Lonely Stones Press (2024)

12/07/2024

OUR EXHIBITION IS AVAILABLE ONLINE (launch poster attached)
The Unfold Project 2023-2024

📍 WWW.LONELYSTONESPRESS.COM

Featured artwork by

Artists included:
milly

djanira

gib

Niko Kappa

wip

milly

djanira

mannerswood.art

#2023 #2024

03/05/2024

It has been 5 weeks since we shared the names of the 4 remaining artists selected to take part in The Unfold Project, 2023-2024.

We are excited to announce that we will soon be releasing a launch date for our online gallery, featuring a piece of work submitted by each of our 24 selected artists, whilst we continue to work on the publication!! 👀

More details coming very soon!!

#2023 #2024

15/03/2024

Introducing the final artist to be featured in our 2023-2024 series of The Unfold Project: A Graduate Showcase, Claire Manners Wood (.mannerswood.art).

Featured:
Lisa’s Africa, 2023
Japanese Garden, 2022

www.clairemannerswood.com

Claire Manners Wood transforms daily life experiences into meaningful textile sculptures by combining architecture and tailoring with individual vibrancy inspired by colour, pattern, and texture. Her sculptures create vivid memories and reflections from moments of joy and gravitas.

Claire graduated from CityLit Fine Art in July 2021.

City Lit

01/03/2024

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023-2024 series of The Unfold Project, Tom Aberneithie ().

Toms art is an expanding practice in paint. He produces work that engages with themes of post-colonialism, capitalism and the machismo associated with both.
As an Anglo-Indian Australian, imagery in his paintings stem from his cultural heritage and address themes of Empire, nationalism and reflections on the impacts of decolonisation.

“I have a particular interest in the East India Company and its historical position as an economic global monopoly. This interest is explored in the context of global capitalism today and my paintings reveal points of similarity and difference between this history and the world we inherit now.”

As an artist working in the post-medium, post-conceptual, post-colonial, post-truth, post-human condition, he also regards the position of a contemporary artist as trapped in an eternal post-post. Connecting with art theory, he interrogates the relevance of painting today and how it connects with the teleology of art history. In this respect I am interested in exploring painting today as uniquely positioned as an index of the artist, as the embodiment of the artist’s life and labour and how these parallel with a society tethered to the personality cults of social media.

Tom studied MFA Masters in Fine Art at Kingston university, London, 2021-23

Kingston University

24/02/2024

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023-2024 series of The Unfold Project, Rosalynd Byass ().

Rosalynd is a fine artist born in South Shields, England, whose work is inspired by her own experiences.
Her current practice is focused on expressing nuanced feelings of pain and dread through her own library of surrealist imagery that she has been developing since her degree began in 2019.

“I merge these in my drawings through motifs and overlapping marks to reflect a repressed expression of femininity”.

Rosalynd studied Fine Art at Newcastle College University Centre.
Newcastle Uni

www.surrealrosalynd.wixsite.com/rosalyndbyass

18/02/2024

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023-2024 series of The Unfold Project, Leah Coxon ().

Leah’s practice stems from drawing, where she creates a ‘third space’ between narrative settings and instinctive line work. Her work is informed by a myriad of conflicting references including Therianthropy, ritualism, catharsis, animalistic desire, and female biology present in animals and humans such as the womb.

“I merge these in my drawings through motifs and overlapping marks to reflect a repressed expression of femininity”.

Leah is currently studying MA Art Gallery & Museum Studies at the University of Leeds.

11/02/2024

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023-2024 series of The Unfold Project, Esther Helfer ().

https://estherhelfer.myportfolio.com/

Esther is a multimedia artist. Her work is focused on an exploration of space that stems from her love of the outdoors.
She aims to find connections between the natural and artificial world by drawing on the influences of architecture and landscape. Her practice is not strictly environmental but rather an open conversation about the uses of materials and our relationship with the world around us.

