Ellaya Yefymova is a Ukrainian artist living and working in Kiev. She has a medical diploma and an unlimited love for science, art and the human body. Most of her paintings are made in assemblage technique that allows to engage multiple senses and to interact with the paintings physically.
Dreaming with her eyes wide open. Angelica Tcherassi strives to express with her designs what inspires her in daily life: Family, Happiness, Desires, Dreams, Light. Her products and interiors give voice to a unique eclectic approach in which all merges to perfection. Tcherassi works as an Independent Product Designer, Creative Director & Artist with a worldwide heart and vision. The overlapping analysis of craftsmanship and technology play an important role in her designs as well as materials and functionality in itself. For her, it is vital through her designs to shine a light into the world through her creations. Injecting good vibes into spaces and our daily lives is a choice, it’s a lifestyle.
Miguel Sopena is an artist and photographer originally from Valencia, Spain, but now based in Croydon, South London. He decided to change direction and become an artist as he was finishing his doctorate in theoretical physics at Sussex University in Southern England. Miguel went on to complete a part-time Fine Art Foundation BTEC at City College Brighton and Hove and a Portraiture diploma at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London. A highly experimental artist, Miguel combines his ongoing interest in figuration with a developing abstract language in which he explores themes of memory, emotion, and the passage of time. Colour, composition, and the material properties of the painting medium itself are key to Miguel’s painting process.
Polly Bennett (b. 1996) graduated from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2018 and in 2019 completed The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers Decorative Surfaces Fellowship. Subsequently, she is an Honorary Freeman of the Painter-Stainers, and also a member of the Wilderness Art Collective, a group of creatives whose work discusses the natural world.
Anne von Freyburg’s practice rethinks textile and the decorative within the tradition of painting. It embraces and subverts the female gaze, the feminine and pretty. Historically, craft and decoration have been perceived as lesser than the “intellectual” fine arts. By combining them, von Freyburg challenges this underlying hierarchical system.
After completing a BA in Fine Art at Falmouth College of Arts, Katie Jamieson went on to train at RADA as a scenic artist in theatre and film. She believes working in theatre gave her a foundation to explore creativity in a dynamic and multifaceted way. The range of skills and techniques Jamieson acquired during this time has enabled her to develop her own individual style and practice as an artist in her own right. Jamieson’s practice incorporates both painting and sculpture. She likes to move constantly in and out of these two disciplines exploring surface, texture and form. Fragility and the transient nature of life, are two themes that she keeps revisiting whether creating large scale paintings or hundreds of small-scale objects.
Val Murray has always been fascinated by the ordinary places, objects and activities which make up the world she inhabits. How do humans and their environments, natural and built, interact? Murray is interested in Mabey, Tsing et al’s ideas of complex interrelations between species and survival in a ruined planet through ‘wonderous attention’ and ‘creative curiosity. She documents examples of entanglements aiming to make tangential reference to human impact on the natural world rather than to ‘preach’
Working primarily with calligraphy inks, graphite and liquids, such as tea, Carne Griffiths’ fascination with drawing focuses on the creation and manipulation of the drawn line. Images explore human, geometric and floral forms, in a combination of both literal and abstract translation and in response to images and situations encountered in daily life. Images are recorded in a dreamlike sense onto the page where physical boundaries are unimportant. His work creates a journey of escapism that focuses on scenes of awe and wonder, projecting a sense of abandonment and inviting the viewer to share and explore this inner realm.
Orlanda Broom was born in the United Kingdom in 1974. She studied Art and Design at the Cheltenham School of Art in England as well as at the Winchester School of Art in Barcelona. She has worked as an artist ever since earning her master’s degree in 1997. Broom has completed large-scale commissions including the 4x4m piece for the lobby of the new Four Seasons Downtown New York and a large abstract for the Mandarin Oriental in London. Her work has also appeared in exhibitions in London, Paris, and South Africa. The artist lives and works in Hampshire on the southern coast of England.
