OPEN02
GROUP SHOW
22 SEP – 3 OCT, 2022
EXCELSIOR STUDIOS
A group show open to all artists and makers in Park Royal. A chance to come together and show the work of our area, to meet, collaborate, and celebrate.
Park Royal is home to an emerging creative scene. A melting pot of ideas with hundreds of artists, makers and creatives hiding amongst the auto parts shops, distribution centres and dark kitchens of the industrial estate. The Park Royal Gallery emerged from these artists as a nomadic, floating gallery concept. A gallery with no gallerists, and with no permanent home. With the single aim of creating and celebrating art, whether you’re an artist with a studio, working in the joinery next door or on the factory floor, everyone should be able to enjoy and access art.
Park Royal Gallery uses the space available to them - the side of a building, or common parts of the studio buildings that have been established in the area. Maybe one day it will have a permanent space.
OPEN02 is the second of many group shows. An opportunity for all artists to submit, without curation or limitations.
We hope you enjoy.
The Park Royal Gallery team
Antoine Amphoux, Johnny Brewin, Daniella Carlyle, Antonio De Pasquale, Brooke Fitzsimons, Kazuya Ogino, David Samuel, Gil Wedam
Special thanks to Excelsior Studios for the exhibition space, the Roundwood Project for locally brewed beers, and Pathways Coffee for martinis.
Catalogue
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A LOOK INTO
BABY GURL
Not for sale
A LOOK INTO is a new wave production company offering filmmaking services to produce short-form fiction content, brand content, documentaries, photography projects, fashion films, behind-the-scenes shorts and music videos. However, we also run events, workshops, produce publications and exhibitions aimed to educate and facilitate wider learning on topics we explore through film.
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NICHOLAS AJAGBE [DRD]
IN MY MIND…
Painted wood panel (Acrylic, Glow-In-The-Dark Pigment + gold paint)
100 x 100cmNot for sale
Design went from a distraction I used to paper all the days I wasn't allowed out, which turned into an obsession into 'how' & 'why'. Somewhere in flux between art + science, I find a way to give my commentary on the world as it stands and where it could potentially be heading..."
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FREDERICK BELL
MISSING - AN EXAMINATION
Photographic prints on x-ray film, mounted on a medical light box
W73 x H51x D12cmOriginal not for sale, prints available upon request
Frederick Bell is a London-based photographic artist whose work tends to focus on emotional expression, with an obsession in small details of the everyday.
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VANESSA BELL
WOMAN
Acrylics on canvas and imitation gold leaf.
100cm x 30cm£525.00
Aziza Illustrates is an emerging digital illustration and fine art practice based in Park Royal, West London. Founded by self-taught artist Vanessa Bell in 2018, the practice focuses on themes from the afro diaspora and is influenced by her rich and vibrant Afro Caribbean culture. Following her study of textiles and graphic design, Vanessa graduated Nottingham Trent University with a degree in Interior Design and Interior Architecture. She proceeded to work in the industry for five years before changing her career and fully focusing on her illustration practice this year.
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BLAST STUDIO
ENDLESS VASE
Reishi Mycelium grown on discarded coffee cups.
30 x 10cm£200
Blast Studio was founded in 2018 by Paola Garnousset (b.1993), Martin Detoeuf (b.1991) and Pierre de Pingon (b.1992). The design studio aims to explore how nature and technology can be put in dialogue in order to transform cities’ discarded material into artefact and architecture. They exhibited their work across the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and South Korea. In 2020 they were awarded the Prix d'encouragement en Architecture by L'Académie des Beaux Arts Paris, France, this year they were finalists of the Loewe Craft Prize and in summer 2022 one of their mycelium vases integrated the permanent collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs of Paris.
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REGAN BOYCE
DRIFT
Painted steel and wood, wall hanging sculpture.
