorial Reviewby Oleksandr Dyvnich Esther Wiederhold has developed a practice with a genuinely unusual premise: she hangs her paintings on trees in the forest, photographs them in situ, and works from those images. This is not merely an eccentric method but a conceptual proposition — that a painting and its natural context are in active […]

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Esther Wiederhold

Biography I was born on December 6, 1965. After graduating from high school, I studied art education at the Kassel School of Art and Design (Hesse). I have been a teacher in the Hessian school system since 1991.Exhibitions: Double-page spread in Visual Art Magazine, nature trail in Knüllwald (34593), Künstlertreff 2025 exhibition, Billboard New York […]

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Arty Rat – Issue 3, May 2026

Issue #3 presents the work of 45 artists in a full-colour printed edition.   Order Your Print Copy of Issue #3 Curator: Oleksandr Dyvnich Publication date: May 2026 Page count: 96 Format: 21 × 29.7 cm (A4) Full colour Printed in the Netherlands Curatorial Review Kenji Kiyama, Nadim Touma Publication Serdar Akdeniz, Frank Werner, Josué Daniel […]

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Leanne Stones

Biography Leanne is a Melbourne-based artist whose work bridges realism, abstraction and the ethereal. Working across oils, acrylics, pastels and mixed media, she creates expressive artworks that explore emotion, memory, dreams and the beauty found within everyday life.Drawing inspiration from artists such as Frida Kahlo and Gustav Klimt, Leanne combines traditional painting techniques with contemporary […]

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Nadim Touma

Nadim Touma’s contemporary oeuvre operates within a complex, highly charged tension between physiological architecture, existential vulnerability, and the radical heritage of Canadian Automatism. Guided by Jakob von Uexküll’s foundational concept of the Umwelt—which asserts that every organism inhabits a strictly self-contained, sensory-subjective bubble—Touma translates the invisible cognitive borders of non-human species into tangible, visceral painterly […]

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Nadim Touma

Biography Born in Lebanon during the years of strife, Nadim moved to Canada at one year old. Following studies in Political Sciences, Nadim graduated from Concordia University’s Fine Arts program in 2010. Widening his explorations on mankind’s relationship with the animal kingdom, he then participated in select group shows in Montreal.His paintings are eventful and […]

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Pd

Biography Every drip of ink expresses my soul. Project Statement  I have loved artwork since I was a child. So many years my style has change, now found my direction. I enjoy making abstract designs that are bold , unique and defined in details. Instagram

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