Djuro Selec

Durdica Selec, also known as Djuro [jUro:h], is a painter turned digital designer turned fine artist. Her work encapsulates the persistent techno utopian ambience of our contemporary existence, which she explores through painting, digital art, and embroidery.

Djuro combines the spontaneous nature of spray paint with a controlled application of masking techniques and brushstrokes, which she applies on canvas in anachronistic layers, achieving a visual interference evocative of a screen glitch. Her visual dialect mimics and lovingly mocks computer screens, borrowing from over a decade of graphic design work in the tech sector. Her art is influenced by a continuous quest for balance: work-life, screen-nature, a techie-luddite.

Hailing originally from Croatia, Djuro now divides her time between her life and art studio in South London, UK and her desert retreat in Andalusia, Spain. Upon receiving her BFA First Class Honours with the Art Academy London, she was awarded the Liberty Specialty Markets Art Award 2022/23. She exhibits in London and continues her painting studies with Turps Art School.

2023 - 2024 - Turps Art School Correspondence Course
2022 - 2023 - Turps Art School Correspondence Course
2022 - 2024 - Liberty Specialty Markets Art Award, mentoring program
2019 - 2022 - BA Fine Art, First Class Honours, Art Academy London

UPCOMING: Apr 2024 - Lick, group show, Safehouse Peckham, London

Nov 2023 - Painting Open, group show, No Format Gallery, London

Sept 2023 - Modern Life, duo exhibition, Deptford X Festival, London

Sept 2023 - Do Not Swallow, group show, Safehouse Peckham, London

June-July 2023 - The Other Art Fair, London

May 2023 - SFSA Open Studios, London

March-April 2023 - Mud, for you, group show, Fitzrovia Gallery, London

July 2022 - Graduate Showcase at the Art Academy London, Borough, London

April-May 2022 - Ambient Anxiety, duo exhibition, Curious Kudu, Peckham, London

Sep - Oct 2021 - peer group exhibition One Fine Day, Fazenda, Spitalfields, London

July 2020 - peer group exhibition Turning Point, online