Sculpture
Sculpture
Painting / Drawing
Installation
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Cherry Ascending 2025
Roots of Brazil 2018
Initiation (Ike Dike) 2022
Digital Heart 2025
Borosilicate glass, glass paint, poplar wood, cork, liquid latex, varnish, wooden beads, gloss spray paint, paper wire, gold leaf 20 × 20 × 20 cm
Real fabric dress for base, papier-mâché, newspaper, bubble wrap, masking tape, MDF, varnish 146 × 140 × 88 cm
Acrylic paint on canvas 200 × 180 cm
Mixed media 320 × 50 × 100 cm
Astra de la Crème iamtheastra
Augustus Nweke gus.nweke
Avadovile avadovile
Asia Nowicki asia_nowicki_art
Astra de la Crème is a Rio de Janeiro-born artist, Brazilian immigrant and self-taught maker. Drawing on anticolonial theory, craft and lived experience, de la Crème transforms discarded materials such as cardboard into intricate works. Through sculpture, drawing and animation, de la Crème creates worlds that are both beautiful and political, centring on labour, memory and working-class vision in contemporary art. In Roots of Brazil , Astra de la Crème presents a baroque-style sculpture of a child’s dress bound by tangled roots, inspired by colonial portraiture and Carlota Joaquina, the Spanish-born queen of Portugal known for resisting Brazil’s independence. Reflecting the age at which Carlota married Dom João VI, the piece critiques colonial ideologies and social hierarchies, using discarded materials to confront Eurocentrism and evoke silenced histories.
Augustus Nweke is a Nigerian-born British artist whose practice draws on Igbo aesthetics, Uli philosophy, postcolonial thought, painting and mixed media to explore the metaphysical dimensions of the shadow. His work reimagines suppressed cultural knowledge systems, challenging Eurocentric paradigms while expanding African Indigenous visual culture within global contemporary art. In Initiation (Ike Dike) , Augustus Nweke reflects on strength as more than physical force. The Igbo phrase ‘Ike Dike’ translates as ‘the strength of a warrior’. The painting challenges Eurocentric notions of the hero as conqueror, instead presenting heroism as rooted in reflection, wisdom and cultural knowledge. A masked central figure bridges the physical and spiritual realms, evoking ancestral presence.
Avadovile’s practice spans painting, sculpture and installation. Exploring transformation through organic, bodily forms fused with artificial elements, the work expresses shifting states of identity, perception and meaning. By merging the real and the imagined, the natural and the constructed, Avadovile invites reflection on how selfhood evolves within emotional, symbolic and technological frameworks. In Digital Heart , Avadovile presents a suspended sculpture of a halved papaya pierced by vivid orange wires. The piece evokes a digital heart, pulsing with unseen energy and merging organic life with technological tension. The contrast between soft fruit and synthetic wire forms a poetic reflection on longing, transformation and the fragile connection between the human and artificial, vulnerability and resilience.
Asia Nowicki is a Brighton-based artist working in sculpture and mixed media. Nowicki’s practice centres on gender psychology and the archetype of the Dark Feminine, drawing from dreams, the subconscious and energetic forces. Exploring trauma, neurodivergence and emotional depth, Nowicki uses materials from traditional media to DIY processes, balancing psychological intensity with formal precision and engaging fragility, memory and non-linear healing. Cherry Ascending is a sculptural uprising. A lattice of lampworked sugar glass climbs upward in unstable ambition, slick with glossy cherries and synthetic juice. It perches on a domestic relic—a pie base—then breaks form, oozing over skin. Dessert as dominion. Femininity as farce.
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