This Exhibition is now closed.

We are thrilled to present the captivating works of Maxwell G. Miller, an American contemporary realist artist whose compositions transport viewers into a world of dramatic portraiture and intricate still life, rich with narrative depth. Maxwell's journey as an artist has been influenced by his background in scenic artistry, and expertise in theatrical puppetry. This unique blend of experiences has infused his paintings and charcoal drawings with a sense of theatricality that captivates the imagination and sparks a profound engagement with storytelling.

In an era witnessing a resurgence of realism, Maxwell stands at the forefront, skilfully weaving narratives through recognizable imagery.

We invite you to immerse yourself in Maxwell's world of artistic narratives and experience the fusion of history, mythology, and contemporary realism.

Images from the exhibition

For a captivating journey into the world of artistic expression, mark your calendars for this exhibition. Visit Maxwell Miller's website at to delve deeper into the artist's portfolio and stay tuned for more updates!

Featured Artists

Amy Giacomelli
Andrea Shearing
Claire Seamann
Clara Lovato
Helen Bradbury
Jolene Gailey

Kate Wayne Eyton
Kathryn Mullin
Minna Toots
Olha Tymoshova
Roberta CeuDeK
Rick Berk

Images from the Exhibition

26. May - 22. June 2023

About Drawn To Nature

爆料瓜's new virtual group exhibition, "Drawn to Nature," is a breathtaking exploration of the natural world through the eyes of twelve contemporary artists.

The artists in this show have created unique works that draw inspiration from nature in different ways.

From abstract landscapes to vibrant, bold pieces, photography and intricate illustrations - each piece offers something unique and captivating.

5th August - 2nd September 2022

Featured Artists

Cristian Diez-Sanchez
Elisa Velasquez
Julie Reby Waas

Manuel Salazar
M贸nica Acedo

Images from the Exhibition

10th June - 7th July 2022

About Euphoria

Euphoria brings together a group of contemporary artists to explore the theme of happiness and the complex blend of emotions that exist alongside it. The artists in the show present artworks which reflect personal responses to the theme and explore how euphoria can be found and experienced in a variety of ways including in the joy of movement, the love of the natural world, the brilliance of colour and the creative process itself. The artists present a striking selection of artworks which have been created using a wide variety of techniques.

The range of responses also reflects the complexity of the theme and how euphoria can be intrinsically linked with sadness and the rest of the emotional spectrum. They show us how euphoria can be such an intense sensation that it may easily swing over into a crazed, manic or over-excited state. Euphoria showcases artworks which reflect the inner voices of the artists, who like so many of us, have experienced the emotional challenges of the global pandemic.

This has given each artist time to reflect and consider exactly what is happiness.

What does happiness look like? And what does it mean to them?

In the show, Cristian Diez-Sanchez presents a series of sculptures which explore the emotional relationship between the human form and its environment. Elisa Velasquez creates sublime, abstracted landscapes with fields of bright, vibrant colours, textures and brushstrokes. In her work, artist Julie Waas, expands joyful organic and geometric forms with interweaving lines, dots, stripes, circles, triangles, leaves, zig-zag鈥檚 and undulating lines. Manuel Salazar鈥檚 paintings of energetic, swirling forms generate multiple perceptions. M贸nica Acedo explores a love of the natural world and nostalgia in her paintings.

Text by Stephen Feather

About Stephen Feather

Stephen Feather is a practising artist, curator and freelance arts marketing consultant based in London. Stephen is the founder of Contemporary Art Projects, an online community and website which showcases artwork and interviews with some of the most exciting contemporary art and artists from around the globe.

Previously Stephen was the gallery manager of the Menier Gallery in central London. While in the role, Stephen managed a programme of exhibitions and events and worked with several prestigious arts organisations as well as with emerging and established artists.

In 2020, Stephen curated the group exhibition; 鈥楽pace, Place and Home鈥� in the Menier Gallery. The show explored themes in contemporary art, craft and design and featured a group of artists working in a variety of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramic and photography.

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• Artists

  More information about the artists:

  Cristian Diez-Sanchez

  Elisa Velasquez

  Julie Reby Waas

  Manuel Salazar

  M贸nica Acedo

• Organised by Claudia Elliott

  Organised by Claudia Elliott

  Founder of 爆料瓜.

