TEAM LEWIS Foundation 2023-2024 Emerging Artist Exhibition
About
The TEAM LEWIS Foundation 2023-2024 Emerging Artist Exhibition includes a selection of emerging artists from Chelsea College of Art, including MA, Graduate Diploma, and BA Fine Art, Graphic Communication and Textile Design courses. The collection of original artworks, designs, and prints gives an overview of the creative talent coming out of Chelsea College. At the same time, a series of interviews available on my blog provides further context to the ideas and conditions of recent graduates working through the pandemic.
Millbank Tower, 22nd Floor
Millbank, London SW1P 4RS
If you'd like to visit the exhibition, please email Amber Ashby - at amber.ashby@teamlewis.com to arrange access to the building.
List of Artists and Designers
Anita-praise Nweke
The Recreation of Venus (2023)
Digital Print on Canvas
BA (Hons) Fine Art
My project relates to Black female identity. It explores the intersectionality of the black female experience and the different lenses through which society and the media view black women.
Choeun Kim
Wash Your Memor (2023)
Digital Print
BA (Hones) Graphic Design Communication
Dirk Tsai (Ya Ke Tsai)
Petrichor II (2023)
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
MA Fine Art
Dirk Tsai (Ya Ke Tsai)
Petrichor III (2023)
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
MA Fine Art
When the raindrop hit the window, it changed the shape of the window. The smell that comes through the slit from the window after rain. Drenched. Embraced. Dynamic.
I am an Asian artist, actor, and model based in London. I document the emotional change of people and environments with acrylic painting and other materials.The works that I made are exploring the boundaries of painting and installation. In monochrome, large-scale painting, I investigate form, spatiality, and surface. The reflection of light in the materials and trompe-l’œil effects draw the viewer to interact and investigate the artwork. The works balance between abstraction and representation of hiding and revealing, which may be found hanging on or propped against walls, installed in the middle of a room, or even attached to the ceiling. They capture poetic moments between movement and stillness and simultaneously give the impression of weight and lightness.
Ode to Chelsea (2023)
Latex, acrylic, latex colourant on canvas
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Esther Robertson
Ode to Chelsea (2023)
Latex, acrylic, latex colourant on canvas
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Finley Buster James
Make (2023)
Image and artist-made frames, set of 12
BA (Hons) Graphic Design Communication
Finley Buster James (b.2001) is an English artist living and working in London. A recent graduate of Chelsea College of Arts, Finley's practice explores themes of sustainability, recycling, and repurposing. Utilising found and discarded material, he aims to showcase the beauty and life left in abandoned and broken objects. Make centres around re-purposing discarded waste and up-cycling it into functional art. Drawing attention to the importance of sustainable thinking in creative practice and breathing new life into forgotten materials, the inherent beauty of repurposed objects is rediscovered. Common building materials paired with waste found in skips and the street become the building blocks for the chairs. Through photography, this project captures the essence of these transformed sculptures, merging my interest in image-making, building, and publication design. By highlighting the synergy between sustainability and beauty, I encourage us to explore our material relationships in creative practice.
@finleybusterjames
studio@busterjames
busterjames.co
Gabriella Borges
Administrate Human Rights (2023)
Secondhand Fabric and Recycled Thread
MA Textile Design
Throughout this project, Gabriella investigated the power of design as material activism for Reproductive Justice. Her work is situated at the intersection of textiles and social justice through a fine art perspective. This project is inspired by the historical symbolism representing freedom and justice in the United States. Through textiles, she wants to communicate the importance of better social programs for women and how social justice is important for reproductive rights.
Gabriella Borges
The Statue of Liberty Sketchbook Page (2023)
Mixed Media
MA Textile Design
The chain references the broken shackles at the feet of The Statue of Liberty. The broken shackles represent the end of slavery in the United States, allowing the Statue of Libertas (the Roman goddess of freedom) to walk free. She is known to represent the idea of human rights, peace, liberty, and opportunity.
Gabriella Borges
The Human Rights Bell Sketchbook Page (2023)
Mixed Media
MA Textile Design
The Liberty Bell is believed to have been rung during the first reading of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and later to represent the struggle to abolish slavery by the abolitionists. Then during the women’s suffrage movement in 1920, the Liberty Bell was replicated to make the Justice Bell, which was chained in silence until the passing of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. I decided to continue with the history of the bell and create my own version of it called The Human Rights Bell, in hopes that one-day, Reproductive Justice will be seen as a human right.
The Human Rights Bell is made from mustard yellow cotton sateen deadstock fabric with hand-embroidered lettering surrounded by satin stitch purple and green stripes.
