Young artists to watch at START Art Fair
A new wave of emerging young artists are tackling weighty issues from gender politics to urbanisation in their work.
START Art Fair, housed in Chelsea's prestigious Saatchi Gallery, spotlights the fresh faces on the cutting-edge of art. Click through our gallery to see the young artists to watch at this year's edition
Her 'masterful use of lighting techniques creates a stage in which she moulds a humanity of her own sensibility: naked and defenceless. The audience encounters a dark world, ominous, set within a cinematic decor; a piquant vision of unsettling scenes,' or so says her bio on her website.
Although Boot started out as a painter, she has since become renowned for her highly stylised photography depicting erotic women in decadent, lavish costumes – we're talking ruffs and beaded masks galore – in unexpected places.
Despite their painted vermillion lips, steadfast gazes, and elaborate coiffures, Boot's muses are surprisingly vulnerable; they scrutinise and seduce simultaneously, drawing you into the frame.