The Rules of Modern Engagement » Featured Artists
Featured ‘Site Specific’ Artists:
1. Lee Mangan (Painting/Sculpture UK)
Mangan burst onto the international art scene in 2005 with an exhibition in New York, an amazing achievement considering he had been painting for less than a year. His work is bleak, intimate and revealing, dealing with life's brutal driving forces. Drawing inspiration from comic artists such as Jim Steranko and Al Columbia, Mangan moulds his oil paintings with electric colours where wilful distortions uncover an honest social critique.
http://www.flomotions.com/0705/itv-Lee_Mangan.html
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile//29221.html
2. Vort / Vorcan.com (Painting/Mixed Media, Philadelphia USA)
Paintings/Collages from impromptu 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..”
http://vorcan.degivisuals.com/about/bio/vort/
3. Paul Webb (Multimedia, UK)
Paul Webb has been engaged and researching into idiosyncratic areas that cross boundaries of art, science and technology since 1991. His work has appeared in major festivals including Sonar, and Sonic Art Network conferences. His work has ranged from digital sound performances of electronic generative music, interactive installations and software art. Developing his own custom software his diverse work has explored notions of post-human conditions, issues of control and dehumanising relations with technology, to experiments with digital sound and experimental generative music software. His installation piece explores themes of our inner conditions and the human psyche and our awareness of these imposing and constantly changing inner conditions. Drawing on unconscious and mythological foundations of conscious experience the Sky Will Fall Down is exploring conditions of temporal madness and religious experiences.
http://www.kafiyeland.net/FEXIA/TheSkyWillFallDown.html
4. Ghost Da Vandal (Illustration/Design UK)
Ghostdavandal was introduced in 1995 by it's founder, Marvin ' Haglar' Mudzongo. Marvin met now business partner, Luke Bowler, on a Fine Art course at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design. Marvin has a extensive background in design (influenced by the graphic design of his father) and in retail now working in marketing. Luke has a wide range of knowledge in design and working alongside clients to produce great results with work for McClaren F1 and Hitachi GST. GDV is made up of many freelance designers. GDV is currently in the process of developing our core team which has extended to include talented Monorex designer, Fybe. GDV have been fortunate to build strong relationships with everyone we work alongside and are continually look for new designers that bring a fresh approach to the GDV brand.
http://www.ghostdavandal.com/
5. Jil Doherty & Jo Lobley (Fine Art, UK)
Jill Tegan Doherty
A recent Graduate from Chelsea College of Art and Design, currently a practising artist in the Borough of Hackney. My Practise is involved with the aspect of the surreal and the extraordinary enchantment and wonderment of the naturalistic world. Using Natures creations almost to stand as a metaphor for the interrelations within the painting, while simultaneously magnifying and focussing on the immaculate structures of the subject matter, delving into the realms of biomorphic abstraction.
There is a certain unease engulfed within the work, certain juxtapositions which occur are awkward, causing an uncertainty within the viewer. The work is intended to conjure up an uncomfortable sense of being, intriguing the viewer to search further inside the woven concealment and thus noticing the small intricacies which slowly begin to reveal themselves somewhere between the venting of the mind and the solidarity of the surface.
www.myspace.com/butter_free
Joe Lobley
Doodler lives in London
www.scrib.co.uk
6. Töve Andrews (Fine Art, UK)
Originally my work was inspired by issues such as self-mutilation, body modification and medical fetishism, through which I developed an interest in exploring injury in a wider context. I am currently working around the idea that a morbid fascination with injury is as much a part of the collective psyche as illness pain and suffering are fundamental aspects of the human condition. My paintings and other wall based pieces are created using various materials ranging from oil paint on aluminium or board, to leatherette sewn over and into the support, to PVC tapes, scalpel blades, sutures, needles, patterned fabrics and latex. Some could be described as clinically minimal in style, whilst others are more corporeal, with recent works being buckled, hinged or tied together. They are increasingly devoid of visceral imagery as I have become more concerned with implied meaning and their interaction and relationships as objects.
www.famouswhendead.co.uk / www.myspace.com/2va
7. Jam Free (Poster Graphics, UK)
“My name is Jam Free im a street arist working out of milton keynes, I make one off posters which I eventualy stick to the side of buildings, all I wanna do is make people smile when they walk to work”
http://www.myspace.com/jamfree23
8. Heath Brodie (Organic Sculpture, NZ)
A Native New Zealand creative, Using the journey of his travels as influence to his creativity. Brodie has worked with New Zealand sculptures assiting and collaberating in symposiums while producing his own series of works. Of late Brodie has been working with children creating murrals for schools in Australia, and now assisting in an art class in Kite studios Shepards bush.
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9.Zen Inoya (Photo)
www.inoya.co.uk
10.Nick Elphick (Sculpture) http://www.conwyartsdirectory.co.uk/detail.asp?id=216
11.Kiran Chahal TBC
www.myspace.com/kiranchahal
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