In 2017, Golding was shortlisted for the Young Masters Art Prize. In 2018 the artist had his biggest solo show to date 'Is it just me, or is it you?' which premiered at University of Leicester’s Attenborough Arts Centre in Association with Young Masters. Amartey is fast attracting the attention of the international arts scene, becoming renowned for his supercharged, super sleek moving images and photography work. The Young Masters Alumnus was featured as one of the emerging photographers pushing their medium on Artsy.
Claire Partington | Historical Fiction
Spanning ten years of her artistic practice, Partington’s exquisite monograph is beautifully presented by KochXBos, Amsterdam and features selected highlights from 2011 – 2021, illustrated with lavish photography over 220 pages. With insight from the Artist herself and text contributions by Danielle Thom (Curator Museum of London), Amy Orrock (Senior Curator Compton Verney) and Curator and Educator Michael Czerwinski, the book offers a glimpse into Partington’s working methods and the concepts behind the works.
Available to Preorder
Book release planned for March 2022
Giggs Kgole and NFTs | 10 January 2022
The youngest artist ever to be shortlisted as a finalist for the Young Masters Art Prize, Giggs Kgole, is expanding his practice to encompass NFTs. His newly launched Foundation Collection includes the artist's first NFT, minted on January 10, 2022. What Dreams Are Made Of was originally created in 2016 and completed in 2017 as part of a three part animation which later will be turned into a live Opera, in collaboration with wonTon, co-founder of The Modern Way Collection.
Click here to view the NFT
Cynthia Corbett on ITV News | 10 January 2022
As the Founder of not-for-profit platform the Young Masters Art Prize, Cynthia Corbett is often approached to give her views about young & emerging artists. In this case, the artist was unknown to her having not seen the artwork in person. However the whole ethos of Young Masters is to nurture talent at the early career stages of artists who look to history in their work, which the artist called Rhed does.
Young Masters supports artists from all backgrounds ages and education – regardless of whether they use a pseudonym or work under their original name.
Watch the excerpt from ITV News at 10!
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Fabriano Parisi | International Photography Awards
International Photography Awards | 4 November 2021
DAYDREAMING
We are delighted that artist, Fabiano Parisi has received the Prize: Honorable Mention from the International Photography Awards.
A series of images taken during the Covid-19 lockdown in Italy. The cities were silent and deserted, bordering the surreal. The night vision of the empty city is mixed with bright cloudy skies, shooted from my flat's window during the daytime. The luminosity of the sky becomes unsettling, making the empty darkness below even more impenetrable than it would seem in a normal context.
Amanda McCavour | The Delaplaine Arts Center
The Delaplaine Arts Center | 4 September 2021
Embroidered Spaces
Embroidery installations
Sep 4–Oct 31
McCavour uses a sewing machine to create thread drawings and installations. Through an exploration of line and its 2–D and 3–D implications, stitch is used to explore various concepts such as connections to home, the fibers of the body, and more formal considerations of thread’s accumulative presence.
About the Delaplaine
Housed in the 100-year-old Mountain City Mill on the banks of Carroll Creek in historic downtown Frederick, The Delaplaine Arts Center has been serving the community since 1986. This vibrant nonprofit organization welcomes more than 80,000 visitors each year to the 40,000-square-foot flagship of the arts featuring:
7 on-site galleries, showcasing works by regional and national artists in more than 50 exhibitions annually
8 spacious studios, housing more than 250 classes and workshops for all ages each year
The Etchison Davis Library, one of the largest, free art references libraries open to the public in Maryland
The Community Art Gallery and the Community Outreach Gallery, featuring artworks created by local students and community groups
An Art History Timeline, offering glimpses from the prehistoric area to the 1970s
The Our Industrial Past panel exhibit, telling the story of our historic building
Beautiful Gardiner Hall, the most popular and reasonable priced event venue in downtown Frederick
The Gift Gallery at the Delaplaine, a retail shop supporting local artists in our community
The historic Mountain City Mill building itself, an adaptive reuse success story
The Delaplaine also manages three satellite galleries in partnership with the Frederick County Public Libraries. Satellite galleries are located at the Brunswick Branch Library, Thurmont Regional Library, and Urbana Regional Library.
The Delaplaine also offers family-friendly events, one-day workshops, gallery talks, and multi-day Master Artist Workshops, and more to round out the educational experience. Programs are offered both on-site and online. Visit Programs at a Glance for information about upcoming activities.
Azita Moradkhani | Artist in Residence at Silver Art Projects
Selected as Artist in Residence at Silver Art Projects in Manhattan’s World Trade Center | 2 August 2021
Azita Moradkhani is the winner of the Young Masters Art Prize and Young Masters Emerging Woman Art Prize in 2017, and we couldn't be prouder of her achievements since!
Ceramic Review | Amy Hughes
Ceramicist Amy Jayne Hughes uses handbuilding techniques to bridge gaps between past and present ceramic traditions. CR’s Annie Le Santo spoke to her to learn more.
“My intention is to bridge a gap between the past and the present – I am trying to find old pieces a new home in contemporary culture”
Vogue Turkey | Matt Smith
Vogue Turkey | March 3, 2021
Collect Art Fair 2021
This February Cynthia Corbett Gallery is inviting you behind the scenes of Cynthia Corbett’s Wimbledon home to virtually enjoy our Collect 2021 curation. The Gallery is particularly fortunate as our model was to always involve Wimbledon HQ and enhance our international presence with appearance at venues and spaces fitting our programming and ethos. For Collect 2021 we are recreating what we would have physically shown at our booth at the Fair – in our Home Gallery space in a historic former Victorian convent.
For this outstanding edition of Collect, Cynthia Corbett Gallery is showcasing the artworks of five artists, who create multifaceted narratives while also celebrating materiality. The following three artists, while excelling in their conceptuality, are fascinated with the physical work itself:
· Canadian Christopher Riggio’s vessels, almost art-deco in format, are created with ceramics and glass, yet super-polished like a slab of Carrara marble;
· Spanish Albert Montserrat looks back at the ancient history of Korean moon jars – and takes advantage of the most exquisite technical advancements, using them for his stunning glazes. His work mesmerises with the marriage of the old and new;
· British Amy Hughes’s practice is both fuelled by and symbolic of the highly prestigious Porcelain wares produced at the Royal Sevres Factory in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Hughes’ works reference and pay homage to the originals, but are created with a freer approach, giving them a new lease of life.
Gallery-represented and Young Master Award winner Matt Smith is a true Renaissance artist. Textile embroiderer, ceramicist, art historian, curator, professor of arts: his mission is joining the antique and contemporary while rethinking the ways of what museums collect. His commentary is always infused with social and political mores in both a witty yet serious manner.
American Klari Reis has invented her own medium, using epoxy polymer (a form of liquid plastic) with many added ingredients including pure pigment, acrylic and secrets. Reis’s design is almost otherworldly, her colours unique and her patterns inventive. Her artwork is both object and fine art and she is at the forefront of innovative use of art resources.
Each of these artists have had serious recognition by private and public collections including the V&A, Google, Microsoft, Design Museum Trustee Davina Mallinckrodt and Edmund de Waal.
Virtual viewings over Zoom, Skype, WhatsApp or FaceTime are available by request via info@thecynthiacorbettgallery.com.