ARTROOMS2015 Catalogue

International Contemporary Art Fair 23 - 26 January 2015

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WELCOME FROM THE DIRECTOR Dear Visitors, Welcome to the first edition of ARTROOMS2015!

When I started my career in London, I realized very early on that both independent artists and independent galleries did not have a prominent voice in the London cultural scene.

I wanted to create an event that put artists back at the heart of the art international scene.

I needed a “non-conventional” exhibition space which would allow artists the freedom to create their own environment and visitors a real art experience.

Meliá White House Hotel turned out to be the ideal venue with large exhibition spaces worthy of a museum-level showcase, in addition to being located in the vibrant Fitzrovia Art District.

I hope that ARTROOMS2015 will act as a catalyst to attract the elite art collectors, the art professionals and the art enthusiasts all eager to personally meet the artists in their own dedicated spaces.

Thanks to our prestigious Committee and the Arts Advisory Board dedication and expertise, I am able to present an art fair which will truly reflect the collecting trends of an international and multicultural city such as is London.

There is no better place to discover up-and-coming artists . ARTROOMS2015 presents you with chance to support the unique and original artworks of international, independent and talented artists.

Special thanks to all ARTROOMS2015 sponsors and partners and in particular to Triumph Group International and Meliá White House Hotel without their significant on-going support the show would not be at the level it is.

I hope you will enjoy this international art experience.

Cristina Cellini Antonini Founder and Director ARTROOMS2015

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Dear Visitor, On behalf of Meliá White House hotel and the LEVEL , I would like to welcome you to ARTROOMS2015!

In conjunction with Le Dame Art Gallery, Triumph Group International and our kind Sponsors, we are extremely honoured to be the hosts of this wonderful project. ARTROOMS2015 is the first art fair hosted by a London hotel. Around 76 rooms have been transformed into an artists’ haven, showcasing artworks in a variety of mediums from almost 100 artists, including painters and sculptors.

Our hotel was built in 1936 and is a fine example of late 1930s architecture. As our building has a great history and it is part of the architectural and cultural heritage of the area, we wanted to give something back to the community, by hosting this fair so many people have access to the wonderful world of art.

We are particularly proud about ARTROOMS2015, as it displays a variety of mediums, including paintings, sculptures and functional art, each bringing a sense of uniqueness to the property.

The hotel’s setting will allow the artists to create a bond with visitors and guests, and will stimulate visitors’ perception of how the artists’ artwork will come across in a homely surrounding.

We hope you enjoy your experience with us, and we look forward to welcoming you back to our hotel in the near future.

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ARTROOMS2015 Selection Committee Roberta Cremoncini

Director at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art Born in Florence in 1963, graduated in History of Art at Florence University and subsequently completed a PhD in History of Art at the University of Siena in 1992. Moved to London in 1991 and worked as Exhibition Officer at the Accademia Italiana organising a series of important exhibitions on Italian art and culture such as Rediscovering Pompei and Michelangelo’s Drawings. In 1994 she joined the American art consultancy Vieart and also worked as a freelance consultant for various London-based galleries. She joined the Estorick Collection in 1997 as Curator becoming Director in 2001. At the Estorick Collection she has curated many exhibitions such as Fortunato Depero: Carnival of Colour and Giorgio Morandi: the Collectors’ Eye. She has published many articles and essays and is a regular contributor to various magazines such as Print Quarterly and Baseline.

Arturo Galansino

Exhibition Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. He has also curated exhibitions for the Louvre and the National Gallery, London. His 2012 exhibition at the National Gallery, ‘Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan,’ was the most complete display of Leonardo’s rare surviving paintings ever held. He is currently working on the first comprehensive exhibition in the UK of the Bergamo artist Giovanni Battista Moroni, opening at the end of October this year in the Sackler Wing of the Royal Academy.

Ian Rosenfeld

Curator and Director at Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery He is a photographer, film-maker and gallery director at Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery in London. He has had one man shows at the National Theatre, the Barbican Centre, the Pinacoteca in Bologna, the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara and the French Cultural Institute in Florence, amongst others. Two volumes of his work have been published,Bologna: Time, Space and Photography (Nuova Alpha) and Ferrara: Echoes of Silence (Alchima Art Publishing). Two of Rosenfeld’s films have premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Echoes of Time in 1993 and Doors of Memory in 1998. He joined Italy’s Galleria Napoli Nobilissima in 2007 with responsibility for the contemporary art exhibitions programme.

Greta Scacchi Actress Emmy Award-winning Italian-Australian actress known for her roles in the films White Mischief, Presumed Innocent and The Player, among others. Nominated for a Golden Globe and numerous other awards. Her father, Luca Scacchi Gracco was the famous Italian art dealer who discovered Francis Bacon and Piero Manzoni. Scacchi is an active supporter of campaigns and organisations that promote environmental causes. In October 2013 she was made a Cavaliere dell’Ordine al Merito for her services to the Arts.

ARTROOMS 2015 Arts Advisory Board Francesco Fanelli Director, Triumph UK

Francesco Fanelli is an entrepreneur specialised in the organisation and management of corporate, institutional and public events. He worked for the EXPO 2010 in Shanghai and moved to the United Kingdom where in April 2013 founded Triumph UK, the London based branch of Triumph Group International.

Chiara Canal

Founder and Director, Le Dame Art Gallery Chiara Canal worked in Rome as a Production Assistant for “La Casa dei Racconti” theatre company. In 2008 she moved to London where she worked in theatre production in all the major London theatres. Her love for art in all its aspects led her to found Le Dame Art Gallery together with Cristina Cellini Antonini and Eliza Pozzi.

Gioele Camarlinghi

Area Director, Meliá Hotels International Gioele Camarlinghi has more than 30 years experience in the hospitality industry and is described by many as a born organiser, leader and a master motivator. Gioele sits on the board of the British Hospitality Association and the Spanish Chamber of Commerce. Due to the nature of his work he has a close relationship with many international organisations.

Rosamond Murdoch Director, Bow Arts Trust

Rosamond comes from a background of devising and managing creative projects and has been working as Gallery Director for Bow Arts, Nunnery Gallery since January 2012. She worked on the View Tube project for Leaside Regeneration. Rosamond developed the View Tube project into a social enterprise model for the visitors for the Olympic Park from 2009 – 2011.

Lorenzo Belenguer

Artist & Writer, The Huffington Post Culture Correspondent Lorenzo was born in Valencia. After graduating he spent some time in Paris and then, on coming to England, he eventually moved to London. This became the place where his career as an artist took shape; he became involved in mounting and participating in exhibitions in unorthodox spaces.

Alessandra Stagliano

Senior Fixed Income Credit Sales, BNP Paribas

Born in Italy, she lived in South America, Switzerland and Asia before moving to London 18 years ago. With a long-standing and successful career in the banking sector, she has cultivated her passions for art, music and poetry, supporting young artists and designers.

Emma Saxby

Interior Designer Emma Saxby is an Interior Designer living in London. She has worked on Grade 1 listed houses, new builds, luxury residences, a champagne store, a pub and a children’s day nursery to name but a few! She is currently running a luxury bathroom showroom in Notting Hill.

Monika Kurtova

Project and Event Manager, Arts and Luxury Brands Monika studied at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Slovakia. Moving to London, Monika joined The Luxury Marketing Council Europe. Monika also helped to launch the ‘Arts for Life’ auction, with works donated by Anish Kapoor, Tony Cragg, Julian Opie, Antony Gormley, Grayson Perry and others, raising more than £650,000 at Christie’s.

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Amber Lauren, ‘. ..............’

Live Performance Rafal Zawistowski ‘Salome’s dance of the seven veveils’ Franco Nonnis ‘Passione’

Lorenzo Belenguer ‘Grid 5’

Auction

Leandro Lottici ‘Metropoli 2’

Ricky Nerreter ‘The price we pay’

ARTROOMS2015 has organised an auction with artworks donated by exhibiting artists and partners.The funds raised will be allocated to the Bow Arts Trust, an art educational program that helps emerging artists based in London to establish their careers.

Kevin Vuviv Shepherd ‘We dream of escape, if only for an hour’

Wendy Yeo ‘Under water’

‘A day at Carolina Khouri studio in February to learn about oil paint’

Stanislav Geissler ‘The Guissler base’

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‘A New Wave: Art and Conservation Science’ A Special Project at ARTROOMS2015

Alice White ‘A New Wave: Art and Conservation Science’ is one of the most exciting projects set to be exhibited at ARTROOMS2015, the International Contemporary Art Fair taking place from the 23rd to the 26th of January 2015 at the Melià White House Hotel in London.

This selection of bespoke artworks focuses on marine life in all its’ mystery and complexity. The project is presented by The Cult House UK and created by Alice White, Selected Artist at ZSL London Zoo. Alice’s aquatic explorations are documented through her signature original Oil Paintings, as well as framed drawings, working sketches, and interviews with the keepers and conservationists on site at ZSL London Zoo. At least 10 original artworks from this new series will be installed in an individual ARTROOMS showroom, together with a

printed catalogue of works, which will introduce the project in greater detail.

In view of the remarkable work done by The Zoological Society of London, Alice ensures that a percentage of her artwork sales are donated directly to ZSL London Zoo, in order to contribute to their ground-breaking scientific programmes and active conservation projects in more than 50 countries around the world. As such, all investment results in a positive financial and ecological impact.

ARTROOMS2015 at the Melià White House Hotel is the focal point from which Alice’s innovative project ‘A New Wave: Art and Conservation Science’ will be introduced to visitors and the press, in advance of the Final Project Exhibition this March.

The show is designed to inform, educate and inspire the visiting public, creating value through social engagement and forming a new community of interest.

This is a wonderful opportunity to connect contemporary art enthusiasts with an International scientific, conservation and educational charity, through an exotic cultural collaboration.

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Exhibitors List ROOM# ARTISTS

ROOM# GALLERIES

100 101 102 103 104 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 124 125 126 127 128 132 133 146 147 148 172 173 174 175 176 180 181 182 183 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 194 195 196 197 198

105 AMSTEL ART 106 REISSUE KOREA 132 - 149 THE CULT HOUSE 175 - 176 - 177 LE DAME ART GALLERY 178 - 179 ACCORSI GALLERY 193 ASSOR GIOIELLI

ANNA RAVLIUC MINE ZABCI LILIANA MASCIO RICKY NERRETER LORENZO BELENGUER KOS COS DEEPA KHANNA SOBTI WENDY YEO MARGHERITA BERTUSSI LICHENA BERTINATO JOY TRPKOVIC RICHARD NIMAN GIORGIO DI PALMA NATANIEL MOIANE CAROLINA KHOURI CEREN BULUT DIDEM ERBAS VEHBI KOCA ESER EPOZDEMIR MERVE UNSAL ROSA MIGLIARDI KEVIN DAGG ALICE WHITE KRISS GUENZATI DUBINI SONYA RADAN STANISLAV GEISSLER GASPARE MANOS JEAN-LUC ALMOND ABIGAIL BURT DEBORAH PEARCE MAUPAL FRANCO NONNIS KARINA CASTORANI GOSTEVA CHARLOTTE ESPOSITO SUSANA LOPEZ FERNANDEZ KEVIN VUCIC SHEPHERD JOE REDDY ENZO FABBIANO PATO BOSICH DEMETRIO PICCOLI LUCA INDRACCOLO OTO (OTOGONBAYAR TSOGT) LEANDRO LOTTICI GINO DOVITO RAFAL ZAWISTOWSKI MAARTEN VAN DEN BOS MASSIMO CHIOCCIA & OLGA TSARKOVA SARKA DARTON RENATA FERNANDEZ

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Committee Special Mention

ANNA RAVLIUC Lives and works in London. Timeless and soulful, the paintings by Anna Ravliuc can transport the viewer to a magical realm of beauty, terror and rebirth. Melancholy skeletons, totemic figures, magnificent horses and ancient symbols populate the world of Ravliuc’s seemingly boundless imagination. With oil and varnish on canvas, she crafts her multi-layered pastiche with a tactile approach that includes scratching, paint spatter, colorful pattern work, and a brilliant, painterly sense of texture. “I was inspired by pagan traditions and prehistoric legends of our ancestors,” explains Ravliuc. “The theme of good and evil, life and death is still forceful even nowadays.” Her paintings display a thespian appreciation for allegory; each element works in harmony with the next. Ravliuc’s fertile symbols

MINE ZABCI I am an Abstract Expressionist.

