Portrait 17

PORTRAIT 17

PORTRAIT 17 INTRODUCTION PORTRAIT 17 JUDGES EDWARD SUTCLIFFE NICK LORD SOPHIE DERRICK DIRECTORS OF ARTELLITE

DIRECTORS’ PICKS EMMA COYLE JAD OAKES JOSHUA GLUCKSTEIN JULIE BENNETT PAUL BENNETT PHIL M DAVIS OPEN CALL FINALISTS ARMANDO MESÍAS BRUCE ATHERTON EMILY TULL GIULIA QUARESIMA JAKE BIGGIN JILL ILIFFE NAOMI VONA

PORTRAIT 17 15TH JUNE - 16TH JULY PRIVATE VIEW 15TH JUNE 6-9PM #FIRSTTHURSDAY: 6TH JULY 6-9PM

DegreeArt.com and Contemporary Collective are delighted to present their annual, contemporary showcase of the most promising portrait artists exploring the genre today, featuring established and emerging talent. This year, alongside the exhibiting artists selected by the gallery, we’re also exhibiting artists who have applied via an open call. Judges for Portrait 17 are: Directors of Artellite (Elinor Olisa, Isobel Beachamp, and Chantelle May Purcell) and our award winning artists: Sophie Derrick, Edward Sutcliffe and Nick Lord.

The artists have received notable successes and achievements including: BP Portrait Award, BP Portrait Travel Award, Sky Arts Portrait Artist Of the Year Award, Signature Art Prize and have been commissioned for institutions including the Vatican in Rome, Old Bailey, British Library and Royal Artillery Barracks.

If you’d like to commission a bespoke portrait by one of our exhibiting artists, then please contact: Chantelle Purcell Chantelle@DegreeArt.com.

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ARTISTS: DIRECTORS’ PICKS EMMA COYLE JAD OAKES JOSHUA GLUCKSTEIN JULIE BENNETT PAUL BENNETT PHIL M DAVIS OPEN CALL FINALISTS ARMANDO MESÍAS BRUCE ATHERTON EMILY TULL GIULIA QUARESIMA JAKE BIGGIN JILL ILIFFE NAOMI VONA JUDGES EDWARD SUTCLIFFE NICK LORD SOPHIE DERRICK SOPHIE DERRICK DIRECTORS OF ARTELLITE

THE JUDGES EDWARD SUTCLIFFE NICK LORD SOPHIE DERRICK ELINOR OLISA ISOBEL BEAUCHAMP CHANTELLE PURCELL

Edward SUTCLIFFE Edward produces figurative paintings of simplicity and purity unhindered by concept and rhetoric.

Edward is available for private and public commissions.

“I am a hyper-realist painter exploring portraiture and figuration in the 21st century.

I have shown my work around the world including London, Dubai, Seoul. I have been honoured and humbled to be included in the BP Portrait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery on 8 occasions - in 2000, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015. The BP Portrait Award is the most prestigious portrait competition in the world, promoting the very best in contemporary portrait painting.

Most recently I was awarded the BP Travel Award Prize for my proposal to document the Compton Cricket Club which was formed as an initiative to help encourage and empower the disaffected youth of an area of Los Angeles synonymous with poverty and crime. Since my visit to LA, I have produced a series of paintings that portray the members and founders of Compton Cricket Club.

The exhibition went on show at the National Portrait Gallery in London during the summer of 2015 then on to tour at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh and the next stop is the Ulster Museum in Belfast.”

GURUNG 2013 30 × 35 × 4 cm Oil on canvas £7,500.00

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNTY

Nick LORD “I am a painter. For me it is very important to understand the medium. It a constant struggle to work with paint, It’s a love hate relationship! I find I have to engage with the paint on a new level every time I start a painting. I’m frequently exploring new possibilities and outcomes with the paint using what I’ve learnt before as a solid background. I try to paint unconsciously, painting without a clear idea or outcome. Allowing me to just let the painting happen. I work within a tight time limit that helps aid this process, preventing time wasting, forcing me to make decisions there and then. It’s an exciting process, as I never quite know what’s going to happen. At the same time its one of the most frustrating things ever! I run out of patience far too quickly and find that I have to constantly re-invent myself as a painter. I can’t just do what I’ve done before, I want to advance and move on. This is the hardest and most enjoyable part of my practice, that notion of re-invention and constant development.”

