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ORIELE STEINER
Oriele Steiner (b. 1993, London, England) gained a BA Honours in Fine Art: Painting at Brighton University in 2015. The painter was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2016 and then went on to receive a bursary by New Contemporaries with Liverpool based Artist led Studio’s The Royal Standard the following year.
Oriele Steiner explores a wide array of painting techniques and processes, using colour and light as the dominant means of her experimentation. She is interested in a palette’s ability to evoke emotion, whether through direct, singular use or via juxtaposition and dissonance. Her compositions portray vivid dreamscapes, and the figures within convey a sense of eeriness. The figures themselves often make their way into her direct environment via found photography, imagination and drawings.
Organic forms taken from this imagery transform themselves into a range of motifs, which dominate her work. These motifs are her way of building up a relationship with the imagery, and she continually builds upon this visual alphabet through uninhibited, free-associative drawing and painting. This results in a childlike quality that represents immediate, impulsive thoughts.
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Taking inspiration from outsider art, Oriele describes her style as “naive” and coming directly from her imagination, with an added innocence. Referencing day-to-day life and found imagery to give her work some grounding in reality, Oriele is constantly looking at the world around her and thinking of ways to translate it to paper or canvas. “The most important thing for me is the enjoyment and pleasure I get from drawing and painting and hope that people can sense that when they see my work,” she says.
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“I make decisions on colour based on the ‘ground’ I use. For example, if I chose a blue piece of paper or painted a blue layer first on a canvas, the colour I use next will be one that complements blue – from there I just let my knowledge of colour and instinct take control"
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Oriele Steiner: Solo show
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