Modern Panic III
ARTISTS
In alphabetical order
Karina Akopyan
Karina Akopyan was born in Moscow, Russia into a family of Armenian origin. As an only child Karina was spending a lot of time alone drawing and was fascinated by folk stories and animals. Throughout her whole childhood Karina came to understand that Russian life is not for her, and she wanted to live in the society where she could express herself freely without being judged or repressed.
Karina moved to England at the age of fifteen to finish her GCSE’s and study art. At that point she was mostly interested in oil painting and spend long hours reproducing works of Italian painters. Later on her interest changed slightly and she started working with gouache and experimenting with other materials. Being torn between Fine art and Illustration Karina decided to study Illustration only because it gave her chance to do more figurative drawing. Karina graduated with degree in Illustration from Kingston University in 2010. Her recent work depicts themes of fashion, fetishism and theater, also featuring a series of paintings of some of London’s most daring performers. Karina’s work is still without a doubt influenced by her Russian upbringing and she claims to be most inspired when she is back there. Karina currently lives in London and works as a freelance artist and illustrator.
www.karina-akopyan.blogspot.com
Karina moved to England at the age of fifteen to finish her GCSE’s and study art. At that point she was mostly interested in oil painting and spend long hours reproducing works of Italian painters. Later on her interest changed slightly and she started working with gouache and experimenting with other materials. Being torn between Fine art and Illustration Karina decided to study Illustration only because it gave her chance to do more figurative drawing. Karina graduated with degree in Illustration from Kingston University in 2010. Her recent work depicts themes of fashion, fetishism and theater, also featuring a series of paintings of some of London’s most daring performers. Karina’s work is still without a doubt influenced by her Russian upbringing and she claims to be most inspired when she is back there. Karina currently lives in London and works as a freelance artist and illustrator.
www.karina-akopyan.blogspot.com
Karolina Albricht
Karolina Albricht was born in Cracow, Poland in 1983. She completed High School of Art in Cracow and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow 2003-2008. She was also granted a Socrates-Erasmus scholarship at ArtEz Institute of the Arts in Arnhem, Holland in 2007.
In 2008 she was awarded a Masters Degree from the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. After graduation she moved to London where she has worked until the present day. She also takes portrait commissions and works on other independent projects.
Her paintings revolve around the human being, their surroundings and realities. The nature of the individual contradicting their aspirations. The awareness of one’s finiteness, incompetence and power.
She has shown her work at several group and individual exhibitions in Poland and the UK:
In 2008 she was awarded a Masters Degree from the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. After graduation she moved to London where she has worked until the present day. She also takes portrait commissions and works on other independent projects.
Her paintings revolve around the human being, their surroundings and realities. The nature of the individual contradicting their aspirations. The awareness of one’s finiteness, incompetence and power.
She has shown her work at several group and individual exhibitions in Poland and the UK:
Franko B
Franko B was born in Milan and has lived in London since 1979. He has been creating work across video, photography, performance, painting, installation, sculpture and mixed media since 1990. He has performed at the Tate Modern, ICA, South London Gallery and Beaconsfield. He has presented work internationally in Zagreb, Mexico City, Milan, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Copenhagen, Madrid and Vienna, Tate Liverpool and most recently at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium and the Crawford municipal gallery in Cork, Ireland. Franko B lectures widely, including at St. Martins School of Art, DasArt, New York University, Accademia Di Belle Arti and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He has been the subject of two monographs, 'Franko B' (Black Dog Publishing 1998) and 'Oh Lover Boy' (2001) and has published a photographic project entitled 'Still Life' (2003).
http://www.franko-b.com
http://www.franko-b.com
Miranda Benzies
Miranda Benzies is a figurative oil painter living in London. Following in the surrealist tradition Miranda takes elements from the environment around her and presents them in a unique way so that they take on a life of their own. Largely influenced by working alongside artists such as George Thorgerson Miranda combines concepts, imagination and craft to create her paintings.
Painting from a very young age, Miranda was taught by her mother who is also an artist. Having studied Fine Art at Foundation level Miranda went on to Bristol University to study Art History. Practical painting courses at several of London’s leading art colleges; Heatherley’s School of Art, The Princes Drawing School and Lavender Hill Studios have helped Miranda refine her technique.
Exhibiting widely in London Miranda has taken part in group shows at the Truman Brewery, The Air Gallery and has recently shown at the Cork Street Open Exhibition and Cultivate Gallery on Vyner Street. www.mirandasmantlepiece.com
Painting from a very young age, Miranda was taught by her mother who is also an artist. Having studied Fine Art at Foundation level Miranda went on to Bristol University to study Art History. Practical painting courses at several of London’s leading art colleges; Heatherley’s School of Art, The Princes Drawing School and Lavender Hill Studios have helped Miranda refine her technique.