Jen Kiaba is an artist and educator who grew up in the infamous Unification Church, a religious group referred to by popular media as “the Moonies” and a primary example of a cult. After escaping a forced arranged marriage, she fought her way out in her early twenties. After leaving the cult she went on to earn her BA
Vicky Martin is an international award-winning fine art professional photographer from the UK. Her first introduction to photography was whilst studying art and design at college in the 90s, she fell completely in love and found it to be a natural fit creatively, realising that this was what she wanted to do with her life she went on to dedicate her studies to photography. Initially, she started out photographing in black and white but later moved on to colour and now tries to utilise the colour in her photographs to benefit the overall narrative. Since 2008 after Martin was awarded a prestigious bursary she has been developing her professional career in photography.
Kayee C is a fine art photographer born and raised in Hong Kong before relocating to France a decade ago. She uses techniques of self-portrait and digital composite to create storytelling images to explore the dynamics of relationships on different levels. Her works can be humorous, dramatic or melancholic staging of a variety of human interactions.
Sarah Rocca is a self-portrait artist who explores the beauty she sees in the darkness of life. Where you might feel tension or discomfort, Rocca feels a sense of peace and ease when delving into subjects like fear, anxiety and death. This fascination with darkness and beauty can be seen throughout Rocca’s work as she aims to create pieces that ask the viewer to see themselves through her eyes. Rocca’s work portrays single subjects, often in uncomfortable positions, signifying the challenges we face mentally and physically throughout our daily lives. Rocca aims to explore subjects which society would rather sweep under the rug and what social media hides; female sexuality, anxiety, mental health, grief. These are topics which everyone will encounter throughout their lives yet for many they are topics you don’t speak of. Rocca uses her art as a way to tell her own story which allows the viewer to feel like they can relate in one way or another.
Crystal Marshall is a contemporary fine artist who lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally from Kingston Jamaica, Her paintings pay homage to her life’s experiences rooted in cultural disparities in the modern-day African diaspora. Her distinctive personal style emanates isolation, self-reflection and expresses the spirit and atmosphere of the black consciousness in efforts to reconcile its relationship with true identity and image.
Jane McAdam Freud is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed sculptor and multidisciplinary artist. Very early on, museums and institutions began acquiring her relief works and drawings. Writing is a large part of her practice and McAdam Freud has published over twenty papers on her works and process. Graduating with honours in 1981 from the Central School of Art in London, she went on to be awarded the British Art Medal Scholarship in Rome – an accolade she held for three years. She continued to teach short courses at the Royal College of Art while from 1993-95 combining that role with a Master’s degree (Project title: Forms of Relief).
Connaught Brown is delighted to present Hunan-ynysu : Self Island, an exhibition by the acclaimed Welsh artist Shani Rhys James. In her arresting still lifes, portraits and interiors Rhys James examines her own image and relationships to explore the transience of being. Created over the past year during the Covid filled months, this new body of work reflects upon the challenges and realisations we have been confronted with, as both individuals and society.
Roberto Voorbij is a multidisciplinary artist apart from working with ‘ready made’ materials, he works with video, 3D Software and (digital) collage. Commerciality and public space are recurring themes in Voorbij’s work. What highly fascinates him about this is the underlying history, politics and marketing strategy of our seemingly neutral environment. His works are often socially critical. Another recurring theme concerns the art world/art market and the way in which the artist manifests itself here, as well as the autonomy of the artwork that’s being questioned.
Charlotte Fraigneau is a visual artist using both analogue and digital photography as a lens through which we can open a conversation about mental health and global warming. She is interested in exploring our mental, physical and emotional responses to overwhelming stimuli as well as the often negative yet sometimes beautiful impact of humans on the planet.
