ARTISTS - THE DEAL

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Sonia Aniceto / BE

Sónia Aniceto (B/P) °1976, Lisbonne, Portugal.
Sonia est diplômée en peinture par la FBAUL. En 2000, grâce à une bourse Erasmus Sónia intègre l’atelier de tapisserie contemporaine à l’ACA, à Bruxelles. Elle a travaillé dans les ateliers de la Monnaie et est actuellement professeur d’arts appliquées à Bruxelles. Représentée par des galeries d’art en Belgique, en France, en Allemagne, aux Pays-Bas, aux EUA et au Portugal, son travail intègre des collections publiques et des collections privées.

"Ma démarche est au croisement entre peinture et textile. Le fil apparait sur la peinture comme une volonté de reconstitution. Le tissu se réapproprie le champ narratif. L’option plutôt figurative bouscule hardiment les repères spatio-temporels. Paysages lointains, piscines vides et espaces quasi abstraits nous racontent des histoires décontextualisées. Face aux personnages entre l’humain et la marionnette, le spectateur balance entre présent, passé, fiction et réel."

Alison Boult / UK

Alison Boult studied Fine art at the University for the creative arts Farnham before a postgraduate diploma in drawing at the Royal Drawing School. Alison has partaken in residencies in Iceland, Italy and London and has exhibited widely in London. She lives and works in London.

'My practise explores the human condition. Through paint and very often woodcuts I build settings, situations and domestic scenes. Folklore and mythology have a large influence on my work as does other forms of storytelling'

Helen Beck / BE

Helen Beck (B/UK) Born, Milan, Italy. Helen grew up in Belgium and studied at University of the Arts London -
Camberwell. She lives and works in Brussels, Belgium, has a studio in St Gilles and works as Art and Design HoD/teacher in an international school in Brussels. Helen has exhibited in Belgium, UK, The Netherlands and Spain.

"My recurring theme is current affairs, tension and balance. I am working on a series of oil paintings with this underlying feeing of unrest, the time in which we are living, the political tension versus animal/pack nature and survival. This leads back to the fundamental feeling of buoyancy between packs/ clans to our ideal unification."

Katie Brookes / UK

Katie Brookes (b.1987 Manchester) grew up in Belgium and now lives in Brighton, UK. She studied at University of the Arts London-Camberwell from 2006 to 2010, the Royal Drawing School from 2012 to 2013 and Turps Art school from 2015 to 2017. Her work has been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Art Work Space London and the Chopping Block gallery London and group shows at Christies London, Art Bermondsey project space and the Turps gallery. Alongside her practice as a painter Katie is a tutor and has taught at institutions such as the National gallery, the Royal Academy and The Royal drawing school.

"I make paintings as a response to my relationships, memories and my observations of events past and present. Bringing together different source material and fusing together imagery, my image making feels like collage. I try and keep the fresh- ness of drawing at the forefront of my painting by working quickly with line, producing a lot and then whittling the mass down and reworking. Influenced by looking at the body and nature and becoming more aware of my own body, actions and thoughts, I wish for a little unease in the narrative of my images."

Hassan Bouzou / BE

Belge, fils d'un migrant sans-papiers, né en 1972 à Oujda, au Maroc, vie à Bruxelles depuis l'âge de 5 ans. Diplômé en Arts Visuels à L'ENSAV de LA CAMBRE en 1996 en cinéma d'animation et vidéographie. Infographiste depuis près de 20 ans, professeur d'arts graphiques dans l'enseignement secondaire depuis 12 ans et thérapeute diplômé en Relation d'Aide par l'ANDC après 3 ans de formation à l'EIF, école internationale de formation à l'ANDC à Paris.

"Belge et/ou marocain, j'ai toujours été préoccupé par la question de l'identité culturelle. Aujourd'hui, de retour à Bruxelles, après un voyage de 5 ans passé entre le Maroc, La Suisse et la France, ma réponse est que mon identité est liée à ma langue et non pas à un territoire. je suis francophone et francophile. Suite à cela, j'ai eu besoin de mettre tout cela en image. Je travaille à partir de photos généralement anciennes de mes différents pays pour réaliser les montages infographiques d'improbables rencontres. L'image est ensuite imprimée sur toile pour finalement être peinte à l'huile. Créant ainsi une image qui n'est ni tout à fait une photographie ni tout à fait une peinture. À mon image, moi qui ne suis ni tout à fait marocain ni tout à fait belge. Et pourtant, j'existe."