Nick Lord © Sky Arts | Justin Downing 2013

AWARDS 2013 Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year Winner 2012 Signature Art Prize Finalist Exhibition London 2012 Signature Art Prize Finalist 2012 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2015 Realising the Truth, Solo Exhibition,

DegreeArt.com, London.

2013 Winner of the Sky Arts Portrait Artist

of the Year 2013- Sky Arts heat portraits

exhibitions, National Portrait Gallery, 2012 Signature Art Prize Finalist Exhibition,

Spitalfields, London 20122012 20:12 exhibition, DegreeArt Gallery, Vyner

Street, London 2012 2011 Art Haus, DegreeArt Gallery, Vyner Street, 2011 Final Degree Show, Kingston University, London 2011 Everybody Talks About The Weather We

Don’t, Kingston Market house, London 2010 Intensify, Devon, UK 2010 Condemned, Dead Wallace Gallery, London 2010 End of 2nd Year Degree show, Kingston

University, London

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN 2014 Acrylic, Spray Paint, Wood Stain, Emulsion, Oil Pastel on Canvas 60 × 90 × 4 cm SOLD COMMISSIONS AVAILABLE

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNTY

SOPHIE DAHL 2014 Acrylic, Spray Paint, Acrylic Pens, Oil Pastel, Wood Stain on Canvas 180 × 150 × 5 cm £15,000.00

SOPHIE DERRICK In the past year Derrick’s career has risen rapidly within the art world. In 2016 she was selected for the prestigious Royal Academy Summer show, as well as being shortlisted to the final 200 of the BP Portrait Award. She was recently featured on BBC News, focusing on influential women in the arts. Derrick’s works are now held internationally, in private and public collections.

Derrick pushes the boundaries of deception and representation, to create works that explore the transformative possibilities of paint, abstraction, negation and the loss of the real.

Derrick challenges the alchemic possibilities within her process. Seeking to heighten her unique style of production, blending performative photography with painting, reality with fiction and absence with presence. Derrick transcends the genre of portraiture, using her face as the canvas. Impasto paint is placed sculpturally upon the artist’s face, then rendered flat through digital photography, the image is then re-animated, as thick lashings of paint are applied heavily across the surface. Derrick translates paint’s materiality and substance and dynamically fuses the digital with the tangible to create alluring works.

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS: 2017

2017 2016 2010

2009 2008 2007 London

Showcased at WGSN Futures Summit London 2017 Featured on BBC London News Shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award 2016 Signature Art Prize Finalist, Mixed Media Category, London Best of the UK competition 2009 Boundary Gallery Prize for Figurative Art Boundary Gallery Prize for Figurative Art,

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 2017

2016 2016 2016 2015

Close to Nothing, Solo Exhibition, Contemporary Collective Affordable Art Fair Singapore Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts Portrait 16: DegreeArt.com Gallery Shifting States, Solo Show, Contemporary Collective Gallery

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY

CLOSE TO NOTHING #1.3 2017 150 x 100 cm Digital print mounted onto alumnium dibond, with overlying perspex and acrylic paint £4500.00

JUDGES ELINOR OLISA ISOBEL BEAUCHAMP CHANTELLE PURCELL

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PORTRAIT 17 EXHIBITING ARTISTS

EMMA COYLE Emma Coyle has been working within art for nearly 20 years and has been based in London since 2006.

She has exhibited in numerous galleries and art fairs throughout the city, including a solo show in Mayfair and exhibiting in the Prestigious Mall Galleries.

Coyle’s current work embodies 1st generation American Pop Art qualities of the 1950’s while focusing on contemporary imagery. Her focus is to produce accomplished Pop Art paintings of a Fine Art standard within the process and execution of ideas.

Her work has appeared in The Times Sunday STYLE supplement, and on the cover of Level25 art journal in Arazona America and Kapa magazine- the Sunday Mazazine of Greece’s most prestigious newspaper, Kathimerini. Coyle’ work was selected by Los Angeles curator Bridget Carron for her collection Power Pop on Saatchi’ online gallery in 2014.