My work is the visible expression of moments and thoughts. My undisciplined focus is natural and from the heart.

The Story of God or The Story of Maths or The Story of Me...in my philosophy.

My art works don’t follow a particular style. What is Abstract? For me It is the expression of the moment--------freely.

There is no restriction with Time, There is no restriction with Plan, There is no restriction with particular Technique , There is no restriction with Colours. It is a Feel-

room 101 ing that wants to come out. I am beyond Time. I am lost in them until all the work is finished. That is why, for me, art is more than a technique, style or just colour. It is an inner connection between Time, Reality, Truth, Shapes of Thoughts or You and Me. There is no restriction with Colours. It is a Feeling that wants to come out. I am beyond Time. I am lost in them until all the work is finished. That is why, for me, art is more than a technique, style or just colour. It is an inner connection between Time, Reality and Truth, and You and Me.

room 100 include crowns, planets afire, barbed wire and theatrical costumes, every work imploring a personal interpretation from the audience.I have rediscovered for myself the beauty of multi-layered painting which gives unusual depth to my works, purity and brilliance to my colours. This way I manage to achieve vividness and freshness in the paintings, to add new tint and meaning to colours, for tempering or stressing the general effect and for emphasising the feelings my paintings convey.I think painting it’s like being in love - you wait, crave, suffer, and give your whole self, baring your body and soul and expecting nothing in return. Thus are born my sketches... Each painting is a short story about what I saw and felt. It’s the result of a synthesis of my soul and mind, work and experience.

LILIANA MASCIO

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Young Venezuelan architect. Graduated from Universidad Rafael Urdaneta in 1999, for many years she was lecturing art in Venezuela after which she attended the University of the Arts London studying interior design and fashion business as well as colour and lighting at KLC School of Desing in London. Currently she is pursuing her career as art creator and interior designer in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

RICKY NERRETER I was born in Germany studied Art there and came to the UK. I started off with drawings and painting but at 38 I had a stroke and that affected my sight temporarily so I needed another way to express myself. That is when I started with my installations. I use old childhood toys and trinkets from all over the world to build them; it is really a 3 Dimensional Diary to me. Visiting Art School I was creative in one way or another. Working as a Graphic Artist and Visual Merchandiser in the past, but also being a Singer Songwriter for years I always used my creative OUTPUT. My own personal Experience forms the narrative of my work.The Idea behind my art is really to capture moments under glass, like a memorandum or diary entry. They seem to be very colourful at a first look; but all of them have a deep-

room 103 er and darker hidden side as well. I like to leave it open for the viewer to make his own assumptions but I also like to explain every detail if the viewer asks, nothing in my work is accidental.

“Ricki Nerreter’s playful installations and carefully crafted sculptures are a unique insight to the German artist’s colourful life stories. Nerreter hoards objects from all over the world in order to build a complex visual diary of love, loss, humour and nostalgia. Her vibrant work conceals darker undertones as all aspects of her diverse life are sincerely shared with the viewer.

Text and poetry often accompany her work serving to unlock hidden secrets to leave the audience captivated.” (by Fellow Artist Carla Nizzola November 2012).

LORENZO BELENGUER I was born in Valencia. After graduating in Economics, it became clear to me that I needed a change in direction.

I spent a period in Paris but England became the place where my career as an artist took shape; I became involved in mounting and participating in exhibitions in unorthodox spaces.

As Kathy Battista, Director, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, NY said “Lorenzo Belenguer’s work straddles the realms of sculpture, painting and drawing.

In one area of his practice, he transforms metal objects into sculptures that evolve from the visual rhetoric of Minimalism and double as ‘canvases’.

Belenguer is like a hunter who trawls the city for found objects, sometimes sourced as locally as the back garden of the studios’ church. The work is then dictated by his discoveries, which include steel grids, a mattress reduced to its mesh of springs, and blacksmiths’ tools.

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These he reads as masculine objects.

He intervenes with these structures by oxidising the metal elements in salt water or acids and dabbing them with paint of primary colours. This transforms how the objects are read, emphasising the points at which layers of meaning converge. For example, the artist paints the cone of an old anvil a vivid yellow, thereby morphing it into phallic form. In “Homage to Pollock” a spring mattress becomes a three-dimensional, and strangely fluid, abstract canvas.”

This use of found objects can also be seen metaphorically in his series of drawings based on fashion adverts. These drawings were selected for a group show at the Tate Modern in May 2010.

Another avenue of experimentation in his practice is with the use of prints of masterpieces by Constable, Whistler, Murillo and other painters of Pastoral scenes that exploit rural nostalgia.

AMSTEL ART The Amstel Art Gallery was started in 2008 by Leandro Amstel Grasso, an Italian art collector, sales manager and video reporter. Amstel Art works with the best Italian & international pop artists such as Marco Lodola, Andy Warhol, Willow, Roy Lichtenstein, Giuliano Grittini and Fabrizio Bellanca. Leandro Amstel was born in Naples, Italy and he opened his first gallery, the Amstel Gallery, in Milan in 2008. After a great success in his country in 2011 he decided to export this positive philosophy in a contemporary and vibrant European city, where the art scene is cutting edge: London.

The gallery is now located in the St. George Wharf complex in Vauxhall, exhibiting a modern and sleek aesthetic that is so well paired with its vibrant and colorful workfrom light installations to the timeless pieces of Andy Warhol- all in the heart of the new London’s cultural and economic hub. Amstel Art Gallery is the first art gallery in Vauxhall, which later this year will receive its second art gallery, the personal

room 105 art collection of Damien Hirst. A theme almost self-explanatory in the sense that ‘neo-futurism’- a theme highly exhibited at Amstel Art is a trait of the gallery itself in establishing itself in such a prominent area of London before the artistic hype that is soon to come. London is considered an art capital of not only Europe, but also the world- having numerous world known museums such as the Tate Modern and the National Gallery, and in more previous years, an up rise in galleries, mainly contemporary art galleries. London has been expanding its limits of the contemporary and modern art world, and Amstel Art is a shining example of that. Amstel Art Gallery showcases the best paintings, sculptures, photography and issue-based exhibitions; contrasting London’s old, historical background with vibrant and modern designs of the contemporary and pop art world and attracting diverse and international audiences from all ages and walks of life.

REISSUE KOREA Korean people in general believe that an art exhibition or an art fair is aimed at wealthy customers, and the current industry does reflect this absurdity. Current art shows aim to select the most well-known famous artists only, for displaying their works. The organisers tend to invite very wealthy people to the event in the hope they will purchase the art works worth millions of pounds. Due to this current tendency of Korean art market, many emerging talented artists in Korea are consequently deprived of the opportunity to present their works in public exhibitions. Reissue Korea is a revolutionary system for emerging indepentent Korean artists. We help

room 106 them presenting their works to gallerists, curators, critics and collectors in Europe.

Not merely selling their art works, they can also promote themselves on the international stage of contemporary art. Reissue Korea gives wide-range of audiences who support artistic practice such as corporate company, advertising agencies and designers the opportunity to commission pieces. We carefully select artists with our professionally sponsored committee. Visitors from all over the world can discover, purchase fresh new art pieces from those emerging artists, moreover, they will contribute to support talented artists and strengthen their careers.

KOS COS Kos was born in Sri Lanka into an artistic family and began drawing and painting at an early age. After school, his playground was his father’s agency workshop, where he studied and practised brush skills in the golden age of handdrawn advertising. In 1999, he moved to Hong Kong, where he has worked in a creative capacity in the film, advertising, web and multimedia industries.

Kos paints in loud and dominant styles, cheap brushes used to apply dripping oils in crude fast brush strokes, experimental combinations of acrylics and charcoal, tropical colour palettes carried to the extreme. From the inspiration he draws on to his choice of subject matter and the materials he uses, Kos’s work is a celebration of diversity in every sense.

DEEPA KHANNA SOBTI I grew up in India and traveled a great deal all over the country. I moved to Hong Kong in 1996 at the age of 26 and spent 11 wonderful years in that fascinating city. I moved to Singapore in 2007 where I now live with my best friend, my husband and two children. I completed my studies with an MBA degree with a Finance major but gave up a decade long banking career 14 years ago. I started painting on a regular basis in 2008. I now spend most of my time painting, reading and writing about Non Duality and travelling. My philosophy, which is reflected in my art and poetry is seeing myself as Nothing and as Everything. This thinking led to my website being called “Emptinessisfull.com”. With immense love and gratitude, I present to you some of my art works and writings

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“I waited I imagined I waited long With images of walking on air Of a new big thing being understood by me A big moment of white light and glittering merit The Big Moment Was when I saw That all waiting and imagining had to be dropped Since the Big moment had never left”

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WENDY YEO Wendy Yeo was born in Hong Kong, where she studied Chinese painting techniques.

At the age of seventeen she moved to England to further her art studies at the Slade School of Fine Art, University of London. She graduated with many prizes and completed an additional postgraduate year. She won an Arts Council prize and a Travelling Scholarship to Italy and Paris, where she attended Atelier 17.

She has exhibited widely since her student days in the 1960’s and has had over thirty solo exhibitions on three continents. Her work has been featured in around fifty mixed exhibitions and is in various public collections, including museums and universities. She has taught art, lecturing for six years on the history of Chinese art at the University of London’s Department of Extra Mural Studies.

Wendy Yeo is chiefly known as a semi-ab-

MARGHERITA BERTUSSI

Born in Sondrio (Italy), Margherita very soon developed a deep love for painting thanks to her father Donnino, a wellknown painter of the Valtellina area. She took part to several collective and solo exhibitions, as well as to international art fairs, receiving warm appreciation from both the public and the critics. To give life to her paintings Margherita mainly makes use of ink, but other techniques she is keen to use are oils, temper and acrylics on canvas, cardboard and wood.

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room 109 stract painter whose work is inspired by landscapes, townscapes and organic forms in nature, who combines the individuality of Western art values with her own interpretation of traditional Chinese brushwork and atmosphere. She has travelled throughout Europe, Asia, North Africa, and North America to seek inspiration and has captured on canvas and paper the essence and uniqueness of diverse regions. In 2007, Wendy Yeo was elected a Member of the Watercolour Society of Wales. In 2010 she was elected a Member of the Reigate Society of Artists.

Print Publications: 1967 UNICEF Calendar 1971 Sole Illustrator of China, Oxford Children’s Reference Library, Oxford University Press 1994 Reproduction in A History of Calligraphy, The British Library

LICHENA BERTINATO Lichena Bertinato is an Italian fine art photographer, fascinated by taking pictures at night. Vintage fashion+vintage architecture: this is the fascinating combination which defines Lichena Bertinato’s current photographic project called “Longing For The Past”. Her photographic research is a voyage of self-discovery through a concrete jungle. The majority of her work depicts suburban landscapes, vacant streets, petrol stations areas, old phone boxes and forgotten places of Marghera (Venice) and Padua. Bertinato uses colour film with long exposures to obtain unpredictable images. While the shutter stays open, everything can happen: objects may enter and move at any time creating seductive light effects; in contrast, deep shadows hide shapes and draw curiosity. Experimentation with X-Pro plays an important role in her visual research too some of her other researches cover an original recollection of

joy trpkOVIC Born in Colne, Lancashire, (Joy Wadsworth) She studied Art in London, Portsmouth and Brighton. Joy Trpkovic is an established, professional practising artist working in a variety of media. She specialises in hand built porcelains and painting. She has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen. In the gallery sections on this site you can view examples of current and past work.

