This year, we have received over 800 applications for The Hari Art Prize 2024. In collaboration with A Space For Art, we are excited to announce the 21 shortlisted artists for the prize with the winner being awarded a cash grant generously donated by our CEO and Chairman, Dr. Aron Harilela of £10.000.
For over ten years, A Space for Art has been at the forefront of connecting fine art with exceptional spaces in the UK and globally; curating permanent and rotational art exhibitions that inspire and engage audiences. A Space For Art takes pride in the collaboration with The Hari hotels in both London and Hong Kong, honouring and showcasing the emerging generation of artistic talent with The Hari Art Prize.
The exhibition of the shortlisted artists will be open to the public at The Hari Hotel in London starting from Monday, September 16, 2024 and the winners will be annouced at a glittering event on Wednesday, November 20, 2024.
Self made bobbin lace, antique tea spoon case
16 x 26 x 1.5 cm
(ASFA-591-2024)
Jingyi Li (B. Beijing, China) is an artist based in London, who aims to build feminist space in her work with a focus on the Asian women’s story.
Porcelain, slip- casting
33 x 24 x 24 cm
(ASFA-589-2024)
Omer Oner is a Turkish artist. He draws inspiration from the rich history of ceramics, particularly the notion of repurposing waste objects to breathe new life into their forms
Oil paint and oil pastel on wood and aluminium panel
160 x 100 cm
(ASFA-588-2024)
Nina Ogden is a Welsh artist based in London and explores the possibilities of truth versus trickery and the physical world converging with the virtual.
Oil on canvas
140 x 150 cm
(ASFA-578-2024)
Georgina Stone (B. 1996 UK) is a London based painter. Stone’s practice focuses on the visceral, the physical, and the psychological natures of painting.
Acrylic, ink and pastels on canvas
101.6 x 152.4 cm
(ASFA-577-2024)
Heiyi Tam is a Hong Kong-born artist based in London. She explores reimagined memories, moments and stories through sensations and flavours.
Limited edition print
35 x 50 cm
(ASFA-576-2024)
Anastasia Kurakina was born in 1987 in Moscow (Russia). A simple image or object from life transforms in a metaphora of life itself in her paintings.
Paper on canvas
70 x 50 cm
(ASFA-575-2024)
Jess Beaton studies Fine Art at Loughborough University and their pieces are influenced by photomicrography, more specifically, the intricate patterns shown through microscopes.
Oil on canvas
100 x 100 cm
(ASFA-574-2024)
Meghan Josephine works to re-draw a women’s place in history and expose gender suppression, to invite meaningful conversation about women’s rights.
Oil, acrylic and charcoal on canvas
180 x 1110 cm
(ASFA-573-2024)
Heather Green (B.1993, Middlesbrough). “To be in control of something is to have influence over it, I am the authority and every piece is a reflection of my internal battle for control.”
Oil on panel
130 x 80 cm
(ASFA-572-2024)
Yeonsu Ju (B.1995) is a Korean artist based in London. Their work is about an exploration of loss, memory, and love that are intricately intertwined with my personal experience.
Oil on panel
42 x 29.5 cm
(ASFA-571-2024)
William Reinsch (B.1994 in Essex); a talented figurative painter best known for his haunting landscapes and portraits, painted with expressive brushstrokes.
Oil on canvas
81.3 x 101.6 cm
(ASFA-570-2024)
Mengmeng Zhang (b.1997, China) works in contemporary painting and explores the displacement between memory and the present, inner emotion and outer environments.
Charcoal and oil on canvas
250 x 175 cm
(ASFA-569-2024)
Born in Athens Greece, in 1994, Panagiotis Karampampas’ work is defined primarily by the fundamental properties of the materials used and their technical processes.
Digital print on photorag, walnut frame
39 x 29 x 4.5 cm
(ASFA-568-2024)
Tara White is a British-Iranian artist and their practice interrogates the layers of personal insight, imperial dissolution and grief that exist within the body.
Oil on canvas
130 x 180 cm
(ASFA-567-2024)
Katie Tomlinson (B. 1996)’s paintings reflect on the united experiences of women and explore a mix of emotions and ideas: intimacy, vulnerability and power structures, to name a few.
Archival print on cotton smooth etching paper
53 x 73 cm
(ASFA-566-2024)
Libby Bove is a multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and folklorist. Her work is centred around ideas which reposition folk custom and magical practice back at the forefront of life.
Steam bent snooker cues
152 x 45 x 8cm
(ASFA-565-2024)
George Richardson is a Contemporary Artist born in the UK, working across painting, sculpture, drawing and performance.
Plywood
90 x 90 x 90 cm
(ASFA-564-2024)
Eleni Maragaki (B. Athens) is a visual artist. Their work was inspired by the idea of geometry being present within natural structures, such as chemical elements and crystals.
Aluminium and perspex
21 x 15 x 0.5 cm
(ASFA-563-2024)
Vietnamese artist Duong Thuy Nguyen (b.1991) is a strong advocate for artists to bring pertinent messages across and beyond Southeast Asian communities.
Oak, pine, broom corn
240 x 36 x 7 cm
(ASFA-562-2024)
Blythe Plenderleith interrogates the theory behind provocation. Whilst using universal iconography, Blythe questions if provocation really is the source to immediate response.
Acrylic and oil on hessian
170 x 120 cm
(ASFA-561-2024)
Eilen Itzel Mena is an Afro-Dominican American artist their visual arts practice is deeply rooted in documenting a femme afro-diasporic intersectional experience.