GROTTO: 2023 Postgraduate Art Print Sale preview

Luciana Dal Ri ‘Dust', digital print
@lucianadalri

"Photographic capture of airborne dust, poetically assembled based on patterns of the human brain."

Jiali Dong 'Awakening Can', inkjet print
@tmathpol

“This is an imagination about brain scenarios, I often envisage that my brain is actually inhabited by a number of different 'people' with different divisions of labour, some are responsible for my socialising, some for my independent thinking and so on. I'm assuming that at some point all the various items in my brain fly out, would I recognise their respective divisions of labour? Do I really know what my brain is thinking?”

Tomisin Animashaun ‘The Body of Christ, Digital print
@body.ware

“Fleshy Matter, flesh matters, matter matters, always playing with itself, within and without, always folding in and upon, cursive and cursing, baroque and whorish is the body of Christ. Blessed be the promiscuous, for they shall inherit the earth."

Morenike Caxton-Martin, ‘Breakthrough’, Screenprint
@mcmxart

“This is a photographed UV printed 3D scan of a self- portrait engulfing bananas on an orange slice covered in honey and sugar. This has been transformed into a screen print using 3 layers. The first layer is an orange slice covered in honey dissected in two parts, the outside layer contains the shape of the orange (round circle)and the inward layer contains the pattern of the orange. The third layer is the UV printed 3D scanned self portrait engulfing  bananas covered in honey and sugar..”

Kaia Xiaoqi Lin 'Imaginary Dining Table', Digital Pigment print

"Imaginary Dining Table is a series of work that regarded as my self-portrait. I choose the local meat from the wholesale market in my home country and use them to represent my cultural identity. The fact that me being observed, accepting people’s gazes, the desire of being heard and understood, and the loneliness are visualized on the “dining table” that I create."

Hannah Kate Absalom 'WAYS YOU SHOULDN'T LOVE', Drypoint etching @hkaart

"In my practice I approach the flesh as a site of bodily horror, comedic relief and intimacy, placing equal  value on each factor. The queer body becomes the uncanny; the  domestic is challenged and the homely is transmogrified into the unheimlich."

Michaelle St Vincent, Memaroma, silk screen print
@ladymmichaelle

“Memaroma, is a visual representation of my olfactory art practice. Inspired by the works and styles of Rene Magritte and Maurits Cornelis Escher; this scratch ‘n’ sniff print should amuse the viewer and engage their olfactory memory banks to create an experience unique to each individual."

Joshua Obichere 'Emobidment', reduction lino print
@j_n_artcsm

"This reduction linocut print brings together cultural heritage in the form of Kente design, sitting under and through an outline of my body. Culture and the black male body are synonymously aligned so that the breadth of colour, pattern and shape are exposed. Embodying strength, endurance and resilience, I am proud to have incorporated the joy of my Ghanaian and Black Identity as a Black Young Man."

Liam Dunne, Fractured, digital print
@liamdunneart

"Fracturing memories shown through portraits experimenting with time and distortion and fragmentation."

Sean Davy 'Sisyphi, giclée print
@meh.steezo

“This was borne out of my frustration from working my 9-5 office job. The fact that I would have to do this until I was 5927572928472 years old and that there was no time to do any art or anything I was interested in. A struggle I will hopefully come to terms with or break out of. Wish me luck!”

Where to shop

• In person: Central Saint Martins East-West Crossing & Unit 75 Coal Drops Yard
  Opening: 23 Nov: 6-8.30-pm 
  Open to public: 24-26 Nov: 12-6pm
• Online: not just a shop
  23 Nov - 22 Dec