Mayorga is a keen observer of her surroundings. She draws inspiration from everyday life, her bicultural experience and her upbringing.
ARTISTS
Recent Artist
Gallon began her artistic career as a painter and a seamstress. The method behind her current body of work fuses her interest in both disciplines, with the merging of recycled and...
Henry Darger, Mental Illness Part III
The term Outsider Art is often used to describe art created outside bounds of what is considered traditional Western art. It is applied more generally to include self-taught artists and ‘naïve...
Bobby Baker, Mental Illness Part II
Bobby baker was born in London in 1950, mainly known as a performance artist who battled with mental health issues. She raises issues regarding the many problems she faces daily due...
Hannah Wilke, Mental Illness part I
This discussion will focus on the work of Hannah Wilke, Bobby Baker and Henry Darger to investigate how artists who explore their poor health in their work communicate the experience of...
Alexandra Leyre Mein – Melting Sculptures
Alexandra’s creatures are unsettling but if one approaches them, one will see the beauty hidden beneath the folds of melting plaster. Life and death, identity and metamorphosis, body and...
Josef Sudek
What is the difference between Caravaggio, an Italian painter who created a type of painting characterised by strong contrasts of light and shadow, and The Caravaggisti, painters who resumed...
Khaled Jarrar
From one of the fanciest streets of London, on the top of an extravagant fashion store, we are invited to visit the premiere UK solo exhibition of the Palestinian artist...
George Frederic Watts
It is difficult to categorize George Frederic Watts (1817-1904), a British painter and sculptor whose career spanned more than seventy years.