Lot 126 - Efrat Merin - When I Feel Down (I)

Egg tempera and gouache on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Marta Marsicka

About
Efrat Merin is a London-based artist. Her work merges lesbo-futuristic and Judeo-futuristic mythologies, celebrating female desires through a queer retelling of mythical narratives. The figures in her paintings—often anthropomorphic women—embody desire, oppression, and liberation, navigating the limbo between birth and decay. She works mainly in the sgraffito technique with cold encaustic paint, as well as in drawing, gouache, and egg tempera.

Education
2024-25
RCA MA Painting, London

2020-22
Turps Studio Programme, London

Solo Exhibitions
2024
The Other Side of Paradise, Anima Mundi Gallery, St Ives, UK

2023
Atomic Realtions, SVA, Straud, UK
Van Gogh AIR, Van Gogh Gallery, Zundert, NL
Anima Mundi, Darbyshire Ltd, London, UK

2020
Dream. Figure, Maya gallery, Tel Aviv

Group Exhibitions
2025
Paper Tower, Specific Objects Projects, London, UK

2024
Succubus Queens, Deptford Quirk, London, UK
RBA Rising Stars Exhibition, Royal Overseas League, London, UK
After the Island of Dr Moreau, Deptford Quirk, London, UK
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Camden Art Centre, London, UK

2023
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK
Lughnasadh, Anima Mundi Gallery, St Ives, UK
Fresh Paint Art Fair, Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv- Yafo, Israel

2022
Now Introducing, Studio West, London, UK
Overspill, Terrace Gallery, London, UK
International Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
Beep Painting Biennial, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Brixton Art Prize Shortlist Show, Downstairs Brixton, London
Open Call 2022, Mepaintsme, online
Exh 08, Floorr Magazine Online Exhibition, London

Awards
2024
Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England

2023
Bloomberg New Contemporaries Artist
A-N Artists Bursary
Darbyshire Award for Emerging Art

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
When I Feel Down I and II continue my exploration of femininity, sexuality, and chaos, delving into the eternal contradiction between the desire for freedom and the yearning to be entangled, even possessed, by another.