THE SIGNATURE ART PRIZE
2020/21 ARTWORK CATALOGUE
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From over 500 entries from 45 universities in 16 countries, these 62 artists have been selected in the categories of Painting, Sculpture, Drawing & Printmaking and Photography & Film.
We are delighted to be presenting our annual Signature Art Prize, which has proceeded, uninterrupted, since 2003, and we now have a digital ‘Covid Proof’ plan that will allow us to shine a spotlight on student and recent graduates. Many of these artists’ entries were created during lockdown as well as many artists having started or indeed graduated form their degree during the pandemic making the shortlisted artworks all the more intriguing and important in the history of art.
On behalf of the whole team we congratulate all of the shortlisted artists and look forward to receiving the judges’ finalist selections which will be announced in April 2021. We hope you enjoy discovering the shortlist. Jahnai Hall Art Prize Coordinator
THE SIGNATURE ART PRIZE
DRAWING AND PRINTMAKING SHORTLIST
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ART SOKOLOFF ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART Art Sokoloff (b.1996, Moscow) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in London, UK. His research and projects center around the structure-based abstraction creation. Art received a BA in Architecture at the Moscow Architectural Institute, the Russian Federation (2018), and two additional courses in Higher School of Economics in Moscow, the Russian Federation (2017, 2018).Since he started his MA in Print (in the Royal College of Art, London, UK), he has participated in various forms of exhibitions, projects and publications internationally.
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MOMENTUM 1 £360 27 x 20 x 0 cm Etching on steel plate, hard ground + aquatint on Somerset paper 2019 Momentum #1, is a semi-abstract geometric composition that refers to the utopian architectural fantasies. The work explores the relationships of planes, directions, and masses. Using an architectonic vision, the author carefully and systematically builds up the structure using intuitive construction. The visual balance of the masses achieved by the verified play of tone relations gives the composition the necessary materiality. The usage of a steel plate instead of other material is relevant because it gives the image a natural tonality of jagged metal and an element of out of controls.
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ELYSE BLACKSHAW ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART “I am an emerging contemporary artist who has illustrated and been recognised by London’s most successful fashion designers such as Ashish, Christopher Kane, Pam Hogg and Hannah Weiland for Shrimps. My work documents yearly fashion shows and contemporary culture and explores current more challenging issues such as sustainability, and my own personal struggles with Endometriosis and confused identity. My most identifiable illustrations portray the fantasy of fashion through her energetic mark making and embellished accents of foil and glitter. Passionate about self-expression, I use text to document the muse of designers collections and communicate my own honest and most personal thoughts. My simplistic paper illustrations have been commissioned in by publications such as, ELLE Fashion Revolution, Noctis Magazine and Grazia, alongside creating and selling original pieces to private art collectors. Most recently, I have been commissioned to carry out a fashion illustration workshop at Graduate Fashion Week in collaboration with Samsung KX. I returned to education after 6 years of freelance illustration and teaching in secondary education. I have always planned to work as an artist but it has taken be 6 years to be accepted on to my desired MA course and relocated from the North West to London. Since the lift in lockdown restrictions I have worked as a personal assistant to London based installation artist Lauren Baker to learn the essential skills needed to be a selfsustained artist. I plan to use my deferral year to sell and exhibit prints and original illustrations and assert myself within the London Art scene.” ARTELLITE, NEW WING, SOMERSET HOUSE, STRAND, LONDON, WC2R 1LA TEL: 020 3701 7411 EMAIL: ISOBEL@DEGREEART.COM
LOVE SEES NO COLOUR, ASHISH ILLUSTRATION 2017 £750 42 x 59 cm Paper, pencil, promarker/posca pen, fine liner, collage, digital print 2017 Fashion illustration of Ashish’s Fall 2017 Ready to Wear collection promoting human connection and equality for immigrants and people of all races.
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E S T H E R S C H N E R R K L A S S I E K E A C A D E M I E V O O R S S S
IJBEELDENDE KUNST GRONINGEN
Esther Schnerr studied painting at the Classical Academy in Groningen (2015 – 2020). She is fascinated by evolution and the impact of man on nature. In her drawings she incorporates themes that both facili-tate and threaten life: the Cambrian Sea, camouflage, the oxygen crisis. The themes are digitally translated into collages that serve as the basis for monumental images. The material - pencil on paper - is sombre, but the dimensions (225 x 150 cm) and the complexity of the representation create a sumptuous impression. On the wall, the drawings transform into gobelin-like scenes that both evoke a direct experience and invite research. The performance is more or less abstract, but always a fictitious representation of the theme; there is room for fantasy and interpretation
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HUMAN DESTRUCTION £8650 - SOLD COMMISSIONS AVAILABLE 210 x 150 cm Pencil 2020 An artistic impression on the manifestation of people on earth
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I L O N A S K L A D Z I E N A R T U N I V E R S I T Y D I B O U R N E M O U T H “Born in Poland, where she did her MA in Furniture Design at The Academy of Fine Arts in 2010, Ilona moved to live and work in the UK, where she did her MA in Fine Arts at Bournemouth Arts University. Her current paintings are informed by psychology as well as mass media imagery, specifically social media and YouTube.
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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE £ 1300 155 x 170 x 10 cm Black ink pen on napkin 2020 Through adopting a diverse range of techniques in the making of my work, I disrupt and alter the imagery taken from secondary sources. I use content found online on platforms such as YouTube and social media.I am interested in creating a painting which will hold viewers attention for longer than an online snapshot. Making my work is often a way of ‘digesting’ the distressing content that is presented, on which my paintings become visual reflection. ‘Mission impossible’ was informed by online photographs and videos on Covid-19. I was taken by horrific but profound photographs showing our vulnerability. The ephemeral character of the work is emphasized by the watered down ink marks, very slowly, gradually fading away in the direct, strong sunlight, potentially leaving nothing but reminiscence of what was there before.
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J A K H A N S F O R D A R T S U N I V E R S I T Y BOURNEMOUTH Jak Hansford is a multi-award-winning artist that was born and lives in Poole Dorset, South West England. Having grown up in the south coast surrounded by both nature and urban life, his interests in exploring and travelling grew immensely. Throughout Jak’s life he has always been interested in the everyday and how the world is changing in his surroundings, observing it all, from the most drastic to the many subtleties that occur daily. With a love of tactile and textured surfaces, Jak has always been interested in juxtaposition of the organic with the man-made. With his background in the arts, his creative passion came into its own through studying at the Bournemouth and Poole College from 2008 until 2013. His interest within key concepts of the mundane, change and the nature/manmade dichotomy were fully explored when he decided to study a Bachelor’s Degree in Textiles at the Arts University Bournemouth. He graduated in 2019 with an Upper Second class with honours and left Textiles with a vast range of experience and technical skills. His graduate collection and final body of work consisted of fabric manipulation, machine tufting and digital designs exploring the abstracts of the mundane. The Bachelor’s culminated with a translation of the unseen and every day through an Avant Garde lens, with a nod to the spheres of nature and materiality.
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THE SHIFT £1100 121 x 106 x 3cm Wood and Magnetic tape 2020 This piece explores the uneasy rift between the intuitive and the known, focusing on the temporal shift of liminal space. Reflection is evident in both the materials utilised and the context that supports it. An enhanced surface takes shape by method of drawing, not in the conventional paradigm, but in relationship with artist and tool. Execution of such methods, map these spatial territories and allows the audience to look inward and be present with the work. An auto-ethnographic approach offers an insight to how the passage of a liminal space can be utilised and the viewer projects their own experience and consciousness onto the work.
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KARL-PETER PENK ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
Born German, I grew up in the UK and returned to Germany a few years ago to explore my Germanity. I lived in a dark forest, saw service in a fire brigade and spent a day as a bear, experiences which fed into my art practice. That and general observations of our world – be it struggle, or the social complexities which bombard our day-to-day interactions, or nagging historical baggage – are pulped, filtered and regurgitated as pictorial vignettes. Royal College of Art, London: MA Print Royal Drawing School, London (postgraduate-level scholarship) Camberwell College of Arts, London: BA (Hons) Visual Arts Drawing Chelsea College of Art & Design, London: BTEC
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SAUSAGE, DOGS & SCHADENFREUDE (DON’T LOSE YOUR HEAD) £300 each 1300 x 300 x 1cm Charbonnel ink on paper. 2017 Sausage, Dogs & Schadenfreude (Don’t Lose Your Head) is composed of 12 x 10 cm etchings (printed on 21 x 19.4 cm archival Somerset Satin paper), each telling its own story, which, when brought together, create a bigger narrative. The project began in April 2017 and there are currently over seven hundred of them, with a potential to cover 13 x 3 metres of wall space. The power of little things coming together! What intrigues me about ‘Sausage, Dogs & Schadenfreude’ (because it was unexpected) is how the work expands and shrinks according to location or what people choose to exhibit, the narrative constantly shifting in interpretation. It can be as openended as a desert terrain or tight as a noose.
