Oriele Steiner (b. 1993, England) is a painter living in London. She received her BA in Fine Art in 2015 at the University of Brighton and attended the Turps Banana Correspondence Course in 2021-2022. She experiments with colour and light in her paintings to construct whimsical semi-narrative compositions. Her ‘British’ sense of humour reveals itself in her tasteful balance of comical and dark themes. Her work has been exhibited in galleries all across the United Kingdom, in London, Edinburgh, Brighton, and also in Amsterdam.Oriele Steiner’s work explores a wide array of painting techniques and processes, using colour and light as the dominant means of experimentation. She is interested in a palette’s ability to evoke emotion, whether through it’s direct, singular use or via juxtaposition and dissonance. Her paintings are deliberately layered with conflicting emotions - she wishes to place whimsical moments on stage for the world to see, like single frames taken from a comic strip; whilst her compositions imply they exist as part of a larger story, the task us with considering a particular moment. The compositions are derived from Steiner’s very ‘British’ sense of humour - simultaneously comical and dark; surreal yet totally, relatedly human. Fears and taboos leap out of the work, imagery and motifs from personal moments transform themselves in the viewer’s mind, Oriele asking us to judge whether the privacy of these moments is intimate or gross - perhaps a more traditional British comedian would quip “what’s the difference?”.
Oriele Steiner offers an insightful portrayal of sensuality and multiplicity of the female form. The artist uses grotesquely colourful almost cartoon-like figures to create unsettling parallels between landscapes and human bodies. Their anamorphic shapes echo each other on her canvases. This allows surreal compositions to be filled with various conflicting emotions.
2023
Sens Gallery. Group Exhibition. Hong Kong. September
Solo Show - HewHood Gallery. London. October
Untitled Miami- Group Show. Duran Mashaal December
London Art Fair. Artistellar Gallery. London
Between the Bridge and the Door. Picroum Gallery, London
2022
Spectrum’ Better Go South. Group show. November
.‘Accessible Art Show’Black White Gallery. November
'Material Presence’(Turps Banana) Fitzrovia Gallery. Group Show. November
'Out of Nowhere' Soho Revue. Co Curated Group Exhibition with Amelie Peace. London, July
'The Body is a Landscape' Artistellar Gallery. Duo Exhibition with Janine Brito. London, June
'Emergence' The Room Gallery. Group. Group Exhibition. London, April
‘Works on Paper 4’ BlueShop Cottage. Group Show. Online. April
‘Art on a Postcard x India Rose James. Groups Show. Soho Revue. April
‘ Art from Ukraine’ Art for Ukraine x The Auction Collective . Online. Group Show’ April
‘Artists for Ukraine’ Procrastinarting. Group show. Online. March
‘Spring Greens’ LivingStone Gallery. Group Show. Bristol. March
‘I’ll be your mirror’ Boisdale of Bishopsgate. Group Show. London. Feb
'Venomous' Enfant Terrible, D Contemporary. Group show. London. Jan
2021 (selected)
A Future Cast in our image'Grove Collective. Group show. Square Gallery. London Feb. 'Tilted'. Purslane and Wilder Gallery. Group show. March.
'Safe as milk'. Arusha gallery Group show, Edinburgh. March.
Art for Relief. - The Auction CollectiveGroup show. March.
'The Top 100'. The Auction Collective. Group Show. June.
'Safe as Milk'. Arusha Gallery. Group show. Soho, London. July.
'Art on a Postcard'. Group show. London. July.
'NOW' Huxley Parlour. Online show. July.
'Amongst The Chaos'. Wondering People. group show. London. July. ‘Safe As Milk’. Group Show. London. July
'Euphoric' Procrastinarting. Group Show. Online. Sept
'Hera'. The Auction Collective/The Artist Contemporary. Online. Sept '50 x £50'. The Auction Collective. Nov
'Saturnalia' Art City Works x Purslane Gallery. Group show. Online. Dec
2020 (selected)
Yngspc. As inside, so outside'. Group show. online. Jan Bowes-Parris gallery Solo exhibition. Oct
All mouth Gallery and Bowes-Parris gallery. Curated for covid. Group show. London. Dec Wondering People. group show. London. Dec 2020
2019 (selected)
'Complex & Partial'. Solo Show. Brighton.
St Art - Radion - Group show. Amsterdam. July ‘While Supplies Last’ - Group show -Seattle. August
‘Windows' - by noplaceart GX Gallery. London
2018 (selected)
Bloomberg New Contemporaries and Bluecoat Studio bursary at The Royal Standard, Liverpool. The Royal Standard - Group Show
Windows - by noplaceart’ GX Gallery. London.
Education:
Central Saint Martins university foundation Diploma, London 2011-2012 University of Brighton BA hons Fine Art: Painting 2012-2015
Turps Banana Correspondence Course 2021-2022
Slade School of Art MFA. Date TBC
Residencies and Awards:
Cawdor Castle residency. Scotland. September 2014
Los Artistas Del Cortijo residency. Spain, Granada. April-June 2017.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries and Bluecoat Studio bursary at The Royal Standard, Liverpool. Sept 2017-sept 2018
Prah Residency, Margate. March 2021