Friday Feature Artist

Croatian-born, Chicago-based artist Ana Zanic embraces watercolour as a spontaneous, layered practice built from washes, drawn marks and a loose, improvisational hand. Her series, including Migration, made around her US citizenship, explore movement, memory and identity. In this conversation, Ana talks about accidental burn marks discovered with her son, working at scale, and how becoming a mother led her, unexpectedly, into ceramics.
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Congolese-born, Cape Town-based artist Patrick Bongoy transforms reclaimed rubber inner tubes into intricately woven sculptures confronting histories of extraction, displacement and survival. A 2024 LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize finalist now representing the DRC at the 2026 Venice Biennale, Patrick reflects on his family's early resistance to his path, the enduring legacy of Congo's rubber trade, and how ritual and spirituality shape his practice.
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French Canadian textile artist Catherine-Marie Longtin, based in South London, builds quilts and stretched fabric artworks from collected linens and solids, favouring analogous colour and hand-pieced geometry over pattern and print. A former academic, she left that career in 2008 and has just published a book exploring 100 variations of the traditional log cabin block. In this conversation, Catherine reflects on breaking quilting's unwritten rules, trusting colour instinct, and building a long project one block at a time.
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Dutch, London-based artist Anne von Freyburg creates large-scale textile paintings that reimagine Rococo portraiture in hand-sewn tapestry, sequins and PVC fabric. In this conversation, she unpacks the hierarchy between painting and textile, why pleasure and excess are acts of resistance, and the six-month process behind her recent Saatchi Gallery installation. Anne also previews Pleasure Garden, her upcoming solo show with HOFA Gallery.
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Melbourne-based repair artist Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald mends clothes with visible, playful stitching that turns holes into design features rather than flaws. Once called "a tattoo artist for clothes," she teaches darning and mending and is the author of her book Modern Mending, now in its third printing. In this conversation, Erin shares stories of sentimental repairs, the philosophy of "beautiful and bonkers," and why there are more holes.
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