no barking aRt Summer Exhibition 2020
A World without End
Artists lineup 2020
Feature Artist 2020
Guilherme Bergamini . Laura Grimm . Adam Isfendiyar . Andrew Mcleay.
Guilherme Bergamini . Laura Grimm . Adam Isfendiyar . Andrew Mcleay.
Painting
Daphne Ang. Pippa El-Kadhi Brown. Peter Charalambides. Romain Chauvet. France. Laura Courtney. Mary Crenshaw. Kevin Derbyshire. Liz Derbyshire. Lisa M Jirlow. Lucy SM Johnston . Andrew McNeile Jones. Antonio Hyeok Lee. Ugo Li. Lawrence Mathias. Mark James Nicholls. Robert Nitschmann. Tracy Nor. Jen Orpin. Gideon Pain. Karen Popham. Kieran Jack Rook. Joe Ryan. Diana Savostaite. Peter van Toth. Angelo Troilo. Andrew Mcleay.
Daphne Ang. Pippa El-Kadhi Brown. Peter Charalambides. Romain Chauvet. France. Laura Courtney. Mary Crenshaw. Kevin Derbyshire. Liz Derbyshire. Lisa M Jirlow. Lucy SM Johnston . Andrew McNeile Jones. Antonio Hyeok Lee. Ugo Li. Lawrence Mathias. Mark James Nicholls. Robert Nitschmann. Tracy Nor. Jen Orpin. Gideon Pain. Karen Popham. Kieran Jack Rook. Joe Ryan. Diana Savostaite. Peter van Toth. Angelo Troilo. Andrew Mcleay.
Daphne Ang. London, UK
Daphne Ang @ Lady Lazarus, Born in Singapore and based in London, Daphne is a self-taught artist and art historian. Daphne’s artistic practice is a culmination of a lifelong devotion to the study and scholarship of visual art. Prior to becoming an artist, Daphne completed a PhD in the History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS, University of London, where she also taught and lectured undergraduate and postgraduate courses. As an independent researcher, Daphne has worked with museums and universities for the development of exhibitions and publications. Daphne began her artistic activity with studies into sacred geometry and the human anatomy. After a period of figurative drawing, Daphne turned to painting the abstract. Picking up the paintbrush has enabled her to work towards the creation of the ‘perfect vision' through abstract painting. She works with acrylics, inks, oil pastels and powdered pigments, experimenting with a range of mediums. Daphne’s art uses the language of abstract forms and colour to express and give meaning to the human psyche and its intangible elements of mood and emotion. The central theme in her art focuses on using the act of painting to perform and convey the full spectrum of love, life and human emotion. Inspired by Jungian analytical psychology and concepts of the individual and collective unconscious, her paintings act as a conduit for bringing the contents of the unconscious mind into consciousness and as they provide a medium which allows for the transmission, articulation and interpretation of the images that arise from the dialogue between consciousness and the unconscious.
Pippa El-Kadhi Brown. UK
Pippa El-Kadhi Brown (b.1996) is a London based painter who works primarily in oil. Her exploration of human psychology is explored through our relationship to domestic environments. She has taken part in residencies, as well as exhibited, both nationally and internationally. Currently living and working in London, she will begin an MA at The Royal College of Art later this year, for which she has been awarded the Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship 2020. Pippa holds a BA in Fine Art Painting at The University of Brighton, School of Art where she developed a growing interest in phenomenology. It was here where she began to create works that she considered to be psychological studies rather than physical and developed her understanding of the domestic home as a conscious space which we merge amongst and coexist beside. She has been awarded with the Creekside Graduate Studio Award and took part a three-month Residency at Creekside Projects. Here she showcased her first solo exhibition, House Plants, Creekside Projects, London (2019). She later undertook the Organhaus Studio Residency where she spent three months living and working in China and took part in Cat’s Mother, Her, She, Organhaus, Chongqing, China (2019). She later exhibited in The Taste of Life, Art Pegazs, Riga, Latvia (2019), where she was awarded the Taste of Life award and accepted a three-month residency in Liepaja, Latvia, where her work became part of The RZ Collection. Other exhibitions include Meet and See, Wushan Art Centre, Chongqing, China (2020). Your Landscape; Life Inside Quarantine, Q Collective Gallery, Online (2020). The London Ultra, OXO Tower Wharf, London (2019). DragonT, Ugly Duck, London (2020). Bleur, Monochrome Studios, London (2019). Binary, Partisan Collective, Manchester, (2019). Present Perfect Continuous, Old Biscuit Factory, London (2018). Rising Talent, Hastings Art Forum, Hastings June (2018).
Peter Charalambides. UK.
Peter Charalambides is a self-trained painter living and working in London, England. The primary aims of his work is to create and destroy images in an attempt to produce something new, fresh and invigorating. The final works are characterised by colour and texture- qualities that magnify an expressionist style throughout his works. Peter is fascinated by the ideas of beauty and how this rather ethereal concept exists in our modern westernized society. Furthermore, these are often explored against the backdrop of drawings and writing that chronicle the triteness of everyday living.
Laura Courtney. Paris, France
After 20 years in a meditation ashram and training as a Transcendental Meditation teacher, Laura Courtney became a painter. Returning to Australia where she grew up, Courtney visited Tasmania and the haunting landscape set her genre as a representational landscape painter. Subsequently training in traditional oil painting she exhibited her landscape paintings in solo shows, art prizes and group exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney every subsequent year. After moving to Rome in 2017 and then Paris in 2018, where she now resides permanently, Courtney was looking to make a major change in her work and incorporated cold wax medium into her practice, finding the unpredictable and often serendipitous results gave her exactly the developmental leap she was seeking, launching an entirely new chapter. While building her skills in wax, which is predominantly used by abstract painters, Courtney was also adapting to a European narrative, the northern light and a landscape vastly different to Australia. As Courtney's work developed into a satisfying new oeuvre, she made work which was exhibited in the last 2 annual group shows held in the well established 'Portes Ouvertes des Ateliers d’Artistes’ in Montreuil, a suburb east of Paris that has the highest number of artists in France and where Courtney has her studio.
Mary Crenshaw. Italy
USA born Mary Crenshaw lives and works in Milan, Italy. Her large abstract oil on canvas paintings look to the European migrant crisis as subject matter. It was Crenshaw’s first-hand experience of obtaining Italian citizenship and coming into contact with less fortunate asylum-seekers that inspired her to address expatriation. In 2018 Crenshaw was admitted to the degree of Professional Doctorate from the University of East London in recognition of a program of work entitled Dislocation and Materiality. Her most recent solo exhibition was at Poplar Union Art Center in London, curated by Paolo Fiorentini, with an essay written by poet and art writer Cherry Smyth. Crenshaw has exhibited at the Bedlam Gallery at Brunel University, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Spazio Arte, and the Castello Borromeo in Milan. She has been a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center, the Centre d’Art Marnay Art Center(CAMAC) and the Art Students’ League at Vyt in Sparkill, New York, and PassagiAtina in Atina, Italy.
Kevin Derbyshire. England. UK
I was born in Essex and moved with my family to Norwich at the age of eight. I completed Foundation courses and then a fine art degree at Sunderland Polytechnic. It was there I met fellow artist Liz Edwards, a constant inspiration since. We married and settled in Harrow, North West London, where we brought up our three children, all now adults. About fifteen years ago I started producing watercolours of observed subjects, mainly landscapes, but also some portraits. Subsequently, I started to investigate other materials and to concentrate less on observation and more on feelings and subconscious images, whilst retaining a love for the translucence of watercolours, inks and eventually, silicone sealer. These days, I am trying to use more found and discarded material.
Liz Derbyshire. UK
Born 1959. Having studied fine art at Sunderland Polytechnic my interest in working with children and young people on the ASD using art culminated in a post graduate Diploma in art therapy from St Albans College of art and Design. During school and later, my focus was on the face, many portraits ensued, this work evolved through out my study to sketching people sitting alone in cafes, or with one other person, pastel drawings and paintings were created from these. The style of the images made, varied to how things were perceived and felt for each one. This relational intrigue of my work between sitter and artist, but also the observation of cafe scenes of one and no more than two people, for me, reflected separateness and aloneness even when together. This theme continued in my enthusiasm for painting women with red hair, one sitter, regularly over the years. Red hair has always drawn me to other worldly thoughts and a sense of the ethereal and unreal. Subsequent work after study involved many plein air works of more portraits but also of the ocean and London, including music venues. The space between the artist, the view or person, the separateness, the aloneness but the meeting of two to create something. Studying art therapy gave me an opportunity to paint and create without criticism and paintings from my subconscious produced various faces and figures that continue to come up in current work, capturing that sense of wonder and magic as a child. Currently, my work is revolved around corona and the feelings generated from its dark invisible force, including perhaps Hopelessness against hope, Isolation against online community, the absence of touch , the longing for touch and perhaps the fear of it beginning again. Work in private collections around Uk , Ireland and Australia. Group exhibitions in Newcastle, Sunderland, St Albans,Harrow on the Hill, West Harrow, Harrow and Wealdstone, Pinner,Baker Street, Peckham and Bethnal Green. Solo exhibitions Hatch End Arts Centre , Rudolf Steiner Gallery Baker Street.
Lisa M Jirlow
I am interested in the search for meaning and the human urge to read in something in everything we see. I look for meanings and patterns in everything I look at. It is a reflex - I am always on the quest for the inhabit sense of what I see. In my work I want to give that quest for meaning some resistance and expand my realm of images and space. I try to end up in unknown places. The realism and pictorial image are excepted and I strive for what is not obvious for the eye and mind. In my creative process, I switch between being the Painter or the Finder who uses color and form as a tool, and the Observer. That is my way to push myself towards the unexplored. Suddenly I find something; a balance, an equilibrium, an excitement, a direction or a movement that talks to me and fits into my unseen image world, beyond wordings. I am happy when the obvious occurs. The image that i feel just works. The image that leaves me with a sense of content. The image that, with colors, shapes, lines, rhythm and light, builds a piece of artwork that, despite its two-dimensional surface, feels like a room to enter and that forms a standalone entity. The artworks contain traces of emotional memories, kinetic memories and moods. If time is given, if the viewer takes its time, here is something to be in and to remain in for contemplation. And I find traces of myself in this new and unknown.
Lucy SM Johnston. U.K.
A University of the Arts graduate from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design where she studied fashion Design, Lucy is a largely self-taught artist based in East London. where she lives and works undertaking commissions as well as executing her own projects. Her artwork has been featured in various publications including; The Telegraph, The Times, Campaign Magazine and Livingetc. Magazine. She has exhibited in group shows including; Selfridges, Concrete and Glass festival, Shoreditch, Womankind Exhibition for International Women’s Day, The Marmite Prize, Nasty Women UK and most recently shortlisted for the Secret Art Painting Prize 2019. Lucy's practice takes a critical view of socio-cultural subjects, referencing the visual vernacular from contemporary modern life. Exploring the complex relationships between pop-culture, kitsch and fine art, she crafts perfect messages imperfectly. On closer inspection, her photo-realist style, is simple mark-making, strokes and scribbles, all layered evidence of the passage of time. Although her subject matter is rendered through a hyper-real colour palette, there is often a dark underbelly railing against the idealism, a shadow over the idyll to remind us of the transitory nature of experience. Her fascination with retro aesthetics isn't just indicative of her love/hate relationship with Memphis inspired graphics of the ’80s, but the comfort of nostalgia, increasingly desirable in today's world beset by uncertainty and fear. Her subject matter often takes the form of a playful juxtaposition between fantasy and reality, - previous bodies of work have included large scale swearing kittens and jousting unicorns.
Andrew McNeile Jones. UK
My recent body of work explores a past that is part memory, part fiction, and part found fragments. This might be a melancholy memory fuelled by a suburban upbringing. A world of wasteland, tatty pre-fab dance halls, the flickering memory of films, and playing in the street with anything we could find or steal - because there was nothing else to do. Then there is a constructed past, pieced together from old slides, fading prints and frozen moments of film. These might be my own, or they might be dog-eared magazine cuttings that evoke a time and a place. My paintings evolve from this, combining figurative elements and layers of abstraction, some purely gestural, and some broken down from representational fragments. There are allusions to a narrative, but these are suggested, not prescribed, leaving room for the viewer to interpolate. I originally trained at the Ruskin School of Art, and this was followed by a number of years working in the film business. I returned to painting a few years ago, incorporating the experience and imagery of filmmaking into my practice.
