Caroline Peña Bray
Lincoln, England. 1983.
Lives and works in the UK.
Caroline Peña Bray (1983) is a British artist currently living and working in Lincoln, UK.
Peña Bray graduated from Central Saint Martins with an MA Fine Art in 2013 after
completing studies in a variety of subjects at the University of Cambridge (English
Literature), London School of Economics (Politics) and Courtauld Institute of Art (History
of Art).
She left London in 2013 to live in Bogotá, Colombia. There, impacted by the city itself, she
developed a practice focused on the image and its socio-political context, with special
emphasis on the city and photography. As a result she has developed a visual language that
interrogates the real and the imaginary, the seen and the unseen in Latin America and
beyond. In 2020, Peña Bray returned to the UK and is currently expanding her practice to
encapsulate the histories of UK towns and cities.
Peña Bray has exhibited individually at Galería 12:00, Salón Comunal and La Balsa Arte in
Bogotá, and Galería de la Oficina in Medellín, among others. Her works have been
presented in exhibitions and fairs in the United Kingdom, France and Colombia. In 2018
she was artist-in-residence at Escuela Flora in Bogotá thanks to the support of José Roca,
former Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate, and a generous grant awarded by
the British Council.
carolineamy@gmail.com
Mario Velez
Medellin, Colombia. 1968
In the 80's he studied Fine Arts at the National University of Colombia, Medellin. In 1992 he traveled to Vienna where he studied Drawing at the University of Fine Arts in Vienna / Hochschule für angewandte Kunst and returned to Medellin to finish his studies and obtain a degree in Fine Arts. After graduating she returned to Europe in 1995 and completed a Master's Degree in Painting at the University of Arts in Berlin / Universität dear Künste Berlin, where she studied with the renowned German painter Karl Horst Hödicke.
Since his beginnings as a student, the inclination for painting has been a determining factor in his artistic creation. His painting takes a lot of vigor with a triangulation that is formed from his relationship with pre-Columbian art, German expressionism and later with the approach to abstract painting in New York, shaping his work and projecting it in the international arena.
This orientation in the creative process of Mario Velez's work is given thanks to the approach to color -assumed from the influence of German expressionism-, to the interaction with abstractionism and to the look at the scale of the socio-cultural experience of his environment. Where there is an evident mediation between the body, the territory, the light, the nature and in general between the real measures that his environment offers him to escape to a more global context of the art of painting.
Drawing an axis on the practices that derive and feed the work of Velez, it can be said that there are always present coordinates that bring us closer to the farthest confines of the two-dimensional space: a journey towards the primitive, towards the capture of the exotic that is so much our own, that takes us to the primitive of our culture and the essence of our past.
In perspective, his work will always be linked to the body and to the reflection posed by the territory and the universe. Always as a support and guide of a journey where he transmits the heritage that is in the spatial structure of the face and bones; and that endures among us through the memory of his painting.
Sara Trillo
I am a visual artist exploring liminal spaces and ancient settlements. I make expeditions to find elusive littoral places within increasingly urbanised landscapes, and then form sculptural pieces in response to these, incorporating finds found on my trips. I am particularly interested in archaic fabrication processes. My output ranges from small hand held tools to immersive installations. The work is also informed by in-depth research into the layered histories and mythologies of the sites I explore: Romano-British archaeological finds and Anglo Saxon histories have inspired several projects. In recent commissions I have tried to give additional agency to the stories behind works by inviting public participation, leading walks through some of the landscapes I have explored, sharing narratives and a scrutiny of my artefacts with participants.
www.saratrillo.co.uk
@saratrillo
ZINAIDA
1975, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture (Bachelor of Arts History, 2017) and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Bachelor of Psychology, 2009). She is a member of the Food of War International Community. In 2015, she was a project facilitator at Marina Abramovic — In Residence (Kaldor Public Art Project, Sydney, Australia). She is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine and the Con Artist Residence (2018–2019, New York, USA). The participant of the Collateral Event at Venice Biennale 2022 with the work “Without Women”.
ZINAIDA project topics include the study of mythologies, national and archaic images and their conveyance using contemporary art. Many of them preceded by direct participation in cultural and ethnographic research, acquaintance and communication with the bearers of ancient knowledge and practices. In her work, the artist focuses mainly on the original artwork of women as the sacred knowledge carriers. She works in various art media.
WEBSITE: zinaida.art
INSTAGRAM: art_zinaida
FACEBOOK: Zinaida.art
EMAIL: z@zinaida.art
Esteban Peña
Esteban Peña Parga (b,1979) is a Colombian artist currently living and working in The United Kingdom.
He graduated from the University of Los Andes with a contemporary art degree in 2003 and from Central Saint Martins, London in 2003 with an MA Fine Art (dist).
Peña’s practice points with humour to various seemingly insignificant cultural, social or national habits that we engage in on a daily basis but which, when taken together, tell us a great deal about nations, politics, society and culture. In his work there co exists different concerns related to the means of production and reproduction of the image, the exploration of the pictorial processes of colour and the basic elements such as the dot and the line.
esteban.pena@gmail.com
Quintina Valero
Quintina Valero is an award-winning documentary and press photographer from Spain. After a career in finance, in 2001 she moved to London to study photojournalism at the University of the Arts. Quintina has worked as a press photographer for English newspapers while developing and producing photographic stories focuses on human rights and social issues with an emphasis on migration and minority ethnic groups. Work featured in magazines such as the Guardian, BBC, Sunday Times, Thomson Reuters Foudation, Stern Magazine, LensCulture, El Pais, Harper’s Magazine.
