Modern Panic X
Visual Artists (in alphabetical order)
Izdihar Afyouni (Jordan)
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Izdihar Afyouni is a Palestinian-Jordanian multidisciplinary artist and independent curator with a background in academic figurative drawing. She works with painting, sculpture, video and immersive theatre/performance. Her work is concerned with political notions of the body and is often site-specific and research-based. Her curatorial practice is concerned with making the usually unpublicized workings of government public.
Afyouni is the creator and curator of the ongoing research project and immersive exhibition series Thicker Than Blood, which extends the extractive form of governmental subjection and surveillance of the body to its non-necessary human form, namely, its test sample. She also works collaboratively with other artists and academics, and creates work under a pseudonym. Afyouni was recently endorsed by Arts Council England to remain in the UK as a working artist after completing her Masters degree in Art and Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has exhibited in Germany, Jordan, Palestine, UK and Brazil. interventionistgod.com |
Sandra Araújo (Portugal)
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Sandra Araújo is a digital artist that spent endless hours shooting at monsters & strolling through mazes. It only felt natural for her to evolve her artistic practice through experimenting and exploring the visual culture of video games, memes and popular gif files. Araújo engages with social media platforms and with her animations scrutinizes the depths of gameplay plots.
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Ron Athey (USA)
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Ron Athey is an iconic cultural figure who started in performance in the early 1980s in context of L.A.’s underground music scene as a duo with Rozz Williams of Christian Death. In 1990 during the AIDS pandemic, he started showing individual and group works at art spaces like LACE, PS122, Highways, Randolph Street Gallery, and ICA London.
Three major works comprising The Torture Trilogy were AIDS memorials about the nature of healing - tapping into the historical archetypes of religious painting and deity worship. The content of this work looked at the dead at what healing could be. These works toured worldwide throughout the 1990s, with themes such as Christian martyr saints, putting forth philosophical questions about the nature of identity, and questioning the limits of artistic practice. A monograph of his output was published in 2013: “Pleading in the Blood”, edited by Dominic Johnson. In November 2018 he premiered a new solo work in PSNY’s Posthuman series, "Acephalous Monster," inspired by the Georges Bataille-led secret society of Acephale, a group of intellectuals that were using magic ritual to unseat fascism. Modern Panic X will be screening a special video concept by Ron Athey imagining an unfinished performance for Jon John based on two posthumous artefacts, entitled 'Entering the Forest of Acéphale' Credits : Directed and conceived by Ron Athey, Videography by Graham Kolbeins, AD Liam Hughes & Art Direction by Hermes Pittakos Cast : Peacock Boy in sling - Lucy, aka Latex Lucifer, Peacock Boy in feather bed with fakir shoes - Hermes Pittakos, 10 foot pole dancers: Divinity Fudge, Cassils, Yunuen Rhi, Lauren Davis, Missy Munster, & Shaman: Pony Lee |
Bonnie Bakerneko (UK)
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Bonnie Bakeneko is a British multimedia artist dealing with themes of body horror, gender and trauma processing through ritualistic performances. In his latest piece 'Your body is not a temple' he performs an act of body autonomy through self cannibalisation by consuming his severed nipples, followed by stapling different flowers to his body. This was all captured by London based Bonnie Baker, a separate entity who creates dark artwork in multi-faceted mediums such as videography, virtual reality, photography, illustration and tattoo, often mixing them together to present their thoughts. Joining forces, Bonnie² pool their resources to take their art to another level.
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Barbora Balek (Czech Republic)
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Barbora Balek is one of Czech Republic’s leading contemporary artists. She studied visual art, visual communication, new media and art therapy, finishing her training at the Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. Her work focuses on general social and political issues dealing with recent history as seen through individual and collective memory. It combines classical elements of paintings, photographs, sculptures and-installations with new media.
At the heart of her art lies the theme of individual human identity, it's experience and variability through life. She has held over twenty solo exhibitions throughout Europe, and has taken part in some fifty group shows. Her work is held in public and private collections, and she has been the recipient of the New Media Prize, and the Reflex magazine award. www.barborabalkova.cz |
Roger Ballen (USA)
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A New Yorker by birth but for over 30 years Ballan has lived and worked in South Africa. His work as a Geologist took him into the countryside and led him to take up his camera and explore the hidden worlds of small South African towns. At first he explored the empty streets in the glare of the midday sun, but once he had made the step of knocking on people’s doors, he discovered a world inside these houses which was to have a profound effect on his work. These interiors with their distinctive collections of objects and the occupants within these closed worlds took his unique vision on a path from social critique to the creation of metaphors for the inner mind. After 1994 he no longer looked to the countryside for his subject matter finding it closer to home in Johannesburg
In his artistic practice Ballen has increasingly been won over by the possibilities of integrating photography and drawing. He has expanded his repertoire and extended his visual language. By integrating drawing into his photographic and video works, the artist has not only made a lasting contribution to the field of art, but equally has made a powerful commentary about the human condition and its creative potential. His strange and extreme works confront the viewer and challenge them to come with him on a journey into their own minds as he explores the deeper recesses of his own. rogerballen.com |
Aiyla Beau (UK)
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Aiyla Beau's work explores the darkest corners of the human psyche, and brings it to light with a vibrant and almost edible candy colour palette. Whether it's one of her hyper realistic colour pencil portraits, or a photography study, her work invites the viewer to look just that little bit deeper.
Her work aims to subvert the narrative around negative emotions, by revisiting them and sexualising them until they become a pleasurable experience, thus losing the negative impact they have on us. By sexualising our darkest fears Beau shows how we can claim ownership of them and see them as beautiful. aiylabeauart.com |
Hans Bellmer (Germany)
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Hans Bellmer was a German Surrealist artist known for his life-size dolls and erotic photography. His earliest dolls - perversions of the female form with legs growing out of legs - were created out of a desire to oppose the Nazi Regime’s goal of so-called physical perfection. “The female body is like an endless sentence that invites us to rearrange it,” the artist once observed, “so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.”
He was born on March 13, 1902 in Kattowitz, Germany, in what is now Poland. Once he received the label of degenerate artist, Bellmer fled his home country and moved to Paris, where his challenging work was embraced by members of the Surrealist movement, especially André Breton. After the war, the artist moved into other media, including sexually explicit photography and paintings that explored fetishism through dream-like imagery. He notably collaborated with the artist Unica Zürn on the photographic series Unica Tied Up, featuring close-up images of flesh bulging around tight rope binding in an investigation of sadomasochistic practices. Bellmer died on February 23, 1975 in Paris, France at the age of 72. |
Ruby Bird (UK)
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Ruby Bird is a multi media artist with a focus on drawing and body art.
