Showcasing 11 artists from 11 supported studios around the world

Following on from last week’s 10 Galleries showcasing 10 artists that should be on your radar right now, which you can catch up on here, this week I look to art studios around the world and the incredible artists that they support. With pretty much all studios closed to their artists for the foreseeable future, and many having their exhibitions on hold or cancelled, I thought it would be great to share some of the fantastic work coming out of supported studios right now! Read on to catch 11 studios and 11 artists (I snuck an extra one in!) …

Patrick Moses, Damage. Courtesy of ActionSpace

ACTIONSPACE, London - Patrick Moses

Patrick Moses’ work is based on words, sounds and colour. He uses words as aesthetic objects, organising their phonetic and visual shapes to create textural compositions. In the process of making Moses gives priority to certain words or subjects so that the reader is taken on a journey. This leads the viewer to naturally read the work in a certain order. When completed his bold and graphical artworks show a distinct but harmonious relationship between the words, colours and space. Moses had a recent solo exhibition titled 'Autocity' at The Smallest Gallery in Soho, London, 2019. You can see more of his work here

Rebecca Scibilia, Tokyo Japan Disney, 2019, marker on paper, 35 x 50 cm, RS19-0020. Courtesy of the artist and Arts Project Australia, Melbourne

ARTS PROJECT AUSTRALIA, Melbourne - Rebecca Scibilia

Rebecca Scibilia is a Melbourne-based artist who utilises a variety of media for her drawings and paintings, sourcing imagery from popular culture items such as DVD covers and celebrity magazines. Scibilia creates her artworks in marker paints with a lurid colour palette. Catch phrases are seamlessly integrated into her artwork that is humorous and meaningful. Scibilia has worked in the Arts Project Australia studio since 1999 and had her first solo exhibition at Arts Project in 2014 and a second solo in Sydney at Suite 7a in 2019. She has exhibited in group shows including ‘Hybrid Making’ Project Ability Gallery, Scotland; ‘Heavenly Stems’, Neon Parc, Melbourne; and ‘Melbourne Art Fair’, Melbourne.

Rebecca was due to have her third solo show at Arts Project Australia in April titled ‘Japan and Mash’, which has been postponed until April 2021. You can catch more of her work here

Donald Mitchell, Untitled (DMi 654), 2020, 30.5x44 inches, Acrylic and ink on paper

CREATIVE GROWTH, California - Donald Mitchell

Donald Mitchell has been an artist at Creative Growth since 1986. The evolution of his work takes an interesting trajectory, wherein his recent work revisits some of his early impulses. Donald’s work began with dense abstract and cross-hatched fields of black lines or brush strokes that obliterated the paper and hid any trace of underlying image. Over time, Donald slowly uncovered the faces and forms buried in the darkness. His work then became populated by multiple figures that were autonomous or overlapping, and whose relationships became both dependent and independent of each other. Donald’s recent work maintains the foundation of these anonymous figures, but has returned to abstraction with late-career artist’s skill. Donald’s work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in major private and institutional collections.

Donald’s work always brings a smile to my face and you can catch more of it here alongside other works from their ‘stuck at home’ series.

Oswald Tschirtner, Galerie Gugging and House of Artists

GALERIE GUGGING, Vienna - Oswald Tschirtner

Oswald Tschirtner was born in 1920 in Perchtoldsdorf, Lower Austria, and lived in the House of Artists in Gugging from 1981 until his death in 2007. Encouraged by the psychiatrist Leo Navratil, Tschirtner started drawing in the 1960s. He became known for “his head-footer”: reduced figure without characteristic attributes such as clothing or gender. Its head flows with the body, the legs are no longer separated, but unite – quite elegantly – into a stumpy trunk with fingerless arms. The artist worked on postcard-sized paper, on canvases, or house facades, and used – depending on the dimensions – pen and Indian ink, Sharpie marker, or acrylic paint. He is regarded as a master of minimalist visual language. In 1990, he and the Gugging Artists were awarded the Oskar Kokoschka Prize. His works can be found in the Setagaya Museum, Japan, the Collection de l’Art Brut, Switzerland, and in the Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Austria, among others.

Tschirtner currently has a large show at Museum Gugging as this year they would have celebrated his 100th birthday, alongside a two-person show titled ‘Powerful Female-Delicate Male’ with Misleidys Castillo Pedroso at Galerie Gugging.