Charlie Everisto Boyce / UK

Charlie Evaristo-Boyce (b. 1991) is a British artist who works in the seaside town of Margate. Over the past 4 years he has curated and ran ‘ Margate’s Most Medium Sized Gallery’ his own gallery which exhibits prints and original artworks. Char- lie studied Fine Art at UCA Farnham where he became similar with silkscreen printing. Charlie has exhibited in and around London recently having a solo exhibition in Hackney Wick. He has worked as an art tutor at establishments like The Royal Academy, Turner Contemporary and Printworks London.
"My work explores found imagery, I take images that already exist in the world and I fragment, enlarge, manipulate and multiply them through silkscreen printing. As well as producing traditional paper prints I also like to push the printmaking process to its limits and combine printmaking with sculpture and painting. I like to think big and create large scale artworks out of lots of little individual prints. I have built a 14,000 ft2 surreal city out of handprinted cardboard boxes and made billboard sized artworks out of hundreds of individual screenprinted sections. As well as creating these installations I also produce canvases where i experiment with different techniques that cross the mediums. I have recently been exploring a process called ‘over painting’ where washes of paint are applied to already printed surfaces.

The artworks I am showing are examples of my photographic silkscreen printings. They explore my Nigerian heritage though portraits of my ancestors. Old photographs are brought back to life and enlarged creating powerful windows into my past. I add my own modern twists to them by incorporating collected graphics and photographs I have taken. I also use objects relevant to my current surroundings to frame and enhance the paintings. Some of my pain- tings are framed using vintage fairground architecture, which is directly inspired by Margate’s a rich history of funfairs."

David Crunelle / BE

David Crunelle (B) °1979 is a Belgian artist raised in Brussels where he currently lives and works. From a background in management studies, he is now working seriously in the visual arts specialising in collage work. Since 2014 David’s work has been exhibited in Brussels, many European cities and in the United States.

"I have been working on collages in order to stay away from computers, considering the digital work less interesting and away from the artistic technique in my own interpretation. My work tends to bring vivid, dense, complex and rich visual experiences, requesting time to fully absorb. My materials are photographs, paint and resin."

Kelvin Corcoran / UK

Kelvin Corcoran lives in Brussels. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Facing West, 2017, the Medicine Unboxed sponsored Not Much To Say Really, 2017, and Article 50, 2018. The Sequence 'Helen Mania' was a Poetry Book Society's Choice and the Poem 'At the Hospital Doors' was highly commended by the Forward Prize Jury 2017. His work is the subject of a study by Professor Andy Brown, The Poetry Occurs as Song, 2013. He edited an account of the poetry of Lee Harwood in Not the Full Story: Six Interviews with Lee Harwood, 2008. In addition his poetry has been commissioned to accompany traveling Arts Council exhibitions of British modernist art. He has collaborated with various musicians and composers both in performance and recording, producing the CD A Thesis on the Ballad with The Jack Hues Quartet. His work has been anthologised in the UK and translated into Greek and Portuguese. He is the guest editor of the Shearsman poetry magazine.

"I've worked on several art projects and subsequently written poetry about them. I've read at various galleries around the UK for two Arts Council exhibitions, The Geometry of Fear and Spotlight on St Ives. I've also written about Roger Hilton's work and collaborated with other artists, writing poems in dialogue with pictures incorporated into the given publication and show."

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ROSETTE DE STEFANO / IT

De Stefano Rosette, Italienne, est née à Marcinelle ( Belgique) en janvier 1955. Réside à Bruxelles. A étudié le dessin aux Beaux-Arts et à la RHoK Academie Sculpture - Monument - Gravure. Elle expose en Belgique et à l’étranger.
Mi-sculptrice, mi-philosophe, Rosette présente le résultat de sa réflexion sur le marasme socio-économique actuel. Révoltée par les actions de l’homme, elle se concentre à nouveau sur l’auto-destruction de celui-ci dans ce collectif. Un désenchantement post-moderne.

