Art Exhibition

Curious Duke Gallery are proud to present the Secret Art Prize Exhibition 2014. Running from 4th - 27th September 2014, winner Mohammed Sami will be showing his winning work alongside the 10 runners up, including winner of the soon to be announced People's Choice Award. The group show will present the best of new and emerging surreal and urban art in our 173 Whitecross Street home, with the winning entries and new work, alike. With winner Mohammed Sami taking over our home of Whitecross Street in this years Rise of the Non-Conformists street art exhibition, this September is set to be a month of Secret Art Prize celebrations.

The inaugural Secret Art Prize has gone off with a bang. With over 130 applicants in two months, Curious Duke Gallery wanted the best of new artistic talent that celebrates the urban and surrealist art. With a prize of £1,700 overall and gallery representation, the East End gallery are proud to share these new talents. Eleni Duke, founder of Curious Duke Gallery, launched the inaugural Secret Art Prize with the view to bring her love of surreal and street art together, to give this niche the support and attention it deserves from the London gallery scene. Duke explains that she wished to “mix fine art with the current street art trend that we are currently experiencing and put the physical piece of art onto the streets, one that is removable and can then be put into a home or gallery context, and really bridge the gap between fine art and street art.” Duke wanted to launch an art prize that differed from the trope on offer, she wanted to celebrate the strange and the beautiful, the urban and undiscovered secret talents.

Artists exhibiting:
Aidan Myers
Blandine Bardeau
Cherelle Sappleton
Johnathan Reiner
Karolina Albricht
Karolina Zglobicka
Martha Zmpounou
Mohammed Sami
Novemto Komo
Olivia Yu
Rosanna Dean