Inspired by the human experience both personally and socially, her artwork attempts to record our intimate realities as creative biograohy. "Making artwork for me is a way to communicate our internal and external personal worlds. Its a way to bridge the fundimentally lonely nature of our existance, through art as a multi sensory language and communion" Begining with sculpture Ruby later became a performer and costumier before returning to focus upon 2D artforms. Her sculptural and wearable art practice informes her interest in the human body, and how aesthtic changes can effect us psycologically. Her drawings and paintings meditate on themes of gender, identity, sexuality and dream interpretation in an illustrative and surrealist style. Current her projects are taking a collaborative direction. Inspired by each individual, abstracted images are made from their stories and personal symbols as a reflection of their lives or identities. instagram.com/@_ruby.bird_ |
Marc Blackie (UK)
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Marc Blackie is an award-winning English photographer and filmmaker, whose short films and images inhabit a world of sexually charged existentialism and have been described as “Jarringly combining eroticism with the uncomfortable and sinister” by the New York Magazine.
His often controversial work is never happier than when ridiculing the human libido and what passes for our collective sexual imagination. He is inspired by the tropes and cliches of Japanese pornography as by the likes of Bataille, Bergman, and Bellmer as well as the long shadow cast by the surrealist movement. Though mainly concerned now with the short films, he still also works as a photographer in North London, pulling pieces from the depths of the decadent subconscious to smash together, creating something a little awkward, a little cynical and maybe a little arousing from the resulting detritus. www.disappointedvirginity.com |
Gergely Bukovinszki (Hungary)
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Shoreham-by-Sea based artist Gergely Bukovinszki combines traditional oil painting with contemporary ideas. Since 2017 he has been working on a series of oil paintings that reflect his observations of life in modern societies and question the purpose of human existence in general, whilst attempting to document present events.
Gergely’s artistic evolution began at the age of 15 by studying drawing and painting then continued by completing his BA studies in 2009 in Visual Arts and Visual Communication at the Institute of Visual Culture, University of Nyiregyhaza, Hungary. Since then he’s moved to the South East of England to develop his artistic voice and to be able to gain access to english literature that serves as an intellectual basis to his artworks. fineartfortheconscious.co.uk |
William S Burroughs (USA)
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William Seward Burroughs II was born 5 February 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Burroughs was an innovative writer and artist in many mediums. A progenitor of the Beat Generation, Burroughs went on to deeply influence a wide swathe of culture and thought with dozens of books and hundreds of paintings, essays, spoken word performances and multi-media collaborations. The relevance of this work persists in modern times as he made many prescient predictions of technological evolution and oversteps of 'Control'. Burroughs' stated purposes included exposing systems of oppression and creating a “mythology for the space age.”
William S. Burroughs created thousands of visual artworks. He saw the word and the image as inextricably linked, thus applied many of the same approaches to his visual and literary works, such as cut-ups, montages, and automatic techniques. All of his work was rooted in a desire to bypass systems of mental control and free his mind from the forces of habit and history. William continually explored new methods for creating paintings, and often abandoned the paintbrush in favor of unorthodox tools such as guns, mushrooms, toilet plungers, and a wide array of found objects which also served as stencils and stamps. He has been featured in over fifty international galleries and museums. He continued writing until the day he died. On 2 August 1997, Burroughs passed away at home at the age of 83. The significance of his legacy is often described in terms of his profound influence on other artists, such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Keith Haring, Robert Wilson, Tom Waits, Kurt Cobain & John Giorno. "I want my painting to literally walk off the goddamned canvas, to become a creature and a very dangerous creature. I see painting as evocative magic. And there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and re-newed." williamsburroughs.org |
Isobel Cortese (UK)
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Fascinated by the way life in miniature evokes feelings of wonder and enchantment, Cortese creates miniature scenes replicating daily life but with a dark twist. Working in mixed media, she encapsulates her miniature worlds beneath glass domes or inside apothecary bottles, inspired from her love of natural history museums with their collections of works in cabinets and jars.
Curiosity boxes and dark tales take a great influence within her work, as well as the environment and issues of social injustice. Her background of travelling has deepened her connection with the world and different cultures. With a great appreciation for diversity each piece of her work has its own story to tell, reflecting her own individualism. www.isobelcortese.com |
Emma Dyason (UK)
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Dyason recently completed her Masters degree in Arts Management from Middlesex University after a Fine Art undergraduate degree at Plymouth University in 2018. Her work is driven by the need to challenge pervading ideologies and misconceptions and point to ways that we can question everyday norms that we live by and accept. Dyason does not limit herself to one medium of work, style or concept, but instead takes strong humanistic stances, from socio-political to philosophical perspectives.
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Stefan-Manuel Eggenweber (Austria)
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Stefan-Manuel Eggenweber is filmmaker, author and performer. His work is centered around body hierarchies, their deconstruction and the body horror subgenre and its subversive potentials.
Besides many queer- and pornfilmfestivals, his films have been shown at the Diagonale in Granz and Tanzquartier in Vienna. Stefan-Manuel Eggenweber studies Fashion & Styles at the Academy of Fine Arts and Language Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. instagram.com/stefanmanueleggenweber |
Fred Fabre (France)
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Fabre began his varied and colourful career as a drawer and animator before turning to video journalism, working in many of the world’s conflicts. He moved to London in 1997 and has worked closely with the BBC as a BAFTA winning director of photography before moving on to painting full time after doing an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art in 2007. Recently Fabre won the Refresh Art Award (Prize of Our Times 2019) for his painting ‘no future’.
Iconic symbols or tales and narratives are happily intertwined throughout the various series of Fabre’s rendering of life. The paintings are a continual exploration of colour and form as a means to explore the essence, energy of the various concepts Fabre is interested in. www.drawlogia.com |
Hizze Fletcher-King
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Hizze Fletcher-King was born in Sheffield, England in 1965 and her childhood was marked by the colourful explosion of American music and cultural influences that dominated English society in the 60's and 70's. This early influence of 20th century American art and iconic imagery, combined with an upbringing inspired by strong individuals like Madonna, Vivienne Westwood and Leigh Bowery, the 80's London club scene, magazines such as The Face and ID plus a passion for fashion, have come together to enable her to create work that is bold, expressive, textured and graphical.