"Mon travail se base sur la Nature, L’homme et la Nature, une source d’inspiration, un champ d’observation mais aussi de réflexion et de rébellion, engagée pour la préservation de l’environnement, le climat, l’eau, les cultures... les Droits de l’Homme."

NIKKI GARDHAM / UK

Born in Essex, and now living and working in London, Nikki studied at Cambridge School of Art before completing a postgraduate at the Royal Drawing School in 2013. Nikki has exhibited around the UK, in galleries such as Christie’s London, Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Mall Galleries, as well. As pop-up exhibitions in non-traditional gallery spaces. In 2017 she was selected to exhibit in the Rabley Sketch Drawing Prize, and the following year in the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition. Nikki works as a freelance art educator, planning and delivering practical art and discursive workshops with art galleries and partners including the Royal Drawing School, Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Wallace Collection, South Lon- don and Maudsley NHS, Kings College Hospital and other public galleries across London.

"I use drawing to help me build forms and shapes of things and places; colour relationships help me recall the feeling of spaces and experiences. Identity, encounters and environment are themes which run throughout my work."

TOM FRANTZEN / BE

Tom Frantzen ( B ) né en 1954 à Boistfort, vit et travaille à Tervuren. Diplômé de l’Ecole Nationale d’Architecture et des Arts Visuels de la Cambre, section Sculpture Monumentale. Il a construit sa propre fonderie et a coulé ses sculptures durant 12 ans. Les moulages, le ciselage, les montages et les patines se font encore toujour dans son atelier. Il est actif dans l’art public et depuis vingt ans il travaille à un monde sculptural en pleine nature à Duisburg.

'Le parc de sculptures à Duisburg (De Paden van de Waaienberg) est probablement mon œuvre de vie.
J’y suis totalement libre de m’exprimer sans aucune contrainte, ni dans les formes ni dans les sujets.
Le groupe sculptural ’La progression de la folie humaine’ est l’œuvre qui y représente le plus ma vision du monde à travers le temps. La petite sculpture ‘La statue de la liberté d’Europe’ (Merkel) que j’expose maintenant à l’expo The Deal est un détail du cortège carnavalesque des civilisations qui se sont unies pour démolir le phare lumineux défendu par des êtres supérieurs aux humains ; les gorilles…'

JAKE GARFIELD / UK

Jake Garfield (b. 11/06/1990) lives and works in London. He
is the recipient of several awards including the Royal Drawing School Printmaking Prize in 2013, The Durham Wharf Award in 2015 and the Printmakers Council Prize in 2016. Jake has exhibited in London, Brighton, Edinburgh, Los Ange- les, New York and Antwerp. He has a Masters in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art (2016) and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Drawing from the Royal Drawing School (2013). Jake is also the founder of Line Of Thought, an organisation that provides workshops at the intersection of art and philo- sophy at institutions including the Royal College of Art, The Whitechapel Gallery and the British Museum.

"I adopt the traditional printmaking processes of lithography, monotype and wood-cut to explore the relationship between fiction and reality in contemporary life. My latest project, Jake The Boxer, is a series of medium-to- large-scale woodcuts on Japanese Atsukushi paper, mounted on wooden frames. The prints loosely illustrate the fictional story of boxer Jake Taylor as he undergoes a transformation from bad-tempered fighter to world-renowned artist."

MICHEL GERARD / BE

Michel Gerard (1963), namurois d’origine, vit et travaille à Bruxelles. Sa formation est à la fois technique (ingénieur industriel) et artistique (Arts décoratifs à l’Académie des Beaux- Arts d’Ixelles – 1er prix en 2015). Intéressé depuis toujours par le Design et la lumière, il crée des installations et objets lumineux. Il navigue depuis 5 ans entre Design et Art dans un milieu Anglo saxon. Il a participé à plusieurs expositions en Belgique.

"Sans avoir attendu la vague du « Upcycling », depuis une vingtaine d’années, ma démarche se base sur la création d’installations et d’objets lumineux que je réalise à partir d’éléments récupérés. De part ce fait, les matériaux utilisés sont très divers: métal, plastique, bois, verre, papier, caoutchouc, ..."

