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Yanna Kubic is a European interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, interactive art, installations and virtual art. She began painting at the age of 14 and spent a short time at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. However, influenced by the anarchic element in the work of Katarzyna Kozyra, Kubic decided to cut short her academic career and pursue independent study in Berlin. As an active member of kunsthaus Tacheles and influenced by the philosophy of Lyotard whom she met shortly before his death in Paris, Kubic's work began to explore the manner in which communities and individuals form independently credible narratives about their existence. |
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Through her paintings Yuco explores the idea of fire as a power source linked through the natural and emotional world to us; a synthesizing between our emotions and the energy created from the heat of fire. Fire creates energy –a force-, which has the ability to create strong reactions within us, whether this is of joy, fear or sadness there is a connection.
Education
2004-2007 Chelsea College of Art&Design BA. (Fine Art/Painting)
2003 Chelsea College of Art&Design Foundation
Awards
2007 Shortlisted on Celaste Art Prize
2008 Finalisted for Amuse Art Jam |
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Japanese artist Yuki Snow (Yuki means snow in Japanese) studied Fine Art Painting for 5 years in Japan before moving to England in 2001 where she studied at the University of Brighton; graduating in 2005.
Her colourfully embroidered oil paintings reveal stories of a space of migration, fascnation with birds and her own experiences of coming from another country. Her textured creations combine knitting, sequins, buttons, embroidery, acrylic and oil painting as she believes that touch is important in her artworks; their 'relief-quality' almost as a form of Braille. |
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Zara Matthews’ paintings give the impression of mechanical reproductions rather than having been produced by hand. Continuing a lineage from Andy Warhol’s machine-like silk screens and Gerhard Richter’s photo-paintings, her paintings of serially repetitive portraits tend to destabilize sameness, producing instead what Foucault calls similitudes: a site not of identity maintenance, but of both likeness and difference. Born out of a curiosity with cloning and genomics, her work reflects on the effects of this biological revolution on human coexistence, individuality and people’s self-image.
She lives and works in London and studied at the Royal College of Art. |
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My work is primarily concerned with a quest to understand what it is to be human
through the act of painting; my paintings are the cathartic product of my
research into identity and often transpire through a process of studying philosophy, reflecting on life experiences and other tangents thrown up through attention to serendipity.
I apply a mixture of traditional techniques , researching the methods of The
Masters and experimenting with them in my own work.
My painting, as in ‘the act of’, celebrates and explores the visceral qualities
of paint and the technical possibilities of painting. The current toy paintings
were the product of my research into childhood as a discourse. |