59 x 30 x 18cmPrice: POA
Regan Boyce is a multidisciplinary artist who creates vibrant, monochromatic, structural sculptures and installations as well as print works. Inspired by minimalism, Boyce’s sculptural objects are often ambiguous in form and use man-made industrial materials and methods of making to play with material, texture, shape and colour. Boyce predominantly works in steel, has a high attention to details and an obsession with colour choice.
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FELIX CHESHER
FRESH AIR
Oil on Canvas
44cm x 34cm framed£1295
I trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2019 and had a short spell of working as a freelance scenic painter in the West End until everything came to a stop caused by COVID-19, I started painting portraits in lockdown and have continued to do so ever since.
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MATTHEW CORBIN BISHOP
BOTSWANA GREEN, 2008
Oil ink, oil on gesso on canvas
26 x 15 cmPrice on request
Matthew Corbin Bishop's (Southampton, 1984) practice explores history; the shifting boundaries of political geography - particularly within the colonial era - and the effects these have on the world today. He graduated with a first from Bath Spa University and was accepted to the Goldsmiths Fine Art MFA programme. He lives and works in London.
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CRIATURA
CRIARSENAL 22 & CRIARSENAL 01
2 x pairs of size 9UK trainers. Only 1 of each pair displayed.
£2,250 (sold together)
Hand-painted CRIA Mid Trainer - Designed explicitly for painting and customisation, the Mid shares the iconic silhouette of a Nike AF1 but is made from a specially designed composite material better suited to paint and dye adherence. Additionally, panels have been resized and reshaped to allow for more detailed paintwork.
My name is Criatura, the name, creature in Spanish, gives you an insight into my work. I paint primarily with spray paint, acrylics and specialist leather paints to create vibrant, exciting pieces on all types of canvases, including some more unconventional ones, like my trainers - the CRIA Mid. Creatures populate all my works to some effect, most commonly my signature... Tenta.
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MARIUS DAVID
FOUR
Acrylic and oil on Canvas
152.4 x 121.9cm£3500
Marius David is a London-based contemporary artist. Originally from a small, multicultural area in Romania, Marius graduated in Sociology, and moved to London in 2011 where he developed his career in Interior Design. These two fields influenced his creative approach to art. His sensitive observation and acknowledgment of the astonishing cultural and social diversity of his newly found home on the one hand, and respectively his love for the perfect line, enabled a keen eye for proportions and volumes on the other hand.
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MADELYN DRANSFIELD & JULIA RYAN
LAIZE LONGUE
160 x 60cm
Special LDF price £195
Laize Longue is a portable and contemporary luxury mat, made for discerning loungers, al fresco adventurers, festival goers & yogi's. Sustainably designed & crafted in the UK, it embodies the geometric purity and ergonomic excellence of a 20th-century chaise.
Mads & Jules are Australian interior & product designers based in Park Royal. In addition to working with clients and their interior spaces, they design furniture & lifestyle products, including Laize Longue.
Order your Laize Longue at our online store using the discount code LDF22
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NAIMA ELBOUIHI
A SAD CRAZE
Print - 59.4 x 42cm - £65
Original painting, acrylic and gouache, 90 x 120cm - £590Naima is an abstract artist and print designer whose work focuses on her experiences with mental health, grief, and spiritual growth through her abstract designs. NMMELA Designs focuses on the fluctuation of emotions and hopes to raise an awareness for mental health.
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HELENA ELSTON
HESSIAN WASTE & MYCELIUM JACKET
Size 2 jacket, hessian (coffee sack waste), organic thread, mycelium
Price: POA
Helena Elston is a textile designer and material researcher investigating the interconnection of waste, ecology and fashion. Her ongoing project, f.i (fungal-integrated), explores the up-cycling of textile waste combined with mycelial growth. F.i is a series of wearable and sustainable designs made from local London waste products like discarded textiles, garments and coffee sacks, which are manipulated through a unique mycelium process. The mycelial grown pieces range from complete garment decomposition, appliqué on waste garments, and seaming alternatives for thread. These designs are a reflection of innovative ways in which we can safely decompose textiles and discover fast fashion alternatives.
