Joel Rea

Joel Rea was born in England in 1983. In 2003 he graduated from the Queensland College of Art in Australia with a Bachelor of Fine Art. He has exhibited his paintings throughout Australia for the last 13 years featuring also in notable overseas exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Asia. Rea has been acclaimed for his oil paintings in many prestigious art awards. His work can be found on his collaboration with URBAN NATION on Project M/14 in 2019. […]

Biography / Joel Rea

Joel Rea was born in England in 1983. In 2003 he graduated from the Queensland College of Art in Australia with a Bachelor of Fine Art. He has exhibited his paintings throughout Australia for the last 13 years featuring also in notable overseas exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Asia. Rea has been acclaimed for his oil paintings in many prestigious art awards. His work can be found on his collaboration with URBAN NATION on Project M/14 in 2019.

Reas imaginative realities are meticulously developed for hours, so that in the end they become very detailed and smooth scenes, which explore the mutual influences between nature and humans. Drawing inspiration from photoshoots, designs and everyday situations, he creates powerful images that focus on magnificent creatures or people in surreal apocalyptic situations. In 2013, American magazine Art Business News selected Joel Rea as one of 30 artists under the age of 30 who are revolutionizing the world of fine arts.

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URBAN NATION presents: Project M/14 – Gaia Reborn: A Future Utopia
Curated by Yasha Young, URBAN NATION, and Danijela Krha Purssey, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, GaiaReborn: A Future Utopia aims to inspire in visitors a vision, appreciation and care of Gaia, our Mother Earth.Fifty of the world’s best artists in pop, surrealism
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Project M/14 – Gaia Reborn: A Future Utopia
Last Saturday, 11 May 2019, numerous guests visited the exhibition opening of Project M/14 – Gaia Reborn: A Future Utopia and were welcomed not only by a 200-year-old tree, but also by a pure plant oasis, the smell of fresh