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CHROMA LONDON
16 JUNE - 31 OCTOBER 2023 -
As British contemporary art enjoys its golden era, a parallel wave of enthusiasm is surging through the streets of London as a fresh cohort of artists emerge on the scene. London Chroma is a survey of artists contributing to this surge and The Tagli community. This collection seeks to showcase the abundant and diverse talent of ten artists. While a considerable number of these creative practitioners demonstrate a notable affinity for painting, they consistently defy conventions and push the boundaries of the medium, blurring the distinction between figurative and abstract forms.
Every artwork featured in our catalogue is priced below £10,000. We believe in offering accessible options that cater to a wide range of collectors and art enthusiasts. All the artworks in this catalogue are available with the option to be purchased with Art Money. In our commitment to making art accessible and supporting artists, this collaboration aims to foster a sustainable creative economy. By utilizing Art Money, you can promptly enjoy your chosen artwork while conveniently spreading the cost over 10 monthly, interest-free installments.
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SAM NG
He started studying the heaviness of everyday life by tearing off their semblance from phenomenon and imaginary. His work centres on the embodiment of lightness, through his care about tiny and trivial things, the heaviest sentiments come up with the lightest narrative in his work. To paint is to secure the significance of the ephemeral in everyday life, in his journey of reverie, nothing in reality has changed, but everything exists in a different way under his portraiture of the tiny and trivial things. Quiet, lonely and peaceful, is the recurrent vein in Sam Ng's work.
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LOTTIE STODDART
Lottie Stoddart is a London based artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores varied forms of enchantment. The works are enclosed realms; illusionistic, contained spaces where a residual story, memory, atmosphere plays out under its own internal laws. The use and depiction of humble materials in a reduced economy of form, plays with registers of familiarity and ubiquity. The rendering and use of varied materials in their collaged, shallow spaces hints at the unconscious and weird; from monstrous and mutating to celebratory and sensual, in a language that is playfully remembered, imagined, warped, reduced.
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HILLARY BUTTERWORTH
My artwork explores the line between the dignity of self-reliance and the absurdity of choosing to struggle alone, even when help is available. Cowboys, one of the strongest symbols of self-reliance, are my main protagonists, but instead of traditional cowboy gear they are equipped only with morphed versions of my childhood toys. My cowboys struggle to make use of these goofy, useless tools, with varying degrees of success. These paintings depict the delicate balance between self-reliance and the human need for connection and support.
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FERGUS POLGLASE
Polglase explores painting through themes of masculinity, childhood, shame, fairy tales and Folk law. His expressive works are an intensive process of layering acrylic paint; adding and taking away. They are collections of colours, paint, marks and stories, containers of amalgamated time. The process is organic which allows the work to slowly unfold, responding playfully to the marks made. Polglase's work always starts with his drawings, which could start from life or imagination; small scribbles and cartoons give a starting point for his paintings, which take off on their own, new marks revealed through layers guide the artist to further opportunities to draw from. Polglase has a desire for an organic symbiosis with the natural process of painting. In this fast intuitive process paintings can take days to make or months, only knowing when to stop through a feeling of contentment. -
CORRIE WINGATE
Recurring themes of place, diaspora, and migration are central to my work. I am fascinated by the complex relationships between people and their environments, and how these relationships are shaped by history, culture, and identity. Whether through the use of colour, texture, or symbolism, I aim to create artworks that not only capture the essence of a place or a culture but also convey the emotions and experiences of the people who inhabit them.
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EVIE MAE JACOBS
With a tender approach to painting, her work focuses on the relationship we have, as humans, to sensory experience. Using the traditional process of painting oil on canvas, she leans into the history of the discipline, whilst embracing contemporary methods of configuring her work. Evie presents the human form as a soft landscape, where diaphanous fabrics and the figure, merge to become one. In exploring both the physical and metaphorical sense of softness, her practice delves into themes of comfort, dreams and human connection in many forms. With an approach that is governed by using slow and soothing techniques, Evie's work is characterised by having an echo of its process; its own sense of calm. -
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GRANT FOSTER
Working across painting, sculpture, collage, and text, Grant uses irreverence as a tool to readdress the dogmatic traditions of the past and the present infallibility of reason. His work is best understood within the parameters of a historical and political framework, where the old collides with the new and the popular skews the classical. Employing the ideology of collage to circumnavigate systems of logic, has has become aligned to the notion of associative flow. Where the experience of walking down a street can be understood as a sensory cut-up mediated by chance. -
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CAROLINE ASHLEY
Textiles and fabrics are at the forefront; I work intuitively, collecting, thinking through my hands, using vibrant found objects. Material exploration and literacy, leads to unmaking and remaking, assembling and reassembling, materialising and dematerialising. My research has explored pattern as a negotiation of our entangled environment. Pattern and repetition are within our built landscape....My work invites the viewer to fragment their reflection and engage in spatial play, by representing multiple perspectives simultaneously; obscuring and revealing the environment encouraging active participation.
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BIJANKA BACIC
Bijanka Bacic's paintings of energized lines and forms commingle in sensuous fields of colour, tempting the viewer into a surface that plays between the three paths of abstractions; the gesture, the figure and the geometry. As each canvas engages with the subjectivity of painting, art history and our history through the analysis of the past and present. Centered around concerns within systems; combining different models with different contexts. An open-ended terrain, where her paintings operate on dialectic twists and turns, mixed in with the questions of power and resistance, chaos and order. Situating herself within these complex and paradoxical problems. Aimed not to create pictures but paintings. -
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BRUNO DIAZ
My paintings are borne out of a strange tension between immediacy and time. Prolonged periods of visual gathering are muted by easily accessible images. Pictorial space is imagined and reconfigured in helter-skelter. A conscious desire for a graphic immediacy is at its core, but further viewing is rewarded with an exploration of what it means to paint. A mood of lost-in-space, lost in painting unifies the diversity of my imagery. -
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HUGO LAMI
As an artist, this fascination with technology and its impact on society drives my work. I explore the paradoxical relationship we have with tech, which is supposed to make our lives better, but often leaves us disillusioned and disconnected living in Hyperrealities as defined by Jean Baudrillard. I’m captivated by the way technology affects how we perceive the natural world. My paintings often blur the lines between reality and fantasy, using surrealism and magical realism to create a world where the limits of reality are not bound by physical laws.
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