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MARIA FARRAR
CHOCOLATE TWIST
Pastel on paper. 30 x 40 cm
Maria Farrar was born in the Philippines and brought up in Japan. She completed her BFA at the Ruskin School of art and MFA at Slade school of art. After leaving the Slade she attended the residency program at the British school at Rome on the Derek Hill Foundation scholarship. Her study of ancient frescoes in Rome changed the direction of her work - to work more on narrative, on story-telling and characters.
Her work is mostly large paintings that involve confectionary, animals, women and high heels. Her drawings are fundamental to compositions in larger oil paintings that explore femininity, the nature of care, and conflict. She is currently thinking about the significance of the direct gaze, both animal and human.
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BROOKE FITZSIMONS
REFLECTING 2022
Oil on linen. 100 x 60cm
£1100
Brooke’s paintings start with a tonal underpainting; colour and forms are built up with transparent oil paint glazes. The human figure reduced to a silhouette, linear architectural forms, irregular natural shapes and luminous colours are all borrowed from and used to represent the beauty of the physical world. Her practice is influenced by a former career as a graphic designer in magazine production, knowledge of printing and photographic processes, yet made by hand with oil paint on linen.
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FORM & BEYOND
UNTITLED
Birch plywood, hardwood timber, spray paint, beeswax
30cm x 30cm x 3.5cm1 OF 3, £400 each
Freestyle multi depth routed plywood panel set in sapele hardwood frame. Acrylic spray painted surface, scorched timber & burnished wax finish.
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JULIET E P GIBBS
GRASS ON THE PLATFORM
Oil and acrylic on cotton canvas
61.2 (h) x 66.2 (w) x 4 (d)£1200
JULIET E P GIBBS (b. 1996, Somerset) is an artist currently living and working in North West London. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Falmouth University in 2018.
Gibbs' work focuses mainly on the contrast between the organic and the man-made. The work seeks to look at the direct impact humanity poses in relation to the world we live in, and how nature inevitably fights back. This age-old conflict creates an interesting 'push-and-pull' that we can all observe in the places we live, work and visit.
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ERIN HAGGATY / TINYSHED TATTOOS
TIGER MANDALA TATTOO DESIGN
Symmetrical Tiger mandala tattoo design. Drawn using procreate software on the iPad Pro. Available to be tattooed.
30cm x 30cm£200
Erin has been tattooing for about 3 years and just opened her own studio called TinyShed Tattoo Co. She specialises in black work tattoos and has more designs available on Instagram.
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BAHBAK HASHEMI-NEZHAD
SHELVES
Lime, aluminium, glass, steel cable, brass
£100 – £160
Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad is a designer based in London. His studio produces work spanning scales and disciplines, from games and public spaces to design education and products.
He has developed projects, exhibited, conducted masterclasses and workshops both in the UK and internationally, including with the Serpentine Galleries; Greater London Authority; Tokyo Metropolitan Government; Shanghai Biennale; Liverpool Biennial; Service Design Network, Singapore and Dentsu. He studied at the Royal College of Art where he currently leads a Masters platform focusing on participatory design.
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NIKOLAI ISHCHUK
UNTITLED (HARVEST 3)
Silver gelatin print, cyanotype, acrylic, polymer spray, cement wash
60.8 x 50.8cm unframed / 71 x 62 x 4 cm framed£3,500
Nikolai Ishchuk’s practice uses photography as a platform for a mixed-media practice whereby light sensitive processes and materials are dramatized as technical support and diverted away from the pictorial toward perceptual propositions at the limits of legibility and meaning.