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L E N A Y O K O Y A M A C A M B E R W E L L C O L L E G E O F A R T S
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MOMOTARO £4000 60 x 75 x 0.4 cm Soft-ground etching on Canvas 2020 In my latest work I’ve been visualising traditional Japanese folklore stories through etching and monoprinting. These images have also been translated to three-dimensional objects made through clay. This piece is a visual translation of the Japanese Folklore Momotaro. It is the first of a series of Etchings on Canvas which all belong to a different story. This very piece has been crucial to the formation of my current practice. The process of creating this etching has led to making a series of stylistic decisions, partly evoked by the medium, as well as inspired the themes I plan to work with in the future. This piece is the physical manifestation of my thesis which I wrote on ‘visual translation’ in art between the East and the West. Soft-ground etching on canvas, first edition 1/1
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NANCY PAULANGELO EDINBURGH ARELIER OF IFINE ART Originally from Southern Italy, Nancy Paulangelo graduate in Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Lecce. After completing her studies, she traveled to France, Spain and finally established in UK where she worked within the museum field for several years. She eventually decided to pursue her passion for figurative painting and moved to Edinburgh in January 2020, where she is currently studying classical drawing and painting. She focuses her creative energy mostly on portraiture.
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VERONICA £450 21 x 29 x 0 cm Graphite on paper 2020 A portrait of Veronica, who was at the time of the picture, celebrating her 34th birthday. The static pose of the subject and the dark background is in deep contrast with what a usual festive celebration should be. The image wants to depict her turbulent soul and show her worries for the future.
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RAFAL PODSOBINSKI INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS, U N I V E R S I T Y O F R Z E S Z Ó W Born in 1995. A graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Rzeszów - he completed his diploma in the Flat Printing and Lithography Studio and in the Design Studio II. He deals with artistic graphics, drawing, painting, installation, as well as design and utility graphics. Space, nature, blackness. Why exactly them? Because these three elements were, are and most likely will be the main assumptions of my creative work. Assumptions, or rather areas that are very important and are inextricably linked in my subconscious. They permeate through gestures. and they are visible on the planes of canvas or graphic paper. Space is freedom, freedom is nature, and nature is black. Perhaps only in my head.
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MONOCHROM VII POA 420 x 170 x 0 cm Cotton fabric, jute bags, acrylic paint, graphic paint 2020 The work is an original interpretation of the form, a synthesis of shapes and colors that build the landscape. A departure from the excess of information, which is so frequent in the free space of our cities. Exposing simplicity, texture and gesture. Cleansing the image of information overload, plane games and contrasts. Individual elements are created separately, then they are joined by hand sewing. They merge into larger forms, new compositions are created, while being the result of smaller realizations. It is a direct reference to the landscape, which is also made of smaller elements as a whole. Nature is an inspiration, my task is to introduce my own synthesis while keeping its features. The significant limitation of the color palette means that the potential recipient directs his attention to the form itself, to the shapes that make up the image. The texture of individual planes, the sewing direction and the way of joining fabrics are shown. The image becomes an installation. It is a game of means, a contrasting action that is so dear to me.
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PIPPA HEALY CAMBERWELL COLLEGE OF ARTS
I am a multidisciplinary lens based artist working across photography, printmaking and zines. My practice concerns themes of grief, loss and longing. I have exhibited internationally, and have shown my work in festivals throughout Europe including Les Rencontres D’Arles, Festival Circulations Paris, Brighton Photo Fringe, Peckham 24, Pic London, Belfast Photo, Lodz Fotofestiwal and Fiera del Libro de Fotografia de Lisboa. My zines are held in libraries and numerous collections including Self Publish Be Happy Library, the Martin Parr Foundation and the 8 -Ball Library in New York. I was selected for Gup Magazines Fresh Eye Photobook 2019 as one of Europe’s top 100 emerging photographers. In July 2020 I graduated from Camberwell UAL with a Distinction in MA Printing and I was awarded the Bainbridge Studio Prize.
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DEEP WITHIN £700 100 x 75 x 0 cm Four Colour Photopolymer on 360g Madrid White Litho Paper 2020 This image is from the series ‘The Lake’ which was made alone whilst walking in a meditative state around Lake Altaussee in Austria. My head was hurting, I had recently had a brain scan and I was exhausted. I was searching for answers to relieve my plummeting emotions. The landscape is situated in a place steeped in dark histories, of fairy tales and war time secrets. The series was created initially with 35mm film with a light leak. The undetermined nature of working with an analogue process was integral to the series. The outcome of the image is only revealed when the film is developed. I wanted to take these images apart, akin to what I was trying to do with my own thoughts. I then wanted to put them physically back together layer by layer onto the paper. The image is made up of two photographs which I then wanted to fragment. I then made four photopolymer plates and printed them on an etching press. This is a complicated and highly skilled process.
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S U N D A Y A B R A H A M F E D E R A L U N I V E R S I T Y O F AGRICULTURE My names are Sunday Abraham Anebi from benue state residing in nigeria Am 20years of age studying mechanical engineering in the university of agriculture makurdi am a 100level student who is also a passionate artist working mainly on graphite pencils on paper..my journey of art begun in the year 2019 and am still on that journey
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THE SHIFT £4360 121 x 106 x 3cm Wood and Magnetic tape 2020 LUCID is a piece of art that portrait on if you listen to what life teaches you and show to u #can you hear when life speaks to you
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THE SIGNATURE ART PRIZE
PAINTING SHORTLIST
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ADAM SMITH ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART “Hi, I’m Adam and I’ve been painting for a while. Before that, I suffered some physical trauma that made me not particularly life too much. Then I did some drugs to escape memory. Now I don’t do drugs but I paint, but I already mentioned that. I love that feeling when you take your socks off in bed. I also do yoga which helps with the physical trauma stuff. God my past is depressing, it isn’t depressing now though. I tend to think to reach the cessation of samadhi, take opiates. I’ll try not to think of anything depressing. I won a trophy as a kid for playing hockey, that’s relevant, right? My Mum and Dad used to be illustrators. Have to mention always that your parents did something artistic.”
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THERE MUST BE SOME WAY OUT OF HERE £1200 67 x 83 x 4.5 cm Oil on Canvas 2020 “This piece is an embodiment of what it is to embody a particular space. The space between the General and the particular. How we grasp our relation to the now into the future with reference to the past. It’s how the past changes. That the chasm seems to indicate where we should be and how we construct our reality to find where we are. The lack of certainty we share but none of us can describe. Where those in whom we trust point the way but fail us and the disharmony and indignancy that envelopes us and takes hold. It’s about not looking to justify why not. Unless it’s that last bit of chocolate fudge cake.”
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ALICE MILLER LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY Alice Miller is an oil painter and Loughborough University graduate specialising in small scale photorealism. Each piece is a direct translation of a single phone photograph or video still, taken by or depicting herself. Although always including those around her, the paintings aren’t portraits - the figures become characters and the viewer devises their own narrative. Photorealism shows the camera’s presence as opposed to reality — rich shadow lures the viewer in, yet ultimately obscures any truth seemingly held within the frame.
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PALE BLUE £2000 22.5 x 30 x 2.5 cm Oil on wood 2020 ‘Pale Blue’ is part of the ‘Quarantine Paintings’ series, which follows the relationship between an observer and a single subject through lockdown. Repeated elements weave a common thread through the paintings, depicting similar but never the same moments, with subtle changes in light, atmosphere, and hair gradually getting longer. I wanted to capture complete neutrality in the subject’s expression, reflective of the boredom and repetitive nature of days and nights in lockdown. ‘Pale Blue’ immediately refers to the light on the subject’s face, however hints at the watered-down sadness experienced through boredom, as well as male vulnerability.
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B E N J A M I N W I L S H A W - Q U I N N L O U G H B O R O U G H I I I U N I V E R S I T Y I am a naturalistic, figurative and animal artist, currently studying Fine Art at Loughborough University where my primary research focus in in portraiture: specifically in conveying a sense of identity and character.
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FELIX £400 30 x 40 cm Acrylic on canvas board 2020 A portrait done during my final year at university exploring the themes of identity and characterisation, attempting to capture something of the humanity of the sitter.
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CHRISTOPHER GRISLEY LEEDS ART UNIVERSITY I like to investigate paint’s abilities for change. Of its physical error, smear, wipe and scrape. Of how successive layers of hue might change nothing into something. The ghostly canvases have become the visible monuments of an internal unseen state. I believe the works are timely in respect of my generation’s contemporary anxieties but yet are connecting beautifully to painting’s story of the scraping out of its own object. I like to work with method. Not with explosive mood but through structured pace, equilibrium and intention. It is therefore the repeated actions of making that construct these painting’s surfaces and tonalities. The paintings are concerned with the transfer of the interiority of the artist into the layered phenomena of voids, absences, uncertainties and emptiness.
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VIVAT REX II £4400 91 x 120 x 4 cm Oil on Linen 2020 This piece is my interpretation of king Charles 1st, painted by Anthony van dyke, i have blured and warped the image to express the hidden anxieties expressed in the need of having to feel and be masculine, in which reflects the hidden anxieties and mental instability’s facing men in the 21st century. the use of smearing and distorting my image from the actual painting creates this invisible barrier in which hides the true values men feel in contemporary society.