Hizze’s artwork combines abstract expressionism with pop art using themes of love, sexuality, gender, conservation and society as she sees it. Through the use of mixed media and often reclaimed items in place of the blank canvas she aims to create an emotional response from the viewer which can lead to understanding, acceptance and respect. hizzefletcher.com |
Doug Francisco (UK)
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Doug Francisco is Ringmaster and Clown with The Invisible Circus, Narrative Director for Boomtown Fair, Trustee with The Artspace Lifespace Project and creator of The Red Rebel Brigade for Extinction Rebellion. A performing artist for over 25 years with a love of street theatre and circus he has more recently returned to visual arts creating sculptures from lost and found objects as well as working with sea plastic for his current passion project Plastik Paradiso.
Believing in the power of art to change the world and with an ethos of collaboration and community, Doug spans a broad spectrum of creative outputs bringing together multi talented artists and producers to create work with a message. These solo presentations are the distilled products of many of these strands brought to life to engage and intrigue, discarded and broken stories reborn as sacred objects, waste materials fashioned into icons and shrines to the age of consumption, new gods and goddesses of a world falling in and out of time. dougfrancisco.com |
Brian Froud (UK)
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Brian Froud was born in Winchester in 1947 and graduated with a first class honours diploma in Graphic Design from Maidstone College of Art in 1971. In 1978 the Froud and Lee book "Faeries" which he co-illustrated with Alan Lee reached number 4 on the New York Times best sellers list and sold around ¼ million copies. Brian Froud made his first foray into the film world in 1978 as conceptual designer for "The Dark Crystal" which won the Avoriaz prize for best fantasy film followed in 1986 with 'Labyrinth" under the same Director (Jim Henson).
Brian Froud has won a number of awards over the years including the ASFA best interior illustration and Hugo award for best original artwork in 1995. Froud is very interested in folklore and nature spirits. He has begun painting faeries in a more abstract style as creatures of Nature's intelligent energy. Froud says he tries to put a "healing energy" into his paintings. worldoffroud.com |
Fred Gavaghan (UK)
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Kevin Gavaghan is renowned for his brooding and evocative surreal figurative paintings, using bold and vibrant colours to dissect figures and portraits into abstract.
His work largely reflects his thoughts, dreams and emotions that he has felt about his life and his position within the world as the son of Irish migrants, whilst coping with the complexity of life with tourettes and anxiety related illnesses.
He touches on some challenging subjects, such as religion and politics, relationships and the loss of loved ones as well the challenges we all face but hide from our public persona. His paintings directly confront the viewer with haunting sharpness and striking energy. www.kmgartist.com |
H.R. Giger (Switzerland)
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H R. Giger is recognized as one of the world’s foremost artists of Fantastic Realism. Born in 1940 to a chemist’s family in Chur, Switzerland, he moved in 1962 to Zurich, where he studied architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts. By 1964 he was producing his first artworks, mostly ink drawings and oil paintings, resulting in his first solo exhibition in 1966, followed by the publication and world-wide distribution of his first poster edition in 1969. Shortly after, he discovered the airbrush and, along with it, his own unique freehand painting style, leading to the creation of many of his most well known works, the surrealistic Biomechanical dreamscapes, which formed the cornerstone of his fame. To date, more than 20 books have been published about Giger’s art.
From the onset of his career, Giger also worked in sculpture and had an abiding desire to extend the core elements of his artistic vision beyond the confines of paper into the 3D reality of his surroundings. But it wasn’t until 1988 that he was given the opportunity to design his first total environment, a Giger Bar in Tokyo, Japan. However, it was four more years before his concepts were properly realized, under his personal supervision, with the opening of a second Giger Bar in Chur, the city of his birth, in 1992. hrgiger.com |
Laury Guintrand (France)
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Laury Guintrand is a visual effects concept artist who has been in the film and advertising industry for the past 6 years. Working with clients such as Gucci and Nike, and on films such as The Jungle Book (2016) and The Avengers, she uses computer imagery to create dynamic visuals.
Guintrand is always intrigued and passionate about new forms of expression, and transcending the realm of digital artwork she creates pieces which depict her own thoughts, dreams and fears. https://lauryguintrand.com |
Ella Guru (USA)
Chiho Iwase (Japan)
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Born in Ohio USA, Ella Guru lived in London for 23 years, before moving the Hastings on the south coast. A founding member of the stuckist art movement in 1999, she has exhibited worldwide both independently and with the group. She uses traditional oil on canvas, taking inspiration from painters such as Caravaggio and Velasquez. She casts burlesque performers in biblical scenes, with a modern twist; inspired by the characters and performers in cabaret clubs in london and exploring tarot and myth, the tortured and mysterious.
Drag is of particular importance in Guru’s work; the changing of identity through costume and disguise. Her paintings are open to interpretation; each person brings their own story to their appreciation. Inspired by Liam Brandon Murray’s wearable art in Modern Panic IX, Ella will be showing a painting of her daughter in one of Murray’s dresses. http://ellaguruart.com/?page_id=92 |
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Born in Japan, Chiho Iwase is a London based artist, creating drawings, paintings and sculptures. After spending a few years of intense training of drawing and painting in Japan, she came to study fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Since graduating, she had been making figurative sculptures which articulate her personal discomfort appearing whenever she realised instability within her identity and portray her inner monstrous but simultaneously melancholic character.
Currently she focuses on portrait painting, which begins with life drawing and meets expressions based on her imaginary narratives. Her portraits are not reproduction of individual expressions but refer to our sensibility and spiritual energy. She attempts to portray contemporary mythological figures. Her practice is motivated by the situation in which her repressed negative emotions uncontrollably come out, as a result of events that undermine her identity. www.chihoiwase.com |
Evelyn Jean (UK)
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Evelyn Jean is a multimedia artist from London, who has a passion for making art that captures his innermost fears and pleasures, whilst questioning the actual purpose of these emotions. After a music career spanning 12 years, he became increasingly frustrated at the limits of the medium, and began practicing art in search of the reinvention of the inner self.
His work covers several mediums including painting, film making, performance and installation. Jean is self-taught as an artist, and has been participating in a growing number of shows, apprising to create an emotional understanding over technical superiority in his work. https://www.evelynjean.com |
Brontis Jodorowsky (Mexico)
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Born in Mexico in 1962, Brontis Jodorowsky began his acting career at the age of 7, in El Topo, directed by his father Alejandro Jodorowsky. After participating in his father's The Holy Mountain and in José Antonio Alcaraz episode of Pubertinaje, he was awarded the Mexican Diosa de Plata Best Child Actor Prize in 1974, for his performance in José Luis Alcoriza's film El Muro del Silencio.