Education & training: Ruskin School of Art, Oxford: B.A. Fine Art (first) 1982 Turps Painting Program: 2017-2018. 1983 - 2003: film maker, TV editor and producer; part time artist. 2004 - present day: full time artist Group Shows (selection): Go With Yamo Group Show (April 2020). Elizabeth James Gallery, London (April 2019) London Ultra, The Bargehouse, London SE1 (Dec 2018) Galerie Anagama, Paris (2013, 2015) Go Figurative, London (2011, 2012, 2014) Enid Lawson, London (2010 - 2013) Broadway Modern, Broadway (2008 -2010). Art Fairs: Affordable Art Fairs: Battersea, Hampstead, Bristol, Milan; various years. Other fairs: Utrecht, Amsterdam, Manchester, Edinburgh.
Hyeok Lee (Antonio). Canada
Artist Hyeok Lee is a South Korean who currently works and lives in Canada. He explores the diverse and complex human nature, including fury, anxiety, desire, hope, happiness and etc. “The emotions inside human beings, which cannot be separated individually and mutually connected to each other, are the driving forces behind the human life," he says. He expresses an entangled human nature that causes all the issues(mainly War) in human history. Education / 2011 BFA Accademia di belle arti di Brera Milan Italy. / 2016 BFA Emily Carr University Vancouver Canada. Solo Exhibition /2014. 8 Explosion Gallery MOA, Heyri, South Korea. / 2015. 5 Explosion, Brera Gallery Cafe, Il-san, South Korea. / 2017. 7 Peace. No more war, Silk Gallery, Port Moody, Canada. /2018. 7 Designed War, Cityart Gallery, Milan, Italy. / 2020. 2 Human nature, Lamer Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Group Exhibition / 2013. 3 Associazione Arte Cultura e Sport, Provincial Congress Milan, Milan, Italy. / 2013. 10 National students’ Art Contest BARI Italy 2013, University of Bari, Italy. /2014. 2 Il treno della speranza, Gallery Antonio Battaglia, Milan, Italy. / 2014. 5 Arte & Civo, Academy of Salerno, Salerno, Italy. / 2014, 6 ART AWARD OF GRIFFIN 2014, La fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy. / 2014, 9 Trunk teen festival 2014, Gwangiu, South Korea. / 2018, 6 FLORIBUNDA!, Silk Gallery, Port Moody, Canada. / 2020, 5 A World without End, Group online exhibion, no barking aRt Gallery, London, UK. Art Fair / Biennale / 2014. 8 International Art Fair Art Gwangju 2014, Gwangiu, South Korea. / 2017.11 International Fine art Biennale Romart2017, Rome, Italy. Award / 2013. 10 National students Art Contest BARI Italy 2013, Italy. / 2014. 6 ART AWARD OF GRIFFIN 2014, Italy. / 2017. 12 INTERNATIONAL ART COMPETITION “Patterns" 2017, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery, USA. Collection / Provincials Congress Milan, Milan, Italy. / Bari Fine Arts Academy, Bari, Italy. / Gallery MOA, Heyri, South Korea. / Lamer gallery, Seoul, South Korea. Publications & Reviews 2014 Ivan Quaroni, Premio Griffin 2014 / 2020 Kim Saetbyeol, 전시가이드, Art Magazine S.Korea, Feb 2020, p.76 / 2020 Oh Yunji, 문화뉴스, Korean Culture Newspaper.
Ugo Li. Paris, France
Ugo Li, born in 1987, is a French painter, who is currently living and working in Paris. His bold, pictorial and often abstract work appropriates and reinterprets the visual signs of today’s society. Everyday inspiration: Ugo Li was surrounded by creativity from an early age, being raised in his father’s artist studio and following his parents around art galleries. His work is highly personal, inspired by both major life events and the small everyday moments that constitute one's existence. His paintings explore the intersections of dreams, memory, personal history and daily life. Media Musings: Ugo Li often takes his inspiration from the colourful advertising that pervades society. He plays with words and slogans that appear isolated on the canvas and are intended to provide more of a pictorial purpose since they are removed from their original commercial context. For Ugo Li the canvas becomes a place for him to project his emotions, he often removes and repaints the work until he is happy with the dialogue that has emerged. Emerging Talent: Ugo Li has exhibited in both solo and group shows internationally in countries such as, the United States, Thailand, Canada and France. His work belongs to collections around Europe.
Lawrence Mathias. UK.
Lawrence Mathias is a Harrow based visual artist who works in a range of media, from painting to ceramics. His art work combines mixed media, sound, music, 2 and 3D visuals and film, and he frequently works with other artists and groups. His work often has a social and political content, but landscape, figurative and abstract themes are other regular subjects explored. For World Without End he is showing a selection of recent watercolours all exploring the theme of visited place, distilled through memory and the watercolour medium. He exhibits work regularly with various London art groups, including NoBarking and ArtCan, throughout London and on the continent, and has had several solo shows in recent years.
Mohini Mehta. India & Australia.
Mohini is a practicing artist, currently studying Graduate certificate in Art History from University of Melbourne. Her practice evolves from her experiences and the surrounding environment. With an interest to explore the reality and break the convention of perception and reality, she works mainly with paintings. Mohini wants the work to evoke a sense of curiosity. She takes a personal interest in painting abstract landscapes, influenced by her travel journeys. Her masters project was based on the use of natural hues and spices available to her to produce the paintings. She work with the theme of Anthropocene and changing landscapes always hinting towards a futuristic hope which I have and want everyone to have within them. She has previously worked with the India-Dubai based artist Owais Husain, had her first solo show in India in 2015 , presented in Tate Exchange, Come Together: Art and Politics in a Climate of Unrest, with Central Saint Martins at Tate Modern Tate Exchange, London in January 2019, and recently had her work exhibited in the Kolkata Art Fair, West Bengal, India in February 2020.
Mark James Nicholls. UK
Mark J. Nicholls is a contemporary artist who lives and works in West Cornwall. He was born and bred in Newlyn, where he also now supports his living by running Jelberts Ice cream shop in the summer months. This provides him the winter time to totally dedicate himself to his art. He currently works out of an historic artists studio, also in Newlyn. Nicholls studied Fine Art at the University of Brighton, followed by an MA at the Royal College of Art. He has participated in group exhibitions in the USA, London, Bristol and Cornwall and has had solo exhibitions in London and Cornwall, most recently at Daisy Laing Gallery, Penzance. He has been the recipient of awards from The Arts Council, South West Arts, the Daler Rowney Drawing Award and a studio residency in the USA, amongst others. Nicholls’ work is characteristically robust and visceral but his composition and use of colour vividly demonstrate his painterly technique. Classical portraits and still lives are rendered in bright purples and oranges and muted greys and his familiar pictorial motifs such as clock-faces, shoes and cigarettes feature prominently. His work is based on the human condition and using figuration as a base-point. As Nicholls says, “I like to make work that first and foremost pushes, excites and surprises me. I feel my job as an artist is to not illustrate or decorate but to make work that provokes and entertains in the way that art makes possible.” As a graduate of the Royal College of art, Nicholls’ influences are undeniable. Picasso, Bacon and Philip Guston all make appearances but Nicholls’ adds his own absurdist and contemporary perspective to a familiar iconography. Nicholl's own take on classical portraiture is a feature of his work, and the Pope is now a regular in his cast of characters. From Velasquez to Bacon to Nicholls, his Popes are now more grotesquely comic than their previous iterations. However for all its art historical context and contemporary cultural reference his work retains a powerful energy and vibrancy that stems from Nicholls’ instinctive and almost automatic approach to creation. As he says, “I am unsure why and what I am doing painting. But the need to make images is stronger than ever”.
Robert Nitschmann. Berlin. Germany
I’m a 24 year old fashion design student, based in Berlin. Apart from designing clothes I always had a fascination for classical art. A few years ago I had the opportunity to learn how to draw from a very talented artist in my home town in the south of Germany. Since my course of studies has a rather technical approach, I started expressing myself by doing collages and illustrations. My plan to finish my studies got interrupted very abrupt, when two years ago I got diagnosed with a mental disorder. Not being able to study or work, I went into treatment and only a few months ago slowly managed to find my way back into a normal life. Around that time I started painting in oil with the intent to visualize how I felt, because I wasn’t able to describe it with words or any other way. With my paintings I want to share these emotions with the observer trying to reconnect with the real world.
Tracy Nors. UK.
The Coastline of East Sussex is the inspiration for my expressive landscape paintings. I know the place very well but the mood and atmosphere changes every time walk there. There is so much sky and glimpses of sea amongst the cliffs and fields. Colour is of huge importance to me as it has the ability to evoke many emotions. I begin in an intuitive way, making marks from memory that are a reflections of my experiences on my walks. I work expressively and spontaneously up to a point where the painting starts to form a sense of place but is also abstracted. The application then becomes more directed. I build up layers by adding and subtracting, imparting details of a place which are also open to interpretation from the viewer. Sometimes there may be more figurative elements appearing; hints of figures, boats or buildings. I hope to capture the atmosphere of a place so that the viewer is engaged on an emotional as well as visual level. Recent paintings move further away from the reality of realism in the landscape towards abstraction and contain both fragments of the real and the imagined. Shapes and colours are used to produce painterly improvisations that are my perception of the world around me. CV: Educated to MA level in Visual Arts. I work as a professional Artist and personal tutor. I Have been Artist in Residence 4 times including Birmingham and Coventry Museums, and Warwickshire Arts for Education. Former Lecturer in illustration UWE Bristol and Stafford College. Former Gallery owner and Curator at Galleri Excentrisk Denmark. Various recent exhibitions venues including, Portico Gallery Seven Oaks, Advocet Gallery, Small Hythe Gallery. Brighton open Houses 2010-2013. South East open Studios 2019.
Jen Orpin. Manchester, UK.
Jen Orpin graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1996 with a degree in Fine Art. She lives in Manchester and joined Rogue Artists’ Studios, Manchester in 2000 and has been painting from her studio there ever since. As well as exhibiting in various galleries all over the North West, selling her paintings nationally and internationally, her work has been accepted into several Open Art exhibitions. She made the long list for the Jackson’s Open Painting in Prize 2018, 2019 and 2020, has been a prize winner and has received several commendations. 2018 also saw her appear in Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year where the judges chose her in their top three for the heat. In February 2020 she was one of 20 shortlisted artists from a submission entry of 2,000 in the first HOME Open exhibition. Her paintings have also featured in the last three series of the BBC1 drama, Last Tango in Halifax, Ackley Bridge and Russell T. Davies’ Queer as Folk. Jen is a contemporary figurative landscape painter who predominately paints with oils on canvas, board and wood. Her work is a response to and concerned with themes around the journeys we make, the open road, memories, nostalgia, love and loss.
Gideon Pain. United Kingdom
Gideon Pain’s pictures derive from a delight in the world around, a play on the mundane and everyday that we slip through on our way to somewhere else. They are about collective moments, some tragic some euphoric, when the sharing of an experience gives significance to something unnoticed. These quiet revelations bind nurture and reassure us in a world that quickly passes. Paint, in a digital age is a slow inaccurate and clumsy medium, making it perfect for capturing and re-contextualising this fragile transience. Education: 1992-1994 Reading University MFA Fine Art Painting. 1986-1989 Glouchester College Of Art Ba [hons] Fine Art Painting First Class. Selected Exhibitions: 2019 'Made in Britain', group show, Gdansk, Poland. 'Contemporary British Painting', group show, Norwich Cathedral, Norwich. ‘Summer at the Beach 4, group show, Waterbeach, Cambridge. 'New Painting 2019’ The Crypt. Marlybone, London. 2018 'Staff Art Show' The British Museum, London. ‘Summer at the Beach 3, group show, Waterbeach, Cambridge. 'Contemporary painting art from Britain' Yantai Art Museum, China. 'New Painting 2018’ The Crypt. Marlybone, London. 2017 'Contemporary painting art from Britain' Yanti Museum, China. ‘Contemporary Masters of Eastern England’, The Cut, Halesworth. ‘Summer at the Beach 2, group show, Waterbeach, Cambridge. ‘Anything Goes’, Bermondsey Project Space, London. Collections: Hangzhou Art Museum, China. Southend Hospital. Falmouth Art Gallery. Swindon Art Gallery. Rudby Art Gallery. Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting.
Karen Popham. Hampshire, UK.
