Photopolymer
Media Dimensions: 40 x 52 cm
Image Dimensions: 30 x 42 cm
Edition of 20
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Theadora Ballantyne-Way (1988) is an artist based in the UK, previously a VJ working in electronic club culture, alternative spaces which later informed her practice as an artist. Working in photomontage, print, video and painting B-Way is heavily influenced by the Surrealist movement and animism. She plays with scale creating new dystopias and meaning with everyday and symbolic objects.
Her recent work plays with the legend that is Coco de Mer, a rare palm seed native to the Seychelles. The seed’s evocative shape often likened to a woman’s hips and bottom and explored in Surrealists themes of mystery and transformation. Where reality bends and the extraordinary hides within the mundane.
For centuries, people believed that the Coco de Mer came from a mystical underwater tree, growing in the depths of the Indian Ocean. Since sailors often found the nuts floating on the waves or washed up on foreign shores without any knowledge of where they had come from it was widely assumed that they originated from a submerged paradise beneath the sea. According to legend, these hidden trees bore fruit in the abyss, their massive seeds only surfacing when they ripened. In this myth they rise and set with the moon and the sun. ‘Coco de Lune’ is also at the fair, see if you can spot it. B-Way's work has been widely exhibited in the UK, including the International Original Print Exhibition at Bankside Gallery, London, and the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London, on several occasions. She has also exhibited in Kyoto, Japan with Goldsmiths University in 2019 and won first prize at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Print Prize in 2022. Her work has been included in publications including Printmaking Today and is held in several notable collections including the V&A Museum, London. Theadora is also the director of Argento Editions, a fine art studio where she works with internationally renowned artists to realise their printmaking ambitions.
Photopolymer
Media Dimensions: 40 x 52 cm
Image Dimensions: 30 x 42 cm
Edition of 20
Split your payment over 10 months with OwnArt 0% APR. Your monthly payment for this artwork would be £58.50.
Theadora Ballantyne-Way (1988) is an artist based in the UK, previously a VJ working in electronic club culture, alternative spaces which later informed her practice as an artist. Working in photomontage, print, video and painting B-Way is heavily influenced by the Surrealist movement and animism. She plays with scale creating new dystopias and meaning with everyday and symbolic objects.
Her recent work plays with the legend that is Coco de Mer, a rare palm seed native to the Seychelles. The seed’s evocative shape often likened to a woman’s hips and bottom and explored in Surrealists themes of mystery and transformation. Where reality bends and the extraordinary hides within the mundane.
For centuries, people believed that the Coco de Mer came from a mystical underwater tree, growing in the depths of the Indian Ocean. Since sailors often found the nuts floating on the waves or washed up on foreign shores without any knowledge of where they had come from it was widely assumed that they originated from a submerged paradise beneath the sea. According to legend, these hidden trees bore fruit in the abyss, their massive seeds only surfacing when they ripened. In this myth they rise and set with the moon and the sun. ‘Coco de Lune’ is also at the fair, see if you can spot it. B-Way's work has been widely exhibited in the UK, including the International Original Print Exhibition at Bankside Gallery, London, and the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London, on several occasions. She has also exhibited in Kyoto, Japan with Goldsmiths University in 2019 and won first prize at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Print Prize in 2022. Her work has been included in publications including Printmaking Today and is held in several notable collections including the V&A Museum, London. Theadora is also the director of Argento Editions, a fine art studio where she works with internationally renowned artists to realise their printmaking ambitions.