Anuja Hoogstad, Untitled (AH3), 2012, Pencil on cartridge paper, 27x35cm. Photo by Ellie Walmsley

GALERIE AND STUDIO HERENPLAATS, Rotterdam - Anuja Hoogstad

Anuja Hoogstad (b.1985) lives in Schiedam and works in Rotterdam at Atelier Herenplaats. She is one of the latest artists who has started working at the studio. Her style can be defined as feminine and clean. She likes to work with ink on paper. Her fragile ink drawings depict a world of fantasy and nature. The compositions are very balanced and her lines are very precise and striking. Though she has not been working very long at Galerie Atelier Herenplaats, she has progressed rapidly in her work. Her work just appeared in Jennifer Lauren’s ‘Monochromatic Minds’ exhibition in London and her solo show at Galerie Herenplaats is no longer happening due to the virus closing the space. You can see more of Anuja’s line work here

Nils McDiarmid, Jay Z. Courtesy Garvald

GARVALD, Edinburgh - Nils McDiarmid

“I am an Artist.” Nils McDiarmid is a prolific artist, working continually at home and the Garvald Edinburgh artist’s studio. Nils has a distinctive linear style, which he utilises to depict his favourite musicians, DJ’s and actors. Working with pen directly onto paper and board Nils create small and life size portraits and generates fascinating shape and form through his intricate control of line. The Jay Z image above is one of several new works by Nils that will feature at Project Ability as part of Glasgow International, which has currently been postponed until further notice. To see Nils getting ready for Glasgow International click here

Nicole Appel, Beach House on Mars, 2019, Color Pencil, 19 x 24 inches

LAND GALLERY, Brooklyn - Nicole Appel

Nicole Appel (b. 1990) has maintained a studio practice at LAND since January 2016. Her work is highly individualistic and bold, qualities which are reflected in both her subject matter and draftsmanship. Organized in dense rows of descriptive narratives, Appel’s work functions as a form of portraiture that is detailed and idiosyncratic encompassing a vast array of themes ranging from bonds with family, friends, personal interests, travel, to musings on the future. Appel’s meticulous compositions merge these seemingly disparate subjects into one-of-a-kind masterpieces that reflect her intensive understanding of her subjects. Her work has been celebrated and exhibited nationally and internationally.

To see more of Nicole’s incredible work click here

Ellen Prebble, Easter Painting, 2020

PROJECT ART WORKS , Hastings - Ellen Prebble

Ellen Prebble enjoys detailed illustration, particularly of animals drawn from images she researches and brings into the studio. She is a confident drawer and uses her interest in characters from animations to develop her bold colours and style. She works independently in the studio and experiments with acrylic paint processes to create figurative narratives through painted images on a small scale over the weeks on both paper and canvas. Ellen has an enthusiastic approach to other artists work and enjoys visiting exhibitions, drawing ideas and contextualising her work. Ellen was awarded Silver from Arts Award in 2019. See Ellen’s blog of her Arts Award journey here artsawardsproject.com. To see more of Ellen’s playful work click here

Sandra Lott, Dancing Moons. Courtesy of Submit to Love Studios

SUBMIT TO LOVE STUDIOS, London - Sandra Lott

"Since she first began working at Submit to Love Studios, Sandra Lott has quickly established herself as a unique artistic voice. Her artwork has an immediacy that is full of joy, expressed in a riot of colour and pattern. Hidden underneath this naïve surface is a darkness that is only revealed on closer examination. Toothy dinosaurs roam the landscape, invading a family picnic. A lone female figure lies prostrate on the forest floor. Tiny figures fall from rainbow twin towers, watched over by a wild-haired witch. Sandra always has a firm grasp on the narratives within her work, expressing them clearly with the enviable confidence of a natural artist. " (Written by Connie Sides, Submit to Love Co-ordinator).

Sandra added, "Peaceful  - calm, placid, serene, tranquil. Painting is poetry." Sandra’s work is bringing us a bit of happiness right now and you can catch more here

Hugo Rocha, Untitled 38, Illustration marker and color pencil on paper, 2017, 24 x 18”

TIERRA DEL SOL GALLERY AND FOUNDATION, Los Angeles - Hugo Rocha

Artist Hugo Rocha is inspired by telenovelas, turning cinematic stills into brightly colored folkloric compositions. Often working to soundtracks, and singing as he conceives his interiors, Rocha builds rhythm and density through colors, patterns and line work. Hugo Rocha (b. 1976) has maintained a studio practice at the Tierra del Sol art studios since 2007. Hugo has participated in group shows across the US including Storytellers at LAND in Brooklyn curated by Disparate Minds co-founders Andreana Donahue and Tim Ortiz, Summery Appeal curated by Doug Harvey at The Good Luck Gallery in Los Angeles and is currently included in Vanguard: Origins of Tierra del Sol Arts at the Claremont Museum of Art. To see more of Hugo’s block colour work, click here

Amy Ellison, Cocktails 3, 2020. Shown on a light-box at the Grundy Art Gallery

VENTURE ARTS, Manchester - Amy Ellison

Amy Ellison is a multi-disciplinary artist who has been working with Venture Arts for six years. Her practice ranges from traditional to modern technology, working with textiles, photography and illustration. Amy says she loves to ‘do different things and meet different people’ and her work always portrays positivity and things that make her happy including TV shows, musicians, films and drinking cocktails! Amy took part in the Conversation Series II residency with Venture Arts in 2018 where she explored the theme of cocktails. Her final piece Cocktails (pictured) shown at the Grundy Art Gallery in 2020 (currently closed), pays homage to Blackpool illuminations. Catch more of her playful work here