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Featured in Artnet News: What’s On Your Walls: Curator Roya Sachs Likes to Spark ‘Sudden, Intimate Conversations’ Above Her Dining-Room Table @royasachs Sachs spoke to Artnet about what she likes to collect, how she displays it, and her take on the relationship between art and style. View full article via link in bio. #artnet #aucart

Featured in Harpers Bazaar: The ultimate guide to collecting and investing in art - From emerging artists to NFTs, we asked the experts... Knowing where to start with investing in art is much like staring at a blank canvas. Where to begin? What colours, compositions, subjects? The world of creative investments is, after all, an incredibly subjective one; a market propelled by value judgements. Here, you will be capitalising on matters of the heart as much as of art. “You have to always know your why,” says Natasha Arselan, who as well as being a collector of art is also the founder of the Natasha Arselan Gallery and of AucArt, an online art platform that specialises in emerging artists. “How you approach your journey of collecting and investing – what you collect, how much you spend. It all depends on your reasoning.” View full article via link in bio. #harpersbazaar #aucart

Recent Press from this week: featured in the New York Times, Madame Figaro Hong Kong and Soho House: • 1/2: The New York Times Art & Design 'Hong Kong's New Kids on the Block' by Christy Choi @nytimes “While the city was in self-imposed isolation during the pandemic, creativity was brewing as new galeries - many focused on local artists - sprung up all over town.” • 3/4: Madame Figaro Hong Kong: Interview with Hong Kong artist @purpurple by Cyrus Lamprecht @cyrus_lamprecht @madamefigarohk Featuring 'Gala by the Dwellings', 2023. Oil on canvas, 95 x 114 cm • 5/6: Soho House: What's New? - Why Soho House Kong Hong is your hub for Art Basel 2023 “Founder of AucArt Natasha Arselan @natashaarselan hosts a luncheon panel to celebrate the platform’s first Hong Kong exhibition in partnership with Seefood Room Gallery. The panel will discuss emerging art, covering what it means, its pros and cons, and buying and collecting artwork by emerging artists. Guest speakers include: Samson Ko of Haus of Contemporary and Seefood Room, Matt Chung of Gallery Ascend, Artport and Sidespace, Luning Wang of Artnet China, Moonny Man of Artsy and artist Mizuki Nishiyama. Following the lunch, guests will be invited to a preview of the exhibition. @seefoodroom @samsongram @mattchung @galleryascend @luning.w @moonnym @miznegi @sohohousehongkong “ • Read the full articles via link in bio.

AucArt is delighted to welcome Daisy Billowes a Manx-based artist raised in Athens & the UK. She studied Fine Art at Newcastle University (2015) and Print at the Royal College of Art, London (2017). Daisy’s practice explores themes of mythology, folklore, and the female narrative through a multi-disciplinary approach, including painting and drawing. She has been Longlisted for the Jackson’s Art Prize and was recently included in ‘Dolce Far Ninete’, an exhibition by Vittoria Beltrame with myma. She was awarded a grant by the Manx Art Council to make a new body of work focusing on local folklore and mythology. In early 2024, she undertook a residency with Studio Umami on the Isle of Man, following her participation in Unit 1 Gallery Workshop’s Radical Residency VII in London (2022). Read more at the link in bio and shop our latest arrivals by Daisy on AucArt. — Please contact [email protected] to access a larger selection of Daisy’s’ works or for more details.

‘The lonely remedy’ by Leah Huang (b.1992, Wuhan, China) a self taught artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She began developing her visual language in painting through the practice of analog photography, while working in fashion for international houses such as Maison Margiela and Helmut Lang, for over a decade. Her visual practices interweave a symbolic vocabulary with the power of chance. In exploring her relationship with watercolor and working on paper: she utilizes an intuitive approach which cultivates trust and resilience through material restraint. The paintings occupy the unconscious space between abstraction and figuration, suggesting contradictions and the unresolved zones of life. Leah’s work has been included in exhibitions across the tri-state area and is in private and corporate collections across the U.S.

‘Patience’ by Olivia Springberg a multi-media artist currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design with a concentration in theory and history of art and design. In her dreamlike paintings, abstract images are blurred and out of focus, permeating her multi-layered visual language. Drawing from Jewish tradition, dream theory, and interests in archaeology and the occult, she embraces mystery and ambiguity, blending the familiar with the unfamiliar. Her work often features sculptural frames with organic edges that extend beyond the canvas, encouraging an exploration of the boundaries between fictional space and reality. Olivia was a 2023 Florence Leif Award recipient and an L.A. Studio resident.

