lowercase focus: February 4, 2021
Welcome to lowercase focus, a bi-monthly program which seeks to highlight emerging artists and exhibitions over the world.
In my last lowercase article, I took a look at some of the exhibitions and projects I’m excited for in 2021. In this article, I’d like to step back into the rhythm of highlighting artists, with a specific on artists who work within mediums of drawing and printmaking.
5. Daniel Eatock
Daniel Eatock is a British artist whose mounting career has revolves drawing and graphic design oriented approaches that explore everyday objects and situations. His works are sometimes lucid, occasionally process driven, full of impossibilities and rarely monotonous. I believe Daniel’s works are unique due to his cunning approach to subverting the narrative of drawing, enabling him to explore significant themes on how our world works and interacts.
4. Shawn Lu
Melbourne-based Shawn Lu is a fine-line artist who I’ve come to admire over the past few years. His works are impressively detailed, showcasing the hidden beauties of his environment in painstaking composition. Notably, Shawn has a street-art practice alongside his fine-art work, which provides a certain muralist style to seep into his artworks, making them exceptionally interesting.
3. Peter Giles
Composition, form and abstraction are at the helm of UK artist Peter Giles’s practice. His works for me are part contemporary and part modernist, espousing classical painterly and abstractive approaches whilst having a regulated and refined aesthetic which feels more contemporary and relevant. Interestingly too, Peter, which I only found out at the time of writing, is an electronic musician. Multi-talented.
2. Victor Campas Pamias
Another expression-focused artist on this list, Barcelona-based Victor Campas Pamian creates Piet Mondrian-esque images typically on larger scales, enabling a juxtaposition of linear minuity and universal forms. I’m interested in his work because he has a soft yet effective approach to form and colour, enabling you to become fully engulfed in his works.
Zbigniew Olszyna
Zbigniew Olszyna is a Polish illustrator who works in a cynical, humorous and exceptionally surreal approach. His enticing artworks feel exceptionally personal, as if you’re being let in on a snapshot of the artist’s dreams. They’re both highly stylised and aesthetically rounded.
Emerson Radisich is a curator, writer and educator currently based in Melbourne, Australia.