Exhibiting widely in London Miranda has taken part in group shows at the Truman Brewery, The Air Gallery and has recently shown at the Cork Street Open Exhibition and Cultivate Gallery on Vyner Street. www.mirandasmantlepiece.com
Liz Buckfield
Liz Buckfield was born in Bath on December 18th 1981. Growing up in Radstock, north Somerset Liz eventually moved to London in 2000 to study a degree in Graphic Fine Art. Four years later she returned to the west country where she now works and resides in Bristol.
Her portfolio is an eclectic mix of works, ranging from Photoshop illustrations, drawings, mixed media paintings, illustrated official documents and oil painted street signs. Her works are a commentary and critique of modern life today, often touching on the dark and twisted realities of life but applied with comically humorous undertones; the brutal honesty of her work can sometimes be provocative and disarming to the viewer.
Liz's first exhibition was a solo show at The Emporium, Stokes Croft, and she has since taken part in numerous squat art events within Bristol as well as having work up in small galleries in the area. Taking on a wide range of private commissions, Liz has also designed all the art for the Norwegian rock band Moron Police, including LP covers, CD booklet, promotional posters and t-shirt designs.
Her portfolio is an eclectic mix of works, ranging from Photoshop illustrations, drawings, mixed media paintings, illustrated official documents and oil painted street signs. Her works are a commentary and critique of modern life today, often touching on the dark and twisted realities of life but applied with comically humorous undertones; the brutal honesty of her work can sometimes be provocative and disarming to the viewer.
Liz's first exhibition was a solo show at The Emporium, Stokes Croft, and she has since taken part in numerous squat art events within Bristol as well as having work up in small galleries in the area. Taking on a wide range of private commissions, Liz has also designed all the art for the Norwegian rock band Moron Police, including LP covers, CD booklet, promotional posters and t-shirt designs.
Emma Buggy
Emma Buggy is a visual artist who engages with varying practices of the applied and plastic arts. She is currently living in London and working from her Brixton based studio and on the streets of London. After graduating from Wimbledon Collage of arts in 2007, Emma traveled to Australia where she completed an apprenticeship as a technical props artist with Big Kahoona Imagineering. Israel was her next destination, where she was actively involved in a number of artistic ventures.
Her inquisitive exploration of making processes and materials lead her to work and teach at "The Jerusalem Ceramic Arts Center" whilst coordinating community arts projects with "The Jerusalem Theatre" and for "Mangina"(the Jerusalem community gardens festival). Emma has also continuously made art works for festivals such as "The Secret Garden Party" in Cambridge, the "Rainbow Serpent" festival in Australia and "InDnegev" in Israel, where she both made large scale dessert sculptures from found materials and Co directed the making and curating of the festivals art works for the last two years.
Most recently Emma has been concentrating on establishing herself as an emerging artist in London, having exhibited her work in group shows on Vyner street, The Tate Tanks, The Brick Box and many other boutique start up galleries in London, Brighton and Sydney, particularly in the last 2 years.
www.emmabuggy.com
Her inquisitive exploration of making processes and materials lead her to work and teach at "The Jerusalem Ceramic Arts Center" whilst coordinating community arts projects with "The Jerusalem Theatre" and for "Mangina"(the Jerusalem community gardens festival). Emma has also continuously made art works for festivals such as "The Secret Garden Party" in Cambridge, the "Rainbow Serpent" festival in Australia and "InDnegev" in Israel, where she both made large scale dessert sculptures from found materials and Co directed the making and curating of the festivals art works for the last two years.
Most recently Emma has been concentrating on establishing herself as an emerging artist in London, having exhibited her work in group shows on Vyner street, The Tate Tanks, The Brick Box and many other boutique start up galleries in London, Brighton and Sydney, particularly in the last 2 years.
www.emmabuggy.com
Charles Bronson
Born on 6th December 1952 as Michael Peterson, his name was changed to Charles Bronson in the mid-eighties by his boxing promoter. First imprisoned in 1974 for armed robbery, he was released in 1987 and 1992 but returned to prison for conspiracy to rob. Contrary to popular belief, Charlie has never harmed anyone outside of the prison walls. He has never taken a life. His sentence has been repeatedly extended for fighting the system.
He has now spent over 37 years' imprisoned, 32 of those in solitary confinement. He has not been able to mix with other prisoners since 1999. In 2000 he was sentenced to LIFE with a three year tariff for holding an art teacher hostage for 44 hours. The art teacher was unharmed. Charlie was first given some paper and pencils by a prison officer and asked 'Let's see what you can do with these then.'