The exhibitions archive details some of her numerous exhibitions since graduating in Fine Art in 1972. Joy has lived and worked in the London Borough of Harrow since 1987. Currently Joy has been invited to take part in “Argilla” in Faenza, Italy with 12 other British Ceramicists. this exciting annual event will take place from 4th to the 7th of September. In December 2013 Joy’s works were shown

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Joy was selected as a finalist in 33CICA Concurs International De Ceramica de L’Alcora, Spain in 2013 and in June 2011 was awarded 2nd prize in the 31CICA Concurs International De Ceramica de L’Alcora. In 2010 she was also a finalist in CICA 30. Her ceramic works are now part of the Contemporary Ceramics collection in the Museum of Ceramics in Alcora. Joy has resumed focus on her ceramic work and exhibited new work at the Mall galleries in January 2012, 2013 & 2014 with the Society of Designer Craftsmen. Last year she exhibited at ‘Made, London “at 1 Marylebone and at several other prestigious venues. She will be exhibiting again at “Made” in October this year.

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past eras, such as the Thirties or the Forties. People are photographed elegantly dressed and made up in period costumes that match the date of each historic setting Bertinato uses as a backdrop.

The city backgrounds (either her native and small village in Italy, in the Venetian countryside, or the iconic one of London) are suggestive scenarios for imaging and creating her photographic stories, in which the line between realism and fantasy is always tied in an intriguing way.

By creating vintage imagery, Lichena works on a deeper level addressing questions as the contemporary cultural trend for vintage objects and costumes and, more abstractly, certain nostalgia for the past. In her photographs Lichena is able to hit poetic notes when depicting reality and find the beauty in daily trivial detail.

Bertinato has exhibited her works in Italy, USA, Poland and in London.

RICHARD NIMAN Richard Niman, born in 1932, has emerged as an impactive artist in recent years. Starting life off as a solicitor and ‘en route’ engaging as an opera singer Niman is an exceptional character. Richard will be discussing how he adheres to making the Incredible Believable, making sculptures, which at first seem entirely impossible, but are executed in such a way that they can seem almost believable to the viewer. This allows a strong reaction and connection to the work, which he will be telling you, has had some frightening effects on people who have happened to stumble across it! “I frequently work with dolls, mannequins, shop window installations and other readymades. I regard such objects as aesthetically dead. I have always tried to administer some form of surprise or shock to the viewer, but in order to do this I have to bring the dolls to life. This

GIORGIO DI PALMA I’m Giorgio Di Palma and I was born in 1981. I have no experience of Art Institutes and Academies to boast about. I graduated in Archaeology and my previous job experience was as a computer technician in Budapest. While in the morning I used to solve other people’s computer problems, at night I started painting. I loved painting my dog Lucky next to characters of my imagination.

Then one day, in 2009, I decided to go back home and to transfer my dreams from paper to ceramic. I opened a little workshop with a limited production.

I have been working with ceramic since 2010, as my father has been doing for 50 years, like other people from Grottaglie did for centuries. I work my own way,

room 114 without focusing on the technique and I always avoid to give my objects a real function. I produce ceramic items which aren not needed. In an era of excess and wastefulness, my aim is to create objects fallen into disuse since their origins, useless, but impossible to leave behind. They will outlive us, because they are made of terracotta, hence immortal. Through a special time machine called ceramics I enjoy transforming the useless in eternal and consecrating the moment.

The bas-relieves and the decals, indeed, are snapshots of melancholic moments, observed through the eyes of fantastic animals. Their gazes reveal feelings unknown to the modern man, constantly lost in chasing haste.

room 113 I do by transforming - by decontextualising, stripping them of certain things and bringing in other parts or objects that don’t normally fit with them. I believe my function is to make the incredible believable.” By the above I mean that I try to create the illusion, to dupe the viewer into believing that the impossible, very often the physically impossible, is actually happening. Perhaps I don’t always succeed, perhaps I rarely or never succeed - but in the final analysis that is for the viewer to decide. My art is an expression of my paradoxist view of the world in which in the main I believe that if a statement is true, then so is its exact opposite. The seeds of this philosophy were sewn and formulated during years of my earlier life in which I shared a bedroom with my late younger brother, when we both came to the view that the completely absurd and the deadly serious were two sides of the same coin.

NATANIEL MOIANE I am a self-taught artist from Mozambique, based in London-UK. I am a selftaught artist. I studied Accounting and Business Management, but I gave it up to dedicate my, full time to art. I was influenced by friends who were already attending the Visual Art School in Maputo at the time in 1996, I used to visit exhibitions and I found myself drawing and painting.

I began my art career in 1997 in my home city Maputo. My form of expression is generally drawing and abstract painting on canvas and linen, although I also do ceramic sculptures and mural paintings.

In my paintings, I work with acrylic and collage as well as with oil. I use a bold texture to represent the challenges I have faced in life, and bright colours to express my hope for a better world. I believe that the people and the facets of

CAROLINA KHOURI Carolina Khouri was born in Lebanon, grew up in Poland and she has been living in London for five years where she graduated as an interior designer. Carolina has no formal art training. Her art mentors were established artists who inspired her to penetrate innovative techniques and styles. Her art is dominated by free and abstract approach.

Through the composition and the vivid colours the artist finds the balance and harmony, which emanate and energise viewers. She is intrigued by many aspects of life and culture, which she transforms into the style that she finds accurate for the theme. Her art is as universal as the art could be and it does provoke to communicate with the vision and the feelings depicted. She aimed at finding the expression and manner that her art can appear in its individual recognition and to define her own singular identity as an artist. For over the past decade many of

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her paintings have been sold directly to the private collection in Poland, Germany, USA, Lebanon and the UK. Her canvases are intimate pieces, each with their own personality. Some are serene and contemplative, other are more dynamic, hinting at an undercurrent of violence or ferocity. All are deeply sensual. All portray women with courage, independence in their own way, and though these artworks are decorative they are not vapid.

They suggest the strength and substance of woman in all her diversity; her particular characteristics and qualities of nature – her steadfastness, her potency, her poise. The female form has been co-opted and exploited throughout much of art and advertising history. Her nomadic lifestyle over the past decade has meant that previously the project has had to exist in a portable size. Now, with access to a studio in London, she has been enabled to let the vision grow.

room 115 life that I see, feel and experience are my foremost sources of inspiration. I lean on constant research and practice as a way of learning and improving my skills. I usually start painting with bright colours and then apply dark colours to define the forms and lines and white to cool the painting‌and the red represents hope for a better world, it’s a process that I started in the last three years after my first residency in India. Before I used to have lot of blues, greens and yellows. I feel I grow tremendously as an artist whenever I am working in a new environment other than my own, with different artists in form of workshops, this helps me gain more in-depth understanding of the arts through hands-on experience.

Apart from sharing my own artistic experiences, I get the opportunity to immerse myself in the contemporary art scene and learn about the people and their culture.

Expanding its projects in London, Artshift is presenting four artists from Turkey at ARTROOMS2015: Didem Erbas, Merve Unsal, Eser Epozdemir and Ceren Bulut.

The exhibition is curated by Rusen Aktas.

Since the venue of ARTROOMS2015 is a hotel, and hotels function as temporary homes Rusen decided to work on the idea of mobility. “The age we live in is defined by mobility. We have all become nomads; at times even within the city we have settled down. We have also come to think that possessing less will enable us to move more freely hence adopting to a minimalist lifestyle. At times we dream of living in a suitcase but still taking our life styles with us. Hotels and airports are homes to new nomads.” “For this exhibition I will attempt to reinterpret the hotel room as a temporary dwelling which could be packed into a luggage. We have been working on the idea with the artists who are all producing new works for this exhibition. This is generally how I would like to work; bring artists together around an idea and develop the project with their input. And the fact that all four artists have been modern nomads in their own way has made it more interest-

CEREN BULUT Born in 1981, Ceren Bulut studied graphic design in Izmir, Turkey. She finished her MA and PhD on graphic design. Completed a post-doctoral research at Central Saint Martins, London.

Works at Dokuz Eylul University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Graphic Department.

Besides her academic career, she participated in many national and international exhibitions with her printmaking projects. Bulut is focuses on book as an object of three dimensions and explores the boundaries of storytelling with printing.

She uses traditional printing techniques in order to be in touch with the material.

ing on a personal level as well. I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the artists for their contributions.” Artshif is the only confirmed participant organization from Turkey taking part at the Artrooms. Founded in 2012, Artshift is an organization that brings forth projects in contemporary art, culture and design and introduces these projects through exhibitions, publications and events.

Artshift aims to make a contribution to the dissemination of art and culture, create projects to support artists and take part in the communication of cultures through collaborations with international groups with the same understanding.

Since 2012, Artshift has produced group and solo exhibitions using venues which were not designed as exhibitions spaces.

Artshift also contributed to cultural conditions by utilizing some disused spaces in Istanbul as art venues which have consequently become part of the city’s cultural map. This has represented both challenges and opportunities for the artists and curators involved. However all of the venues which have been used by the Artshift as an exhibition space for the first time have become permanent

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art venues. Rusen Aktas is an independent curator and writer based in London and Istanbul. She completed her studies in Turkey –film & media studies- and the UK – visual cultures & art history -.

Alongside contemporary arts her interests also include architecture, design and urban history. Rusen has more of a comprehensive attitude towards artistic production and her approach is multidisciplined. She works with artists from diverse backgrounds producing multimedia, film, installations, photography, and paintings. She believes that tools are there to express ideas in the most suitable form esthetically and theoretically.

Rusen has worked on major projects as curator, editor, project manager and art space director. In 2008 she founded the art centre of Istanbul European Capital of Culture Agency. The centre became a hub for Istanbul’s emerging contemporary art scene housing projects, workshops and exhibitions involving many local and international artists. She also managed the international arts program of 2010 Istanbul European Capital of Culture year, Lives and Works in Istanbul working with artists such as Antoni Muntadas,

Victor Burgin, Remo Salvadori and many more. In 2011 she was commissioned to curate a large scale European Union project to be implemented in Istanbul and Marseille; Exchange Istanbul-Marseille: Industrial Architectural Heritage, Developing Awareness and Visibility. Project consisted of a major exhibition, a book – also co edited by Rusen- and workshops.

Exchange run for almost a year and involved researchers, academics, artists and many more. The exhibition produced for the project was extended twice and the book has become a sourcebook for those researching industrial heritage.

Between 2012-2013 Rusen co produced and presented a weekly radio program on contemporary arts for Acik Radyo, a popular independent radio based in Istanbul.

As the co founder of Artshift, an independent art project she has produced exhibitions and events since 2012. In the meanwhile, she continued her work as an independent curator and writer involving in project in London, Rome and Amsterdam. She is currently working on a book exploring the relationship between artistic production and activism.

DIDEM ERBAS

Born in 1985. Didem Erbas is an artist based on Istanbul. Didem works with found objects and photographs to create a story. According to stories, she uses every types of material when she works.

When she tries to create a story, she references from her life and the literature.

She generally focuses on the oppression of society, and thus analyze why the different rules and manners exist the way they are. Didem has still continued her master study in Sabancı University, the department of Visual Art and Visual Communication Design.