AucArt is delighted to welcome Elisa Carutti (Milan, 1991) a visual artist working across painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Her practice explores the humanity of artistic gesture, where each mark, color, or form responds to what came before, creating a dialogue between intention and chance. Her work investigates the creation of emotion and poetry in painting, dissolving rigid forms into traces of color and water. In this process, the canvas transforms into a “fertile ground” where the unfolding of time meets the poetry of the unforeseen, making each piece a singular and unrepeatable occurrence. Through an ongoing negotiation between control and surrender, she allows the unexpected to become a generative force within her creative process. Trained at the Brera Academy and the Slade School of Fine Art in London, she has exhibited in Italy, the UK, France, and Greece, and participated in international residencies. Her work has been shown at venues such as Triennale Design Museum and Saatchi Gallery, and she has been a finalist for awards including the Premio Combat and the Liberty Art Award.

‘Cuyp’ 2 by Philip Maltman, Maltmans’ work relies largely on constantly generated subject matter from a wide cultural background that produces a number of discreet series where text, images, Art History and the natural world mix to create challenges for a contemporary response that will be unsentimental, and non-decorative but electrifying, painterly and invoking an inquisitive, if not passionate, recognition in the viewer. What you don’t see is often what you get. ‘I had a great teacher in the 1960’s up on the West Coast of Scotland as well as the Ayrshire coast itself. We listened to Thelonious Monk and Dave Brubeck and painted from Kandinsky, Klee and Pollock in the art rooms at secondary school. I was hooked. Now I revere James Joyce, Robert Motherwell, Cy Twombly and Don Van Vliet, all great painters in their own discreet ways.’

AucArt is delighted to welcome Stephanie Saeta (b. Brazil) an abstract painter based in Berlin. Working with diluted acrylic on hand-assembled raw canvas, she builds layered compositions through an intuitive, process-driven practice in which pigment moves, absorbs, and settles over time. Each work develops without a fixed composition, shaped instead by the behaviour of the material, resulting in paintings of quiet depth and atmospheric presence. Prior to her full-time practice, Saeta held senior roles in global marketing leadership across multiple countries, an experience that informs her understanding of visual language, intentionality, and how work communicates across contexts. Read more at the link in bio and shop our latest arrivals by Stephanie on AucArt. — Please contact [email protected] to access a larger selection of Stephanies’ works or for more details.

Just Added: ‘String Variation’ by Nicole Di a British Chinese artist based in London, she graduated from Goldsmiths in 2025 where she was awarded the Cass Art Materials award. For Nicole, making is an embodied and physical way of attuning her sensitivity. Her work considers nature’s behaviour rather than its appearance. The Daoist notion of Change, turbulence, and the infinite, drives her interest in the points where nature’s systems and rules begin to break down and become speculative. The eye is weaved through these polyphonic spaces, which she thinks of as journeys. Patterns of unintentional coordination calibrate and recalibrate- spiralling in a constant becoming and never arriving. Processes of erasure, folding, pouring, peeling and working on both sides of the surface, are used to open up the work to contingency, which for Nicole, is a tool for a different kind of noticing. Read more at the link in bio and shop our latest arrivals by Nicole on AucArt. — Please contact [email protected] to access a larger selection of Nicoles’ works or for more details.

‘Boy with the Iris’s’ by Leonardo Guglielmi (b.1996, Italy) Born and raised in the outskirts of Venice, Italy, where he underwent classical art education. In a county known for many great artists throughout its history, that means mostly studying proportion and learning about human anatomy. Based now in Guadalajara, Mexico, Leonardo’s work does not focus so much on academic features, but more on highlighting elements of his own experience into his work. Having lived in Portugal, the US, China and Mexico, many elements of these cultures can be found in Leonardo’s composition. He used imposing and muscular subjects, creating a contrast with the fragility they display, either through the message of the work, or with visible features such as cracked or shattered vases, flowery details or poses. Leonardo’s painting are an attempt to process the fragility of life in an artistic pursue to display it on canvas.

‘Green Pink Mountain Tennis Court’, 2024 by Sandra Strēle. Sandra graduated in 2016 from the Art Academy of Latvia, acquiring her Master’s degree at the Department of Painting, also she had spent one semester as part of a student exchange programme at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. She received the visual arts scholarship of the Boris and Ināra Teterev Foundation in 2012, the Brederlo von Sengbusch Art Prize in 2014, the SEB Banka scholarship in painting in 2016, the prestigious grant from The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation in Canada (2019, 2021) and Young Painter Prize in 2019. Sandra Strēle has held a number of solo exhibitions, participated in group exhibitions and artist residences in Italy, Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Norway, India, Belgium, Germany, France and elsewhere.