Notes to Editors  

THE SHORTLIST

Emma Goring 

Emma works primarily with glassblowing; blending science, nature and art to create thought‑provoking pieces. Emma has reinterpreted the traditional Venetian cane technique, crafting exuberantly coloured glass rods that capture and carry light to highlight the importance of the decline of coral reefs. Inspired by Jaguar's bold colour ethos and the strikethrough, her approach embodies a fearless, modern exploration of glass.

Jobe Burns 

Jobe is a sculptor who uses the rich, tactile finish of painted cars as a visual language he embeds in his work. He has applied layers of luminous automotive paint to salvaged steel and aluminium, creating two shifting, unrepeatable forms that together embody the strikethrough. Inspired by Jaguar's colour ethos, the work celebrates craftsmanship and rejects imitation.

Yvann Zahui 

In ‘Auto‑portraits’, Yvann’s work channels Afroturism and Surrealism to reimagine the car not as a physical machine but as a metaphorical extension of self, using form, vibrant colours and movement to express boldness and emotion. As self‑portraits, they place Yvann as an artist who embodies the spirit of reinvention. 

Ali Bartlett

Ali is a painter who creates works exploring space, light and colour. ‘Illuminated Silence’ challenges tradition through unconventional materials, using oil on a stretched shower curtain; vivid, warm oranges and cool‑toned magentas cast colourful shadows when light passes through the piece, exploring how colour can hold narrative and create emotional resonance. The painting reflects how breaking from tradition opens new possibilities for artistic expression.

Annabel Maciver

Annabel is a multi‑media artist whose work seeks to challenge the status‑quo, drawing meaning from different marks and structures. ‘Colour Wheel’ is five embossed prints —yellow, red, blue, black, and white—each reflecting Jaguar’s colour world. Embossed strikethroughs alter the intensity of each hue, marking its presence.

Demi Danka 

Demi is a painter whose work is inherently unrepeatable, shaped by time, chemical reactions, and the physics of her materials – ensuring no piece can ever be replicated. Her salt‑etched paintings strike through the expected, cutting through surfaces and convention alike, embracing unpredictability and transformation. The gravitational pull of chemicals across the painting resemble speed, forward thinking and confidence.

Hiro Shen

‘Viscosity of Air’ uses honey’s shifting states as a metaphor for human response to pressure, stagnation or freedom. The piece attempts to mark a moment, not just in image, but in pressure – visualizing what it means to be suspended between resistance and release. Its golden palette and suspended forms align with Jaguar’s Theory of Colour, while its exploration of density and pressure echoes the Strikethrough, disrupting expectations and redefining presence.

Zoë Wilkinson

Zoë’s monochromatic paintings create a third space between the Caribbean and Britain, navigating themes of heritage, migration and identity. Her practice rejects imitation by utilising unconventional materials like sugarcane fabric, embodying Jaguar’s ethos of transformation. These pieces take inspiration from Type 00’s French Ultramarine blue; its intensity, historical significance and ability to immerse the viewer in bold swathes of colour. 

Anthony Scala

Anthony’s work typically embodies pure lines, elegance and simplicity of form, drawing on inspiration from architecture and physics to create sculptural glass pieces with bold presence. In ‘Entangled’ and ‘Echoes of Future Ghosts’, Anthony uses hand‑sculpted monochrome and graded colour glass and celebrates the collaborative precision of a team of experts working on a singular piece in perfect choreography. 

Daniel Arteaga

Daniel’s work explores the persistence of memory, where lines and the sensation of movement play a crucial role. This piece uses flowing lines and layered colours to evoke the sensation of memories, and metaphorize how experiences are stored, transformed, and revealed over time.

Edward Vince

Edward’s practice is deeply influenced by his family’s history in the transport industry, shaping his enduring view of cars as sculptures on wheels. Edward’s sculpture is inspired by Jaguar’s Strikethrough and uses transparency and a vibrant colour palette to encourage viewers to engage with both the art and the world around it. The Strikethrough functions as a dynamic aperture, framing shifting perspectives and allowing the piece to transform as its surroundings evolve.