REBECCA HARPER / UK

Rebecca Harper was born in London in 1989 where she currently lives and works. She studied at UWE Bristol 2008-2011, The Royal Drawing School 2012-2014 and Turps Art School 2016-2018, since 2014 having taught through the Royal Drawing School, she is now an Associate Lecturer at UWE Bristol. Harper is currently Artist in Residence for the Ryder Project Space at A.P.T in Deptford 2018-19 and was recently awarded the ACS (Artists Collecting Society) Studio Prize 2018. Represented by Anima Mundi Gallery, Harper has her first solo show in February 2019, previewed in January 19 at The London Art fair. Whilst represented in public and private collections she has recently co-curated a group show ‘Plus One’ at APT Gallery 2018, and taken part in a solo show for The Salvation Army- Advent Shop window Exhibition 2018. Having exhibited in numerous group shows including Christies London and New York and she has most recently been included in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018, ‘Small is beautiful’ and ‘Artist of the Day’ at Flowers Gallery, Cork street 2018/19, Turps Gallery 2018 and with Paul Stolper Gallery London, 2018.

"Reconstructing drawings from; life, events, beliefs, dreams, memory and mediated imagery, whereby seamless, sometimes fictional fragmentations are rearranged-presented as plausible happenings. Addressing ideas around displacement, a ‘Diaspora view’, presents itself in my Paintings as an unfolding allegoric commentary on its life-source, a theatre in which human instinct looks compassionately at settlement, both a dispersion of unathomeness and groundlessness (held by the fixed image)."

Fred Houtteman / BE

Fred Houtteman, Belge, est né à Bruxelles 1969. Après des Humanités scientifiques, il réalise un graduat en photographie à l’école de la ville de Bruxelles.
Autodidacte. Il s’intéresse aux origamis suite à la création d’un spectacle pour le Créa-Théâtre. Sa récente collaboration (Migrations) avec Isabelle Colassin pour le Wiels lui a donné envie de présenter son travail.

"Mes influences sont la bande dessinée, Hara-Kiri et le Pop Art, critiques de l’époque contemporaine. J’ai toujours été intéressé par les dérives de l’homme. Après avoir suivi des études en environnement, la dimension écologiste est apparue. Mon travail est avant tout politique, des œuvres sous cadre, sous forme d’installations et de sculptures."

MARCUS HARVEY / UK

Marcus Harvey (born 1963 in Leeds) is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London. He was included in the original “Young British Artists” exhibition series at Saatchi Gallery in 1995 and was in other important YBA shows such as “In the darkest hour there may be light” at the Serpentine Galleries. He has work in public collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The British Council Collection, London; the Goss-Michael Foundation of Contemporary British Art, TX; and prominent lending private collections including the “Murder Me” collection of artist Damien Hirst, UK; the Saatchi Collection, UK; and the Logan Collection, San Francisco. Harvey’s work continues to be shown internationally in countless exhibitions. He lives and work in London
“My work combines painting, photography, and sculpture while exploring British iconography in pop culture, the landscape, and cultural history. These recent works include thick gestural figurative paintings made on top of and obscuring photographic prints of landscapes and figures. My new ceramics and bronzes are an amalgam of art historical and historical references making “collaged portraits” from Nelson to Margaret Thatcher and from Napoleon to Tony Blair. The work has been received as a more mature kind of politics in work that continues to explore the possibilities of gesture in medium specificity with my “urgent physicality.””

Albertine Libert / BE

Albertine Libert, Belge, est née à Boende en RDC,1965. Elle habite et travaille à Bruxelles. Après des humanités en sciences sociales, elle obtient un graduat en comptabilité et étudie en suite la reliure à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts JJ Gailliard. Autodidacte, elle est fascinée par le papier et par les silhouettes sur papier découpé de Kara Walker. Elle expose en Belgique.

‘Je découpe, dans du papier blanc, des formes, des ombres, des empreintes de ce qui a existé ou existe encore. Je joue avec la transparence, l’empiètement, la juxtaposition, le rapport entre profondeur de champ et surface, mais aussi avec l’intensité de la lumière. L’effet produit est à la fois une présence poétique et une illusion de la réalité. Ce qui permet, au travers du diorama, d’aborder, pour cette expo, l’irrévérence et l’irrespect de la paix avec douceur et force.’