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ELSA AKESSON UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON A self-taught Swedish and Malagasy contemporary artist recognized for her realistic figurative art works and her splash of color! Elsa Åkesson is a London based emerging artist working in her Kensington Studio, on an international scale, with collectors around the globe. She is inspired by her photography of every day life from both Africa and Europe - her two origins. Through her work she captivates strong emotions and life, and likes to portray beauty and happiness in subject matters she believes are under valued, over seen or simply ones she finds beauty in. Growing up with a Father who was an art passionate and collector, Elsa’s artistic inspirations firstly derived from her own Father encouraging her to enter the Arts ever since a young age, as he visioned her achievements in the field. Elsa was born and raised in Madagascar before she later on moved to boarding school in Switzerland with her brother at a young age, to finally finishing high school in the United Kingdom. Her University studies brought her to Madrid, Spain where she studied business and international relations. Whilst attending business school Elsa soon found her feelings speaking louder than her words to soon realize it was time to emerge herself completely in her passion and flourish in the arts, which brought her to London where she studied a Bachelors of Fine arts specializing in painting at the University of the Arts, London (UAL).
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PORTRAIT OF HOPE: PORTRAIT OF ELSA £11,500 150 x 100 cm Oil & Acrylics on canvas 2020 A very precious painting. A portrait of a little girl from a village in the south of Madagascar named Elsa. Her Father named her Elsa after me, in hope for a bright future for her and her family and of getting them out of poverty. A work to help raise funds for Elsa and her village.
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EMILIA SYMIS NORWICH UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS Emilia Symis is a freelance artist and a BA(Hons) Fine Art graduate from Norwich University of the Arts. In 2019, Emilia was fortunate enough to have been shortlisted for the John Ruskin Prize and was awarded the winner of the Bishop’s Art Prize. In 2020, Emilia was voted the runner up for The Sworders Art Prize. Since graduating, she has exhibited in London, Manchester and local venues around Norwich. ‘I aim to make the viewer feel uncomfortable or confused when they observe my art; often my paintings initially look appealing or beautiful, but there is always something unpleasant or strange about the image that may make you think twice.’ Emilia is interested in the relationship between beauty and the grotesque and she explores this relationship using food. Recently, Emilia has based her paintings around a narrative, which allows the viewer to imagine the context behind the image. Often the painted scenes trigger memories within the viewer; her inspiration comes from dishes she finds in retro cookbooks and snacks from her own childhood. These connections make her artwork relatable and enjoyable to all ages.
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COCKTAIL PARTY £ 2900 120 x 90 x 4 cm Acrylic on canvas 2020 ‘Cocktail Party’ is Emilia’s first painting that focuses on drink, rather than food. She wanted to challenge herself with the complexities of glass, and came up with the idea of staging a scene that depicts a cocktail party set in the 1970s/80s. To create the retro illusion, she added cocktail cherries, umbrellas, carnations and a zippo lighter amongst an array of vibrant and kitsch beverages. The dimming cigarette balanced on a full ashtray is a nod to the grotesque amongst the beautiful, a motif that is integral to Emilia’s work.
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EVE SMITH LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY Nature has fascinated artists for centuries but in today’s modern age it seems to have lost its importance, which highlights humankind’s disregard and detachment from it. Through the medium of paint, I have explored the joy experienced in nature and the romantic theme of escapism, discovering a way of returning to nature and evading the complex modernity of urban life, something that is particularly relevant in these unorthodox times. I have been influenced heavily by the romantic movement which fundamentally focuses on an escape from reality through the recovery of a lost Eden and a lost childhood which brings feelings of nostalgia, linking to childhood memories of a freedom to escape into the wilderness. Nature has an association with childhood and therefore often evokes ‘a feeling of great pleasure and happiness’ (Oxford Dictionary, n.d.) To look at a lake or walk in the woods makes us feel relaxed and nourishes the soul, restoring and preserving our mental health. Throughout this project I have explored how to represent these experiences in the form of expressive art. This project has enabled me to reflect on the nature that I associate with home and more simpler times, allowing me to reconnect with the environment and mend a relationship that often feels lost.
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ROSE £5500 140 x 140 x 0 cm Oil on Canvas 2019 Through the medium of paint, I have explored the joy experienced in nature and the romantic theme of escapism, discovering a way of returning to nature and evading the complex modernity of urban life, something that is particularly relevant in these unorthodox times. I have been influenced heavily by the romantic movement which fundamentally focuses on an escape from reality through the recovery of a lost Eden and a lost childhood which brings feelings of nostalgia, linking to childhood memories of a freedom to escape into the wilderness. This piece explores the concept of ‘beauty’. Each year society spends billions of pounds on cut flowers, with the knowledge that they will eventually perish, decay and ultimately be thrown away. My work visually suspends the decomposition process in time capturing the moment between beauty and decay and encouraging the viewer to reconsider the preconceived idea that dead flowers and leaves are no longer aesthetically pleasing and recognise the beauty of fragility of time. ARTELLITE, NEW WING, SOMERSET HOUSE, STRAND, LONDON, WC2R 1LA TEL: 020 3701 7411 EMAIL: ISOBEL@DEGREEART.COM
GLORY SAMJOLLY UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS As a feminist, figurative painter, and British citizen at birth, I assess British and feminine identity by creating iconic narratives through my own portraiture. In many institutions I have experienced racial marginalisation, which furthermore comes as no surprise to me. Living in London has taught me to use ethnic isolation as a platform of distinction, and to understand other artists whom also feel marginalised in Britain because of their race. Painting is the bridge that transforms my thoughts into visual action against a whitewashed curriculum. Each painting has a voice of its own; they ask questions that must be answered. Art history is a critical subject for me, because not long ago I realised that BlackBritish artists find themselves underrepresented and majorly mis-represented in European portraiture, hence their disinterest in the subject. Before a painting of mine reaches its finished form, it requires investigation into my model, and their stance in society. The women I paint are artists, business owners and intellectuals sharing their stories by becoming the genre of art that misrepresents their race and gender the most.
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“THE HONERABLE WOMEN OF SLAYAGE IN THEIR STUDY” £13500 100 x 80 x 1.5 cm Oil and Wallpaper on Linen 2020 “The Honerable Women of Slayage in their Study” (detail) Oil on Canvas, 2020. A painting of young, female intellectuals: myself as the artist, my sister who is a music producer, and another painter, Endrina Ibrahimi. The urban-colloquial word “Slayage” simply means “awing the audience with our charm”. The “Study” we occupy, in an Italian villa, would have never been occupied by ‘Women’ in colonial Europe.
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HANNAH SMITH WIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF ART Hannah is a painter based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Working in oils, the work deals with the strains of hierarchy within our society, how we navigate through spaces, how we are divided and where we intersect and cross paths. In light of the ‘black lives matter’ movement, racial injustices and in the midst of a global pandemic, unsettling themes are forced to run parallel to the euphoric facade of the paintings. The work draws inspiration from dystopian societies, a combination of figurative and abstract elements augment the viewers perception to depict surrealist narratives.
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PEACE £2000 87 x 102 cm Oil on Canvas 2020 ‘Peace’ draws inspiration from dystopian societies and personal experience of living as a mixed race woman in the UK, attempting to replicate the sensation of feeling invisible and helpless while simultaneously being painfully aware of ‘sticking out’. In light of the ‘black lives matter’ movement, racial injustices and in the midst of a global pandemic, unsettling themes are forced to run parallel to the euphoric facade of the paintings, bridging the gap between surrealist narratives and reality.
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IMOGEN KNIGHT UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS My practice is concerned with our current fracture point, as we substitute real place for virtual space. I enjoy investing in collaborative projects and also in a physically ‘detached’ mode of working, referencing schools of thought such as empiricism, encouraged by Eckhart Tolle’s writings. This creates duality in my work: the imagined and the real, the manipulated and the natural, the collective and the individual. My collaborative projects and their objectives are stirred by our contemporary realignment with Romantic values: the irony of collective isolation in the wake of COVID-19. Natural and administered regeneration has also become a prominent theme in my work as I have recently explored the democracy of art, often overlooked by our ‘practical’ and private worlds.
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WHITE IN WEIGHT £1300 100 x 120 x 4 cm Acrylics on canvas 2020 My response to the moment Patrick Hutchinson carried a white counter protestor. Perhaps, in a society characterised by systemic racism, this act of civility creates a dual narrative, without given context.
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JULIA SILVESTER WIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF Julia Silvester is an Italian-born, London-based fine artist. Following her BA Fashion Illustration studies at London College of Fashion, she recently graduated with distinction from MFA Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Arts. Silvester’s painting practice places emphasis on themes of femininity, isolation and the home, while locating strangeness within the ordinary. The familiar and the unfamiliar unite in psychically charged encounters between figures, birds and interior spaces. In a disrupted form of realism, layers of oil paint on aluminium create a bruised colour palette that depicts disquieting defamiliarizations of interiors. Silvester’s use of colour, composition and light constructs cinematic and emotive environments, where the viewer emerges as a voyeur or an intruder of the unsettling makeshift spaces.