I have painted all my life. When I was seventeen I attended life classes, taught by Sam Rabin, and the skills I learned there have underpinned everything I have done since, from working as a draughtsman , book illustrator, interior designer, muralist and trompe – l’oeil artist, to teaching in various art colleges and societies. I enrolled at Central St Martin’s with a view to studying Stage Design but soon realised that the thing I wanted to do more than anything else was paint, so I stayed on to complete a degree in Fine Art. I had my first one woman show at the age of 24, at the Borlaise Gallery Oxford. I happened to be quite pregnant at the time with the first of my three children. I actually sold everything and was left with the baby! Since then I have been very proud to have had further one woman shows (at City University and Bakertilly Bloomsbury) and to have been exhibited at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Spirit of London Exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall and the Mall Galleries on a number of occasions. I have also had the privilege of being appointed as Artist in Residence, first at The Reform Club, where I held a sell-out one woman show, and Trinity Laban Centre of Dance - this in particular, was a wonderful opportunity to immerse myself in the world of movement, something which has also been a strong part of my practice ever since. It was also a perfect preparation for my next venture, illustrating a series of six children’s books called, The Little Swan Ballet Series for Random House, something I enjoyed immensely, especially while bringing up a little girl myself. This lead to a very exciting relationship with the publishing company, Frances Lincoln, who allowed me to both write and illustrate my own children’s book, Ellie’s Growl, once again using my daughter, and her brothers, for inspiration. This was well received and I went on to work on many more projects for Hodder and Stoughton, The Clucket Press and others, culminating in a pair of books for the fantastic Lost Gardens of Heligan, which I created with poet Sandra Horn during an Artistic Residence there - I was featured while working here on a programme about Artists and Gardens for Channel 4. All the activities I engaged in to earn a living have both informed and enriched my life and work as a painter. Often working on commission, I paint portraits, gardens, animals, seascapes, landscapes, buildings, interiors. I paint in oil because it is so rich and versatile and responsive – whether as a sketch on paper or sinking into the surface of wood, gesso or linen. My subjects reflect my life, and I am learning all the time. My youngest child having now recently left home, I am prioritising my own practice once more, and as you will see if we are connected on Instagram (something my daughter has recently introduced me to...!) , I have kept very busy, working hard towards my next one woman show!
Chauvet Romain. Greece.
Romain Chauvet (1981) is an artist from France who he's living in Greece. He is also working as a hiking guide in Greece. He studied arts in France but also in Greece at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He is practicing drawing, painting and wood-sculpture.'Discover a world in the form of mental artography that feeds on unexpected connections between imagination and reality. In this space, memory, dreams and visions of reality creates strange pictorial ramifications.' Exhibitions: 2019- Art Flow Studio Gallery, Paleochora, Crete. Street Art Festival Heraklion, Crete. 2016-17- Expo portes ouvertes, Atelier du Cambodge, Paris 20. 2014- Art Space Archoleon 11, Chania, Greece. 2013- Tirana Ekspres (The alternative art space in Tirana), Albania. Studies: 2006-2007 - Master Visual Arts, Université de Paris 8. - ERASMUS School of Fine Arts Athens.
Kieran Jack Rook. UK.
Kieran Rook is a UK based multidisciplinary artist who specialises in painting, large scale installations, sculpture, and sound art. He has exhibited at the Turner Contemporary in Margate for the Platform award exhibition 2017, his first solo exhibition and residency at CrateSpace Margate as the winner of the UCA Crate graduate award, and was a part of the group show Optic Illusions at the Brewery Tap project space during the Folkestone Triennial 2017, with a group show in London as well as a charity based project lined up for the new year. Existing somewhere between disturbing truth and restless dream. Kieran’s work seeks to scrutinise the over saturation of information, the distortion of human experience brought on by ever increasing technological networks, such as politics, media, social networks, TV, and cinema to reveal larger, more uncomfortable truths about modern culture. Intrinsically, he is drawn to motifs of provocation, subversion, iconoclasm, and humour. Inspired by dystopic literature and film, his practice explores the mediums of video, sculpture, installation, sound art, painting, and performance. In addition to these themes, the nature of his work also lends itself to the ongoing dichotomy between the mediums of painting and sculpture, as well as being a mechanism of reflection – visual and cognitive – particularly various structural forms that are activated and experienced by the viewer in situ. Kieran works with immersive installations that often involve both wall-based works, floor pieces, sculptures, screens, sounds, projections, and scents. Creating an alchemy through combining a variety of sculptural installation aesthetics – either ready-made or tailor-made – with time-based mediums, and sound art compositions to create exaggerated and disorientating narratives emphasising, questioning, and satirising western culture.
Joe Ryan. UK
Dr Joe Ryan Artist (LION). International Visual Artist. Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2015 TBA, Abbeyleix Gallery. 2015 The Word Became, Leixlip Gallery, 2014 The Great Unveiling of The White Elephant, Morans Park, Dun Laoghaire. 2014 Dalkey Projections, Archibalds Castle, Dalkey. 2014 Deconsecrated, Kill o the Grange, Dublin. 2014, Interwoven, Mountmellick Art Gallery, Laois. 2014 The Withering, Artswell Iontas, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan. 2013 Re Pressed, Abbeyleix Gallery. 2010 129th Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, Belfast. Specialties: Printmaking, Etching.
Diana Savostaite. United Kingdom
Diana Savostaite (b.1983) is originally from Lithuania, where she achieved a BA honours in Fine Arts (Painting), at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas Faculty (2001-2005). Diana has moved to London in 2005, where she has lived and worked since. In 2017 she has been awarded with Winsor and Newton Young Artist Award. Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2017. Collections: Works are held in private collections in United Kingdom, USA, Germany and Lithuania. Publications: Aesthetica Magazine, December/January 2019 Issue 86. The Royal Institute of Oil Painters website - ROI 2017 Prize Winners. Mall Galleries catalogue, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2017. Art and Aesthetics, 26 January 2017
Peter van Toth. United Kingdom
I am an artist, painter, AI scientist. My focus is on the discovery and recreation of the processes and biases of the human mind and consciousness. How do we create reality? How can I see what I don't see yet in front of me? These are the leading questions that I run diagnostics on through my art and research. I studied Law and Political Sciences and worked as a lawyer, until I left my home country Hungary and went to Germany to study Mathematics and Computer Science. I did my undergraduate and PhD studies in Mathematics, in Amsterdam and Berlin. After my studies I worked as a Data Scientist in Berlin and Southeast Asia, in Bangkok and Singapore for many years. Later I switched to AI research to work at the top leading AI company in London. In recent years I taught myself to paint with extensive daily practice. Integrating all this transformational background I move in the intersection of art & painting, spiritual & scientific research, consciousness & AI technology. Transformation, renewing, momentum. Evolve, not necessarily develop. Sow seeds. Have the discipline and patience to celebrate the blossoms. Meditate. Work. Serve. Love.
Angelo Troilo. Italy
Angelo Troilo was born in 1996 in Padua. Lives and works in Arquà Petrarca (IT). He attended an art institute where he was inspired by graffiti with Basquiat and Banksy. He is co-founder of the artistic group '' Next artist '', and has organized three collective exhibitions in the years 2017-2019. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and later moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna where he is still attending. EXHIBITIONS : 2017: "Next Artist", collective exhibition, first edition, Este PD. 2018: "Next Artist", collective exhibition, second edition, Este PD. 2019: "Next Artist", collective exhibition, third edition, Este PD. 2019: "ContemporaneaMENTI", the Arsenale Foundation, Iseo (BR), Italy. 2019-2021: "Biennial of Contemporary Art JCE / JEUNE CREATION EUROPEENNE", Montrouge, France. 2019: “Biennial of MArteLive”, Rome, Italy. 2019: Virtual Art Exhibition “Contemporary Man”, Toronto, Canada. 2019: Virtual Exhibition at the new York Art Center”, Tribeca, New York. 2020: Virtual Exhibition “Green, Pink, Yellow, White, with You”Australia.
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Andrew Mcleay. UK. (See in Feature)
Daphne Ang @ Lady Lazarus, Born in Singapore and based in London, Daphne is a self-taught artist and art historian. Daphne’s artistic practice is a culmination of a lifelong devotion to the study and scholarship of visual art. Prior to becoming an artist, Daphne completed a PhD in the History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS, University of London, where she also taught and lectured undergraduate and postgraduate courses. As an independent researcher, Daphne has worked with museums and universities for the development of exhibitions and publications. Daphne began her artistic activity with studies into sacred geometry and the human anatomy. After a period of figurative drawing, Daphne turned to painting the abstract. Picking up the paintbrush has enabled her to work towards the creation of the ‘perfect vision' through abstract painting. She works with acrylics, inks, oil pastels and powdered pigments, experimenting with a range of mediums. Daphne’s art uses the language of abstract forms and colour to express and give meaning to the human psyche and its intangible elements of mood and emotion. The central theme in her art focuses on using the act of painting to perform and convey the full spectrum of love, life and human emotion. Inspired by Jungian analytical psychology and concepts of the individual and collective unconscious, her paintings act as a conduit for bringing the contents of the unconscious mind into consciousness and as they provide a medium which allows for the transmission, articulation and interpretation of the images that arise from the dialogue between consciousness and the unconscious.
Pippa El-Kadhi Brown. UK
Pippa El-Kadhi Brown (b.1996) is a London based painter who works primarily in oil. Her exploration of human psychology is explored through our relationship to domestic environments. She has taken part in residencies, as well as exhibited, both nationally and internationally. Currently living and working in London, she will begin an MA at The Royal College of Art later this year, for which she has been awarded the Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship 2020. Pippa holds a BA in Fine Art Painting at The University of Brighton, School of Art where she developed a growing interest in phenomenology. It was here where she began to create works that she considered to be psychological studies rather than physical and developed her understanding of the domestic home as a conscious space which we merge amongst and coexist beside. She has been awarded with the Creekside Graduate Studio Award and took part a three-month Residency at Creekside Projects. Here she showcased her first solo exhibition, House Plants, Creekside Projects, London (2019). She later undertook the Organhaus Studio Residency where she spent three months living and working in China and took part in Cat’s Mother, Her, She, Organhaus, Chongqing, China (2019). She later exhibited in The Taste of Life, Art Pegazs, Riga, Latvia (2019), where she was awarded the Taste of Life award and accepted a three-month residency in Liepaja, Latvia, where her work became part of The RZ Collection. Other exhibitions include Meet and See, Wushan Art Centre, Chongqing, China (2020). Your Landscape; Life Inside Quarantine, Q Collective Gallery, Online (2020). The London Ultra, OXO Tower Wharf, London (2019). DragonT, Ugly Duck, London (2020). Bleur, Monochrome Studios, London (2019). Binary, Partisan Collective, Manchester, (2019). Present Perfect Continuous, Old Biscuit Factory, London (2018). Rising Talent, Hastings Art Forum, Hastings June (2018).
Peter Charalambides. UK.
Peter Charalambides is a self-trained painter living and working in London, England. The primary aims of his work is to create and destroy images in an attempt to produce something new, fresh and invigorating. The final works are characterised by colour and texture- qualities that magnify an expressionist style throughout his works. Peter is fascinated by the ideas of beauty and how this rather ethereal concept exists in our modern westernized society. Furthermore, these are often explored against the backdrop of drawings and writing that chronicle the triteness of everyday living.
Laura Courtney. Paris, France
After 20 years in a meditation ashram and training as a Transcendental Meditation teacher, Laura Courtney became a painter. Returning to Australia where she grew up, Courtney visited Tasmania and the haunting landscape set her genre as a representational landscape painter. Subsequently training in traditional oil painting she exhibited her landscape paintings in solo shows, art prizes and group exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney every subsequent year. After moving to Rome in 2017 and then Paris in 2018, where she now resides permanently, Courtney was looking to make a major change in her work and incorporated cold wax medium into her practice, finding the unpredictable and often serendipitous results gave her exactly the developmental leap she was seeking, launching an entirely new chapter. While building her skills in wax, which is predominantly used by abstract painters, Courtney was also adapting to a European narrative, the northern light and a landscape vastly different to Australia. As Courtney's work developed into a satisfying new oeuvre, she made work which was exhibited in the last 2 annual group shows held in the well established 'Portes Ouvertes des Ateliers d’Artistes’ in Montreuil, a suburb east of Paris that has the highest number of artists in France and where Courtney has her studio.