Moving to France in 1979, he continued to act on stage (with such directors as Ariane Mnouchkine, Irina Brook, Jorge Lavelli, Simon Abkarian, Bernard Sobel, Lukas Hemleb, Jean Liermier, Paul Golub, Laurent Laffargue), as well as feature films and television, while also beginning to focus on opera stage direction (Pelleas et Mélisande by Debussy in 2009, Rigoletto by Verdi in 2011, and Carmen by Bizet in 2012). In 2011, he starred in Mexican director Daniel Castro Zimbrón's Tau, and in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality, which premiered at the Cannes Directors Fortnight in 2013. Brontis has appeared in René Feret's Anton Tchekhov 1890 (France), Frank Pavich's Jodorowsky's Dune (USA), Antonio Chavarrías' The Chosen (Mexico-Spain), Alejandro Jodorowsky's Endless Poetry, Daniel Castro Zimbron's The Darkness (Mexico), Nathalie Marchak's Par Instinct (France), Daniel Graham's Opus Zero (Mexico), José Padhila's 7 Days in Entebbe (U.K.), Kyzza Tarraza's Bayoneta (Mexico) and David Yates' Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. In May 2019 he publishes in Spain and Latinamerica "Manual de codicia" (ED. Urano/Empresa Activa). He started exploring illustration in at the begining of 2018 and quickly developed his talent from simple black and white line drawing to detailed imaginative full colour pieces. Brontis' keen eye gives the viewer a glimpse into subconcious dream visions, human conditions, and the state of consumerist society. He will be premiering his art work at Modern Panic. instagram.com/brontisjodorowsky |
Jon John (France)
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Known for the provocative nature of his work, Jon John was an innovative artist who used his body in situations of ritual suffering, duress, and difficulty in performance. Born in 1983 in the French Basque, he was also renowned for his piercing and tattoo studio AKA (Berlin and London), his development of techniques for piercing, scarification, implants, and as a designer of body piercing jewellery.
Jon John’s work explored controversial themes including pleasure, pain and ritual as well as cancer and death. His performances drew on extensive field research in the Middle East, North Africa, and India, where he investigated folk usages of ritual self-injury as forms of secular as well as religious practice. In his performances, Jon John also incorporated references to high fashion, pop music, so-called ‘modern primitivism’ and industrial culture, magic, sadomasochism, and sex. Including uniquely sentimental uses of bloodletting, hook suspensions, dancing on thorns, and DIY surgery, Jon John’s own tattooed, scarred and ‘hacked’ body was central to his work as an artist. Jon John died of cancer at the age of 33 in 2017. His last performance, which is documented in the archive, represents a goodbye gesture of sorts and was performed for a small invited audience several weeks before his death. Love On Me: The Finest Hour was streamed live on Facebook, and suggested an attempt to come to terms with death through intimate performed rituals. Modern Panic X will be screening a number of films by Jon John in celebration of his life and as continuation of his collaborations with Guerrilla Zoo over the last decade. Films courtesy of Paul King (Jon John Estate) |
Beau Kerouac (UK)
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For a decade Beau Kerouac has curated and exhibited around the world on collaborations with Artists and individuals who share his passion for change and imagination. Notable/recent exhibitions; AYOD (a year outdoors) Trafalgar square. 2.2 million visitors; Ralph Steadman & Beau Kerouac, Big issue front cover. 320 million reach; London design weeks (award nominations) “Reflect us"; Award nominated film (AYOD) music score Geoff barrows & Ben Salisbury – composers ( exit from the gift shop ) Banksy.
Beau Kerouac runs a agency with 160 artists on the books, from street artists to performers, a napalm hurricane of individuals (global). Up coming projects 2020 (Thames installation) London. Curatorial projects (U.S.A) 2020 France, (Paris) 2020 BeauKerouac.com |
Anaïs Lalange (France)
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Anaïs Lalange first came to the UK from France for a University exchange and has remained in London since graduation. With a background in performance and philosophy, she grew up training in dance, music, theatre and martial arts. She has been Involved in performance art, various immersive projects, and was a professional wrestler for the promotion Lucha Britannia, as the character La Tigressa.
For the last few years, her own art practice has resided mainly in mask making as MASKAL, and she is starting to explore staging her masks into scenes that are then captured through photographs. She introduces masks into the very mundane, or pulls scenes out of her mind which seem surreal but are set in the very spaces that surround us. She is currently collaborating on a project with the artist Hello The Mushroom, and working with various photographers to capture the scenes she envisioned with her masks. https://lalangea.wixsite.com/anais-lalange |
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Sara Le Roy is a Dutch artist living and working in Brighton. She runs Le Roy Art Gallery, the world's first 3D Art Gallery. Le Roy portrays fantasy characters with a twist, Disney but not as we know it. Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Tinkerbell find themselves in the disenchanted here and now, wandering through mental wards, hospitals and crime scenes. Her work can be understood as a gothic yet modern psychedelic revision of traditional fairy tales. Gothic pop art plays with love, sexuality, religion and myths. The dwarves use heroin while Ariel walks the streets. The 3D glasses augment this effect; we literally go through the looking glass!
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Stavroula Lialiou (UK)
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Rebecca Jo Lesley (UK)
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After studying at Central Saint Martins and the Arts University Bournemouth Lesley worked as a costume painting and dyeing junior artist for feature films. She began painting oil portraits in 2016 and received a small development fund from the Arts Council through Resource Productions' Creative Collective to develop her practice. She later moved to Bristol and joined the Creative Youth Network Alumni which led to her being a UK Artist Ambassador at the EU’s Intellectual Property Office for two years.
After her first solo exhibition ‘Rebirth’, Channel 4 television's Random Acts commissioned her to write and direct a short surreal film as an expansion of the project. The film was then screened at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Levile TV listed her as one of the top rising filmmakers living outside of London in 2018. Lesley has exhibited and taught workshops in Romania, Croatia, London and Bristol, including the Royal West Academy of Arts Annual Exhibition and her last solo show at Ashton Court's Arts Mansion. She is also a performer in Pearl Boheme's dark fusion belly dance troupe 'Conspiracy of Ravens' and the bold Bristol based collective Mama Jinx. Her recent artwork was created in Japan and is focused on showing the essence of these unique performers. instagram.com/rebeccajolesley |
Evan Lovejoy (UK)
Marius Matesan (Romania)
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London based 2-D artist Evan Lovejoy has an intense fascination with the way in which human beings perceive animals. Their forms are hijacked, and they become surrogates for our ideas, stories, and symbols, despite their inherent isolation from the human thought process.The animals he paints are not representations of their real life counterparts, but instead display a form that is entirely an artifice.