Ishchuk graduated with an MA in Fine Art with Distinction from the Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2013. He has since had several solo exhibitions in New York, London and Los Angeles. Group shows and presentations include an upcoming exhibition at the Eskenazi Museum of Art (2023, Bloomington, IN), The Stubborn Influence of Painting at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (2021, Boulder, CO), Plat(t)form at Fotomuseum Winterthur (2015, Winterthur, Switzerland), Jerwood Encounters at Jerwood Space (2013, London), The London Open at Whitechapel Gallery (2012, London). He has been awarded residencies at Art Omi (2014, Ghent, NY) and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (2019, North Adams, MA).
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ALLISYN JAMES / COBIE DESIGNS
SERIES #4 HURLINGHAM
1 Hurlingham ALSTROMERIA
2 Hurlingham EUPHORBIA
3 Hurlingham FOXGLOVEGiclee print from Washout print layered process (Gouache & Ink)
Limited edition of 25
500mm x500mm£250 each or £600 the set (unframed)
These images are available as fine art prints or as repeat textile designs
My name is Allisyn James, and I am the designer / founder behind Cobie designs. Cobie was my dog. He was the love of my life, and he is my inspiration for my surface design and textiles business. My motto was always ‘Cobie comes with’ and so it is again. Welcome to Cobie Designs - inspired by a life of colour, pattern and texture that I have seen, and still see everywhere I go. It’s important to me that the designs start by hand, and the resulting design has a scratchy dynamism that will make you look again and again into the resulting image.
I want my designs to dance for you
I want my designs to make you smile
I want my designs to brighten your day
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KALIMA KAI + DAN MAUZ
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ELSKA LEELOO
THE COMPANION, 2020
Stoneware, glaze
6 x 3 x 11.5 inches£1600
Born of the earth, immortalised by fire, ‘The Companion’ is a relic born of the Artist’s experiments with the subconscious. Created in a sort of fever-dream, right at the beginning of her love affair with the ceramic medium, it is one of four sculptures to have survived the years that followed and the firing process itself. Conceived without intention, impressions may be projected onto it at the viewers discretion. Its character and form acting as a mirror to the ever shifting interpretations of the psyche. ‘The Companion’ stands sightless but not without vision.
Elska Leeloo is a self-taught ceramics artist living and working in London.
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TABBY LI
THROUGH IT ALL, 2022
Oil on linen
40 x 40cmPrice: POA
Tabby Li is a London-based artist and printmaker. Her work explores interpersonal relationships, sentiment and spiritualism within the modern world. Her work is an exploration of the emotional undercurrents of the individual - often within a sterile or minimal domestic setting centred on the female form, the materiality of the body and the interplay between form and emotional expression.
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DAN MAUZ
THE TEMPTATION OF SAINT ANTHONY / LOOP 1
150 x 90 x 55cm
Price On Application
The Temptation of Saint Anthony is a recurrent subject in the history of Art, concerning the supernatural, monstrous looking temptation faced by the Saint in the desert, visions by which he is vigorously teased and yet he resists. Despite having no religious aim or disposition I have always been fascinated and intrigued by the visual power of the painting production related to this particular episode of the Saint throughout time, mainly the one attributed to Michelangelo among others (Bosh, Auer, Dalì...). From the very idea of the first iconic apple, temptation is a constant in man's life and never more so than in present days with all the precious superfluousness given by the system. I find 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony' of extremely contemporary meaning and so close to my human experience that I wanted to pay tribute to it by giving a personal interpretation to the subject as well as creating a moment of reflection on our present condition.
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KASHAYAR NAIMANAN
LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
Wood, steel, glass, fibreglass, polypropylene
L 240 x W 60 x H 160 cmEnquiries for price
2 Eames chairs, one genuine (USA Herman Miller fibreglass) and one reproduction, on a rocker base.
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VICTORIA NOAKES
BLUE BEGENDING (Serpientes Collection)
A1 Size (59.5 x 84.1cm)
1 of 5£530
Floating blue speckled volume, made with spray paint, on a perspex sheet. This piece is part of a limited series of 5 original pieces, meaning it will be produced 5 times before the original stencil is destroyed. However, each piece is unique as the speckling, shading, and tones can never be identically reproduced. This pattern also exists on a paper series as a limited edition of 10 originals.
