Artsted Catalogue 2022
The “99 Future Blue-Chip artists” is a project that arose from the urgent need within the contemporary art market to find ways to support a new generation of up-and-coming artists, while bringing their vision to a wider audience of collectors and art lovers. For its first-ever edition, “99 Future Blue-Chip Artists” took the form of a printed and curated hardcover edition, featuring artists from all around the globe working across a plethora of media, addressing unique and challenging concepts.
The “99 Future Blue-Chip artists” is a project that arose from the urgent need within the contemporary art market to find ways to support a new generation of up-and-coming artists, while bringing their vision to a wider audience of collectors and art lovers. For its first-ever edition, “99 Future Blue-Chip Artists” took the form of a printed and curated hardcover edition, featuring artists from all around the globe working across a plethora of media, addressing unique and challenging concepts.
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HABIB HAJALLIE
Habib Hajallie (b.1995) is an elected member of The
Royal Society of British Artists. He looks to empower
often marginalised minorities through the exploration
of identity within his ballpoint pen portraiture. Confronting
socio-political issues within his drawings acts as
a catalyst for a discourse regarding the perception of
various demographics as being of lesser humanistic
value. Specifically, with the disenfranchised often being
undermined by mainstream media; somewhat paradoxically
reflecting an archaic hierarchy of status, similar
to colonial ideologies.
Though born in Southeast London, Hajallie's works are
Informed by his Sierra Leonean and Lebanese heritage.
He is conscious of representing figures that have historically
been conspicuously omitted from traditional
British portraiture. Calling upon anecdotal references
to portray scenes that are occasionally quasi-surrealist
representations, the drawings look to confront lingering
ethnocentrisms that are still embedded within modern
western society.
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