Mary Crenshaw. Italy
USA born Mary Crenshaw lives and works in Milan, Italy. Her large abstract oil on canvas paintings look to the European migrant crisis as subject matter. It was Crenshaw’s first-hand experience of obtaining Italian citizenship and coming into contact with less fortunate asylum-seekers that inspired her to address expatriation. In 2018 Crenshaw was admitted to the degree of Professional Doctorate from the University of East London in recognition of a program of work entitled Dislocation and Materiality. Her most recent solo exhibition was at Poplar Union Art Center in London, curated by Paolo Fiorentini, with an essay written by poet and art writer Cherry Smyth. Crenshaw has exhibited at the Bedlam Gallery at Brunel University, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Spazio Arte, and the Castello Borromeo in Milan. She has been a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center, the Centre d’Art Marnay Art Center(CAMAC) and the Art Students’ League at Vyt in Sparkill, New York, and PassagiAtina in Atina, Italy.
Kevin Derbyshire. England. UK
I was born in Essex and moved with my family to Norwich at the age of eight. I completed Foundation courses and then a fine art degree at Sunderland Polytechnic. It was there I met fellow artist Liz Edwards, a constant inspiration since. We married and settled in Harrow, North West London, where we brought up our three children, all now adults. About fifteen years ago I started producing watercolours of observed subjects, mainly landscapes, but also some portraits. Subsequently, I started to investigate other materials and to concentrate less on observation and more on feelings and subconscious images, whilst retaining a love for the translucence of watercolours, inks and eventually, silicone sealer. These days, I am trying to use more found and discarded material.
Liz Derbyshire. UK
Born 1959. Having studied fine art at Sunderland Polytechnic my interest in working with children and young people on the ASD using art culminated in a post graduate Diploma in art therapy from St Albans College of art and Design. During school and later, my focus was on the face, many portraits ensued, this work evolved through out my study to sketching people sitting alone in cafes, or with one other person, pastel drawings and paintings were created from these. The style of the images made, varied to how things were perceived and felt for each one. This relational intrigue of my work between sitter and artist, but also the observation of cafe scenes of one and no more than two people, for me, reflected separateness and aloneness even when together. This theme continued in my enthusiasm for painting women with red hair, one sitter, regularly over the years. Red hair has always drawn me to other worldly thoughts and a sense of the ethereal and unreal. Subsequent work after study involved many plein air works of more portraits but also of the ocean and London, including music venues. The space between the artist, the view or person, the separateness, the aloneness but the meeting of two to create something. Studying art therapy gave me an opportunity to paint and create without criticism and paintings from my subconscious produced various faces and figures that continue to come up in current work, capturing that sense of wonder and magic as a child. Currently, my work is revolved around corona and the feelings generated from its dark invisible force, including perhaps Hopelessness against hope, Isolation against online community, the absence of touch , the longing for touch and perhaps the fear of it beginning again. Work in private collections around Uk , Ireland and Australia. Group exhibitions in Newcastle, Sunderland, St Albans,Harrow on the Hill, West Harrow, Harrow and Wealdstone, Pinner,Baker Street, Peckham and Bethnal Green. Solo exhibitions Hatch End Arts Centre , Rudolf Steiner Gallery Baker Street.
Lisa M Jirlow
I am interested in the search for meaning and the human urge to read in something in everything we see. I look for meanings and patterns in everything I look at. It is a reflex - I am always on the quest for the inhabit sense of what I see. In my work I want to give that quest for meaning some resistance and expand my realm of images and space. I try to end up in unknown places. The realism and pictorial image are excepted and I strive for what is not obvious for the eye and mind. In my creative process, I switch between being the Painter or the Finder who uses color and form as a tool, and the Observer. That is my way to push myself towards the unexplored. Suddenly I find something; a balance, an equilibrium, an excitement, a direction or a movement that talks to me and fits into my unseen image world, beyond wordings. I am happy when the obvious occurs. The image that i feel just works. The image that leaves me with a sense of content. The image that, with colors, shapes, lines, rhythm and light, builds a piece of artwork that, despite its two-dimensional surface, feels like a room to enter and that forms a standalone entity. The artworks contain traces of emotional memories, kinetic memories and moods. If time is given, if the viewer takes its time, here is something to be in and to remain in for contemplation. And I find traces of myself in this new and unknown.
Lucy SM Johnston. U.K.
A University of the Arts graduate from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design where she studied fashion Design, Lucy is a largely self-taught artist based in East London. where she lives and works undertaking commissions as well as executing her own projects. Her artwork has been featured in various publications including; The Telegraph, The Times, Campaign Magazine and Livingetc. Magazine. She has exhibited in group shows including; Selfridges, Concrete and Glass festival, Shoreditch, Womankind Exhibition for International Women’s Day, The Marmite Prize, Nasty Women UK and most recently shortlisted for the Secret Art Painting Prize 2019. Lucy's practice takes a critical view of socio-cultural subjects, referencing the visual vernacular from contemporary modern life. Exploring the complex relationships between pop-culture, kitsch and fine art, she crafts perfect messages imperfectly. On closer inspection, her photo-realist style, is simple mark-making, strokes and scribbles, all layered evidence of the passage of time. Although her subject matter is rendered through a hyper-real colour palette, there is often a dark underbelly railing against the idealism, a shadow over the idyll to remind us of the transitory nature of experience. Her fascination with retro aesthetics isn't just indicative of her love/hate relationship with Memphis inspired graphics of the ’80s, but the comfort of nostalgia, increasingly desirable in today's world beset by uncertainty and fear. Her subject matter often takes the form of a playful juxtaposition between fantasy and reality, - previous bodies of work have included large scale swearing kittens and jousting unicorns.
Andrew McNeile Jones. UK
My recent body of work explores a past that is part memory, part fiction, and part found fragments. This might be a melancholy memory fuelled by a suburban upbringing. A world of wasteland, tatty pre-fab dance halls, the flickering memory of films, and playing in the street with anything we could find or steal - because there was nothing else to do. Then there is a constructed past, pieced together from old slides, fading prints and frozen moments of film. These might be my own, or they might be dog-eared magazine cuttings that evoke a time and a place. My paintings evolve from this, combining figurative elements and layers of abstraction, some purely gestural, and some broken down from representational fragments. There are allusions to a narrative, but these are suggested, not prescribed, leaving room for the viewer to interpolate. I originally trained at the Ruskin School of Art, and this was followed by a number of years working in the film business. I returned to painting a few years ago, incorporating the experience and imagery of filmmaking into my practice.
Education & training: Ruskin School of Art, Oxford: B.A. Fine Art (first) 1982 Turps Painting Program: 2017-2018. 1983 - 2003: film maker, TV editor and producer; part time artist. 2004 - present day: full time artist Group Shows (selection): Go With Yamo Group Show (April 2020). Elizabeth James Gallery, London (April 2019) London Ultra, The Bargehouse, London SE1 (Dec 2018) Galerie Anagama, Paris (2013, 2015) Go Figurative, London (2011, 2012, 2014) Enid Lawson, London (2010 - 2013) Broadway Modern, Broadway (2008 -2010). Art Fairs: Affordable Art Fairs: Battersea, Hampstead, Bristol, Milan; various years. Other fairs: Utrecht, Amsterdam, Manchester, Edinburgh.
Hyeok Lee (Antonio). Canada
Artist Hyeok Lee is a South Korean who currently works and lives in Canada. He explores the diverse and complex human nature, including fury, anxiety, desire, hope, happiness and etc. “The emotions inside human beings, which cannot be separated individually and mutually connected to each other, are the driving forces behind the human life," he says. He expresses an entangled human nature that causes all the issues(mainly War) in human history. Education / 2011 BFA Accademia di belle arti di Brera Milan Italy. / 2016 BFA Emily Carr University Vancouver Canada. Solo Exhibition /2014. 8 Explosion Gallery MOA, Heyri, South Korea. / 2015. 5 Explosion, Brera Gallery Cafe, Il-san, South Korea. / 2017. 7 Peace. No more war, Silk Gallery, Port Moody, Canada. /2018. 7 Designed War, Cityart Gallery, Milan, Italy. / 2020. 2 Human nature, Lamer Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Group Exhibition / 2013. 3 Associazione Arte Cultura e Sport, Provincial Congress Milan, Milan, Italy. / 2013. 10 National students’ Art Contest BARI Italy 2013, University of Bari, Italy. /2014. 2 Il treno della speranza, Gallery Antonio Battaglia, Milan, Italy. / 2014. 5 Arte & Civo, Academy of Salerno, Salerno, Italy. / 2014, 6 ART AWARD OF GRIFFIN 2014, La fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy. / 2014, 9 Trunk teen festival 2014, Gwangiu, South Korea. / 2018, 6 FLORIBUNDA!, Silk Gallery, Port Moody, Canada. / 2020, 5 A World without End, Group online exhibion, no barking aRt Gallery, London, UK. Art Fair / Biennale / 2014. 8 International Art Fair Art Gwangju 2014, Gwangiu, South Korea. / 2017.11 International Fine art Biennale Romart2017, Rome, Italy. Award / 2013. 10 National students Art Contest BARI Italy 2013, Italy. / 2014. 6 ART AWARD OF GRIFFIN 2014, Italy. / 2017. 12 INTERNATIONAL ART COMPETITION “Patterns" 2017, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery, USA. Collection / Provincials Congress Milan, Milan, Italy. / Bari Fine Arts Academy, Bari, Italy. / Gallery MOA, Heyri, South Korea. / Lamer gallery, Seoul, South Korea. Publications & Reviews 2014 Ivan Quaroni, Premio Griffin 2014 / 2020 Kim Saetbyeol, 전시가이드, Art Magazine S.Korea, Feb 2020, p.76 / 2020 Oh Yunji, 문화뉴스, Korean Culture Newspaper.
Ugo Li. Paris, France
Ugo Li, born in 1987, is a French painter, who is currently living and working in Paris. His bold, pictorial and often abstract work appropriates and reinterprets the visual signs of today’s society. Everyday inspiration: Ugo Li was surrounded by creativity from an early age, being raised in his father’s artist studio and following his parents around art galleries. His work is highly personal, inspired by both major life events and the small everyday moments that constitute one's existence. His paintings explore the intersections of dreams, memory, personal history and daily life. Media Musings: Ugo Li often takes his inspiration from the colourful advertising that pervades society. He plays with words and slogans that appear isolated on the canvas and are intended to provide more of a pictorial purpose since they are removed from their original commercial context. For Ugo Li the canvas becomes a place for him to project his emotions, he often removes and repaints the work until he is happy with the dialogue that has emerged. Emerging Talent: Ugo Li has exhibited in both solo and group shows internationally in countries such as, the United States, Thailand, Canada and France. His work belongs to collections around Europe.
Lawrence Mathias. UK.
Lawrence Mathias is a Harrow based visual artist who works in a range of media, from painting to ceramics. His art work combines mixed media, sound, music, 2 and 3D visuals and film, and he frequently works with other artists and groups. His work often has a social and political content, but landscape, figurative and abstract themes are other regular subjects explored. For World Without End he is showing a selection of recent watercolours all exploring the theme of visited place, distilled through memory and the watercolour medium. He exhibits work regularly with various London art groups, including NoBarking and ArtCan, throughout London and on the continent, and has had several solo shows in recent years.
Mohini Mehta. India & Australia.
Mohini is a practicing artist, currently studying Graduate certificate in Art History from University of Melbourne. Her practice evolves from her experiences and the surrounding environment. With an interest to explore the reality and break the convention of perception and reality, she works mainly with paintings. Mohini wants the work to evoke a sense of curiosity. She takes a personal interest in painting abstract landscapes, influenced by her travel journeys. Her masters project was based on the use of natural hues and spices available to her to produce the paintings. She work with the theme of Anthropocene and changing landscapes always hinting towards a futuristic hope which I have and want everyone to have within them. She has previously worked with the India-Dubai based artist Owais Husain, had her first solo show in India in 2015 , presented in Tate Exchange, Come Together: Art and Politics in a Climate of Unrest, with Central Saint Martins at Tate Modern Tate Exchange, London in January 2019, and recently had her work exhibited in the Kolkata Art Fair, West Bengal, India in February 2020.