“Recently, I have been working on a three-part installation that explores the many bridges on the Dee. This was inspired by a long-distance walk I did from the source of the river Dee high up in the Cairngorms to its mouth in Aberdeen city.
The first part is a drawing of the river and the route I took, along with markings for the locations of each bridge. The second is a wall installation with the names of the bridges burned into the surface and a welded metal frame representing the decorative suspension bridges that cross the Dee. The final and main part of the installation is a series of large steel structures suspended in a site-specific tree. These structures can be moved and exhibited in various different compositions.”

Esther is currently based in Aberdeen and a is a graduate from Gray’s School of Art.

Gray's School of Art Aberdeen

04/02/2024

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023-2024 series of The Unfold Project, Geraldine Leahy ().

www.gleahyart.com

Geraldine Leahy studied painting with The Open College of the Arts, the distance-learning partner of The University for the Creative Arts, completing a BA (Hons) Painting degree in 2022. Her lifelong interest in landscape and the natural world informed her studies and her current body of work is concerned with the exigent and immediate issues of climate change.

“My approach to painting involves using shoreline debris in layered processes that reflect the mutability and temporality of a fragile environment. My work is cognisant of the entanglements of these natural and manmade materials – the pernicious inseparability of plastic and seaweed or wire and grass. I explore the incongruity of manmade materials, such as plastic strands and fibres of rope, which produce strangely organic forms when used in a monoprinting process. Through a progression of adding and washing away acrylic and gouache, these forms mutate into evocations of the entanglement of mankind and the natural world”. ��

Intriguing combinations of monoprint and paint reveal the devastating consequences of coastal erosion at a local level. However, the artist also brings this issue to universal attention through her continued engagement with digital and print publications, as well as physical and online exhibitions.

Open Colleges

26/01/2024

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023-2024 series of The Unfold Project, Otto Gobey ().

https://www.ottogobey.co.uk/

Otto’s practice revolves around trees and timber. The things we have built, the meanings we have imposed and the structures we have left behind.

“My practice is fuelled by a great interest in mankind's modification of our landscape, the ditches, canals, and holes we dig, the barns, depots, roundabouts, and houses we build. Unlike these useful buildings, my sculptures serve no practical purpose, they are combinations of past and present functions distilled into solid inert forms”.

Otto studied Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating amid a pandemic in 2021. Since then he has set up a studio and workshop in Newcastle Emlyn where he has the space to sculpt and paint.

Recent exhibits include the Scottish Society of Artists annual exhibition, and New Contemporaries at the Royal Scottish Academy, as well as winning the Astair prize and being awarded the Mary A Rose bequest.

Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh
Royal Scottish Academy

19/01/2024

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023-2024 series of The Unfold Project, Emi Kubota.

https://emirosalinakubota.art/home/

Graduating in 2022 from Chelsea College of Art, with a BA in Fine Art, Emi is a practising artist and filmmaker who aims to touch people’s emotions through visual storytelling. Her work explores memory, female identity and experience, with themes of displacement, capitalism and belonging. Inspired by her upbringing, moving to different places and being exposed to diverse cultures is an aspect that fuels Emi’s work.
She draws inspiration from feminist writers such as Bell Hooks, Griselda Po***ck, and Chandra Mohanty.

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12/01/2024

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023-2024 series of The Unfold Project, Gabriela Proszowska ()

www.thegabeye.com

Graduating in 2023 from Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, Gabriela’s practice has a basis within traditional sculpture. Her choice of medium is wood for its intricacies, space for symbolism, and the varied possibilities for creating. Most recently, her research has taken her into the realm of identity, and more significantly the investigation of the relationship between self and nationality. Immigrating as a young child from Poland to the UK, her practice consists of themes of diaspora, which allows Gabriela to convey her own experiences.
The drawings featured are family members, with sculptures referencing the subconscious impact that nationality has on identity.

