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Irina Dalah

Biography Irina Dalah is an Israeli mixed-media artist whose text-based works explore the ways language shapes identity, relationships, and the meanings we create.Her artistic practice draws on years of scientific inquiry, teaching, general-interest and scientific writing in 3 languages. This is bolstered by sustained fascination with how people use words to make meaning across cultures, […]

Curatorial reviews

Anastasiya Maria Savran

Curatorial Reviewby Oleksandr Dyvnich Anastasiya Savran (b. 1997, Lviv, Ukraine) works in a mode of abstraction that trusts colour and gesture to do the narrating. Across this selection of paintings and works on paper — spanning acrylic, pastel, ink and watercolour pencil on canvas, wood, board and paper — a consistent sensibility emerges: dense, layered […]

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Heath VanDyke

Biography I’m Heath VanDyke, a graduate of Kendall College of Art and Design and an aspiring landscape and nature photographer based in Michigan. Project Statement  Using photography to both document and interpret change, this body of work examines humanity’s relationship with the natural landscape. My photographs explore how natural environments are transformed through human interaction, […]

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Katsiaryna Smolskaya

Biography Born in Minsk, Belarus, and now based in Prague, Czech Republic, Katsiaryna is a self-taught watercolor artist. While she enjoys experimenting with different artistic mediums, she inevitably returns to watercolor. Inspired by quiet harbors, coastal landscapes, and the changing qualities of light, she creates atmospheric paintings that combine expressive washes and techniques with careful […]

Curatorial reviews

Dominika Białas

Curatorial Reviewby Oleksandr Dyvnich Dominika Białas builds her portraits the way a face is actually built over a lifetime: in layers, under pressure, with damage left visible rather than smoothed away. Across the drawings, the linocut, and the oil pastel portraits submitted here, the same conviction holds — that a face worth looking at twice […]

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Anastasia Nakonechnaya

Biography Anastasia Nakonechnaya is a painter based in Spain, working primarily in oil and watercolor. She graduated from the Filippov State Art School in 2010 and earned a degree from the Faculty of Art and Graphics at Kuban State University in 2017. Her work has been exhibited in Russia and Uzbekistan, and in 2024 she […]

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Arty Rat – Issue 4, July 2026

Issue #4 presents the work of 39 artists in a full-colour printed edition.   Order Your Print Copy of Issue #4 Curator: Oleksandr Dyvnich Publication date: July 2026 Page count: 86 Format: 21 × 29.7 cm (A4)  Full colour Printed in the Netherlands Curatorial Review Petr Václavek (PBV), Esther Wiederhold, Emily Alana James, Claudi Piripippi Publication […]

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Arath Herrera

Biography Arath Herrera is an emerging artist from Waco, Tx who specializes in his work in Illustrations and Mixed Media. For the past few years, his work specializes in the taboo parts of life, focusing on ideas of self-identity/expression, mental health, and life’s hardships. His work has been seen throughout the U.S. including all over […]

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Chelsea Quigley

Biography My name is Chelsea Quigley, and I am twenty-four years old. I have been creating little sketches since the age of four. My practice centres on the human body, portraiture, and the expressive possibilities of form. I like to move between digital work and more distinct abstract sketches, as my practice explores the body […]

Curatorial reviews

Emily Alana James

Curatorial Reviewby Oleksandr Dyvnich Between Signal and Noise: On the Digital Practice of Alana James Alana James arrives at full-time visual art after a career spent thinking rigorously about how human beings make and transmit meaning — and that intellectual formation is both the greatest strength and the sharpest challenge visible in this body of […]

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