Big Active » Artists https://bigactive.com Art direction, graphic design, creative consultancy and representation +44 (0)20 7739 5601 Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:12:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 Kate Dehler https://bigactive.com/artists/kate-dehler/ https://bigactive.com/artists/kate-dehler/#comments Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:00:36 +0000 https://bigactive.com/?post_type=artists&p=584608 Kate Dehler is an illustrator living in Austin, Texas. Her nostalgic, reductive work is often inspired by nature and draws from the graphic art of the 1970’s. Recent projects include collaborating with the musicians  Khruangbin and MonoNeon, as well as a creating a visual universe for Moog Sound Studio. She has also worked with brands such as Chobani, Dell and Vice and is a regular contributor to The New York Times.

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]]> Kate Dehler is an illustrator living in Austin, Texas. Her nostalgic, reductive work is often inspired by nature and draws from the graphic art of the 1970’s. Recent projects include collaborating with the musicians  Khruangbin and MonoNeon, as well as a creating a visual universe for Moog Sound Studio. She has also worked with brands such as Chobani, Dell and Vice and is a regular contributor to The New York Times.

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]]> https://bigactive.com/artists/kate-dehler/feed/ 0 Gaia Alari https://bigactive.com/artists/gaia-alari/ https://bigactive.com/artists/gaia-alari/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:39:06 +0000 https://bigactive.com/?post_type=artists&p=587192 Gaia Alari is an Italian visual artist, award-winning illustrator and animation director whose deeply expressive work moves between drawing, animation, film and editorial illustration. Working primarily by hand with charcoal and pastels on paper, she creates complex, surreal animations that explore memory, mortality, emotion and the more elusive aspects of human experience. Following her studies in medicine, Gaia pursued fine art as a self-taught artist, initially creating works on paper...

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]]> Gaia Alari is an Italian visual artist, award-winning illustrator and animation director whose deeply expressive work moves between drawing, animation, film and editorial illustration. Working primarily by hand with charcoal and pastels on paper, she creates complex, surreal animations that explore memory, mortality, emotion and the more elusive aspects of human experience.

Following her studies in medicine, Gaia pursued fine art as a self-taught artist, initially creating works on paper and sculpture before moving into animation. Her practice remains deliberately analogue and intimate, embracing imperfection, ritual and rhythm to create images that feel tactile, instinctive and unmistakably human.

@gaiaesthermaria

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]]> https://bigactive.com/artists/gaia-alari/feed/ 0 Edd Carr https://bigactive.com/artists/edd-carr/ https://bigactive.com/artists/edd-carr/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:56:40 +0000 https://bigactive.com/?post_type=artists&p=586694 Edd Carr is a Yorkshire born artist whose work explores our relationship with the natural world through experimental, ecologically driven photographic processes. Working across moving image, print and animation, he uses plant-developed 35mm film, cyanotype animation, soil prints and hand-crafted emulsions, combining analogue methods with digital layering to build fragile, dreamlike worlds. He co-runs The Sustainable Darkroom, a non-profit pioneering low-toxicity approach to photography, and has received awards such as...

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]]> Edd Carr is a Yorkshire born artist whose work explores our relationship with the natural world through experimental, ecologically driven photographic processes. Working across moving image, print and animation, he uses plant-developed 35mm film, cyanotype animation, soil prints and hand-crafted emulsions, combining analogue methods with digital layering to build fragile, dreamlike worlds.

He co-runs The Sustainable Darkroom, a non-profit pioneering low-toxicity approach to photography, and has received awards such as the Film London Best Artist Filmmaker Award (2025) and the Channel 4 Random Acts Award.

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]]> https://bigactive.com/artists/edd-carr/feed/ 0 Winston Hacking https://bigactive.com/artists/winston-hacking/ https://bigactive.com/artists/winston-hacking/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2023 12:07:05 +0000 https://bigactive.com/?post_type=artists&p=584411 Winston Hacking is an award winning filmmaker and artist who is best known for his collaborations with Flying Lotus, Run The Jewels, Animal Collective and Andy Shauf. His passion lies in conjuring up hybrid works that are equal parts contemporary collage and early cinematic illusion. Capturing anomalies and combining analogue and digital techniques, his explorative work has garnered millions of views online and has been featured by The New York...

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]]> Winston Hacking is an award winning filmmaker and artist who is best known for his collaborations with Flying Lotus, Run The Jewels, Animal Collective and Andy Shauf. His passion lies in conjuring up hybrid works that are equal parts contemporary collage and early cinematic illusion. Capturing anomalies and combining analogue and digital techniques, his explorative work has garnered millions of views online and has been featured by The New York Times, Juxtapoz and Vogue.

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]]> https://bigactive.com/artists/winston-hacking/feed/ 0 Katie Scott https://bigactive.com/artists/katie-scott/ https://bigactive.com/artists/katie-scott/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:01:02 +0000 https://bigactive.com/?post_type=artists&p=1308 Katie Scott graduated from the University of Brighton in 2011, coming to public attention for her illustrations for Bombay Bicycle Club. Since then her hand-drawn fine line work and digital watercolouring have found their way into people’s homes, whether through posters, wine labels, newspapers or wallpaper. Her preoccupation with the natural world was allowed to run wild with the publication of her first book, Animalium, which in 2014 was awarded...

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]]> Katie Scott graduated from the University of Brighton in 2011, coming to public attention for her illustrations for Bombay Bicycle Club. Since then her hand-drawn fine line work and digital watercolouring have found their way into people’s homes, whether through posters, wine labels, newspapers or wallpaper. Her preoccupation with the natural world was allowed to run wild with the publication of her first book, Animalium, which in 2014 was awarded the Sunday Times Children’s Book of The Year.