• Guest Curator Stephen Feather

  Stephen Feather is a practising artist, curator and freelance arts marketing consultant based in London. Stephen is the founder of Contemporary Art Projects, an online community and website which showcases artwork and interviews with some of the most exciting contemporary art and artists from around the globe.

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]]>EUPHORIAVirtual Group ExhibitionClaudia ElliottWed, 14 Apr 2021 16:04:00 +0000/exhibitions/virtual-exhibition-collective-dreams5e552b534082bc549de5bf77:62251bb553f5a65b44b0a9ee:62251bb553f5a65b44b0a9f3 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

Featured Artists

Ruben Cukier
Kevin Lawler
Jak Jak

Silvana Abram
Anatolii Kazymyrchuk

Images from the Exhibition

10th June - 7th July 2022

About COLLECTIVE DREAMS

Collective Dreams, the present online exhibition at 爆料瓜, cultivates a process to unravel a few common metaphorical junctions among five selected artists working with diverse styles and intentions.

The exhibition maps personal, timely and especially nuanced styles as well as methods of visual expression by the artists.

The genre of artworks varies from surreal to abstract but narrates identical angst or fervour of illustrating (not literally but essentially) their dreams, whether real or rhetorical.

Have these dreams become mobilised by what Carl Jung explains the term 鈥榓rchetypes鈥�? Or is there an attempt in signifying the latent as mentioned by Sigmund Freud?

The common aspects of signifiers or signs like colour, text, and form, whether in a surreal or abstract manner, function in an archetypal manner thereby denoting the common ground of socio-political-cultural sentiments.

Anatolli Kazymyrchuk鈥檚 paintings, contextualised images in Jak Jak and Kevin Lawlers representations, surreal scapes by Ruben Cukier, and abstracts by Silvana Abram assimilate to curate a package of political oneness.

Why political?

The empowered oneness by the charged tools ideologically authorises the conduct of personal dreams, historical (in the case of Lawler) , cultural (like Cukier) and present ( probably Abrams abstract). This collective psyche constitutes a collective range of illusions, delusions and latent psychological movement.

Collective Dreams not only attempt at representing the latent suppressed desires but also rebuilds the newer idea of consciousness that more than being utopian stems from the chord of quasi-realistic sensibilities.

• Artists

  More information about the artists:

  Ruben Cukier

  Kevin Lawler

  Jak Jak

  Silvana Abram

  Anatolii Kazymyrchuk

• Curated by Claudia Elliott

  Curated by Claudia Elliott

  Founder of 爆料瓜.

• Exhibition Text by Urvi Chheda

  Urvi Chheda holds Masters in Visual Art in Art History and Aesthetics from MS University of Vadodara, India.

  Graduated from Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai, she is presently researching on site-specific art, questioning the artistic autonomy.

  At the same time, she is interested in the meme-making process, which, she believes, is slowly becoming a significant part of formal representation.

Virtual Solo Exhibition
Friday 4th March - Sunday, 3rd April 2022

Images from the Exhibition

Friday 4th March - Sunday, 3rd April 2022

About JOURNEY INTO THE SUBLIME

Journey to the Sublime celebrates the process and many experiential germinations during the course of introspecting, analysing and creating.  While the face of each germination may be different, the underpinning intention armed with motivation and persistence is common. The exhibition maps two kinds of Silvana Abram鈥檚 journey: the passage towards the creative essence and the process of beginning from the blank canvas. Here, we trace physical or matter and the abstract or sublime derivatives, which denote not only the conceptual realm but also an identity to her daily meditative realisations.

鈥淲ould that you could live on the fragrance of the earth, and like an air plant be sustained by the light.鈥�

鈥� Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

 

Silvana Abram鈥檚 practice is spontaneous yet pragmatic. They are trials and products at the same time.

The binary does not confine to the given time or material, rather it dissolves within the flow, imbuing a transitory effect. The abstract motifs in watercolours and charcoal are neither static nor in the movement, they are themselves in their formal qualities.

So, is it our conditioned perception that identifies us with some confined space?
Or are we staring at the efforts of the journey to sublime?

Silvana's expertise in watercolours again discloses her method of timely control. While letting the hues flow over the canvas, she takes a complete charge in merging the next hue. What germinates may appear spontaneous but it is calculated and pragmatic! The interplay of contrast in Silvana鈥檚 rendition is motivating, and authoritative.

