Chris Slowe's Curatorial Choices

These are just my thoughts on these pieces. What are yours?

My curatorial choices for L.O.V.E. Art are: (click on the artwork to go to the artist's website/social media)

Face’s in the Forest by Indre Rimselyte

This piece is very atmospheric and mysterious. How did this come to be here? Where is it? The colours make it feel like it’s perhaps somewhere hot but is somehow too vibrant for this reality.

Autumn Leaves Revisited by Kate Robotham 

There’s something almost abstract about this piece, but once you’re tuned in the contrast of the leaves, the refractions of light and the murky underwater world really gives it depth and movement.

Determination by Hannah Webber

An amazing combination of photorealistic elements, bold brush strokes, and almost destructive mark-making combine to give this piece it’s vital energy. 

Tempos by Atta Kwami 

Kwami’s use of colour, shape and texture appears abstract but in this piece, convey distance and time, as if the sun is setting behind a building. He’s just been announced as the most recent winner of the biennial Maria Lassnig Prize.

Legacy by Austin Higgins 

There’s something nostalgic about old school desks (for people of a certain age) which only makes the horror of the stories potentially attached to these charred remains more real. The horror the artist is referring to is Climate Change.

Open heart by Shivani Khoshia

There’s darkness, pain, hope, and health in the colours and textures here, speaking of the vulnerability of approaching life with an open heart. Or perhaps it’s open in the sense there’s a giant hole in the middle of it?

I am the Son and Heir by Holly Brandrick

There’s a menace in this portrait. You get the feeling that whatever their the heir of it’s hard and there’s no escape. The figure (presumably the father) in the background is making sure they know it.