Kathryn Maple / UK

Kathryn Maple attended The Arts Institute Bournemouth in 2006-07, University of Brighton 2008-11 and The Royal Drawing School London 2013 to 2014. Kathryn has exhibited in notable exhibition in London including 'Betweenlands' at Blain Southern, in 2014, The Marmite Prize for Painting at Block 3336 in 2016 and Wildflowers - a solo show in 2018. Kathryn has also exhibited widely across the UK, showing work at the Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda in 2016, A Current Under Sea at the Pie Factory in Margate in 2018, Fresh Paint at Messums in Wiltshire, Tisbusry in 2018. In both 2014 and 2016 Kathryn won the prestigious Sunday Times Watercolour Competition and in 2018 Kathryn's painting 'Alone in The Desert' was included in the 2018 John Moores Painting Prize at The Walker Gallery Liverpool. Kathryn teaches on the Royal Drawing School Foundation course.

'My works are based on landscapes that are reconstructed into paintings. Ideas for my paintings come from memory, drawings and photographs. Paintings are fuelled by collaging old drawings and collected material, providing a new energy, mark making, depth and arenas for play. More recently figures, heads and limbs are occupying, moving in and of invented spaces and settings.'

Ola-Dele Kuku / BE

Ola-Dele Kuku
Ola-Dele Kuku (B/NGR)b. Lagos 1963., He currently lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Ola-Dele studied architecture at
the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI- Arc), in Los Angeles, Ca, USA, and SCI-Arc (European Programme) in Vico Mocorte,Ticino, Switzerland. He lectures in international institutions, conferences and coordinated various academic workshops in renowned academic institutions worldwide. He has written and lectured on various theoretic proposals (in De- sign Application and Applied Architecture), for Conflict Pre- vention and Post Conflict Rehabilitation in developing countries and conflict zones. He focused primarily on conceptual inter- ventions in architecture with special interest in the philosophy, theory, and composition. Ola-Dele has worked on several award winning projects over the years which include built objects, drawings and installations. His works have been presented in numerous international exhibitions worldwide. His installation project titled ‘Diminishes Capacity’ was presented at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale for the first Nigerian Pavilion at the event in 2016. Works from his projects have been published extensively, and are in prominent private collections, public institutions and foundations.
www.ola-delekuku.com/

Elizabeth McCarten / UK

Elizabeth McCarten is a London based painter with a strong drawing practise working mainly from observation. Elizabeth studied painting at the University of Brighton before completing The Drawing Year at The Royal Drawing School in 2013. Alongside her practice as a painter she is also a tutor for the Royal Drawing School’s Young Artists Programme and Foundation Year and has worked at a number of notable locations including; The National Gallery and Whitechapel Gallery amongst many more. Elizabeth won the Young Artist Award for her painting, ‘The Boboli Gardens’ in the Sunday Times Watercolour competition 2017 and has been awarded residencies in Italy, Scotland and most recently to Jamaica .

‘Living in a complex and urban environment my work often stems from a desire to find space and simplicity. By using drawing as a vehicle to explore ways of translating what I am seeing often brings a sense of narrative and playfulness to the work. Working directly from observation I gather information and context working on studies mostly in ink and watercolour before deconstructing and breaking down the image to lyrical lines and marks, often on a larger scale. Finding and connecting to places by creating emotive responses are central to my practise and recent artistic residencies including working in Jamaica and Italy bring new ideas that inform my work at my London studio. A lot of my work is often on paper and will use washes and economical lines to attempt to achieve a directness within the work.’

Franca Ravet / BE

Franca Ravet est née Belge à Arlon, 1957. Elle a grandi, habite et travaille en Belgique. Après ses Humanités artistiques à Izel, elle a obtenu un graduat en arts plastiques à Saint- Luc Liège. Elle expose et /ou a exposé en Belgique, au Luxembourg, aux Pays-Bas, en France, en Suisse, au Portugal et en Chine.

‘Au départ, mon travail est basé sur une seule et unique em- preinte graphique identitaire.
Obsessionnelle, celle-ci s’est imposée de façon répétitive et c’est grâce au principe d’un vrai transfert et à la diffraction de l’image à l’infini que j’ai pu démultiplier, déformer et fixer différentes surfaces de réflexion.Technique mixte : acrylique, encre, pastels, crayons, etc. sur papier, toile, panneaux etc.’

