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Arty Rat – Issue 5, September 2026

  • September 21, 2026
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Ismail Ucci

  • September 18, 2026
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Deny Gocheva

  • September 17, 2026

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Arty Rat – Issue 5, September 2026

Issue #5 presents the work of 47 artists in a full-colour printed edition.   Order Your Print Copy of Issue #5 Curator: Oleksandr Dyvnich Publication date: September 2026Page count: 100Format: 21 × 29.7 cm (A4)Full colourPrinted in the Netherlands  Interviews Ismail Ucci Curatorial Reviews Dominika Białas, Danielle Vibert, Anastasiya Maria Savran, Hazem Asif, Aylal Heydarova, […]

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Ismail Ucci

Website | Instagram You work across drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics and sculpture. What determines which medium is best suited to a particular idea, and how often does an idea migrate from one discipline to another? I am a multidisciplinary artist meaning experimentation is most essential part of my practice. My method of working is determined […]

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Deny Gocheva

Biography  As an artist and architect based in the Canary Islands, my artistic work stems from the dialogue between my two professional and creative facets. This dual perspective profoundly influences how I understand and construct images, where space, structure, and composition coexist with intuition, emotion, and the freedom of gesture. In my work, I combine […]

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Spencer Herd

Biography  Spencer Herd is a multidisciplinary artist using a pointillist and French Impressionist approach to explore the relationship between naturalistic landscapes and the urban world.With a professional career in theatrical lighting design, Herd explores the relationship between visual art elements and principles and the properties of colour and light through collaborative process.Recent exhibitions include A Thousand […]

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Anita Markevica

Biography  Anita Markeviča (born in 1974 in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian painter whose artistic practice is grounded in academic training and a long-standing interest in the relationship between people, nature, and their surroundings. She studied at the Riga School of Design and Art and later at the Art Academy of Latvia, where she earned […]

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Ayan Aziz Mammadova

Biography  Ayan Aziz Mammadova was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. As a child she spent time in her father’s studio, watching him passionately work on his paintings and dreaming that one day she would find an artistic passion of her own. These early memories have inspired and shaped her into the creative individual she is today.Being […]

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Jasmin Hecht

Biography  My name is Jasmin Hecht, I am twenty-one years old and from Germany. I’ve painted my whole life since I was a little child and always wanted to be an artist. My family always told me that you can’t center your life around art, so I stopped taking art as a career seriously. Now […]

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Mercouri Marianna

Biography  Marianna is an Athens-based visual artist working across paintings, illustrations, comics, logo and tattoo designs.Raised in an artistic family, she was surrounded by colors and creative expression from a young age. This early connection to art continues to shape the way she observes people, gestures and the small, unnoticed stories of everyday life.Her work […]

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Bag Head (Rebecca Daly)

Biography  My work explores the darker, often unseen aspects of human experience, focusing on trauma, dissociation, suicide and identity. Working predominantly in pencil, I use intimate and unsettling imagery to communicate experiences that can be difficult to articulate through words.Central to my practice is the character Bag Head, who acts as a narrator and representation […]

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Aylal Heydarova

Curatorial Reviewby Oleksandr Dyvnich Aylal Heydarova paints at the edge where an image is about to dissolve — or about to cohere. Across the works gathered here, her signature idiom is a dense field of discrete, hand-loaded dabs, closer to a tactile, impasto pointillism than to Seurat’s optical calculus. Where the Neo-Impressionists deployed the dot […]

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Arty Rat – Issue 5, September 2026

  • September 21, 2026
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