“All work is connected through the medium of wood. I collect birchwood from the forest in my homeland and bring it back to Scotland, turn it into charcoal to be used as a medium for drawing, and add ash to create glazes for the ceramic pieces”.

05/01/2024

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our series (and the first of 2024!!) of The Unfold Project: A Graduate Showcase, Emilia Chubb (Emilia Chubb Art)

Featured: ‘Beigel Bake, 11pm’, ‘Feeling Lucky’, ‘F**koffee in the Morning’.

www.emiliachubb.art

Emilia is an artist from London, and graduated from The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2020. She also studied Fine Art at UAL’s Chelsea College of Art.

Painting in acrylic on canvas, Emilia’s paintings aim to be delightfully nostalgic and full of character, capturing the rhythm and rush of the city. Her scenes are inspired by the every day, whether that be from nosing around cafés and markets for inspiration or wondering around the city at night; each painting aims to grasp the spirit of a place using bold, vibrant colours.

“I am fascinated by places and people, the relationship between the two, and the way in which I can encapsulate the beauty of time, location, and memory. Each place selected to paint is spontaneous, the scene has to jump out at me with character in passing, I want my paintings to emit an authentic atmosphere and energy”.

In 2023, Emilia was selected as a semi-finalist in the RBA ‘Rising Stars’ Exhibition with her painting ‘Beigel Bake 11pm’.

Chelsea College of Arts�UAL: University of the Arts London Courtauld Institute of Art

26/11/2023

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023 series of The Unfold Project: A Graduate Showcase, Niko Kappa.

www.niko.me.uk

Niko is an artist from Athens, Greece, and graduated from the Royal Collage of Art after studying Fine Art.

This body of work explores issues about productivity, time, repetition and purpose, interrogating the value and importance. Constructing a series of experimental sculptures, Niko aims to explore the relationship with the sculpturing process as a performative act.
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10/11/2023

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023 series of The Unfold Project, Jenny Wightman ().

www.jennywightman.com

Jenny is an artist from Cheshire and her work investigates the relationship between people and places. Primarily working on canvas and board, Jenny experiments with a range of media such as oil paint, pastel and pencil in a bid to convey a specific atmosphere and mood.

Her artistic exploration of our responses to places through drawing and painting delves into the intricate connections between our subconscious, memories, and emotions. By focusing on the theme of the urban landscape in various stages of dereliction, she prompts viewers to reflect on the historical and emotional significance of these once vital structures now left to decay.

In 2023, Jenny took part in Sky Arts’ Landscape Artist of the Year Artist of the Year

23/10/2023

Over the past 10 weeks, we've had the pleasure of introducing you to 10 remarkable artists and showcasing their incredible work.
The curation process for our upcoming book launch and online gallery has been a fascinating journey so far. Stay tuned for more details! We're excited to announce that the first artist from the next group of 10 will be revealed this Friday.

Here's a recap of the artists we've featured so far:
milly

djanira

#2023

06/10/2023

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023 series of The Unfold Project: A Graduate Showcase, Emma Phillips ()

www.emmaphillipsartist.com

Emma is an artist from Stevenage, Hertfordshire, and graduated from UAL’s Wimbledon College of Art in 2021.

Working mainly with large scale drawings using water soluble graphite, Emma’s work aims to address Britain’s changing landscape, from the habitation of its liminal spaces, to the decline of our native wildlife, referencing religious or ritualistic imagery to explore our dark sacrificial relationship with nature and the land.

Emma received the Prunella Clough Painting Prize in 2020 and was recipient of the Letchworth Open bursary in 2022, and had her first solo exhibition at Broadway Gallery Letchworth in 2023.

UAL: University of the Arts London
Wimbledon College of Arts

29/09/2023

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023 series of The Unfold Project: A Graduate Showcase, Iara Talledo Violani.

https://www.ceramicsbyiara.uk/

Inspired by the modernist SESC Pompeia building in São Paulo, Iara recalls hearing that the shapes of the windows were formed as a result of being “randomly smashed out with a sledgehammer.”
This “chaotic” and “unpredictable” approach to create something unique was the driving force throughout her project, challenging the natural gravitation towards perfection.

