‘HEAT’ Open Call
‘HEAT’ serves as a celebration of hot new talent emerging from various corners of the country and is an exceptional opportunity for artists to engage with a broader audience and connect with fellow creatives. Selected artworks will be displayed at RuptureXIBIT (+Studio) from Tuesday 22nd August - Saturday 26th August, with the finissage on the 26th August from 6pm - 9pm.
‘HEAT’ will showcase multidisciplinary artworks in our most ambitious group show to date. At RuptureXIBIT, we provide artists with the opportunity to show experimental work, in an environment that allows you to take risks and push the boundaries of your practice in search of the New.
See featured artists below and watch this space for more photos and videos of ‘HEAT‘, coming soon!
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Emma Price
An abstract/semi-abstract landscape painter, Emma Price lives and works in Surrey. Having lived in both England and Australia, Emma’s paintings are influenced by her emotions and visual memories, primarily of the natural landscapes within which she has lived and travelled.
Her work depicts an abstraction and stripping back of the landscapes representational line and form, a strong use of light and depth creating an ethereal feel. Her work expresses an atmospheric ambiance; much like viewing a literal landscape ~ the works reveal themselves the more you allow yourself to become immersed within them.
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Yasmin Noorbakhsh
Yasmin Noorbakhsh is a Persian-British multidisciplinary artist living in London. Her practice mainly examines the notion of veracity. She is particularly interested in how our understanding of events can be affected by media bias, personal and cultural projection, assumption, and censorship. As a female artist and a member of the Iranian diaspora, Yasmin’s practice is infused with liminal space experiences and hybrid identity and its associated uncertainty. There is a constant questioning at the core of her practice. Her multifaceted layers, interweaving diverse motifs and complex surfaces, depict the state of constantly existing between two spaces; between the known and unknown; the pleasant, and unpleasant; the West and the East and how sometimes these intersect and become intertwined. The proposed piece is from her latest series of work called Unowned Ravel made in light of the recent Women- Life -Freedom Movement in Iran.
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Bol Marjoram
Bol: Working with images and text, building up layer after layer of drawings and calligraphy and creating multiple double sided sheets, in the past I often assembled these into books, but recently the work has got much bigger and more ambitious and has moved into an area somewhere between sculpture and installation.
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Laura Parker
Climate change affects our world more each year. I sought to capture aspects of recent record-breaking temperatures, and their devastating effect on our planet. “Badlands”, and the triptychs “Heatwave”, “Wildfire” and “Icemelt” express my deep concern at these climatic events, each created with richly layered paint and subtle glazes. Although abstracted, these works are fundamentally based on nature. By contrast “Isola Isolata” portrays the warmth of a sun-drenched, inviting island to soothe the soul.
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Ella Fredman
Ella’s work often draws on traditional craft methods and intuitive processes to create subverted forms and awkward objects, exploring both her personal and the universal response to emotional distress and mental illness. The act of making becomes a moment of contemplation - a necessary and therapeutic intervention. Her work seeks a cathartic return to, or reimagining of the physical grounding of handmade skills, rejecting the obsolete modes of craft and art; instead she treats their symbiosis as given.
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Olivia England
Maintaining Change (2022) is a series of mixed media works, made of 59.4 x 84.1 cm translucent polyester prints (comprised of digital collage from darkroom experimentation on expired film, as old as the artist, and poetry).
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Pei-Yao Chang
Pei-Yao Chang is a media artist, researcher, and novice freediver currently based in London and Taiwan. Her practice investigates space(s) and the implication of embodied experiences based on gravitation from land and her weightless freediving journey. She uses a specific spatial context, and employs documentation and installation to interrogate the ways humans perceive and engage with their surroundings both actively and passively, attempting to comprehend the Earth’s characteristics and the connection of human and non-human interaction.
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Kiera Graham
Keira Graham is a textile artist creating landscape artwork using draped and folded silk fabric to capture the dramatic colours of the British coastline, rolling hills and fields. Tearing fabric to expose the threads in contrasting colours adds texture and depth to her multidimensional artworks. Each piece is expertly framed with museum grade UV protective ArtGlass to preserve the rich colours of the materials used.
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Sally Minns
Untitled Sketchbook, 2022.
As one of Rupture’s Artists in Residence, Sally’s work is also displayed in the SHOP.
