Una d'Aragona
CONTEMPORARY PAINTER
“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