2/2 Spotlight on New Blood Artists selected for RA Summer Exhibition
Spotlight on 8 New Blood Artists selected for the RA Summer Exhibition 2023 - the world's largest open submission exhibition, this year is co-coordinated by David Remfry RA on the theme of 'Only Connect', from E.M. Forster's Howard's End: “Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Feathers recur in Zuzanna Salamon’s work, and like the cyclical drift of nature they provide motif, symbol, and sign. At the same time as gesturing towards the artist’s interest in migration across cultures, they provide a unique challenge for her primary medium, charcoal, to render their textural specificity in a way that we experience as true.
Feathers by Zuzanna Salamon
I Try to Grow New Roots in the Land I Call Foreign by Zuzanna Salamon
Katie Fiszman
Katie Fiszman is in her final year at Carmarthen School of Art studying her BFA in Painting Drawing and Printmaking. She uses oil-based media as well as charcoal and graphite to create large scale abstract paintings on canvas. Fiszman often combines these paintings with found object installations, bringing Surrealism and abstract expressionism together in one piece.
Bright Red by Katie Fiszman
Bright Green by Katie Fiszman
A consummate technician, Fay’s etchings show an ability to be surprised into seeing and a reverence for life, in various forms. This delight is communicated to the viewer through an experimentation with light - the works hover between silhouette and intricate detail glimpsed in a dying light - in this sense they are melancholy works.
Hmm. Fish by Helen Fay
Pickle by Helen Fay
With a body of work that encompasses both carefully detailed exotic plantscapes and highly saturated abstract shapes that seem to be suspended on the white expanse of canvas, the complexity and meticulous detail of former find balance in the simplicity and meditative spaciousness of latter. Orlanda Broom's work is voluptuous and at times even claustrophobic, with landscapes that are at once lush paradises and wild, alien Otherworld.
Nature Is Yellow by Helen Latham
Green Cross Code by Helen Latham