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Joshua Raffell
Taking ideas from events, gay erotica and memory. Layering is a significant aspect. Materials squished, contorted and sewn to create narrative. Unravelling the repressed and using the gratuitously sexual to challenge hierarchies. Scraping the surface , exploring the underbelly of society. The work goes from the self to a wider concept of otherness and often explores mental health and family. The queer gaze and cheeky allure of slapstick twist accessibility and conceptions of disgust.
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Natasha Fontenelle
Working performatively with a variety of materials, processes and disciplines interwoven around my ceramic practice (These include, textiles, drawing, performance, sculpture, glass, moving image, wearable-art, poetry and installation).
Exploring themes of intuition, vulnerability, ritual, movement and quiet noise. Using cultural and societal issues to inform and direct works, concerns of the silenced, unheard and the animistic. Interested in the possibilities of how the undercurrents of these quiet narratives can be conjured up and embodied.
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Chris Holley
As an abstract/figurative artist and due to an arts background, my paintings are always trying to squeeze into the space between all the arts ...and Weightless I Float painting - referencing a poem - being no exception to this.
...and Weightless I Float references published poet Myra Schneider's poem in which she fantasizes a concreted area on a hot summer's day suddenly returning to flowers, their vivid hues and overwhelming beauty lifting her up as she succumbs to a state of nature-ecstasy.
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Francis Visagie-Brooks
Visagie-Brooks paints primarily using oil paint and pigments on canvas that is prepped to appear raw, allowing the fibers of the canvas to show. Her paintings are based on an archive of photographs of her food-waste bin. While climate anxiety is present in the work, the focus is on considering the relationship between potential and failure. For at the edge of failure is potential, and the feeling that there should or could have been more.
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Beatrice Dina
In this liquid modernity, with fuzzy backgrounds and permeable borderlines, we are all diverse dots, multicolored forms of life that float, meet, clash, merge, and hive off with specific gravity into an endless cosmos.
After reading Zygmunt Bauman, I realized how much of my shifting multicultural identity constantly shows up in the compositions, especially in the choices of materials, mediums, and style.
I discovered a very absorbent and soft material that allows to pour very diluted acrylics, retaining their vibrancy and fluidity. It calls for playful borderless fields of colors that mix and merge, like all the cultural influences from diverse countries I’ve lived in. Adding different layers with oil sticks, pastels, charcoal, and spray paints, the softness of the fabric gives away a more solid and pungent texture. All these marks and signs find a way to communicate and overlap, like floating stains on our psyche, each one with its own right to remain different.
Like we shouldn’t be given a hierarchy of cultures, I should not give a hierarchy of colors. They should all exist on the waxed canvas, dwelling together in a forever diverse set of human cohabitation.
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Jan Lee Johnson
Jan was born in Yorkshire and gained her BA in Fine Art at Loughborough Art College. She gained a place at The Royal College of Art but subsequently took employment as a scenic artist at the BBC. After several enjoyable years working on a wide variety of backcloths in various paint media, contributing to Film and TV, Jan studied for an M.A in painting at Bath Spa University. She now paints from her studio in Richmond, and has taught at Richmond Community College ( watercolour painting and Interior Design) Kew Gardens ( several iPad drawing workshops ) and V&A museum ( digital drawing workshop ) Jan is also an experienced art tutor and brings a wealth of painting knowledge to students, and is supportive and encourages all students to develop their creativity.
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Ellie Hughes
Ellie Hughes is a recent Fine Art BA graduate from Kingston University, and practicing artist. In their practice, they work with colourful and cute motifs and consider the complexity of human existence and emotion, a confusing combination of beauty and disappointment.
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Anastasiia Aleksandrenko
Anastasiia is a visual artist: “when I need money, I do makeup and hair. When I explore art through canvases, I use different techniques and material, I combine it in every single unique piece. I explore skin and the past.”
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Kate Howe
.’Made this Way’, Sutured extra fine Belgian linen, nylon boned thread, rabbit skin glue. Hands: Sylvia Flatau
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Holly Latif
Holly Latif's art practice invites viewers to delve into the complexities of human emotions and connectivity, through the exploration of bold colors and portraiture and creating a dialogue between art and audience. Though an oil painter by origin, she is redirecting her focus onto the digital medium, along with animation to introduce a new dynamic into her practice.
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Jiefei Zhan
My current practice is based in a tower block where I’ve been living for 2 years. It was built in the 1960s as council housing, which has been undergoing continued regeneration since 2010. I explored the persistence between the building and its inhabitants experiencing regeneration by linking the iconic industrial sound with the seam between the surfaces from different time periods, searching for the sensory embodiment in domestic spaces.
