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We talked to Bohdan about his life and what his artistic practice brings him.

Oleksandra is an emerging artist from Ukraine living and working in London. She moved to the United Kingdom in 2022 after russia started a full sclae invasion of Ukraine. We talked with Oleksandra what this move meant for her, how she really is and where she draws inspiration.

 

 

Georgina is a British born artist based in Wiltshire. Having gained her BFA at Parsons, The New School in both Paris and New York, she returned to London and started studying part time at London Fine Art Studios who provide formal training in traditional techniques of oil painting and drawing. This mixture of contemporary and traditional training has a huge influence on her work today. She is currently enrolled in the Turps Correspondence Course.

Georgia Beaumont is a UK based painter. Her work explores her own coming-of-age and the intuitive female spirit, using her practice as a tool to become ever more acquainted with her internal creative life-force. The joyous feeling of the works and dancing botanical forms are apparent as a celebration of life itself.

Florence Reekie is a figurative oil painter from Scotland. Expectation, subversion, and decadence are important themes in Reekie’s work. Her paintings are often contemporary scenes drawing upon classical impressions and techniques.

The Art Unit is incredibly excited to announce its second release! We selected over 15 British emerging artists working with different styles and mediums to be a part of our second release.  Each artist brings in their unique vision and talent, and by grouping them together in one release, The Art Unit will showcase artistic excellence available amongst emerging artists in the UK. 

 

Create a cover for an NFT album. We are looking for a collection of unique album covers for an NFT album in support of Ukraine. We are planning to release 100,000 unique NFTs, so we need a base artwork that will be present in every cover, as well as layers that will be randomly combined into 100,000 unique NFTs.

 

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Collaborating with some of the most exciting emerging artists across the globe, The Art Unit is working to build a network of close, personal relations with artists and collectors in an ever-fractured world. Providing the opportunity to support and invest in the career of talented emerging artists, The Art Unit’s founder Mariia Kashchenko values levelling the art playing field: making it more accessible and enabling you to discover new voices. 

The Art Unit has unlocked the previously impermeable door to the London art-market for these artists, and provides the support and opportunity for artists who are working in incredibly difficult circumstances. By breaking down the barrier of having to physically exist in a space to engage with these artists, alongside ‘The Art Unit Talks’ interview series, we enter a new arena in which we gain unbridled access to a plethora of Ukrainian artists who now, more than ever, need their voices heard.

Sergiy Kondratiuk is an emerging Ukrainian artist. Currently living and working in Kyiv. Sergiy develops artworks that often play with people’s feeling of nostalgia. Sergiy works with archives of the National Institute of Automation, where his studio is located.

One of the Art Unit team’s main objectives is to make art more approachable and accessible to the public. It’s aim is to bring unique art pieces into everyone’s home. The Art Unit manages to make this possible by offering a large curated selection of artworks by emerging artists that offer more affordable pieces. 

The Art Unit Talks is a series of interviews with our artists.