VEHBI KOCA Vehbi Koca grew up in Kars, a picturesque town near Russia, before moving to the metropolis of Istanbul. He has travelled extensively and the social situations he depicts are varied and far-reaching. In 1988, he established roots in London, unhappy with the political situation in Turkey. “Vehbi’s objective to fathom the natural and profound inner person within his subjects is his greatest quality as an artist.” Moris Farhi. Indeed, Vehbi Koca’s photographs seem to project the vividness of their humanity from their frames, providing but the corner of a greater, more elusive story. Before he began taking photographs Vehbi was a painter but soon became captivated by the immediacy of creating an image through a camera. “I see a camera as a tool. So I’m just expressing my understanding, my phi-

room 124 losophy. I am just trying to show what is going on around us, the social situation wherever I live around the world.” He currently teaches photography workshops at a Turkish community centre in North London, principally to young Turkish people and immigrants of the persecuted Alawite (a branch of Islam) community in Turkey. This, in turn has led to a documentary project on the Alawite community in the U.K, as well as another on those who keep homing pigeons as pets. In 2004, he was awarded the Millennium Commission for his documenter project “Distant Countries”. Vehbi has exhibited his work in England, the USA, Northern Ireland and Turkey, where he also organised the first Istanbul International Biennial of Photography, an exhibition entitled “City: Chaos and Charm”.

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ESER EPOZDEMIR

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Born at 1984 in Ä°stanbul. Studied interior architecture and painting at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University; Plastic Arts in Spain, Valencia Politechnical University. Still studying Marmara University, Textile and Fashion Design. In her works she aims to use combinations of different disciplines and is attending to varios exhibitions. For a while in kindergardens; she is studying with kids on basic art principles and how to improve them.

MERVE UNSAL Born in 1985, Merve Ăœnsal is an artist based in Istanbul. She is interested in tracing artistic production through the lecture format. She has previously explored this topic through writing, editing, and visual and verbal collages that employ automatization and found imagery.

She is an artist, writer and editor based in Istanbul. In her work she traces definitions of artistic production using found text and images. She is the founding editor of the artist-driven publication m-est. org.Merve is the co-founder of m-est.

room 126 org, an artist-centered online project in which artist works, studio visits, and articles based on or related to conversations on visual practices are published. Merve has twice participated in Banff Centre Visual Arts Residencies and written for a range of publications in and outside of Turkey including Flash Art, DARE Magazine, and XXI. She received her MFA from Parsons The New School for Design in Photography and Related Media and her BA from Princeton University in Art and Archaeology.

ROSA MIGLIARDI I was born in Naples, Italy 1969. I am obsessed with the cells signals of living entities. The starting point of everything.

I am intrigued by how, why and what for, we all became forms for a short journey on the road to decay. I try to portray the way I see the whole, a bit out of focus and multiple layers, dreamlike images.

It’s difficult for me to talk about art. I can only say that affects me on a visceral level, simply a human instinct from within. I feel art, it has been haunting me since I can remember, this urge to express myself freely, a way of communicating my ideas. My job is to express myself and in that process to learn a bit more about the self, the surface of my work is not an objective space to express conceptual ideas, composing my pieces is not an intellectual, premeditated activity but an affective one. I feel compelled to examine where I fit into all of this. Is it even possible to know that? “Painting for me is a way of

KEVIN DAGG Kevin Dagg is a visual artist who has explored a wide range of techniques and approaches in his creative output. This diverse range includes temporary installations, performance, drawing and sculpture. Many of his projects are realised on international residencies and symposia and are often in response to a specific space or environment. He studied at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen and after graduating he relocated to Edinburgh where he worked for two years at the Demarco European Art Foundation. He then moved his studio to the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. In 1999 he joined the Edinburgh College of Art as a sculpture tutor and in 2001 he was selected for a major award from the New York based Pollock–Krasner Foundation. In 2004 his work became more politicised and he began developing studio based work in response to the wider political framework and the war in Iraq in particular. For this

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work he returned to the technique of figurative woodcarving with imagery based on iconic news photographs selected from the public domain. The process of carving is an important aspect of his practice and he injects energy into the works through the expressive mark making. Outputs include a solo exhibition at the Shetland Museum and Archives featuring several figurative wood carvings including the life-size work ‘Breaking Point’. In 2013, this carving was selected by the internationally renowned sculptor David Mach for the first prize at the Aberdeen Artist Society. The same work was selected by an international jury for the 7th Figurative Painting and Sculpture prize at the Museu Europeu d’ Art Modern in Barcelona. Teaching has included courses on general sculpture at graduate and under graduate level as well as courses on life modelling and Contemporary Art Practice.

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questioning images, where visible objects with a secret depth appear to reveal a kind of irrational truth. The paintings operate as a transitional space that evokes an inner world”. For me, painting enables encounters with an inner world that comes to life in the creation and viewing of a work of art. Existing at the edge of consciousness this inner space is complex and fluid, as it touches upon the enigma that is subjectivity itself. In my work I incorporate an individual approach to the tradition of abstract painting, drawing as much on unique perceptions of colour, space, texture, volume and light as on art history. Quietly contemplative and discerning, these works exist on a level where definitions are suspended in favour of a generous and open-ended exploration. I deliberately kept my work in creative flux so that it is open to interpretation and avoids the habits of a signature style and premature resolution.

ALICE WHITE I create vibrant, expressive, high-impact art. A love of pattern, skillful drawing, and emotive description combine in my paintings to provide the viewer with an exciting sensory experience. I imagine that when people meet me for the first time, they find me intensely energetic, and I hope I also make them feel charmed and at ease in my company. Considering my choice of subject matter, the public might imagine that I am an animal lover, or an old-fashioned oil painter who depicts natural forms. In some ways, both views are right- but I have no naivety about the power and brutality which both humans and beasts hold within. Conservation science is very close to my heart- in particular the diminishing diversity of the world’s ocean life. After several years as a painter of the animal form, these issues were highlighted to me by a good friend who works in the field. Her knowledge inspired me to rewrite the underlying

room 132 concepts of my work, gearing my studio output to act not only as fine art, but also as visual communication. By creating work that draws the viewers’ attention to unseen, mysterious, beautiful and endangered ocean creatures; I intend to raise awareness concerning their rarity, and the decreasing richness of the environment which they inhabit. Alice White is born and bred in London. Her recent exhibitions include the Music Room in Mayfair, Kingly Court in Carnaby Street, and the Affordable Art Fair in New York and London. She is featured on BBC4’s arts documentary British Masters, with Dr. James Fox (July 2011).

“If Santa squeezes one of Alice White’s awesome oil paintings into my stocking, I’d be a happy girl.” Lauren Laverne, Grazia Magazine (Jan 2010)

KRISS GUENZATI DUBINI The Italian artist, born in 1945, currently lives and works in Milan and other Italian cities as well as abroad. The spark comes from her father Carlo, architect and artist.

She studied Painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. Immediately after finishing her studies, she starts an intense period of production and research in the field of abstract painting.

The artist is extremely fascinated by the facial expressions of people; she therefore decides to study morphopsychology in order to get a deeper contact with the subjects of her artworks. In the early ‘80s, in New York, she comes in contact with Leo Castelli and she portrays personalities such as Roy Liechtenstein and Carol Rockerfeller Lyden. Such early American portraits are soon followed by others of several important Italian industrialists (Agnelli, Moratti, Trussardi) and of noble

SONYA RADAN Fine Art Yugoslav-born artist Sonya Radan graduated from the University of Fine Art, Sarajevo in 1984. Sonya has exhibited throughout Europe and Britain, where she has been living and painting for twenty years. Her art is figurative, intimate and modern in an expressive manner; she paints familiar subjects that are deeply personal and individual. Sonya’s paintings are unpredictable; they change from rich to subdued. She freely experiments with texture, sometimes to obtain a feather like smoothness and at other times to create thick impasto strokes.

Sonya’s work was shortlisted for the Annya Sand Eastern Art Prize in 2010.

Sonya’s art is figurative, intimate and modern in an expressive manner; she paints familiar subjects that are deeply personal and individual. Her paintings

room 146 are unpredictable; they change from rich to subdued. She freely experiments with texture, sometimes to obtain a feather like smoothness and at other times to create thick impasto strokes. In her work, Sonya is intrigued with the souls of her subjects, locked away behind their puzzling smiles, fleeting touches and mysterious glances. Sonya takes risks with materials and continues to experiment with a range of textures and media, including oils, silks and glass. Her strokes are layered and considered while her use of colour varies from ‘heritage’ hues, in her icon-like naked women, to bold, sunny ones in her subtle, batik-style pieces.

Sonya Radan’s paintings elicit the same reactions wherever they appear and the reason for this is not their familiarity but their emotional expression.

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families such as the Princes Ruffo di Calabria, the Counts Borromeo, Belgiojoso and Caccia Dominioni. Great relevance is given also to sculpture: the artworks in bronze and clay fully reflect the artist’s strong passion for the study of the human body and facial expressions. Light is a leitmotiv in her art: our inner light connected with the cosmic light. Her constant spiritual research is highlighted in the feeling of harmony and strength conveyed by her latest abstract works in steel and bronze. In recent times, Kriss has considerably been involved in the research of the relationship between the Woman and her Goddessess/Archetypes: Minerva, Venus and the Yoga Woman represent the strength, the femininity and the spirituality which every woman comes in contact and interacts with.

1975 Forte dei Marmi – Lucca, Italy.

STANISLAV GEISSLER Stanislav was born in Czechoslovakia in 1977 in a little village close by Prague, named Vsenory. He spent more than ten years aimlessly beating cars as a panel beater, until he found his passion and followed his dream and talent into the world of Art & Design. Stanislav enjoying life in London since August 2004, he’s developing his understanding between Art and Philosophy of life through meditation and developing his skills. Carefully listening the unseen finding harmony of body, mind and soul trough out the

GASPARE MANOS Gaspare Manos is an artist who has absorbed and metabolised the different and contrasting experiences from the many places he has lived. With Dalmatian ancestors and Italian nationality, Gaspare was born in Bangkok. He studied and worked in cities on several continents, from Nairobi to Geneva, passing through Athens, London, Paris, Brussels and Venice. Multilingual and a London economics graduate, Gaspare poses a fresh and interactive view of the complex modern world. As written in a previous article (‘Portrait of an artist: Gaspare Manos’), Gaspare was the artist Lucian Freud saw in a London coffee shop and told him “Don’t be silly, paint!”

At that moment, Gaspare made the decision to leave his role as a businessman, and devoted himself to pursuing his passion: art. A thorough study of the ancient

room 148 masters and the possibility to frequently meet relevant contemporary artists in person permitted Gaspare to gain the confidence and allowed him to acquire the skills needed to assault the canvas with fervour, an assurance that creates Gaspare’s depth and light world. He leaps from classic to modern interpretations, rejecting the abstract decorativism, the gratuitous and ephemerally shocking and obsessive repetition, and accompanies the viewer on a journey in search of the essential. Coming from a diplomatic family, Gaspare has acquired deep understanding of cultural bases which permit him to juggle art history, contemporary art, and his own life in his expression, opening a chance for us to view his faraway worlds through the windows of his work, taking us to his quotidian environment.

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Finding connection and answers what is possible to achieve if you have faith and believe that anything is possible.

Stanislav’s work represents the importance of understanding, connection and gratitude between people and nature. He feel that this is the field of art which can be improve in many ways and can create healthier, friendlier and more mature environment for all being. The materials he using are just a part of all he can use for expression of his feelings.

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Fabrizio was born on the 16th of June, and he lives between Italy, the United States and the UK. Fabrizio graduated in graphic design and art direction at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. Soon art became an unconditional love that still drives him to create and share new emotions each time. Fabrizio Acquista’s work reflects his sensitivity and inner thoughts. He uses different media to express himself ranging from canvas to wood, paper or any other support that inspires him. Fabrizio is spontaneous and uses a direct message that can surf among the materiality of the Arte Povera or build the thug compositions that could hurt the viewer eye’s, always using a humoristic point of view punching the spectator’s conscience. The uses of the symbols and scripts emphasize the mystery of his research, challenging the audience to find the complete sense of the complex. The clever combination between life colours and dark ones gives a dynamic contrast of full and empty. He jumps among reality and fable combining taboo’s situations threated openly, with gentle recognisable pieces that bring the viewer to the tales. It could sound confusing but Fabrizio is the kind of guy who likes to provoke the audiences and involve them into the art experience.