Nicholas Burns 

Nicholas’s series challenges the restrictive conventions of modern photography; by advancing the film while the shutter remains open, he strikes through frame lines to create interconnected images that defy containment. The result is a surreal, tactile exploration of movement, presence, and connection and reflects his own neurodiverse experience.

Jihye Seo

Jihye’s work pushes artistic boundaries by transforming ordinary materials like sugar and spices into unconventional paintings that engage multiple senses. A playful exploration of texture, transparency and scent, challenging traditional forms, expanding the canvas beyond two‑dimensional limits and inviting viewers to reconsider daily objects with curiosity.

Regina Kim

Regina’s practice explores the themes of ‘boundaries’—social, sensory, and psychological—through layered visuals composed of symbols, textures, and imagery. ‘RE: ORIGIN’ reimagines the idea of origin as an evolving dialogue between past and future; the composition is bright, bold and intentionally layered, representing energy, transformation and a recharged sense of identity. The title itself combines “origin” with the idea of a “reply” or return, evoking a cyclical sense of rebirth and continuation.

Margaret McGinnis

Margaret creates resonant sound sculptures, following the principal that art is something to be touched and felt. In this new series of sonic seating works, the deep sounds of the natural world are brought to life. Jaguar Type 00’s bold French Ultramarine paint and brass accents inspire the striking colours in the series, a departure from her recent works using raw, untreated steel. Memory also plays a central role in her work, with a sculpture titled ‘PurrBoxx’ emitting a feline purr, inspired by the growl of a Jaguar E‑type from her childhood.

Akin Sanjayan

Akin works with lens‑based processes that challenge conventional image‑making, often manipulating the tools to introduce a layer of unpredictability and visual rhythm. His piece ‘A Temporal Pulse' delivers an interpretation of the Strikethrough, with radiant light slicing through the image, symbolising resistance to the ordinary. The Theory of Colour is embedded in the piece’s palette – exuberant, expressive and emotionally charged.

Cal Dawes Dawn

Cal’s blown glass vessel harnesses the unique properties of the material; its ability to hold and transmit light. The work’s bold palette and subtle flow of colour references Jaguar’s Theory of Colour, with the linework striking through the form and shifting dynamically in tone and hue as the viewer’s perspective changes.

Daudi Kaggwa 

‘Echoes’ of Science’ represents life as the fleeting moments we experience, both real and imagined. Memories, thoughts and ideas are brought to life through the use of colour. Abstraction embodies Jaguar’s ‘copy nothing’ ethos – just as every thought, feeling and experience is distinct to the individual, this piece thrives on uniqueness—shaping form, colour and composition in a way that is entirely its own.

Divya Balivada 

Divya Balivada’s painting draws inspiration from the exuberant architecture, textiles and landscape of Goa. She creates unapologetically bold, emotionally charged compositions; through her self‑built loom, she rejects mechanised standardisation and strikes through the prescriptive and the imitative. Just as Jaguar’s strikethrough defies convention, her process disrupts silence and constraint, carving out space for authenticity and expressive freedom.

Favour Jonathan 

Favour’s practice explores the intersections of African and British histories, with works deeply rooted in storytelling and cultural symbolism. Her 3D metal sculpture captures the energy and fluidity of a Jaguar without direct replication, inspired by Benin iconography where wild cats symbolize power, transformation and messengers of change. Crafted from a mesh of welded metal rods, its mid‑leap form mirrors Jaguar’s engineering excellence, blending heritage with innovation.

About Jaguar 

Jaguar inspires like no other. Since 1935, it has been at its best when looking forward. A copy of nothing.

Now, a new era begins. The first physical manifestation of Jaguar’s exuberant creative philosophy – Type 00 – was shown at Miami Art Week. 

Fearlessly unique and emotionally engaging, it strives for the highest level of creative endeavour. This new identity and visual language are symbols of change that respect the past and inspire what’s to come.