After creating individual elements on the potter’s wheel, Iara rejected the customary gentleness with which people tend to treat soft, newly thrown pieces and collided them to create a variety of colourful collages. This method enabled Iara to create unique and unpredicted piles of shapes.

Avoiding falling into the vicious cycle to seek perfection, Iara leaves an element of chance within her work.

Iara has recently completed her BA (Hons) 3D Design and Craft, from University of Brighton.

25/09/2023

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023 series of The Unfold Project: A Graduate Showcase, Patrik Dvorščak ()

‘KO - Lapsus’

Patrik’s large-scale paintings explore modern mentality, humanity, current civilisation and self destruction.

Together with a multitude of elements and figures he plays with perception, placing the viewer in the position of the creator of the world.

Through the fields of anthropology, psychology and psychoanalysis, his work investigates an eternal ambivalent struggle. These images are added alongside everyday routine scenarios that appear absurd in relation to the previous ones (e.g. a walk with the dog, milking a cow, riding a bus, mowing the grass, etc.

With the central motif depicted in paintings - crowds of people, unconscious psychological scenarios, debauchery, images of genitalia and domination of humanity over things and animals, he merges two different realities, creative and imaginary, routine and obscenities that reach deep into human ambivalence.

15/09/2023

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023 series of The Unfold Project: A Graduate Showcase, Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia.

Elena’s large-scale installations of oil paintings explore how the dynamics between people and narrative are shaped by the possibilities of reality and fiction.

The immersive triptychs implicate the viewers and their bodies into the setting in order to emphasise and discomfort the connection between the spectator, painting, and subject.

Her work is inspired by the practice of researching history: understanding how subjectivity creates contradictions in the narration of events. She draws on psychological, literary and historical analysis of fiction to construct and play out refuted experiences.

Elena has recently completed her MFA at The Glasgow School of Art

Elena was also selected to be in this years New Contemporaries

https://elenanonwochei-garcia.com

08/09/2023

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023 series of The Unfold Project: A Graduate Showcase, Dionne Hood (Dionne Hood Mixed Media Artist)

Dionne’s work is currently a combination of paintings and mixed media relief pieces that combine embroidery, paper clay, precious metal clay, paper, watercolour, ink and found objects. Each piece is accompanied with a poem as a response to the physical work.

Dionne pursues experimentation with varying objects, movements, textures, techniques, lines, writings and temperatures to present information and expressions to create a patchwork of passing revelations. Her work is a response to the happenings of life and the objects and imagery are used to describe very personal reactions to life experiences.

Dionne also work as a Library Development Officer bringing literature, culture and creativity to the people of Bradford.

Dionne graduated in 2022 from Bradford Art College with an MA in Visual Arts (Bradford School of Art)

https://dionnehood.crevado.com/

31/08/2023

We know it’s not Friday yet, but we are going to introduce you to the next artist to be featured in our 2023 series of The Unfold Project: A Graduate Showcase, Roydon Woodford.

‘Halsewell 1786’

This project was undertaken as the final major project for Roydon’s MA degree in Photography from Falmouth University.

The project culminated with a handmade book which is available in ebook format on Roydon’s website: https://roydonwoodford.co.uk/

The photographs revive the memory of the 168 souls that were lost to the sea on January 6th, 1786, to the wrecking of the Halsewell.

This work shines a light on the scale of the tragedy and pays tribute to those who were lost that fateful night and subsequent morning.

22/08/2023

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023 series of The Unfold Project: A Graduate Showcase, Victoria Motika.