In 2015 Quintina joined the Food of War Collective travelling together to Ukraine to document the impact of Chernobyl’s nuclear plant. Her project “Life after Chernobyl” has received international awards and her artwork exhibited in Ukraine, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom.
Recently, Quintina has published her book “London’s Record Shops”.
@quintinavalero
Charlotte Osborne
Charlotte Osborne's paintings explore otherness through a speculative ecological lens. She creates monstrous and hybrid beings that mimic real-life outcasts - whether that be the female, the animal, the plant, the fungi, the microbe - and pays homage to them using parodic strategies. She graduated with an MA in Fine Art from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2019, and is currently artist in residence at High House Working Artist Residency in Norfolk.
@charlotterosborne
Clara Garrido
Colombian artist based in London; Clara expresses her art through photography. In her job,
she pursues unusual structures, combinations of colours and the fragile contact of this
planet with the universe.
On her travels, Clara seeks to get out of her comfort zone with the conviction (or perhaps
the illusion?) of capturing the image that she already carries in her mind.
@clara.grr
Juan R Mejia
(Medellin, Colombia, 1965)
With an architect training, he ventured into the world of art 17 years ago exploring in his urban projects, ways of referring to contemporary problems in a more poetic and sensitive way. His interest in geometry, defined as the language of man, leads him to abstract textual elements of the city and elevate them to the level of plastic art.
The work developed by the Colombian-born artist and architect is the culmination of minimalist aesthetic and a triumph of simplicity. In his work, Mejia overlays innovative materials, such as plates of polyvinyl, stainless steel and aluminum with photographs of architectural fragments and urban scenes - facades, roofs, false skies - printed on vinyl. His work revolves around the construction of volumes that come out from bi-dimensional surfaces, the perfection and subtlety expressed in cuts and folds, the austerity of the form and the accuracy of the line.
With the duality of matter and antimatter present within these works, the artist illustrates the spirit of the city - inevitably formed of tangible elements, as well as intangible elements such as human behaviour, memories, interactions.
Through isolation of urban details and streamlining its form, Juan R Mejia transforms the exterior into an intimate and familiar space, providing it with a sense of identity tinted with a futuristic vision.
https://issuu.com/jrmbarq/docs/2020_2010_2030_obra_20juan_20ricardo_20mejia_20200
@juanrmejiartista
Mario Velez
(Medellin, Colombia. 1968)
In the 80's he studied Fine Arts at the National University of Colombia, Medellin. In 1992 he traveled to Vienna where he studied Drawing at the University of Fine Arts in Vienna / Hochschule für angewandte Kunst and returned to Medellin to finish his studies and obtain a degree in Fine Arts. After graduating she returned to Europe in 1995 and completed a Master's Degree in Painting at the University of Arts in Berlin / Universität dear Künste Berlin, where she studied with the renowned German painter Karl Horst Hödicke.
Since his beginnings as a student, the inclination for painting has been a determining factor in his artistic creation. His painting takes a lot of vigor with a triangulation that is formed from his relationship with pre-Columbian art, German expressionism and later with the approach to abstract painting in New York, shaping his work and projecting it in the international arena.
This orientation in the creative process of Mario Velez's work is given thanks to the approach to color -assumed from the influence of German expressionism-, to the interaction with abstractionism and to the look at the scale of the socio-cultural experience of his environment. Where there is an evident mediation between the body, the territory, the light, the nature and in general between the real measures that his environment offers him to escape to a more global context of the art of painting.
Drawing an axis on the practices that derive and feed the work of Velez, it can be said that there are always present coordinates that bring us closer to the farthest confines of the two-dimensional space: a journey towards the primitive, towards the capture of the exotic that is so much our own, that takes us to the primitive of our culture and the essence of our past.
In perspective, his work will always be linked to the body and to the reflection posed by the territory and the universe. Always as a support and guide of a journey where he transmits the heritage that is in the spatial structure of the face and bones; and that endures among us through the memory of his painting.
Adriana Ramirez
Under the following premise: "Life is a sculptural experience", I point out, question, and promote human relationships. In addition to being an artist who does things, I am an artist who likes to make things happen. That is the reason why I open platforms where I invite viewers to become actors or co-authors of the work. I studied Industrial design and when I got 30 went back to the University to get a degree in Arts. I went to the Netherlands to find new ways of thinking at MaHKU, Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design where I got my master's in fine Arts. Then, I came back to Colombia where in my opinion, artists' social roles have all the sense and are really required because our History is at full boil.
I have exhibited in Colombia, Chile, Cuba, the United States, Perú, Venezuela, Holland, Turkey, and Norway. My work is an amalgam between the personal and the collective. Since 2021, my work has been included and exhibited in the permanent room SER Y HACER of the National Museum of Colombia. I have participated in more than 50 collective exhibitions and have opened 8 individual exhibitions to the public, one at the National Museum where I opened the alive artwork (r)Evolution of an anthem for four days and more than 800 people were co-creating.
http://www.adrianaramirez.com
PLATFORMS / Alive artwotks:
http://www.siguientescenas.com
http://www.yovoyaser.com
http://www.legadodemontana.com
http://www.revoluciondeunhimno.com
