Alicia Dubnyckyj

In the work of Alicia Dubnyckyj, the viewer is compelled to step back not to appreciate the city in its historical radiance but to encounter the modern city in its speed, its immensity and its futurity. Forcing our eyes to retreat through the highly reflective glossy surfaces of her work, Dubnyckyj presents us with a city as an unnavigable wave of abstracted shapes and lights, a torrent of moments and a flood of sensory stimuli.

Alicia Dubnyckyj was one of the first graduates to be selected by Sarah Myerscough Fine Art from the inaugural annual visit to Art College degree shows and then successfully promoted on the International art scene. The innovative process of using gloss paint to create hand painted highly complex patterned cityscape images was introduced by the artist in her final degree show to great acclaim and to such an extent that she turned down a place to the Royal College of Art to allow her to travel and exhibit extensively through America, Canada, Asia and Europe and build a portfolio of images.

The artist was shortlisted and a prize winner in the 2010 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize. She was also shortlisted for the prestigious Celeste Art Prize in 2006, and received the George Jackson Travel Award 2001 and the Associated Architects Purchase Award in the same year. She has also been extensively reviewed in the British Press including the Independent's 'Top 5 Artists to invest', 'Who to invest in Art' in Esquire Magazine, Fused Magazine, the cover feature of City Living, and has been included in the NY Arts Magazine. Throughout Dubnyckyj's career, her paintings have also featured in a number of television programmes, including Channel 4's Ideas Factory. Collectors include Nicky Wire (of the Manic Street Preachers), George Boetang (footballer), Paul Bradley (actor) and the Princess of Kuwait, who flew the artist to Kuwait to produce large scale commissioned paintings of the City for their private collection.