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New Animals Co-Founder
Exhibited with New Animals: 18-10-24 | 13-7-24 | 13-4-24
Hailing from Longsight, Manchester, jaymus is an up and comer. An artist who’s work reflects his reality, his interest in all things urban and what it is to be working class.
Heavily influenced by the neo expressionism movement, jaymus’ style is raw and manic, using acrylic and oil pastel he paints freely channeling his, at times, unrelenting chaotic thoughts. Much of his art is influenced by the free party/ rave culture of Manchester. Often psychedelic in nature, his work draws from many of the city’s subcultures.
A Manchester lad through and through, Jaymus is a product of his estate, his city and his social scene. His wealth of interests and influences have birthed some truly unique pieces.
FROM ARTST @from.artst
New Animals Co-Founder
Exhibited with New Animals: 18-10-24 | 13-7-24 | 13-4-24
Elise is the creative force behind From Artst, originally born in Brisbane, Australia and currently residing in Manchester, UK. The name From Artst was playfully crafted, as a derivative of her last name when introducing her art as ‘From Art’.
Her love for creating began early and lead her to start a fine-art undergraduate degree at the Queensland College of Art. Unfortunately this didn’t align with her creative values and resulted in a burnout that diminished her passion for painting for many years. A decade later, her artistic journey has taken a new turn. She is now rediscovering a love for colourful exploration and creating works that are rich with emotion.
Art is a lens through which she sees the world anew, a tool for navigating life’s complexities. She invites viewers to join her in this immersive experience where colours, emotions and storytelling intertwine. Inspired by the beauty of nature and the people around her, she uses art as a way of expressing thoughts and emotions, especially those which sometimes lie under the surface.
Exhibited with New Animals: 18-10-24 | 13-7-24 | 13-4-24
I think the moment Basquiat and Warhol tapped into together in New York in the 80s is what’s happening now on Manchester’s city development timeline. Everyone’s so scared of references and stressed about AI but it’s just tool that will weed out the art that has soul because it has intent and meaning and is saying something like JM and AW vs. art that looks nice but is just decorative and meaningless. I’m not afraid of nodding to the artists that affected my style the same way basquiat did because it’s about having a dialogue with eachother and responding to the work.
Exhibited with New Animals: 18-10-24 | 13-4-24
Born and raised in Hulme, Aisha is a multidisciplinary artist, exploring illustration, textiles and photography.
She largely focuses on experimentation and the process rather than the finished product. Using dark room/analogue techniques Aisha distorts and manipulates images, through drawing highly detailed and intricate illustrations she induces a flow state when working.
She draws inspiration from comics, manga, movement, the human form and her experiences.
Exhibited with New Animals: 18-10-24 | 13-7-24
TLHeaton_art, is an abstract-expressive portrait artist and electronic music producer from Salford. After years of striving for perfection through photo realism, he rebelled against his own rigid standards to explore a more ethereal, distorted and atmospheric style. His portraits, deeply influenced by Francis Bacon, Edvard Munch, HR Giger, and @mad.charcoal, invite both artist and viewer to embrace introspection, vulnerability, and imperfection.
Through a blend of expressive mark-making and intricate realism, Tom’s work reflects the complexities of human nature - its fragility, its raw emotion, and its beauty in imperfection. In a world that often glorifies the ideal image, his portraits stand as a reminder to celebrate the unpolished, flawed aspects of ourselves.
Exhibited with New Animals: 18-10-24 | 13-7-24
Courtney is a spiritual artist with a love for the macabre. Taking inspiration from Tim Burton, H R Giger, and Mother Nature herself, she creates detailed drawings and paintings through her journey of mental health, healing, and self-discovery. Prints, bookmarks, and canvas paintings will be available. Make sure to say hello.
Exhibited with New Animals: 18-10-24 | 13-7-24 | 13-4-24
RasNTR AKA Ruom is a Manchester born 'Urban' artist.
Influenced by graffiti, music, and the complexities of existing as a human from digital pixels to smudged charcoal, ANYTHING can become his canvas. All jokes aside, his art speaks to those who still want to feel something.
Exhibited with New Animals: 18-10-24
SPUNK ROCK is an artist from south London living in Manchester and massively enabled and nurtured by its creative scene.
Her MO is erotic art with a heart. Softcore work that is at once naive, funny, tender, colourful, and unusual.
Primarily working in watercolour or digitally, her influences include anime (particularly boy's love manga), shakespeare, musicals, britpop, and her own body. Past shows include exhibiting with West Art Collective and Limp Xhibit.
Exhibited with New Animals: 18-10-24
Krista Karpanuka is a Latvian/Russian self-taught mixed media artist whose work spans painting, digital art, and 3D creations with clay and plaster.
Known for her eclectic approach, Krista doesn’t confine herself to a single theme, drawing inspiration from a wide range of subjects and personal experiences. Her art explores social issues, beauty, mental health, technology, and spirituality, reflecting the diverse layers of modern life.