Painting with acrid colour and grounding the animal body in pockmarked, desolate landscapes, he hopes to encapsulate his own dichotomous relationship with animals — a mixture of wonder for the natural world and disgust with anthropogenic environmental destruction. https://www.lovejoyartist.com |
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Marius Matesan is a video installation artist, noted mostly for his work on theatre stages and festivals across Europe. He mixes reality with the imaginary through projection mapping on various surfaces and gases, as well as holographic and virtual reality experiences. His work revolves around pushing the boundaries of perception, awareness and reality creating installations that are often addressing social issues with a psychedelic twist.
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Vort Man (USA)
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Vort just handed me his phone and asked me to type up a few things about him. I don’t think he understood the difference between written from a third person perspective, and written by a third person. Because the other person in the room said no, I guess technically I am that third person. I’ve known Vort for about 20 years. I would say he has become more Vort Mom in recent years. He continues to make art everyday. Though I argue some of his collages lately aren’t really art. He doesn’t give up though. I’ll give him that. He’s an endurance artist and that’s his calling. I’d root for him. I do root for him.
Sincerely, Third Person. thevortman.com |
Jess Mitchell (UK)
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Jessica Mitchell is a technical artist based in South London. She studied at Camberwell College of Arts (UAL) before going on to study BA (hons) Technical Arts and Special Effects at Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL), graduating in 2019.
Her interests lie within sculpture and drawing and with a main focus on portraiture. In her work she focuses on unexplained phenomena and raises the debate between scientific and spiritual explanations. In her sculptures, she aims to deliberately shock and confuse the viewer in order to mimic her own confusion of the subject matter. Her most recent set of sculptures are based on the phenomena of sleep paralysis and questions whether it is caused by the brain, or whether it is caused by a supernatural force. https://www.jessmitchellart.com/about |
Nika Moss (UK)
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Nika Moss began exploring the art of hide tanning in the Outback of Western-Australia on an esoteric cattle station as part of a project founded by the Institute of Echotechnics. This involved filling up abandoned bathtubs with the leftover skins of the various beasts that roamed the land and stretching them onto scrap metal frames that she welded together in 50 degree heat. Those that survived were promptly painted onto using natural pigments and foraged paints, using extreme political subjects (such as the plight of the aboriginal people) mixed with dark ritual practises.
And so her work as we see it today was birthed. From dead animals. She currently resides on the wilds of Dartmoor in a bizarre shepherds hut, spending her time deer stalking, educating young people in the ways of bushcraft, performing rights of passage ceremonies and using ethical materials to create thought provoking artworks. |
Liam Brandon Murray (UK)
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Liam Brandon Murray is a UK based sculptor and artist who crafts baroque-like garments formulated from deeply layered urban elements and fabrics creating an overwhelming wearable artwork. Murray often incorporates religious elements and iconography into his designs, claiming he wanted to be a religious artist as a small boy. If you look closely, you’ll see Jesus on a cross, cherub angels, and church edifices.
Not only does religion take a significant part in his designs, there’s eccentric glances of what would humans wear when they come to terms with their alien origins and star heritage. Murrays’ wearable pieces cover the human form top to bottom, leaving no area untouched, from gow. Liam uses a mix of different formulas he calls “a cauldron”, containing an interesting mix of materials, including liquid foam for stretch, latex, stretchy fibers, and stretchy paints, among other things. On ‘The World of Wearable Art’ editorial piece, Murray quotes: “It’s my goal to get the art world to accept that as a piece of fine art. It’s just as good, if not more so, than a standing sculpture. This thing has to work, it has to move. [Costume and fashion designers] deserve more credit in the art world, I think”. liambrandonmurray.co.uk |
Holly Sabine Nerreter (Germany)
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German born artist Holly Sabine Nerreter moved to the UK in 1989. She studied art in Nuremberg and London. Her work depicts her thoughts on all aspects of Emotion in Life, using mixed media. Her drawings are set in metal leaf, as every subject is precious to her own heart. Moving to San Diego,California in 2008 she was shocked by the homeless crisis and created " Precious Life", a series of portraits featuring Woman living on the street, mostly on Skid Row. Work from this series was exhibited in London and Rome.
She is currently working on project “Love Hurts” Addressing the issue of emotional and physical Domestic Violence and Abuse behind closed doors; a subject close to her own heart as she was personally affected. Her work is set in a peek-a-boo heart shape and she shows a variation of bruised skin and eyes that reflect the pain and fear caused. Her work is self therapy and an invitation to look closer. hollysabinenerreterart.com |
Lindsay Pickett (UK)
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Pickett's work features recordings he sees in dreams. He goes to many places when asleep, the camera he takes with him is his imagination
Pickett's main practice involves painting with oils on canvas, linen and board. Many of his ideas come from cinematic science fiction films. Whereas such images are mostly created digitally, he thrives on the challenge of creating something impossible by hand. He starts with a basic study of a composition idea, and takes it further as a small watercolour painting as a final idea, finally developing it more as the finished oil painting. He creates a visual reality that can be convincing at times with a vertigo inducing surreal realism. lindsaypickett.co.uk |
Chris Richford (UK)
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Chris Richford avoided a traditional art education and studied Biology at UEA, completing his education with an MSc in Plant Genetics and Crop improvement at the John Innes Centre. He tried to be a scientist but has since found his niche as a self-employed artist and print-maker in Norwich. Despite, or maybe because of a fascination with natural sciences he compulsively pursued his own art through drawing, painting, sculpture in found materials, printmaking and most recently, Taxidermy.
