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Narratives of Identity brings together the work of four recent art graduates: Qinyao Dai, Hsin Hwang, Shayla Marshall and Jahnvi Singh, whose art delves into the intricacies of identity, storytelling, and narrative. Each artist explores these themes through unique perspectives and media, weaving personal and collective experiences into compelling visual and conceptual forms.

Through painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media, these four artists invite us to examine how our personal narratives and histories can shape our understanding of the self and society. Their works reflect on the multifaceted nature of identity, highlighting the intersections of culture, memory, and belonging.

In this space, narratives unfold — some intimate and autobiographical, others expansive and universal — encouraging viewers to consider their own roles as storytellers and participants in the ongoing dialogue of identity. Together, these artists demonstrate the power of contemporary art in capturing the complex stories that define who we are and how our journeys continue to grow. 

Good Eye Projects is an artist residency programme founded in 2022.

Embodying the artist-led ethos and community orientation of London’s vibrant emerging and early-career art scene, GEP hosts three residency iterations per year at their West London location, providing six artists per edition with free studio space in which to create. Alongside, GEP organises regular studio visits with insightful industry professionals; gallery visit days to some of London’s most exciting small and mid-sized spaces; and end-of-residency exhibitions to spotlight each artist’s output.

Artists for GEP’s Summer and Autumn residencies are selected via a free-to-enter Open Call process, moderated by a panel of art-world insiders. The Spring iteration features selected artists as part of GEP’s gallery collaboration initiative, with artists previously invited on behalf of Pipeline, Soup, Sherbet Green, Night Café, PM/AM, San Mei and curator Josephine-May Bailey.

Since launching, GEP has supported over 40 artists, and has presented off-site collaborations with Christie’s and Collective Ending HQ. GEP is now pleased to present a group exhibition of the artists included on their Autumn 2023, Spring 2024 and Summer 2024 residency iterations at Saatchi Gallery.

Good Eye Projects Artistic Director:
Anna Woodward (Artist & Organiser)

Good Eye Projects Business Development Director:
Scott Franklin (Art Collector & Founder of Property Guardian Protection LTD)

Good Eye Projects Selection Panel:
Hector Campbell (Co-Founder & Director, Soup Gallery)
Marie-Claire Thijsen (Head of Sale & Associate Specialist, Post-War & Contemporary Art, Christie’s)

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BEERS London presents A Moment to Myself, a solo exhibition by Nigerian artist Deborah Segun in collaboration with Saatchi Gallery, which questions how the internal self reflects the natural world.

“I began listening to how I responded to nature,” she writes, “and used that to create harmony between environment, body, and a further understanding of myself.”

Consideration of ‘self’ in relation to nature has been an enduring theme, but it wasn’t until the German Romantic movement of the late 18th century, along with the invention of modern philosophy that these ideas gained traction. While we may innately know exposure to the natural world is beneficial, modern research is constantly proving its positive effects on our creative, physical, and empathetic selves.

For Segun, the natural and the bodily have coalesced. “Mother Earth” becomes anthropomorphized: a restful body suggests a curving hillock; a sharp limb refers to our difficult terrain; a peaceful colour scheme alludes to sensations we experience before bodies of water. The works present quietude, joy, and even melancholy, as Segun invites us for a moment of mindfulness and reflection.

Presented by BEERS gallery. 

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BEERS London presents Barndommens Drømme (Childhood Dreams) by Jack Kabangu in collaboration with Saatchi Gallery. Here the African/Danish artist explores the inaccuracy of memory and the opacity of dreams.

Kabangu’s work is naturally investigative of psychological states, which is countered by his gutsy, gestural, freeform approach to artmaking. With his instantly recognizable style and a recurrent face/visage motif, Kabangu’s work is meant to speak to inexpressible desires and primordial human emotions.

For millennia, artists and thinkers have explored similar themes. Herodotus wrote about dreams; the ancient Greeks believed dreams foretold the future; and the history of art is populated with centuries of religious paintings (be they interpreted literally or metaphorically); to the Surrealists who preoccupied themselves with the subconscious.

Kabangu is similarly keen to investigate this illusory world. His richly applied surfaces suggest his desire to “go back in” and re-evaluate psychological states that fall outside of language or representation. Through his deep hues and surprising colour schemes, as well as his technique, which adopts a rigorous and impasto approach, we can almost sense Kabangu’s desire to plunge back into a fantastical world to illuminate his waking practice.

Presented by BEERS gallery.