Scott McCraCken / UK

Scott McCracken is a painter living and working in London. He was born in Falkirk, Scotland in 1987 and studied at Edin- burgh College of Art from 2005 to 2011 and Turps Art School from 2015 to 2017. His work has been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Bo- rough Road Gallery, London and Bargain Spot Project Space, Edinburgh. Previous group shows include Standard Projects, Wisconsin, USA; Art Bermondsey Project Space, London; Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin; Bankley Studios & Gallery, Manchester. In 2017 he was awarded the Darbyshire Prize for Emerging Art. He is Correspondence Course Co-ordinator at Turps Art School, London.

‘In my paintings, geometric shapes and forms are assembled, repeated and reconfigured into different propositions. Through this process of recycling, each painting is afforded its own singular identity. By using a consistent size of support, a seriality is generated; the paintings are autonomous while also extending out to a wider community of pictures. Rooted in
the language of early abstraction, an animated quality emerges from the geometric motifs.’

Merab Surviladze / BE

Mérab Surviladze, Belge, est né à Tbilisi, en Géorgie 1965. Après ses études à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Tbilisi, il s’installe en Belgique et étudie à La Cambre puis à l’Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles. Il travaille en Belgique et il expose en Belgique, au Luxembourg, en Géorgie, en Grande-Bretagne, et en France.

‘Je crée une version originale de la peinture abstraite qui est conceptuellement basée sur la métaphore de l’ombre et sa lecture artistico-philosophique. Mon intention est de montrer un espace qui est réel mais a besoin d’une expression particulière pour le rendre évident.Cet art expressif plonge le spectateur dans une sorte d’énigme dont l’aspect visuel est imprévisible.’
www.merabsurviladze.com

Oliver McConnie / UK

Oliver McConnie was born in Gloucester 1986, grew up in Leyland and now lives in Bristol, UK. Oliver studied at Canterbury, Camberwell and the Royal Drawing School, and was an artist in residence at the Sarabande Foundation in London. Oliver has exhibited works in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries and the Mostyn Open.

‘Etchings, in their scale and intensity, create a strong sense of looking into something, a cave, another world; this fits with the origin of the term grotesque which is ‘looking into the grotto’. Drawing on this quality and without employing reduc- tive irony McConnie wishes to produce parodic prophecies which explore subjects including environmental destruction and class hierarchies. Humour is important to McConnie, and his images mix beauty with vomit and daemons.’

Lieve Van Thienen / BE

Lieve Van Thienen (B) °1961, Hasselt. Lieve lives, works and has a studio in Brussels and studied at Sint Lukas School of Arts 1980-1984. She has worked as an art teacher since 1985. Lieve has completed numerous residencies including Residence in Bratislava, Slovakia and Residence Frans Masereelcentrum, Kasterlee in 1985. Lieve has exhibited widely in Belgium as well as Greece.

‘I do research about confrontations between culture and nature, and look for metaphors for reflection and introspection. My work consists of drawings, watercolour and oil paintings. Here I will present my oil paintings.’
www.lievevanthienen.com/

Jenny Smith / UK

Jenny Smith (b. 1987, UK) began her fine art studies in illus- tration, graduating with a 1st class honors degree in the subject from Cambridge School of Art in 2009, which was quickly fol- lowed by a post graduate degree at The Royal Drawing School in 2010. Her attempts to synchronize her drawing work with her paintings succeeded during her time at the Turps Studio Painting Programme, which she completed in 2017. Jenny’s artwork has been featured in several prestigious exhibitions including The Lynn Painter-Stainers and The Royal Society
of British Artists, through which she was awarded The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award. She has also won the Ronald Searle Award for Creativity and The Windsor & Newton Prize, and was shortlisted for the Denis Mahon Award and the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize. She has recently returned from New York where she presented her first solo show of work at Dis- turb the Neighbours gallery. Smith’s work appears in a number of public collections including The Royal Collection and The Dumfries House Estate.

‘Smith is interested in the division between what humans openly share and what we desperately want to keep to oursel- ves. Concealed embarrassments and wanton impulses collapse onto the canvas in swathes of colourful impasto oil paint, given life outside the confines of our minds. In her paintings, wo- men, derived in part from Margaret Attwood novels, identify with their animal counterparts, as man, woman and beast rage together, with the hysteria of a Punch and Judy show. The cha- racters inhabiting Smith’s paintings reveal themselves slowly over time, as they are coerced into being. They are born from collaged shapes and cutouts and reside in a subverted world that is at once nurturing and also menacing.’

