Amelia’s Magazine | Art Grab Exhibition II

Category: Art

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Zircon by Lucie Pardue.

On Thursday 10th May the second Art Grab exhibition event takes place for one evening only – so get along and bag yourself a piece of artwork from a host of up and coming artists. Art Grab is all about establishing direct connections between emerging artists and buyers, and alongside direct buying events they also arrange studio tours and consultations.

Art Grab was conceived out of the current economic climate. Having become dispirited after far too many unpaid internships, we decided to take matters into our own hands and have opened an art agency that aims to instill transparency and intimacy into the emerging art market. We recognised that many small East and South London galleries were struggling to introduce buyers to their artists, more concerned with the crowd on opening night than long-term support. To compound this many potential buyers were put off by the hype and pretence surrounding much of the art world. We look to build an infrastructure where relationships are nurtured between artists and patrons. To achieve this we organise exhibition evenings and tailored studio tours, introducing new work and the artists behind it. We pioneer a more fluid and interactive approach, offering a viable alternative to the current gallery model, connecting creative minds to creative buyers. Our artists have been selected for their focus on striking aesthetics and strong underlying concepts.

Their mission is to bring the very best 'undiscovered art' to the punters. And I very much like the look of their newest batch of finds: check out this wee selection.

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Renata Kaminska studied photography at The Modern Education Association (TNE) in Torun, Poland before completing her BA in Photography at Camberwell College of Arts in 2011. In Renata's works her subject matter revolves around combinations of object and body. She looks closely at common objects and places, and attempts to reveal the unseen side of things. She explores emotional resonance of objects and searches for unexpected configuration that could carry a psychologically charged reading.

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Yuichiro Kikuma earned a BA in Illustration from Camberwell College of Art in 2008 before moving to Wimbledon College of Art where he graduated in Fine Art & Painting in 2010. Yuichiro's practice focuses on observations of space around us in highly developed urban and suburban areas of our time. He is particularly interested in modern housing developments in the capital city that reflect and represent the ideals in our modern life as well as other social factors such as economic and political situations. The cityscapes he paints are places of living that are so ordinary they are often ignored but remembered despite their imposing presence.

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Jess Littlewood completed a foundation in Art and Design at Central St Martins before graduating in Fine Art in 2010. Jess has developed a practice that interrogates belief and the thought systems that surround it. Through the accumulation of images, landscapes are built which stage ritualistic, yet abandoned events, and where Utopia engages in a futile battle with nature. I was most taken by Jess Littlewood's work at the London Art Fair last year.

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Adeline de Monseignat graduated in Language and Culture at University College London in 2009 before completing an MA in Fine Arts at City and Guilds of London Art School in 2011. 2010 also saw her study at The Parsons New School in New York and Slade School of Fine Arts in London. Themes around the body, fertility, sexuality and origin are recurrent in Adeline de Monseignat's practice, often dealt in her sculptures and installations with organic, sensual and fragile materials such as fur, coffee, eggshells and wood, in order to let these materials do what the body itself does: yield to the damages of time.

Pop along in the evening, or drop in during the morning on 11th May between 10-12am.