Rooted in the intersection of performance, theory, and art, Victoria’s work is energetic, eclectic, and often gravitates towards non-conformity. With a background in architecture, Victoria often finds inspiration in the contrasts lying between artificial and natural objects or landscapes. Having recently graduated from Central Saint Martins, Victoria is currently pursuing the themes explored in her thesis project (Water, Bodies & Cities) through various mediums, including collage, sound-pieces, and painting.
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JULIA NOVA
LOOK AT ME
Acrylic on Canvas
150 x 100cm£6200
My work is inspired by bright colours and shapes and hidden meanings. The circle to me represents infinity, being complete, and being whole. It is a symbol of being centred. The circles create this movement on the canvas like a chaos and still somehow each is so controlled and perfect in its shape. The repetition is meditative, poetic and brings me such joy.
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SARITA OSEI-TUTU/SADO
UNTITLED 16
Oils/pastels/acrylic on denim
210 x 150cm£500
Sarita’s works explore the integration of stillness and meditation through figurative forms and nature. Specifically within nature; the moon, sun and trees are a common influence within her works.
She uses mediums such as oils, oil pastels, spray paints and acrylics to express her ideas in what she believes is a sacred part of humanity.
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YEMI OYATO
THE SUBTLE ART OF LETTING GO, 2021
Mixed Media Artwork: Photography, NFT, Natural Giclée Print (High-res Digital Photograph)
£135
YEMIOYATO is a London based Creative director and Fine Art photographer. She specialises in communicating a sense of peacefulness through the lens as her works are deeply human in their intent - touching upon the therapeutic and affective nature of photography. The submitted work titled ‘The Subtle Art of Letting Go’ is an ode to the peace that can be found in freeing yourself from within, and how this internal freedom is a notion we can all aspire to, and use as a mediator for understanding the self.
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DAVID PEREIRA
CC x04 #01
Unique C-print
30.5 x 40.5 x 5cm unframed, 50.75 x 61 x 10cm framed£2000
This work is from the series colour correspondence. The apparatus for each grid consists in pairing two colours, one generated by chance and then another selected to correspond. Once the two colours are matched, the photo-sensitive paper is exposed to light. Each grid in this series is an aggregation of attempts to mix the two colours while inhabiting the tension between chance and control. As a result the grids are unique and unrepeatable and colour in them becomes unforeseeable.
David Pereira is a Portuguese/British artist living in London where he completed an MA Photography at The Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design. In his practice he researches the fundamentals of image creation in the analogue darkroom by using chance as the key compositional principle, light as the medium and colour the subject of his work.
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TOBY RAINBIRD
SELF PORTRAIT IN MIRROR (GREEN), 2022
Oil on Wood
30 x 30 x 3cmPrice upon request
Toby Rainbird is a London-based Figurative Artist from the Channel Islands. He explores quiet and intimate moments in his art through a combination of direct observation and colourful reimagining of his subjects. His work seeks to convey a poetic sense of reflection; focusing his attention on contemplative, ambiguous and closed moments with individuals or in nature.
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JOE RICHARDSON
WINDS ARE CHANGING
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 30cm£1000
Richardson's works operate in the space between the performance of an action and its anticipated outcome, for example, smashing glass, a character falling in a canal or a breakthrough in communication. His works perform as double acts, facades, and stages ‘that deconstruct everyday scenarios through repetition to the point of absurdity to produce purgatorial experiences of waiting, spaces of absurd nothingness, and the opportunity to navigate uncertainty.’ His recent projects include a solo exhibition at Cine-Window, Winsford, a duo show at FIVE YEARS, 'Pesaro Voeslauer' and a group show at London Lighthouse Gallery. Richardson also has a permanent display of video works available to view in the lobby of Universal Music, 4 Pancras Square. Alongside his professional art practice, Richardson is a freelance tutor at UAL Short Courses and City Lit, teaching painting, drawing, and collage.
