Alexandra Crouwers (1974) studied at the academy for Arts & Design in Den Bosch (NL) and the post-academic Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. She now lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium, where she studied Filmstudies & Image culture at the university. Next to making drawings in ink, much on very large formats, she also works with digital media: computerimaging and often photographybased 2D- or 3D-animation. She likes to present her work in installationlike environments, where artificial light is of great importance. Her work is based on films, literature, music and science (evolutionairy biology for instance). Apart from her work as an artist, she’s also a columnist for the Belgian artmagazine ART and a DJ. She had exhibitions and screenings in, amongst others, Amsterdam (Arti et Amicitae, de Kunstvlaai), Berlin (Transmediale festival), Reykjavik (700is festival), Antwerp (Base Alpha gallery, Extra Sic) and The Hague (TAG).

Website: website of Alexandra Crouwers
Contact email: alexa_crwrs@yahoo.com

I live in Christchurch, New Zealand, and was born in 1944. I have been a psychotherapist for 25 years, listening to the many stories that have come from what Jung calls the collective unconscious. During that time, I have been �gestating� my own expression.

For many years I thought I�d enroll in art school when I retired, a fantasy built on my love of drawing as a child. I realised I�d need to do do something to re-awaken and update my childhood affinity - thus the idea of a thousand sketches in a year. The rest clicked into place: put them online, make it a cyber-project, don�t retire.

I have learned things and had realizations through doing this work. Thousand Sketches is not a totally new turn in my life, it is a development of my years of exploration of the psyche in cyberspace, documented in my other blog & website. It explores a medium, a method and my own creative process in an open forum. As someone remarked at the physical public launch on 2 November 2006, it is a performance. As the project develops I become clearer about my process. My latest statement is on the project�s home page. www.thousandsketches.com

Website: Walter Logeman
Contact email: walter@psybernet.co.nz

She was born in 1950 in Russia. Since1950 until 1991 she has lived in Kiev.

1950 - 1973 - happy childhood, schooling in mathematic liceum, musical school.

1967 - 1973 - study in the Academy of Architecture and Art in Kiev. Until 1991 she worked as an architect.

At present she lives and works in Cracow (Poland).

“I was found of painting since early childhood, but it was only entertainment for pleasure. I have interested in painting seriously after 40 years old. I have always wanted to open something new for myself.

The year of 1991 opened the new possibilities for me. I have used it and went to see the world. I have traveled a lot since then and it helped me to find my own world of Art, my own way in painting. I saw the world from the different sights. I can not understand and admit lots of things and I can’t change them. But when I paint I can create my own world which I like.

I began to paint with obstinacy and effort. It became the sense of my whole life. When I paint I leave behind the world with its troubles and problems. I stay alone face to face with the canvas, paints and ideas. I fly away from the reality and stay in my own world full of colors and joy. I always try to put some elements of childish purity and naivety in my pictures to make them universal - clear for everyone without paying attention to age, education or nationality.

My houses, streets and small towns are just the symbols of happy life in peace and love. I can’t stand the aggression and I paint probably for one purpose - to make people smile, looking at my paintings.

The aim of my paintings is also leave some sign of mine in this world. The pictures spread over the whole Earth and it is a great pleasure for me. I like to paint and I do it for you - you just break into a smile.”
Olga Kost

Website: Krakart Olga Kost gallery
Contact email: krakart@onet.pl