Curated first came to Gallery Director Singh when exhibiting the iconic Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into The Met Museum? exhibit earlier this year, by female art collective Guerrilla Girls.
‘The work challenges the viewer to confront the lack of representation for women in the art world. At Amar Gallery – where female artists are championed and celebrated – we believe that Curated should do the same,’ he said.
The initiative represents the under-represented. It’s female-focused, launching with 50+ women artists and designers. Singh has scouted young and emerging talent that he – an expert himself – has often sourced from graduate shows or artists’ studio spaces both across the UK and internationally.
Works are showcased online for collectors to browse, select and buy according to their own personal tastes and budget.
A budding art investor can kickstart their new pastime with a personal shopping service, enabling clients to connect via WhatsApp and WeChat; all the while championing the work of female artists, with an aim to tackle the lack of representation of women in the art world.
‘It’s our vision to revolutionise the online art market, offering a truly personal and bespoke experience, bringing the best artworks offline, online,’ Chantelle May Purcell, Director of Curated told MailOnline.
‘With Curated you can take a picture of walls in your home, office, or any space then text us the images and the dimensions. We will then send you back bespoke options of artworks perfect for your space.’
Singh added: ‘We receive more enquiries from artists in a week than we’d ever be able to show in a lifetime. So in providing an online space for these wonderful emerging artists to exhibit their work, we believe Curated can give their work visibility in a way they truly deserve.’
Artists highly recommended by the gallery include Anika Manuel, Ilsa Brittain, Bea Bonafini, Simone Webb, Josephine Cardin, Gillian Hyland, Patricia Volk and Yuki Aruga.
Visit curatedart.com for more information and to see the featured artists and their works.
Curated’s Rising Stars & Ones To Watch
Jo-Hummel Newell
Pontoon by Jo-Hummel Newell
Joanne was born in Farnborough, Hampshire in 1982. She studied at Kingston University London 2001-2004 and Royal College of Art London 2004-2006. Recent solo exhibition include Artist in Residence, Saatchi Art Lounge, during Frieze Week London 2017, joint solo’s Deep End Echo, Sid Motion Gallery 2018.
She says: ‘Carnivals, makeshift shrines, allotment gardens, protest signage and handwritten notes are some of the found forms of expression which intrigue and stimulate my arts practice.’
What Now #1 by Paola Bazz
Paola Bazz
Paola says: ‘Figure and portrait has always been one of my favorite subjects. I like to depict people I don’t know – strangers. I use images of real people. Sometimes they are ordinary people taken from social media (Instagram, Pinterest), sometimes celebrities whose faces can be seen everywhere in countless photographs.
‘Like our identities, my portraits are fluid and mobile, constantly changeable as soon as the viewer moves, full of fragmented memories and stories.’
Sketch 5 – The Task at Hand by Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf
Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf
Rebecca Fontaine-Wolf is a London based artist who grew up between Germany and the UK. She is vice president to the Society of Women Artists, and recipient of several awards. She shows in solo, curated and juried shows at venues such as the Mall Galleries, The V&A and the RCA. She completed her MFA at Wimbledon College of Art in 2015.
She predominantly focuses on painting and portraiture, exploring themes surrounding female identity and mortality. Her work is largely informed by mythology and the tradition of vanitas painting.
The young woman becomes a symbol for the fleeting nature of human life as well as creative fertility and potential; youth and beauty allude to their natural counterpart of death and decay.
Jenna Rose Marti
Wayward by Jenna Rose Marti
Jenna Rose Marti is a new media artist and photographer based in Milwaukee, WI, USA. She works in a wide variety of mediums to explore the human experience through surreal and immersive forms that question more than they answer.
Her current body of work, To Stand Where We Stood, examines our relationship to the landscape as a contextualized space for the memories we experienced there. By utilizing photography for its traditional use of preserving memories, she returns to places and archives images in which the memory lives on.
Rebecca Yunjeong Lee
Unspoken 5 by Rebecca Yunjeong Lee
Rebecca graduated Saint Paul Preparatory School in Korea, finished foundation course 2014-2015 in Central Saint Martins. Graduated BA Fine Art 2D in Central Saint Martins 2018 and attending Royal College of Art London 2019 MA Fine Art Painting.
She uses her own experience involving sexual abuse and sexual violence on her art works. She loves to express ideas towards women, nature and sexual desires through her paintings with body figures. She expresses the trauma and anxiety through her works.
A large majority of work and research are related sexual violence, traumatic incidents and depression. She hopes one day she can help bring awareness with women around the globe who were involved in sexual incidents.