鈥淓very time 鈥� in front a white canvas, I embark on a journey and cross layers of matter until I reach the creative essence. Following from the depth of your breath you compose forms and sounds 鈥� cast in the harmony of the universe.鈥�

鈥� Silvana Abram

Journey to the Sublime is an effort to momentarily realise our sensorial alteration in its truest form!

• Artist Silvana Abram

  More information about the artist, Silvana Abram

• Curated by Claudia Elliott

  Curated by Claudia Elliott

  Founder of 爆料瓜.

• Exhibition Text by Urvi Chheda

  Exhibition text by Urvi Chheda

  Urvi Chheda holds Masters in Visual Art in Art History and Aesthetics from MS University of Vadodara, India.

  Graduated from Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai, she is presently researching on site-specific art, questioning the artistic autonomy. At the same time, she is interested in the meme-making process, which, she believes, is slowly becoming a significant part of formal representation.

Featured Artists

William Brown
Nicholas Sims
Zifeng Zang

Daniel Meakin
Nuria Gonz谩lez Alcaide
Glenn Badham

Images from the Exhibition

15th April - 11th May 2022

About TODAY/TOMORROW

Often time is divided into planes that operate simultaneously while you either remain oblivious or rarely aware of them. And the subconscious continues to react to the movements on these planes. Today/Tomorrow, the virtual group exhibition of six artists, namely Daniel Meakin, William Brown, Nicholas Sims, Zifeng Zang, Nuria Gonzalez Alcaide, and Glenn Badham, reverberates with those movements which are in between the immediate past as well as present鈥擳oday and Tomorrow.

Today/ Tomorrow weaves a story in time through the visual language that operates in surrealism and abstract expressionism to develop an altogether new set of parameters of dialogue and partake.  From being made, remade, subverted, repressed, re-emerged and merging with the ephemeral of the material, this language dwindles between what happened, is happening, and is about to happen. And during this course, the curated set provides a newer depth in the conscience of the self, honing the subtle capacities within.

While Daniel Meakin, Nicholas Sims and Glenn Badham pose the real into surreal and vice versa, the dissolution of the real in the abstract by
Nuria Gonzalez Alcaide, William Brown and Zifeng Zang stitch a distinct and wholesome narrative.

But is the abstract totally devoid of reality? Or is it a heightened awareness of being in the becoming of reality as essence?
Or are these planes of colour, oblivious and aware at the same time, letting us enter into new realms of identity?

鈥淥n the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.鈥�

- Friedrich Nietzsche

• Artists

  More information about the artists:

  William Brown
  Nicholas Sims
  Zifeng Zang
  Daniel Meakin
  Nuria Gonz谩lez Alcaide
  Glenn Badham

• Curated By Claudia Elliott

  Curated by Claudia Elliott

  Founder of 爆料瓜.

• Exhibition text by Urvi Chheda

  Urvi Chheda holds Masters in Visual Art in Art History and Aesthetics from MS University of Vadodara, India.

  Graduated from Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai, she is presently researching on site-specific art, questioning the artistic autonomy. At the same time, she is interested in the meme-making process, which, she believes, is slowly becoming a significant part of formal representation.

4th November to 3rd December 2021

Featured Artists

Kirk Sutherland
Nadya Peskova
Daniel Meakin
Kotaro Machiyama

James Reynolds
Silvana Abram
Emily Klima
Nuria Gonz谩lez Alcaide
Guido Salimbeni

Glenn Badham
Isabelle Pelletane
Anthony Tanner
Richard Freer

About RESILIENCE

This exhibition collects works of 13 artists whose paintings and sculpture interpret the theme of 鈥楻esilience鈥�. These works exude a humming joy and reflect the ebbs and flows of adaptation in the face of adversity.

In this exhibition, resilience takes many forms, from lasting residues and lingering spectres of shadowy memory that inhabit the intimate, psychic terrain to ecstatic, buzzing vibrances of light and form, that display the intricate web of social experience and embrace difference through colourful juxtaposition.

The idea of 鈥楻esilience鈥� indicates a certain kind of strength, but these artists capture a softness and care that connects the human and non-human world, exploring the tender warmth of life that enables people to rebuild and continue on.

Text by Kelly Rappleye. Curator, art writer and exhibition guest judge.

Images from the Exhibition

4th November to 3rd December 2021