His art has occupied him for the past fourteen years now. His work is quite unique and is sent to and exhibited around the world. He has published fifteen books and numerous prizes for his art and poetry, including six awards from The Koestler Trust. In 2008 a film was made of his life, 'Bronson' with English actor Tom Hardy in the lead role. In November 2011, when the film was screen on TV, Charlie finally got to watch it! Watch the 'Bronson' trailer.
All proceeds from Charles Bronson's art work will go towards his freedom appeal.
http://thecharliebronsonappealfund.co.uk/
He has now spent over 37 years' imprisoned, 32 of those in solitary confinement. He has not been able to mix with other prisoners since 1999. In 2000 he was sentenced to LIFE with a three year tariff for holding an art teacher hostage for 44 hours. The art teacher was unharmed. Charlie was first given some paper and pencils by a prison officer and asked 'Let's see what you can do with these then.'
His art has occupied him for the past fourteen years now. His work is quite unique and is sent to and exhibited around the world. He has published fifteen books and numerous prizes for his art and poetry, including six awards from The Koestler Trust. In 2008 a film was made of his life, 'Bronson' with English actor Tom Hardy in the lead role. In November 2011, when the film was screen on TV, Charlie finally got to watch it! Watch the 'Bronson' trailer.
All proceeds from Charles Bronson's art work will go towards his freedom appeal.
http://thecharliebronsonappealfund.co.uk/
Santiago Caruso
Is a symbolist and surreal artist, with an avant-garde concept but rooted in the nineteenth century´s aesthetic. His work stands out both for the vigor of its poetry as well as for its technique.
Dedicated to the fantastique, horror, suspense, essay and poetry, among his most important publishings you can find: El Horror de Dunwich by H. P. Lovecraft; La Condesa Sangrienta by Alejandra Pizarnik and El Monje y la Hija del Verdugo by Ambrose Bierce (Libros del Zorro Rojo); Senhorita Christina by Mircea Eliade (Tordesilhas);Historias de Vampiros (Longseller); The Peacock Escritoire by Mark Valentine and Tarshishim by Ron Weighell (Ex Occidente Press); Three Great Plays of Shakespeare and Don Quixote, (Penguin Readers).
Between 2005 and 2011, he published his art on the mythical magazine CARAS Y CARETAS. He has also made covers for Tartarus Press, Nightshade Books, Miskatonic River Press, White Wolf Publishing, Random House Mondadori, Cántaro, Sudamericana, Emecé, Planeta and Páginas de Espuma, among others. He creates the visual concept of music albums of different bands from Perú, USA, Canada, Finland and Ireland.
In 2010 he has been chosen to be part of Beinart Surreal Art Collective and he is an active member in their exhibitions. It is no overstatement to say that the work of Caruso, which is well represented in the galleries and museums of Buenos Aires, USA, Mexico, Slovakia and Spain, is currently one of the most pleasant revelations of Latin American plastic arts.
http://www.santiagocaruso.com.ar/
Dedicated to the fantastique, horror, suspense, essay and poetry, among his most important publishings you can find: El Horror de Dunwich by H. P. Lovecraft; La Condesa Sangrienta by Alejandra Pizarnik and El Monje y la Hija del Verdugo by Ambrose Bierce (Libros del Zorro Rojo); Senhorita Christina by Mircea Eliade (Tordesilhas);Historias de Vampiros (Longseller); The Peacock Escritoire by Mark Valentine and Tarshishim by Ron Weighell (Ex Occidente Press); Three Great Plays of Shakespeare and Don Quixote, (Penguin Readers).
Between 2005 and 2011, he published his art on the mythical magazine CARAS Y CARETAS. He has also made covers for Tartarus Press, Nightshade Books, Miskatonic River Press, White Wolf Publishing, Random House Mondadori, Cántaro, Sudamericana, Emecé, Planeta and Páginas de Espuma, among others. He creates the visual concept of music albums of different bands from Perú, USA, Canada, Finland and Ireland.
In 2010 he has been chosen to be part of Beinart Surreal Art Collective and he is an active member in their exhibitions. It is no overstatement to say that the work of Caruso, which is well represented in the galleries and museums of Buenos Aires, USA, Mexico, Slovakia and Spain, is currently one of the most pleasant revelations of Latin American plastic arts.
http://www.santiagocaruso.com.ar/
Jazz Szu-Ying Chen
Born Dec 1990. Aspiring illustrator/artist. Currently studying at Central Saint Martins. She debuted her art career at 17 with solo exhibition "Karnival" in Taiwan. Since then, Jazz has had two solos and two group shows in Taiwan, and London.
