Gaia Alari produces bespoke illustrations and animations for musicians including Alessia Cara, Porridge Radio and Coldplay. Her textural, elegant work blends mythology and fairy-tale elements, weaving between figurative and abstract forms with natural, kinetic movement. She creates dialogue between shapes to capture actual and aspirational body movement. Gaia views art as a language absorbed like digestion, raising questions and feelings that invite viewer projection. Influences include Kiki Smith, Wangechi Mutu, William Kentridge and Yoshitomo Nara. Her imagery channels childhood visual language—stretching bodies, transforming animals and lovers—aiming to reveal transparent, merged emotions and to express mysterious, folkloric feelings beyond words.
In a style that feels intertwined with mythology and fairy tales, Gaia's textural, elegant illustrations weave between figurative and abstract with natural movements. Creating a dialogue between shapes, Gaia has a fantastic knack for capturing not just body movement, but how we would like our bodies to move. "I believe that art in general is a language that speaks (for those who listen) to a different level than words," shares Gaia. "It communicates through a process more similar to digestion, by absorption.
Inspired by Kiki Smith, Wangechi Mutu, William Kentridge and Yoshitomo Nara, Gaia's illustrations speak a type of language specific to childhood, especially in the imaginative, kinetic movements of story books or even children's drawings - bodies become stretched like winding flower stems, elephants become birds which become people embracing in a kiss - it's a wonderful stream of consciousness. "I like to go as deep as I can, where emotions are more transparent, less shielded," says Gaia.
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