Month: September 2024

Alexander Haywood graduated from The University of Edinburgh with a degree in Painting. His practice explores the boundaries between the real and the imagined by infusing the outer – the landscape – with subjective inner perception.

His paintings reflect emotions and subtle states of consciousness, revealing both what is unique to his own psyche and universal to the human condition. Whether it is through his use of perspective, attention to detail, or emotive expression, the artist aims to create an intimate and immersive experience in order to dissolve the separation between subject and object, the image and the viewer.

With cinematic compositions capturing nature’s vastness and diversity, his work illuminates the value of reestablishing a more harmonious relationship with the natural world through a sense of awe.

Haywood’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. After residing in Berlin for several years, the artist now works at Limehouse Studios in East London.

In his work, Italian artist Alessio Mazzarulli addresses the passage of time. Shredding and recycling the paper that he comes across in daily life: bills, receipts, invoices, business plans and magazines, he creates thickly layered artworks that show a distorted glimpse of the past. A faded memory, eroded by time, the details of a face, almost forgotten – he captures these moments and incorporates them into his work to create a testimony of human existence.

“I like to find new ways, new paths, new techniques, new materials, and use them to convey a message.”

Alessio Mazzarulli currently lives and works in Francavilla al mare, Italy.

Ai Kijima’s pop art-inspired works feature cartoon characters collaged into layered quilts, which can be interpreted as both safety blankets and menacing meditations on global culture.

Born in Japan and based in New York, Kijima begins each piece by searching through her extensive trove of textile scraps cut from bed sheets or curtains designed for children. The artist then sews the fabric pieces into kaleidoscopic quilts brimming with energy and visual information.

The collaged images fail to form a linear narrative but rather create a snapshot of juvenilia from different parts of the world. Kijima’s arrangements augment existing characteristics of the images, exaggerating the codes of gender, nationality, and violence that are laced into cartoons by their corporate authors.

Bryan Mew explores what it means to be a painter in a technologically dominated world. His work investigates the slippage between the digital and the analogue in contemporary technological innovations such as machine learning, robotics and artificial intelligence, whilst preserving traditional forms of making such as painting.

In a world driven by automation and digital visual culture, the artist explores the ways in which technological experimentation can create a symbiotic relationship between artistic and scientific practices – pushing both abstract and representational art in new directions.

Mew has been shortlisted as a finalist for multiple Australian art prizes including the 2021 Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Awards, 2021 National Capital Art Prize and 2022 Lethbridge 20000 Art Prize. He has furthermore participated in shows at the Melbourne’s Brunswick Street Gallery, the Red Gallery, and The Other Art Fair in Melbourne, Sydney and Los Angeles.

The artist currently lives and works in Tokyo.

Daniel Freaker received his MFA from the Slade School of Art in London, where he explored the painterly qualities of print, video, film and photography.

His exceptionally vibrant paintings are reminiscent of movie scenes – they seem to be mere fragments of a broader narrative. Occupying a space between the abstract and the figurative, the way in which the paint is applied to the canvas is equally important to the subject matter of the work. Some details are clearly defined where others are more of a suggestive gesture. This makes for a rich tapestry of interwoven processes which add a complex textural quality to the artwork. With this multiplicity of techniques the artist aims to evoke a certain sense of nostalgia about moments that were both beautiful and painful.

His subjects are often individuals, couples, or groups of people, addressing topics of relationships and isolation. The scenes depicted may remind us of personal experiences, while the techniques and radiant colours evoke a sense of longing for warmth. Distortions in the work seem to amplify the feelings the artist aims to evoke: connection, loss, vulnerability, or loneliness. This constant search for juxtaposition between vibrance and darkness, accident and intention, order and chaos, is what makes Freaker’s work memorable.

Daniel Freaker’s work has evolved through artistic collaborations, working with charities, and exhibiting and lecturing throughout the U.K. as well as internationally, including at the British Museum in London, Dae Won University in Korea, and The Meera Gallery in Pune, India. The artist currently lives and works in Portsmouth, UK.