Platform For Emerging Arts 5

We are pleased to announce the opening of our forthcoming exhibition

Platform for Emerging Arts 5

Private view Tuesday 17 Feb 6.30 – 9pm
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Leyden Gallery is fast becoming known for its imaginative curation and forward-thinking programming of exhibitions and events. This is our largest Platform show to date, with an impressive range of artists working in mediums as diverse as wool, biro and oil. From abstract painting to the detailed precision of drawing, the Platform for Emerging Arts shows are a curatorial vehicle for a brilliant international group of emerging artists at various stages of their development and careers.

Silvia Battista
The cultural references for Battista’s exquisitely detailed pencil drawings are early Italian renaissance painting. Her re-thinking of the work of artists such as Pontorno, Antonello da Messina and Masaccio, especially their understanding of the human figure is re-interpreted through a contemporary lens.

Lydia Brockless
Much of Brockless’ sculptural work deals with paradoxes, these complex contradictions are materialised in the combinations of processes and forms.

Daniel Hosego
In his series called Melancholia (after Dürer) Hosego explores the anxieties of contemporary artists in their attempt to forge an original artistic vision.

Margherita Isola
In this Platform show Isola will show works which belongs to her new project called Hamlet in Harar, which is presented here as a series of embroidered collages of mixed technique.

Johann Lester
Lester presents a body of work that has been produced by only using the marks of black biros, creating interplay between shadow and light.

Conor Flynn O’Donnell
Through his abstract painting practice O’Donnell engages the question of perfection, in what way it may exist, and how we may continually seek it.

Olexandra Solomka
The artist draws her influences from Tudor-age portraiture, as well as Eastern European iconography and folk art.

Sintija Vikmane
Through her art, the Latvian artist Vikmane researches the convergence of history, beliefs and mythology from diverse cultures.