emerging artist

Introducing Jess Macneil

As the final day showcasing emerging artists exhibiting at VITRINE (opening today at 7pm) we would like to introduce :-

Jess Macneil
Lives and works between London, United Kingdom, and Sydney, Australia.

Jess MacNeil works at the points of intersection between painting, installation, video and photography, often taking as her subject matter the dynamics of the human/environment relationship. MacNeil has exhibited widely internationally and within Australia. Her work was included in ‘Primavera’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and the Samstag Museum of Art in 2008 and was presented at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, in 2009. She was awarded the Anne & Gordon Samstag Scholarship, the Fauvette Louriero Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship, and an Australia Council Grant in 2006 and completed a Graduate Affiliate Program at the Slade School, London in 2008. In 2009 she won the Primavera Veolia Acquisitive Award. Her work is held in public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and the Australia Council for the Arts as well as numerous Australian and international private collections.

Web: http://jessmacneil.com

Still from: The Swimmers, 2009.

This piece will be exhibited in Vitrine – 11 colourful outside jobs, a public moving image exhibition in the streets of Brighton as part of the White Night, 29th to 30th October 7pm to 6am.

Introducing Greta Alfaro

Over the next few days until Saturday – VITRINE’s opening – we will be profiling one of the emerging artists exhibiting at the show.

Today we would like to introduce :-

Greta Alfaro
Spain, 1977. Lives and works in London.

MA graduate in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London and BA from Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. Her work has received grants and prizes from different institutions such as Beca CAM de Artes Plásticas, Genesis Foundation London, Ministerio de Cultura de España, Matadero-City Council of Madrid, Casa de Velázquez, Government of Mexico, Government of Navarra, Foundation BilbaoArte and Rogaland Art Centre. Among her recent exhibitions are the groups shows Bloomberg New Contemporaries at the ICA London, Visionary Trading Project at Guest Projects, London, Inéditos. Inanimate Beings at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, and the solo shows Elogio de la Bestia at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Huarte in Spain, In Ictu Oculi at Carpe Diem Arte & Pesquisa in Portugal and Ricorrenza at Dryphoto art contemporanea in Italy. Alfaro’s video work has been recently screened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Caixa Forum Madrid.

Artistic Statement:
We visualize the barren landscape of desire and will. Through the cracks of our consciousness, breaking the comfort of alienation, we catch, from time to time, glimpses of corruption, decline and decay that belong to our very selves. The phantoms appear, the dead change sides. Ours is a posthumous celebration.

Still from: Fall On Us, And Hide Us, 2011.

Web: http://www.gretaalfaro.com/

Greta’s piece In Ictu Oculi, (2009) will be exhibited in Vitrine – 11 colourful outside jobs, a public moving image exhibition in the streets of Brighton as part of the White Night, 29th to 30th October 7pm to 6am.

Introducing Jorge Santos

Over the next few days until Saturday – VITRINE’s opening – we will be profiling one of the emerging artists exhibiting at the show.

Today we would like to introduce :-

Jorge Santos
Silves, 1974. Lives and works in Lisbon.

Fine Arts degree at E.S.T.G.A.D., Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, 2001. Participated in Project Room at Centro Cultural de Belém, 2001, and was an assistant of Pedro Cabrita Reis between 2001 and 2002. Colaborator with Galeria ZDB, Lisbon, in 2003. Received an artistic development fellowship from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian between 2005 and 2006, for a residence in Casa de Velázquez, Madrid. In 2007, presented the project Running Window at the Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon. Received an artistic development fellowship from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Uk Branch, in 2009, for a residence Spike Island, Bristol. Artist of the week in the Guardian for the exhibition at Spike Island in 2010.

Web: http://www.jorgesantos.net

Press: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/aug/11/artist-of-week-jorge-santos

Still from: Window, 2011.

This piece will be exhibited in Vitrine – 11 colourful outside jobs, a public moving image exhibition in the streets of Brighton as part of the White Night, 29th to 30th October 7pm to 6am.

Introducing Olga Koroleva

From today until Saturday – VITRINE’s opening – we will be profiling one of the emerging artists exhibiting at the show.

Today we would like to introduce :-

Olga Koroleva
Tula, Russia, 1987. Lives and works in London.

Olga works across media including writing, photography, video and sound. In 2006 she completed a Foundation Diploma in Fine Art Media at Chelsea College of Art and Design with distinction. In 2010 she graduated from Wimbledon College of Art in Fine Art Time Based Media with honours. Olga received the Landmark Art Prize for her recent work in June 2010. Her work has been shown across a variety of platforms in the UK and Europe.

Web: www.olgakoroleva.com

Still from: Dialogues: White Chocolate and Jesus, part 2, 2011.

This piece will be exhibited in Vitrine – 11 colourful outside jobs, a public moving image exhibition in the streets of Brighton as part of the White Night, 29th to 30th October 7pm to 6am.