Gengjun Fan
They all lie to you (2023)
Painting Installation
MA Fine Art
The use of ready-made objects in his works is often described as darkly humorous, ironic, playful or mischievous by viewers. His B.A. background in fine art photography and previous work experience as a television broadcast content censor has led him to subconsciously refer to consumerism, surveillance and censorship, and institutional critique in some of his practices.
Grace Mcnerney
Fresh Hell Part 1 (2023)
Oil on Canvas
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Grace Mcnerney
Fresh Hell Part 2 (2023)
Oil on Canvas
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Grace Mcnerney
Fresh Hell Part 3 (2023)
Oil on Canvas
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Grace Mcnerney (b. 2001, Harrogate) is a London-based painter and photographer, whose practice pursues spectacle and comedy in the liminal and mundane. Her degree show was a large-scale exploration on canvas of the ‘Cool Water Company’, a fictional organisation of self-evident specialism, around which. Mcnerney constructed a hypothetical world of staff hierarchies and open-plan offices. The installation was a homage to the modern-day service sector, a celebration of office workers, and a commentary on the peripheral microcultures generated by late-stage capitalism. The work shown in The Emerging Artists Exhibition, a series of three interior landscapes depicting an office space, collectively titled Fresh Hell, it was one element of her degree show installation and was inspired by a series of pictures set to her from a disgruntled Hoxton office worker who soon after quit his job, Mcnerney wanted to immortalise the existential dread working there brought up within them.
Hannah Kay
Jiggle (2023)
Wood, metal, yarn, hassium
MA Fine Art
To Me To You (2023)
3D Printed
Humps (2023)
Glazed ceramics
MA Fine Art
Hannah Kay
Untitled (2023)
Plaster, rope, spray paint
MA Fine Art
Hannah Kay
Untitled (2023)
Wood, plaster, rope, spray paint, sand
MA Fine Art
Hannah Pop
Welcome to America: A safety guide (2023)
Illustration and Booklet
Graduate Diploma Graphic Design
Joshua Y’Barbo
From a Great Height (2023)
Daughter-daddy collaborative drawing.
Mixed Media on Card
PhD in Art Theory, History, and Practice
Joshua Y’Barbo
The Trophy (2023)
Daughter-daddy collaborative drawing
Mixed media on card
PhD in Art Theory, History, and Practice
Joshua Y’Barbo
Jetpacks and the Elephant in the Room (2023)
Daughter-daddy collaborative drawings
Mix media on card
PhD in Art Theory, History, and Practice
Joshua Y’Barbo
Be Bold (Dinosaur Party)! (2023)
Daughter-daddy collaborative drawing
Mix media on card
PhD in Art Theory, History, and Practice
Joshua Y’Barbo
Better When We Work Together (2023)
Daughter-daddy collaborative drawing
Mix media on card
PhD in Art Theory, History, and Practice
Joshua Y’Barbo
Super Duper You (2023)
Daughter-daddy collaboration
Mixed media on card
PhD in Art Theory, History, and Practice
Joshua Y’Barbo
Superhero and Rocket (2023)
Mix media on card
Daughter-daddy collaborative drawing
PhD in Art Theory, History, and Practice
Joshua Y’Barbo
Go Team (2023)
Mixed media on canvas
PhD in Art Theory, History, and Practice
Joshua Y’Barbo
Ghost-spider, T-Rex, and Rocket (2023)
Daughter-daddy collaborative drawing
Mix media on canvas
PhD in Art Theory, History, and Practice
Joshua Y’Barbo
Miles up in the Sky (2023)
Daughter-daddy collaboration
Mix media on card
PhD in Art Theory, History, and Practice
Joshua Y’Barbo
Googly Eyes (Three Boys and a Buffalo) (2023)
Daughter-daddy collaboration
Mix media on paper
PhD in Art Theory, History, and Practice
Junruo Fang
The False Commitment (2023)
Installation shots of sculptures
MA Fine Art
Kuanyi Qian
Refuse it? Accept it? (2023)
Recycled fabrics, threads
MA Textile Design
Lan Zhang
Tattoos II (2022)
Acrylic on Canvas
MA Fine Art
Lan Zhang
A Man (2022)
Acrylic on Canvas
MA Fine Art
Lan Zhang
Childhood (2022)
Acrylic on Canvas
MA Fine Art
Lan Zhang
Female: 27 Years Old (2022)
Oil on Canvas
MA Fine Art
Lan Zhang
Tattoos I (2022)
Acrylic on Canvas
MA Fine Art
Lan Zhang
The Truth (2023)
Acrylic on Canvas
MA Fine Art
Lan Zhang
Stepmother (2022)
Acrylic on Canvas
MA Fine Art
Lan Zhang
Where There is You I (2022)
Oil on Canvas
MA Fine Art
Lan Zhang
Where There is You II (2022)
Oil on Canvas
MA Fine Art
Lan Zhang
Where There is You III (2022)
Oil on Canvas
MA Fine Art
I still use part of the anthropological language to express the theme, but it is different from the past, which explored the current situation of women in a patriarchal society and emphasised the symbolisation of women. This time, I am exploring the powerful maternal role of women, still emphasising their strength but focusing on the embodiment of the parent-child relationship. These three paintings are about the relationship between my son and me. The colours are brighter and more vibrant than before, and the compositions are not centred on a single figure as before, but rather like a "paradise on earth", with an orderly sequence of gatherings and scatterings and a focus on the story. One of them is the main expression in these three paintings.