Constantly evolving, Krista’s work invites viewers into a world where different ideas and emotions intersect, offering a deeply personal yet universally resonant perspective.
Exhibited with New Animals: 18-10-24
Joshua Wright is an aspiring illustrator, animator, and 2D artist from Manchester who has had a passion for art since his youth!
He feels inspired by whatever takes his interest, taking a multifaceted approach from gothic horror, experimental psychedelia to animated shorts, and pin-up art. He's often lost amongst the paint brushes, ink pens, and graphic markers stemming from various artistic influences such as Ralph Steadman Junji Ito, Joanna Quinn, Jamie Hewlett and Lizzy Hobbs.
Graduating with a Masters in animation at MMU, he strives for imperfection, joy in loose drawing, and marking making to express raw emotion.
Exhibited with New Animals: 18-10-24
Decay Faerie - a painter from Oxfordshire that depicts the resilience and resourcefulness of nature.
She focuses on inviting viewers into a dreamlike world where imagination and reality intertwine. She weaves themes of fairies and childhood dreams through vibrant colors and fluid forms and aims to evoke a sense of wonder and nostalgia, celebrating the ethereal magic of the natural world in addition she shows natures powerful interconnected role with death and natures alluring decay through her practice.
Although she focuses highly on oil paint she likes to fuse other materials like clay, glitter, animal bones and beads into her art.
Exhibited with New Animals: 18-10-24
Lawlight maledictus is a masked mental health artist based in the North West of England, their work is centralised on the reality of mental health and disorders, their inspirations are Francis Bacon, Junji Ito, Joel Peter Witkins, H.R Giger.
Their only ambition and only goal is to show the reality of mental health. They want people to know they are not alone. They want to contribute more practically, more directly, more psychologically. They want to provide a wider understanding of mental health and raise awareness for charities.
They don't mean to capture the world. They want to change it.
Exhibited with New Animals: 13-7-24 | 13-4-24
Manchester artist Liffia is a digital illustrator and all-round creative. Over the years, Liffia has developed a unique and recognisable style, creating and sharing art in various forms from dope sticker packs and colouring books to large prints and clothing pieces, as well as brand campaigns and cover art for musicians.
With a love for graffiti and street art, Liffia’s collection at the New Animals collective exhibition will combine photography of familiar local spots with her striking characters, creating a new and immersive universe. Other influences include street fashion and culture, nice trainers, and a passion for ending Tory rule.
Exhibited with New Animals: 13-4-24
Characterised by her big, brash and irreverent pieces, Manchester based Kim Thackeray (aka Kimbo’s Vice) is a multi-disciplinary artist with more than one string to her bow.
From sculpture, to set building, to signwriting, she has left no stone unturned when experimenting with different materials and processes. Bolstered by her experience in the field of set design for TV and film productions, her work is bold and in your face. Expect it to be loud, rude, and completely unnecessary.
Exhibited with New Animals: 13-4-24
Poet. Painter. Nightmare - Self taught T is the multidisciplinary artist dedicated to stripping pain from its powers, be that with words that rhyme or paint strokes from the depths of her belly.
Inspired by the artists around her, the journeys they continue to travel and the personal stories that make us human, T finds her drive in the many faces she meets along the way, but wants to sit somewhere between Tom Waits and Kae Tempest, between Basquiat and the child that started drawing before they ever had the thought that they weren’t good enough. She uses the materials available!
T is new to Manchester, but has performed on stages from London to Edinburgh to Weymouth and exhibited in MCR. 2024 sees T releasing her first EP Fuck Poets through Jade Lantern Records, and also the activation of her new painting workshop ‘BAD ART’ on the 7th May.
Exhibited with New Animals: 13-7-24 | 13-4-24
Saffron Brodhia, born and bred in Birmingham but now happily based in Manchester! With a background in Art and Geography, she always takes her time to notice her environment and the people within it.
Encouraged by her Mum and Nana, she takes inspiration from the world around her, just as they taught her. Her work is inspired by people, colour and the beauty in the ‘ordinary’. Primarily working with oil paint, she favours the media’s ability to create bold, eye-catching pieces, typically depicting faces, along with other daily life elements.
Recently she has been organising and leading art workshops across Manchester, events such as “Sip and Paint” and tutorial workshops. She believes in encouraging those without an ‘art background’, and those who believe they “can’t” paint or draw to embrace their emotions and paint how they feel, without the pressure of being perfect. She believes that confidence is key and your art makes you, not the other way around.
Exhibited with New Animals: 13-4-24
Zoe is a self-taught watercolour artist based in Manchester. She specialises in detailed original watercolour paintings across a breadth of subjects.
She enjoys creating lifelike pet and human portraits, capturing the personality of the subject in front of her. She loves hiking and exploring with her portable watercolour set, finding inspiration from the beautiful world around us for her landscapes and urban pieces.
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