Who is the Artphoria Collective?
Helene Papa
Helene Papas’s work is inspired by the modernist past, yet driven by a desire to challenge its ideals. She explores the breakdown of rhythm and repetition by subverting and sabotaging visual systems—introducing lines, breaks, interruptions, disruptions, noise, and glitches to infuse emotion, confusion, and contradiction. Her aim is to disrupt modernist ideals of clean lines, geometry, and control.
Crystal Evans
Crystal D. Evans is an international multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, sculpture, poetry and less traditional visual & audio arts. Grounded in phenomenology and stoicism, her work explores human insights, perception, bias, memory, and emotion. She examines themes of narrative, identity, belonging, and cultural intersection and embraces imperfection as means of truth-telling.
Sue Cavanagh
Sue Cavanagh explores environmental experiences through horizontal, vertical, and sensory perspectives. Informed by architecture and urban design, her work examines urbanisation, climate, and landscape shifts. She questions our experience of place, interconnections between environments, and sustainable futures. Inspired by her move from city to coast, she creates immersive two- and three-dimensional works using collage, wood, concrete, wire, light, and sound.
Founders of Artphoria Collective
Helene Papa
Crystal Evans
Crystal Evans
By breaking rules and embracing disruption, emotion, and uncertainty, Helene Papas challenges the rigidity of modernism and creates space for a more human, imperfect, and expressive visual language. Using tape, paint, and digital media, she experiments with rhythm and repetition, deliberately introducing glitches and interruptions. Tape,
By breaking rules and embracing disruption, emotion, and uncertainty, Helene Papas challenges the rigidity of modernism and creates space for a more human, imperfect, and expressive visual language. Using tape, paint, and digital media, she experiments with rhythm and repetition, deliberately introducing glitches and interruptions. Tape, precise line work, and gradients become tools for both structure and sabotage—allowing her to create surfaces that hover between harmony and chaos, clarity and noise.
Underlying it all is a questioning of modernism’s utopian promises—the belief that pure form and colour could elevate society to a higher state. Instead, she explores structures that are imperfect or resisting themselves, reclaiming space for ambiguity, personal narrative, and the beauty of imperfection. Her practice is an ongoing investigation into how these historic visual languages can be subverted, reimagined, and made urgent again in a contemporary context.
Crystal Evans
Crystal Evans
Crystal Evans
Crystal D. Evans' work spans photography, sculpture, video, sound, text, and immersive installation—often combining mediums to disrupt first impressions and invite embodied reflection. Uncompromising in defending the dignity of marginalised voices—including her own—she challenges exploitative systems and cultural erasure through urgent, e
Crystal D. Evans' work spans photography, sculpture, video, sound, text, and immersive installation—often combining mediums to disrupt first impressions and invite embodied reflection. Uncompromising in defending the dignity of marginalised voices—including her own—she challenges exploitative systems and cultural erasure through urgent, emotionally resonant forms. Her latest body of work, What Remains, debuted at the Herbert Read Gallery in 2025, exploring themes of legacy, impermanence, and cultural memory. The collection continues its international tour, with exhibitions at the Venice International Art Fair, Borders Venice Art Fair during Venice Biennale 2025, Barcelona Contemporary Art Fair, Rome International Art Fair, Art Society Sandwich's Summer Art Exhibition, with solo shows at Roseberry Road Studios and Strange Cargo in UK. An accompanying book of the same title is out now. Strategic and visionary, Crystal’s practice bridges intellectual depth and intuitive force. Her work confronts, mourns, reclaims, and transforms—anchored by universal truths and human insights. Whether through material, metaphor, or movement, she invites audiences to confront their own perceptions and biases, and to consider the unseen or uncomfortable truths that shape us.
Sue Cavanagh
Crystal Evans
Sue Cavanagh
Sue Cavanagh explores environmental experiences through horizontal, vertical, and sensory perspectives. Informed by architecture and urban design, her work examines urbanisation, climate, and landscape change. Through mixed-media assemblages, she reflects on existential and social questions, drawing from her transition from city to coast to create immersive, atmospheric installations.