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Anya Mokhova
Anya creates installations and sculptural objects. I work with topics of mystery and fantasy in the mundane exploring the tools and rituals for the tangible and the unseen in everyday life. With a passion for both history of arts and media experimentation in my search for methods of artistic expression I explore natural bases for my objects (tallow, bee’s wax, soap), classical (gold leaf, brass and bronze), and contemporary (acrylic stone, silicone and resin).
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Ekta Bagri
Ekta's work transforms raw materials into ceramic sculptures, using heat as both a physical process and a metaphor for global warming. Her fluid forms embody the earth's memory, while the glazed colors illustrate the unsettling mutations of a distressed planet. Inspired by environmental crises, her art reflects on humanity's role in climate change and its profound effects on our world. Through her work, Ekta invites us to confront the fragile future of our shared existence.
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Ekaterina Zhingel
From the series "Take a picture of me here" A series of self-portraits Some photos of the series were taken in my hometown, where I was growing up. I remember this place, but it doesn't remember me. There is no sign of my past here, and people don't recognise me. I was photographed against the background of the street and kept this moment for myself. I left no more trace. This photo is the only proof of my short presence at this place. I think about how much a person impacts what is happening around him and whether his presence is noticeable. Maybe photography is the only proof of our life in general.
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Tom Woodroffe
Woodroffe emplores a democratic approach to his practise using the camera to combine visceral with the gentile; often delving into the tender and quiet moments of everyday life. He has honed a formal snapshot aesthetic, which moves between the diaristic and abstract. People, objects and spaces are all combined, inviting the viewer to meditate on the absurd pleasures of life.
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Elena Cruz
My art whimsically depicts working- to lower middle-class narratives through a structural perspective, telling stories of present decline, resilience, and normality within the abstracted effects of the economy. It demonstrates how economic, political, and ideological structures affect the individual and how private experiences, in all their emotion and immediate complexity, represent broader systemic construction. Through the narratives displayed, political and economic problems are not only recognised, but also understood as repairable.
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Robin Clark
I work in 2D media including painting, drawing and collage, and graduated from BA (Hons) Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, in 2017. Through my practice, I explore relations between objects from different eras, and our relations to them, inspired by personal and collective encounters with the past in present day situations. Inter-relations between modernity, historicism and retro-futurism are often apparent in these works, which also investigate personal and wider societal preoccupations with style in an increasingly image-conscious cultural climate.
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Rebecca Truscott
In my practice, I knit together stories, cultivating emergent bonds lurking within and beyond things, creating animated encounters between gestural ceramics and large scale drawings. A sense of movement is central to this intuitive making practice, (re-)introducing fluidity to dislodge stuck memories and turn enchantment. The bodily and botanical forms that emerge from working intuitively with clay in this way, reconnect interior and external worlds, creating space for collective contemplation of growth, decay and repair.
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Katya Tsareva
My artistic practice is continuously focused on exploring space and identity. Immersed in the realm of aesthetic and sensual perception, I strive to avoid direct references and narrative approach. The intertwining of these themes and the search for diverse art forms serve as the foundation of my creative process. Space and material, color and form, the exploration of identity and perception - all these elements constitute my artistic field. I value the process of searching for unique compositional solutions, experimenting with color and form, and transforming found or self-made photographs into the basis for my artworks. Therefore, my art represents an endless exploration: studying the perception of the human body as a form, the interaction of this form with other objects and spaces, the search for new ways of perception and expression of this perception.
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Alex Cassetti
Alex Cassetti’s pieces are made from screenshots of my film Broadway is Closed, 2022. This three minute, 16mm uv-printed “film” was created in Times Square between 2018-2020. In Times Square, I photographed the most-photographed place on Earth, capturing the reflections of illuminated billboards on the sidewalk, showing how the color changed. The textures and changes of color read as abstract sunsets. These pieces are printed on large format transparency film hung with white nails and magnets.
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Julieta Tetelbaum
By challenging conventional storytelling and traditional cinematic norms, Tetelbaum's thought-provoking stories serve as catalysts for introspection, reflection, empathy, and dialogue. Through her lens, she creates a platform for marginalised voices to be heard, actively confronting social norms, urging viewers to question preconceived notions and embrace a broader understanding of the human experience.
