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Welcome to the 17 th  issue of Inspirational magazine. In this issue inspirational features interviews with four new artists, as well as one previous featured artist with new work, a community article, a project article, a book review, and events pages highlighting exhibitions and art events from around the world. Feature artist:   Akiko Suzuki  is the internationally renowned Japanese textile/fiber artist. She has worked in a range of disciplines and collaborated creatively and highly successfully with fellow creative artists on an international stage. Akiko gives an in-depth interview and shows a range of her work in this Inspirational feature.          Feature artist:   Amy Oliver  is a profound British conceptual artist that works with her own experiences regarding among other subjects – mental health, women’s rights, abuse and identity. Amy gives an in-depth interview and shows a range of her work in this Inspirationa...

Deborah Kruger: Kansai (screen printing on fused plastic bags, sewing), 2018 (69" x 72" x 1") The artist Deborah Kruger uses her creativity to understand the world around her, specifically the natural world, its problems in trying to adapt to enforced changes by humans, and ultimately the shifts that are forced on ourselves through those changes. Her work is about movement, migration, change, uprooting. In the following interview Deborah helps explain her view of the world, her perspective, her creative understanding. Migration is a big part of the Plumage series. At first it seems that the theme is purely devoted to bird migration, but you have expanded the definition to mean so much more. What else does it include? DEK: Like most artists, I learn about the world through making art. Initially, the work was purely about birds and their migration. Over time, I realized that the interruptions to bird migration due to habitat destruction were parallel to the migrations of ...