IAN HUDSON Contemporary painter, sculptor and installation artist. My practice is material and process based, which explores space and colour within the art I produce. Metal can often be the preliminary point, although other resources are always considered during the construction of a piece. . The works I create are abstract in form and subject matter; however, I use my surroundings and the City I live for references. I become engrossed with the material itself, challenging myself to create something astonishing from the mundane. The entire process of my work is imperative, each stage of the construction is as important as the previous one, always aiming for perfection. I blend and blur paint onto surfaces, creating a rhythm and flow to the works, which enables me to lose the natural constraints of a structured habitat. I often work back into the creations afterwards with sandpaper and grinder. Simply placing contrasting materials next to each other can produce a visual and unexpected impact, allowing an artwork to command the environment in which it is located. I perceive colour

room 149 as a material too, its properties and potential are infinite, and it has the power to transform anything from its original form into something majestic. Artists such as Gerhard Richter and Anish Kapoor are influential in my practice, aiding me with the possibilities of colour and form. The art movement, Minimalism is always a close point of reference when creating works; I believe simplicity holds a commanding impact regarding visualization.

My sculptures are either built up to create movement or they are constructed on different levels, spacing each layer of material from the previous one, giving a piece movement and depth. As the viewer moves, my work moves, creating slightly different perspectives and a shifting, fresh element to the piece. My art installations are often room consuming, dealing with light, perspectives and space. The purpose is to invite the viewer to move in and around the work, enabling you to become part of the installation and my vision.

JONES KEYWORTH Born in London in 1980, he lives and works in London. She spent her childhood in the Sussex countryside. She completed degrees in English Literature, Art, Creative Writing at Chichester University before going on to study Art History at Cambridge.

Established as a freelance artist, writer and theatre designer she moved back to London in 2004, collaborating with galleries as well as theatres such as The Old Vic and National Theatre. Reminiscent of icons or illuminated manuscripts, Jones Keyworth’s oils evoke strange and dark fables, exploring themes of memory and perception.

Beautiful yet claustrophobic, the cityscapes create a sense of unease with patterns of people and trees; a haze of heaped houses, glass office blocks, towers and cranes are just about visible in the smoky ‘London particular’. Painted with luminous jewel-like tones under Turner-esque skies, the city appears in twilight, both dark and bright; a living creature and a ghostly apparition. Often painted on panels of mahogany cut

room 149 from old doors, the works are small and heavy pieces painted with luminous jewel like tones. From Albert is a new series of views sketched from the very top of the Albert Hall’s famous domed roof; the haze of heaped houses, glass office blocks, towers and cranes are just about visible in the smoky ‘London particular’. Reminiscent of icons or illuminated manuscripts, Jones Keyworth’s oils evoke strange and dark fables, exploring themes of memory and perception. Beautiful yet claustrophobic, the landscapes create a sense of unease with patterns of people and trees. Her paintings use live colours to stand out the dynamic character of the nature. In her city landscapes, the main protagonist is the distribution of the lines and the sky, coloured with Gauguin reminiscences and structured as the first cubism of Braque. She wants to show to the viewer her own city, but actually she is portraying her interior, the sensations that she feels in front of her environment, the city of London.

KATIA SCOTTI Born in Feltre 1979. Currently lives and works in Venice. The artist Katia Scotti wants to convey in her works the many sensations and emotions that we feel while dreaming with open eyes. The sky with its clouds and its multi-coloured trails is a dreaming and magical place, where objects emerge in mysterious ways (closets, clothes hangers, windows, doors, and so on). These are like fragments of our daily routine but at the same time they symbolize our life’s hopes, dangers, memories and experiences. In many paintings there are ropes: a sort of path that keeps track of our passage as we follow it. The reality appears transfigured in heavens marked by ropes that we cross sometimes with effort as we climb them, sometimes with sure footing as we walk, while there are also a few happy moments where we can simply be sitting on swings suspended in the sky. Nevertheless the ropes can also represent a trap, a chain that we must break: in a sort of quest for freedom. In her later paintings Katia Scotti also

room 149 painted dancers into the sky, wings of aircraft flying over snow chains, mysterious seas suspended in the clouds, bubbles and glass balls, cliffs and towering skyscrapers. With her paintings, in acrylic, tempera, Katia Scotti invites us to explore our unconscious in a fantastic journey into the world of dreams: a world drawn with a precision and attention to detail that makes it all seem real, but at the same time it gives us always new ideas, suggestions and emotions. Her new series of paintings about the city put the spectator in front of vertiginous and surreal points of view. Glass, sky, mirrors and perspective are combined to confuse the audience combining objects like ropes, wood chair or balls, as usual in her career, and bring them to the confine between reality and dreams. From her last trip to London, she got the inspiration that place her objects in the middle of the sky. The sky remains protagonist of her works but in this case the spectator can see the world being transported upwards.

KERRY ZACHARIA Born in London, I displayed creative talents as early as the age of six, however, for one reason or another my career took on a different path. I completed my first ‘ink on paper’ painting in 2006, using only red and black ink, which was also the inception of my style. My goal was to complete a further six paintings in this theme and launch myself as an ‘Artist’. This unique Red and Black collection will remain as my ‘Private Collection’. I launched with this collection at The Brick Lane Gallery, London in March 2014. Since October 2013, I created a further four collections. The first being six paintings in the Inner City London theme; the second being six painting in the London Landscape theme; thirdly, the Mirror, Butterfly and Source Trilogy in the Mind, Body and Soul theme. More recently completed four paintings in the Taste of Europe theme. I tend to think and work in themes as I like to have a structure to my creativity. I sold my first painting from the Inner City London Collection, ‘Mysterious

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Since my launch, I have exhibited in London at The Brick Lane Gallery in March 2014, at 93 Feet East, Brick Lane with The Cult House in September 2014 and November 2014. Also, I took part in the Global Art Agency, Rotterdam International Art Fair in September 2014. I would say that I am an abstract expressionist artist with duality.

My art expresses what I see and experience in my life, my ‘spirit’ art and from what I feel and create from deep within, my ‘soul’ art. London will always be a major influence in my creative work as I am based in London, however, inspiration from my travels will not go amiss. Art is a large part of my heart and soul and as someone recently said to me “part of my DNA”. I have many inspirations for the future and a number of exciting shows lined up for early 2015. I look forward to bringing more of my creative inspirations to life in the future.

LUCY NAMAYANJA I was born in the turbulent post-Amin Uganda. It was a period of brutal reprisals and regime’s change. I sought escape in interior design magazines and discovered I could make art. I made the most of the few educational opportunities, travelling widely and finally settling in London. It was only while studying architecture and interior design that I discovered I am dyslexic. Dyslexic thoughts, visual distortion and my uniquely organised chaos have become aids to my creativity. My inspiration comes from my difficult childhood and all aspects of nature, including the endless cycle of birth and death. I use a cocktail of influences from, landscapes, insects, butterflies, birds and the chameleon-like nature of female bodies. It uses poetry, drawing, painting, image, abstraction, figuration, and marries historical texts with a contemporary critique.

Using the body language of fashion divas, they simultaneously play the roles of victim and aggressor while possesses

a spiritual dimension of mundane fears, needs, and longings. Nothing is wasted; objects are symbolic, distortions are symbolic, colours are symbolic, and rarely do we see such uniqueness, adventurousness and variety in a young artist’s oeuvre. My work expresses these experiences. It explores the complex relationship between and consequences of my African childhood and living, as an adult, with my African identity in the West. Her colours combine her childhood memories of the continent where she was born contrasting with the European environment that is her reality nowadays. It focuses on suggestive dichotomies that often simply perpetuate a sense of being separate. It displays a kind of diamagnetic relationship between person and persona. The expression of the whole realm of nature that symbolizes birth, life growth, death and decay is a unique action of the total universe. It expresses a growing apprehension about our existence in a rat race that traps living organisms.

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MARINA ARD Displaying her work for the first time at the Westbourne Grove gallery space, Debut Contemporary. Ard and her work were selected from thousands of talented artists from around the world as a Debut Artist to join Debut Contemporary. As a former fashion model who has worked all over the world, Marina Ard is a British Ukrainian artist known for her dynamic and contemporary abstract prints. Ard is a printmaker who employs printmaking as primary medium for her creativity and not as a secondary mode for translating her ideas onto paper. Marina Ard exhibits regularly around London, she is particularly fond of how printmaking can be extremely spontaneous and complex. The combinations and methodologies offered in printmaking lead to endless opportunities. For Ard, content is the determinant of the materials and printmaking methodologies that she employs in her endeavour to push the art of

room 149 printmaking to its limits. “My work revolves around notions of storytelling, memories, heritage and family history. I employ printmaking to translate my thoughts into pieces of art as I am captivated by storytelling’s traditions, methodologies and function in contemporary art. I use my printmaking to portray the affiliation between memory and object; how they fade with time and how we constantly rebuild and append novel segments to each tale narrated to us.� Marina Ard was born in Ukraine and moved to London along her family, at the age of fifteen. She started to paint at the age of 5 influenced by her aunt who is an artist . She started her career as a fashion model, represented by leading agencies in London, NY and Hong Kong, travelling around the world for work. She discovered printmaking at Cass School of Art while studying for her degree.

PEDRO SOUSA LOURO Born in Lisbon, lives and works in London.

“Since I can remember, I grew up with cubism images in my head. I always knew I had to transfer these images onto canvas. As an artist, I try to not stress myself with the subject matter. So I guess I paint my DNA. My art is created by my visual perceptions, both conscious and unconscious. I am Portuguese, born in Africa. I lived and studied in Lisbon, Madrid, Milan and Los Angeles. I moved to London to study about 20 years ago. And I live here permanently. I graduate myself from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1997, and I am currently completing my second degree at the Kensington and Chelsea Art College University. I had a gap in the middle where I did spend almost the last ten years working on TV and fashion industry – as a TV presenter and model. I started painting again four years ago. My favourite artist is Francis Bacon, where I identify my style of abstract cubism, where I feel safe. I try to not stick in one technique for just one reason. I never

room 149 know how I’m going to put alive the constant cubism and abstract images that live in my head. And I’m constantly in love with new technics that I found every day in others artists.”

From Pedro Sousa’s works you can see an evolution in his dialogue with colours and geometry. Despite assumes his preferences about contemporary artists like Francis Bacon, his reminiscences come from the neoplasticism of Mondrian, considering that he is not stressed about the matter but the geometry for geometry’s sake is key in his pieces. He uses the technique of dropping used by Pollock but with the order and sense of the coloured areas of Rothko. As he assure, the cubism has been part of his life but is only in the last part of his career, in his current research, where the cubism is emerging more clearly deconstructing faces. Now he is coming back to the figurative, combining the aspects of his previous dialogue, colours and geometry, with the aim of involving the spectator, telling a story.

