August Exhibition 'RESIDENT I'

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This August 2nd we welcome you to the launch of 'RESIDENT I' an exciting exhibition of works created by the 8 resident artists that have made Colstoun their home since October 2022. We will present their work within our home Colstoun House for a two week period from August 2nd (launch event 5-8pm) - August 11th. Residency artists works will be shown alongside historical works from the Colstoun Estate Collection.

due to a technical glitch our booking system takes you to a calendar not the exact event. If you would like to join us for our launch event please email me on mclean@colstoun.co.uk .

RESIDENT I will consist of works from Raffael Bader, James Dearlove, Lara Cobden, Suhaylah H, Marina Renee Cemmick, Joe Grieve, Angelique Nagovskaya & Jen Hitchings. introductions to the individual artists featured in this exhibition are below.

Annually Colstoun Arts invites 6-8 artists to spend a month or more at our home in Scotland producing a cohesive body of work inspired by the house and grounds. the variety of work created by our selected artists and the impact the seasons have played on their work is astonishing.

Colstoun Arts works with the artist to provide learning and development, introduce them to industry experts, and provide them with guidance. The Colstoun Experience goes well beyond the traditional residency, we welcome our artists to become part of our family, experiencing the highs and lows of normal life alongside us whilst also providing a dedicated secluded environment with top class studio facilities to push the boundaries of their practice. The exhibition merely serves as a conclusion on an experience we hope will stick with artists for the rest of their lives.

This programme develops the careers of a handful of artists each year in a meaningful way, it also provides an opportunity for established artists to take a break from their practice. It is hoped that over time the alumni of this programme will begin to help one another and provide meaningful contributions to Landscape, Nature Inspired and British Art.

The residency programme is very relaxed and follows no strict format meaning that the approaches to time spent at Colstoun have been varied. Artists like Lara Cobden have created countless studies leading to an entire collection of work based around the Colstoun landscape at night, whereas artists like Marina Renee Cemmick and Angelique Nagovskaya have spent time understanding themselves and exploring technical aspects of their practice much more.

Raffael Bader

Leipzig based visual artist, Raffael Bader, graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany in 2019. He grew up in the south of Germany, lived in the north for a while until it brought him to the east. The change of location, which is also reflected in his longer stays abroad (Australia, Asia and Latin America, among others), has a decisive influence on his work. Bader’s paintings deal with his view of a world full of tensions, while these tensions hold our world together. In 2020 he received the Denkzeit grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and in 2021 the work scholarship from Stiftung Kunstfond Bonn. In 2020 he began exhibiting internationally, including in Switzerland and the USA. Bader has exhibitied in Germany, Switzerland & the UK in over 20 group shows in past 5 years with galleries and institutes inc. MDBK, ZFK, Art City Works & Blue Shop Cottage, alongside 5 solo shows in Germany and the US with galleries inc. Galerie Potemka & Rocket Science. 

Website: https://raffaelbader.de/

Gallery: https://www.enari.gallery/artists/42-raffael-bader/overview/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raffaelbader/

James Dearlove

James Dearlove (born 1970) holds an MA in Fine Art from The Slade School of Art, and has also attended the Turps Banana Art School. He currently lives and works in Cornwall, having transitioned to painting following a successful career in Television production. In 2021 Dearlove was awarded the Ingram Prize; one of the UK’s leading prizes for emerging contemporary artists. In 2023 Dearlove was chosen for the prestigious Bloomberg New Contemporaries. His artwork has also been featured in ArtMaze Magazine, MIRRORR, FAD, i-D and HERO Magazine, amongst other publications. Dearlove has exhibited extensively in the UK since he began painting. His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions at galleries that include Arch Gallery, Rye Art Gallery, Gallery 46, Unit 1 Gallery, Studio 1.1, BWG Gallery, Rouge Gallery and the Plough Arts Centre. His work has also been exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2019), been selected for the ING Discerning Eye exhibition at Mall Galleries (2021), was exhibited at Saatchi Gallery (2022) as part of the Ingram Collection’s presentation of modern and contemporary art at the British Art Fair, and presented a solo booth at London Art Fair with BWG Gallery (2024). In 2021 Dearlove help his first solo exhibition The Garden Room at Nine Elms Gallery, and held his second, large-scale solo exhibition on Soho Square with BWG Gallery (2023).

website: https://www.jamesdearlove.co.uk/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamesdearlove_art/

Jen Hitchings

Jen Hitchings (1988, New Jersey) received her BFA in Painting & Drawing from SUNY Purchase College in 2011 and a certificate in Small Business & Entrepreneurship from CUNY Hunter College in 2018. She has attended residencies at Colstoun Arts (East Lothian, Scotland), Adventure Painting (Yellowstone National Park), DNA (Provincetown, MA), the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), Studio Kura (Itoshima, Japan), and Highly Authorized (Ellenville, NY). Solo presentations of her work have taken place at Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles, CA) in 2023, Taymour Grahne (London, UK) in 2023 and online in 2022, One River School (Englewood, NJ) in 2019, MEN Gallery (New York, NY) and PROTO (Hoboken, NJ) in 2018, and Ideal Glass (New York, NY) in 2017 which was accompanied by a 16 x 30’ outdoor mural. In 2021, she completed two large-scale outdoor murals at The Wassaic Project, on view through 2023. In 2023, she was commissioned by Mailchimp to produce a 9 x 21’ indoor permanent office mural at their new headquarters in Atlanta, GA, along with 39 other contemporary painters. Recent group exhibitions have taken place at Richard Heller, Anat Ebgi, Good Mother (Los Angeles), Kutlesa (Goldau, Switzerland), Artemin, and Chen Projects at Louisa Art Center (Taipei, Taiwan), Taymour Grahne (London, UK), Ana Mas Projects (Barcelona, Spain), Gaa Gallery, Pierogi (New York, NY), and The Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) among others. She was a recipient of the Queens Council on the Arts’ New Works Grant in 2018. Between 2013–2020, Hitchings co-directed Transmitter and Associated Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, is the founder of artist-focused consulting agency Studio Associate, and former Director of Career Services at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She lives and works in Burbank, CA and her work is represented by Taymour Grahne in the UK.