Jazz has also collaborate with many underground musicians on album and merchandise artwork and logos. She is very inspired by grotesque, horror-oriented subjects. Her latest inspiration the Florida bathsalt cannibal incident!
Jazz has also collaborate with many underground musicians on album and merchandise artwork and logos. She is very inspired by grotesque, horror-oriented subjects. Her latest inspiration the Florida bathsalt cannibal incident!
Sarah Delaney
Sarah Delaney is a Darwin-based artist whose works oft explore imbalances in environmental and social ecologies and the various modes of censorship that all too often overshadow them.
She believes that Art allows a dialogue that can question such censorship, providing a voice where others have been silenced.
She employs various mediums as a means to communicate these iniquitous happenings that are brought about by slipshod industrial practices, such as installation, sculpture, photography, painting and printmaking.
She believes that Art allows a dialogue that can question such censorship, providing a voice where others have been silenced.
She employs various mediums as a means to communicate these iniquitous happenings that are brought about by slipshod industrial practices, such as installation, sculpture, photography, painting and printmaking.
Charlie Tuesday Gates
Charlie Tuesday Gates was born in Dorset and studied Sculpture at Camberwell College of Arts. Her work explores the subconscious memories of a very strange and uncanny childhood.
As well as sculpture, Gates is also a performance artist and after teaching herself taxidermy she brought this seemingly dark art to the stage for the first time with live D.I.Y Taxidermy performances. A cross between the shopping channel and Blue Peter.
Her artwork has appeared on the cover of DESIGN WEEK, inside TIME OUT, THE INDEPENDENT, NOTION and BIZARRE MAGAZINE. She has worked with DIESEL, BBC FILM, FILM LONDON, SECRET CINEMA and created the set design for a semi finalist of the PLACE PRIZE, the biggest contemporary dance award in Britain.
Gates lives and works in London.
http://www.charlietuesdaygates.co.uk/
As well as sculpture, Gates is also a performance artist and after teaching herself taxidermy she brought this seemingly dark art to the stage for the first time with live D.I.Y Taxidermy performances. A cross between the shopping channel and Blue Peter.
Her artwork has appeared on the cover of DESIGN WEEK, inside TIME OUT, THE INDEPENDENT, NOTION and BIZARRE MAGAZINE. She has worked with DIESEL, BBC FILM, FILM LONDON, SECRET CINEMA and created the set design for a semi finalist of the PLACE PRIZE, the biggest contemporary dance award in Britain.
Gates lives and works in London.
http://www.charlietuesdaygates.co.uk/
Dan Gomer
Dan Gomer is a Welsh artist, graduate of Wimbledon College of Art and resident of London for five years. He works at 13 Finger FX making props and special make-up effects for film and television.
The commencement of his new series of work is being shown for the first time at Modern Panic 3. His figurative pieces are inspired by personal philosophies, ingrained imagery and slightly warped aesthetics.
The commencement of his new series of work is being shown for the first time at Modern Panic 3. His figurative pieces are inspired by personal philosophies, ingrained imagery and slightly warped aesthetics.
Dan Hillier
Dan Hillier has been working as a full-time artist since 2006 and sell my work personally from his website and from The Sunday Upmarket each week, and also through solo and group shows.
He has exhibited in various established galleries including the Saatchi Gallery and the ICA in London, and numerous galleries and solo/group shows in London, Paris, New York and Turin.
http://www.danhillier.com
He has exhibited in various established galleries including the Saatchi Gallery and the ICA in London, and numerous galleries and solo/group shows in London, Paris, New York and Turin.
http://www.danhillier.com
Andrew Hladky
Andrew Hladky is a painter who lives and works in London. He received an MA in Painting from Wimbledon School of Art in 2003 and has since exhibited widely in London and both nationally and internationally, including shows at Studio Voltaire and Standpoint Gallery in London, Redwire Gallery in Liverpool and the National Academy of Arts in Sofia.
Hladky is interested in the seductive power of imagery and the techniques that are used to influence and persuade. In his paintings the image-making process always remains evident, lurking behind the image as an unsettling, disruptive force. Idealised representations of the world are slowly undermined and eaten away by organic growth and decay.
He paints irradiated landscapes with multiple sunsets and horizons in which men and women face an apocalyptic invasion of giant black paint-worms. These worms are the most direct mark that can be made with a paint tube, squeezed straight out into the picture, but they immediately become characters in the drama. They are forces of nature - the material world erupting through the image, threatening to return this image and everyone in it to their pulpy, painty origins.
