We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Vanessa Wenwieser a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Vanessa, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

Some of the most meaningful projects I’ve worked on have been with my friend and artist Tatiana Moura, from Brazil. We produce artworks and curate projects together of socio-political importance, often for Women Rights as well as specifically Women’s Rights in, for example, Afghanistan or the Women, Life Freedom movement which broke out following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, or LGBTQ+ rights, to name but a few.

Sometimes, the Goddessartsmagazine and the owner Lena Snow who is also a supporter of women rights and an artist too, sponsored our projects and featured them in her magazine
and contributed proceeds to connecting causes from the magazine.

It was also sponsored by Marvelous Art Group who put it on their platform as well as designing the poster for it and promoting it online, Stille Skygger, an Art Director, is a very avid supporter of women rights too as well as being an artist in her own right.

Our last project for women day is still to be seen here: https://www.marvelousartgroup.com/
These projects are so incredible, all the artists who get involved and do such beautiful work to raise awareness. I am so proud of them all.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

My journey into the art world began as a young child, I’ve always enjoyed drawing, painting and crafts and I delved into photography at a very early, inspired by my father who was a great photographer. Later on, I progressed into other art forms, such as printmaking and digital art, as I loved the layers one can create and build a story as well as the non-destructive way of working that lends itself extremely well to experimenting.

I started placing my focus on females, not just because I am one but because I wanted to transform the walls of galleries and museum and in art books with the art of women made by women; as through the centuries females had just been seen through the male gaze and the art world was and still is to some extent very male dominated.

I was disillusioned of this one-dimensional point of view and I wanted to show females from a female vantage point and expose the many facets of what it’s really like being a female; the hopes, the thoughts, pains and fears as well as the strength women have within themselves.

I portray women as the multi-dimensional figures that they are and I am confident that this would inspire many other female artists and slowly show the world what female artists and females have to offer and making it easier with every generation of female to live out their lives as artists and also have encouragement from female artists that came before. After all, we make up half of the population, why ignore and hide what they really are and feasibly through this spur there will be more and more female gallery owners as well as museum curators that will show female art.

What I am most proud of is the awards I have received from Women United Art, where I won first prize in the Digital Art category in 2023 and the following year I was a finalist in the photography and printmaking section.

I am also proud to have been adjudged to be a winner for “Artist of the year 2025” by the Marvelous Art Gallery and that my works adorn the front and back covers and inside of the current issue of Women United Art Magazine and finally, I am honoured to have my art gracing the front and back covers and inside of a wonderful book entitled “The Muse of Restless Nights”, by a poet whose work I cherish called Sinead McGuigan.

Looking back, are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

Working with Adobe Photoshop to create layers and I love that non destructive part of working, it is so rewarding, you can make mistakes but not destroy your original image or other layers. It means you can experiment without fear and very quickly. I would recommend it to any artists that would want to save some time and material to try something out. I use it also to create layers of different mediums I like to work with like photography and painting and printmaking too as well as text. It means I can visually tie everything together and blend my different interests.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

The most rewarding aspect of being an artists is the interaction with other artists and to see or feel how people are touched by your work, that it means something to them, that they feel they are less alone. If I can give back to people what they give me in enjoying my work it is worth everything to me.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.kunstfabrikstudio.com/
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