Eugene Ankomah is also known as EA, is a UK based Artist, born in London UK to Ghanaian parents. Is one of the most exciting, gifted and versatile young artists in the UK today. A former child prodigy, he is a respected international multidisciplinary Visual Artist and personality with an ever-expanding reputation and prolific body of work. His innovative work has included painting (his primary practice), design, installation, costume, set design, digital art, sculpture, printmaking, performance, sound art and writing. Ankomah is also well known for creating different often challenging “characters” or “personas” designed to front his powerful but often political, social and community cohesion focused works (awarded many times). He is a unique, ever-changing Visual Artist often cited as an inspiration to many, especially young artists and creatives.
Questions of ‘shared space’ and ‘value’ of art arise when it comes from the city– the sum involves the means by which the art is made and the conditions that affect the artist. Mylo Elliot’s art is a complexity, a use of language and representation. Patterns are observed in writing, inherent structure- architecture, meaning and significance emerge. Working with single words and letters allows Elliott to construct fabric in painting and represent creative movement. By breaking down words in interaction, we can revalue what we already put into everyday communication.
Carp Matthew is a visual artist predominately working with oils. He is known for his dark, visceral and grotesque style featuring mutated lost characters, full of longing, despair and banality. Continually roving between subject and observer, Matthew’s visualizations are at once the artists’ own nihilistic and dark observations of contemporary society with all of its pitfalls as well as the artists’ own longing to understand and assimilate into the world around him. His abstract figures are often depicted in empty rooms or carrying out mundane and everyday tasks, whilst their true nature or feelings are revealed through mutated expressions or physical manifestations.
David Studwell is a contemporary British artist and printmaker who studied at Central St Martins School of Art. Having worked as an artist for over 20 years, Studwell harnesses the spirit of the sixties and seventies, the cult of celebrity and the legacy of Warhol to produce iconic screen prints. His works explore the darker side of fame, nostalgia and Americana-police mug shots of well-known stars show them at their most vulnerable, or at their most defiant. Private moments of icons at screen tests or during reflection become graphically public, produced in bold and vivid colours.
Naomi Wallens, a British contemporary multidisciplinary artist working with painting, sculpture and photography. Self-taught as a street artist, Wallens is becoming well known in the art world for her provocative artwork exploring the subtleties of societal pressures of conformity and the profound impact this has on our ability to feel connected to our own self.
Award-winning artist Alexandra Gallagher is a British multidisciplinary artist, who’s work takes the form of collage, street art, prints, photography and painting. Gallagher’s work celebrates the surreal and sublime. Between the realms of memory, dreams and experience, her work looks beyond our subjective limits and often tells a story of inner imagination and thought. Often working within a series, each piece is visceral and organic, the artist never knowing how each piece will transform
As a conceptual artist, Franziska Ostermann’s medium is the word and the image. The central themes of her work are virtuality and identity. An important motif for Ostermann is the photographic self-portrait. Dealing with one’s being, online and offline, is the starting point of her work. The photographic self-portrait allows Ostermann to encounter herself. When the shutter is released, she is both the photographer and the photographed, in the same place. Is she doubled or split? Photographic splinters of our selves’ views represent our identity in a place that we cannot enter. The physicality itself becomes a barrier to its representation.
Rosie Emerson is an award-winning contemporary artist originally from Dorset, she studied and lived in London for 10 years. She now resides on the South Coast and continues to work almost exclusively on representing the female form. Emerson’s figures draw reference from archetypes old and new from Artemis to the modern-day supermodel.
The Artist’s creative journey began at birth: Diana Malivani was born on the coast of the Black Sea, bathed in the riotous profusion of the colours of the Caucasus. Her love as a child for fairy tales and pictures later developed into a desire to convey, to those hearing and viewing her work, the great feeling for nature that enhances her life and the lives of those she loves.
Photography artist Gert Kist made a name for himself at Galerie Eduard Planting, with his male images printed on weathered wooden subphases. As a photography artist, Kist has recently gone through a period of development and transition. His subject matter has shifted and his photographs have since also become more layered – both in a figurative and literal sense. In the new series of female portraits, there is a clear emphasis shift. No longer is the attention in Kist’s work solely on the male torso but focuses now on female faces that seem to want to either express something or in fact conceal it. Dashing women wearing extravagant costumes, jewellery, hair-dresses and masks. Something is happening inside these female portraits. The beholder can only guess, is intrigued and engages with them.