Marieke Van Wuytswinkel / BE

Marieke Van Wuytswinkel (B) °1987, Belgium. Marieke currently lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She has a master degree in Textile Design and in Media Art. After her studies, she participated in several art residencies in Belgium and Russia. Marieke’s artworks have been in solo and group exhibitions in Belgium, The Netherlands and Russia. She has been represented by Eva Steynen.Deviation(s) Gallery since June 2015.

‘I work in a variety of media, mostly video (installation) art and drawing. With a conceptual approach, I try to amplify the astonishment of the spectator by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil poetic images that leave traces and balance on the edge of recognition and alienation. My artworks appear as dreamlike images in which fiction and reality meet, well known tropes merge, meanings shift, past and present fuse.’

Rhys Trussler / UK

Rhys Trussler (b, Leicester, UK, 1979) studied Fine Art Pain- ting at Winchester School of Art (1998-2001) and more re- cently completed two years on the independent Turps Painting School Studio Programme (2015-17). He has exhibited in the UK, Europe and North America and has been featured in exhibitions by Contemporary British Painters and After. He currently works between London and Brighton.

‘Drawing on folk law, mythology and the horror genre, my work explores the carnivalesque, the grotesque and “otherness” or peculiarity as a lens through which the world is observed. Ideas of pastoral menace, the spectre of group mentalities and the subversion of norms all feed into my concerns regarding the idea of perfection and its impossibility as a physical attai- nable reality.’

Stephanie Maeseele / BE

Stephanie Maeseele (B) °1985 Bruges. Stephanie is a Flemish painter who is currently living and working in Ghent. She has studied at the LUCA School of Arts Ghent, where she received a Masters degree in 2008. She participated in the Turps Studio Program in London from 2015 to 2017. Stephanie’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including BYTS Stedelijk Museum’s Hertogenbosch, Museum of Ixelles Brussels, LLS387 Antwerp and Bermondsey Project Space London.

‘Recently my work has been a fairly consistent search for possibilities of collage to represent and reflect the processes of memory. It can be seen as a deconstructive tool designed to undermine the certainty of appearances. Exploiting the possibilities of oil paint to evoke and render new meanings, remains a constant. I use a broad range of references in my work. I try to create a new space, one where figure and space overlap. It becomes the space, becomes an object and vice versa.'

Geraldine Swayne / UK

Geraldine Swayne (born 1965) is a painter, filmmaker and musician. She studied Fine Art at Newcastle University from 1985–89 and has since won numerous awards as a painter and filmmaker. She has worked as an assist Dinos Chapman rebuilding ‘Hell’. She is a member of the ‘Krautrock’ group Faust though is best known for her painting, working mainly in miniature in enamel on metal. Recent solo shows include ‘Silvering’ 2017, at the Fine Art Society, London, ‘Geraldine Swayne’ at W186 Project Rooms, Aeroplatics Gallery, Belgium and ‘Geraldine Swayne’ 2013 at Future Art Projects, Sheep Lane London in 2013. Group shows include ‘Performance and Remnant’ at the Fine Art Society, London, ant for Jake and ‘Suspicion’ at Jerwood Space, London, ‘Volta’ New York, ‘The Future Can Wait’ at B1 for Saatchi Gallery, ‘Its Our Music Its Our Art’ at David Risley Copenhagen, ‘The Free Art Fair’ at Barbican Centre London, ‘Fresh Air Machine’ at Calvert 22 Gallery, London and ‘Kunst aus Klang’ Contemporary Fine Art Berlin.

In her painting Swayne depicts people on the verge of action, like film stills. Though the narrative is obscured, akin to a television on pause, tension is tantamount and the atmosphere highly charged. Compositions dart between awkward, haunting, sexy, bizarre, dark, or amusing and also mixes them. Her imagery comes from personal photographs to pornographic magazines. Both large scale canvases, with sweeping loose, acrylic brushwork, and her intimate miniature portraits, painted with enamel on small copper or aluminium panels show immediacy. Her subtle narrative references enable the viewer to project their own story onto the works.