IN CELEBRATION OF BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS - DEGREEART PRESENTS VICTORIA HORKAN

 DEGREEART PRESENTS - VICTORIA HORKAN

IN CELEBRATION OF SELFRIDGE'S BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS 

 

   

 

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The work of Victoria Horkan is at once familiar and fiercely contemporary. Abstract shapes and brooding colours blend to create works which depict the emotion and the substance of the modern world. Building, but never relying, on the works of Miro, Pollock and Rothko she creates the kind of art that you could live alongside. Her pieces breath with a light and life missing from so many of her contemporaries ,with the most complex feelings depicted through the smallest details.

 

"It is hard top say where inspiration comes from. It is everywhere. Often you can’t help but feel inspired. It comes from general things around you. I like things that are clearly modern, especially structures, buildings and graphic design. I really like very clean cut and contemporary work. Everything inspires me but what I try to do is concentrate on one piece, lock it into my brain and take it back to the office and kind of develop it. It is very easy to be inspired by a lot of objects but for me I think it is more of an emotive thing. It is an emotional process. Not so much looking at a landscape or anything in particular but more about how you feel." - Horkan

 

Following the tremendous success of 2011's collaboration with emerging designers SELFRIDGES presents the follow up of BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS. The iconic department store will feature a total of fifteen UK-based talent from the worlds of fashion, art and design, and food. From January 6th until the end of February the Oxford Street and Duke Street windows of the store will be taken over by these truly talented group as they each design windows themselves. 

 

   

 

Check out a few of the windows that are on display now:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photographs by Style Bubble 

 

 

DegreeArt in admiration of Selfridges and BYT would like showcase five of our most emerging talent!

Starting Monday (January 9th 2012) check back here as we introduce you to some of our most talented artists who are undoubtely Bright and Young as well!