Karina Vettorel

Brazilian born artist Karina Vettorel has been working and exhibiting in London for the past five years. Vettorel completed her BA Hons degree in Fine Art at University of East London.

Vettorel’s work consists of photography, drawing, printmaking and painting. In her most recent series, she has been using photography as a source to inform her paintings. The space between the photograph and what she recreates afford her the flexibility she seeks and she is developing a distinct and imaginative style.

Vettorel captures the beauty of old, devalued or discarded objects and places of no apparent significance. Interested in realism, the actual surface of objects, she tries to simulate the look of actual materials, to excite a sense of touch. Applying the paint with thick brushstrokes, washes and palette knives, she imbues the neglected and prosaic with fresh life and beauty.

In her group of paintings called ‘Abandoned, Something from Nothing’, she emphasises her interest the abject. A simple old door, rusty, decaying objects, lonely roads and highways… These are based on places seen and remembered from her travels.
The wear and tear suffered and endured by the inanimate and the marks of time that linger: A letterbox was fou...

2009-2014 BA Fine Arts (Awarded First Class Honours), University of East London
2010 Combined Photography 1st year.
2009 Oil Painting Level 2 – RAC Rosetta Art Centre City & Guilds certificate.


ACHIEVEMENTS

2014 Winner of Second Floor Studio Prize Award
2013 Short listed for the Mark Hix Art Student Award
2012 Short listed as the 300 remaining artists advanced to the next round of the Saatchi Online Showdown

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2014
Graduates Show - 29th May - AVA Gallery, University of East London, Docklands, E16 2RD London
Uel Art Auction - 11th April - Cock 'n' Bull Gallery, 32 Rivington Street, EC2A 3LX London
Seafaring - 27th March - Open Arts Cafe, 34 Upper Berkeley Street, W1H 5AU London

2013
Route 66 Exhibition - 13st December - 20st December Core @ Nolias Gallery, 60 Great Suffolk Street, SE1 0BL London
Hix Award - 31st July - 31st August Cock ‘n’ Bull Gallery, 32 Rivington St, Shoreditch, EC2A 3LX London
The View from here - 18th-23rd April - Espacio Gallery, 159, Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 7DG

2012
Mother exhibition - 5th - 7th December - InSpire - The Crypt at St Peter’s, Liverpool Grove, London, SE17 2HH
Fine Art Print Show – 06th – 31st August - Gallery Café, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PL
Gallery Café Art Exhibition - 2nd of June – 2nd of August - Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PL
Reverb Exhibition - 22nd -24th of March - Mile End Pavilion, Mile End, London, E3 4QY
Rich Mix Surface + Presence: an exhibition of new work in two parts – 3rd - 18th of February – The Hub, Canning Town, London, E16 4PZ

2011
Reflections Exhibition – 18th – 21st of November - Mile End Pavilion, Mile End...