Mark James Nicholls. UK
Mark J. Nicholls is a contemporary artist who lives and works in West Cornwall. He was born and bred in Newlyn, where he also now supports his living by running Jelberts Ice cream shop in the summer months. This provides him the winter time to totally dedicate himself to his art. He currently works out of an historic artists studio, also in Newlyn. Nicholls studied Fine Art at the University of Brighton, followed by an MA at the Royal College of Art. He has participated in group exhibitions in the USA, London, Bristol and Cornwall and has had solo exhibitions in London and Cornwall, most recently at Daisy Laing Gallery, Penzance. He has been the recipient of awards from The Arts Council, South West Arts, the Daler Rowney Drawing Award and a studio residency in the USA, amongst others. Nicholls’ work is characteristically robust and visceral but his composition and use of colour vividly demonstrate his painterly technique. Classical portraits and still lives are rendered in bright purples and oranges and muted greys and his familiar pictorial motifs such as clock-faces, shoes and cigarettes feature prominently. His work is based on the human condition and using figuration as a base-point. As Nicholls says, “I like to make work that first and foremost pushes, excites and surprises me. I feel my job as an artist is to not illustrate or decorate but to make work that provokes and entertains in the way that art makes possible.” As a graduate of the Royal College of art, Nicholls’ influences are undeniable. Picasso, Bacon and Philip Guston all make appearances but Nicholls’ adds his own absurdist and contemporary perspective to a familiar iconography. Nicholl's own take on classical portraiture is a feature of his work, and the Pope is now a regular in his cast of characters. From Velasquez to Bacon to Nicholls, his Popes are now more grotesquely comic than their previous iterations. However for all its art historical context and contemporary cultural reference his work retains a powerful energy and vibrancy that stems from Nicholls’ instinctive and almost automatic approach to creation. As he says, “I am unsure why and what I am doing painting. But the need to make images is stronger than ever”.
Robert Nitschmann. Berlin. Germany
I’m a 24 year old fashion design student, based in Berlin. Apart from designing clothes I always had a fascination for classical art. A few years ago I had the opportunity to learn how to draw from a very talented artist in my home town in the south of Germany. Since my course of studies has a rather technical approach, I started expressing myself by doing collages and illustrations. My plan to finish my studies got interrupted very abrupt, when two years ago I got diagnosed with a mental disorder. Not being able to study or work, I went into treatment and only a few months ago slowly managed to find my way back into a normal life. Around that time I started painting in oil with the intent to visualize how I felt, because I wasn’t able to describe it with words or any other way. With my paintings I want to share these emotions with the observer trying to reconnect with the real world.
Tracy Nors. UK.
The Coastline of East Sussex is the inspiration for my expressive landscape paintings. I know the place very well but the mood and atmosphere changes every time walk there. There is so much sky and glimpses of sea amongst the cliffs and fields. Colour is of huge importance to me as it has the ability to evoke many emotions. I begin in an intuitive way, making marks from memory that are a reflections of my experiences on my walks. I work expressively and spontaneously up to a point where the painting starts to form a sense of place but is also abstracted. The application then becomes more directed. I build up layers by adding and subtracting, imparting details of a place which are also open to interpretation from the viewer. Sometimes there may be more figurative elements appearing; hints of figures, boats or buildings. I hope to capture the atmosphere of a place so that the viewer is engaged on an emotional as well as visual level. Recent paintings move further away from the reality of realism in the landscape towards abstraction and contain both fragments of the real and the imagined. Shapes and colours are used to produce painterly improvisations that are my perception of the world around me. CV: Educated to MA level in Visual Arts. I work as a professional Artist and personal tutor. I Have been Artist in Residence 4 times including Birmingham and Coventry Museums, and Warwickshire Arts for Education. Former Lecturer in illustration UWE Bristol and Stafford College. Former Gallery owner and Curator at Galleri Excentrisk Denmark. Various recent exhibitions venues including, Portico Gallery Seven Oaks, Advocet Gallery, Small Hythe Gallery. Brighton open Houses 2010-2013. South East open Studios 2019.
Jen Orpin. Manchester, UK.
Jen Orpin graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1996 with a degree in Fine Art. She lives in Manchester and joined Rogue Artists’ Studios, Manchester in 2000 and has been painting from her studio there ever since. As well as exhibiting in various galleries all over the North West, selling her paintings nationally and internationally, her work has been accepted into several Open Art exhibitions. She made the long list for the Jackson’s Open Painting in Prize 2018, 2019 and 2020, has been a prize winner and has received several commendations. 2018 also saw her appear in Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year where the judges chose her in their top three for the heat. In February 2020 she was one of 20 shortlisted artists from a submission entry of 2,000 in the first HOME Open exhibition. Her paintings have also featured in the last three series of the BBC1 drama, Last Tango in Halifax, Ackley Bridge and Russell T. Davies’ Queer as Folk. Jen is a contemporary figurative landscape painter who predominately paints with oils on canvas, board and wood. Her work is a response to and concerned with themes around the journeys we make, the open road, memories, nostalgia, love and loss.
Gideon Pain. United Kingdom
Gideon Pain’s pictures derive from a delight in the world around, a play on the mundane and everyday that we slip through on our way to somewhere else. They are about collective moments, some tragic some euphoric, when the sharing of an experience gives significance to something unnoticed. These quiet revelations bind nurture and reassure us in a world that quickly passes. Paint, in a digital age is a slow inaccurate and clumsy medium, making it perfect for capturing and re-contextualising this fragile transience. Education: 1992-1994 Reading University MFA Fine Art Painting. 1986-1989 Glouchester College Of Art Ba [hons] Fine Art Painting First Class. Selected Exhibitions: 2019 'Made in Britain', group show, Gdansk, Poland. 'Contemporary British Painting', group show, Norwich Cathedral, Norwich. ‘Summer at the Beach 4, group show, Waterbeach, Cambridge. 'New Painting 2019’ The Crypt. Marlybone, London. 2018 'Staff Art Show' The British Museum, London. ‘Summer at the Beach 3, group show, Waterbeach, Cambridge. 'Contemporary painting art from Britain' Yantai Art Museum, China. 'New Painting 2018’ The Crypt. Marlybone, London. 2017 'Contemporary painting art from Britain' Yanti Museum, China. ‘Contemporary Masters of Eastern England’, The Cut, Halesworth. ‘Summer at the Beach 2, group show, Waterbeach, Cambridge. ‘Anything Goes’, Bermondsey Project Space, London. Collections: Hangzhou Art Museum, China. Southend Hospital. Falmouth Art Gallery. Swindon Art Gallery. Rudby Art Gallery. Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting.
Karen Popham. Hampshire, UK.
I have painted all my life. When I was seventeen I attended life classes, taught by Sam Rabin, and the skills I learned there have underpinned everything I have done since, from working as a draughtsman , book illustrator, interior designer, muralist and trompe – l’oeil artist, to teaching in various art colleges and societies. I enrolled at Central St Martin’s with a view to studying Stage Design but soon realised that the thing I wanted to do more than anything else was paint, so I stayed on to complete a degree in Fine Art. I had my first one woman show at the age of 24, at the Borlaise Gallery Oxford. I happened to be quite pregnant at the time with the first of my three children. I actually sold everything and was left with the baby! Since then I have been very proud to have had further one woman shows (at City University and Bakertilly Bloomsbury) and to have been exhibited at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Spirit of London Exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall and the Mall Galleries on a number of occasions. I have also had the privilege of being appointed as Artist in Residence, first at The Reform Club, where I held a sell-out one woman show, and Trinity Laban Centre of Dance - this in particular, was a wonderful opportunity to immerse myself in the world of movement, something which has also been a strong part of my practice ever since. It was also a perfect preparation for my next venture, illustrating a series of six children’s books called, The Little Swan Ballet Series for Random House, something I enjoyed immensely, especially while bringing up a little girl myself. This lead to a very exciting relationship with the publishing company, Frances Lincoln, who allowed me to both write and illustrate my own children’s book, Ellie’s Growl, once again using my daughter, and her brothers, for inspiration. This was well received and I went on to work on many more projects for Hodder and Stoughton, The Clucket Press and others, culminating in a pair of books for the fantastic Lost Gardens of Heligan, which I created with poet Sandra Horn during an Artistic Residence there - I was featured while working here on a programme about Artists and Gardens for Channel 4. All the activities I engaged in to earn a living have both informed and enriched my life and work as a painter. Often working on commission, I paint portraits, gardens, animals, seascapes, landscapes, buildings, interiors. I paint in oil because it is so rich and versatile and responsive – whether as a sketch on paper or sinking into the surface of wood, gesso or linen. My subjects reflect my life, and I am learning all the time. My youngest child having now recently left home, I am prioritising my own practice once more, and as you will see if we are connected on Instagram (something my daughter has recently introduced me to...!) , I have kept very busy, working hard towards my next one woman show!
Chauvet Romain. Greece.
Romain Chauvet (1981) is an artist from France who he's living in Greece. He is also working as a hiking guide in Greece. He studied arts in France but also in Greece at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He is practicing drawing, painting and wood-sculpture.'Discover a world in the form of mental artography that feeds on unexpected connections between imagination and reality. In this space, memory, dreams and visions of reality creates strange pictorial ramifications.' Exhibitions: 2019- Art Flow Studio Gallery, Paleochora, Crete. Street Art Festival Heraklion, Crete. 2016-17- Expo portes ouvertes, Atelier du Cambodge, Paris 20. 2014- Art Space Archoleon 11, Chania, Greece. 2013- Tirana Ekspres (The alternative art space in Tirana), Albania. Studies: 2006-2007 - Master Visual Arts, Université de Paris 8. - ERASMUS School of Fine Arts Athens.
Kieran Jack Rook. UK.
Kieran Rook is a UK based multidisciplinary artist who specialises in painting, large scale installations, sculpture, and sound art. He has exhibited at the Turner Contemporary in Margate for the Platform award exhibition 2017, his first solo exhibition and residency at CrateSpace Margate as the winner of the UCA Crate graduate award, and was a part of the group show Optic Illusions at the Brewery Tap project space during the Folkestone Triennial 2017, with a group show in London as well as a charity based project lined up for the new year. Existing somewhere between disturbing truth and restless dream. Kieran’s work seeks to scrutinise the over saturation of information, the distortion of human experience brought on by ever increasing technological networks, such as politics, media, social networks, TV, and cinema to reveal larger, more uncomfortable truths about modern culture. Intrinsically, he is drawn to motifs of provocation, subversion, iconoclasm, and humour. Inspired by dystopic literature and film, his practice explores the mediums of video, sculpture, installation, sound art, painting, and performance. In addition to these themes, the nature of his work also lends itself to the ongoing dichotomy between the mediums of painting and sculpture, as well as being a mechanism of reflection – visual and cognitive – particularly various structural forms that are activated and experienced by the viewer in situ. Kieran works with immersive installations that often involve both wall-based works, floor pieces, sculptures, screens, sounds, projections, and scents. Creating an alchemy through combining a variety of sculptural installation aesthetics – either ready-made or tailor-made – with time-based mediums, and sound art compositions to create exaggerated and disorientating narratives emphasising, questioning, and satirising western culture.
Joe Ryan. UK
Dr Joe Ryan Artist (LION). International Visual Artist. Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2015 TBA, Abbeyleix Gallery. 2015 The Word Became, Leixlip Gallery, 2014 The Great Unveiling of The White Elephant, Morans Park, Dun Laoghaire. 2014 Dalkey Projections, Archibalds Castle, Dalkey. 2014 Deconsecrated, Kill o the Grange, Dublin. 2014, Interwoven, Mountmellick Art Gallery, Laois. 2014 The Withering, Artswell Iontas, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan. 2013 Re Pressed, Abbeyleix Gallery. 2010 129th Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, Belfast. Specialties: Printmaking, Etching.
Diana Savostaite. United Kingdom
Diana Savostaite (b.1983) is originally from Lithuania, where she achieved a BA honours in Fine Arts (Painting), at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas Faculty (2001-2005). Diana has moved to London in 2005, where she has lived and worked since. In 2017 she has been awarded with Winsor and Newton Young Artist Award. Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2017. Collections: Works are held in private collections in United Kingdom, USA, Germany and Lithuania. Publications: Aesthetica Magazine, December/January 2019 Issue 86. The Royal Institute of Oil Painters website - ROI 2017 Prize Winners. Mall Galleries catalogue, The Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2017. Art and Aesthetics, 26 January 2017
Peter van Toth. United Kingdom
I am an artist, painter, AI scientist. My focus is on the discovery and recreation of the processes and biases of the human mind and consciousness. How do we create reality? How can I see what I don't see yet in front of me? These are the leading questions that I run diagnostics on through my art and research. I studied Law and Political Sciences and worked as a lawyer, until I left my home country Hungary and went to Germany to study Mathematics and Computer Science. I did my undergraduate and PhD studies in Mathematics, in Amsterdam and Berlin. After my studies I worked as a Data Scientist in Berlin and Southeast Asia, in Bangkok and Singapore for many years. Later I switched to AI research to work at the top leading AI company in London. In recent years I taught myself to paint with extensive daily practice. Integrating all this transformational background I move in the intersection of art & painting, spiritual & scientific research, consciousness & AI technology. Transformation, renewing, momentum. Evolve, not necessarily develop. Sow seeds. Have the discipline and patience to celebrate the blossoms. Meditate. Work. Serve. Love.
