Lot 1 - Naomi Boiko Stapleton - Cloud of Home
Lot 1 - Naomi Boiko Stapleton - Cloud of Home

Lot 1 - Naomi Boiko Stapleton - Cloud of Home

Watercolour on cotton

2023

A6 (10x15cm)

Original Artwork

Signed on Verso

ARTIST INFO

About

Naomi portrays a fragmented mythology using recurring symbols as an aid to unveil previously forgotten memories. Her intimate iconography reconciles her experience of loss, inviting ever-evolving reinterpretations of a personal mythology. The titles are mediated from conversations with her mother before she passed, and now late-night ones shared with her sister. The imagery is inspired by these not as a literal depiction, but an embodiment of the sensations that memories provoke but cannot put into words. 

In the work people emerge as otherworldly beings, perhaps they are ghosts, gods, or vessels. Naomi uses the medium of watercolour on stretched cotton, its sensitivity allows the work to hint at a forms perceptible outline without reducing it to a fixed image or narrative. The space embodies an unearthly presence, appearing and disappearing simultaneously.

 

Education

2022  BA (hons) Fine art painting, University of Brighton, First class 

2019  Level 3 diploma fine art (UAL awarding body), Bedford College, Distinction

 

Select Exhibitions/Awards

Exhibitions

2022  ‘Dot to dot’ Coachwerks Gallery, Brighton 

2022 ‘Relationship with the self’ Take courage gallery, London

2022 ‘LSM art award’ LSM offices, London

2022 ‘Autumn exhibition’ Gallerie V, Cambridge

2022 ‘Accessible art show’ Black white gallery, London

2022 ‘Juice box’ RuptureXIBIT, London

2022 ‘Night flowers’ The flower gallery, Bedford 

2023 ‘Yourself in my shoes’ Tube culture hall, Milan

2023 ‘Spring exhibition’ Gallerie V, Cambridge

2023 Good Eye Projects, Spring residency, London

 

Awards

LSM Art Award 2022

Nominated for Nagoya Arts award 2022

 

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