Lily Wei
Study of a Taihu Rock (2023)
Oil on canvas
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Oscillating between New Zealand winters and Chinese summers as well as receiving an equal number of years lived in both countries, my experience of living neither fully like those in the local community nor with relatives back in my home culture determines this project in which I investigate the crisis of nationality for the current third culture populace who lack a sense of any one unified identity—national, cultural nor personal. The painting ‘Study of a Taihu Rock’ depicts the iconic Chinese decoration in an abstract way, combining both Eastern and Western elements to expand on this disconnect among cultures.
Liu Renjun
Phantom (2023)
Sleeping bag, blue tape, anti-climb temporary fence panel, thermoplastic hi-vis black and yellow fence feet, fence coupler, hollow fibre, wood, steel.
MA Fine Art
This work [Phantom] combined ghosts, mummies, sleeping bags, hazmat suits, and fences. It created a space resembling a digital model without a sense of time and place. As an epilogue of the phantom characteristics of the pandemic, it summarised the outbreak and development of the virus, to the troubles and restrictions the virus caused. It objectively and coldly pointed to reality, implied death, related to civilisation, and associated with the discipline. Except for the nine figures in the exhibition space, another figure was placed on the link bridge on the upper floor of the building. Like a phantom in the concept, it overlooked everyone on the lower ground from the top, but only a few people saw its existence.
Miya Kosowick
Our Reflections in the Window in Margate (2023)
Oil on canvas
MA Fine Art
Paige Doran
Weave 1-6 (2023)
Cotton yarn and paper yarn
MA Textile Design
An inquiry into the enhancement and/or hindrance of adding AI-generated and virtual textiles to the textile and craft industry. The beauty of the woven samples is in the contrasting colours combined with the changing textures and small, tactile design elements; they represent a sensorial experience that is difficult to replicate digitally.
A textile designer currently studying a Master in Textile Design at the University of the Arts London, with a knack for all things bold and bright. Organised and fastidious, with an eye for colour and detail, I have completed several internships with various organisations.
Instagram: designedpaige
Website: www.paigedoran.com
Pallavi Verma
A Wild-Escape: Woven through Conversations (2023)
Textiles (nettle yarn)
MA Textile Design
Siyi He
Paradise (2023)
Installation
Foam board, paper, 3D Animation, paintings
Siyi (b.1996) is a mixed media artist from Chengdu, China, currently living and working in China and London.Influenced primarily by her childhood experiences, Siyi focuses on the phenomenon of flying mosquitoes from her own eyes. She uses airbrush and chalk to render images in multiple layers, creating hazy colours to express the unconsciousness, chaos and instability of childhood. Siyi attempts to reconstruct her childhood mental world from an adult perspective and tries to blur the boundaries of time, treating the constructed world as a virtual existence that is infinitely closer to the real. Siyi sees her work as a way to heal herself, attempting to also to draw the viewer's attention to their own precarious state.
https://www.hesiyistudio.com
Instagram: hesiyistudio
Xijun Liao
Recycled Denim Puffer Project (2023)
Recycled Denim with cotton puffing
Graduate Diploma Textile Design
The Recycled Denim Puffer Project mainly focuses on collecting fabric scraps from denim factories and remaking them into puffer fabrics. The core concept for this project is creating a multiple-circulatory system that reuses the denim scraps as often as possible. The project's outcome would be a collection of puffer jackets that can be remade again based on their fragmented pattern design. Compared with other sustainable textile projects, the Recycled Denim Puffer Project expects to develop with iconic fashion influence, which makes the fashion world realise more applications for denim garment design. Therefore, the project’s target audiences are people of all ages willing to help decrease denim waste in fashionable ways. Various brands who manufacture denim products can also seek to collaborate with this project and increase their influence in sustainable aspects by carrying the essence of turning waste fabric into brand-new puffer jackets. Please Email me if you are interested and willing to purchase garments in the collection.
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