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NESTING £1830 60 x 60 x 0.5 cm Oil on Aluminium 2020 Nesting is part of Domestic Disruption, a body of work that depicts the human struggle with the notion of home. The painting presents a domestic space, a nest for the pigeons and the figure portrayed. A sense of disruption is revealed in the makeshift quality of the bedroom, where a young woman is bundled up in a duvet of pigeons. The breeding pigeons surround the cocooned woman, who’s gaze, seemingly unaware of the disturbance, is intensely engaging with the viewer. The bruised colour palette evokes notions of confinement, suggestive of the figure’s relationship with the disruption and the interior space.
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KEN CLARRY UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON 2013 -2019 University of Brighton - MPhil/PhD, Interdisciplinary Art Practice. 2010-2012 University of Brighton - MA, Interdisciplinary Art Practice. 2000-2005 Kent Institute of Art & Design - BA (Hons), Fine Art Practice.
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BOYS WAIT IN A BREADLINE £850 84 x 40cm Mixed Media, Digital print, acrylic and oil paints, pastels 2020 A group of boys wait in a breadline outside a bakery. In the West this means waiting for food, in Syria it may mean waiting for death, as breadlines were frequently the target of bombing. I believe that art should have aspects of the sublime and a purpose beyond adornment. My work takes found media images made in conflict zones, processes them using digital technologies and after printing, I layer the art materials of paint, chalks and pencil. It then brings them into the white space of a gallery to be viewed and absorbed. Although images of conflict, my images do not intend to shock, they are here to solicit the viewer to pause, think and reconsider.
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LAM KA YEE MIKI ROYAL MELBOURNE INSTITUTE “Lam Ka Yee Miki (b.1993) is an artist and art educator, she was born and raised in Hong Kong. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2020 ,major in painting. Her works aim to find the connection with city folks and cityscapes, she depicts views of the city from an objective and detached angle, while the details in her work encompass her subjective feelings and memories, presented in different materials and forms. Her paintings are full of urban rhythm, combining images, brushstrokes and colours into a series of multi-layered and dynamic paintings of abstract cityscapes, are built up through layers of acrylic paint on canvas overlaid with mark-making and drawing using oil pastel, ink and charcoal. She received Talent Development Scholarship from Hong Kong Education Bureau and has been interviewed by various media. She has now established The Flipside studio in Kwun Tong to plan exhibitions and art-related projects.”
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BEFORE SUNSET £3500 170 x 120 x 4 cm Charcoal, pencil, oil pastel, acrylic, marker, coloured pencil and graphite on canvas 2020 The impression is between clarity and obscurity, and between reality and illusion. This series of work aims to find the impression of this ‘root’ and everything that is connected to it. I recorded this place while on board a vehicle by making quick sketches, which also represent how city folks observe the city. What one can extract from daily life while on a fast-moving vehicle is most easily overlooked. And what is to remain because of this neglect? I integrate snippets of visual memories, space and emotions into a series of multi-layered and movement-like paintings, deploying layers and layers of thin paint and different painting materials in the process. When painting, I search my mind for memories of the place, and the result of the search may not necessarily be just figurative impression of buildings, but could also be feelings, noises, air or smells. I repeatedly build and compress all these bits and pieces of materials and symbols, allowing them to evolve on the canvas on their own.
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NATDANAI BUNSIRI KINGSTON UNIVERSITY I am a recent graduate at Kingston university with a degree of Master in Fine art (MFA). My paintings practice explores the Oriental belief of reincarnation of the beings: the cycle of life and death. Through paintings, i tried to investigate the traditional language of representational form in order to represent this sophisticated and intangible subject into a more contemporary dialogue. With that being said, “repetition and pattern” is the main method of how the artist want to illustrate the visual language of the never-ending cycle of matters and the process of how phenomenon repeats itself over time. How phenomenon is derived in patterns, that they somehow repeat itself, without any starting or ending point. And that under this contemplative assumption, it seems as though we are somehow stuck in this inevitable cycle of precedented metamorphosis.
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UNTITLED POA 41 x 89 x 4 cm Watercolor and fountain ink on canvas 2020 This painting incorporated the enigmatic story or folklore of the old Eastern world. With a huge influence of Buddhism, where cycle of life and death, or suffering, is the main precept of the practice, these stories were portrayed in the way that it has no absolute ending. Unlike most of the mainstream storylines where understandable ending is anticipated, the old Eastern stories often ended with no absolute resolution and it left the audience in the state of in limbo. As it ends in the most unconventional way, the suspense is left forever within the audience. This kind of event reflects and resembles the inevitable cycle change and recycling, which that the paintings tried to execute.
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OLIVE CURRAN WIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF ARTS My paintings, created using a combination of textured brushstrokes, loose washes, photo transferred images and evocative colours, explore the mundane aspects of contemporary domestic life. My work is strongly inspired by found imagery of melancholic and nondescript interiors, mainly stills from films made in the 70s and 80s, and dramas set in that period. I start by combining the found image with my own photography of intriguing interiors, manipulating colour and composition so that the two images become indistinguishable from each other, using this as reference for my painting. Any sense of time and place is blurred and we are left in a sort of suspended world, a moment frozen in time. My intention is for these paintings to read like cinematic transitions, with the impression that the scene is in the midst of things, a moment has passed or is just about to happen. By removing the figures as the focal point and directing our attention to the overlooked, you start to notice the fragments of narrative which are left behind, belongings abandoned in a hurry, objects out of their intended position, a tv left on standby. By creating the sense of activity that happened mere moments ago my aim is to invite the viewer to form their own narrative possibilities from the clues left behind.
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OVERLOOK £900 100 x 100 cm Photo transfer and Oil on Board 2020 This painting is derived from a film still from the 1980 film “the Shining”. My work is strongly inspired by found imagery of melancholic and nondescript interiors, mainly stills from films made in the 70s and 80s, and dramas set in that period. Creating a sort of suspended world, a moment frozen in time, the painting feels like a cinematic transition between two scenes, giving the impression that a moment has passed or about to unfold at any moment. “Only recently has my work involved the process of photo transfer, a technique in which I encourage flaws to be made, such as the misalignment of the grid of images or the rubbing off of the image in places. I use my own retro, grainy, colour-saturated photographs, produced using a Harinezumi camera, which when transferred, give the feel of a vintage photograph. I combine this technique with expressive gestures in oil paint exploring how the outside merges with the painted interior.”
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RUTH SWAIN ART ACADEMY LONDON Ruth Swain is an International portrait, figurative and still life artist based in Oxfordshire. She is currently studying Contemporary Portraiture at the Art Academy. Her medium is oil, watercolour and pastel, and she paints mainly from life. She worked as an art director, Illustrator and painter in Hong Kong, New York and London and exhibited in Hong Kong with ‘Artists Abroad’. Her paintings are visual stories that show us the emotional bond between artist and subject and often tell a story of her life. Ruth won The Readers Award in Artists and Illustrators magazine (Artist of the year 2017) and her portraits have featured in the RBSA open exhibition 2017, OAS open in 2018 and 2019 and in the RIPW 2019. She has just been nominated for The Liberty Arts Prize and has recently had a painting exhibited in the Ashmoleum Museum, Oxford.
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ESSENTIALS £850 38 x 62 x 0.9 cm Oil on board 2020 The loo roll, left on the holder with a solitary piece of paper remaining. It relates to a body of work involved around the domestic scene. Clearing up after others. But also significant because of the shortage of loo roll during the beginning of lockdown.
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SAMANTHA PARKHOUSE UNIVERSITY OF I I I I I I I E D I N B U R G H The motivation behind my portraits is an enduring curiosity in people; in the timelessness and beauty of the human spirit and its emotional resonance when challenged by adversity. My work predominantly explores redefining ideals of beauty and stereotypes through portraiture and aims to inform and empower my viewers with my subject’s stories to inspire confidence and positivity around individually. My work tells the narrative of human experience and strength of character and aims to inform and empower others with these stories to inspire confidence and positive outlook. Every person has a unique story to tell, and while each story may be similar, I want to celebrate the beauty of individuality, empower difference and champion the spirit of resilience. My portraits are deliberately monumental in scale and attention seeking. This is to support and reflect the strength of the subject, and to stop people from walking past and ignoring them. By utilising hyper realistic style in my painting, nothing is hidden. The painterly quality and application of paint is a tribute to the beauty of the texture, rich tone, smoothness and vibrant health of the subject’s skin. “
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TOM £14,000 160 x 216 x 10cm Oil on Canvas 2020 ‘Tom’, Vitiligo Series, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 216 x160cm is a portrait part of my painting series that celebrates the beauty of vitiligo. This series aims to redefine the ideals of beauty and to show that beauty resides in uniqueness, spirit and strength. I want to portray the beauty of the marks vilitigo makes, whilst addressing the strength of the people behind the vitiligo.