SETTIA RAMAUTARSING She was born in 1977 in Rotterdam, where she still lives and works today. Until 2011 she mostly studied, Ancient History and Archeology and Law/Criminology and had a various number of jobs. Nowadays she works part-time as a customer service employee with a housing association. Humans, sustainability and the environment have always interested her, which resulted in a number of volunteer jobs nationally and internationally. This interest for life and the universal life questions made her explore the world of spirituality but also science. Since 2012 she felt the need to express her thoughts and emotions visually. Spirituality, the law of nature and how they relate in our daily lives became the recurring themes in her work, which contains abstract paintings, art objects and combined art forms. The painting process starts intuitive; sometimes colors, a friend or a vague image appears. She begins without a plan, following the movement within herself, capturing what’s hidden. She paints

room 149 mostly with acrylic, using different techniques. She feels inspired by everything what touches her heart, a documentary, music, nature or just the day itself. The art objects comes crystal clear in her mind followed by the making process which sometimes leads to combined art forms. The materials used for the objects and forms, can be anything. Her specialty is to look beyond the original product or material and to give it another or different purpose, mostly to emphasize the theme. From there she follows the movement and the moment. The art objects she creates often depict life questions and universal values. The recurring themes are spirituality and the forces of nature and how they relate in our daily life. To find out that we all are connected and at the same time all feel alone on this journey called Life. Her aim is to raise awareness that we all, the inhabitants of this planet and the universe, are connected and we all are a part of this mystical cycle of life.

AMBER - LAUREN Amber-Lauren Ballantyne-Styles, is a 20 year old commercial artist from Oxford.

Her brand was established three years ago out of adversity. After representing Great Britain from the age of 11 to 13 as an acro-gymnast, she was harangued by her coach which lead to many devastating consequences. Emerging undeterred from this dark period of her life, Amber had some private education which enabled her to qualify a year early for art college. At just 15, her art reflected many of the disturbing issues caused by the bullying coach and her subjects were those of either skeletal or voluptuous women. Starvation and death were the inspiration in all her sketchbooks, mixed in with work by Damien Hirst and Egon Schiele. Worried by her obviously delicate state of mind and physical health, Amber’s parents arranged an exhibition of her extraordinary paintings. The Television, Radio and Press were eager to cover the story, as were many online magazines and social sites and the exhibition was a huge

room 149 success. Not only cathartic for Amber, but it’s how she came to launch Amber-Lauren Fine Art. Amber regained her health and confidence and went on to gain triple star distinctions for her diploma and a merit foundation at college. Her determination and maturity made her decide to forego university and concentrate on the business of selling her art! Since those formative days, Amber’s brand has become the silver-lining from that very dark cloud that once rained on her parade!In April this year, she received the prestigious backing of The Prince’s Trust and she’s enjoyed personal correspondence with HRH The Prince of Wales congratulating her on the success of Amber-Lauren Fine Art. She’s currently in the process of becoming an Ambassador for The Trust as passing on her story and subsequent success to other vulnerable young people who want to aspire to their dreams is all part of her passion. Earlier last year, Amber was awarded the Art Superstar title at the Oxford Youth Awards.

BOBBY VAN DRUFF Born in New York, 1977. Currently Lives and Works in London. Trained as an architect, Bobby utilizes oil and canvas to explore the relationship between male nudity, art and pornography. Prior to relocating to London from New York this summer, Bobby served as a guest critic for multiple studios at both the Rhode Island School of Design and Columbia University. Bobby also founded ARThomos.com, an online community for queer artists to display their work and develop shared exhibitions. His current work focuses on Tumblr as a medium by solidifying ephemeral, electronic images as paintings which are then returned to Tumblr for continued distribution. Each individual acts not only as curator of their own blog by selecting images to tumble on to their followers, but also as curator of their own feed. By selecting who to follow on impulse (or by design) they create an ephemeral and unique set of images that is constantly changing and singular to their choices. With his artworks gives

another point of view about the male nudity, hidden along the history of art in a natural way in order to provide the sensuality that has been considered only for women. Some of his works could be considered strong for an audience that despite the contemporary proposals have been habituated to do not receive an impact. This positive-negative’s game created with colors and technique highlight the men bodies in a particular way. This project is an interpretation of my feed, a created manifestation of my personal parade of tumbled images. It explores the relationship of art, pornography and male nudity through the digital temporal lens. Each image becomes physical twice, and digital in between. A digital image is printed and painted over to become a sketch, the sketch becomes a digital image that is then enlarged and transcribed as simple compositional lines onto a canvas. Coated with ink and oil, the final painting is photographed and uploaded to find its way into other feeds.

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JEAN-LUC ALMOND Born 1990 in DR Congo. Lives and works in London and Bedford. In 2013, he graduated Fine Art Painting at the City & Guilds of London Art School. He was awarded by the CASS ART Commission (National Open Art Competition, 2014), the Best Painting Prize (London Legal Support Trust in association with Arts for Justice Open Art Competition), the Degree/Diploma prize (for the best contributor to the humanities program, 2013) and the Painter-Stainers Prize for an Outstanding Foundation Student, 2013.

Selected Group Exhibitions: Modern Panic, Apiary Studios, London, 2014- Suspended Bodies ,Kentish Town Health Centre, London, 2014 - National Open Art Competition, Somerset House, London and the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 2014 - London Legal Support Trust in association with Arts for Justice Open Art Competition, La Galleria, 30 Royal Opera Arcade London SW1Y 4UY, 2014

ABIGAIL BURT The paintings I am exhibiting focus on the interaction between people and their environment. These follow on from my constant preoccupation with the aesthetics of the human figure within its surroundings; nature not just in its untamed form, but also in the architecture of the man-made. All of my paintings take inspiration from the places in which I live and work, however through the painting process a sense of the fantastical develops as I let the oil paint’s inherent qualities and my imagination influence the final imagery. I strive to capture the tactile truth of nature through my expressive and versatile use of paint. It is rare that I portray a world without people- the movement and intrigue that people pro-

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These particular four paintings are part of a larger series that responds mainly to time spent travelling through Turkey, and captures the curious desire of humans to immerse themselves in their habitat; the clay filled gorge of Saklikent consumes the figures who explore it, and so my painted figures are consumed within the texture of the paint. In ‘Luminescent Night’ the darkness that enveloped the night swimmers has almost completely concealed them from the viewer. On entering the room, I invite the audience to engage with a place elsewhere; to consider a new perspective on our position within the world around us.

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Summer Salon, Islington Arts Factory, London, 2014 - Artist Culture Zone, The Tabernacle, Notting Hill, London, 2014 Publications: Emerging Artist: Jean-Luc Almond, Artlyst homepage, November 2014.

Jean-Luc Almond: Beyond Figurative, short film, vimeo.com, November 2014, directed by Jamie Quinlan.

MODERN PANIC V presented by Guerilla Zoo, Review by a-n The Artists Information Company. 17 November 14 Jean-Luc Almond’s Portraits, Interview, Cass Art, 28th November 2014.

Artist Close up - Jean-Luc Almond, Interview by Brentartistsresource, 2014 Making Faces: New Portraits, Saatchi Online, permanent collection, Curated by Rebecca Wilson, 2014 Portraiture Collection, Saatchi Online, permanent collection, Curated by Rebecca Wilson, 2013

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Debbie Pearce took up painting 14 years ago, having done nothing since an O Level in Art a very long time ago indeed. She paints once a week for a couple of hours at the wonderful Queensgate Studios in South Kensington, under the expert tutelage of Linda Bennion. In her other life she divides her time mainly between music and food as a music publishing/PPL and marketing consultant, along with other random project management roles.

She is learning bass guitar extremely slowly in the hope that one day she might be able to make music with her far more talented sound engineer/guitarist husband.

Exhibi&ng at Art Rooms London 2015

Pain&ngs and Poetry by Deepa Khanna Sob& Finalist for Art Gemini Prize 2014

My work can be previewed at -­‐ www.emp&nessisfull.com 75% of profits are donated to charity The “Something” Always Struggles, Oil on Linen, 2014 “The person that I imagine I am Is the one that feels limited and fearful It is the small Something In the limitless expanse of Nothing and the magical immensity of Everything The person signifies the resistance to this 'Nothing' and 'Everything' On closer examina&on, this person is an image found only in imagina&on For Reality comprises completeness and bliss The Nothing and Everything are One and all there ever Is”

Phone: +65-­‐8118 0500

MAUPAL Mauro Pallotta has been in every big International newspaper from the Washington Post to Yahoo News International, The Chicago Tribune and France’s Le Monde to name a few. In August 2014 his works were displayed on maxi screens in Seoul during Pope Francis’ visit of South Korea. Predominantly using acrylic spray on wool steel, MauPal’s artwork holds strong social and political value. Portraits such as ‘Islam’ and ‘Hitchcock’ represent the artist’s temperament and sensibility as he draws on the topics of religion and mainstream culture. The artwork that launched MauPal’s prominence was his giant street painting of Pope Francis, positioned at a side road, just steps away

FRANCO NONNIS Franco lives and works in Cagliari, Italy.

Franco is a self-taught painter. His passion started when he was a small child where he could often be found seeking inspiration in his grandfather workshop.

Franco is incredibly well travelled and the different cultures he experienced are evident within his works. Franco’s artistic works cover the spectrum of human lives, engaging his audience with his authentic expressions of delights, sufferings and the emotions that surround us all.

A Review by Art Critic Nicola Nuti “Nonnis anthopomorphations lead again towards an image of freedom, where forms proliferate almost by themselves.

Perhaps reference can be found in the iconic graffiti covering city walls or the imagery of simplified surrealism. The use of a clear priming sets the painting in a kind of infantile elegy, like the little

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They generate a matrix of visionary and enigmatic context.”

Publications: 2012 Biennale di Venezia , Italian Pavillon Sala Nervi Torino Catalogue 2006 Illustrations, book “La culla” by Francesco Maria Tipaldi , Ed. LietoColle , Milano (Italy) 2005 Illustrations, book “Là pour me souvenir - Qui per ricordare” by Markus Hediger ,Ed. LietoColle Milano (Italy) 2004 Italian Artists Annual (Catalogue) South East and Australia Extras: 2012 Set design for «Bellas Mariposas»

by Salvatore Mereu . The film has been awarded at the 69 Edition of the Venice Film Festival

room 175 from the Vatican. To accompany his ‘Pope Francis’ mural, the artist’s choice to exhibit in London holds particular relevance, as his next big painting paid homage to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Burgeoning into one of the great art hubs of London, the Melia White House Hotel will also be previewing three of MauPal’s paintings during ARTROOMS2015 including his celebrated portrait of Alfred Hitchcock. In the aftermath of his extraordinary street mural of ‘Pope Francis’, this exhibition will provide a glimpse into the mind of an artist who is fast growing in stature and reputation.

Maupal will also present the new “Apes” project.

FABIO MARIANI Fabio is a young contemporary artist from Rome. Fabio still currently resides and works in the city where he also studied stage design at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Fabio’s works are executed in a variety of paints and themes.

His vibrant use of colour and layering pay homage to his innate spirituality which he conveys in his works, offering the viewer a glimpse into the perceived reality or ‘inner universe’ of his rich landscapes and visual stories.

Fabio is a multi-award winning artist whose work has been shown in major exhibitions in museums and galleries in both his native Italy and internationally. His paintings can be found in numerous public and private collections.

RICCARDO GIRARDI Riccardo comes from a little town in Northern Italy. He studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and in 2003 his artworks are selected to represent the Academy at the Biennale of Venice.

In 2002 as the director of “Ars Dimicandi” he experiments on the Archaeology of Roman Art together with Professor Dario Battaglia and the Great Rivers Museum in Rovigo.In the same year he meets Figurative painter Walter Girotto and artist Mario Lazzarini. Both artists will have a great influence on Riccardo’s work. Riccardo’s path is quite unconventional: he starts as an artist, becomes an art teacher, a musician, then a fire fighter and after a couple of years working on

room 177 cruise ships he lands in London to finally be officially recognized as a very talented artist. His philosophy comes from a wide range of experiences that lead him to take difficult decisions in life. Women are a recurring theme. Actually, for the majority of people women are an enigma. To Riccardo, they are like an open book. He understands them immediately not without great emotional conflicts, though. His work often deals with social and political themes.

