An Art on a Postcard Mini Auction Curated by India Rose James

About 

Oriele Steiner’s work explores a wide array of painting techniques and processes, using colour and light as the dominant means of experimentation. She is interested in a palette’s ability to evoke emotion, whether through its direct, singular use or via juxtaposition and dissonance. Her paintings are deliberately layered with conflicting emotions - she wishes to place whimsical moments on stage for the world to see, like single frames taken from a comic strip; whilst her compositions imply they exist as part of a larger story, the task us with considering a particular moment. The compositions are derived from Steiner’s very ‘British’ sense of humour - simultaneously comical and dark; surreal yet totally, relatedly human. Fears and taboos leap out of the work, imagery and motifs from personal moments transform themselves in the viewer’s mind, Oriele asking us to judge whether the privacy of these moments is intimate or gross - perhaps a more traditional British comedian would quip “what’s the difference?”. 

Education 

Central Saint Martins university foundation Diploma, London 2011-2012 
University of Brighton BA (hons) Fine Art: Painting 2012-2015 
Turps Banana Correspondence Course 2021-2022 
Slade School of Art MFA. Date TBC 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

2022 (selected) 
'Venomous' Enfant Terrible, D Contemporary. Group show. London. Jan 
‘I’ll be your mirror’ Boisdale of Bishopsgate. Group Show. London. Feb 
 
2021 (selected) 
A Future Cast in our image' Grove Collective. Group show. Square Gallery. London Feb. 
'Safe as milk'. Arusha gallery Group show, Edinburgh. March. 
'The Top 100'. The Auction Collective. Group Show. June. 
'Safe as Milk'. Arusha Gallery. Group show. Soho, London. July. 
'Art on a Postcard'. Group show. London. July. 
'NOW' Huxley-Parlour. Online show. July. 
'Amongst The Chaos'. Wondering People. group show. London. July. 
‘Safe As Milk’. Group Show. London. July 
'50 x £50'. The Auction Collective. Nov 
 
Residencies and Awards: 
Cawdor Castle residency. Scotland. September 2014 
Los Artistas Del Cortijo residency. Spain, Granada. April-June 2017. 
Bloomberg New Contemporaries and Bluecoat Studio bursary at The Royal Standard, Liverpool. Sept 2017-sept 2018 
Prah Residency, Margate. March 2021 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork   

Exploring sense and sensuality in the multiplicity of female form, Oriele Steiner’s pieces use humour and the grotesque to create unsettling images of desire. In a world where landscapes and bodies repeat one another, nature and the self-merge into fluid concepts. The painting process is at once an act of creation, and a chance for Steiner to spend time with her own form, examining those parts of herself that are so often covered over.  
Drawing on folk traditions of Slavic goddesses, as well as pop-cultural moments, Steiner’s work seeks archetypes and anachronisms. Reclaiming the grotesque forms Steiner paints unreal images of alternative selves that embrace, celebrate, and reclaim their bodies, and demand satisfaction.  

Please do not bid on artwork in our Art on a Postcard auctions if you intend on selling the artwork after you have purchased it. This auction has been organised for charity and all artworks have been generously donated by the artists to raise money for the Hepatitis C Trust. When the work produced for the charity is sold on the secondary market it damages our relationship with the artist and prevents us from fundraising.