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VISUAL ART OPEN 2024
FINALISTS

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PAINTING & MIXED MEDIA FINALISTS

Elaine Almond Artist ID: 6092 Title: Day's End Dimensions / (cm/in): 120 x 90 x 4cm Materials: Deep box canvas, acrylic paint & varnish. Description: I walk around Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, East Sussex, regularly absorb the atmosphere, follow nature's cycle and have seen hundreds of sunsets. I began this painting during covid when it was impossible to visit, from memory and imagination and finished it after with layers of paint. Price: £1800	Uygar Kucuk Artist Number: 6214 Title: Encounter Dimensions / (cm/in): 70 x 120 cm Materials: Oil on Canvas Description: "Encounter" is a thought-provoking oil painting that portrays a dark, misty forest, where a central light creates a dramatic and theatrical ambiance. Within this scene, the presence of fighting soldiers and a deer conveys the inner struggle of human existence, evoking a sense of mystery and anxiety. Price: 2000	Dorota Hajduk Artist Number: 8454 Title: Wound Dimensions / (cm/in): 100×40 cm Materials: mixed media Description: An abstract piece that deals with internal wounds and difficult experiences. The story about risk that comes from opening up to other people. But I hope to ask the viewer to see the beauty that comes from every wound. To see how our history can guide to a new space. Price: 6500
Mentor Berisha Artist Number: 5778 Title: The Forgiveness of Blood I Dimensions / (cm/in): 70cm x 60cm Materials: Oil on linen Description: Mentor Berisha is known for his expressive content and composition to a new image order with nuances of modern expressionism in painting, for the emphasis on colour selection, the specific placement of light in sub-images, through a free and open momentary Praxis. Price: 2500	Sofía Ruíz Artist ID: 8556 Title: Mysterious Allies Dimensions / (cm/in):61 x 61 cm Materials: Oil on canvas Description: It explores a sense of lost of identity that I felt while my mom suffered from amnesia during my childhood. I felt like an outsider in my own family this is why my art features kids that are isolated or disconnected from their surroundings through scenes full of fragmented memories. Price: 5500	Lucy Pass Artist Number: 7392 Artwork - Title: Between Us Dimensions / (cm/in): 40x30cm Materials: Oil, acrylic and pencil on MDF board Description: This piece marks a new path of experimentation. My paintings are a visual conversation of absence and addition - what you cannot see is as important as what you can. The blurring, stripping back and scrubbing out detail invites even more questions and opportunities to fill in the blanks Price: £820

PHOTOGRAPHY/DIGITAL FINALISTS

Polina Filippova Artist ID: 6371 Title: Almost There Dimensions / (cm/in): 50 x 30 x 5 cm Materials: Wooden frames, matte screens, microprocessors, sensors, single-channel videos Description: A series of 5 interactive self-portraits, inspired by old Dutch and Danish paintings and by the video call’s low-quality image. They capture the emotional landscape of solitary living between digital and physical space and aim to engage the viewers into a meaningful interaction. Price: 2800 each	Mingyue Qu Artist Number: 8333 Title: Maze Dimensions / (cm/in): 1920*1080 Materials: Web project: https://youtu.be/3NMTJCgG-Sc Description: "Maze" is an interactive web project that simulates the experience of navigating a control system, drawing inspiration from common online disturbances such as spam sites, irrelevant advertisements, and viruses. The project incorporates interactive areas that introduce unpredictable disruptions, emphasizing themes of control and frustration.	Alyson J Barton Artist ID: 6371 Title: "Illumine" Dimensions / (cm/in): 11 x 11in Materials: Chromogenic Silver Halide on Glass Description: “Illumine” references the eternal lacuna between memory and myth, portraying the sublime elements of nature through tonalist pictorialism. Elements of emotionalism and romanticism emphasise mood, mystery, and the sublime. Painterly chemical photographic techniques have been deployed
Suzan Tokcan Artist ID: 6250 Title: Tokyo Story Dimensions / (cm/in): 60 x 80 cm. Materials: Digital photomontage C-Type Print, Fujifilm Crystal Archive Paper, Face mount to 3mm acrylic, back mount to 4mm dibond, with aluminium back frame Description: Photomontage based on a photo taken in a Tokyo alley… place we both loved visiting. The graffiti angel had a blank face on which I superimposed transparent portraits of my sister and me.	Arthur Dantes Lara Artist ID: 6306 Title: Ubik_3 Dimensions / (cm/in):59.4 x 42 cm Materials: Digital Illustration. Description: The Ubik series came from a feeling of elegant solitude, like having coffee at an airport at night. The actual technical process was mainly about placing these large structures in such a way so that the contrast between light and darkness itself created interesting patterns. Price: 230£

