AR CONTEMPORARY

BUENOS AIRES 1985
Jazmín Donaldson lives and works between Madrid and London. She holds an MFA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art - (UCL) London, which she completed with Distinction in 2019.
She is interested in the power of storytelling through painting. The stories initiate from mundane encounters and then take their own form by adding fantastical elements. Her paintings resonate with dark-humor and are influenced by the world of fairy tales and myths where the artist reuses
well known motifs in order to tell contemporary stories and concerns.
Through different imagery she examines themes of identity and perception while playing with the absurd, the subversion of roles and the multiplicity of meanings. In the own words of the artist “I think about women’s role in
contemporary society and its change over time, what femininity can mean and the subjectivity of the female psyche”.
Through narrative infused surrealist paintings, she paints about anxieties, concerns, fears and desires.
Her work has often been considered surrealist, oneiric, coexisting in a limbo between the carnal reality of her characters and the fantasies and dreams which encompass their world.
FAIRS WITH AR CONTEMPORARY
OBERTURA CARABANCHEL 2024
ART PRIZES
2023 · THE EATON FUND, UK
2019 · SIR ANDREW TAYLOR PRIZE FOR DRAWING, UK