Though often meticulously detailed and teaming with imagery his drawings and paintings come from a spontaneous ignition fueled by dreams, subconscious desires and fears. His recent three-dimensional work however is a more considered and multi layered machination. Using animal bones as the building blocks they intrinsically are, new, fantastical creatures take shape and are possessed by both a biological and demonic presence of their own. chrisgealrichford.com |
Alex Rose (UK)
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Alex Rose has always made things. Certain friends insisted he was rather good at making things and that this somewhat particular skill deserved to be taken forward. So he is still making things. The card and tape and papier-mâché pastiche of his formative years has been abandoned for silicone casting and metal-work but the old intention of dragging humour and the human from the obscure and vulgar remains the same. To this end, he has recently started employing mechanised movement to simulate bulging, gulping, throbbing and shuddering…
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Sibylle Ruppert (Germany)
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Sibylle Ruppert was born during an air raid on September 8, 1942. It was the night of the first massive Allied aerial bombing of Frankfurt in World War II. She spent her childhood alternating between her children’s room and an improvised bomb shelter. In spring 1944 her parents decided to flee Frankfurt to the countryside. Sibylle’s first memories were the pushing and shouting crowds on the platforms of the train station, people desperately trying to board the coaches of the overcrowded trains.
After the war, her family stayed with an aristocratic family in their castle. Sibylle experienced these years as a dream-like world. Her father was a graphic designer and young Sibylle spent hours upon hours watching him as he was drawing. One day, she took his hand and promised him that she would paint nice colorful pictures just like him. Her first drawing surprised everyone; it was a brutal illustration of a fist smashing into a face – she was 6 years old. Around the age of 10, Sibylle experienced a religious enlightenment, and she insisted on becoming a nun. It took quite an effort for her family to change her mind. When Sibylle turned 18 she escaped to Paris, the city of her dreams, where she enrolled in a dance school in Clichy. She joined the famous dance revue ensemble of Georges Reche, touring all across Europe and the Middle East. She eventually returned to her family in Frankfurt and began working as a drawing teacher at the art school founded by her father. At night, she continued her own personal work, drawing inspiration from the “divine” Marquis de Sade and his frightful universe. Her art found increasing recognition. Exhibitions organized by the Sydow Gallery in Frankfurt served to bewilder the traditional art buying public and caused raised eyebrows in the intellectual scene. In 1976, Sibylle relocated to Paris and exhibited her large-format charcoal drawings, collages, and paintings at the Gallery Bijan Aalam. After the gallery closed in 1982, she returned to teaching drawing and painting. She taught art classes in prisons, psychiatric institutions, and drug addiction rehabilitation centers. Sibylle Ruppert lived a reclusive life in Paris untill her death by the end of may 2011. www.facebook.com/pg/Sibylle-Ruppert/ |
Lucy Sparrow (UK)
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Originally from Bath, UK, felt artist Lucy Sparrow works mainly in felt to create artwork that inspires and evokes a delightful response from everyone who sees it. Taking the art world by storm in Summer 2014 with the opening of her fully stocked felt Cornershop installation in London’s East End. With queues around the block and wall to wall media coverage, the installation was both a commercial and critical success
With a practice that is quirky yet subversive, she lures that audience in with her soft, tactile felt creations, before hitting them hard with her comment of subjects from the demise of the traditional high street, to censorship within pornogrpahy. sewyoursoul.co.uk |
Ralph Steadman (UK)
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Ralph Steadman is a British artist and cartoonist known for his provocative, often grotesque, illustrations frequently featuring spatters and splotches of ink and for his collaboration with American author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
While Steadman was serving in the Royal Air Force (1954–56), he learned technical drawing, took a correspondence drawing course, and made many efforts to sell cartoons to newspapers. He sold his first cartoon to the Manchester Evening Chronicle in 1956. When he was discharged, he moved to London, where he intended to make a living as an artist. He found work at the Kemsley Newspaper Group, took drawing lessons, and spent his free time drawing studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum. After rejecting him many times, Punchmagazine not only accepted one of his drawings but featured it on the cover in 1961. Though his earliest work did not reflect the biting style he became known for, Steadman’s content always had a satirical bent. Once he began working in a more-provocative mode, many publications deemed his material too offensive to print. In 1961 the U.K. political and current events magazine Private Eye was launched, and Steadman’s drawing Plastic People, which Punch had rejected, was printed in its 11th issue. Throughout the 1960s Steadman continued to focus on his academic art training. From 1961 to 1965 he studied at the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts (now the London College of Communication at the University of the Arts London). Feeling a lack of freedom in London to publish the kind of work he was producing, Steadman began traveling back and forth to the United States in search of a more-hospitable publishing environment. He began publishing his work in Rolling Stone. During one of those trips in 1970, Steadman met Thompson through Scanlan’s Monthly, an irreverent and short-lived publication. Thompson and Steadman together produced a story on the Kentucky Derby, the first of many collaborations. Thompson introduced Steadman to what he called “gonzo” journalism, a new form of highly personal reportage. This no-holds-barred approach to expression spoke to Steadman in a profound way. The next year he illustrated Thompson’s best-known work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972), a story based on Thompson’s drug-induced experiences traveling across America to Las Vegas with his attorney in the 1960s. Steadman’s illustrations and imagery were adapted for a 1998 film of the same name, starring Johnny Depp. Neither the novel nor the film was a critical success when it was released, but both have since become cult classics. Steadman had steady work as a political cartoonist with a variety of publications in the U.K. and U.S. throughout the late 1960s and ’70s, but he had garnered a reputation for producing controversial and sometimes unprintable content. His depictions of politicians (and humans, in general) were dark, even grotesque, and, with their exaggerated physical features, they revealed hidden truths and horrors, mostly about politics, corporate greed, and violence. Steadman often cited a particularly cruel headmaster from his youth as the reason for his distrust of authority. He also felt a strong compulsion to change the world, which he had hoped to do in some small way, by making political art with strong messages. Steadman worked with pen and brush in ink, also using acrylic and oil paint, etching, silk screen, and collage. His training in technical drawing is evident in his precise treatment of machinery and human and animal anatomy. His creative process was organic and often began with a blot of ink on a white page. He treated unintended marks as opportunities to take his work in a different direction. ralphsteadman.com |
Peter Sulo (Slovakia)
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Peter Sulo creates paintings and drawings inspired by popular, nostalgic, likeable, pornographic or otherwise fetishised images which capture and hold attention. His early influences include Egon Schiele, Francisco Goya, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, among others, and this is sometimes visible in his work. Sulo hails from Slovakia, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts and Design from 2004 to 2010, gaining a BA followed by an MA in Painting and other media. Besides his academic studies, over the past decade and a half Sulo has participated in a number of workshops and residencies across Europe (Austria, Hungary, Slovenia), as well as both solo and group exhibitions in UK, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria and Russia. He has
been living and working in London since 2013. Sulo’s work is rich in storytelling and is conceived as a kind of language, created for the purpose of sharing phantasmagories with other people. He employs visual stimuli from his surroundings and recreates them in painting and/or drawing in order to explore the elements from which they are constructed and to expand the meaning of an image through his own stories and interpretations. The ultimate aim of his art is to establish communication with other people through image but without insisting on a particular meaning, allowing the observer to connect with his works on their own terms, through their own narrative paradigms. instagram.com/peter.sulo |
Sepideh Tajalizadeh Dashti (Iran)
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Sepideh Dashti is currently an MFA student at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. Her artistic practice is connected to and inseparable from her cultural identity. She has found her voice allowing her to communicate how it feels to be a female diasporic woman from Iran living in and responding to western culture. In her quest to assert her individual expression and has artistic agency, she turns the lens on family, belief structures, and women’s place in society both Iran and Canada. Using video, photography, and performance, her artwork is one of the disclosure, she draws from her personal experiences to question social expectations, and self that impact the process of identity formation.
