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+ PRESS PACK AUTUMN 2018
A series of new framed prints as voted for by art lovers. To coincide with The Other Art Fair’s London Spring 2018 showcase, Habitat and The Other Art Fair curated a shortlist of artworks from 10 emerging artists and asked their fans to vote for their favourites to be part of Habitat’s AW18 Gallery collection. Following over 2,500 votes, the final shortlist includes 5 artworks that each portray figurative subjects across a mix of different mediums with works from artists Elena Garcia de la Fuente, Emma Copley, Hippolyte Reininger, Iona Stern and Rosemary Chatin. ‘Art has always been a really important part of Habitat,” comments Kate Butler, Head of Design for Habitat, “and partnering with The Other Art Fair has given us an opportunity to discover a diverse range of emerging artists who each bring new approaches to contemporary art and design. Excitingly this is our first project that involves customers voting for our new gallery designs and we’ve curated a really diverse collection of styles as a result.” The new framed print collection launches in October 2018 just before The Other Art Fair’s Autumn showcase from 4 - 7 October 2018 at Victoria House in London. habitat.co.uk/art
EMMA
COPLEY
“ like Monet, Degas and Manet and am inspired by their
I have always studied the work of impressionist painters
ability to paint quickly and capture fleeting moments. To
create this painting I worked very quickly with oil paint
and a palette knife; using a family photo as the starting
point and inventing a colour palette to reflect how I im-
agine my daughter feels when she enters the water. The
imagery I work from tends to be related to my everyday
life, family and surroundings. I wanted to paint this piece
until her figure just began to emerge on the panel. I like
when it takes the viewer a little while to see the image
being represented in my paintings, and I think the act of
painting is more visible in the final work, when you can
see evidence of gesture and the human touch. I aim to ex-
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press not just an emotion with the combination of gesture
and colour, but a sense of speed.
Emma has a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and an
MA in Fine Art from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge School of Art. She
was one of 25 artists shortlisted in The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2016
and was a semi-finalist in the Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year Award
in 2015. Emma has shown her works internationally in exhibitions and fairs
in the UK, the US, and Italy, including the ING Discerning Eye exhibition, Lynn
Painter Stainers Prize, and The Other Art Fair (London). She had her first
solo exhibition in London at The Hospital Club in October and began an artist
residency at Stephen Perse Foundation in Cambridge in November 2017.
My Little Swimmer
60x80cm print in Trieste oak frame
Limited edition of 20 signed prints
£165
ROSEMARY
CHATIN
“ contrasts with luscious plants and reflections of the water. After many
This work is part of my ‘Pool and Palm Trees’ series, where architecture
years of portrait and group paintings, my pool paintings were about an
interest in perspectives, straight lines, abstraction and simplification.
Working from images that I collect, I like to transform and recompose
them. A mix of observing, memory and imagination, this series resurge
from images of my childhood in the Canary Islands. Working from the
same image, but experimenting with forms
and different colors, leads to very different results. Size is also important,
and varies anywhere between small (30x40 cm) to large (120x170 cm).
I work with all types of media, mainly oil and acrylics, and like drawing
into wet paint. Experimenting with different supports (paper, canvas,
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upholstery fabrics, etc) permits me to work on a same image producing
very different results.
Born in England, Rosemary grew up in Spain, before moving to France.
She lives and works in Paris. Having studied in Madrid, she went back to
school in continuing education at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
(Philadelphia) and at the Ateliers des Beaux Arts de Paris. Rosemary has
participated in different group shows (PAFA, Fleisher Gallery, Main Line Art
Center, ARTruist, ScopeBasel, Affordable Art Fair NY, MacParis, The Other
Art Fair, Salon d’Art d’Etampes...) and has had solo shows in Paris,
Versailles, Tenerife, Menorca, Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr. She collected
the 3rd prize at the Concours Paliss’art in 2016.