Earlier in her career in Ireland Coyle exhibited in the While exhibiting in London, Coyle has expanded her audience by exhibiting in Los Angeles, and in several galleries in New York, where her work has been positively recieved. She has also exhibited in NYC Charity events alongside artists such as Jeff Koons, Yoko Ono, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith and renowned composer Philip Glass.

SUCCESSION 2017 Acrylic on canvas 122 × 152 × 4 cm £7,800.00

12.16.02 2017 Acrylic on canvas 152 × 122 × 5 cm £8,400.00

UNTITLED 2# 2015 Acrylic on board 109 × 84 × 5 cm £5,800.00

UNTITLED 12# 2015 Acrylic on board 109 × 84 × 5 cm £5,800.00

UNTITLED 10# 2015 Acrylic on board 61 x 45 x 4 cm £5,800.00

JAD OAKES Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (BA Fine Art, 2004) “Working from found and researched camera imagery the work seeks to evoke the passage of time and memories from personal, cultural and collective perspectives. The sourced imagery is sensitively appropriated in to new forms using varied media. My interest in using these found photographic and moving images stems from the romantic idea that they act as artefacts of our memories. The aim of creating these objects gives these displaced images a new life encapsulating their histories and memories from the initial capturing through the lens to their re-appropriation in to the new form.”

Born in Sharjah, U.A.E (1982), to a British father and a Lebanese mother. In 1985 the family relocated to London, U.K where Jad currently lives and works.

Having always had a keen interest for the visual he attended Chelsea College of Art to do his foundation studies, then continued to study a BA in fine art painting at Central Saint Martins followed by a one year professional photography practice at the London College of Printing. Since finishing his studies, Jad has been commissioned as a professional photographer and has exhibited his visual art in group and solo shows in the United Kingdom.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 2017 Portrait 17, Contemporary Collective /

DegreeArt.com Gallery, London 2016 ARtBoM, By Other Means, London

Portrait Salon, Metro Imaging, London

Artefacts, ArtWest Unit 13, London

IPA, International Photography Awards -

Honourable Mention -Romantic Dreams of

War

HeadOn Photo Festival, Museum of Sydney 2015 artists@WAR (GROUP SHOW), galleryELL, London

Traces of Places (Group Show),

Candida Stevens Fine Art Gallery, Chichester 2013 Artwest 2013 (Group Show), London 2011 The Fallen (Solo Show), Gallery 35

THE FALLEN • TOME 45 Giclée prints, hand bound in red leather with gunmetal linen slip case.

34cm x 50cm x 8cm Edition of 12+1 A.P £10,000.00

THE FALLEN - USA AGED 27 2017 C-type print mounted on aluminium dibond in an Oak shadow frame 153 x 121 x 2 cm £2,800.00

AMERICAN COUPLE 1941 (SMALL) 2016 Archival print on Hahnemuehle Bamboo paper mounted on wood with hand made solid oak frame. 28 × 23 × 4 cm, Edition of 10 £450.00

GEISHA 2016 Archival print on Hahnemuehle Bamboo paper mounted on wood with hand made solid oak frame.

41 × 33 × 4 cm, Edition of 10 £550.00

DANCESCAPE 2017 Video installation in tiger oak and plano-convex lens 42 × 29.5 × 14 cm £4,000.00

JOSH GLUCKSTEIN “Inspired by a year of independent travel, India was the country that really captured my imagination.

Instantly mesmerised but the culture, beauty and people’s of India, I felt intent on creating a body of work to reflect my incredible experiences.

While travelling through India for 4 months, I encountered many different people in contrasting circumstances. My first interactions with the real local communities was through a volunteering project in a slum called Banjara Basti, in the countryside of Rajasthan where I volunteered for 2 months. Walking through the slums each day was a fascinating experience, each time seeing new faces and interacting with different families, learning about their lives, traditions and culture, the Banjara caste are proud people, valuing beauty and personal appearance highly despite their poor living conditions. Their colourful turbans, silk saris and extravagant jewellery stood out against the dusty, dirty backdrop of the slum.

