The new generation of London artists to know
The new generation of artists in London is attracting the attention of the capital’s top collectors.
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This is the talent you need to know
Corbin Shaw, 28, East London
I work in traditional crafts, trying to make sense of the modern experience of living in this strange England that we’re in today.
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On the London art scene:
I think a lot of artists in London get pigeonholed.
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lot → think → London
You’re either a painter or a sculptor or all these rigid things.
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My brain can’t work like that.
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I want to be an artist where you go to a show and it feels like the British Museum.
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I don’t want to be summed up.
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What do you hope people get from your work?
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people → hope → work
Funnily enough, somebody said to me recently, “I feel a real strange sense of national pride that I think you put a finger on quite well.”
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you → say → finger
I’m proud to be English, but it’s a complicated relationship.
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I want to help people try to understand that relationship.
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people → want → relationship
Tom Hardwick Allan, 30, East London
I have a background in printmaking, but what I’m doing now is more like expanded printmaking, moving into sculptural territory with carved and cast reliefs.
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I’m using it on an analogous level to explore the phenomenon of imprinting, which is when a newly born or hatched animal comes to know itself.
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animal → use → itself
On the London art scene:
The way that the capital dictates things can be so deadening — this privatisation of time and space.
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I think there are a lot of amazing things that are surviving despite that, but it’s despite, rather than because.
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What do you hope people get from your work?
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people → hope → work
I hope they’re able to have an encounter with the work that prompts a recalibration.
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that → hope → recalibration
I feel like my best experiences with work reset me on some level.
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experiences → feel → level
Okiki Akinfe, 27, London
I have my own lens, a black lens, which is my way of questioning what is allowed to be deemed important within our history.
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In contrast to that, I have what may be considered a sophisticated way of handling painting.
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It’s traditionalist, and I contrast that with cartoon imagery or hip hop references, contemporary elements.
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On the London art scene:
I think the need to be specifically a figurative or abstract painter doesn’t really exist anymore.
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It’s very much moving in the direction of a personal story from the artist.
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I’m specifically interested in the topic of black Britishness.
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What do you hope people get from your work?
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I hope it opens people’s minds and encourages them to think about these references.
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I want people to go down the rabbit hole with me.
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Ella Fleck, 33, Holloway
I work undercover a lot, pretending to be men online in sexual or seduction communities.
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For Frieze, I took a course for men training to be “chatters”, speaking on behalf of female OnlyFans creators.
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My alias was Elliot and I tried to make friends and observe the interactions.
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From there, I make sensory installations, using sound and scent and vibration, trying to replicate the atmosphere of being in that experience.
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On the London art scene:
I think it’s really exciting, there are so many different practices, strange hybrids of performance or sculpture.
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it → think → performance
What do you hope people get from your work?
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people → hope → work
I don’t want to be too didactic.
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I just lay it out and hope they get from it what they want.
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Marcus Jefferson, mid-thirties, London
I’m an anonymous artist, but I like to keep my work domestic.
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As much as people put me down as a conceptual artist, I want my work to be accessible.
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work → put → artist
I always try to make work that can get people who have come from similar places to me — low income, social housing — more interested in the galleries.
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who → try → galleries
That’s always at the forefront of my mind.
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That → ’ → mind
On the London art scene:
It’s wild.
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…and 126 more, not listed.
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