Alice Miller, Louisa Clark and Zuzanna Salamon are three exceptional emerging artists selected as RBA Rising Stars this year!
You can see their work at the exhibition now at the Royal Overseas League in London. The show is produced in partnership with the Royal Society of British Artists to showcase the talent of 40 artists shortlisted for the RBA Rome Scholarship 2022.
The Society made a statement on those selected:
Whether it be the trace of the artist left behind in their mark making or the alchemy of a resolved form rendered in a mix of materials applied with exquisite skill, RBA RISING STARS maps the trajectory of what is yet to come in contemporary art practice from the relative viewpoint of the present day. Amongst other awards for the finalists is a one-month residency at Sala Uno, an arts centre in the heart of Rome.
These are three young artists making fine art with a difference. Congratulations on this significant moment in their early career: an exciting promise of what’s to come.
Feathers recur in Zuzanna Salamon’s work, and like the cyclical drift of nature they provide motif, symbol, and sign. At the same time as gesturing towards the artist’s interest in migration across cultures, they provide a unique challenge for her primary medium – charcoal – to render their texture in a way we experience as true.
Louisa Clark’s paintings are capaciously evocative, activated by ambiguity: could the shapes that populate these works be mass or energy? Louisa’s process is deeply involved with sculpture, investigating the vulnerability of structural elements around us to create her work.
After-dark, natural light disappears and things become uncertain. But maybe then we can see more? Alice Miller’s paintings hint at this: her photorealist technique mimicking the heightening of our senses.