The second main source of inspiration in India was the Pushkar camel fair, where camel traders gather from all parts of India to trade and sell over 11,000 camels and cattle. Camel traders walk for days to congregate at the loud, colourful, frenetic festival, with the sun beating down and drums booming from the stadiums. For days before the festival begins, the camel traders set up camp in large groups, rising early to make chai and chapatti, which is where I had the privilege of meeting traders and their camels.

Predominantly centered around portraiture, I aim to encapsulate a sense of what it is like to be in India, to feel the subtle emotions of the individuals, and experience the colours, vibrancy and energy of India.”

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS 2017 Portrait 17, Contemporary Collective /

DegreeArt.com Gallery, London

Hampstead Fine Arts - ‘Alumni Show’

Solo Exhibition, Ply Gallery - ‘Faces of India’ 2013 Graduates Exhibition , Affordable Art

Fair - ‘Bernard’ 2012 Signature Art Prize Finalist

Winner of Jack Godhill Competition

© JOSHUA GLUCKSTEIN

GULAABEE PAGADEE / PINK TURBAN Oil on canvas 200 x 120 cm £4950.00

PURPLE IN PUSHKAR Oil on canvas 200 x 120 cm £4,950.00

SHADES OF BLUE Oil on canvas 200 x 120 cm £4,950.00

NANIJI Charcoal on paper 93 × 73 × 0.2 cm SOLD (Commissions available)

TOP RIGHT: GOAT HERDER Charcoal on paper 93 × 73 × 0.2 cm SOLD (Commissions available)

BANJARA GRANDFATHER Charcoal on paper 93 × 73 × 0.2 cm £800.00

HIPSTER Charcoal on paper 93 × 73 × 0.2 cm SOLD (Commissions available)

JULIE BENNETT British artist Julie Bennett creates distinctive gestural paintings to critically engage with the discourse surrounding the cult of celebrity in contemporary society. Bennett looks at the effect of fame, glamour and beauty through the re-appropriation of mass-mediated images of anonymous faces surrounding celebrities. She translates every day faces into bold, aspirational multi-layered works of art.

The subject matter of her portraits might be the individual in a crowd or the model advertising a celebrated branded product. The unknown person is elevated from the mundane to the status of icon through paint. In only superficially adhering to the photographic source, she allows the randomness of the brush strokes to bring out the personality of the subject. A personality that was superfluous to the intentions of the mediated image from which they were drawn from.

Oil, gloss, acrylic paint and gestural brushwork are used as part of her transformation process. Paint and subject become one as these highly personal interpretations emerge out of the influence of the superficiality of mass culture.

Bennett has featured in various publications ranging from The Guardian (2011), The Independent, (2008), The Standard (2007), Artist and Illustrated Magazine (2007) to Stylist (2011).

Bennett has exhibited solo and in various group exhibitions. National exhibitions include those at Victoria and Albert Museum (2010), SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS: 2017

2016

2010

Portrait 17, Contemporary Collective / DegreeArt.com Gallery, London Punk Revisited, 1of1 Design & DegreeArt.com pop-up, Teddington Winner, Oscar Wilde’s Arrest Tribute, Cadogan Hotel TARA 2008 Gloss on canvas 152 × 122 × 4 cm SOLD (Commissions available)

ANDREA 2009 Gloss and Beeswax on canvas 152 × 122 × 4 cm £3,500.00

RUFUS 2008 Oil on canvas 102 × 76 × 3 cm £2,000.00

NIKKI 2008 Oil on canvas 100 x 70 x 2 cm £2,000.00

PAUL BENNETT Paul Bennett’s creative process for figurative painting begins with found images (magazines, internet). These are used as a base from which he begins to sketch out the composition. It’s important to his work that the initial reference images are from a mass produced source for a couple of reasons; The first being that the paintings he wants to create are completely removed from the polished magazine shoots of the paintings source.

The bombardment from advertising of immaculate people has for many years become the normal way that we absorb our visual life. The act of taking the person out of the context of material advertising is a way in which what is left can be open to scrutiny and reinterpreted. The second reason why he favours the use of the found image is that there is less of a connection with the subject. This then gives more freedom to reinvent and create the painting in a more expressionist way and break free from a photorealist airbrushed portrayal of the subject. The very act of painting something which has already been produced many thousands of times already becomes a completely different entity when it is then used to create a one off and unique original piece of work. The intention is that the end result is removed from the person who at some point posed in front of the camera.

