The Hari Art Prize: Shortlisted Artists 2023

Digitally manipulated photograph
60 x 40 cm
Edition of 20
(ASFA-414-2023)

UK-based Columbian photographer Clara Garrido expresses her love for light and form through her images, creating scenes of natural beauty. Her work pursues unusual structures and combinations of colours, seeking to capture the fragile link between nature, the planet and the universe.

Digitally manipulated photograph
53 x 70 cm
Edition of 20
(ASFA-404-2023)

UK-based Columbian photographer Clara Garrido expresses her love for light and form through her images, creating scenes of natural beauty. Her work pursues unusual structures and combinations of colours, seeking to capture the fragile link between nature, the planet and the universe.

Polaroid
29 x 25 cm
(ASFA-604-2023)

Ana Viktoria Dzinic is a London-based artist primarily concerned with image construction in a post-photogenic landscape. Visually, these concepts are imagined as factional narratives in installations, paintings and network images, using fabric prints, ready made sculpture and trompe l’oeil techniques.

Polaroid
29 x 25 cm
(ASFA-603-2023)

Ana Viktoria Dzinic is a London-based artist primarily concerned with image construction in a post-photogenic landscape. Visually, these concepts are imagined as factional narratives in installations, paintings and network images, using fabric prints, ready made sculpture and trompe l’oeil techniques.

Photographic print
42 x 30 cm
(ASFA-415-2023)

Bethan Evans is a South Wales Photographer, who has a deep love for the fantastical and its oddities. Bethan draws inspiration from traditional fairy tales and stories of old, creating captivating characters within her own imagination through the mediums of performance, self-portraiture, collage and costume.

Archival inkjet print of a Chemigram, mounted on dibond
50.5 x 37 cm
(ASFA-410-2023)

Nicole Burnay is a London based visual artist who explores abstraction through experimental photographic processes, printmaking, painting and 3-D forms. She recently graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Photography.

Oil on canvas
100 x 75 cm
(ASFA-409-2023)

Caroline Thompson is an artist and MA Fine Art graduate from Chelsea College of Art. Landscape is a dominant theme in her work – woods and parkland in particular are recurrent themes, reflecting an interest in the idea of the sublime within nature and our modern relationship with it.

Mixed media
115 x 77 cm
(ASFA-407-2023)

Angus Vasili is a renowned artist known for his architectural and abstract-infused silkscreen prints. His works fuse and coalesce in an extraordinary dance of visual elements, weaving in-screen printing, photography, and hand-finished texture.

Archival giclee print on rag paper
40 x 60 cm
(ASFA-408-2023)

Cole Robertson is an American artist, educator and writer/curator. His artwork deals with photography – its languages, objects, histories, and systems. His current research at the Royal College of Art, London, deals with photography as it intersects with embodied language and metaphor.

Oil and acrylic on canvas
160 x 130 cm
(ASFA-406-2023)

Ken Nwadiogbu is a Nigerian-born multidisciplinary artist. A trained civil engineer, he soon pivoted to fine art, first embracing hyperrealism and charcoal drawing, before expanding his creative horizon to more conceptual works and a wider array of artistic techniques.

Oil on canvas
60 x 75 cm
(ASFA-405-2023)

Lily Hargreaves paints scenes from an alternate timeline, acting as its historian as she documents the happenings of Willowfield village and its residents. Her canvases invite viewers out of their world and into one that parodies, probes, and pulls at the seams of the former’s contemporary institutions.

Oil and acrylic on Ankara fabric
91 x 122 cm
(ASFA-403-2023)

Yasser Claud-Ennin is a Nigerian-born multidisciplinary artist, with work extending from visual arts, branding, fashion, product and graphic design. Usually inspired by his wrestle with his multi-cultural heritage, his works brings together different cultures, creating multifaceted paintings on antique and traditional fabrics.

Acrylic gouache on canvas
76.2 x 101.6 cm
(ASFA-402-2023)

Brian Parker is a visual artist, whose approach to a painting is to include the absolute minimum of information necessary to convey his personal view of the composition, and to do so with the minimum palette of flat colours. His aim is for his work to stimulate the visual sense by creating beautiful images, and to leave the viewer with a feeling of pleased satisfaction.

Ink and Digital drawing on German Etching Paper, 2022
Limited Edition of 250
Based on the etching ‘Veduta del palazzo Vidoni Caffarelli’ by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778)
63 x 87 cm
(ASFA-401-2023)

Joseph Fox is a self-taught artist, having worked for a long time as a graphic designer, and just now beginning to breech into the fine art world. His work involves mainly twists on classical architectural drawings – some being totally original, and some being modified from more classical works.

Acrylic and flashe on canvas
140 x 100 cm
(ASFA-400-2023)

Monica Perez Vega’s work explores ideas of uncertainty and adaptation, whose imagined landscapes sit between nostalgia and unease. Originally from California, she has lived in several places across the world. Memories of home are warped by a changing landscape and experiences of continually starting over have led to a practice which investigates cycles of change.

Water soluble oil on linen on pine board
135 x 185 cm
(ASFA-399-2023)

Gus Monday is a contemporary fine artist from London and Cape Town. His works are representations of spaces, utilising coded narratives and symbols, some of which are observational and some autobiographical. For him, the foundations of the image are its materials, and he draughts into them. This, along with practical reasoning, is why he chose to work with panels. 

Aluminium, silicone and metal fixtures
30 x 36 x 11 cm + plinth
(ASFA-398-2023)

Boxuan Sun was born and raised in Beijing, China, before leaving for high school in the US. Afterwards, he attended Parsons School of Design, where he discovered his love for sculpture. His work reconstructs biomorphic forms from industrial materials – a process which emphasises insect exoskeletons and patterns within industrial design.

Oil on canvas, MDF, Pine wood frame, enamel paint, green fluorescent acrylic plastic, and chrome mirror screws
131.5 x 101 cm
(ASFA-397-2023)

Amy Powell attended Cardiff School of Art and Design, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with an honours degree in Fine Art. Her works explore the circulation of pictures across various conditions and mediums throughout contemporary social networks, and embodied experience, devising intricate techniques to make this state of flux tangible.

Oil stick, oil paint, acrylic, black ink, collage and spray paint on canvas
200 x 140 cm
(ASFA-396-2023)

Cherry Aribisala studied Fine Art at Goldsmith University of London, having graduated with Tons. She is mostly known for her large-scale paintings and creations that draw inspiration from comic books, contemporary figuration, and illustrative brush marks, as well as her love of colour, in order to move beyond a grounded sense of reality.

Oil and marble dust on wood and aluminium panel
160 x 100 cm
(ASFA-395-2023)

Through the lens of Baudrillard’s notion of ‘simulation’, and the ‘hyperreal’, Nina Ogden explores the possibilities of truth versus trickery and the physical world converging with the virtual. As the role of a product photographer, she styles household ingredients and discarded packaging with sculpted forms, then photographs and renders them with oil paint on wood. 

Pigment, oil and graphite on linen
65 x 50 cm
(ASFA-394-2023)

Imogen Marsteller, born in Tucson, Arizona, is a London-based painter. She has a distinctive painting style where she fuses a graphic and painterly sensibility, as evidenced by her strong use of line, playful colour choices and shade, with a visual focus on contemporary intimacy.