Rent art from the Rise Art Shortlisted Artists

Natasha's current practice focuses on landscape and our relation to it through experience and memory. It explores ideas of place and placelessness, belonging and transition. She graduated from university in 2011 with a BA in Photography and History.

London Based artist Tessa Mo's work explores the notion of vertical transport. Her paintings are based on themes of weightlessness, awareness of existence and the idea of transcendence. The visual ambiguity of her work exists in the polarization between the abstract and the real, where doorways, openings and holes signify an entrance into another, altered reality. Tessa graduated from London's Wimbledon College of Art in 2011. A winner of the Clyde & Community Award, Tessa's work has been featured in Solo and Group Shows across the UK.

Andrew Crane is a UK based artist living in Northumberland. In his work, Andrew uses raw materials found in his studios as the starting point for creating paintings that invite the viewer into immediate perceptual reality. cement, PVC, black varnish, oil and canvas are used to create his abstracts. A digital illustrator by training, Andrew also will often reference letterforms and numbers in his work. These will often appear as visual abstract links to his works and motivation. Andrew's work has been exhibited across the UK in solo and group shows.

Elisabeth Bond's work spans 2D forms including linocuts, woodcuts and collage. The artist's practice follows a pattern very similar to nature. Structures are established, flourish and then over time begin to break down. Bond replicates this throughout all of her work with the resulting output focused on various stages of decline and regeneration.

Elisabeth Bond graduated with a Masters in Fine Art from The University of East London in 2009. Her work has been shown across the UK and USA, most recently at the London Art Fair. In the past Elisabeth Bond wrote plays for the theatre, TV and Radio.

The common thread underlying Sophia L. Burns' recent work is an original abstract approach to subject painting that involves overlapping continuous-line drawings on abstract backgrounds, using oil glazing techniques. The atmospheric paintings that result from the process show bodies, architecture and landscapes merged with the colourful and dynamic space of the canvas. Sophia's main objective has been to maintain the freshness and purity of her abstraction with the looseness and sharpness of her continuous-line drawings to create dream-like visions of shapes in space. Sophia has pursued her practice as a painter with a focus on space and abstraction and maintained a daily drawing practice for which she was commissioned on several collaborative projects creating illustrations and visual diaries for authors.

Much of my work operates something akin to a reconstruction or rather a reinterpretation of an existing narrative that already sits in the collective memory, drawn from somewhere in time and yet existing outside temporal space. Moreover, by working through archetypal and allegorical forms, characters emerge that challenge fixed ideas about trust, faith and the unknown. I work on solo projects and collaboratively with artist Emma Somerset Davis in our Bermondsey studio. I have a cross practice approach, with painting taking salience most recently.

Artist Jackie Clark's work investigates the notion of impermanence within the landscape of the everyday. The artists records journey's on film and images. She then translates these images into paintings that offer fragmented, impressionistic glimpses of a constantly changing environment. Jackie's personal motivation comes from the desire to narrate city journeys and personal journeys that connect memories of a place, dream and conscious experience. Jackie earned her BA in Fine Art Painting From RMIT in Melbourne Australia, and holds a Masters in Painting from City and Guilds of London Art College. Her work has been shown internationally at solo and group shows.

The work of Russian-born artist Marina Jijina is largely inspired by her personal experiences growing up in Soviet Russia, as well as contemporary and minimalist music. Viewing painting as a necessary way of communication and a method for exploring the subconscious, the artist's work attempts to understand others and identify herself. Marina graduated from the Ioganson school of Fine Art in Saint Petersburg. Her work has been exhibited at solo shows throughout Europe and hangs in collections worldwide.