Paul likes the paintings to have an unfinished feel about them and to communicate being incomplete, compared to what we are normally presented with in our everyday relationship with mass produced visuals.

The flat and empty backgrounds he uses helps enhance this.Using a combination of oil paint and graphite, the paint drip freely. Next comes the use of distinctive mark making to create emotion and recollection. The flat and empty backgrounds in the paintings help emphasize this. However, it is still one of Paul’s aims to maintain the slightest hint that there was once glamour.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 2017

2016

Portrait 17, Contemporary Collective / DegreeArt.com Gallery, London Affordable Art Fair Battersea Artist residency Kyoto Japan

SPIRIT IN TRANSIENT 2017 Oil on canvas 100 x 70 x 4 cm

SOLD (Commissions available)

DRY THE RAIN Oil on canvas 100 x 70 cm £1,750.00

REBEL ANGEL Oil on canvas 100 x 70 cm £1,750.00

BLUE HONEY Oil on canvas 100 x 70 cm £1,750.00

INTO DUST Oil on canvas 91 x 61 x 4 cm £1,500.00

PHIL M DAVIS Phil Davis studied Fine Art and Sculpture at Loughborough University, completing his degree in 2004. An accomplished draughtsman, Phil initially presented scenic depictions and travel experiences in pencil and oil pastel, using intense, bold colours as a way of reflecting a childlike wonder in the new, and in a sense the extreme, sometimes uncomfortable emotional commitment involved in relating to the culturally unfamiliar.

Changing to working largely with oils resulted in work of much greater vibrancy, and allowed the extreme emotional sensations, in which he was interested, to be committed more successfully to canvas. His work now strives to acknowledge both the positive and negative energies, the good and the bad consequences, of these emotions, and how they inform our view of the world around us.

More and more he attempts to inject the same feeling into his portrait/figurative work by representing the figurative form as an emotionally charged contradiction, as a twisted and gnarled yet beautiful representation of pain and raw feeling, as well as an object of pure physicality.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2017

2013

2012

Portrait 17, Contemporary Collective / DegreeArt.com Gallery, London BP Portrait Awards Royal Academy Summer Show Sky Arts Portrait Artist Of The Year Off The Wall Gallery. Cardiff, Wales.

March 2013 - Present Martins Gallery And Publishing House.

Cheltenham. January - March 2013 Degree Art Execution Room. London.

October - November 2012 Degree Art. London. Signature Arts Prize 2012 - September - October 2012 Art Movement Fine Art Consultancy.

London. Art For The Olympics

THE BURNING CIGAR, 2008, Acrylic Paint, Enamel Paint, Pen And Ink, Pallette Knives, Brushes, Canvas, 180 x 120 x 5 cm, £4,500.00

MARKO OF MONTENEGRO 2016 Acrylic Paint, Pen & Ink, Felt Tip, Palette Knives, Brushes, Paint Rollers, Canvas, Varnish 90 × 60 × 5 cm £2,900.00

MLADEN VRACARIC OF SERBIA 2016 Acrylic Paint, Pen & Ink, Felt Tip, Palette Knives, Paint Rollers, Brushes, Canvas, Varnish 90 × 60 × 5 cm £2,900.00

OPEN CALL

SELECTED ARTISTS

ARMANDO MESÍAS Armando MesÍas explores the portrait as a storytelling device; understanding it as a device for non-linear narrative that doesn’t respond to one unique timeline.

The integration of abstraction within boundaries of human features drives the audience into making sense of the ‘gaps’ in the figure, and create their own interpretations.

His work is marked by a juxtaposition of contrasting visual concepts such as chromaticism and desaturation, figuration and abstraction, control and chaos, thus achieving to create pieces that seem alive and full of history and accidents. His technique develops through a free and dynamic use of colour over detailed work. First very realistic and quite figurative, his style slowly evolves towards exploring more abstract components inside his images.