Angelo Troilo. Italy
Angelo Troilo was born in 1996 in Padua. Lives and works in Arquà Petrarca (IT). He attended an art institute where he was inspired by graffiti with Basquiat and Banksy. He is co-founder of the artistic group '' Next artist '', and has organized three collective exhibitions in the years 2017-2019. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and later moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna where he is still attending. EXHIBITIONS : 2017: "Next Artist", collective exhibition, first edition, Este PD. 2018: "Next Artist", collective exhibition, second edition, Este PD. 2019: "Next Artist", collective exhibition, third edition, Este PD. 2019: "ContemporaneaMENTI", the Arsenale Foundation, Iseo (BR), Italy. 2019-2021: "Biennial of Contemporary Art JCE / JEUNE CREATION EUROPEENNE", Montrouge, France. 2019: “Biennial of MArteLive”, Rome, Italy. 2019: Virtual Art Exhibition “Contemporary Man”, Toronto, Canada. 2019: Virtual Exhibition at the new York Art Center”, Tribeca, New York. 2020: Virtual Exhibition “Green, Pink, Yellow, White, with You”Australia.
Portraiture
Andrew Mcleay. UK. (See in Feature)
Installation. Sculpture. Mixed Media
Adina Andrus. Guilherme Bergamini. Rob Burton. Ali Darke.
ELKYMY. Laura Grimm. Mohini Mehta. Andrés Villa. Kengwu Yerlikaya
Adina Andrus. Guilherme Bergamini. Rob Burton. Ali Darke.
ELKYMY. Laura Grimm. Mohini Mehta. Andrés Villa. Kengwu Yerlikaya
dina Andrus. USA
Adina Andrus (b. 1980 Bucharest, Romania, currently based in New York) works across various media, creating drawings, 2D mixed media pieces, sculptures and installations that confront questions of memory, belonging, visual culture across time and space and its symbols. Her works allude to a shared pool of images that we inherit, consume and are being guided by, while simultaneously interpreting and contributing new meanings to it. Andrus studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Art Students League in New York City. She has been exhibiting in numerous galleries across the United States, most recently at the St. Louis Artists Guild, El Barrio's Artspace in NY, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and the Delaware Contemporary, as well as internationally, with a recent solo show in Bucharest, Romania.
Guilherme Bergamini. Brazil ( see in feature)
Rob Burton. United Kingdom
Rob Burton is a visual artist and critical thinker who explores themes of memory, loss and transformation through fiber, fabric making, print, drawing and mixed media. Rob Burton’s textile and fibre artworks cross the threshold of disciplines in a conceptual dialogue between the innovative use of analogue, contemporary and emerging techniques and technologies and critical thinking. Rob has recently exhibited internationally in group exhibitions, biennials and triennials in the USA, Europe, China and the UK. Rob is currently working in collaboration with sound, screendance and performing artists on projects that bring together conceptual garments for performance and site-specific and gallery installation. Recent Exhibitions: THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL OF MINI-TEXTILE “TREASURE ISLAND. CITY”. The Ioann Ravelin of the Peter and Paul Fortress (the State Museum of History of St.Petersburg 6th March 2020 – 5th April 2020. 2 works selected for international group exhibition 11TH INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF TEXTILE MINIATURES “MEASURE” Curator Žydrė Ridulytė 12th November – 4th December, 2019. Art Gallery "Arka", Aušros Vartų str.7, LT-01304 Vilnius,Lithuania. MATERIAL MEMORIES (Solo Exhibition) 11th September - 2nd October 2019. Contemporary Art Gallery Ivano-Frankivs’k Ukraine. VIDEO TEXTILE ART SALON 8th WTA International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art - Sustainable City - Madrid 2019
Ali Darke. London. UK
Ali Darke’s drawings and sculptural installations reveal the landscapes, inhabitants and dramas of an inner world. She is currently completing a Professional Doctorate in Fine art at the University of East London. Inspired by her research in psychoanalytical and philosophical enquiry, her creative process confronts the subjective, fluid and infinite space of the mind with the limits of objective representation. Ali’s work takes the rituals and mythologies of the family and home as imagery and metaphor. Resurrecting domestic detritus and found objects alongside newly crafted material, trusting free association and serendipity to make connections, she suggests new narratives and discovers that which is uncannily familiar. This reflects the distorting filter of memory when recalling past events, the unconscious slippage, exposing the emotional and psychological workings of the mind as it confronts the reality of the world. Memories or family history may inspire, but the genesis of an idea may equally be ignited by the evocative language of psychoanalysis. She is exploring a transitional space, mediated between internal and external perception, each playing on the other. There is the potential in the alchemy of this exchange for pathology, healing and creativity to evolve and the metamorphosis of ever shifting and elusive identities. Here we encounter the other, objects and things, and the nature of dream, fantasy and nightmare. Recent work describes a liminal hinterland between the mind and body where the unconscious leaves a trace. She has taken the concepts of psychic fragmentation as a starting point to explore the pathology of trauma and abjection. She experiments with materials; stitching, stuffing, shaping, pinching and bulging. And then by hanging, pinning, and collapsing the forms she explores their weight and presence in space. The body is vibrantly woven in the very fabric of the work, while evoking that which dwells beyond the body. The residue of lived experience haunts the present and troubles the senses and through experimenting with the materiality of things alongside research in psychoanalytical theory, she seeks to deepen her understanding of these internal processes.
ELKYMY. London London, United Kingdom
ELKYMY (Textural and painterly collaboration between London artists Andrea Papi and Daphne Ang @ Lady Lazarus); Sculptural and painterly collaboration between London artists Andrea Papi and Daphne Ang @ Lady Lazarus. ELKYMY creates textural three-dimensional sceneries inspired by organic forms and flows found in nature, and painted landscapes of imagined worlds. Displacing the boundaries between sculpture and painting, a central feature in ELKYMY’s works is the juxtaposition of the third dimension enclosed within a two-dimensional surface. By painting on sculptural abstract forms, which are created by carving and modelling polyurethane foam directly on a canvas, the artist duo combines the medium of painting with sculptural techniques to form an innovation which they call ‘sculpainting’. ELKYMY’s works seeks to connect disparate worlds, which traverse between physical bodies of land and sea, as well as metaphysically –– as manifest in the synergy and symbiosis between the psyches of the two artists. A driving force which underpins the artists’ shared vision is the search for the perfect balance –– finding equilibrium between the agency and intervention of the artist's hand, the spontaneity of the materials, and the interaction between the pigments and paints themselves.
Laura Grimm. Netherlands ( see in Feature)
Andrés Villa. Bogotá. D. C. Colombia.
b. 1961. STUDIES: Drawing: David Manzur Academy, Bogotá. Artistic Workshops: Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. Multimedia: Apple Center, Bogotá. Selected Solo EXPOSITIONS: A Cry in the Dark, Painting Project room Universidad de los Andes Bogotá March 25, 2015. Mosaic, Espacio Alterno Gallery, Bogotá ... 1992. Flexions and Reflexes, Valenzuela and Klenner Gallery, Bogotá. 1991. Installation of the Last Supper, Restaurant: Andrés Carne de Res, Chía. Cundinamarca . 1986. Selected Group Exhibitions: Change 16, Colombia. "A Controversial Room" Carlos Jiménez. 13 May 1996. The Magazine, Museum of Modern Art. The best of the National Salon. Antonio Caro..February 1995. Time, Action or Shock ?.José Hernán Aguilar. July 26, 1992.
Kengwu Yerlikaya. London. UK
Kengwu Yerlikaya (b. 1993) Born and grow up in Taipei city, Kengwu is a film student at Taipei National University of the Arts before starting the Fine Art BA at Chelsea College of Arts. A former film actor, Kengwu immerse himself to the identity reflected by his surroundings. He is now work and based in London. In the recent day, his practice has moved toward reflecting social engaged issue, etc: human right, social injustice, gender policy, the global movement especially how the current society chose economic drive over the equality. How the financial sector is affecting many countries to make more exclusive decisions which contain less diversity.
Adina Andrus (b. 1980 Bucharest, Romania, currently based in New York) works across various media, creating drawings, 2D mixed media pieces, sculptures and installations that confront questions of memory, belonging, visual culture across time and space and its symbols. Her works allude to a shared pool of images that we inherit, consume and are being guided by, while simultaneously interpreting and contributing new meanings to it. Andrus studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Art Students League in New York City. She has been exhibiting in numerous galleries across the United States, most recently at the St. Louis Artists Guild, El Barrio's Artspace in NY, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and the Delaware Contemporary, as well as internationally, with a recent solo show in Bucharest, Romania.
Guilherme Bergamini. Brazil ( see in feature)
Rob Burton. United Kingdom
Rob Burton is a visual artist and critical thinker who explores themes of memory, loss and transformation through fiber, fabric making, print, drawing and mixed media. Rob Burton’s textile and fibre artworks cross the threshold of disciplines in a conceptual dialogue between the innovative use of analogue, contemporary and emerging techniques and technologies and critical thinking. Rob has recently exhibited internationally in group exhibitions, biennials and triennials in the USA, Europe, China and the UK. Rob is currently working in collaboration with sound, screendance and performing artists on projects that bring together conceptual garments for performance and site-specific and gallery installation. Recent Exhibitions: THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL TRIENNIAL OF MINI-TEXTILE “TREASURE ISLAND. CITY”. The Ioann Ravelin of the Peter and Paul Fortress (the State Museum of History of St.Petersburg 6th March 2020 – 5th April 2020. 2 works selected for international group exhibition 11TH INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF TEXTILE MINIATURES “MEASURE” Curator Žydrė Ridulytė 12th November – 4th December, 2019. Art Gallery "Arka", Aušros Vartų str.7, LT-01304 Vilnius,Lithuania. MATERIAL MEMORIES (Solo Exhibition) 11th September - 2nd October 2019. Contemporary Art Gallery Ivano-Frankivs’k Ukraine. VIDEO TEXTILE ART SALON 8th WTA International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art - Sustainable City - Madrid 2019
Ali Darke. London. UK
Ali Darke’s drawings and sculptural installations reveal the landscapes, inhabitants and dramas of an inner world. She is currently completing a Professional Doctorate in Fine art at the University of East London. Inspired by her research in psychoanalytical and philosophical enquiry, her creative process confronts the subjective, fluid and infinite space of the mind with the limits of objective representation. Ali’s work takes the rituals and mythologies of the family and home as imagery and metaphor. Resurrecting domestic detritus and found objects alongside newly crafted material, trusting free association and serendipity to make connections, she suggests new narratives and discovers that which is uncannily familiar. This reflects the distorting filter of memory when recalling past events, the unconscious slippage, exposing the emotional and psychological workings of the mind as it confronts the reality of the world. Memories or family history may inspire, but the genesis of an idea may equally be ignited by the evocative language of psychoanalysis. She is exploring a transitional space, mediated between internal and external perception, each playing on the other. There is the potential in the alchemy of this exchange for pathology, healing and creativity to evolve and the metamorphosis of ever shifting and elusive identities. Here we encounter the other, objects and things, and the nature of dream, fantasy and nightmare. Recent work describes a liminal hinterland between the mind and body where the unconscious leaves a trace. She has taken the concepts of psychic fragmentation as a starting point to explore the pathology of trauma and abjection. She experiments with materials; stitching, stuffing, shaping, pinching and bulging. And then by hanging, pinning, and collapsing the forms she explores their weight and presence in space. The body is vibrantly woven in the very fabric of the work, while evoking that which dwells beyond the body. The residue of lived experience haunts the present and troubles the senses and through experimenting with the materiality of things alongside research in psychoanalytical theory, she seeks to deepen her understanding of these internal processes.