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THOMAS SEAGER BATH SPA UNIVERSITY My practice focuses on social issues of self-achievement and ambition conflicting with the daunting pressures of success within modern society which instead reflects failure and desolation. In turn my paintings picture fabricated realities which portray my pleasures and fantasies. I depict intimate luxurious objects which hold personal significance of desire. I place these objects within a contrasting and contradicting landscape. I am entranced with paint as a medium to deliver and facilitate my themes. To form the grounds of my paintings I administrate a bespoke and conceptual approach to the methodology of making my works. I re-appropriate borrowed imagery, resourced from advertisement and magazines. This allows me to form fictional scenes composed of many dissected elements which I paint from as a direct copy. I paint using extreme contrasts of light and dark tones along with saturated and vibrant hues. Central to my methods I adopt a hard edge style technique painting in soft realism. This concerns boundaries of flat mono-chrome colour dissected with abrupt transitions. I combine layers of small simplified shapes and intricate details which when viewing at a distance optically forms an overall complex image. Shared memory and shared cultural identity is a big part of the narrative to my work. The viewer, through their recognition and experiences of the space allows them to transpose their own protagonist within the pictorial frame. My constructed landscapes are places which cease to exist but in some understanding I give visual security which leads to the audience questioning its authenticity.
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FAVELA TOYS £2300 200 x 120 x 5cm Acrylic paint on MDF 12mm board. (with an water based UV protective varnish) 2020 The expensive sports cars are exactly that. Toys. They are not a necessity nor an indispensable thing but instead a luxury object or ‘toy’. I have placed them within a less economically developed country such as the slums of Rio. Placing the expensive cars in the ghetto environment was also a statement on the Brazilian favela’s itself. Its an area of extreme poverty which neighbours areas of extreme wealth. I wanted to show this extreme divide . This can be shown through poor infrastructure and sanitation as bricked exposed houses have blue water buckets on their roofs to catch rainfall. These places are normally dirty and dangerous but I have painted it as a pleasant and appealing place to visit as I have taken away dirty marks that would be present on the walls and removed rubbish cluttering the roads and gutter. I am interested in this extreme divide in wealth as the Brazilian favela’s neighbour one of the worlds riches city’s, Rio. A city of contrast between rich and poor as the slums boarder the perimeters of multi million pound villa apartments. ARTELLITE, NEW WING, SOMERSET HOUSE, STRAND, LONDON, WC2R 1LA TEL: 020 3701 7411 EMAIL: ISOBEL@DEGREEART.COM
VALERIA MEKEKECHO MOSCOW STATE A C A D E M I C A R T I N S T I T U T E My way as an artist is to say: look around, everything is wonderful with you! I try to use bright natural colors, and don’t use black. There are only colors of joy and happiness in my palette! I was born in Kaluga, Russia. After graduating from art school, I entered the art college. Throughout my studies, I received an honorary Polenov scholarship. In 2015 I became the laureate of the award Young Talents of Russia. My oil paintings often take part in exhibitions and competitions. I graduated with honors from college and entered the Moscow State Academic Institute of Art named after V.I.Surikov (6th year student).
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PUPPY £ 2100 50 x70 cm Oil painting on canvas 2020 This is a story about girl who wants a puppy. Blue means a dream. Take a look on her eyes and you will understand everything.
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LERA LYBA MOSCOW STATE ACADEMIC ART LINSTITUTE Lera Lyba was born in Odessa, Ukraine in 1995. Having grown up in a family where both parents are artists she developed passion for painting at a very young age. At teenage years she spent 3 years studying Fine Arts at Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, but in 2015 entered Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov and now continues education in Russia. Her paintings took part in Moscow Youth Group Exhibitions in 2017-2020. In 2018 Valeria won Odessa International Artist Competition. Her subject matter is mainly portraits as she is really interested in finding artistic ways to capture emotions.
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DEEP THOUGHTS £1000 60 x 60 x 2 cm Oil on Canvas 2020 This painting is a portrait of my cousin Mariam who is an actress. Usually before acting she becomes really concentrated and calm. I tried to capture her in this mood with two pet birds, who are very active by nature and make a contrast to her state of mind.
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THE SIGNATURE ART PRIZE
PHOTOGRAPHY SHORTLIST
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BRIAN O’CALLAGHAN CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS Brian O’Callaghan is an Irish born, London based artist. O’Callaghan works in what you could call “portraiture”, either photographing, painting, writing, podcasting or reworking images of people whose stories and character he is interested in. Sometimes this methodology has a crossover with a journalistic, documentary aesthetic, including interviewing subjects and photographing them in a manner that links with a personal narrative. A graduate of CFAP at University of Brighton, he has just graduated from a Fine Art Masters at Central Saint Martins, O’Callaghan has exhibited internationally and recently at Tate Exchange, CSM Museum & Study Collection, and LCC.
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THE BALLAD OF RAFA £ 8500 50 x 60 cm Photograph, paint, marker, pencil 2020 A double exposed photograph printed on canvas and overpainted in acrylic, worked on in pencil and marker to create an abstract figurative work.
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CHETAN BHAKUNI BURREN COLLEGE OF ART Chetan Bhakuni is a painter who was born in India, New Delhi. After doing his under graduation in BFA Applied arts (Graphic Designing), he completed his Masters in Studio Art from Burren College of Art. Working predominantly with Oil and water colors, he is using method of storytelling to explore his identity by emphasizing on maternal relationship, through series of drawings, paintings, and video animation.
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INTO MY MIND POA Digital 2020 The film serves as an alternative method of storytelling while exploring a minimal aesthetic through limited mark making and a black and white colour palette. In an attempt to universalize the meaning of the work, the audience must derive their own meaning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHjCHTYQPfg&t=20s
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ELISE GUILLAUME GOLDSMITHS In my latest work I’ve been visualising traditional Japanese folklore stories through etching and monoprinting. These images have also been translated to threedimensional objects made through clay.
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HER (SERIES) £850 each | £2500 for the series 65 x 43cm each Inkjet print on fibre rag, mounted on dibond 2019 “The Atacama desert holds a unique ability to challenge our perception of space and time. Those who encounter it are humbly reminded of their vulnerable bodies in the bounds of untamed land. Photographed in the driest place on earth, this series evokes similarities between body and nature. 9 editions + 1 for the artist, artworks work individually or as a series.
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FREYA MOFFAT CITY AND GUILDS “Freya is in her final year of study, about to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School. She lives on a houseboat in London. Freya has a BA in English Literature from the University of Oxford: an education which constantly informs her practice. She has curated and participated in several exhibitions whilst at City and Guilds and has an eclectic experience in the arts: running a local art class for young people, creating and delivering an arts-based curriculum for displaced Yazidi children living in Faneromeni refugee camp in Northern Greece and designing sets at the Oxford Playhouse, Burton Taylor and Hoxton Hall theatres. This year, Freya won third place in ‘Sustainability First’s’ Art Competition, as judged by a panel including Jeremy Till, head of Central Saint Martins and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the UAL, Kate Bryan, Head of Collections at Soho House and Arts Broadcaster and Tabish Khan aka ‘The Art Critic’. Her work will be published in a book following the prize: Building from the Corona Crisis Toward a Sustainable Future. Freya has also been invited to take part in Grayson Perry’s post-lockdown exhibition, following the selection of her work on his Channel 4 programme ‘Grayson’s Art Club’. Freya’s work has been featured in the Evening Standard and the New York Times as a result. “
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UNTITLED £400 42 x 59 x 0.1 cm Papier-mache, cardboard, acrylic paint. 2020 The photograph is taken against a domestic background into which the sculpture is subsumed; an eerie reflection of us at home during lockdown. The process of finding and sculpting form is intimate and physical. The life-sized sculptures are interacted with, cared for, arranged in a domestic setting. The photographic documentation, on the other hand, flattens the sculptures and their surroundings so that they sit on one plane. The combination of sculpture and photography makes the art ‘object’ purposefully illusive; the distance between the viewer and sculpture makes what might be a more visceral reaction to the work, an invitation to an extended, reflection.
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HEUN JUNG KIM THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART “Heun Jung Kim (B: Seoul, South Korea) is a London based artist with a BA degree in Architecture, South Korea, USA, 2012 and a MA degree in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London 2019. Her work was included in the group exhibition : The MAGENTA Suite LLC gallery, USA; Artzone42 gallery, Greece; Photo place gallery ‘Being human’, USA; RCA Degree show 2019, London, UK; The Glasgow Gallery of photography, Glasgow, UK Light space & time awards “”landscapes”” 2019; FETARI, London, UK, Artfinder ‘grad week’; RCA photography show and APERO Fine Art ‘Depth’.