He believes in art as a weapon to influence society. Ballpoint pens and pencil, common tools for communication become in the capable hands of Riccardo instruments to create masterpieces of art.

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PAOLO CENEDESE Born in Murano in 1952, Paolo’s passion for glass has spanned over 40 years. Paolo spent his younger years working for prestigious companies such as Barovier & Toso and Seguso before finally settling in 1978 and acquiring his first lampworking studio. This is where he started to develop his much-loved style. Over the years Paolo’s undeniable style and expertise have led him to collaborate with some of the largest Murano brands such as Venini, Salviati and Berengo. His collaborations didn’t stop there with projects ranging globally to bespoke jewellery designs and various projects with international artists, such as Ted Muehling, Frank Borst and Anneé Olofsson, to

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Most of Paolo’s techniques are executed via the lampworking method, combining his techniques for specialist projects.

Paolo’s most recognized and powerful pieces, ‘butterflies’ were inspired by a childhood game of catching colourful butterflies and keeping them in a seethrough box. His first use of the butterflies was a collaborative effort with Venini, where his handmade glass butterflies were placed inside a glass hatbox. Since this first piece, Paolo’s butterflies have ‘flown’ into new projects involving wood and various materials.

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CHARLOTTE ESPOSITO British visual artist Charlotte Esposito produces mixed media artworks that reflect her personal interpretation of both the physical and non-physical worlds.

Expressing both her own life journey and common major themes that affect us all Esposito uses her design based past to create a compelling narrative in her works. She also makes material led abstract pieces that skim across the boundaries of Art, Design, Textiles and Sculpture. Much of her work reflects her design based drawing abilities in the way in which she approaches and finishes her canvases; from both the layout of her subject matter to the finishing touches of graphite, pencil crayon and pastel sketch work. She finds herself sculpting the two dimensional surface using not only brushes but screws, credit cards and other useful implements as her tools. Af-

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ter studying Design in the UK Esposito graduated with a Bachelor of Arts honors degree from Lincoln University during which time she was producing large scale sculpture. She is also a qualified teacher with extensive experience of teaching both Art & Design and Design & Technology. She was previously a member of the Audi Design Foundations’ ‘New Talent Group’, now the James Dyson Foundations’ ‘Innovation Group’ consisting of a small number of educators displaying exceptional talent in terms of both teaching ability and subject knowledge.

In September 2012 Esposito was taken on by renowned West London gallery Debut Contemporary. Esposito has most recently been invited to exhibit with Trevisan International Art at the Galleria di Marchi, Bologna, Italy, April 2014 for an exhibition entitled ‘Little Treasures’.

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SUSANA LOPEZ FERNANDEZ Lives and works between Gijon and London. An urban photographer who delights in the possibility of cityscapes, Susana Lopez is claustrophobic as soon as she starts to think “what can I do here?” No doubt this restless spirit is what drives her to seek out bright images, often where a single colour dominates. Her fascination with straight-edged buildings is inherited from her father, an architect, as is her love of history, particularly for the Berlin Wall era. Her clean, sharp images reflect her tendency towards organisation and detail. She will listen to the same CD for weeks, and walk the streets, piecing together observations like a jigsaw. Her exhibition “Territorios”, Spanish for “territories” is about how different cultures fit together, and as a result she tends to translate the exhibition in Eng-

KEVIN VUCIC SHEPHERD Kevin studied Architecure first at Central London Polytechnic ( now Westminster University) and then at The Architectural Association School Of Architecture. After graduating he entered the emerging field of digital special effects.He lives and works in London with his wife and son.

Perspective: Our view of the world is a lie, corrupted by perspective. Objects further away are not smaller than objects close to us, but our eyes tell us otherwise. How can we escape this perspectival view? What does the world look like without perspective?

What does the world really look like?

Time: A lot of my work is about time.

The photographs in many ways are the opposite of what we think of as a photo,

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something fast, instant. Mine are slow, laborious. They capture the humdrum passage of time but in a unique way.

The humdrum becomes interesting, for now we can see relationships. My photographs are an attempt to answer those questions. I want torevisit the world with orthographic eyes. I want to represent the world truthfully, not how how my eyes see it, but how it really is. The section is a way of seeing relationships between spaces. Relationships between main rooms and service spaces, between inside and out , between roof and basement, between people and space, betweenpermanent and temporary, between formal and informal.

The section is a portrait of place.

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lish as “Jigsaws”. Her last project is “Sin prisas” dedicated to all those workalcholic, twitterholic, facebookholic, etc...Often people feel confused and forget their manners because they say they are in a hurry. Susana likes to tell stories. She uses her camera as a society’s witness and gives it the freedom, being the pen that writes her diary. Consumerism, social differences, migration or simply spontaneous thoughts have involved her series in contexts along different cultures around the world. We can be identified with her message because is direct, easy and makes to reflect the viewer about what is happening around, and appreciate the quotidian small things. She has a BA in Fine Arts from Barcelona University.

She has exhibited in London, Madrid, Bilbao and Hong Kong.

JOE REDDY Talented London College of Communication student Joe Reddy shone at the 17th National Open Art Exhibition, winning not one but two prestigious awards. Joe, who graduated last year from Foundation Diploma in Art & Design at LCC and who is now in his first year of BA (Hons) Photography, was delighted to win The Piran Strange Award for Young Artists, and The Young Photographer’s Award. Joe won The Piran Strange Award with his photograph ‘Hand i’. Joe explains:“‘Hand i’ is the result of my exploration into surreal photography. It was the final result of my A2 level project ‘Surrealism’ which I based around human manipulation. The image was one of a series of images. The photograph was entered for the John Downton awards which exhibited in the Contemporary Turner Gallery in Margate, Kent, my home county. The image actu-

room 185 ally won the gold prize and was used for advertisement on leaflets and banners outside the gallery. They decided to use my photograph for the advertisement of the NOA competition, which was a great honour. Michael Hoppen was one of the judges for the competition, along with Brian Sewell.”

Joe went on to win the Young Photographer’s Award with ‘Hidden Beauty Triptych’ – his triptych of photographs of a Quarry in Yorkshire Dales National Park.

He talks about his work: The National Open Art Competition is a registered charity whose aim is to provide a truly open and fair platform for all UK artists to exhibit, sell and promote their work through the medium of an annual National competition with exhibitions in London, Chichester and other venues around the UK.

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Born in Crotone in 1963, Enzo Fabbiano can be considered a self-taught painter even though as a child he took a course in drawing and pastels in a studio of a famous painter in his hometown. In 1980 he moved to Siena to attend university. The years spent in Tuscany (1980-85) are rich in encounters with artists from different backgrounds and origins. It is in this period that Enzo starts to make use of oil paint and to examine in depth the study and representation of the human figure and nature. He soon began to take part in painting collective exhibitions receiving warm appreciation from both the public and the critics. In particular, Enzo was praised for his use of colour that in those years was essentially impressionist. Enzo has spent his recent years developing his own studies and research that brought him to express himself thought the canons of “post-informale�.

PATO BOSICH Born in Chile in April 1978. After completing secondary education, with artistic pursuits in mind, left for Europe in 1997.

Lived in Basel and Southern Germany where he developed further in drawing and painting, working in the atelier Dodekaeter under guidance of Dennis Emmelin. Traveled and worked throughout Germany, Eastern and Central Europe, finally settling in London in 2000. He completed a BA Painting degree at Camberwell College of Arts in ‘04.

After graduating he undertook a yearly artist in residence at The Muse Gallery in London. In 2007 he was invited to another artist in residence at the Museum

DEMETRIO PICCOLI Always fascinated by several artistic expressions, in 2003 he starts his journey into mosaic art, focusing also on drawing and sculpture. The passion and dedication to mosaic art, coupled with his interest in sculpture, prompted him to explore new forms of expression. His works are born from the urgent need to seize the mind’s whirl, to reproduce memories and colors of emotions. Experimenting with diverse materials, playing with unusual outlines, and creating unexpected combinations, Demetrio gives shape to fleeting thoughts, captured in the never-ending, wild flow of mind.

room 188 Prize and Competitions: 2014 · Premio Marco Paniccia VIII edition Young artists competition, first prize 2013 · International Mosaic Competition and Exhibithion in Gaziantep Competition for the 90th anniversary of Turkish Republic, selected 2013 · MUSIWA International competition in Florence, selected 2007 · I Mosaici di Aquileia con gli occhi di oggi Competition for urban embellishment of Sequals (PN), winner project

room 187 of Modern Art (MAM) in Chiloe, Chile. He completed his first film ‘Los Inmortales’ in late 2009. In 2012 He was invited to produce work for the MSSA museum in Chile, this took him to Joan Barbara in Barcelona where has been developing an ongoing printmaking body of work. Currently lives and works in London where he has a studio based painting practice.

He also exhibits in New York City with Porter Contemporary and in Barcelona with Jano Arts. He has recently exhibited in London both at the Lloyds club Latin American themed group exhibition ‘Contientia’ and at the members Lounge of Coya in Piccadilly.

LUCA INDRACCOLO Born in Naples, works and lives in London “As a realist painter, I am an observer.

What I find absolutely fascinating is discovering the hidden characteristics of the subject matter in my paintings.

Time and time again I find myself trying to peel back the most obvious aspects of the situation in front of me and represent only what I believe to be essential. I seek to capture the moments when people let their guards down, relax, and briefly expose their true character.

It is not until I feel this simple and honest connection with the person materialize on the canvas that I am satisfied. I find building the subtle atmosphere around the subject to be extremely important in creating the weight of the figure, and in turn bringing my paintings to life.

I consider craftsmanship an essential

OTO ( Otgonbayar Tsogt ) I grew up in the Mongolian highlands, surrounded by many superstitions. The Shamanic view towards the circle of life or life cycle and its eternal chain with the universe. Traditionally Mongolians believe that once a body dies it will return to nature. We will become involved in the process of feeding animals and plants when we pass away. It is the process of returning what we took from nature and uniting with it. The belief in a spiritual return of a loved one and the passing of life to the next generation are intimately connected in this chain. Our existence is fragile but eternal. It gives me the impression that we are formed by pieces and parts occasionally dismantled and puzzled in certain ways but connected

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through the spiritual world. Knowledge goes from generation to generation.

As an artist living in the contemporary world my heart is delicately balanced between superstitious beliefs, tradition and modern knowledge of the world.

My pictures reflect straddle contemporary and traditional beliefs about the life cycle. As such the objects in them have a tendency to get dismantled into parts and pieces, puzzles reconstructed around them, like the life cycle and the circle of life. I don’t concentrate on the emotional, figurative details but rather on the structure. Objects drawn on the canvas appears as a mixture of the figurative and imaginary forms of either exposed or deformed figures.

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tool for expression, although I believe it is also important to preserve a personal and intuitive approach to painting. This view often encourages me to pursue quite textured paintings, beginning from my choice of rough canvas to deliberately prominent and lively brushstrokes. I strive to keep colour and value shapes broken and organic rather than calculated and mechanical. In my paintings I aim at a realism that is not photographic, but instead creates a representation of the scene that is interpreted rather than mindlessly reproduced. I am obsessed with colour harmony and simple compositions, yet I feel there is often room (even within confined parameters) to push chromatic intensity and create movement in the simplest of subject matters.�

LEANDRO LOTTICI Born in Rome on 18th July 1979, Leandro studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he currently lives.