ELKYMY. London London, United Kingdom
ELKYMY (Textural and painterly collaboration between London artists Andrea Papi and Daphne Ang @ Lady Lazarus); Sculptural and painterly collaboration between London artists Andrea Papi and Daphne Ang @ Lady Lazarus. ELKYMY creates textural three-dimensional sceneries inspired by organic forms and flows found in nature, and painted landscapes of imagined worlds. Displacing the boundaries between sculpture and painting, a central feature in ELKYMY’s works is the juxtaposition of the third dimension enclosed within a two-dimensional surface. By painting on sculptural abstract forms, which are created by carving and modelling polyurethane foam directly on a canvas, the artist duo combines the medium of painting with sculptural techniques to form an innovation which they call ‘sculpainting’. ELKYMY’s works seeks to connect disparate worlds, which traverse between physical bodies of land and sea, as well as metaphysically –– as manifest in the synergy and symbiosis between the psyches of the two artists. A driving force which underpins the artists’ shared vision is the search for the perfect balance –– finding equilibrium between the agency and intervention of the artist's hand, the spontaneity of the materials, and the interaction between the pigments and paints themselves.
Laura Grimm. Netherlands ( see in Feature)
Andrés Villa. Bogotá. D. C. Colombia.
b. 1961. STUDIES: Drawing: David Manzur Academy, Bogotá. Artistic Workshops: Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. Multimedia: Apple Center, Bogotá. Selected Solo EXPOSITIONS: A Cry in the Dark, Painting Project room Universidad de los Andes Bogotá March 25, 2015. Mosaic, Espacio Alterno Gallery, Bogotá ... 1992. Flexions and Reflexes, Valenzuela and Klenner Gallery, Bogotá. 1991. Installation of the Last Supper, Restaurant: Andrés Carne de Res, Chía. Cundinamarca . 1986. Selected Group Exhibitions: Change 16, Colombia. "A Controversial Room" Carlos Jiménez. 13 May 1996. The Magazine, Museum of Modern Art. The best of the National Salon. Antonio Caro..February 1995. Time, Action or Shock ?.José Hernán Aguilar. July 26, 1992.
Kengwu Yerlikaya. London. UK
Kengwu Yerlikaya (b. 1993) Born and grow up in Taipei city, Kengwu is a film student at Taipei National University of the Arts before starting the Fine Art BA at Chelsea College of Arts. A former film actor, Kengwu immerse himself to the identity reflected by his surroundings. He is now work and based in London. In the recent day, his practice has moved toward reflecting social engaged issue, etc: human right, social injustice, gender policy, the global movement especially how the current society chose economic drive over the equality. How the financial sector is affecting many countries to make more exclusive decisions which contain less diversity.
Photography
Imogen Eveson. Adam Isfendiyar. Natalia Jezova. Warwick Stein. Ebru Varol.
Performance
Alexandra Kraplya
Film
Guilherme Bergamini. Daniela Lucato. Samiir Saunders.
Illustration and Digital Art
Elisa Buscemi. Lu Xu.
Printmaking
Jay Handy. Milana Stijak. Sandra Storey.
Imogen Eveson. Adam Isfendiyar. Natalia Jezova. Warwick Stein. Ebru Varol.
Performance
Alexandra Kraplya
Film
Guilherme Bergamini. Daniela Lucato. Samiir Saunders.
Illustration and Digital Art
Elisa Buscemi. Lu Xu.
Printmaking
Jay Handy. Milana Stijak. Sandra Storey.
Photography
Imogen Eveson. Australia.
Imogen Eveson is a British travel writer and photographer based in Australia. She travels with her analogue Olympus cameras to create visual work grounded in a sense of space, place, light and atmosphere. Imogen studied fashion communication at London's Central Saint Martins before moving to Sydney where she works as the deputy editor of Australian Traveller and International Traveller magazines. She is the author and designer of retrospective book The Wapping Project on Paper.
Adam Isfendiyar. UK ( see in Feature)
Natalia Jezova. UK
Natalia Jezova is a Russian-born artist who lives in London. She communicates in a wide variety of media including photography, film and installation. Natalia's art has been exhibited internationally, and addresses cultural memory, identity and gender issues. The main theme, which Natalia has been exploring, is the ephemeral nature of things and how the mediation of various objects may carry and evoke in the spectator different meanings, testimonies, and memories. Her natural curiosity, interest and knowledge of art history and certain objects from Natalia’s private collection of antique costumes, accessories and armour, have served as inspiration and have helped to develop her ideas. Natalia’s art works are multi-layered. She encodes the contextual ideas through the symbolic meaning of objects and colours. Reading a system of this signs and symbols produce the meaning and interpretation of her work. She is currently undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London.
Warwick Stein. UK
You turn and see something that won’t last, like sunsets or cheese cake! I have a sincere passion for capturing those moments all around me, which might never happen again, drinking in the beauty of landscapes and people moments. This is my art. I’m originally from Ireland based in Hebden Bridge, W Yorkshire. When I travel, at home and abroad, I am attracted to colours and contrasts, from animals hiding in the undergrowth to fish drying in the sun. Architecture is also full of lines and angles in which I can see art, how structures create interest in different media, even in buildings that have been standing for centuries. When I don’t have a camera in my hand you’ll find me chatting with friends, often in the kitchen preparing another Michelin star meal, I wish! Fresh food seems to attract me and family are entertained by me capturing some lovely meals before they are devoured. Music plays an important part and I enjoy music from the 60’s right through to the present day. I’m self taught, and over the last 20 years my work has taken me through a broad range of photographic commissions. A feature film, ‘Freight’(Stuart St Paul) and TV stills photography including ‘Married, Single, Other’ ( ITV), ‘The Sparticle’ Mysteries, (BBC) and ‘ The Syndicate’ ( BBC). I have spent many hours doing Hair & Beauty photography for Wella/Sebastian Professional and fashion designers including Yahya Al Bishri. This has given me pleasure in creating what makes a portrait artistic, not just commercial. Follow along on my Insta @WarwickStein for more of my everyday life.
Ebru Varol . USA
Ebru Varol is a New York based photographer. Her images shift aesthetically from black and white to color and conceptually from the candid to the meditative. She shoots in the tradition of street photographers like Eugène Atget and André Kertész, reproducing views of ordinary objects. Her interest is not in the life on the streets but life of the streets: the unconsidered details and her chance encounter with forms. Her protagonists are mannequins and figurines, chairs and windows, staircases, locks, sculptural elements and the light disclosing all these forms. Composed in a theatrical manner, these shapes interact and activate desolate scenes. Glass reflections and mirrors reinforce the illusion of life in her photographs, while at the same time the images remain unconscious of her presence. In her series of landscapes, either urban or of nature, there is a prominent belief in the significance of the senses: the transparent mistiness in the atmosphere, the texture of a cloudy sky, the smell of the sea. Although static, frozen moments in time, the landscapes remain animated: the clouds are moving, the city is waiting, the waves are calling. The viewer is invited to become part of that particular moment and place the image was taken. The viewer may experience the intuitive perception of the meaning of these photographs, parallel to the instinct that caused them to be created: a pure expression of an inner state of being.
Performance
Alexandra Kraplya. Ukraine.
Born and raised in Ukraine. 21 years old. Majoring in Applied Linguistics, working full-time as a teacher, but being an artist in heart. Been doing art my adult life, even though everyone told me to stop. Started instagram as a regular selfie stock, but got bored quickly, and turned it to my own art-gallery. That’s how all of these art projects I am developing have started.
Film
Guilherme Bergamini. Brazil ( see in Feature)
Daniela Lucato. France http://www.daniela-lucato.de/
Samiir Saunders ( see in digital art)
Illustration+
Digital Art
Elisa Buscemi, London, UK.
Originally from Palermo, Sicily - London Based Illustrator, Elisa Buscemi, graduated in Illustration at The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design London Metropolitan University with First Honours. She developed a passion for textures and different styles of Illustration that invoke bright colours and stories. Versatile in her practice, she is able to adapt to each challenge, never shying away from trying something new.
Samiir Saunders, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Samiir Saunders is an artist, poet and filmmaker based in Birmingham. His work includes poetry film, spoken word performance, and internet-based artworks. Saunders explores the tension between our need for self-expression and the limitations imposed by digital communication technology.
Lu Xu. UK/China
I have worked as an advertising copywriter and marketing planner, serving clients from beverage, game, automobile, etc. I officially started learning illustration and graphic design from 2017, and am currently doing a MA course in Visual Arts: Illustration at Camberwell, University of Arts London, UK. I like observing human interaction in daily life and adding imagination into the images. I often get inspiration from literature and culture from different areas. I am keen on experimenting with different materials and approaches to my art practice.
Printmaking
Jay Handy. USA
Beginning his life in Bay City, Michigan, USA, Jay Handy’s journey into the world of art has been complex and winding. There were no childhood art classes or cinematic big breaks. Instead, Jay was living in foster care during his teens, his dream of attending art school remaining just that — a dream; his art today reflects the synthesis of a natural nostalgia for youth and his own tumultuous past. Through the help of his best friend’s father, Jay began attending Michigan State University. Though he still felt the pull of art, he succeeded in his studies and ultimately made his way into the Harvard Business School. Yet, even while inhabiting the world of business, Jay never left his love of art behind. From lino block printing on his kitchen table in his teens to creating encaustic paintings in his basement in his 40s and attending weekend watercolor workshops in his 50’s, art has always lingered in the periphery of his life. Jay’s life has been a paradox that parallels his art today; he strides two paths simultaneously, that of the businessman and that of the artist. These two seemingly contradictory roles mirror the characteristic contrast underlying all his work. While he experimented with encaustic painting, Jay finally settled upon a unique formula that has become the language through which he creates the otherworldly atmosphere his work is known for — etching and chine collé. Jay finally answered his lifelong call to dedicatedly create art by devoting a portion of every week to his art. In this time, his passion for art and his production of art flourished. Though he traveled a winding path, Jay Handy finally arrived at his lifelong dream and is now pursuing his MFA at the Lesley University College of Art and Design. He now resides in Madison, Wisconsin.
Milana Stijak. Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Milana Stijak was born on May 4, 1997 in Banja Luka. She graduated from Grammar school in 2016, after which she enrolled at the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka. She is currently student of the fourth year in the Department of Fine Arts - Printmaking, in the class of professor Milan Krajnović. Solo exhibitions: v "Prints", Art club Prostor, Banja Luka, 2019. Praises and awards: v Praise of the Academy of Arts for the achieved results in the subject Printmaking 3 and 4, v Award of the Academy of Arts for work in the field of printmaking, v Art Club Prostor's award for the best work in the medium of printmaking. Group exhibitions: v Exhibition of works from the Gučevo Art Colony 2018. v “Tjelovitost”, Art club Prostor, Banja Luka, 2018. v "The May Exhibition of Printmaking of the Belgrade Circle 2019" , Graficki kolektiv , Belgrade, Serbia. v "The 20th International Print Biennial Varna 2019" , Boris Georgiev Art Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria. v "Small print form exhibition 2019" , Graficki kolektiv , Belgrade , Serbia. v "Exhibition of works from the 35th Graphic Art Colony" , Smederevo Cultural Centre, Smederevo , Serbia, 2019. v „Ćilimi“, Gallery of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Banja Luka, 2019.
Sandra Storey. UK
Born in 1961, Sandra Storey grew up in a small village outside Whitby, North Yorkshire. She left the area to study art. After a degree in Fine Art and award of the Backhouse Drawing Prize, she trained as an Art Psychotherapist and worked in the NHS for over thirty years. Sandra now has her own independent practice based in Harrogate and Otley, Yorkshire. Her writing and research within Art Psychotherapy have always brought new insights to her artwork - conversely her artwork informs both her clinical understanding and art-based research. Her work has been published by Routledge (2012)*. Sandra recently completed an M.A. in Creative Practice (2016). She graduated with a Distinction and The Dean's Prize (Art and Design) from Harrogate College. * Storey, S 2012 'Skating in the Dark' in Bull, S and O'Farrell, F (Ed.) Art Therapy and Learning Disabilities - 'Don't guess my happiness' London, Routledge. Statement: Traces of the past revealed in objects and landscape are intrinsic to Sandra Storey's artwork. The mythological presence of moors and sea pervades her images which draw on a childhood in and life long attachment to the natural world surrounding Whitby: it's villages, walks and moorland. A practicing Art Psychotherapist since 1985, Sandra's experience and understanding of the creative process and attachment to people, places and objects flavour and inform her work. Using print making, drawing and painting she finds parallel processes in these mediums which highlight her ideas. As Artist in Residence at Whitby Museum in 2015 she was surrounded by artefacts which resonated with the history of local communities and her own childhood. The residence at the museum inspired work which explores concepts of archiving, memory and the significance of the artefact or personal object. More recently, in collaboration with Passell Arts and Leeds City Library, she responded to books from the Library's Special Collection. In particular she focussed on a 1606 edition of Ovid's Metamorphosis and created sequences of Subtractive Monoprints which explore aspects of mythology linked to transformation and transition. Her work as an Art Psychotherapist has drawn Sandra's attention to the symbols people make and hold dear when experiencing emotional transition or change.
