Meet our New Resident Daniel Arteaga

Daniel Arteaga (b. 1993) is a Colombian artist who is currently working and living in London. His desire to pursue art encourages him to study it in Tenerife (Spain), where he graduated from the University of La Laguna in Fine Arts. He is the proud recipient of the Basil Alkazzi Scholarship, which has enabled him to achieve a Master of Painting at the Royal College of Art. He has been shortlisted for the Jaguar Prize and is participating in shows around London and Spain.

Arteaga's multifaceted work encompasses a wide range of artistic disciplines, such as painting, screen printing, and installation. His work revolves around the ontology of painting, where the different tools he incorporates in his practice help him to develop a unique language, oriented towards abstraction in Landscape and self.

'The privilege of painting lies in the power to say what we all feel and participate in. This strange sensation of being inside and outside of something. In this in-between space, catalysed by the chance nature of my context, my creative process begins.

I understand painting as a participatory act, where the correspondence of memory and materials forms the guidelines of the next decision. Furthermore, each image should tell a story characterised by the passage of time and the erosion of materials, creating the sensation of embarking on a physical trace through the work. Where the light takes the form of a blow of paint, shaping forms of everyday objects and feeding the entrance point of a journey.

Earlier images weave into a network of reciprocity with the latest one. This shifting sensation of forms provides evidence of having seen through the truth of the self resting in the landscape. The work becomes a vessel that seeks emancipation and self-recognition in the universe. I paint to take a stand in the world.'