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TAE JUNG AND HA RU £500 60 x 80 x 3 cm Framed Photograph 2020 “The traditional Korean “Baek-il” party is a centuries-old tradition considered a norm in Korean households. This signifies a major milestone within the Korean culture of a child’s 100th day after birth because of the high infant mortality during the 18th Century until after the Korean War in the 1950s. Here, parents dress their babies in the traditional Korean dress ‘Hanbok’ conveying a child living past his/her first 100th days as a blessing to the families. From the series of portraits titled, “100th day and the after”, show photographs of my niece Ha-ru, and her mother, Tae-Jung, dressed in the Hanbok. A photograph depicts the essence of Haru’s life after 100 days on earth amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Likewise, it captures the double portraiture of my younger sister celebrating this milestone with her daughter as we all practice social isolation and social distancing. Normally, the host would invite relatives and friends to share in the child’s blessings and prosperity; however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we practiced social isolation.
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JELENA GAJINOVIC ACADEMY OF ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD, SERBIA As a graduate at the Department of New Media Art at the Academy of Arts University of Novi Sad, Jelena Gajinovic examine the visual aspects of public space that is undergoing through transformation and digitization, while side effects are evident in everyday life. For the past few years she is interested in new interpretations of urban landscapes and architecture. Her work is focused on the presentation of recorded content, examining the correlation of archival footage, today’s document and digital image, more precisely its credibility. Since 2012. she had exhibited and collaborated with different artists and artistic initiatives. She had six solo exhibitions and she participated in many group exhibitions some of which were created within international projects. She also presented her work at conference under the project “”Culture on the Palm - Palm Culture”. In 2018. and 2019. she was a holder of scholarship, Foundation for Young Talents – “Dositeja” (Ministry of Youth and Sport) for outstanding results during her studies. Last year she presented her work on panel discussions in Serbian Cultural Centre in Paris. At the same time with new media artist she perform a workshop, part of “Visual Transpositions of Identity and Space” project. She participate at the Erasmus + exchange master program at Faculty of Fine Arts at University of Porto, Portugal at the course Image Design. Throughout mentioned exchange she collaborated with professors from Architecture and Geography Department, and made a specialization in “Representations, Drawings and Images of the Territory” at the same University. ARTELLITE, NEW WING, SOMERSET HOUSE, STRAND, LONDON, WC2R 1LA TEL: 020 3701 7411 EMAIL: ISOBEL@DEGREEART.COM
INTO THE BLUE £ 4900 70 x 100 cm Digital print on quality photographic paper 2018 The artworks are based on research of geographic locations, that in nowadays can be categorize as non-places*. Introducing wich substitution in image processing, it analyzes the position of abstract shapes and their correlation with the given architectonic surroundings. Removing comercial texts, which influences the perception of the observer and creates a new meditative urban landscape. The series researches how we identify key elements that create us and our surroundings. At which places, namely non places*, does the process of development and transfer of information that form us happen? How do new technology influence our movement in physical and virtual „places“ and how do we identify ourselves with spatial and temporally localised culture.
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JACOB TALBOT LEEDS ART UNIVERSITY Jacob Talbot is a BA Photography student from Leeds Arts University, UK. He is a multidisciplinary artist, manipulating analogue and digital photography, extending into fine art based multi-media pieces. His work encompasses a range of photographic genres exploring both the physical and metaphysical aspects of an image. His practise transmits empathetic visual language whilst investigating emotional projection, not only on the viewer but within the subject framed. Alongside and within his photographic practise, Jacob Talbot also utilises the benefits of sculpture to allow the objectification of the material image. Film making, music composition and three dimensional techniques also add to his practise whether it be commissioned or for personal outcomes.
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MOMENT £ 950 85 x 113 x 4 cm Fine Art Giclée Print on Fibre Based Titanium Lustre 280gsm 2020 This piece was created ‘in-camera’ with limited post processing techniques, its uses an artist (Isabel Currie) as subject and is derived from a three (or more) hour sitting of continuous change and exploration. This piece is from a current investigation and ongoing series of work created as a reflection of the times we live in - whatever that entails.
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MARCEL TOP UAL Marcel Top is a young London based Belgian photographer. Alongside his traditional use of photography, Top also explores the limits and boundaries of the medium through his practice. In other words, he applies his documentary practice to his experimental work. Top has always been fascinated by the power of technology, by the ambiguity of its double-faced nature. Breach of privacy, mass surveillance, and the collection of personal data are between Top’s recurring topics. Throughout the last year, the photographer rethought his practice to capture that part of technology he could not frame with a camera. By doing this, he was able to address his worries related to a future dominated by technology. Research represents a fundamental part of Top’s creative process; while creating, the artist constantly rethinks and readapts the original idea to the outcomes of his research. By doing this, he creates a space for the evolution and growth of his own work.
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INFERENCES £1500 100 x 100 x 5 cm Print on dibond 2020 While exploring the boundaries of photography with these computer-generated self-portraits I try to reflect on the categorizing of people by big data companies for personally targeted advertising. It shows the noise created by the interaction between humans and machines. The struggle of trying to understand and decode human behavior in the hope to find its desire. Ultimately wanting to turn the human species into a product database, offering it what it desires the most. Does the algorithm know me better than myself or is it merely a bad copy? Our online behaviour creates this immortal double. Based on each of our interactions. When does it become us, or when do we become him? Under the GDPR law, I got access to its personal data held by twitter. Twitter had categorized me over 830 different personal interests based on its activity on the platform. The sole purpose of categorizing the photographer in these categories was to be able to do personally targeted advertising. Ads would be shown to me depending on these criteria.
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NEELAM BHULLAR UAL Having spent the past five years working towards a BA honours in Illustration and Visual Media at London college of communication, I have learnt that creativity can come in many forms whilst completing my degree throughout the lockdown period. During a two-year break in between my studies due to health concerns. I used this period to recover and expand upon my thought process and image making skills which ultimately lead me to a newfound fondness for cinematic/ figurative, black, and white photographic-based work. I returned to complete my third year of studies with an impulse to learn about contemporary, photographic forms of printmaking. This inspired me to start using photographic elements, found, and photographed as a means to produce work that shares a relation with writers and photographers from different periods in art history. As I live in Slough and studied in the city, as a result many sources of inspiration have been found on tubes and stations whilst travelling for long durations each day during my time on my degree. This has ultimately helped me to assemble a style based upon my busy surroundings which is the chaotic atmosphere I try to incorporate within most of my work. The research required of artists and photographers throughout different stages of art history during my time apart from my studies has inspired me to create detailed collages which has led to me exploring contemporary forms of printmaking throughout most of this year. The connections which occur between the process and the subject is what I find most compelling as the process of change occurs when the image transforms from one medium to another. I usually tend to find connections between the medium and the process as I believe this can have a dramatic impact on the end results. ARTELLITE, NEW WING, SOMERSET HOUSE, STRAND, LONDON, WC2R 1LA TEL: 020 3701 7411 EMAIL: ISOBEL@DEGREEART.COM
METAMORPHOSES POA 77 x 40 x 2cm Photographic elements combined with Intaglio printmaking etching inks and a KM95 Photopolymer plate. 2020 “‘Metamorphoses’’ is the opening print of a four-part series enriched by the blood rushing writings of the roman poet Ovid and the writer’s poems based around his voluptuous view on Metamorphoses and mythological, bodily transformation, deeply inspired by photography throughout the nineteenth century. In relation to the topic, I feel like change is an inevitable part of life and one of the main focal subjects within my practice which I have tried to embed within the piece itself. By creating a juxtaposition of multiple elements and manipulating the forms this has in return helped me to further communicate with the topic by trying to create an almost hypnotic and tantalizing display of art. Time also has a significant role to play within the narrative itself given that ‘’Metamorphoses’’ was written throughout the period of an ancient civilisation. As a response I have tried to be quite selective with the tonal range and texture of the parchment used as I thought creating a vintage quality would add to the illusion of passed time.
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NIGEL GOLDSMITH BATH SPA UNIVERSITY Nigel is a lens based artist producing photographs and short immersive videos. His work is mainly concerned with the impact of globalisation on people and planet. Nigel has an MA in Fine Art from Bath Spa University and a BA in Film and Photographic Art from PCL in London. Recently his work has appeared in the 2019 John Ruskin Prize exhibition at the Holden Gallery in Manchester, the Small Axe Film Festival, TyPawb Open 2020 and the RWA Open in Bristol. Nigel was born in Carmarthen and grew up in West Wales, he now lives in Bath.
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PASSING TRADE £3200 1920 x 1080 screen resolution Video | https://vimeo.com/473063117 2019 This video presents the viewer with the overwhelming scale of the container ship and the goods it carries. The ship in the film can carry up to 14,000 containers, larger vessels can carry over 20,000.
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SHAKIRA VELÁSQUEZ- MALIK CENTRAL SAINT L M A R T I N S I am a current Fine Art Ba graduate from Central Saint Martins, UAL. During my course I was in a 4D specialism focusing on different concepts of colour and colour as a language throughout my practice. My work aims to communicate a narrative of alternative perspective through colour and space. My current work has been focused on doing just this in reflection to Covid- 19 and ones perspective of being inside. What this may do to space and time- creating a alternate narrative.
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OUTSIDE IN £ 1200 70 x 50 x 1 cm Digital image photoshopped and then digitally drawn on top using digital drawing software 2020 Bright baby blue digital image. Hint of the image it was before, with a window in the background being overshadowed by silhouettes of clouds. The clouds are highlighted by hints of yellow and purple. A vibrant photograph.
