LONDON ART FAIR ~ Platform Section, Stand P2

We are excited to take part in this year's edition of the London Art Fair with the work of Jana Emburey and Yelena Popova, find us in Stand P2 at the Platform Section.

Each year, the Platform Section at London Art Fair invites an exclusive selection of galleries to present work aligned to a single theme chosen by a guest curator. This year, the theme is Today for you, tomorrow for me, an invitation to live in harmony with Mother Earth and with each other, curated by Becca Pelly-Fry.

We are delighted to present a dialogue between the work of Jana Emburey and Yelena Popova, two artists whose practice is rooted in ecological and spiritual interests, hinting at an almost mystical bond with nature and a deep kinship for all lifeforms.

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For collecting enquiries please email us at Collecting@ioneandmann.com, for any other enquiries at info@ioneandmann.com

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ABOUT

Jana Emburey (b. 1979, Bratislava, Slovakia) is an artist living and working in the Scottish Highlands.

She is a graduate of the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Bratislava (1997) and of Leeds Metropolitan University (2012).

Emburey’s meditative micro/macrocosms explore the ideas of interconnectivity, oneness and universal natural dynamics. Using a rich visual vocabulary, from complex, intricate compositions to fluid soak-stain abstract topographies, she considers humanity’s place in the cosmos, time and space. She approaches the work mindfully, as an expression of a state of consciousness, with the experience of the process, alternating between single point focus and an expansive state of flow, inextricably linked with the outcome.

Following a solo presentation at Lyth Arts Centre in 2013, her work has been exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, the Royal Glasgow Institute, Inverness Museum & Art Gallery and in exhibitions across the UK and internationally. In 2016 she was elected a professional member of the Society of Scottish Artists. 

IONE & MANN recently presented Jana Emburey’s solo exhibition all things are full of gods. (London, 2024) [Read More]

Recent exhibitions include: Then and Now: 100 Years of Visual Arts Scotland, RSA, Edinburgh (2024); HERE at IONE & MANN (2023); Inaugural Exhibition Browns Gallery, Inverness (2022), Elemental (solo) & Gallery, Edinburgh (2022); Shared Perspectives, Inverness Museum & Art Gallery (2022), RSA Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh (2021), Silent Traces, IONE & MANN (2021).

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Yelena Popova (b. 1978, Urals, USSR) is an artist living and working in Nottingham.

She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in London (RCA, MA in Painting, 2009- 2011) and the Moscow Art Theatre School (MHAT, Set Design and Construction, 1995-2000).

She works across a range of media including painting, textiles, video and installation. Her works recall the graphics and the aesthetics of Russian Constructivism, Minimalism and Spiritual Abstraction, referenced in her paintings with the use of almost transparent geometric forms. Growing up in a secret Soviet nuclear settlement, Popova often turns her attention to nuclear history and heritage. Through reverberation of modernist aesthetics and the use of own-made paint from foraged natural materials, Popova questions the quest for continuous industrial development and the landscape of contemporary capitalism. 

IONE & MANN recently presented Yelena Popova’s solo exhibition Of Dust and Breath (London, 2024) [Read More]

Select solo exhibitions include: Made Ground, Cample Line (Scotland, 2022),  Showing Now, Touring Later, The Art House, Worcester University (2021), Landscapes of Power, Philipp von Rosen Galerie (Cologne, 2020), The Scholar Stones Project, Holden Gallery, MMU (Manchester 2020),  Her Name is Prometheus, L’etrangère, (London, 2018), Elements, Girton College, University of Cambridge, This Certifies That, Philip von Rosen Galerie (Cologne, 2017),  After Image, Nottingham Contemporary (2016).

Recent group exhibitions include: Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles for Hayward Touring (2024-2025), Matter as Actor, curated by Greg Hilty, Lisson Gallery (London, 2023), Slow Painting, curated by Martin Herbert for Hayward Touring (2019), Perpetual Uncertainty, curated by Ele Carpenter at Malmö Konstmuseum (Malmö, 2017), Future Light curated by Maria Lind for Vienna Biennale (Vienna, 2015).

Her work is included in Vitamin P3 (The 108 International Artists Revolutionizing Painting Today), published by Phaidon Press (2016) and Thames and Hudson’s 100 Painters of Tomorrow (2014).

Collections include: Arts Council Collection, Government Art Collection, The Women’s Art Collection, Nottingham Castle collection, RCA Collection, Saatchi Col­lec­tion, Zabludowicz Collection, and LWL Museum, Münster.

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