#ART - The Most Inventive Artists on Instagram

The social network Instagram has proven to be an important, innovative tool for artists. New artists dedicated specifically to the site jostle alongside established artists who use it to promote and showcase recent work. Here, the contributors to Unpopped's ‘Instagram and Artifice’ episode highlight just a few of the notable figures who are using the network effectively.

This London-based digital artist and motion designer creates gorgeous, squidgy, and brightly coloured Anish Kapoor-style illusions.

Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy is a graphic artist and illustrator based in London creating sensitive, hand-drawn, hyper-real portraits in pen and ink of marginalised people alongside iconic superstar figures.

A New York-based writer and illustrator whose enormously popular work chronicles the world of dating and heartbreak.

With 1.1 million followers, Robert Jahns claims to be the ’world's leading modern Digital Artist’. An exhilarating, award-winning photographer and art director, his Whale in Venice is a modern classic. Every piece he creates is a little bit of enchantment.

A modern Jan Pienkowski, Liam combines beautiful sky-scapes with silhouettes, only using sunsets instead of marbling.

Already established as one of the world’s most famous artists. almost always taking photographs featuring only herself in different guises, Sherman (despite claiming to hate ‘selfies’) appears to be the perfect Instagram artist. Her feed features disturbing, digitally altered images that might induce nightmares.

A cartoonist and illustrator based in Chicago whose diverse and calmly joyful drawings became icons of the 2017 Women's March movement.

A supremely relatable comics creator, whose cute output is always spiked by something nasty.

There are a lot of amazing line artists on Instagram but Mackesy's, coupled with his sweet calligraphic text, hits you right in the feels.

The Unpopped Podcast recently looked at Instagram and Artifice. Subscribe and listen to the podcast.