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Barbara Taylor (Germany)
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Barbara Taylor was born in Mannheim Germany, trained and worked as a gentleman’s tailor in the theatre there. She studied Art textiles and Midwifery in the UK. She is an artist/ maker, midwife and trainee Art Psychotherapist working in the UK.
The motivation for her work is closely linked with the experiences she made growing up the suburbia of Southern Germany and holidays spent with her grandparents in the Black Forest. The household was always busy with stories, animals, extended family and friends visiting. Fascinated by the natural world and with this way of life, as a child she created fanciful worlds and characters, which still live on today. Taylor’s practice explores the thresholds of human experience, death, life and birth. Her objects aim to reflect the mysteries, romances and terrors of childhood. In her work she questions the relationship between reality and representation, between what we see and what we want to believe. Her work is fictional and staged, not hiding the mechanics of illusions but wanting her audience to see how they are created. As we surrender to the pretence, we engage in something that is authentic and experiential. “I am not interested in a consummate or final state; my attention is continually directed to visualise transiency… the transitory nature of artefacts and human encounter.” taylorartefact.co.uk |
Sonia Tibacov (Romania)
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Sonia Tibacov was born in Romania in 1989 to a family of artists, and grew up in Transylvania. She moved to the UK in 2009 to study graphic design, and currently works as a visual artist in London and owns a jewellery/accessory business called Drakula Approved. Her favorite subjects are insects, joyful demons or any other odd creature willing to pose. Her specialty are intricate miniatures. In her free time, Sonia loves exploring the city and occasionally doing photography.
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Martin Tomsky (UK)
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London based artist Martin Tomsky creates illustrative, relief pieces built up from layers of laser cut, stained plywood. These range in size and shape from very small items of jewellery to much larger, bespoke artworks. Each piece is hand assembled to create an organic object that bridges the gap between craft, illustration and sculpture.
Martin grew up in South London as the youngest of seven children. His childhood was spent surrounded by books – relics from his parents' past as Czech publishers and book smugglers. Amidst the chaos of his large family, Martin's drawing habit grew unchecked until it developed into a full blown addiction. Since graduating from Camberwell College of Arts Martin has translated his art from the page to the physical by creating intricate works of art which both are both decorative and narrative. Though he is no longer a compulsive doodler he is still frequently distracted by events that didn’t happen in places that don’t exist. martintomsky.com |
Paul Toupet (France)
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An affiliate of the new European contemporary outsider pop scene, Paul Toupet followed no formal academic training. The artist works solely on the creation of a populace for whom he is both Father and Child – a people unlike any other who make waves on first sight.
The youngest of three boys, Toupet grew up in a catholic bourgeois environment. His parents, devoted amateurs of primitive art, displayed their collection in the family home. This charged aesthetic, free and rough, influenced the young man who began altering second-hand dolls and putting them in boxes. In the 2000s, he made human-scale dolls with a mixed method, perfected over time, which involves a set of materials (wax, paper, fabric, rope, leather) whose raw resonance and autumnal tones he experiments with. These typologically obsessive creatures, full of the melancholic temperament of their maker, are an infinite repetition of childhood’s sacred icon: the rabbit. The rabbit dressed as a child, child disguised as a rabbit, invariably. Tenderness and playfulness are encoded in their postures, attitudes, and intentions, contrasted by the strong dynamic energy of these rudimentary materials. In 2013, the artist decided to experiment with all the possibilities of the color white. Three years later, his incredible mastery of papier-mâché allowed him to trick the eye and create what he now calls his “ceramic effect”, which he emphasizes by painting tattoos and other marks onto the creatures in Delft blue, with acrylic pen. Since 2010, supported by HEY! modern art & pop culture where he is regularly published and exhibited (in art centers, museums, galleries, and fairs). He was named one of the best sculptors of 2018 by the Australian organization Beautiful Bizarre, and his works have entered several private collections in Europe. Whether they are alone, arranged in little group scenes or in large installations, Paul Toupet’s “little people” welcome the addition of one “giant”, created especially for HEY! modern art & pop culture –IV on display at the museum Halle Saint-Pierre from March to August 2019). paultoupet.fr |
Gaston Ugalde (Bolivia)
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Gastón Ugalde, born 1944 in La Paz, Bolivia (Venice Biennale 2009, 2001) is considered a visual arts leader in the region. Spanning a half-century career, he is considered a video-art pioneer in Latin America and his work includes performance, painting, sculpture, installation, land-art, photography and printmaking. Since 1972 he has had over 90 solo-shows and over 100 collective exhibitions all over the world.
From his collage works made from coca leaves, to his installation of Andean textiles, his works are deeply rooted in Bolivian traditions and is filled socio-political references. Ugalde is able to capture and transform locally-oriented themes, that are often provocative in nature, into a universal language that pushes the envelope of art making. gastonugalde.com |
Yannick Unfricht (France)
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Born in 1970. France. Lives and works in Bitche (France). Self-taught artist. Performer of French-German culture, Yannick Unfricht is a historical member of HEY! La Cie since its creation in 2010. In the 90s, he discovered "the art of movement", and explored it instinctively. During the 2000s, he discovered Butô dance and made it as the backbone of his art. Since then, he has been experimenting this discipline during performances. He adds to his gesture a set of masks and accessories that he creates from elements of his environment (objects of recovery and natural fragments of bark, wood, stone, moss ...). Through a tactic of shadow and transformation, the characters with fantastic looks that he invents are poetic, epic, and question. After a phase of "test", alone, in his native forest of Bitche, they "reveal themselves" to the artist, ready to "be called" in performance. The art of ritual or ritualized passage remaining the alpha and omega of his expression, the exercise of photography is in itself for the artist only one more medium to his palette to express "his moment present. Gravely afflicted with Lyme disease since 2015, photography and woodcarving burned by the blowtorch increase his perimeter identity. Overtone singing is also part of his talents
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Hel Vesper (UK)
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Hel Vesper is an illustrator based in the northwest of England, who combines traditional and digital mediums to explore themes of mental health and existentialism. Her work is often informed by Dadaism, drawing on techniques such as pareidolia to generate subversive images and fantastic characters.