Piscine et Matelas Rayes
70x100cm framed print in Dark Birch black frame
Limited edition of 20 signed prints
£190
IONA
STERN
“ a mattress and cushions. It’s an almost overhead view
This work depicts a partially clothed woman reclining on
looking down. I stood close to her, looking up the length
of her body. It gives the surprising impression that she is
upside-down, I drew her outline, letting the background
paper becoming her white skin. The almost flat colour
of the red cardigan and the black and orange cushions
become abstract shapes – a landscape in which she lies.
The background pale grey ochre is and darker ochre
shape wrap around the figure giving contrast to the white
of her figure. Rather than slavishly depicting what was in
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front of me, I used the strong contrasting colours to add
to the graphic and abstract quality.
Iona worked for many years in advertising as an art director and designer.
She studied at Canterbury College of Art and has a BA Hons in Art & Design.
Since taking the decision to pursue a more personal creative path, she has
worked as a painter and screenprint maker. Iona exhibits regularly in galler-
ies and with Saatchi Art at The Other Art Fair. Iona works from her studio in
Ealing, West London.
On The Diagonal
50x50cm print in Pisa black frame
Limited edition of 20 signed prints
£135
HIPPOLYTE
REININGER
“ As he was dancing I noticed the red light of a neon bouncing on his cheek.
This painting is based on a picture I took of a friend in Paris on a night out.
I liked the whole scene so I grabbed my camera and took the picture. I’ve
purposefully cropped the image so that he wouldn’t be in the middle of
the painting - I prefer when not much happens in the middle so that the
eye of the viewer can travel more freely instead of being stuck in the
middle of the painting. This painting represents my work very well as we
can see several ways of painting used - his hat is finely detailed; his face
is in a nice firm brushstroke and for his top I went full abstract, but it’s
actually the part I spent the most time.
As I paint I look for a way to represent something in a few
brushstrokes, it’s what I find challenging, but the fact that I enjoy
seeing different styles clash in one painting makes me change my
way of applying paint in the same painting. Every painting is a result of
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what I’ve learned so far plus a little bit of experimentation. It’s a never
ending process.
Hippolyte was born in 1991 in France, and grew up in Marseille and Glasgow.
He went to the art school of Marseille ESADMM : Ecole Supérieur d’Art et de
Design Marseille Méditerranée where he graduated in 2015.
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50x70cm print in Birch white frame
Limited edition of 20 signed prints
£150
ELENA GARCIA
DE L A FUENTE
“ ‘Let’s Try That at Home’ looks at how the younger
My work explores behaviour inside the museum.
audiences relate to the artworks. In this painting two
girls are looking at the work ‘Snail’ by Matisse. I wanted
to paint a work that had had a great impact on me when
I’ve first seen it in the flesh. I remember being moved by
the scale of the original work done in collage. Collage is
usually a medium that is very accessible to children and I
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imagined these two girls getting inspired to be able to do
something similar at home.
Elena García de la Fuente (Madrid, 1975) has lived and worked in London
since 1999. She completed an MA in Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute
(London, 2001), and a Degree in Fine Art at the Universidad Complutense
(Madrid, 1998). In 2017 Elena exhibited in a solo show ‘To See or Not to See’ at
The Last Supper in London. In 2016 she was shortlisted for the Lynn
Painter-Stainers Prize and exhibited at the RA Summer Exhibition in London.
In 2015 she was shortlisted for The Winsor &Newton Painting Prize and the
National Open Art Competition.
Let’s Try That At Home
50x50cm framed print in Trieste oak frame
Limited edition of 20 signed prints
£135
An Art Fair for a new generation of Art buyers. Presented by Saatchi Art, The Other Art Fair is the UK’s leading artist fair to discover and buy art directly from the very best emerging artistic talent. With bi-annual fairs strongly established in London, The Other Art Fair has grown both in the UK and abroad with editions now in Bristol, Sydney, Melbourne, Brooklyn and Los Angeles, with more to come! This Autumn 2018 (4-7 October) we return to Central London’s historic Victoria House and The College, Old Central St Martin’s Building, presenting a variety of hand picked works that span all mediums, by 150 contemporary artists chosen by a committee of art industry experts. theotherartfair.com
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