The artist constantly reminds the viewer that aesthetic research and technical exploration serve as a means for personal reflection. He wants to revive an art that is inclusive and intimate, based in impressions and emotions. Mesias’ artworks enable anyone to take part in an enjoyable perceptive journey, feel intrigued and invited to discover and propose their own ideas about the artist, the artwork and, more importantly, about themselves. Every piece is a medium for a personal experience.

- Evgeniya Uvaydulaeva (MA Art Business - Sotheby’s) His work has been showcased in Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France, USA and Portugal among others. He got his bachelor in design at ICESI University in Colombia. MA from Camberwell College of Arts in London, post-graduate from Innovation and Design Thinking at Barcelona Design Centre University BAU. He is currently enrolled in the XIX Century programe at the Barcelona Academy of Art. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 2017

2015

2014

Portrait 17, Contemporary Collective / DegreeArt.com Gallery, London Cada Persona Es Un Mundo, LAC (SOLO) / Lagos, Portugal Kissing in Traffic / London, UK Slow 2, Choko / Barcelona, Spain Assembly, Chelsea College of Arts Alumni Show / London,UK Hong Kong Contemporary 14 / Hong Kong

GIO ANNA RENDER Oil on canvas 105 X 80 cm SOLD (Commissions available)

HINDSIGHT 3 2017 Oil and acrylics on canvas 50 × 40 × 3 cm £500.00

HINDSIGHT 2 2017 Printed canvas, oil and acrylics.

46 × 46 × 5 cm £900.00

BRUCE ATHERTON Bruce Dalzell Atherton was born in 1968 and from early childhood followed his vocation of becoming an artist. Upon completion of his Foundation course at St.Martins in London, Bruce decided that he preferred to remain outside of the art school system and continued to train as an autodidact, whilst working in the commercial art sector.

In his mid twenties Bruce felt it was time to return to his fine art full time and made the bold move of relocating to Rome in Italy to frequent the Scuola Libera del Nudo, an advanced life painting school.

During this time Bruce’s work developed greatly, and he began exhibiting.

In 1999 he formed part of the artistic movement ‘Neoiconica’, founded by the celebrated Roman art critic Guglielmo Gigliotti and in collaboration with the ‘Studio di Arte Cannaviello’ in Milan, one of the major galleries in Italy, began a series of prestigious exhibitions at an international level. Bruce was also one of the founding artists of the movement ‘Metropolism’ which also went on to exhibit in many state-run institutions and was promoted by the famous Italian critic, Professor Bonito Oliva.

In 2001, Bruce won official recognition at the XXIII annual international exhibition of fine art in Sulmona, winning the Targa D’Argento, and shortly after, he began his collaboration with the gallery Magrorocca in Milan.

2001 heralded the beginning of another important phase of Bruce’s career when he was asked to collaborate with the Vatican in Rome painting new images of neo-canonized saints and official portraits.

Bruce completed 13 official paintings for the Postulation of the Vatican, and continued to collaborate with the Vatican until 2007.

In 2004 Bruce returned to London to finalize his education receiving his master degree in Digital Art with distinction at University of the Arts, London and began working for the research department with Dr. John Tchalenko. In 2006 Bruce started collaborating with Factum-Arte in the production of large scale airbrushed artworks, for the high end art market.

Bruce is currently developing his new works and is preparing a series of upcoming exhibitions, in Denmark, Germany and the UK. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 2017 Portrait 17, Contemporary Collective, London 2015 Art Aid Copenhagen, Royal Palace Copenhagen 2013 Limewharf Gallery, ‘Interdependence’ solo show, London

SIMON FISHER TURNER 2014 Oil on canvas 99 x 84 x 5 cm £12,000.00

FOTEINI IMPASTO 2016 Oil on canvas 40 x 60 x 5 cm £6,600.00

NATHAN MANN 2016 Oil on canvas 40 x 30 x 5 cm £4,620.00

EMILY TULL Ramsgate based artist Emily Tull graduated from KIAD in 2000. Since then, she has exhibited internationally in Belgium and Edinburgh and regularly in London, Birmingham and across East Kent in group and solo shows. Recently being a finalist in the Winter Pride Art Awards, also selected for the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize and being a contestant in Sky Art’s Portrait Artist of the Year 2014.

