Art Works Gallery Exhibits Emerging International Talent in New Exhibition, “Perception”
- Sanjeeva Suresh
- Apr 26
- 3 min read
The curated exhibition features the artworks of three up-and-coming London-based contemporary artists making their debut in South-East Asia.
Art Works Gallery continues its visionary mission to support the promising careers of exceptional young talents with an upcoming exhibition dubbed Perception. Perception aims to answer the question of how three young London-based contemporary visual artists articulate (or “perceive”) the visual representation of reality on the surface of their canvases. Running from 24 October to 24 November at One Holland Village, visitors will be allowed an insight into how each of the three artists — Araminta Blue, Callum Harvey and Max Boyla — offers a distinct response through their unique practice, challenging conventional notions of form, space and meaning.
With accolades to their name, each of these three artists have graduated from prestigious institutions and are now at the forefront of contemporary visual discourse. “I’ve been following the careers of each artist for some time now, so it is my pleasure to bring such exciting and talented artists to Singapore and South-East Asia, and introduce their respective practices to a new collector base here,” says Cassi Young, global fine art director at Art Works Group.
Here is an insight into the three featured artists of Art Works Gallery’s upcoming exhibition, Perception:
Araminta Blue
Araminta Blue's artwork is profoundly influenced by escapism, manifested in ethereal abstract forms. Araminta Blue, a London-based British artist, possesses a Master of Fine Arts from the Slade School of Art and a bachelor's degree from the Ruskin School of Art. Her inaugural museum exhibition — Il Calore Sulla Pelle — is presently showcased at MARV Gradara in Italy.
Her immersive oil paintings push figuration to its limits, incorporating abstract layers and textures that obscure, dissolve, and re-emerge on the canvas surface. She draws spectators into her artistic process as she reinterprets the visual environment of her painting, utilizing it as a means of escape and refuge from reality.
Callum Harvey
Callum Harvey, a 26-year-old British artist, employs soft color palettes to illustrate architectural, spatial, and natural components while examining the transitional places where the natural and artificial converge. His artwork utilizes stratified, translucent paint to generate distorted views of space that elicit fantastical settings. Harvey's inaugural solo show took place at Pipeline in London in 2023, subsequently followed by exhibitions at Future Fair in New York and Pavilion Gallery in London.
Alongside a master’s degree from the Royal College of Art and a bachelor’s degree from Falmouth University, he has also received the Radcliffe Trust Craft Scholarship and the Arts Society Young Arts Bursary. Harvey’s work examines the tension between the natural and the artificial that arises from the interplay of a flat surface and representations of three-dimensional spaces.
Max Boyla
London-based artist Max Boyla explores the blurred lines between the real and the imagined, creating ambiguous worlds where recurring characters offer familiarity in surreal, timeless settings. A recent graduate from the Royal Academy Schools, he has most recently exhibited at Des Bain, Berntson Bhattacharjee, Sim Smith, Mammoth, APT Gallery, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Boyla's new works examine the illusory terrains of advertising and its unachievable assurances. His works on satin possess an ambiguous quality that drifts between pure abstraction and natural landscapes, evoking a fluid interplay of sea, sky, and formlessness.
Perception will run from 24 October to 24 November 2024 at Art Works Gallery, One Holland Village, 7 Holland Village Way, Singapore.
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