Lot 240 - Rafaela de Ascanio - Estoy Aqui

Oil on paper
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Rafaela de Ascanio is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting and sculpture, living between London and Madrid. Her work explores themes of feminism, mysticism and motherhood, in installations that combine ceramics and oil paintings in dialogue. Often, she gives life to research themes through audio and performance to animate these physical objects.

Education
2018 - 2019
Turps Banana Off-Site Painting Programme

2009 - 2010
MA Curating the Art Museum, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK

2006 - 2008
BA History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK

2005 - 2006
Fine Art Foundation Diploma, Central Saint Martin’s College 2005 - 2006, London, UK

Solo Exhibitions
2023
Sexing the Cherry, Tristan Hoare Gallery, London, UK

2022
The Pump House, Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, London, UK

2021
Universal Yearnings, Liliya Art Gallery, London, UK

Group Exhibitions
2024
Theia, Niru Ratnam Gallery, London, UK
Wicca, Arc Salon, Painswick, UK
Apocalypse Now, Tristan Hoare Gallery, London, UK

2023
Ex Voto, organised by The Mary Leyline Pilgrimage at Original Projects, UK

2022
Wave, Cob Gallery, London, UK
Conjure, Arusha, curated by Chantal Powel, Bruton, UK
Fancy a Bite?, Studio West, London, UK
The Amber Room at Reference Point Library, 180 The Strand, London, UK
I’ll be your mirror, curated by Mark Connoly at Alice's Gallery and Oyster Bar, London, UK
Swamp Legends, Terrace Gallery, London, UK

2021
Cracked, Tristan Hoare Gallery, curated by Leonie Mir, London, UK
Focus on the Female, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK
Back-to-Back: Nettle Grellier and Rafaela de Ascanio, Bowes Parris Gallery (duo), London, UK

2020
Monster/Beauty: The Female/Femme Gaze, Lychee One, curated by Marcelle Joseph, London, UK
Paintings On, And With Paper, Cob Gallery, curated by Cassie Beadle, London, UK
Clay Today: A Showcase Of Ceramics In Isolation, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, curated by Preston Fitzgerald, London, UK
The Amber Room, curated by Rosie Reed, London, UK
Tangled up in blue & the tales we tell ourselves, Purslane, London, UK
With Love, Paint Talk, London, UK

2019
The Deccan Traps, Aindrea Contemporary (duo), London, UK
Turps Banana Off-Site Painters, Turps Gallery, curated by Phil Allen and Marcus Harvey, London, UK
If you know you know, Eccleston Project Space, curated by Mark Connolly & Joana Galego, London, UK
The Amber Room, curated by Rosie Reed, London, UK
Summer of Ceramics, Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire, UK
Nobu Knows Art, Nobu Hotel Shoreditch, curated by Aindrea Emelife, London, UK
A Room of One’s Own, Koppel Gallery Central, London, UK

Awards
2021
Winner of Young Masters Focus on the Female Emerging Women’s Artist Award

Gallery Representation
Tristan Hoare Gallery, London, UK

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
Two oil paintings. Sketches for larger works in a series that explores Lorca´s The House of Bernarda Alba where several sisters are caged up in a hot, Andalusian house by their oppressive mother and society at large.