Each June and July for the past six years, Free Range has showcased the best and brightest graduate art students in the United Kingdom. Not just a prestigious and public setting for these art students to show their work, Free Range has become a the definitive go-to show to discover the hottest up-and-coming talents in painting, illustration, design, photography and more.

Housed in the cavernous Old Truman Brewery, an 11-acre complex in the heart of East London's trendy Brick Lane, Free Range is really a collection of smaller shows gathered together to form a seemingly endless range of aesthetics, from the precise and polished to the rough and naive.

With over 2000 student artists exhibiting work ranging from traditional fine art to photography, design and interiors, Free Range righfully bills itself as "an explosion of talent on a massive scale. This is the best opportunity for industry playrs and the general public to discover artists in fledgling mode before reputations and prices soar!" Rather than simply serve as a showcase for new artists, Free Range seeks to bring some of the energy and excitement of the YBA phenomenon by giving green talent the chance to not only exhibit but sell>

Representative of the potential the Free Range shows have for participating artists is the explosive emergence of the Chinese-born Aowen Jin who has lived in the UK for under a decade and returned to school to study art. Graduating from the acclaimed Goldsmith's Collegethis year, Jin has been featured in Dazed & Confused and one of her paintings was bought by British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Even more incredibly, she was commissioned to paint a portrait of Queen Elizabeth as part of this year's royal birthday celebration.

While not every young artist featured in Free Range has such highbrow supporters, there very well may be the next Tracy Eamin, Rankin, or Damien Hirst amidst the hopefuls about to take the skills they honed during years of disciplined study and head out into the big bad world to try and make it as professional artists.

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