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ART SPACE
Featuring works from 12 up & coming artists:
Manga UK
www.manga.co.uk
Terratag
Terratag is London-based
artist, designer and Japaholic, Paul Nicholson. Electing the ingredients
of manga, graffiti, anime, robots, typography and a dash of sexuality,
TERRATAG has cooked up something fresh; A tasty, innovative Anglo-Japanese
Hybrid. Taking the spirit of Japan and giving it a twist, into a unique
graphic vocabulary, spanning the world of fashion, art and design.
Numbering among the clients are Aphex Twin, Andrew Weatherall, Warp
Records, Wagamama, Manga Entertainment and Harvey Nichols. Production
IG animation studios in Japan on the film Ghost in a Shell - Stand Alone
Complex, and most recently a collaboration with Sony Playstation involved
designing merchandise for the samurai game Genji.
www.terratag.com
Marilena Borgna
Marilena Borgna manages to create a truly visual language through her
photography, maybe the only one capable of describing this attitude
towards life. Images that immediately give us the feel, and a
direct understanding, of this way of life, and which can’t be compared
to any other lifestyle today. Her eye has been able to capture
not only souvenirs for herself but something other people should
have the chance to share. She will be premiering a collection
of timeless snapshots of contemporary life in and around Shanghai.
Paul Duffield
Paul is a freelance published and award winning artist. Grand
Prize winner of Tokyopop's first UK Rising Stars of Manga competition,
for 'Falling Star' - an 18 page short comic and Overall Winner in the
2006 International Manga and Anime Festival (IMAF), for 'Rolighed' -
a three minute animated short.
www.spoonbard.com
Emma Vieceli
Emma was a winner in Tokyopop's first UK and Ireland Rising Stars of
Manga competition and of Neo magazine's 5 page manga competition. Recently
she completed work on a 200 page graphic novel adaptation of Hamlet
for publishers, Metro Media. Her professional appearances range
from magazine articles (Neo, Artist & Illustrator), through tabletop
card game illustration (Herocard:Cyberspace) to having contributed to
several tutorial and resource books (Digital Manga Techniques, Draw
manga). She has published several comic series including; Dragon
Heir, Love Senseless, The Politics of tears, Baz, Give me my Romeo and
Focus.
http://emma.sweatdrop.com
Vort
Paintings from impromtu live artist based in Philidelphia, PA. USA.
”Went to school in the Netherlands and studied art in Barcelona and
Madrid. Collaborated with other artists in Europe. Painted on
a Cruise Ship and Bermuda. Painted Live Music in California, Washington,
Indiana, and Wisconsin before returning to W. Philly. Wrote a
book Co-wrote a screenplay. Co-founded a company with Cank, and VORCAN
was born - Painting at parties and events in Philly. Work hanging in
Amsterdam. In collections in 30 states. Iceland, Netherlands, Germany,
Czech, and Bermuda. Music Festivals..”
www.thevortman.com / www.vorcan.com
Sonia Leong
UK-based professional artist
and illustrator specialising in anime/manga style. Winner in NEO Magazine's
2005 Manga Competition, Joint Judge for the Character Design category
of the International Manga and Anime Festival 2005, and 2nd Place Winner
of Tokyopop's first UK Rising Stars of Manga competition. Her
work appeared in BritFlick, Popcorn, directed by Darren Paul Fisher.
She is currently working on a manga adaptation of Romeo & Juliet
with Self Made Hero / Metromedia UK to be printed in the coming months.
She’s exhibited artwork in prestigious venues (London County Hall,
London Cartoon Museum, Japanese Embassy), provided product demonstrations
(on behalf of Copic, Letraset and Wacom) and regularly present workshops
on manga creation. Her artwork has featured in several manga-related
publications, events, websites and magazines internationally.
The Candie Bandit
Candeography is
a light exposure based installation that utilises LED pens and a strobing
ultra violet light to create a variety of temporary images and artworks.
www.candie-bandit.com / www.myspace.com/candiebandit
XL
Illustration-based introspective photographer. Her images come
across in a dark film noir style which beneath lies an underlining vein
of parody.
Ghost Da Vandal
Urban Graphics
www.ghostdavandal.com
Edmund Coyne
Painting / Illustration
www.myspace.com/coynee
Laila
Drawings