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Totem I.VIII Painting

Aphra Shemza

United Kingdom

Painting, Perspex on Wood

Size: 9.8 W x 31.5 H x 2 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

The Totem series uses traditional sculpting techniques, organic materials and technology, creating a balance between these conflicting entities. In using the word Totem, the artist evokes a spiritual reference fusing the idea of a natural material with technology and creating these emblems for our times. They serve to highlight our connection to one another, technology and the digital world we live in, looking towards the future and what the possibilities of this hybrid nature could be. The Totem series is highly versatile looking stunning in both the light and dark. Edition of 6. Please allow 2-4 weeks for completion of order. Totems travel in a crate which is included in the sale price of the work. The piece uses electricity and is supplied with a standard UK power lead. This can be adjusted for worldwide countries on request.

DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Painting:

Perspex on Wood

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

9.8 W x 31.5 H x 2 D in

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Aphra Shemza is a UK-based multimedia artist. She is the granddaughter of the well-known abstract painter Anwar Jalal Shemza. Inspired by her grandfather, her work explores Modernism, her Islamic cultural heritage, sustainable practice and creating art for all. As an artist and activist, she finds ambitious ways to fuse methodologies from the past with new innovations in technology to imagine what the role of art could be in the future. Shemza combines abstraction with traditional sculpting techniques and technology to create her work. As a sculptor her main medium is light, which she manipulates to create works that change over time. Handmade and bespoke interactive circuits are embedded within the pieces and this creates work which responds to the viewer or the space around it. Just as abstraction was said to be a ‘universal language for the masses’, Shemza has created a new visual language for a contemporary audience - one that explores the impact and legacy of technology on our world. Shemza works in series. Each series has a different thematic exploration and a different aesthetic quality. From migration to climate change, Shemza explores many themes and ideas within her work and advocates for a sustainable practice. She uses her art-making as a tool to explore key concepts which are central to her individual journey through life. Shemza has created both public and private commissions: Synphonica 2.0 for the Canary Wharf Group, Heart Beats of Cristal for Champagne Louis Roederer, Seconds Pass for Save the Children, GlaxoSmithKline and Anagram and Post-Truth and Beauty commissioned by Morley College. She exhibits regularly with recent highlights including V&A Digital Design Weekend, Winter Lights Festival, The Other Art Fair and Xi’an Maker Faire with the British Council. She has also participated in public speaking events, notably at Tate Britain, the British Library and The Courtauld Institute. In 2016 she contributed an article to Tate Etc magazine about the life and work of her grandfather and has received coverage in the Times, Telegraph, London Live, Timeout, GQ and FAD Magazine. In 2020 she was awarded a Project Grant by Arts Council England for shemza.digital. A collaboration with the artist Stuart Batchelor centered around the work of her grandfather Anwar Jalal Shemza. In 2019 she was awarded the Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice Grant for her project Solutions for a Sustainable Art Practice.

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Showed at the The Other Art Fair

Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in London, London, London

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