SCULPTURE FINALISTS

Yucen Liu Artist Number: 5781 Title: Constructing Conscious Resonance Dimensions / (cm/in): 145x90x33cm Materials: Steel, wood, wax Description: Chairs and wooden flooring, evoke a strange yet deliberate imbalance, subverting the chair's intended utility. The imprints on the wooden floor narrate a silent history, which is given a renewed luminance and consciousness through the application of wax, symbolizing memory preservation and renewal in the face of change. Price: 5200	Floyd Bolliger Artist Number: 6026 Title: Battersea (Part Memory) Dimensions / (cm/in): 165x80x80cm Materials: Pureen Description: Based on a 3D scan and CNC milled the work examines how memory and knowledge creation evolves trough the evolution of Technology. Fragmenting and dissolving into itself the sculpture takes on different facets depending on the point of observation, just how memories tend to do. Price: 8200	ZIZI Liu Artist ID: 6480 Title: YIN Dimensions / (cm/in): W: 80cm D: 70cm Materials: Iron metal, wool, mohair, silk, cotton, linen, polyamide, polyester covered spandex yarn Description: In the collision of diverse cultures, my identity thrives in the transitional environment through Lao Zi's dialectics. I engage with varied fibers, creating a trinity of active and passive interweaving. Exploring the dynamics of identity, belonging, and insecurity within the knitting process
Jiayun Ding Artist ID: 8327 Title: The deadly virus in sea Dimensions / (cm/in): 45cm L x 45cm W x 72cm H Materials: Hot glass Description: This piece is a comment on the global warming crisis it serves as a metaphor the harmful algal bloom (HBA) is like the deadly virus in the sea especially under the post pandemic circumstances. The glass sculpture’s figure is inspired by the harmful algal and the corona virus. Free blown. Price: 1200	Serena Rogers Artist ID: 8484 Title: Cardboard Kitchen Dimensions / (cm/in): 3metres x 2metres Materials: Cardboard and paper tape Description: I collected free waste cardboard from businesses, creating a piece inspired by the cost of living crisis. Set in the 1980s the start of what would become a 40 year inequality between rich and poor. The majority of bills for the home are generated from the kitchen. Price: 5000

ILLUSTRATION & DRAWING FINALISTS

Jan Lowe Artist ID: 8305 Title: African Painted Wolf Dimensions / (cm/in): 11 x 14 in Materials: Drawn by blade on a Ampersand Scratchboard. Limited watercolour for colour Description: This artwork was sketched from life using a black ampersand board and a white pencil. Scratched with a blade and colour by WC into final form from studio. This African Wolf resides in the Melbourne Zoo, and I often sketch her, they are an endangered species. Price: 1200	Flo Meissner Artist ID: 5465 Title: Melting Flower #24 Description: Part of Melting Flowers, a series that explores the beauty of decay. It captures the delicate beauty of flowers in their final moments, as they transform from vibrant blooms to delicate remnants of their former self. Price: 150	Emily Luke Artist ID: 6337 Title: One Bear and a Crow Dimensions / (cm/in): 21cm x 29.7cm Materials: Pens, collage and pencil Description: Amongst a town of terracotta roofs, Bear announces to Crow that he is off on an adventure. Page 8 in a picture book, hand draw with elements of collage. Price: 66
Jan Lowe Artist ID: 8305 Title: Miss M Dimensions / (cm/in): 11 x 14 in Materials: Ampersand Scratchboard, blade and a white pastel pencil to draw her in first and then scratch her through. Added WC for colour., Description: Working from life, and animals do move! Sketched her first with a pastel pencil, just to get her shape down, then whilst she was next to me feeding, I scratched her in using the blade. No colour was added as I believe her presence is portrayed in black & white	Flo Meissner Artist ID: 5465 Title: Growing Apart Description: Growing apart from oneself Price: £500

YOUNG ARTIST FINALISTS

Clara (Yanjun Liu) Artist Number: 5653 Title: What are you looking at? Dimensions / (cm/in): depends on the screen's size Materials: Perfoemance video Description: My breasts have suffered stares throughout my teenage years and into the present. When I wear suspenders, people take extra pleasure in staring at my breasts, and the mixture of disdain and eroticism leaves me breathless all the time. Hence, I tried to redisplay this kind of feeling to all. Price: 300	Rhianna Pierson Artist Number: 5735 Title: Aftersun Dimensions / (cm/in): 100 x 145 cm Materials: Oil paint on canvas Description: My paintings take ephemeral personal and familial memories and depict them as dreamlike, colourful paintings that uncover the emotions and depth behind the photograph or memory, delving into the relationships between the subjects, the artist and the viewer. The painting evokes nostalgia in the viewer despite the anonymous figures. Price: £1000	Susan Kellaway Artist Number: 5958 Title: 40 Days and 40 Nights Dimensions / (cm/in): 150 x 160cm Materials: Oil Paint on Canvas Description: Where sunburnt sag shuffle through their Costa del Sol holiday. To England with love from the Barmy Army. Price: 4000
Nicole Sheppard Artist Number: 6195 Title: Intra-action: I Dimensions / (cm/in): 173cm x 50cm x 50 cm aprox Materials: hempcrete, mortar, cotton, steal, flax, plant dye, wool. Description: The work explore the entanglement of matter, using natural materials. Crucial to this investigation is exploring the role of Culture-Nature Dualism in western society and the role of the naturalised other. As a multimedia practitioner she explores her place within the world. Price: £500	Dana Goh Artist Number: 7241 Title: You sit on my bodily sins Dimensions / (cm/in): 95 x 95 x 100 Materials: Tufted Beanbag Description: Struggling with alopecia areata from a young age, the artist confronts the struggles with stress through a tufted beanbag with silicone negative bits. The encounter evokes the surreal discomfort of discovering a bald spot (silicone) on a seemingly marshmallow-like cushion. Price: 3500

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