Three years ago clay arrived. From that exact moment it felt as natural as breathing. Giorgia Piu — Rose de Nour — is a ceramicist based in Rome with strong Mediterranean roots, a background in painting and drawing, and an approach to clay that is completely her own: contemplative, instinctive, and deeply rooted in the earth. She and the matter. She and I.

An Australian in Paris who let the 2015 terrorist attacks force him to question whether abstraction could be justified at all — and came out the other side with a practice built on dissent. Anthony White talks Kiefer, Foucault, the Gilets Jaunes, Rosa Parks, and why the most important thing he can tell you is: be kind.

He told himself to stop painting the horizon. That decision led to shapes that represent nothing yet mean everything — upright rectangles with missing corners, silly pink shapes with black patches, cardboard from old packaging boxes treated until it becomes art. A conversation with Zaltbommel's quietly rebellious minimalist, Kees van de Wal.

She sketches in pen — so nothing can be erased — and paints women who carry secrets. Florine Imo's imperfect goddesses are terrifying, fragile, and hypnotically irresistible. The Vienna-based painter talks lockdowns, RuPaul, and why the art world still has a long way to go.

She lives in a falling-apart castle in Amsterdam. She made a VR film about Gestalt therapy, she's writing a solo piece about Leonora Carrington, and she has a list of 40 things that make her feel well. Eva Bartels is multiple people in one body — maybe even some animals too.

The Observer Effect says the act of seeing veils the true nature of reality. That almost sounds like art theory — and to London photographer Scott Archibald, it basically is. A conversation about Caravaggio being a card, Cardi B being queen, and a year that turned out to be surprisingly freeing.