Framed How To Rest, Original
This original artwork has been created especially for The Mix – Enter Gallery’s 2024 group show of original artworks from a selection of our artists.
Marcelina Amelia is an exciting contemporary artist known for works that contemplate themes of self-acceptance, gender and representations of female sexuality. Amelia states: "I like to play at the tense borders between lust and innocence, joy and sadness, fun and pain.”
How to Rest is a thoughtful piece exploring he importance of finding time to just be. Amelia reveals:
"This work was created during summer following an incredibly busy and exhausting period. I found myself struggling to take a break, ironically reading Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, where he discusses 'idleness aversion', which is an inability to rest or a nagging anxiety that one should always be productive.
Inspired by Rick Rubin's book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, I approached this piece without a plan or preconceived idea. Books often find a way into my paintings, and this piece is no exception. A literal copy of Philip Guston: I Paint What I Want to See—my favourite book this summer—appears in the work."
The artwork is a prime example of Amelia empowering oeuvre, demonstrating how inspired she is by the strength, resilience and living-giving capacity of women.
This original artwork is created with acrylic and oil on canvas.
Framed size (cm): 76.2 x 61
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Specifications
Framed: Yes
Hand Finished: Yes
Medium: Acrylic and Oil on Canvas
Edition Type: Original
Size (cm): 76.2 x 61
SKU: EG21244
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About the artist
Contemporary artist Marcelina Amelia draws inspiration from her Polish heritage, looking to traditions of folklore and religious iconography to develop a distinctive contemporary aesthetic. Blending childhood nostalgia with the power of dream, Amelia’s work takes a surreal look at the human condition, exploring the tensions and juxtapositions that define our lives. She explains: “I like to play at the tense borders between lust and innocence; joy and sadness; fun and pain. My interest in juxtaposition comes from my origins and fascination with East European culture.”
In 2018, Rebecca Wilson, chief curator at Saatchi Art, highlighted Amelia as an artist to invest in, while Saatchi curator Monty Preston recognised her as “unquestionably an artist on the rise.”
She has been featured in publications including Booooooom, Digital Arts, Art Wednesday, Vogue and Ballad Of Magazine. She exhibited at D&AD, New Designers, London Design Festival, London Illustration Fair, and took part in Faberge’s Big Egg Hunt.
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