Art Exhibition: UK's Future Greats

SaLon Gallery launches its annual Spring show featuring its selection of the UK’s most talented recent graduate artists from art schools such as Royal Academy of Arts, Goldsmiths, Glasgow School of Art and The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. The exhibition provides an opportunity to view a new generation of artists who are embarking upon their professional careers.

The SaLon Gallery team has spent close to a year developing the exhibition in order to discover art graduates who are challenging, thought-provoking and have both the artistic integrity and creative and intellectual stature to become one of the UK’s ‘Future Greats’. The artists featured include Sarah Maple, Jacky Tsai and Alan Stanners. Maple, who recently won 4 New Sensations launched by Channel 4 and the Saatchi Gallery, has been labelled ‘the heir to Tracey Emin’s throne’ by the Independent on Sunday. Tsai has collaborated with Alexander McQueen on the pattern design for his Spring/Summer 2008 menswear collection and created a number of artworks which were featured in McQueen’s fashion show in Italy. Alan Stanners graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2007 and has already had sold-out shows at both Art Brussels and Art Rotterdam.
The show will then be taken to White Box in New York from 5 to 29 June 2008, a gallery run and managed by the established curator Juan Puentes, in order to present to New York a vanguard of seminal, breakthrough artists from the UK and create a buzz around the progressive art scene which is emerging.

Participating artists:
Adam Daniels, Alan Stanners, Anna Ilsley, Ben Merris, Ben Young, Dahlia Ghassan, Dawn Woolley, Eleanor Lyndsay-
Fynn, Emmet Kierans, Helen Weeks, Jack Gibbon, Jacky Tsai, James Allen, Julia Svetlova, Katka Worley, Miyeon
Yoon, Sam Branton, Sarah Gwyer, Sarah Maple, Shona Davies