Passionate about storytelling, Vesper likes to combine narratives with surrealism to illustrate her own short stories and comics. Working in a variant of forms, she finds inspiration in the strange and macabre, creating bizarre imagery with hidden meanings. She has a bachelor’s in Illustration from the University of Plymouth and has recently finished studying for a master’s in creative writing. helvesper.co.uk |
Pamela Walker (UK)
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Pamela Walker graduated from Belfast School of Art in 2018 with first class honours in Ceramics, Silversmithing and Jewellery. A mixed media artist from Northern Ireland, she works primarily with materials which are old, unloved and discarded. Walker’s practice is eclectic and includes a variety of media such as collage, print, painting, ceramics, taxidermy and assemblage, mainly born of a fascination with vintage ceramic figurines, found objects, Victorian taxidermy and all manner of ephemera. It is a celebration of the rebirth of the gauche, ugly and unloved.
Her choice of medium is born of the belief that nothing is worthless and ponders the relationship between humanity's compulsion to possess objects and how with the passage of time, what was once cherished, takes on the role of the reviled and is ultimately seen as worthless. By recycling and altering these neglected items, she gives them a whole new purpose providing a mechanism for commentary on both local and global social, religious and political issues. www.pamelawalker.co.uk |
Baba Lou Webb (UK)
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Baba Lou T Webb is a Manchester based artist, currently studying ‘Interactive Arts’ at Manchester metropolitan university. Her upbringing in the countryside influenced her love of organic matter, fairy tales, myths and her morbid curiosity led her to learn the art of taxidermy.
Working with natural hair and animal hides, decaying flesh and bone like materials, she creates surreal, anthropomorphic sculptures exploring themes of representation and vulnerability. Webb tries not to disgust the viewer but to subvert the way in which we respond to hair detached exposing similarities between animals and humans. The repurposed materials hold memories, hard and soft and explore the divide between attraction and repulsion in an attempt to normalise the last taboo. |
Jeremy Wolf (USA)
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Jeremy Wolf is an artist originally from New York, now living and working in London, UK. His work explores themes of identity, power dynamics, and relationships between persons and groups. Recent paintings react to the seismic shifts in the current American political landscape, the subsequent effect on society, and the changing concept of what it means, and has meant, to be an American both at home and abroad.
American moral authority and influence has waned across the globe with the rise of alt-right politics in the mainstream. By blurring the lines between truth and falsehood, these actors have created a society of mutual distrust and suspicion. Much of Jeremy's work centers on this new and unsettling dynamic. instagram.com/ewwwjerms |
Andris Wood (USA)
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William Andris Wood is a traditional figurative painter and portraitist based in Oxford. Wood completed his BFA in painting, and MFA in History of Art at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver Colorado, in 1998. In the course of his twenty plus years professional career he has held exhibitions in the US, London, and Oxford, and has several pieces in private collections throughout the US, UK, and UAE, including two paintings in the Pembroke College JCR collection, Oxford University.
Wood's oeuvre quite often addresses contemporary sociopolitical themes of a dark, disturbing, and often challenging nature. Influenced by the great Romantics of the 18th/19th century, and using traditional 'old master' techniques, but with a narrative relative to contemporary concerns, his paintings communicate a thoughtful commentary about the subject's pain and suffering whilst lending a passionate gravity and humanity to their circumstances. Wood is a lifelong advocate for the necessity of discipline in the arts, and the study of the anatomy of the human figure in painting. Wood pain ts without cynicism or pretence, but with honesty and sincerity (which is something sorely lacking in the art world today), in the hope of striking a chord with the viewer. Wood puts the "pain" back into painting. williamandriswood.wordpress.com |
Charlie Wood (UK)
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Wood is a multi disciplinary artist, performer and recent graduate from Central Saint Martins. Each work collides together tragedy and comedy to create powerful images, films, performances, music, and contains a frantic energy and aims to inspire intense emotional reactions in its audience. They exploring subjects of death, dysphoria, pain, joy, politics and psychology, often reflecting the tension and panic of our contemporary society, alongside personal feelings around trauma and the trans experience.
Wood’s work is visceral, often warping and collaging the human body to create disturbing images, find beauty in ugliness and triumph in tragedy. Taking Greek myths & old tales and flinging them into the modern day and through the lens of queer punk anarchy. “The presence of my own self in my work is also in line with my constant pursuit of authenticity. I want to use this honesty to challenge those who find my work outside of their experience and comfort those who recognise themselves in it.” www.instagram.com/charlieprobablywood |
xsullo (USA)
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xsullo crafts techno-dystopic works that move between analog and digital approaches. Touches of surrealism and a distinct color palette blend with Sullo’s tight linework, reminiscent of Moebius, techno-punk anime, or artists within the Heavy Metal roster. The artist often works abstractions into the pieces that resemble both digital glitches and painterly touches. In addition to the illustrative work xsullo has 10 years vfx experience as a generalist matte painter & environement artist. Work includes Stranger Things, and the latest Pirates of the Caribbean to name a few.
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Yuri Zupancic (USA)
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Born in 1980, Yuri Zupancic is an artist from Dodge City and Lawrence, Kansas, USA now based in Paris, France. Largely self-taught, he creates and exhibits paintings, drawings, sculptures, video art, installations, and hybrids of these mediums. Raised in the great landscapes of the American West, he continues to find inspiration in nature while exploring the contemporary human condition and the ambiguous effects of modern technology.
Yuri’s works have been exhibited at galleries, museums, art fairs, and unconventional spaces in Paris, London, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Aspen, Sydney, and been published by Huffington Post, WIRED, Juxtapoz, and many others. Yurizupancic.com |
