Isil is a Phd working on philosophy of art who has been living and curating in Europe, Middle-East and Japan.
michael odom
artist
Michael lives in Tokyo exploring non-verbal expression as communicative tool in the ever smaller-growing global village.
selami gundogdu
street sweeper/artist
Selami is a city cowboy who has been sweeping the streets in an industrial Turkish city from evil spirits with the enchanted cleaning equipment that he created.
rosemarie koczy
exile/artist
After being deported from her home at the age of 3 and surviving 2 concentration camps Koczy changed her nationality many times and kept depicting the same horrifying faces of death.
IM
capitalist/artist
IM is a well-known capitalist who recently comes forward with conceptual artworks executed by his partner Queen E.
dion mckey
traveller/artist
Dion is a world traveler who ended up settling down in Japan where he climbs up mountains to drink 日本酒, namely Japanese rice wine, and paints.
catherine dupire
artists / poet
Dupire is a French visual poet who combines text with drawing and paintings.
baba
holy man/artist
Baba is a governmental award winning farmer who later became a holy man and started painting and gambling after having served sentence of ten years because of committing murder.
clary estes
photographer/writer
Clary is a photographer and a writer who is travelling around the world to record stories of human condition.
kashinath chawan
shoe repairer /artist
Kashinath is a cobler by profession and an art brut creator who was discovered by Collection de l'Art Brut Lausanne after years of isolated artistic creation.
nek chan
roads inspector/artist
Until his death in 2015, Nek Chan who is in Collection de l'Art Brut Lausanne, kept inspiring the world with his Rock Garden in India.
pushpa kumari
mithila painter/artist
Pushpa Kumari has created a unique artistic expression from the mithila tradition that she had learnt from her grandmother and practiced in isolation. (original photo:Hervé Perdriolle)
shyam thandar
live-in security manager/artist (!)
An old bus conductor, now a live-in security manager in India, Shyam Thandar thinks it is a fool's errand to ascribe an artist status to him and keeps painting.
maria koshenkova
artist
Maria is probing the frontiers between the physical and conceptual, between power and material. http://mariakoshenkova.com/
mitsuri tateishi
artist
Tateishi left Japan and ended up settling down in France without a visa and he decided to seek his artistic style in this alien country of which he didn't even know the language.