Una d'Aragona

CONTEMPORARY PAINTER

Una d'Aragona
Beltane Boogie by Una Daragona

“My work strives to find a place for the whole experience of human and nature, the monstrous and the beautiful, displaying the two nakedly intertwined”.

Education 

Foundation in Art and Design, Morley College London 2002

BA Hons Fine Art (First), UC Falmouth, Cornwall 2009

2013  MA Fine Art, Bathspa University 2014

2014/15 2016/17 Turps Art School – Mentored Painting Course

Awards

2010 National Open Art Competition South West Regional Prize Writing

a-n Magazine Review of Beating Time : Review of ‘Beating Time’ in Create Magazine 


Exhibitions

2024 Selected for ‘Fierce Scandal’ Lido Stores Margate

2023 Selected by Freshsaladart  ‘Crawlspace’ The Crypt London

May 2022   ‘Beautiful Monsters’ Solo Exhibition at Jupiter Gallery, Newlyn

2022   ‘Marking Time’ noformat Gallery Deptford, four artists exhibiting and looking at links between poetry and painting 

2022   Selected Artist – ‘Mind, be here, present / be here now’ Kingshill House, Dursley Gloucs

2022   Selected Artist – ‘Colour’, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield

2022   Selected artist – Cultivate Presents ‘Deflect’ online exhbition

2021   Selected artist ‘Nutopia’ Jupiter Gallery, Newlyn Cornwall

2021   Selected artist, Newlyn Society of Artists, curated by Lisa Wright RA

2021   Shortlisted artist, Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition

2021.  ‘Infinity’ – selected artist, curated by The Holy Art

2020   Selected artist, Wells Art Contemporary Open

2020   Invited Guest Artist – ‘Depiction’ Heseltine Gallery, Truro

2020   Beating Time – ARB Gallery, Cambridge. 

2019   Selected Artist ‘ Imagine’, Open Call Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth

2019   ‘Elemental’ Joint exhibitor at Tremenheere Gallery, Penzance

2019   ‘Ex Libris’ Selected Artist, Newlyn Society of Artists, 

2018   Discovery: Contemporary Art from England, Agora Gallery, New York

2018  Selected works at Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford

2018  Selected Artist, Wells Art Contemporary Open, 

2018  Selected Artist, Bath Open Contemporary Art, 

2017   Selected Artist, Newlyn Society of Artists, ‘Critics Choice’ Curated by Nicholas Usherwood, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens Art Gallery, Penzance 

2017   Selected Artist, NSA  ‘Borders’ exhibition, Tremenheere

2017   Selected Artist, Pay and Display, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol 

2016   Selected Artist, The Dark Arts – Candid Arts Trust, Islington London

2016   ‘Correspond’  Exhibition of Turps Painters at Artspace Halifax

            ‘Correspond’ Turps Painters at Rye Creative Centre

            ‘Correspond’ IR11 Gallery Edinburgh                                                                                                  

2015   ‘All wrapped Up’ Newlyn Society of Artists, Salthouse Gallery St Ives

2015   ‘Are we almost at a place’,  44ad Gallery, Bath – Solo Show 

2015   NSA 293, Newlyn Society of Artists, Penwith Gallery, St Ives

2014   Selected Artist, Wells Art Contemporary Open

2012   Selected Artist, Zeitgist Arts Open, London 

2012   Selected Artist, National Open Art Competition London

2011   Selected Artist, National Open Arts Competition

2010   Selected Artist and Winner Amiri Prize, National Open Art Competition Chichester