Inspiration comes from many sources including Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon, Curiosity Cabinets, ripped wallpaper, Egyptian tomb paintings and the Pre-Raphaelites. The work covers a range of subjects based upon everyday life and literature.

“For the last six years I have used wildlife imagery to experiment with fabrics, predominately British species but I am inspired by curiosity cabinet displays and my mother’s bee collection. The actual sewing is quite a random act unless it is a face, where I start with the eye and work out from there. I will flit from colour to colour thread cross hatching, weaving the thread over and under until I am happy with the overall effect, I compare it to using colouring pencils. I am striving to close the gap to what is deemed ‘craft’ and what is art.”

AWARDS: 2017

2015 2008

Visual Arts (non digital) – Kent Creative Awards 2017 First prize for ‘I Am Here’ – UCL 2015 Highly Commended for ‘Fragile #2’ – RBSA

COMPETITIONS & SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 2017

2016 2016

2015

Portrait 17, Contemporary Collective / DegreeArt.com Gallery, London Finalist, Emerald Winter Prize Art Award Regional Finalist, Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2014. Sky Arts.

Shortlisted, Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize 2015

A CONVERSATION WITH DEATH 2017 Needle painting, hand stitching on polycotton, muslin, velour, flocked organza and cotton T-shirt 91 × 60 × 9 cm £3,400.00

EVERYBODY HAS A LITTLE PIECE OF SOMEONE THEY HIDE 2015 hand stitching on muslin, cotton and hand stretched hessian.

32 × 32 × 9 cm £1,240.00

‘AND THE SOFTNESS OF HER CHEEKS WERE AS PINK AS BLOSSOM 2016 hand stitching on muslin, cotton on hand stretched hessian 32 × 32 × 5 cm £1,240.00

GIULIA QUARESIMA Giulia Quaresima is an Italian artist who recently moved to Cambridge, UK. Her artistic activity focuses on figurative subjects, particularly portraits and nudes.

The women’s universe is the main theme of her painting season: the relentless passage of time, the laceration of abandonment, the fascinating moment of conception are the subjects on which she reflects. She uses painting to analyse our fears and hopes, and her works do not hide behind intellectual games. The artist believes that her works can show her love for tradition and her respect for the craft, because, in her opinion, modernity should be find through the old rule of art. She is very faithful to the “poetic of realism” with which she carries on her own idea of reality. The recent objective is to reinterpret in her paintings the ancestral myths of Greek culture.

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS: 2009

2007

2006

1st prize Mostra di Piccolo Formato, X edizione, Massarosa (LU), Italy(2009) 1st prize Premio Internazionale Versilia 2007, painting section, figure category, Torre del Lago (LU), Italy (2007).

V Biennale Internazionale di Pittura Premio Felice Casorati, Pavarolo (TO), Italy (2006); I colori del sorriso, La Marguttiana, Pietrasanta (LU), Italy (2006).

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 2017

2013

2011

2010

2007

Portrait 17, Contemporary Collective / DegreeArt.com Gallery, London One hundred eyes in one day, exhibition and performance, Debut Contemporary Gallery, London (UK), 2013 Mitologie reali, Petrartedizioni gallery, Pietrasanta (LU), Italy, 2011 - Tre passi indietro, Villa Gori, Massarosa (LU), Italy, 2010 - Vivendo e quasi vivendo, Petrartedizioni gallery, Pietrasanta (LU), Italy, 2007 - Gli sguardi della

UN RICARDO 2007 Oil painting on canavs 93 × 63 × 2 cm £1,000.00

SORRIDI 2006 Oil on Canvas 60 x 40 x 3 cm £800.00

MATER 2007 Oil on wood 106 x 50 x 2 cm £1,900.00

JAKE BIGGIN ‘Having graduated from Central Saint Martins my practice has leaned towards portraiture. Most recently I have been working on a series of portraits drawn on my iPad. All of the work is hand drawn, using no digital shortcuts and stems from art historical iconic painting. The series, focussing on images of modern celebrities, is called iCons.

