ARTIST SPOTLIGHT.
Artist Spotlight is a collaborative series from the Diverse Artists Network and the RISE Collective, shining a light on creatives from across the region. In each episode, RISE Youth Press member Kat sits down with featured artists to explore their work, stories, and perspectives.
Below, you’ll find Kat’s written articles, offering deeper reflections on the conversations — and you can also watch the full video interviews to hear directly from the artists themselves.
CHARLI X ORGENA ROSE
It’s a bright, cloudless afternoon in February and cool winter sun pools around Orgena Rose as she reclines into her chair and crosses her legs. The producers whisper anxiously to each other about how to angle the cameras. Gena smiles: “Are you getting my boots in the shot? I only wore them for you.” Glamorous and at ease, she puts others at ease. We’re on a set in a rehearsal room backstage in the Bristol Old Vic, but we could just as easily be in Gena’s living room. She’s welcomed us into her home: the places where art gets made...
CHARLI X bash malik
In a world run by AI, advertising and fake news, where everything from films to groceries seem to be owned by some diabolical corporation on a boycott list, the resistance is assembling. While billionaires and corporations harvest reality into monetisable data algorithms, in the backrooms of arts organisations across Bristol, a handful of plucky rebels are plotting to take the fight for technology to them. Bash Malik, a soft-spoken documentary filmmaker now working with AI and VR, is one of those rebels...
