SMCK MAGAZINE
VIDEO SERIES

The experts' insight into the artist’s mind

Artists' Portraits is a SMCK Magazine video project featuring interviews that go beyond the obvious. The video series reveal the artist's concepts, promote the maker’s work and emphasize the interviewee's social role and mission.
Artists' Portraits offer a better understanding of multi-disciplinary contemporary art and design, and enhance art appreciation and knowledge.

PORTRAITS

HELEN DILKES

  Helen Dilkes - video, 3:51 min.  

"In 2009, I made a piece called Slicing the Cone, and I discovered that when you slice a cone, you produce an ellipse. That absolutely fascinated me, and I've been working with the ellipse in many different ways."

Helen Dilkes, artist, jeweler, researcher – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

JI YOUNG KIM

  Ji Young Kim - video, 4:34 min.  

"Jewelry has the power to comfort feelings of emptiness, sadness, and anxiety while amplifying joy through beauty."

Ji Young Kim, jewelry artist – South Korea.

ESSENTIALS

LOUKIA RICHARDS

  Loukia Richards - video, 1:00 min.  

"I try to capture the saints’ movement from the human position to the position of enlightenment, and this transformation is also about myself."

Loukia Richards, artist, curator, publisher – Greece.