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Sabina Speich crafts large-scale pizza, bacon and chips through her 'freestyle' method of crochet

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"Art has been my purpose all my life," she says, having grown up in Winterthur, Switzerland, to an artist father who supported her crafts from an early age. When she got older, Sabina attended fine art school in St. Gallen before heading to art college in Switzerland.

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Xiangni Song follows her instincts to create paintings of the abstract images in her mind

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Spending her time between Beijing and New York, Xiangni was trained at the School of Visual Arts in 2016. She subsequently transitioned from illustration to fine art by enrolling in the MFA Fine Arts program at Pratt Institute in 2020. This doesn't mean her background in illustration was time wasted, though.

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Magical world of inflatable art opens new cultural landmark in Manchester

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Yayoi Kusama and Dots Obsession, 1996-2011 Installation view_ The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner. Images © David Levene Yayoi Kusama and Dots Obsession, 1996-2011 Installation view_ The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. © YAYOI KUSAMA.

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Yuchen Lu creates dreamlike illustrations inspired by Greek mythology and Chinese folklore

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She even lived very close to China's top art school, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, which further nurtured her appreciation. I was lucky to have more access to art than most Chinese children," she tells Creative Boom. "I I was lucky to have more access to art than most Chinese children," she tells Creative Boom.

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Soumyaraj Vishwakarma's calming illustrations remind us to enjoy a slower pace of life

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Through those, I realised that I could pursue art as a profession. That's when I decided to go to an art college.". And that's exactly what she did in 2016, studying Visual Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and graduating in 2020, during the height of the pandemic.

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Irina ?elaru closes the gap between her personality and drawings by embracing simplicity

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Irina, who holds an MA degree in Illustration and Book Arts from the Anglia Ruskin University of Cambridge, has honed her unmistakable style through an extensive learning process. Studying graphic arts introduced her to almost every visual art-related discipline, including graphic design, printmaking, photography, and fine art. "I

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Zhiyu You depicts the struggles facing women in a diabolical series of Hell Scene paintings

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© Zhiyu You © Zhiyu You After studying at China's Central Academy of Fine Arts for a year, Zhiyu found that the exam-oriented education was not to her liking. To change things up, she moved to the United States to study illustration at the School of Visual Arts, which further broadened her cultural and artistic horizons.

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