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]]> https://bigactive.com/artists/katie-scott/feed/ 0 Angela Kirkwood https://bigactive.com/artists/angela-kirkwood/ https://bigactive.com/artists/angela-kirkwood/#comments Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:03:03 +0000 https://bigactive.com/?post_type=artists&p=585880 Angela Kirkwood is an artist and animation director based in Glasgow. Her autobiographical and humorous work has seen her create an abundance of self-directed projects as well as campaigns for clients including Selfridges, Nike, Adult Swim and The New York Times. Angela is fascinated by the boundless possibilities of her creative process and this infectious energy permeates throughout her work.

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Angela Kirkwood is an artist and animation director based in Glasgow. Her autobiographical and humorous work has seen her create an abundance of self-directed projects as well as campaigns for clients including Selfridges, Nike, Adult Swim and The New York Times. Angela is fascinated by the boundless possibilities of her creative process and this infectious energy permeates throughout her work.

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]]> https://bigactive.com/artists/angela-kirkwood/feed/ 0 Vasilis Marmatakis https://bigactive.com/artists/vasilis-marmatakis/ https://bigactive.com/artists/vasilis-marmatakis/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:49:35 +0000 https://bigactive.com/?post_type=artists&p=586978 Vasilis Marmatakis is a Greek graphic artist and creative director whose concept-driven approach has helped redefine the visual language of contemporary cinema. Renowned for creating bold, metaphorical identities for internationally acclaimed films, his work is widely praised for resisting conventional marketing in favour of striking, symbolic imagery that deepens a film’s emotional and thematic resonance. Marmatakis’s long-standing collaboration with award-winning filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, as well as notable commissions within music...

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]]> Vasilis Marmatakis is a Greek graphic artist and creative director whose concept-driven approach has helped redefine the visual language of contemporary cinema. Renowned for creating bold, metaphorical identities for internationally acclaimed films, his work is widely praised for resisting conventional marketing in favour of striking, symbolic imagery that deepens a film’s emotional and thematic resonance. Marmatakis’s long-standing collaboration with award-winning filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, as well as notable commissions within music and publishing have positioned him as a key creative voice in global design culture, with his work recognised for its originality, confidence and lasting influence.

Marmatakis.net

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]]> https://bigactive.com/artists/vasilis-marmatakis/feed/ 0 Robert Beatty https://bigactive.com/artists/robert-beatty/ https://bigactive.com/artists/robert-beatty/#comments Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:50:35 +0000 https://bigactive.com/?post_type=artists&p=131400 Robert Beatty is an artist and musician based in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

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]]> https://bigactive.com/artists/robert-beatty/feed/ 0 Kate Gibb https://bigactive.com/artists/kate-gibb/ https://bigactive.com/artists/kate-gibb/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2014 12:38:55 +0000 http://192.168.0.78:88/kate-gibb Kate Gibb is a silkscreen and print obsessive. Her early studies in printed textiles fuel her inherent love for colour, texture and pattern, which continue to provide the base for her works. She is well known for her music-based artworks, in particular for her long standing relationship with The Chemical Brothers, as well as for her collaborations on brand projects for the likes of Hermés, Dries Van Noten and Stussy....

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]]> Kate Gibb is a silkscreen and print obsessive. Her early studies in printed textiles fuel her inherent love for colour, texture and pattern, which continue to provide the base for her works.

She is well known for her music-based artworks, in particular for her long standing relationship with The Chemical Brothers, as well as for her collaborations on brand projects for the likes of Hermés, Dries Van Noten and Stussy.

Kate is inspired by printing that is process-led; utilising the chances, the hiccups and happy accidents that her unorthodox approach throws her way. Her informal, playful and explorative manner reflects her practice as predominantly intuitive and self taught.

Her recent projects include a commission for the SS26 Burberry fashion campaign, collaborating with Lane & Associates, as well as working alongside Sony Music Entertainment on sleeve art re-issues for the iconic band Pink Floyd.

Alongside her print based artworks and her commercial illustration practice, Kate is also an educator, working most recently at Liverpool School of Art and Brighton University.

Based in London, the rest of her time is spent exploring the nature and nuance of screen-printing, exhibiting and selling works in private homes and galleries globally.

Clients:

Folk Clothing, Burberry, Lane&Associates, Apple, Sony Music Entertainment, Paul McCartney & MPL Music Publishing, EMI Music Publishing, UGG, Hermés, Sunspel, Dries Van Noten, British Vogue, STUSSY, Penguin Random House, The Guardian & Observer, Pentagram.

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]]> https://bigactive.com/artists/kate-gibb/feed/ 0 Emi Ueoka https://bigactive.com/artists/emi-ueoka-2/ https://bigactive.com/artists/emi-ueoka-2/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:02:25 +0000 https://bigactive.com/?post_type=artists&p=586883 Emi Ueoka (b. 1981, Japan) is an artist working primarily in pencil. She studied in the United Kingdom, exhibiting life drawings at the National Portrait Gallery as a high school student, and graduated in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins, London. In 2011 she began her career as an illustrator with commissions including British Vogue, The New York Times, Shiseido and Herman Miller. Youth and informal scenes characterise her work.

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]]> Emi Ueoka (b. 1981, Japan) is an artist working primarily in pencil. She studied in the United Kingdom, exhibiting life drawings at the National Portrait Gallery as a high school student, and graduated in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins, London. In 2011 she began her career as an illustrator with commissions including British Vogue, The New York Times, Shiseido and Herman Miller. Youth and informal scenes characterise her work.

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