ZARYA AUSTIN-FELL

Zarya Austin-Fell (b. 1996) is an artist based between Madrid, Lisbon, and London. Her painting practice examines the domestic landscape as a space where the ordinary and the imaginary coexist. She investigates the accumu- lation of memory, emotional weight, and symbolism in the spaces we inhab- it and in everyday objects. Through slight, surreal interventions—shifts in scale, distorted perspective—familiar settings are reconfigured to reveal their psychological depth, resulting in compositions that are at once childlike and dreamlike.

In this series, Austin-Fell presents ten compositions recalled from both mem- ories and dreams, each painting a small homage to the subtle aspects that connect us to a space. As Bachelard wrote: “For our house is our corner of the world. As has often been said, it is our first universe, a real cosmos, in every sense of the word.”

Her creative practice examines the domestic landscape as a space where the ordinary and the imaginary coexist. She investigates the accumulation of memory, emotional weight, and symbolism in inhabitable spaces and also in everyday objects. Through subtle surreal interventions such as shifts in scale and distorted perspective, familiar settings are reconfigured to reveal their psychological depth, resulting in painting compositions that are somewhat childish and dreamlike.

Born in the late nineties, Zarya Austin-Fell is a multimedia artist that graduated in the field of Fine Arts Critical Practice from the University of Brighton in 2018. Since then, she has developed various exhibitions and worked with artists throughout different cities such as Lisbon, Norfolk, Madrid, and London. Alongside her painting practice, Zarya also produces ambient experimental music.