Imogen Eveson. Australia.
Imogen Eveson is a British travel writer and photographer based in Australia. She travels with her analogue Olympus cameras to create visual work grounded in a sense of space, place, light and atmosphere. Imogen studied fashion communication at London's Central Saint Martins before moving to Sydney where she works as the deputy editor of Australian Traveller and International Traveller magazines. She is the author and designer of retrospective book The Wapping Project on Paper.
Adam Isfendiyar. UK ( see in Feature)
Natalia Jezova. UK
Natalia Jezova is a Russian-born artist who lives in London. She communicates in a wide variety of media including photography, film and installation. Natalia's art has been exhibited internationally, and addresses cultural memory, identity and gender issues. The main theme, which Natalia has been exploring, is the ephemeral nature of things and how the mediation of various objects may carry and evoke in the spectator different meanings, testimonies, and memories. Her natural curiosity, interest and knowledge of art history and certain objects from Natalia’s private collection of antique costumes, accessories and armour, have served as inspiration and have helped to develop her ideas. Natalia’s art works are multi-layered. She encodes the contextual ideas through the symbolic meaning of objects and colours. Reading a system of this signs and symbols produce the meaning and interpretation of her work. She is currently undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London.
Warwick Stein. UK
You turn and see something that won’t last, like sunsets or cheese cake! I have a sincere passion for capturing those moments all around me, which might never happen again, drinking in the beauty of landscapes and people moments. This is my art. I’m originally from Ireland based in Hebden Bridge, W Yorkshire. When I travel, at home and abroad, I am attracted to colours and contrasts, from animals hiding in the undergrowth to fish drying in the sun. Architecture is also full of lines and angles in which I can see art, how structures create interest in different media, even in buildings that have been standing for centuries. When I don’t have a camera in my hand you’ll find me chatting with friends, often in the kitchen preparing another Michelin star meal, I wish! Fresh food seems to attract me and family are entertained by me capturing some lovely meals before they are devoured. Music plays an important part and I enjoy music from the 60’s right through to the present day. I’m self taught, and over the last 20 years my work has taken me through a broad range of photographic commissions. A feature film, ‘Freight’(Stuart St Paul) and TV stills photography including ‘Married, Single, Other’ ( ITV), ‘The Sparticle’ Mysteries, (BBC) and ‘ The Syndicate’ ( BBC). I have spent many hours doing Hair & Beauty photography for Wella/Sebastian Professional and fashion designers including Yahya Al Bishri. This has given me pleasure in creating what makes a portrait artistic, not just commercial. Follow along on my Insta @WarwickStein for more of my everyday life.
Ebru Varol . USA
Ebru Varol is a New York based photographer. Her images shift aesthetically from black and white to color and conceptually from the candid to the meditative. She shoots in the tradition of street photographers like Eugène Atget and André Kertész, reproducing views of ordinary objects. Her interest is not in the life on the streets but life of the streets: the unconsidered details and her chance encounter with forms. Her protagonists are mannequins and figurines, chairs and windows, staircases, locks, sculptural elements and the light disclosing all these forms. Composed in a theatrical manner, these shapes interact and activate desolate scenes. Glass reflections and mirrors reinforce the illusion of life in her photographs, while at the same time the images remain unconscious of her presence. In her series of landscapes, either urban or of nature, there is a prominent belief in the significance of the senses: the transparent mistiness in the atmosphere, the texture of a cloudy sky, the smell of the sea. Although static, frozen moments in time, the landscapes remain animated: the clouds are moving, the city is waiting, the waves are calling. The viewer is invited to become part of that particular moment and place the image was taken. The viewer may experience the intuitive perception of the meaning of these photographs, parallel to the instinct that caused them to be created: a pure expression of an inner state of being.
Performance
Alexandra Kraplya. Ukraine.
Born and raised in Ukraine. 21 years old. Majoring in Applied Linguistics, working full-time as a teacher, but being an artist in heart. Been doing art my adult life, even though everyone told me to stop. Started instagram as a regular selfie stock, but got bored quickly, and turned it to my own art-gallery. That’s how all of these art projects I am developing have started.
Film
Guilherme Bergamini. Brazil ( see in Feature)
Daniela Lucato. France http://www.daniela-lucato.de/
Samiir Saunders ( see in digital art)
Illustration+
Digital Art
Elisa Buscemi, London, UK.
Originally from Palermo, Sicily - London Based Illustrator, Elisa Buscemi, graduated in Illustration at The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design London Metropolitan University with First Honours. She developed a passion for textures and different styles of Illustration that invoke bright colours and stories. Versatile in her practice, she is able to adapt to each challenge, never shying away from trying something new.
Samiir Saunders, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Samiir Saunders is an artist, poet and filmmaker based in Birmingham. His work includes poetry film, spoken word performance, and internet-based artworks. Saunders explores the tension between our need for self-expression and the limitations imposed by digital communication technology.
Lu Xu. UK/China
I have worked as an advertising copywriter and marketing planner, serving clients from beverage, game, automobile, etc. I officially started learning illustration and graphic design from 2017, and am currently doing a MA course in Visual Arts: Illustration at Camberwell, University of Arts London, UK. I like observing human interaction in daily life and adding imagination into the images. I often get inspiration from literature and culture from different areas. I am keen on experimenting with different materials and approaches to my art practice.
Printmaking
Jay Handy. USA
Beginning his life in Bay City, Michigan, USA, Jay Handy’s journey into the world of art has been complex and winding. There were no childhood art classes or cinematic big breaks. Instead, Jay was living in foster care during his teens, his dream of attending art school remaining just that — a dream; his art today reflects the synthesis of a natural nostalgia for youth and his own tumultuous past. Through the help of his best friend’s father, Jay began attending Michigan State University. Though he still felt the pull of art, he succeeded in his studies and ultimately made his way into the Harvard Business School. Yet, even while inhabiting the world of business, Jay never left his love of art behind. From lino block printing on his kitchen table in his teens to creating encaustic paintings in his basement in his 40s and attending weekend watercolor workshops in his 50’s, art has always lingered in the periphery of his life. Jay’s life has been a paradox that parallels his art today; he strides two paths simultaneously, that of the businessman and that of the artist. These two seemingly contradictory roles mirror the characteristic contrast underlying all his work. While he experimented with encaustic painting, Jay finally settled upon a unique formula that has become the language through which he creates the otherworldly atmosphere his work is known for — etching and chine collé. Jay finally answered his lifelong call to dedicatedly create art by devoting a portion of every week to his art. In this time, his passion for art and his production of art flourished. Though he traveled a winding path, Jay Handy finally arrived at his lifelong dream and is now pursuing his MFA at the Lesley University College of Art and Design. He now resides in Madison, Wisconsin.
Milana Stijak. Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Milana Stijak was born on May 4, 1997 in Banja Luka. She graduated from Grammar school in 2016, after which she enrolled at the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka. She is currently student of the fourth year in the Department of Fine Arts - Printmaking, in the class of professor Milan Krajnović. Solo exhibitions: v "Prints", Art club Prostor, Banja Luka, 2019. Praises and awards: v Praise of the Academy of Arts for the achieved results in the subject Printmaking 3 and 4, v Award of the Academy of Arts for work in the field of printmaking, v Art Club Prostor's award for the best work in the medium of printmaking. Group exhibitions: v Exhibition of works from the Gučevo Art Colony 2018. v “Tjelovitost”, Art club Prostor, Banja Luka, 2018. v "The May Exhibition of Printmaking of the Belgrade Circle 2019" , Graficki kolektiv , Belgrade, Serbia. v "The 20th International Print Biennial Varna 2019" , Boris Georgiev Art Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria. v "Small print form exhibition 2019" , Graficki kolektiv , Belgrade , Serbia. v "Exhibition of works from the 35th Graphic Art Colony" , Smederevo Cultural Centre, Smederevo , Serbia, 2019. v „Ćilimi“, Gallery of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Banja Luka, 2019.
Sandra Storey. UK
Born in 1961, Sandra Storey grew up in a small village outside Whitby, North Yorkshire. She left the area to study art. After a degree in Fine Art and award of the Backhouse Drawing Prize, she trained as an Art Psychotherapist and worked in the NHS for over thirty years. Sandra now has her own independent practice based in Harrogate and Otley, Yorkshire. Her writing and research within Art Psychotherapy have always brought new insights to her artwork - conversely her artwork informs both her clinical understanding and art-based research. Her work has been published by Routledge (2012)*. Sandra recently completed an M.A. in Creative Practice (2016). She graduated with a Distinction and The Dean's Prize (Art and Design) from Harrogate College. * Storey, S 2012 'Skating in the Dark' in Bull, S and O'Farrell, F (Ed.) Art Therapy and Learning Disabilities - 'Don't guess my happiness' London, Routledge. Statement: Traces of the past revealed in objects and landscape are intrinsic to Sandra Storey's artwork. The mythological presence of moors and sea pervades her images which draw on a childhood in and life long attachment to the natural world surrounding Whitby: it's villages, walks and moorland. A practicing Art Psychotherapist since 1985, Sandra's experience and understanding of the creative process and attachment to people, places and objects flavour and inform her work. Using print making, drawing and painting she finds parallel processes in these mediums which highlight her ideas. As Artist in Residence at Whitby Museum in 2015 she was surrounded by artefacts which resonated with the history of local communities and her own childhood. The residence at the museum inspired work which explores concepts of archiving, memory and the significance of the artefact or personal object. More recently, in collaboration with Passell Arts and Leeds City Library, she responded to books from the Library's Special Collection. In particular she focussed on a 1606 edition of Ovid's Metamorphosis and created sequences of Subtractive Monoprints which explore aspects of mythology linked to transformation and transition. Her work as an Art Psychotherapist has drawn Sandra's attention to the symbols people make and hold dear when experiencing emotional transition or change.
No barking aRt Studio Sale Room
Artist in Residence 2020
Analia Adorni. Argentina
Kathy Gales
Vasilis Thalassinos
Mila Vatsova
Judith Walker
no barking aRt Project in Focus 2020
Master - An Ainu Story Book Campaign
Ealing Soup Kitchen
In Memoriam
Lulu Hancock. France
Artist in Residence 2020
Analia Adorni. Argentina
Kathy Gales
Vasilis Thalassinos
Mila Vatsova
Judith Walker
no barking aRt Project in Focus 2020
Master - An Ainu Story Book Campaign
Ealing Soup Kitchen
In Memoriam
Lulu Hancock. France
Lulu Hancock. France. 17 April 1966- 2016 June
Lulu Hancock, The World is Upside Down No 2 was her final show with no barking aRt at Espacio Gallery. London 2016 where she developed a series of largest new works, The World is Upside Down series before she sadly died from cancer.
Graduated Camberwell Scool of arts & crafts 1 1988 2:1 B.A Hons. M.A pass with Distinction e DeMontfort University 2000. Teaching experience e Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles, Barnsdale art c Centre. Adult education class camberwell. Central S School of speech and Drama, Nene College of A Art & Design Northampton, Leicester Polytechnic w Which became DeMontfort University.
A tutor in residence at L'age Baston C Chateâu, SW France. Through-out her professional career as a lecturer she had continued her practice as a fine artist . She worked to many commissions, exhibited internationally and had works in private and public collections, Inc. 20th Century Fox, Barbara Striesand, and the British National collection. She lived and worked in the Charente, South-West France with her husband. Her painting is included in A world without End , summer exhibition. 2020
Lulu Hancock, The World is Upside Down No 2 was her final show with no barking aRt at Espacio Gallery. London 2016 where she developed a series of largest new works, The World is Upside Down series before she sadly died from cancer.
Graduated Camberwell Scool of arts & crafts 1 1988 2:1 B.A Hons. M.A pass with Distinction e DeMontfort University 2000. Teaching experience e Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles, Barnsdale art c Centre. Adult education class camberwell. Central S School of speech and Drama, Nene College of A Art & Design Northampton, Leicester Polytechnic w Which became DeMontfort University.
A tutor in residence at L'age Baston C Chateâu, SW France. Through-out her professional career as a lecturer she had continued her practice as a fine artist . She worked to many commissions, exhibited internationally and had works in private and public collections, Inc. 20th Century Fox, Barbara Striesand, and the British National collection. She lived and worked in the Charente, South-West France with her husband. Her painting is included in A world without End , summer exhibition. 2020