'Line of Beauty' Young Masters People's Choice Award Winners Exhibition

SOUTH KENSINGTON, U.K. - Dec. 27, 2025 - PRLog -- The Cynthia Corbett Gallery and Young Masters are delighted to announce Line of Beauty, a not-for-profit Young Masters initiative celebrating the 2025 People's Choice Award winners, First Prize winner Cristina Schek and Second Prize winner Alexandra Baraitser. The People's Choice Award, generously sponsored by The Brownhill Insurance Group, is a particularly meaningful distinction, reflecting the direct support and admiration of the public. The exhibition will be held at The Exhibitionist Hotel, South Kensington, from 15 January to April 2026, with an opening reception on Thursday, 15 January, 6:30-9:00 PM.

Set within the preserved Georgian architecture of The Exhibitionist Hotel, Line of Beauty brings two contemporary artists into dialogue across a space shaped by classical ideals. The Georgian period's devotion to symmetry, proportion, and the serpentine "line of beauty" becomes both setting and silent collaborator. The exhibition title draws on this graceful curve, rooted in Renaissance concepts of harmony and later formalised by William Hogarth, while also nodding to Paul Klee's notion of "taking a line for a walk" a gesture of creative exploration reflected in both artists' practices.

In this charged architectural backdrop, the surreal, conceptual portraiture of Cristina Schek, a Transylvanian Surrealist working in digital montage, meets the chromatic, quietly heightened interiors and architectural paintings of Alexandra Baraitser, a Cambridge and London-based painter known for transforming designed objects into liminal, dreamlike still lifes. Their distinct modes of image-making, one rooted in digital myth-making, the other in transformed still-life painting, unfold against a hotel steeped in cultural memory. Echoes of Oscar Wilde, and the refined sensibilities of Sargent and Whistler, subtly permeate the space, shaping an atmosphere of elegance and quiet decadence. Here, beauty curves, bends and returns: a conversation between past and present, identity and desire, form and the imagined world.

Exhibition Details
The Exhibitionist Hotel
8–10 Queensberry Place, South Kensington, London SW7 2EA
Open 7 days a week, 24 hours a day

Private View: Thursday, 15 January 2026, 6:30 – 9:00 PM

Special Fundraising Event: Valentine's Young Masters Fundraising Jazz Concert
Thursday, 12 February 2026, 6:30 – 9:00 PM

More details & RSVP:
https://www.young-masters.co.uk/line-of-beauty-2026-overview