Website: https://www.jenhitchings.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenjonesjones/

Lara Cobden

Lara Cobden (b.1971) is a painter living and working in Norwich, Norfolk. Lara graduated with a degree in Painting at Brighton University in 1996, and then spent many years in Ireland before relocating to East Anglia. Predominately a landscape painter, focusing on memory and sense of place, her work is a response to the natural world around her.

She is a member of The Arborealists, a group of artists specialising in the art of trees, who exhibit widely across Europe. In 2024 she has been recently elected as a member of the Norwich 20 Group.

Her work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally and has been a recipient of a number of awards, including the Parker Harris Mentorship Prize at the 2018 Wells Arts Contemporary Art Awards, 1st Prize in the John Hurt Prize, 2nd place in the 2019 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, the Chair’s Purchase Prize in the 2019 ING Discerning Eye exhibition, and a finalist in the 2020 John Moores Painting Prize, in the Walker Gallery, Liverpool.

Website: https://laracobden.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laracobden/

Suhaylah H

Suhaylah H. (born 1993) graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts (Major in Environmental Geography, Minor in Comparative Literature) at King's College, London in 2017, and an MA in Comparative Literature at King's College, London in 2019. Suhaylah currently lives and works in Ely, UK. Suhaylah, a self-taught artist, has exhibited her work in both the UK and the US since 2021. Suhaylah has contributed works to group exhibitions with BWG Gallery (2021, 2022), HdM Gallery (2022), the Auction Collective (2022), Salon 21 (2023), Liliya Gallery (2024) and recently released her first Limited Edition Print with the V&A in Spring 2024. Suhaylah has also featured work in two Partnership Editions collections (2022, 2023). Suhaylah held her first solo exhibition Apparitions with BWG Gallery in Spring 2022, and her second solo exhibition with Pilgrim’s Contemporary in Spring 2023. The Spell, The Plot, & The Ether was Suhaylah’s second solo exhibition with BWG Gallery in Autumn 2023. She has mulitple works in China’s Corrirdor Foundation Collection and has an upcoming show with WOAW Gallery, Singapore, Autumn 2024.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suhaylah.h/

Marina Renee Cemmick

Marina Renée-Cemmick is a figurative Artist working across multiple disciplines. Founded in a drawing practice and working from observation, she finds endless intrigue in capturing people and their character. She often draws from the human body to communicate the subtle poetry of how we relate to each other and our environment. 

She works in a range of mediums including charcoal, colour pencil and oil paint. Originally from Dorset, Marina showed talent for portraiture and drawing at an early age. After studying Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art, she became a MA scholar on the Drawing year at The Royal Drawing School, London before reconnecting with her love for Scotland. She now lives and works near Glasgow. 

Her work is in HRH King Charles' Royal Collection, Marina has additionally exhibited with Christies, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters and New English Arts Club, Mall Galleries, London. 

Website: https://www.marinareneecemmick.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marinareneecemmick/

Angelique Nagovskaya

Angelique Nagovskaya (b. 1998, Montreal, CA) is a Canadian-American artist currently based in Washington DC. Nagovskaya received her BFA and BA in 2022 from Cornell University, and went on to study at the Royal College of Art, London, earning an MA in Painting in 2023. Previous group exhibitions include: Softer, Softest, GUTS Gallery, London (2024), Apocalyptic Changes of State, BWG Gallery, London (2024), Now 2023, Gerald Moore Gallery, London (2023); The Road to Excess, Safehouse 2, London, (2023); RCA Graduate Show, London (2023); Cornell Graduate Show, Olive Tjaden Gallery (2022); Summer Residency Show, The New York Academy of Art (2021). Nagovskaya attended the Colstoun Artist Residency in Spring 2024, held an Undergraduate Residency at The New York Academy of Art (2020) and was awarded The David R. Bean Prize in Fine Arts (2019).

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angelique_nagovskaya/

Joe Bennell Grieve

(b. 1997 UK) holds a First-Class Honours Degree from the City & Guilds Art School in London. Grieve currently lives and works in London. Grieve held his first Solo exhibition at the Artisan Space (2019). After graduating in 2021, Grieve held his first sell-out solo exhibition Somewhere Near Perception with BWG Gallery. Grieve held a large-scale 73 painting solo exhibition Between Place & Time with BWG Gallery (2023), and has featured artwork in multiple group exhibitions, most recently with lbf Contemporary in their Canadian Summer Show (2024). 2024 also saw Grieve hold a solo exhibition The Other Side at Scotland’s Colstoun Arts. Grieve is currently in negotiations for shows in the USA and Canada in 2025. Grieve attended the Blackwater Valley Residency in Ireland and Colston Artist Residency in Scotland (2022) and has undertaken residencies in Rhode Island, The Azores as well as upcoming residencies in the south of France and Australia. Grieve’s painting is held in collections globally, with artwork on 5 continents and in private collections in over 20 countries.

Website: https://www.joegrieve.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joebennellgrieve/

We will be introducing artists in more depth as we get closer to the event as well other events that we will be hosting during the 2 week exhibition. for a catalogue please contact us directly and we will add you to our mailing list.