Supporting Young Female Curators - Next Up Collectors x Teaspoon Projects
Hello Next Up Collector Community!
We are excited to introduce you to London-based curator Gigi Surel and her new initiative Teaspoon Projects.
Teaspoon Projects is :a multidisciplinary cultural initiative debuting in London with the exhibition ‘A Thousand - Pointed Star, Inspired by Clarice Lispector’s ‘The Hour of the Star’, the project explores identity as an evolving tapestry shaped by experiences, relationships, and dreams.
Combining visual arts, literature, and curated events, Teaspoon Projects aims to deepen audience engagement with contemporary art.”
Offering a week of programming for those inclined, the project is a perfect place for a young collector to get involved in collecting and learning more about the way the art industry operates. Next Up Collectors will be hosting community members at events with Teaspoon Projects, so please join us as a member to gain more information about what that entails.
Featured emerging artists with Teaspoon Projects include the following:
Mariette Moor
“Moor is a London-based artist who graduated with an MFA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London (2022) and with a BFA at Ruskin School of Art (2022). Her interdisciplinary practice encompasses drawing, clay, and writing at its core, which serve as modes of storytelling that provoke the uncanny peripheries of horror and their relationship to boundaries, absence, and control. Moor envisions ‘world fracturing’ as a methodology to mix the mundane, fantastical, and paranoid into psychological scenes, questioning the nature of a given reality and sanity. In her practice, tenderness and violence coexist in speculative bodies and spaces that challenge the complexities of intimacy.”
Jacob Clayton
Clayton is a British artist and a co-founder of JAAM Publishing. “His work fosters an interplay of diverse influences within a mixed-media and assemblage practice, building enigmatic worlds Inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky’s reinterpretation of the Marseille Tarot, allegories of quantum mechanics in science fiction novels, and the conceptualisation of the artwork as a container, as outlined in Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘Carrier bag theory of fiction’.”
Ya Hsuan Hsiao
“Hsiao is a Taiwan-based artist holding an MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London (2024). She frequently employs various media, including text, installation, still and moving images, and performance, to explore folklore, religion, beliefs, and East Asian culture. In particular, she investigates how individuals perceive their own or others’ religions and how they envision the afterlife. The artist regards folklore and local beliefs as a bridge between reality and fiction, making her own narrative system and world-building by intertwining these historical narratives. Currently, she is seeking to integrate Eastern folklore with Western vocabulary and rethink the local legends of her hometown in Taiwan through the lens of diverse cultures.”
Eva Merendes
“Merendes is a Greek, London-based visual artist, art tutor and art workshop facilitator with a background in psychology and art psychotherapy. She works in a variety of mediums with a sweet spot for watercolours and the qualities this medium offers. She primarily creates works on paper and wood panels and also makes sculpture installations.”
Nina Gonzalez-Park
Gonzalez-Park is an artist born in Tokyo and currently based in London. In 2015, she graduated with a BA in Neuroscience from Boston University, and between 2021 and 2023, she pursued an MA in Art and Science at Central Saint Martins.
”Nina’s recent work fluctuates between welded metal forms, textile-based oil paintings, and food interactions. Having grown up across continents, she seeks to connect through basic human instincts. Her transfiguration of materials in distinct contexts creates a sense of fascination, questioning the perceptions shaped by society’s mirror.”
