A category for contemporary artworks created by young artists whose careers are on the rise. In addition to younger artists and newer works, the category also includes artists who are relatively under-recognized but for the most part considered on the path to critical and/or market acceptance. While characteristically championed by smaller galleries and art fairs focused on younger artists, larger galleries and institutions regularly focus their energy on so-called emerging artists to define new styles and careers.
An emerging artist is someone who’s in the early stage of their career, someone who’s caught the eye of an art critic and/or gallery, but hasn’t yet established a solid reputation as an artist amongst art critics, art buyers, and art galleries
6 November 2020 • Mark Westall
Revealed as part of the BOMBAY BRAMBLE Ripe For Discovery campaign three up and coming artists have been commissioned in partnership with art-lover and actor Russell Tovey to create distinctive limited-edition artwork labels.
23 September 2020 • Irene Machetti
The School for Curatorial Studies Venice is back with the project ‘Whatever it takes’ — a three-day barter market. Visitors will be able to secure the exhibited artworks at one condition: no money is allowed.
1 September 2020 • Mark Westall
We managed to catch up with up & coming contemporary painter Kwesi Botchway at his studio Worldfaze to ask some questions about his art practice and his up coming solo exhibition in London.
19 March 2020 • Mark Westall
A new major sculpture commission from emerging artist Alice Irwin has turned the iconic grand piazza in Halifax’s Piece Hall into a playground for the artists cast of distinctive characters
24 September 2019 • Irene Machetti
Michelle Poonawalla will present a large-scale work titled Introspection at the START Art Fair (Saatchi Gallery, London, 26-29th September).
20 November 2018 • Mark Westall
Alice Irwin is a recent MA graduate in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art. Working with themes and imagery drawn from childhood memories, she creates bold and distinctive work
24 September 2018 • Mark Westall
Sarah Martin is a bold up and coming artist, Sarah’s first solo exhibition is set to launch at the Alex Eagle shop in Soho during Frieze Week
11 June 2018 • Mark Westall
‘SMUT’ is a two-person exhibition of emerging British artists Jamie Fitzpatrick and Lindsey Mendick, whose practices explore a shared interest in gender, high and low cultural histories, and the relevance of the figure in image-making. Opening during Art Basel at Vitrine gallery Basel.
14 March 2018 • Mark Westall
Marlon Diggs is a self-taught artist from Newport News, VA living in the Washington DC area. Born in 1987 Diggs began to pursue art as a child drawing everything from cartoons, comics, action figures and athletes.
16 November 2017 • Mark Westall
Charles Jeffrey’s first solo exhibition, THE COME UP will be an interactive and three-dimensional representation of the LOVERBOY brand and cult club night.
15 June 2017 • Staff
Italian London-based artist Bea Bonafini creates sumptuous immersive environments that hover on the border between functionality and objet d’art, craftsmanship and artistry.
26 May 2017 • Staff
British artist Hannah Perry took over Manhattan during Frieze New York this year, with a solo show that opened on 3rd May at Arsenal Contemporary entitled Viruses Worth Spreading (on until 2nd July 2017).
27 April 2017 • Staff
2016 Slade graduate and future Bloomberg New Contemporary Devlin Shea reveals what drives her figurative drawing and painting practice.
13 April 2017 • Staff
For her solo show at BLOCK 336, Sarah Roberts travels to the Costa del Sol, creating an all-enveloping five-dimensional monochromatic installation.
6 April 2017 • Staff
Sculptor Rebecca Ackroyd could be described as a millennial Rosemarie Trockel, discovering disparate materials with considered ease and strength of purpose
23 March 2017 • Staff
‘Buzz’, ‘Snap!’, ‘Rockit’, ‘Up all night’, ‘Cheeky, cheeky. Naughty, sneaky’, ‘Dance the dance, dancing feet’ – a few of the titles of artworks Rhys Coren has made over the last year.
2 March 2017 • Staff
Emma Cousin makes humorous and surreal ‘leggy’ paintings that have already featured in London in two group shows, a solo show and a two-person show in 2017.
23 February 2017 • Staff
Holly Hendry doesn’t do anything by halves.
26 January 2017 • Staff
You will be seeing artist Henry Hussey’s name come up a lot this month.
15 December 2012 • Mark Westall
To be honest I’d rather be a musician than an artist, one of those minimal composer instrumental types, like Fennesz or Murcof, but I can’t play any instruments to save my life, so I’ve had to do the best I can with the abilities I was born with, never mind.
12 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Kirsty Harris Get Your Art On FAD #48
3 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Currently under going brain surgery and recovering from a stroke but as soon as im better, i hope to create bigger better pieces, exhibit more, and just try get a name in art.
27 November 2012 • Mark Westall
SONOPHORE’ is an Interactive Sound Installation by Brighton based artist duo Signal-To-Noise
14 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Andy Picci has developed over time a way of photographing his models his own: he locked himself in places deprived of light and illuminates the subject with a flashlight. This technique allows him to highlight only the parts of the image he deems interesting.