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TOM NEWHOUSE LEEDS ART UNIVERSITY My practice explores the psychological effects of social media, derived from my personal observations and online interactions. I express my feelings as a young person living in this cyber reality, where all love is lost somewhere in the deeper facets of the internet. Using poetry and film I convey these darker aspects of contemporary society, by highlighting our continued obsession with virtual persona.
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THE OBJECT AND YOU POA 70 x 50 x 1 cm Film 2020 THE OBJECT AND YOU (2020) is a story of isolation, loneliness, vanity and narcissism, but also optimism for a chance of rehabilitation and finding human connection. https://www.trujam.co.uk/the-object-and-you
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THE SIGNATURE ART PRIZE
SCULPTURE SHORTLIST
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ABHAYA PURUSHOTTAM RAJANI ROYAL COLLEGE I O F A R T The process of making is inspired by the questions about FACTS in the contemporary time which do not seek for any answers rather intend to raise further questions. Topics often concern the materiality of everyday objects and their meanings, through installations, drawing or sculpture with respect to the physicality of the human psyche. The work intends to play with the viewers mind by subconsciously projecting politics and poetic humour with the use of satire. Artist is particularly interested in the manufacture and functionality of everyday objects with specific focus on the Architectural language. A recurring technique is the use of incongruous materials in the representation of mundane objects, in order to analyse the nature of symbolism in defining the tools of human existence. The writing is an essential part of the work as it further develops the ambiguous narrative.
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“USE AS PER THE INSTRUCTIONS” £1500 20 x 50 x 30cm Wax, Rubber-Metal wheels, Cardboard box 2020 “Instructions: Wash your hands thoroughly before handling the product and handle it with care. Our exclusive Shopping Trolley is carefully hand finished then floating above the three wheels. For a truly Special Experience, try not to move anywhere else due to its fragile nature. Store in a cool, dry place out of direct sunlight. Please do not use this product for anything but visual satisfaction. shopping trolley noun BRITISH 1. a bag or basket on wheels for carrying shopping, in particular a large wire basket on wheels provided for the use of supermarket customers. It is a container which contain other objects, the purpose of manufacturing this product is a convenience in order to buy ‘More’.”
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BETHANY WALKER ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART Born in the West Midlands, UK, Bethany Ellen Walker graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2020 with an MA in Ceramics and Glass; she was awarded a grant from the South Square Trust for outstanding work to help fund her studies. She received First Class Honours for a BA in Contemporary Crafts from Falmouth University in 2014, where she specialised in metal and glass. Walker has considerable experience working with hand-blown glass gained from working for renowned lighting company Rothschild and Bickers. She currently works for the gallery and studio London Glassblowing as well as being a contributor to Glass Network magazine. Walker has won numerous prizes including a scholarship from Corning Museum of Glass, New York to attend their summer school in 2019. Most recently she won The Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers Prize 2020 and the HIGH Prize for Creative Excellence 2020.
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THE LIMINAL SPACE £1250 25 x 30 x 20 cm Glass and metal 2020 “The Liminal Space’ focuses on the fusing together of coloured glass ontop of a metal welded skeletal form. As I initially position the unfired work inside the kiln, I find the anticipation of the precariousness of the firing both simultaneously exciting and frightening. Once the door is shut, the glass comes alive, moving and being shaped by heat and gravity, draping over the metal rods that lie in its pathway. ‘The Liminal Space’ is a marking of this inimitable passage of time, emulating a sense of disorientation experienced when in a transitional period.”
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BHAIRAVI YOGASIVAM UAL LONDON My work combines the ideas of growth and organic forms through the use of paper sculpture and origami. I enjoy exploring the concept of artwork wearing the person as opposed to the person wearing the artwork.
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ARATA £120 32 x 14 x 7cm Wood and paper 2020 This piece was created with the intention of representing human growth and connection. It depicts the way in which we change according to our constantly developing surroundings and how we grow together rather than alone.
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CHERISH MARSHALL WIMBLEDON COLLEGE OF ART, UAL Cherish graduated with a Masters of Fine art at UAL, 2019. During her studies, herself and 2 other artist founded the Uncovered Collective. The Collective set up exhibits in unusual spaces to show the talents of artist, who works suits outside the white wall gallery. Cherish’s work delves into the darker side of human experience. We are trapped in conscious awareness, which inflicts upon us the understanding of our own suffering with painful clarity. It is this understanding and the joyless moments that mould us into the person we become and lead us down paths we never dreamt we would follow. Cherish’s work offers a space for these subjects to transform from the quiet pondering in the abyss of our minds and into poignant and somber conversation.
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EMPTY PROMISES £3000 120 x 150 x 60 cm Carpet, Bottles, Glass, Mirrors, Faux leather and Faux gold buttons 2019 Addiction is a spiteful illness that destroys the person and the people around it. What can be most scaring is the promises that are made from the person in that addiction, what are later broken. A phase that stands out, and what I’ve heard commonly said is “I can stop anytime I want”. The carpet that covers the bottle is simliar to one you may find in a weatherspoons pub, that also links the font that the weatherspoon brand uses. There tends to be a weatherspoon in whatever county to go in, in the UK, it recognable.
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FEDERICO FAULI ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION Federico graduated with honor in Architecture (BA) at the Politecnico of Milan in 2015 and received his Diploma from the Architectural Association in 2018. Since 2018 he has been working at the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in Genova, up to early 2019 when he joined Zaha Hadid Architects in London. While working for international architectural firms, he has been practising independently winning architecture and design competition. Winner of The Renzo Piano Building Workshop Sponsorship, among other awards such as the Mextropoli Pavilion 2020, the MAD Fellowship, the Tamayouz International Award and the African Architecture Award. His work has been widely published in magazines, books and digital platforms such as Archdaily, The Architects’ Journal, Dezeen, Arquine, Bustler, AZURE, Arch20, The Archiologist, Coolhunter, and on several AA publications such as the book “Scavengers & Other Creatures in Promised Lands”. His architectural and design approach experiments with fabrication techniques and materials as instruments to question the faceted nature of architectural practices while researching iconographical gestures enabling the mutual immanence among objects, rituals and bodies. Exploring how it triggers unconventional spatial languages, between geometrical abstraction and figurative instances. Every iconographical research is first anthropological and based on the everyday. He uses architecture as a medium to unveil contextual yet critical and extremely personal languages. Through geometry and materiality, abstraction and figurativism, he attempts on one hand to update the anorexic iconoclasm characterizing most of the contemporary building practice. On the other, he tries to design new linguistic synthesis, to go beyond the proper and conventional architectural debate - to instil a fruitful dialogue with the general public, otherwise traditionally and guiltily left behind. ARTELLITE, NEW WING, SOMERSET HOUSE, STRAND, LONDON, WC2R 1LA TEL: 020 3701 7411 EMAIL: ISOBEL@DEGREEART.COM
COSCIENZA INTUITIVA £9900 130 x 27 x 16 cm Gypsum - Marble Powder - Epoxy Resin - Pigments 2020 Coscienza Intuitiva aims to emphasize the lack of content, of language, of meaning, not simply based on the super-collection and sharing of images: rather as a part of a social relationship between people that is mediated by images. Repeated, shared, liked. Where Truth becomes a moment of falsehood. Representation has become a simulation of the meaning of the present through superfluous repetition of any image, figure, iconography, and the reason has become a simulation through fake experiences. The project speculates on the concept of language, expressed as an idea affected in time and configuration. Driven by a compilation process that visualizes the complexity of the current digital age, its fragmentation and acceleration, the accumulation and ubiquity of objects and images. Trying to elaborate a new visual language based on the amalgamation and supercollection. A language as an evolving vessel, in which society outproducts, identified as objects of daily consumption, artifacts of the banality, collides with ruins and fragments embodying historical and cultural value. ARTELLITE, NEW WING, SOMERSET HOUSE, STRAND, LONDON, WC2R 1LA TEL: 020 3701 7411 EMAIL: ISOBEL@DEGREEART.COM
JUAN RAMOS UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA “I studied Architecture in Mexico, I had first real contact with the history of art, physical forms, materials, and the relationship that these have with humans. I developed an interest in sculpture and started to study in a self-taught way and practicing modeling in my spare time. By the time I graduated in 2018, my passion for sculpture was already my priority. I decided to found my architecture studio, so I could have the time to balance the work with my own sculpture workshop. Just a year ago I began to sell pieces and dedicate almost all of my time in research and production of new ideas.”
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FAUNO £ 3000 35 x 45 x 37 cm Lost Wax Bronze 2020 Representation of man’s dissatisfaction when he is longing for what is foreign without realizing what he has.
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KELLY WU CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS I am currently doing my Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Central Saint Martins; I am specialising in Fine Art and sculpture. At the moment I am in a very experimental phase and am taking care to explore all media and not narrow myself down to just one. My current project, as a part of the school structure, is about the concept of thinking broadly and materialising one’s ideas to the fullest extent possible.
