Lot 279 - Dide - The artist

Oil on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Dide is an oil painter, poet and composer-musician, whose work explores narrative portraiture, movement and the detailed depiction of neurodivergent vision. She was twice selected by the Royal Society of British Artists as a Rising Star in 2023 and 2024. She won the Society of Women Artists Young Artist Award and an International Tera Varna Talent Prize, alongside being selected for the Women in Art Prize and Aesthetica Art Prize. Her debut poetry pamphlet Growing was published in 2022 and her debut poetry collection Making Sense in 2023, to rave reviews. Some music highlights include collaborating with MIT, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Centre, the Royal Ballet School, the London Contemporary School of Dance, Philharmonia Orchestra, Mind Charity, Aldeburgh Music, and performing internationally.

Education
Self-taught in visual art. Other education includes a Philosophy MACantab from the University of Cambridge, studies at the Royal College of Music JD and Lausanne Conservatoire of Music, and courses from The Poetry School London, all through the generosity of scholarships.

Group Exhibitions
2024
Royal Society of British Artists Rising Star, Royal-Overseas-League, London, UK
Plates for Purpose - Make for Peace, Messums Gallery, London, UK

2023
Women in Art Prize, Roundhouse, London, UK
Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Royal Society of British Artists Rising Star, Royal-Overseas-League, London, UK
Unconsumed, The Shoe Factory, Norwich, UK

Awards
2024
Talent Prize, International Tera Varna Competition
Rising Star, Royal Society of British Artists

2023
Karin Walker Young Artist Award, Society of Women Artists
Rising Star, Royal Society of British Artists
Final selection, Women in Art Prize
Longlist, Aesthetica Art Prize

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
My submitted artwork, ’The Artist’, is an oil portrait of the shadow of an artist in her studio, with her painting in the background. It explores the refracting aspects of character, as character can be consciously or unconsciously portrayed to others through our interests, our style, and how we interact with the different people we encounter - in this case, the artist’s character in this little portrait comes across through the body posture and gait of her shadow as well as the style, focus, brushstroke and colour of her own paintings. What we create is as much a window into our souls as our facial and body expressions. This artwork also continues to play with a love of light and colour.