Incubator back with six more emerging artist exhibitions- Incubator has revealed its Spring programme of solo exhibitions for the second year in a row, from 4th April – 23rd June 2024 at the gallery’s space on Chiltern Street.
Showcasing six emerging artists through a series of two-week-long solo shows, the gallery will present exhibitions by Antrea Tzourovits, Corbin Shaw, Elena Angelini, Leonard Iheagwam “Soldier”, Lucrezia Abatzoglu and Paul Barlow, some of the most exciting new talents working across painting, sculpture and textiles.
The exhibitions will be accompanied by a robust events programme comprising performances, readings and talks curated to complement the visual art on view.
“This iteration of Incubator promises to share a wealth of diverse mediums and concepts”
says Founding Director Angelica Jopling.
“The artists featured in this season’s solo show programme come from a range of backgrounds and experiences, all of which have deeply influenced their artistic practices. From mastering instrument-building in Athens a series of intricately crafted wood sculptures was born to the total immersion in the vibrant skate culture of Lagos, which has brought forth a compelling series of paintings highlighting prominent and personal Igbo figures in Nigeria, to the revitalisation of the British arts and crafts movement through meticulously woven tapestries depicting contemporary England in the age of social media and AI.”
About the Artists
The artists featured in the spring edition of ‘Incubator 24’ are all emerging London-based practitioners. ‘Incubator 24’ will show work by:
Antrea Tzourovits (b. 1987, Danilovgrad, Serbia Montenegro) 4th – 14th April
Antrea Tzurovits works across sculpture, painting, installation, video and music to explore the qualities and mechanisms of memory, as well as the role of personal and collective trauma. He is interested in the relationship between ‘play’ and ‘conflict’ and in the way these two different actions can create a feeling of both humour and uncertainty in the work.
Antrea Tzurovits holds an MFA in Fine Art from The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK (2020-2022), with a scholarship from NEON; and a BA in Fine Art from the Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece (2015-2020). Recent exhibitions include Counting Rests, Kalfayan Galleries (2023), Encore – New Greek Painting, Municipal Art Gallery of Athens (2023) and Lines In The Sand, Incubator (2023).
Leonard Iheagwam “Soldier” (b. 2000, Lagos, Nigeria) 18th – 28th April
Leonard Iheagwam, known professionally as Soldier, is a multidisciplinary artist whose profound associations span diverse niches, including fashion, skate culture, and beyond. His works explore the nuanced intersections of identity politics, family dynamics, the impact of war, and the power of intention. Characterised by a bold and vibrant palette, Soldier’s oeuvre captivates with its intense colouring and deliberate repetition. Each piece invites viewers into a realm where thoughtful scrutiny unveils layers of revelation and introspection. Recent exhibitions include FMERA: Ephemeral Universe, Alive and More, Paris (2024) and Leonard Iheagwam (Soldier): Family and Friends, Wflsncrm Skate Shop, Lagos (2018).
Lucrezia Abatzoglu (b. 1992, Rome, Italy) 2nd – 12th May
Lucrezia Abatzoglu is an Italian-Greek multidisciplinary artist based in London. Her artistic journey is deeply rooted in her multicultural upbringing, drawing inspiration from diverse landscapes and cultures. Abatzoglu’s paintings embody silence as a poetic element, establishing a tangible connection with an unattainable reality. The female body exudes monumentality as it tries to transcend physicality and become something more than mere body, captivating our gaze and prompting contemplation of its dual roles as subject and object.
Abatzoglu holds a Bachelor of Costume and Fashion from Accademia di Costume e Moda (Rome, Italy) and is a recent graduate of a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London (UAL). Her work has been exhibited at The Tagli Project, Royal Society of British Artists (RBA), and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI). Abatzoglu is also one of the finalists in the Prisma Art Prize in Rome in 2023/24 and was shortlisted for the ACS Studio Prize in London in 2023.
Corbin Shaw (b. 1998, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom) 16th – 26th May
Originally from Sheffield, Corbin explores ideas of masculinity through the medium of textiles. Using his upbringing in a South Yorkshire ex-mining town, the artist investigates masculinity and how that was defined within the context in which he grew up. Breaking stigmas and stereotypes through his re-imagination of masculine ‘icons’ and objects, the artist pays homage to the people and places that have shaped his northern identity – the pub, football pitches and boxing gyms. Recent exhibitions include The People Fled When The Sun Went Down (2023), Jealous Gallery, THE WORLD OF GAZZA (2023), OOF Gallery, and For the Love of the Lads (2023), Flannels X with W1 Curates amongst others.
Elena Angelini (b. 2002, Rome, Italy) 30th May – 9th June
Elena Angelini’s faded objects and figures belie the symbolic scenarios and unresolved tales through which the artist delves into personal narratives that she recollects in a stain-like allusive fashion, eluding their complete grasp. Vulnerable portrayals of subjects that seem to be halfway between being adults and children carry an unexpressed vigour that unveils the precarity idiosyncratic to the grey area between no longer being one thing and not yet another. Elena Angelini holds a BA in Fine Art: Painting from Camberwell College of Arts. Recent exhibitions include Altar/Alter, Southwark Park Galleries (2023), ROE, Satellite Store, Supported by Guts Gallery (2022), and BATHTUB, Safehouse Peckham (2022).
Paul Barlow (b. 1988, Sheffield, UK) 13th – 23rd June
Paul Barlow’s geometrical paintings are psychological, materialising pictures that hold the in-between spaces of recognition and unconsciousness, awareness and vagueness, clarity and mystery. Barlow often abstracts these states into universal patterns expressed in the physical world, resembling the interference of light waves, fractals, and halos. Paul Barlow received his post graduate Diploma from the Royal Academy Schools (London) in 2021 Recent solo exhibitions include A bit, N/A Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (2023), Superfluids, Karsten Schubert Gallery, London (2022) and 00:00:00, South Parade, London(2022).