As a sculptor he works using different metals, mainly steel. Images of skyscrapers and buildings can be considered the main subjects of his artistic research that includes also several woodcuts. Leandro has taken part to group exhibitions (among others Art Gallery of the Opera Theater in Cairo - Egypt, the Museum Venanzo Crocetti, Palazzo Valentini and Macro Factory - Rome, China International Exhibition Center in Beijing – China) and to many solo exhibitions (among others “Sinfonia Urbana – Echi dalla

GINO DONVITO Gino Donvito lives and works in Gioia del Colle, town located in the Bari district, immersed into the natural spirituality of Apulia, South Italy. In the preparation of his many exhibitions, the artist has faced the most various themes, from Ulysses and the Homeric heroes to Frederick II and the ladies of the Emperor, finally to the exploration of the mysticism of the sacred theme. Deep connoisseur of the history, culture and traditions of his land, Gino Donvito immortalizes his splendor and legends in works that evoke a faraway past, but still touchable in the present monumental marks. Every oeuvre of Gino Donvito is the accomplishment of a superb work of research and knowledge, led in a rigorous loneliness and after a precise spiritual preparation, taken in the total respect for the work of gesta-

room 192 tion. Before conceiving a work the artist creates a humus favorable enough to receive it: he prepares the colors, polishes the items, cures the olive trees of his garden and, as he himself wants to make the point, he wears a new white shirt. He makes all the necessary in order that his view would not be disturbed by any form of disorder. Recovering old techniques of working, Donvito works exclusively with birch wood, cured in advance with emery papers and processed with mordents and colored aniline. As a result, the boards are ready to be prepared with a background of tempera and subsequently polished in order to make them similar to fresco painting walls, where the artist embroiders with thick weaves of colors (temperas, watercolors, pastels, acrylics) his subjects on.

room 191 Città” Il Narciso Gallery - Rome, “Una Tartaruga in Città – Sorpasso alla Moviola” Rocca dei Terzi - Sissa - Parma, “Di corsa sul Filo” Polid’Arte Gallery” - Spoleto Festival - Spoleto). Leandro’s works have been acquired by various government agencies (including the Namoc-National Art Museum of China in Beijing, Customs Agency - Ministry of Finance - Rome, Foundation Catel and Archive of Philatelic and Numismatic Office – Vatican City).

Leandro’s monumental sculptures can be seen in several Italian cities (Arrone - Terni, Fontenuova - Roma, Sissa - Parma) and in the Vatican City.

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RAFAL ZAWISTOWSKI Rafal Zawistowski was born in Warsaw, Poland and grew up in Canada where he graduated from the BA in Fine Art at Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Canada in 2006. As part of his education Zawistowski spent a year in Florence, Italy where he exhibited his artwork as well as studying the renaissance and this still currently plays a key part in his artwork.

During Zawistowski’s studies at Ontario College of Art and after graduating Zawistowski exhibited his artwork in Galleries in Canada before he decided to move to London and study a masters at Wimbledon College of Art in London. Zawistowski graduated in 2011 and later that year he exhibited at New Contemporaries where Charles Saatchi bought several of his artworks.

In 2012 Zawistowski exhibited his first solo exhibition and Charles Saatchi bought the entire collection before the

MAARTEN VAN DEN BOS ‘My paintings and sculptures evoke the modernist expressive way of handling material, however being a contemporary artist I am reinventing the possibilities of this language. My practice is one of discovering through making setting off with the confidence that an image can be transformed through painting and sculpture to find new images and metaphors.

I have an ongoing fascination with the ambiguity of human form, the final works evoke subjects and situations that have continued to fascinate me after seeing films, reading newspapers and real life observations.’’

Bloomberg New Contemporaries’ review: ‘The most impressive of the painters, however, seemed to me the most conventional in Modernist terms. Maarten van den Bos’s figurative paintings, in acrylic, emulsion and filler, have an energy in their rough outlines and even rougher textures that suggest there is still mile-

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age in the De Kooning legacy.’

Saatchi Art Showndown ‘The body electric’ review: ‘Judge Raffi Kalenderian has chosen Hormazd Narielwalla as the winner of The Body Electric Showdown and Maarten Van Den Bos as the runner-up. Praising the high standard of entries, Raffi said: “I loved the colors and composition of Hormazd Narielwalla’s piece. The scale of the work also seemed perfect. When I read about his process of making collages and finding radical abstraction within antique tailoring patterns, sourced from a Parisian fashion magazine, I thought: “This is an artist after my own heart.”

Maarten Van Den Bos’ work struck me as wonderfully beguiling. The scale for this work seemed important, too. I wish I could see it in person. The line between figuration and abstraction is handled in a superior way. There is a psychic energy between the figures, and I dig it.”

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private view. Zawistowski continues to exhibit his artwork through group and solo exhibitions and his worldwide collector base grows monthly!

Zawistowski works with oil paint and wax on linen and canvas and his work evokes emotion through landscape and portraiture painting. His artwork deals with notions of beauty and ugliness. and the significance of the portrayal of the human figure. Rafal gives importance to the figure or landscape by using day-glow colours to signify a once had importance.

He uses his catholic upbringing and renaissance studies to play with the catholic religion in his work to add meaning to his paintings. His artwork is bright and vibrant and is beautiful and ugly through his use of impasto and encaustic paint application. Zawistowski’s artwork must be seen in the flesh to experience the full power his artwork possesses.

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Olga Tsarkova was born in Moscow (Russia) in 1974. In 1984, she was accepted at the National School of Art “Surikov.” In 1996 she enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where she graduated in 2000 with honors.

Massimo Chioccia was born in 1967 in Sugano a small town, between Orvieto and Bolsena. He graduated at “Academy of Fine Arts” in Viterbo with honors in 1998.

SARKA DARTON Sarka Darton is an internationally recognised artist who has had a number of solo and joint exhibitions in the UK and abroad. Her work is in several private and corporate collections in England, Germany, Portugal and the U.S.A. Born in the Czech Republic, Sarka studied art and design in SUPS Turnov, specialising in stone cutting and engraving. In 1987 she won a scholarship to study enamelling at Dresden School of Art and Design, Germany.

Some of her pieces were bought by the Czech government and still form a part of permanent exhibition at the National Museum in Turnov, Czech Republic. After a short career as a restorer of paintings and wooden sculptures in The Museum of Eastern Bohemia, Sharka moved to the UK in 1993 where she broadened her qualifications by undertaking courses in jeweller and fashion design. In 2005, she graduated from U.C.C. with a 1st class

RENATA FERNANDEZ Renata Fernandez (Caracas, Venezuela) lives and works in London since 2003.

Last year Fernandez had her first solo show in a museum, the Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela. The main feature of this show titled “TROPICO CAMUFLADO”, was a 2 by 16 meters long mural made of 14 individual large format charcoal drawings from the ATC series.

As well as an intervention of the Museum’s façade, the largest public art work in recent years in Caracas, Venezuela.

Most recently her work was shown at the iconic MINT Shop in South Kensington, during the London Design Week. Fernandez had solo shows in the UK, Spain and Venezuela, and her work features constantly in this city, as well as in France, Belgium, Spain and Venezuela. Her work is in several private collections in Venezuela, Spain, USA, UK, France, Germany and Belgium.

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room 197 degree in Fine Art and in 2008. She received a PgDip from the University of Sussex with distinction for Painting and Drawing. Her postgraduate career has seen her undertake several private and corporate commissions for mural paintings including one for the Lord March.

Addressing issues of identity and the relationship between people, places and architecture, my art is about the process of looking and seeing: our awareness of the time and space that we occupy. Like many artists who come to live in a different country to that of their childhood and adolescence, I see my own identity as somewhat ambiguous and use my art as a means of working through this ambiguity. Always looking for new ways in which my art will create a space, rather than simply occupy it, my aim is to give the viewer a sense of being within the work and not just standing in front of it.

RICCARDO PEDROTTI Riccardo Pedrotti trained as a luthier and attended the Wood Art School in Cremona and taught Intaglio carving and Scenic design at the Rudolf Steiner Schools in Milan for about 15 years.

He trained as an art therapist (20012004) at the Torino School of Clinical Training in Art Therapy directed by prof.

Elizabeth Stone Matho. During the following twenty years, he practiced and taught in the Art therapy field.

He began his artistic career in the late 1980s, since then exhibiting his works in many solo and group exhibitions.

Among these, his favourite ones are: · in 2007, the solo exhibition Paesaggi Immaginari/Imaginary Landscapes, at the Politecnico di Milano, which also pro-

LUCIENNE O’MARA My work is concerned with identity, the fluid and unfixed nature of it.

Through a vigorous process of application and removal using acrylic on canvas, I am distorting the image of a person with water to suggest the disintegration of a consistent identity, and also the fragility of identity itself.

I am interested in the multifaceted nature of ones self and work from images of people I feel are displaying this.

People who are in some way performing, whether it is on stage, a charac-

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The paintings are a battle between what is removed and what is revealed, which echoes the battle of the subject with themselves.

The layers within the paintings are built up and removed repeatedly until they start to join together to form one united shape.

The final image is one that has in a way fought to be there, representing the parts of the character that are revealed once everything else is stripped away.

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vided an on-order three-dimensional installation and two performances of John Cage’s Radio Music for Eight Radios, by the students of the Conservatory of Milan directed by M° Gabriele Manca using his “radio-art” sets.

- in 2012, the solo exhibition La percezione rivelata/The Revealed Perception at the Galleria Tornabuoni in Florence, with a meditation about the evolution of painting in space.

His work has been appreciated by distinguished art critics such as Francesco Poli; There is an entry on him in the Encyclopedia of Art by Zanichelli (2009).

He lives and works in Milan.

FIONA BROWN HOVELT I paint with paper My collages are all made by hand with Xerox photocopies, a scalpel, glue, and an eye for the absurd.

The imagery you see comes from original Victorian marbled paper, furniture and objects that I photograph myself, plus some found imagery. A large part of my creative process is using a humble photocopier, which is how I create different colours, and change the scale of my imagery. I see it as my paintbrush and palette. With a bank of imagery and photocopies, I go to work. I have no idea what images will come about, I don’t see any finished pieces in my head, it all happens simply through time spent ‘making’.

The work that comes through is sometimes camp, cosmic or comic, and sometimes romantic and apocalyptic. I follow pure intuition and believe in instinct as the purest creative force in all of us.

BRIDGET MACKLIN Bridget studied art at Bath Spa University and City Lit College, London. She works chiefly in bronze and porcelain. Her sculptures, which portray a sense of freedom and dynamic movement, are born out of a deep love of life. They represent frivolous, fantastic characters whose extreme poses speak of a desire to break free from the ground and cavort energetically through life. Working with hemlock stems harvested from the hedgerows of Somerset gives the opportunity to exploit a wonderfully architectural plant whose natural structure dictates the poses of the dancers. This armature is built up with paper pulp to form light, free flowing sculptures in impossible poses.

Casting the originals in bronze brings a sense of irony which echoes the overextended limbs and extreme stances, and holds with a desire to use top quality

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Bridget’s porcelain pieces are inspired by her fascination of natural layers in the geology of our landscape or the rings in trees and protective layers which we construct around ourselves over time in response to the injuries we collect on life’s journey. I am also driven by a passion for experimenting; if she can find an alternative or untried way of creating art she will have a go. This results in some extremely exciting successes which then develop into a range of unique pieces.

Bridget says; “I create highly textured, fragile pieces, often in porcelain, the translucence of which gives sense of purity, to create shapes inspired by the layers and textures of the landscape and carrying a story about our relationship with ourselves, each other and the world about us.”

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Maite is an artist who started painting as a hobby a decade ago. Her diverse background (from French, Brazilian and Moroccan origin) has influenced her paintings.

As a keen traveller, Maite gets her inspiration from different cultures and traditions.

One of her favourite traditions to portrait is the Mexican celebration, “El Dia de los Muertos”, the day of the dead. An ancient tradition, represented by skulls and vibrant colours, to celebrate the life of the people and relatives that died; focusing on the gatherings of family and friends that pray for, and remember their passed relatives. To her it represents ‘life’ : the honouring of humanity in the flesh and the embodiment of consciousness

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