Phil Hackett's Curatorial Choice

This year is as hard as ever with such a quality selection of diverse and talented artists. It is easy to choose a favourite but it is much harder to make a selection that reflects what L.O.V.E. Art is all about.  My curatorial choices are: (click the work to go to the artist's website/social media)

When I Grow Up I Want to Be.. by Danielle Vaughan

Recognisable icon made using daily household detritus which is turned from ephemera to permanent, from throwaway to valuable.  

Untitled by Tim Fowler

Beautiful still life that is anything but still or lifelike, both jarring and exciting, calm and crazy, I love it.

Murini Bowl by Graeme Hawes

Beautifully tactile, elaborate with depth and design in the surface colours, a contemporary approach to a traditional methodology.

Menace by George Martin

Stunning brushwork, application of materials, and emotional representation of what losing your mind might look like.

Bullfinch (Swan's Beak) by Lucy Stevens

Soft spot for the mixed media use of museum specimens, stunning photography, and fabulously simple but considered marks and mark-making, create this delicious work.

Determination by Hannah Webber

Beautiful ethereal dreamlike quality with highly detailed features creates a magical realism that projects empathically the feelings of the subject.

Hannah & Astrid by Joshua Rees

Stunning Landscape Photography with a foreground character facing away from us, allowing you to project yourself there with ease, tells unlimited stories, reminiscences with flashes of yellow.

Untitled by Veronika Pagacova

Discombobulating,  mirror images create an insects head, a skull, a cathedral