‘When We Become One’

Victoria is a multi-media artist studying Fine Art at Falmouth University, Cornwall. Encouraged by her mother, she was first introduced to the world of creativity through floral art – where she first learnt the importance of colour and composition. Through her work she investigates the current disconnection between humans and nature and attempts to reconnect through her artistic practice.

The ‘WHEN WE BECOME ONE’ project was a ceremonial performance that was created in collaboration with Millie Tams () – also a Fine Art student at Falmouth University. The motivation for the ceremony was to spiritually connect and deepen their relationship with nature and the Cornish landscape.

Falmouth University

Victoria currently has work on display at . Her self portrait is part of the Summer Exhibition. https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2023/artworks/victoria-motika/1403

28/07/2023

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023 series of The Unfold Project: A Graduate Showcase, Nigel Whitbread.

‘Without Boarders’, ‘beat.fuse.echo’ and ‘Isreal Revisited’.

Nigel is a photographer. His photographic journey is based around the concepts of pilgrimage, traversing the land to capture the identity of a place and a time.

His work evokes clues to an ancient history of myths and legends that reverberate through the landscapes to the present day - to beat a path, to fuse together images, to echo the past.

Nigel has recently completed his MA in Contemporary Dialogues, Photography, at University of Wales Trinity St David.

UWTSD London

https://nigelwhitbread.com/work

21/07/2023

Introducing the next artist to be featured in our 2023 series of The Unfold Project: A Graduate Showcase, Elaoise Benson ()

‘The Sky Was Burnt Purple at Sunrise’ ’Splintered Woods’ and ‘Field of Gold’.

Elaoise is a painter, writer and performance artist interested in connection and environmentalism. Her abstract painting practice currently draws inspiration from meditative explorations of the Somerset countryside. This series of works are based on drawings made in the woods outside her studio in Langport. �Elaoise begins with plein air sketches, using an imposed rule whereby she only looks at the subject and not the paper, leaning into the natural movement of the observing eye, switching between focusing on the broad vista and the small detail of a leaf.

The visual image becomes further abstracted when moved from paper to acrylic on canvas, denoting the endless possibilities of our encounters with nature. Using canvases marked by old paintings, stained by soil after being left out in the elements, or sewn from scraps; the distressing of the ground becomes another visual plane to incorporate, abstracting the composition further. Through the time taken to re-translate the initial sketch, the experience and memory of the landscape itself continues to change.

Her interest in the intersections of love, nature and activism was amplified after the loss of her Mother in 2022;

��“I found that nature became a place of healing and spiritual restoration. Inspired by feminist confessional art practices my writing offers the viewer a moment of honest relatability. Recently I have been collaborating with other poets to form a Poetry Trail across the Quantock countryside. My hope is that establishing better relationships with our local environment will help motivate us to fight Climate Change on a larger scale. Since the loss of my Mum in 2022 I also write about the experience of grief and trauma; finding that nature can become a place of healing and spiritual restoration”.

BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, 2022, UAL: University of the Arts London

17/07/2023

Three artists who have used the book to express their concerns about environmental issues or adopted environmentally conscious approaches in their practice.

14/07/2023

Milly Aburrow - Fill Me In Sandwich Counter

We are proud to introduce you to the first artist featuring in our 2023 series of The Unfold Project: A Graduate Showcase, Milly Abburow (Portfolio Milly).

Milly Aburrow’s uncanny sculptures and installations of the everyday encapsulates the correlation between connotations of food and its language.

Milly explores foods social commentary, whether it associates to certain symbolisation, power, memory or societal acceptance, fabricating artworks engrossed in the sphere of consumerism.

Aburrow’s current work ‘Fill Me In Sandwich Counter’ explores the freedom of choice and personal expression in the constructs of Western Society. Through a playful colour palette and a comical stylisation, she characterises the parameters of commercialisation and our consumerist society that defines a part of everyone’s life.

Milly is a recent graduate of Bath Spa University, completing a BA(Hons) in Fine Art.

Bath Spa University

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