Stemming from the influence of art historical icon painting and the contemporary pop cultural preoccupation with the celebrity, my work in portraiture is both founded in a traditional approach to drawing and mark making, whilst employing state of the art technology. The iCons series is a celebration of the human face. Images, sourced online and from photographs, are used as a jumping off point for the works. The portraits are drawn on the artists iPad and printed large scale, often completed using diamond dusting. Recipients of recent works include Sir Ian McKellen and Rita Ora.“ SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 2017

Portrait 17, Contemporary Collective / DegreeArt.com Gallery, London Infinite Human: No Boundaries, Chelsea Gallery Here and Now, The Tabernacle, London

JAY (iCON SERIES) iPad and giclee artist prints on Hahnemule photo rag 308gsm paper imported from Germany 86 × 62 × 3 cm £1,000.00

JUDI DENCH (iCON SERIES) iPad and giclee artist prints on hahnemühle photo rag 308gsm paper imported from Germany 86 × 62 × 3 cm £1,000.00

PRINCE (iCON SERIES) iPad and giclee artist prints on hahnemühle photo rag 308gsm paper imported from Germany 86 × 62 × 3 cm £1,000.00

JILL ILIFFE Jill specializes in figurative work with a contemporary feel. The subject matter of the work is wide ranging but revolves around ideas of contemplation, personal histories and memory.

The work based on old photographs investigates the narrative of family, archive and memory. The photograph becomes the memory itself over time, creating in some cases a fictional memory as the true memory of the moment becomes lost. The narrative of the moment can become changed and embellished over time. The creases are carefully recreated in the first paintings and in the second paintings the crux of the photograph is focussed on creating a more graphic and joyful image.

The nude paintings reference old master drawings, which were often in a red chalk. The artist loves the classical skill of life drawing/painting and its long history within art practice. The aim is to bring a three-dimensional value, whilst painting the beauty of the nude form, allowing, in some cases the raw linen to show through. The nudes are isolated, very closely cropped, the faces not visible, showing only the body. These are mysterious nudes.

Whatever the subject may be, it is examined minutely, isolated on the canvas and painted with skill to encourage the viewer to discover something new within the image.

AWARDS Rootstein Hopkins Student Award SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2017

2016

2015

Portrait 17, Contemporary Collective / DegreeArt.com Gallery, London DRAW 16 – Society of Graphic Fine Arts’ 95th Annual Exhibition Summer Show, Margate Scenes from the City: Urban Photography DRAW 15, London Conte a Paris Drawing Prize

SELF PORTRAIT AND OTHER PEOPLE II 2007 Gouache and graphite on heavy duty watercolour paper, acid free, 400 gsm 122 × 152 × 0 cm £2,500.00

NAOMI VONA Naomi Vona (Desio 1982), is an Italian artist who lives in London. Her work combines different interests like photography, collages and video art. Her latest project is focused on collages, where she works on vintage found photos and postcards creating a new interpretation of the original shots. Simply using pens, paper, coloured tape and stickers she gives to every image a new life.

Every work is influenced by her background, inspirations and the subconscious.

SOLO SHOWS 2014 The Time Travelers - Kimball Art Center

(Park City, UT) - USA

Tempi Residui - Eight Gallery (Dublin),Ireland

The Time Travelers - Luan Gallery (Athlone) - Ireland GROUP SHOWS 2017

2016

2014

Portrait 17, Contemporary Collective / DegreeArt.com Gallery, London Cover Version - Studio73, (London), UK ArtSmart Contemporary Popup Show, Space W10 - (London) - UK From LA to Dublin - Dublin Web Summit (Dublin), Ireland Prosecco e Pop Corn (Specchio Riflesso Event), Cineporto di Bari (Bari), Italy Art Crasher - SOMArts Cultural Centre, (San Francisco), USA

NASTY GIRL 001 2017 Paper, Photo, pens and stickers on Paper 22.9 × 16.9 × 0.1 cm £290.00

NASTY GIRL 003 2017 Paper, Photo, pens and stickers on Paper 22.9 × 16.9 × 0.1 cm £290.00

NASTY GIRL 002 2017 Paper, Photo, pens and stickers on Paper 22.9 × 16.9 × 0.1 cm £290.00