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CHINO RIDGE
MODERN TYPOGRAPHY
Food packages, resin clay, vintage wooden printer tray
50 x 62 x 3.5cm each£900
Chino creates conceptual sculptures and installations, exploring primary themes around culture, history, and value. Her exploration of value comes from her contrasting experiences of commercial design and traditional craft. Chino often uses history to decipher the present and ponder the future, which informs important conceptual aspects of her works.
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JOSHUA SAMUEL-GAITENS
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DERRICK SANTINI
BEING
120 x 84cm, framed
£14,000 plus VAT
Lenticulars are a series of layered images that are created to form a loop of animation which is printed in a special way on the back of the lenticular sheet called a lens, this striped sheet then recreates the original animation when one walks past it.
‘BEING’ from a series called ‘In The Mind' and was all shot under water, and deals with themes such as life and love and where we all come from, water and light making life and all beings within it.
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TERENCE SENFORD
GUIDED BY INNER SANCTUMS (def:- a private place from which most people are excluded)
Discarded wood, acrylic, clay, and cotton cord
Made up of 9 pieces, in total 38cm x 40cmWork in progress – NOT FOR SALE, yet.
My art practice lies in exploring identity, experience and the tension that is caused between the two. Through the dialogue and evolution within the journey of making, I am drawn to the rediscovery and imperfections of craft and serendipity. Using a combination of discarded items and traditional materials, I deconstruct the traditional components of a painting (canvas, stretcher bars etc), isolating these materials with the intention of giving credence or equal voice so that the work can be viewed as total. The result is work that sits between painting and sculpture and is about placing value to that which we normally either take for granted or disposed of use has been fulfilled.
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ITAYA STAWSKI
INFLATED SELF ESTEEM
Photograph, 106.7 x 160.4cm
£400
The main theme of my work is based on my forced conscription to the army at 19 and feeling unfit to hold a gun, as well as growing up with two psychiatrist parents as different as the moon and the sun.
I moved to London by myself, and by the age of 21 I suffered many identity crises; My work is metaphorized with a sense of confusion between soldier to officer, adult to kid, and how each has its own defence mechanism by playing games or fighting wars.
With Itiya Studio, I reclaim the clarity or the ground I never had; by designing my own textiles and making bespoke garments sustainably and by up-cycling pre-loved items, I manage to unlearn things that adulthood taught me.
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ASHA VAIDYANATH
SOUVENIRS OF NATURE
Cherry blossom, tatarian honeysuckle, barberton daisy on eri silk. Collected and made in Paris, April 2022.
25 x 24cm, framed.Not for sale
Asha Vaidyanath is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. Her work explores the interplay between nature and human emotion through colour, material and craft.
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PHIL WEBB
TINY THE SPANNERSAURUS
An upcycled piece made up from old tools and a chain from a forklift truck
Across/toe to toe: 35cm, toe to tail: 110cmCommission only
I'm a fabricator/welder currently working in the music industry with a high level engineering background and a love of upcycling.
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MEIKE ZANE
BULLETPROOF
A2, 59.4 x 42 cm.
Not for sale
Meike Zane is a 32 year old pencil portrait artist living in London, but originally from the Netherlands. In her portraits she tries to portray her subjects as they are, not just in likeness but striving to capture their soul on paper. She often draws portraits of people she admires, such as artists she enjoys and people who have made a difference in her life. Meike is passionate about art (both her own and others), photography, traveling, music, family, and more.
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ZIN V
SENDING THOUGHTS
Mixed media on canvas
70 x 100 x 3.3 cm£700
Zin V is an award-winning artist based in the United Kingdom whose paintings have been exhibited in England. He describes his works as mainly revolving around the "conflicts within" that are based on human values, as well as the relationships between humans and the world around them. V's most recent pieces are created using mixed media with paper cut-outs, acrylics, and spray paint.
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