The paint surface too seems organic, growing out from the support as if it were trying to shake off the illusion that clings to its surface. They are made using sharpened cocktail sticks to dab small raised dots of oil paint in layer after layer, creating a delicate 3D Pointillist structure often several centimetres deep. As a result of this irregular structure, ridges and protrusions cast shadows and cause the image to distort and change. As you move round it the work’s physicality slowly asserts itself, until all that’s visible from the side is a chaotic outgrowth of paint.
Hladky is interested in the seductive power of imagery and the techniques that are used to influence and persuade. In his paintings the image-making process always remains evident, lurking behind the image as an unsettling, disruptive force. Idealised representations of the world are slowly undermined and eaten away by organic growth and decay.
He paints irradiated landscapes with multiple sunsets and horizons in which men and women face an apocalyptic invasion of giant black paint-worms. These worms are the most direct mark that can be made with a paint tube, squeezed straight out into the picture, but they immediately become characters in the drama. They are forces of nature - the material world erupting through the image, threatening to return this image and everyone in it to their pulpy, painty origins.
The paint surface too seems organic, growing out from the support as if it were trying to shake off the illusion that clings to its surface. They are made using sharpened cocktail sticks to dab small raised dots of oil paint in layer after layer, creating a delicate 3D Pointillist structure often several centimetres deep. As a result of this irregular structure, ridges and protrusions cast shadows and cause the image to distort and change. As you move round it the work’s physicality slowly asserts itself, until all that’s visible from the side is a chaotic outgrowth of paint.
Anna Humphries
Anna Humphries is a young, London based animator with a taste for the sillier things in life.
She likes to mix up the real, the bizarre, the sweet and touching and the darker side of life together in her films, which she hopes will transport audiences to magical and entertaining new places.
We're showing her latest short, Night of the Loving Dead - A zombie movie with more heart than brains!
On a lonely Valentine’s eve, a lovesick teenager accidently brings his old girlfriend back from the dead! But will his everlasting love be quite as undying now she’s deceased?
www.anna-mation.co.uk
She likes to mix up the real, the bizarre, the sweet and touching and the darker side of life together in her films, which she hopes will transport audiences to magical and entertaining new places.
We're showing her latest short, Night of the Loving Dead - A zombie movie with more heart than brains!
On a lonely Valentine’s eve, a lovesick teenager accidently brings his old girlfriend back from the dead! But will his everlasting love be quite as undying now she’s deceased?
www.anna-mation.co.uk
Chiho Iwase
Chiho Iwase, born in Japan, lives and works in London. She studied sculpture at Chelsea College of Art & Design and also learned painting and drawing in Japan.
Her sculptures are reflection of her inner monstrous characters and consist of distorted images of her face and body parts.
She has taken part in group exhibitions in London, including Salon Art Prize exhibition 2011 at Matt Roberts Arts as a shortlisted artist.
She also had her first solo show at The Grocery Gallery 2011.
www.chihoiwase.com
Her sculptures are reflection of her inner monstrous characters and consist of distorted images of her face and body parts.
She has taken part in group exhibitions in London, including Salon Art Prize exhibition 2011 at Matt Roberts Arts as a shortlisted artist.
She also had her first solo show at The Grocery Gallery 2011.
www.chihoiwase.com
Sally Jones
Sally has been living and working in London for the past 26 years. She is a fine artist, working predominantly, in painting and mixed media.
Her work, though varied, tends to revolve around found objects and/or images which are removed from context, distorted or altered in some way.
She has a BA Fine Art degree and a PGCE in Art & Design; she is an experienced Art teacher and has also worked on freelance projects including artist-in-residency work, murals, backdrops, props, photography sessions, commissions and private work.
Her work has been exhibited across London.
www.saljones.co.uk
Her work, though varied, tends to revolve around found objects and/or images which are removed from context, distorted or altered in some way.
She has a BA Fine Art degree and a PGCE in Art & Design; she is an experienced Art teacher and has also worked on freelance projects including artist-in-residency work, murals, backdrops, props, photography sessions, commissions and private work.
Her work has been exhibited across London.
www.saljones.co.uk
Nick Kushner
As discussed on Playboy Radio, printed in Bizarre Magazine, featured in LA Weekly, and interviewed on A&E's Biography, New York based artist Nick Kushner has garnered attention from both the major and alternative press for using a most personal pigment - his own blood.
Kushner likens his work to "Art as modern-day alchemy by the literal and complete immersion within it, using the most personal and symbolic medium innately possible." His art, which tap into the darker recesses of the human psyche with esoterically surreal imagery that is driven not only by his knowledge of the occult, but by life experience as well, has been exhibited across America and published throughout the world.
Kushner's first solo exhibition, entitled 'Les Crimes De L'Amour', ranked as #4 on LA Weekly's 'Top 10 Badass Parties of 2011' year in review, beating out high profile events such as the Playboy Mansion and others.