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SEXY £2000 30 x 15 x 20 cm Ceramics 2019 This collection of ceramic sculptures is a commentary on the objectification of women, particularly by street harassment and catcalling. As a young woman, this area of discussion affects me on a daily basis, and issues like these impact almost every young woman I know. I wanted to address these issues from a feminist perspective. Regarding the sculptures themselves, I isolated the parts of women’s bodies that are frequently objectified by society, and altered them so that they appeared much more grotesque, in an attempt to de-sexualise them and remove the stigma surrounding them.
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MARGO VAN ROOYEN ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART Margo van Rooyen is a female South African artist born in Durban. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in MA Print in 2019. Since then she has been taking part in exhibitions in London and Germany. She participated in Pilotenkueche International Artist Residency (Leipzig) in 2020 before the lockdown. During the lockdown she has been in South Africa and looks forward to taking part in The Other Art Fair (London) in March 2021.
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DISCARDED 20, CONSTELLATION 1 £6000 600 x 300 x 100cm Used Photolithography Plates and Aerosol 2019 Much of my work shows my preoccupation with waste production. My work has always been simplistic and minimal, only containing what is necessary, but this has now upgraded to my fear of producing more waste that will fill up landfills and strangle our wildlife and oceans. The photolithographic plates used for Discarded were destined for the trash. Incidentally lithography is one of the mediums I am most fond of. I found that the plates were the perfect material to recreate my lithographs in three dimensional form without creating more waste. Each plate is bent and detailed by hand and the end sculpture shown is made of 20 individual pieces. The work is put together on site and it would be a great challenge to recreate it in the same form again. The site specific nature of the work is so important and plays a key role in the energy of the work. It has been shown in two other exhibitions (besides that of the one in the images) in varying number of plates (4 and 8); each time drawing off the space and surrounding area. The work speaks of the deep abyss and void that is sucking the world away. ARTELLITE, NEW WING, SOMERSET HOUSE, STRAND, LONDON, WC2R 1LA TEL: 020 3701 7411 EMAIL: ISOBEL@DEGREEART.COM
MARYAM HEMATI UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE Maryam Hemati is an Iranian Fine Art artist studying in the University of Dundee based in the Glasgow.UK since 2019. She has been won for 2D art work from the Trades House of Glasgow 2018. Creating sculptures and paintings of her world, her work allows her to constantly explore new techniques, inviting the audience to see the nature in diverse ways.
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HOPE £600 3 x 4 x 3 cm Bronze 2020 The aim of making this sculpture is to show the changing of suffering and grief definition to the freedom, hope and forgiveness. This specific idea came from book (man`s search for meaning). It is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positive about, and then immersivity imagining that outcome. This effective book function is like pharmacy for any mental problem when people are very depressed and disappointed from there life. But maybe they don’t know that just a piece of biscuits can be a hope in the darkest time on their life. My work based on Existentialism theory which is plying an important role in this project. I believed that If life is normally tantamount to suffering, we shall search for meaning in anguish. This sculpture is made by bronze in Bronze Casting department, University of Dundee. Bronze Casting has a long process with different methods.
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MÉABH BREATHNACH GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART Méabh Breathnach questions where objects come from and what objects mean; the processes, the crafts, the people and the stories behind them. By subtly or dramatically changing the materials of these objects she exposes and changes the narratives that they tell. The artist questions what is aesthetically beautiful and valuable by using her skill to cast objects in different roles; transforming ephemeral memories into crystallised objects, making the historical intimate and the scientific fallible.
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CARDBOARD BOX £2900 30 x 30 x 30 cm Bronze 2020 This piece formed a part of the ‘Minor Monuments’ installation fro the Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries Exhibition 2020. It is a direct cast of a cardboard box, in that the box was burnt straight out of the ceramic shell mould before bronze was poured in its place. The use of less intermediary materials means that the piece is as close as it could possibly be to the original indexical object. By casting an object as mundane and overlooked as a cardboard box in as valuable and art-historically important material as bronze, I aim to cause viewers to consider more the value, meanings and potential memories associated with these objects in our lives, as well as questioning the notion of art itself.
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R U F U S M A R T I N W I M B L E D O N C O L L E G E O F T H E A R T S I trained at wimbledon college of the arts London, though my aptitude for 3D design and sculpture came from a much earlier age. My introduction to sculpture; like with so many people, was through my parents. My mother a portrait painter first showed me the portrait works of Augusta Savage, Jacob Epstine and Augustine Rodin and inspired me to create a bust on Michael Howells; My late mentor. Sadly Michael died suddenly and unexpectedly and my first bust was as a response to his passing and then from there I went on to create sculptures of loved ones always hoping to capture some element of their past or current struggles and to create something for the good of their family and wherever possible for posterity.
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WILL £4450 30 x 45 x 35 cm Terracotta 2020 The bust of Will is intended to be more than just a portrait of William, Architect and dancer, but a sculpture representative of the struggles and the ideals that face the queer community at large. The gesture of the head is intended to show Will’s change in character and the new strength he has found as well as the romanticised features, the hint of the laurel showing the current shift in society, as we collectively change our direction of opinion when it comes to the rather beautiful and romantic ideology, aesthetic and thinking behind the queer community.
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SHARON KWOK LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY “Hello! My name is Sharon and I am a Fine Artist situated in Northern Ireland. My work explores my rich bicultural identity as a Chinese girl living in Northern Ireland and demonstrates how one can never escape their own culture nor forsake their identity. In a very literal way, these human forms visually communicate the way that history and culture are physically and mentally inscribed upon the body. The juxtaposition between Western and Eastern narratives crosses the cultural bridge between both traditions and highlights how my identity is not monolithic. This melting pot of artistic and personal identity mirrors the cultural collisions I have endured and expresses how both cultures can coexist in harmony. I also explored the traditional East Asian Kintsugi technique, inspired by Wabi-Sabi philosophy. Through Wabi-Sabi’s appreciation for the imperfect and the melancholy, I emotionally connected to the context behind its teachings. Relating to Kintsugi’s reinvention of broken ceramics with precious gold, I incorporated this technique into my work by emotionally connecting to feelings of alienation and marginalization as a transcultural individual. Like broken ceramics repaired with gold, I challenge notions of blending and fitting in. My work demonstrates how one can never escape their own culture nor forsake their identity. In a very literal way, these human forms visually communicate the way that history and culture are physically and mentally inscribed upon the body. “
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A JOURNEY TO CHINA £800 15 x 20 x 15 cm Plaster casting and ceramic painting 2020 “A Journey to China’ is an exploration of my rich bi-cultural heritage, shaped by my Northern Irish and Chinese experiences. The use of bodies in my work is more concerned with the body as fragments, rather than the body as a whole. The dismemberment mirrors my feelings of alienation, but also separation from my peers and family members because I feel like an imposter, neither fully Chinese nor Caucasian. I delved into my East Asian heritage by introducing Chinese decorative motifs in a contemporary format. These cobalt designs derived from the imperial court of the Ming and Qing dynasties, bringing rich Chinese roots to my work. Traditionally painted on ceramic potteries, I removed these designs from its traditional context and placed them on a contemporary canvas (realistic human forms). The bust and realistic body parts are both from Western traditions I created mannequin duplications of my own body to emphasize a personal connection with my work and to visually narrate my displacement and constant negotiation with identity.
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SHUAI ZHANG ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY Shuai is an artist, that’s all.
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ISOLATION 2020 £ 11111 100 x 100 x 4 cm Installation on Canvas 2020 I never use language to describe art, because one art work has a thousand possibilities.
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YANSHAN OU KUNSTHOCHSCHULE WEISSENSEE BERLIN Yanshan Ou was born in Chongqing, China, 1995. She studied at China Central Academy of Fine Arts and now is a MA student in Kunsthochschule Weissensee Berlin (Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin). She has a strong interest in experiments and interactions with materials and always focusing on adding an infusion of new blood which is related to the contemporary atmosphere.
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HOLES £ 2500 40 x 35 x 15 cm Porcelain, glass 2020 “Body modification and Jewelry , since their emergence, has been a unique cultural phenomenon in human society. As things that are independent from the human body, they work as a concrete expression of what human beings want to communicate to the outside world. The hole - on the other hand - marks a negative, tiny space that requires blood, pain and patience, for the connection we voluntarily establish with jewelry as a part of our body, and can also be a body jewelry on its own. If the hole is not connected to the jewelry, it still is a special mark of jewelry on our bodies, which belongs to both the human and the jewelry. Based on thinking of this socio-cultural phenomenon, I focused on making holes in a jewelry’s fashion. I selected four rather representative perforations on the human body and I interpreted them in abstract forms, also accompanied by some interviews. Ceramic is a kind of moist material, it can well express the softness of human body. These objects and holes have been exaggeratedly enlarged in order to present the concept more dramatically.” ARTELLITE, NEW WING, SOMERSET HOUSE, STRAND, LONDON, WC2R 1LA TEL: 020 3701 7411 EMAIL: ISOBEL@DEGREEART.COM