UAL students selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023
- Written byYana Kasa
- Published date 08 August 2023
We are proud to share that 18 graduates and current students from across UAL were selected to showcase their work in the prestigious Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023 exhibition. This year’s show will reflect and define emerging practices selecting all that is exciting in the visual arts today.
Each year New Contemporaries works with a group of selectors, composed of artists and its alumni to select the participants. This year the process was led by internationally renowned artists Helen Hammock, Sunil Gupta and Heather Phillipson. The rigorous two-part selection process came from a nation-wide open call to artists in higher education and alternative schooling.
As well as the annual touring exhibition, New Contemporaries delivers mentoring programmes, national and international opportunities and peer-to-peer learning. The Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023 exhibition will launch at the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool from 30 September to 16 December 2023. The show will then travel to Camden Art Centre from 19 January to 31 March 2024.
Meet the students
BA Fine Art graduate, Agusto explores the self through painting and reflects on both cultural and biological connotations of terms like ‘alien’ and ‘hybrid’.
London based artist, Baris practice lies within the fields of moving image, digital test and language-based art, installation and sculpture.
Alexandra Beteeva (Camberwell College of Art)
Beteeva creates nostalgic paintings tinged with intimacy and innocence. Her work is a response to a turbulent time of grief and loss.
Matthew Burdis (Chelsea College of Art)
Matthew is an artist and a filmmaker, his work investigates a moment or memory of a specific location, focusing on a tangible or performative object as an anchor point.
Alannah Cyan (Camberwell College of Arts and CSM)
Alannah Cyan has formed her practice through tender, fantastical and self-reflective works across the disciplines of paintings, video, sound and photography.
Canadian born, London-based Nina Davies is an interdisciplinary artist, her work observes how choreography intersects with language.
Ijoyemi draws his inspiration from life experiences and conversations, his work often contains a narrative. His work can be both figurative and abstract and combines a novel use of imagery and materials.
A fine artist from Essex, Jennifer Jones works with textiles and technology. Her practice explores the complexity of identity, aiming to blur binaries and explore the spaces between identity categories.
Born in Poland, currently based in London, Iga Koncka is a feminist artist and thinker. Performance art is at the heart of her artistic practice, alongside installation, sculpture, video and textile pieces.
Jil Mandeng exhibits portraits with each layer different cultural traditions in one piece of work.
Anne is a multidisciplinary artist working in the visual and multimedia arts and design.
Moss is interested in the way multiple personal fantasies make up culture and increased level of fantasy that each individual can incorporate into their life, that now exists across physical and digital space.
Johnson works in the intersection of jewellery and performance. Her work explored the power that exists with objectification, in particular the dominance that can result from expressive submissiveness.
Daniel Rey is an artist whose work seeks to undermine ideas of masculinity by questioning our understanding of cultural norms in patriarchal societies.
Korallia Stergides is an interdisciplinary artist based between London and Cyprus. She uses autobiographical narrative and ecological fact to create new myth and explores the embodiment of a place between reality and fiction.
Jeremy Scott (Camberwell College of Art)
London based artist and painter, his figurative paintings reach out to the everyday, mundane experience of the ordinary person, embracing the anonymity that is possible within society.
Osman’s practice revolves around modes of storytelling, merging autobiography with fiction and ritual. His work is concerned with the representation and rupture of the migrational experience and makes reference to socio-political issues of today.
Samuel Zchang is a multidisciplinary visual practitioner and LGBTQ+ rights advocate, His work is research-based that revolves around biopolitics, diaspora and queer identity in photography, installation and film.