Artistellar Gallery is thrilled to participate in London Art Fair 2023. The gallery will present at London Art Fair 2023 a booth featuring four artists; Oriele Steiner, Johanna Seidel, Andras Nagy-Sandor, and Holly Halkes. Each artist is showing works exclusively made for the fair.
Oriele Steiner and Johanna Seidel represent the gallery’s artist program and focus on championing women artists. 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. The artist 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.
Johanna Seidel, on the other hand, blends dreams and reality to create an enchanted world. Seidel (b. 1993, Germany) is a visual artist based in Dresden, Germany. Her work primarily deals with the subject of nature. Johanna approaches different perceived realities through lyrical visual language involving symbols from history, mythology, and dreams. This allows her to create her own world on the canvas. From a palette in which shades of violet, pink, orange, and green play an essential role, Johanna develops stories and still images that exist in an atmospheric space, condensing memories and imaginings into abstract moments that become accessible and experienceable.
Andras Nagy-Sandor (b.1993) is a Hungarian artist and curator based in London, UK. He studied Fina Art at Newcastle University, and in 2022 he received his MFA at Slade School of Fine Art. The main focus of Andras' practice is unpicking the aspirations and ambivalences within his masculinity through the symbolism of armours as a link between painterly, emotional, and conceptual dichotomies. The aesthetic of Andras' armours are narrative, in some cases pseudo-folkloric, however, they do not need to be read as armours as they are the results of an intuitive design process, an embodied sensemaking approach that is based on Andras' imagination and memories. They are gestures, edges, shapes, colours, patterns, paint, materials with a conscience enveloping figurative moments, interactions between body parts, characters, groups, anthropomorphic multiheaded beings that float between cultures and identities, folklore, and sci-fi.
Holly Halkes is an emerging talent who brings to the fair large canvases dedicated to the topic of food. Halkes (b.1993) is a British artist living and working in London. She studied her first BA in Fashion Halkes studied her first BA in Fashion Design, acquiring a love for print design and bold colours. She then went on to study Fine Art at the City & Guilds of London Art School, graduating in 2022. Holly Halkes’s paintings engage with the values of the carnivalesque circulating around themes of free interaction, breaking down barriers, and playing on eccentric behaviours through her own experiences of what it feels like to live in the 21st Century. Halkes is interested in creating an alternate social space characterised by freedom and abundance to explore human behaviours and social interactions that border between real life and fantasy