In 2012, Kushner's painting, 'Maldoror', was recently featured on the cover (which he also designed) of the new Russian edition of 'Les Chants de Maldoror', a work which is considered to be the first ever surrealist novel. Kushner's interpretation of 'Maldoror' was displayed at the Museum Of Fantastic Art in Vienna in April 2012.
http://www.nickkushner.com/
Kushner likens his work to "Art as modern-day alchemy by the literal and complete immersion within it, using the most personal and symbolic medium innately possible." His art, which tap into the darker recesses of the human psyche with esoterically surreal imagery that is driven not only by his knowledge of the occult, but by life experience as well, has been exhibited across America and published throughout the world.
Kushner's first solo exhibition, entitled 'Les Crimes De L'Amour', ranked as #4 on LA Weekly's 'Top 10 Badass Parties of 2011' year in review, beating out high profile events such as the Playboy Mansion and others.
In 2012, Kushner's painting, 'Maldoror', was recently featured on the cover (which he also designed) of the new Russian edition of 'Les Chants de Maldoror', a work which is considered to be the first ever surrealist novel. Kushner's interpretation of 'Maldoror' was displayed at the Museum Of Fantastic Art in Vienna in April 2012.
http://www.nickkushner.com/
Laura Bodo Lajber
Laura Bodo Lajber’s (born in Hungary, grew up in Spain) art draws on the legacy of the American artist Joseph Cornell, an exponent of assemblage. Cornell's most characteristic art works were boxed assemblages created from found objects. Bodo Lajber has taken this artistic process a step beyond and applied it to found objects such as glass vases and old chairs. Like Cornell, who created poetry from the commonplace, her works evoke a sense of nostalgia.
Taking discarded but once treasured objects she reshapes them and injects into them a sense of lost narrative and personal histories, so that we can only conjecture about whom the former owners of these items might have been, and we begin to place our own precarious sense of meaning onto the compositions.
http://www.newmasterartist.com/artist/laura-bodo-lajber/
Taking discarded but once treasured objects she reshapes them and injects into them a sense of lost narrative and personal histories, so that we can only conjecture about whom the former owners of these items might have been, and we begin to place our own precarious sense of meaning onto the compositions.
http://www.newmasterartist.com/artist/laura-bodo-lajber/
Valentina Lari
Born in Florence, Italy. Postgraduated with an MA in Film at Goldsmiths College in 2003 she currently lives in London. . Her visual work mainly focuses on sense of loss, death, and childhood. She has exhibited in Italy and London as photographer; and and her early short films (Scheinruhe, October Games) of a more classic narrative approach, have been awarded and screened in international film festivals. In The Dark Closet (2007) an installation/photography piece was selected as part of the art showcase of The Human Right Nights Film Festival in Bologna and experimental film Post Mortem Souvenir (2008) based on JG Ballard’s work was part of 12 Steps Down at Shoreditch's Town Hall, London.
She has been awarded a grant by the Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia in 2010 for the production of an experimental shortfilm and photographic images to be completed and delivered in 2011/2012. In 2011 a selection of her unsettling photographs were included in London based Panic exhibition inspired by the panic movement created in the 60's by revolutionary filmmakers Alejandro Jodorowsky and Fernando Arrabal. Most recently, in October 2011 her film In Loving Memory-previously exhibited at the Old Operating Theatre Museum of London in 2005-was showcased in Ghent, Belgium as part of a group show on death and relics.Some of her photographic work and a video were part of Open Electric exhibition at the Electric Picture House, Cheshire and of In Paradisum exhibition, Rich Mix, London in Sept 2012.
http://www.valentinalari.co.uk
She has been awarded a grant by the Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia in 2010 for the production of an experimental shortfilm and photographic images to be completed and delivered in 2011/2012. In 2011 a selection of her unsettling photographs were included in London based Panic exhibition inspired by the panic movement created in the 60's by revolutionary filmmakers Alejandro Jodorowsky and Fernando Arrabal. Most recently, in October 2011 her film In Loving Memory-previously exhibited at the Old Operating Theatre Museum of London in 2005-was showcased in Ghent, Belgium as part of a group show on death and relics.Some of her photographic work and a video were part of Open Electric exhibition at the Electric Picture House, Cheshire and of In Paradisum exhibition, Rich Mix, London in Sept 2012.
http://www.valentinalari.co.uk
Craig LaRotonda
Craig LaRotonda: Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, Craig LaRotonda received his Bachelor of Fine Art at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he studied with the internationally renowned illustrator Alan Cober. Currently working as a painter, sculptor and professional illustrator, Craig divides his time between each endeavour. Craig has developed an incomparable brand of work using a variety of materials including oil, acrylic, gold leaf, wood, paper, wax, and found-objects to create paintings and sculptures imbued with deep emotion and superb craftsmanship.