Juan Barletta’s works focus on consumerism and desire, his photo-realist paintings evoke an ambiguous duality of desire and beauty. Juan’s images of often controversial iconic figures within popular culture question the ideals of synthetic beauty and its imagined reality. He alludes to the falsity of images represented within the media and its distorted boundaries of what is real and artificial.
Frank E Hollywood is an esteemed Dutch contemporary artist. Hollywood studied at the St. Joost academy of art in Breda, the Netherlands, where he early on sought out the boundaries of autonomous and commercial art. His works explore the tensions between the past, present and future. Not interested in simply reimagining the past, Hollywood draws on a collective visual memory of the past, to present us with something truly new and exceptional.
Alva Bernadine was born in Grenada, West Indies and moved to Britain at the age of 6 to London. Bernadine became seriously interested in photography at the age of 21. His first pictures were of London tourist spots and the next year he started practising her present style. Bernadine is self-taught and has never been an assistant. He has worked mainly in the editorial field for the last 38 years completing projects for numerous national magazines and has had many profiles of his work in countries such as France, Spain, Italy, USA, Australia, Germany and, of course, Great Britain.
Viktoria Andreeva is a fine-art photographer, born and raised in Bulgaria. As a former ballet dancer, her love and passion for the art of movement have deeply influenced her aesthetic view. In 2015 she moved to Vienna to study Photography and Audiovisual Media at the College of Arts Die Graphische. Meanwhile, she started working on one of her biggest projects – a book about the many faces of ballet, containing personal interviews and photographic work of six professional dancers from the Vienna State Opera.
Steven Quinn is a London-based artist born in Belfast. Obsessed by collages, street photography and paintings, Steven Quinn likes to combine his own photography with cut-outs from old magazines and play with imagery to create often apocalyptic, sometimes humorous narratives. His most current themes are domesticizing nuclear, political and intergalactic conflicts. Quinn graduated with 1st Class honours from the University of Ulster –MFA and has shown his work alongside names such as Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas at Tate Britain. He has also exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, the renowned Photographers gallery in Soho, the James Freeman Gallery and in various venues throughout London. Quinn has also been showing his work overseas: New York in 2009, Frankfurt in 2014 and, more recently, at the ARC Gallery in Chicago for the “I can’t breathe” exhibition.
Sam Haynes is a mid-career visual artist based in London, working primarily with sculpture and public art installations. She is interested in the physicality and materiality of forms, and the translation into a more accessible and friendly medium for a wide and diverse audience.Her abstract, geometric assemblages often incorporate found objects and materials which aim to reference different domestic settings and architectural spaces. This is reflected in the physical and geographical adaptability of Haynes’s practice, in terms of exhibiting and installation.
Gonczanski is an Argentinian filmmaker, creative director and illustrator. He was born in the beautiful city of Buenos Aires Argentina. Developed a background in Advertising at the very young age of 18. At 25 he became the General Creative Director at the Leo Burnett Colombia.
Jean-Luc Almond is a British artist who received his First Class BFA in 2013 from the City & Guilds of London Art School. His paintings have won various awards, including The Cass Art Commission at the National Open Art Competition, Somerset House and The Best Painting Prize at the ‘Injustice’ Open Art Competition, La Galleria, Pall Mall, judged by esteemed art critic, Edward Lucie Smith. He has been featured as a Saatchi Art ‘One to Watch’ and in the ’20 Emerging Artists to Buy Now’ Collection on Saatchi Art’s homepage. He was shortlisted for the Le Dame Art Gallery Prize, resulting in a solo exhibition at Le Dame Gallery London and invited as a guest artist at Artrooms Fair, London. Notable exhibitions include Start Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, SCOPE Basel, Switzerland, The Affordable Art Fair New York, The London Art Fair and most recently The Other Art Fair, October 2019.