LaRotonda’s richly layered paintings are provocative; his signature iconic style is reminiscent of Renaissance and Byzantine art. His surreal figurative work possesses a dark narrative and grotesque elegance. These distorted creatures are captured in a timeless space — surviving the brutality and beauty of existence. Craig's ability to make deformities and oddities become aesthetically magnificent is what makes his art so unique.
Craig's artwork graces the walls of famous homes including collectors in France, Germany, Norway, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Through his relationship with Film Art LA, his distinctive art appears prominently in five feature-length motion pictures - including the Academy Award winning film “Traffic” directed by Steven Soderbergh and the 2010 release “The Other Guys” staring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg.
LaRotonda’s striking and unique illustrations have been featured in Time Magazine, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, The Progressive, The New York Times and numerous other publications. His work has received awards from the Society of Illustrators (in New York and Los Angeles), Communication Arts and Print Magazine. Exhibitions include solo shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Paris.
www.revelationstudios.net
LaRotonda’s richly layered paintings are provocative; his signature iconic style is reminiscent of Renaissance and Byzantine art. His surreal figurative work possesses a dark narrative and grotesque elegance. These distorted creatures are captured in a timeless space — surviving the brutality and beauty of existence. Craig's ability to make deformities and oddities become aesthetically magnificent is what makes his art so unique.
Craig's artwork graces the walls of famous homes including collectors in France, Germany, Norway, Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Through his relationship with Film Art LA, his distinctive art appears prominently in five feature-length motion pictures - including the Academy Award winning film “Traffic” directed by Steven Soderbergh and the 2010 release “The Other Guys” staring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg.
LaRotonda’s striking and unique illustrations have been featured in Time Magazine, The Washington Post, The Village Voice, The Progressive, The New York Times and numerous other publications. His work has received awards from the Society of Illustrators (in New York and Los Angeles), Communication Arts and Print Magazine. Exhibitions include solo shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Paris.
www.revelationstudios.net
Cedric Laquieze
Cedric Laquieze is an Amsterdam based artist who mostly produces character based sculptures.
The sculptures are mostly made of a compilation of organic materials such as bones, insects and plants and are heavily influenced by folklore and mythology.
His sculptures represent pieces of another reality crafted from the elements of our own, fairies made from insects or animals made from flowers and bone are all glimpses into a fantastic world of aggression and beauty .
Cedric has added a different twist to art and taxidermy. The idea of skeleton is a clear link to death, but with the flowers adorning them the idea seems to be softened. It’s also a stronger connection to life; if we did not go through such trouble to embalm and preserve, the bodies we bury would give way to other life such as flowers.
http://laquiezecedric.blogspot.com/
The sculptures are mostly made of a compilation of organic materials such as bones, insects and plants and are heavily influenced by folklore and mythology.
His sculptures represent pieces of another reality crafted from the elements of our own, fairies made from insects or animals made from flowers and bone are all glimpses into a fantastic world of aggression and beauty .
Cedric has added a different twist to art and taxidermy. The idea of skeleton is a clear link to death, but with the flowers adorning them the idea seems to be softened. It’s also a stronger connection to life; if we did not go through such trouble to embalm and preserve, the bodies we bury would give way to other life such as flowers.
http://laquiezecedric.blogspot.com/
Natasha Lawes
Natasha Lawes is London based designer & artist, a theatrical hybrid in make-up, hair & tech-effect costume pieces & Art pieces/installations.
She trained at Chelsea Art College and The London College of Fashion and has since then worked on numerous advertising campaigns, film and beauty/fashion magazines, music videos and musicians. She has produced pieces for the likes of Anna Clavi, Bat For Lashes, Goldfrappe, KylieMinogue&Sylver Tongue. Her pieces often cross over from Tech-FX Costume to pieces of art in their own right.
Natasha’s techniques are always innovative, using an array of materials and fabric, including leather and metal. She also uses unusual materials such as found objects, taxidermy, dried flower and leaves to create elaborate, innovative pieces. Amongst many pieces are her crystal & butterfly infused skulls.
www.natashalawes.com
She trained at Chelsea Art College and The London College of Fashion and has since then worked on numerous advertising campaigns, film and beauty/fashion magazines, music videos and musicians. She has produced pieces for the likes of Anna Clavi, Bat For Lashes, Goldfrappe, KylieMinogue&Sylver Tongue. Her pieces often cross over from Tech-FX Costume to pieces of art in their own right.
Natasha’s techniques are always innovative, using an array of materials and fabric, including leather and metal. She also uses unusual materials such as found objects, taxidermy, dried flower and leaves to create elaborate, innovative pieces. Amongst many pieces are her crystal & butterfly infused skulls.
www.natashalawes.com
Iain Macarthur
Born in Swindon, England in 1986, Iain became a fanatic of art at the age of eight when I was first introduced to art through the medium of cartoon television shows and comic books. His first ever comic book was from the Batman series. Ever since then he has been obsessed with art, drawing odd fantasy drawings and Anime characters. He diverted from Anime drawings to more realistic figures and faces, always striving to make them more detailed and photo-realistic.
Macarthur is influenced by many artists and illustrators – all with differing styles and mediums – and have turned to their work for artistic stimulation over the years. Among them are Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, James Jean, David Choong Lee, Sergio Toppi and Ashley Wood.
In 2008 he graduated from Swindon College with a degree in HND Illustration and hope to progress to a B.A. in Illustration sometime in the future. He has done a few exhibitions such as the Swindon College exhibition for Illustration and Graphic Design students, D/AD New Blood Exhibition at Earl’s Court London, and a solo Internet exhibition on Phone Booth Gallery, amongst others.
His work can be described as surreal and unique in its own way. Using mostly pencil, watercolours and pigment pens. He creates portraits of ordinary people but in an unusual way by, embellishing patterns and watercolour effects into the portrait to give a vivid explosion effect—transforming their faces from something plain to something entirely bizarre and wonderful at the same time.
He specialize in shirt designs, tattoo designs, print designs, posters, album art, logos, branding, editorial illustration and private commissions.
iainmacarthur.carbonmade.com
Macarthur is influenced by many artists and illustrators – all with differing styles and mediums – and have turned to their work for artistic stimulation over the years. Among them are Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, James Jean, David Choong Lee, Sergio Toppi and Ashley Wood.
In 2008 he graduated from Swindon College with a degree in HND Illustration and hope to progress to a B.A. in Illustration sometime in the future. He has done a few exhibitions such as the Swindon College exhibition for Illustration and Graphic Design students, D/AD New Blood Exhibition at Earl’s Court London, and a solo Internet exhibition on Phone Booth Gallery, amongst others.
His work can be described as surreal and unique in its own way. Using mostly pencil, watercolours and pigment pens. He creates portraits of ordinary people but in an unusual way by, embellishing patterns and watercolour effects into the portrait to give a vivid explosion effect—transforming their faces from something plain to something entirely bizarre and wonderful at the same time.
He specialize in shirt designs, tattoo designs, print designs, posters, album art, logos, branding, editorial illustration and private commissions.
iainmacarthur.carbonmade.com
Peter Millard
Peter Millard is an animation filmmaker who is based in London and is a recent graduate from the Royal College of Art where he completed an MA in animation.
He has a large back catalogue of bizarre colourful animations which have been screened all around the world at various festivals and galleries. For his film 'Hogan' he received a special mention at the London Short Film Festival and was awarded the Daler Rowney drawing prize at the R.C.A.
http://petermillard.blogspot.co.uk/
He has a large back catalogue of bizarre colourful animations which have been screened all around the world at various festivals and galleries. For his film 'Hogan' he received a special mention at the London Short Film Festival and was awarded the Daler Rowney drawing prize at the R.C.A.
http://petermillard.blogspot.co.uk/
Vort Man
9/11/12 13:55 Salt Lake City, UT
"I'm about to switch paintings at a Pizza/Gelato shop. Last weekend I had paintings and prints in group shows in Portland, OR and Philadelphia, PA. Last month I had work in a coffee shop.
Last year I was living in Chicago. Selling My art on the street. I had my work in a Gelato Shop rotating for a year. My work in Group shows at Swarm Gallery, and a month as the featured artist at Real Art Framing Gallery. I've been making art full time since 2006. I've made and sold work in 12 countries and all 50 states.
2006-2011 I was collaboratively painting live music under the name VORCAN. During this time I had a solo show in Berlin, Ran a collaborative Arts Program in Vukovar, Croatiatia teaching Croatian and Serbian kids. I've worked with Guerilla Zoo in Austria and London.
I make art everyday and put it in the street to be collected as a constant reminder to "Get Up Everyday". Get Out Of Bed and Make a Difference in someone's Life. I'm an artist and that's what we do..."
"I'm about to switch paintings at a Pizza/Gelato shop. Last weekend I had paintings and prints in group shows in Portland, OR and Philadelphia, PA. Last month I had work in a coffee shop.
Last year I was living in Chicago. Selling My art on the street. I had my work in a Gelato Shop rotating for a year. My work in Group shows at Swarm Gallery, and a month as the featured artist at Real Art Framing Gallery. I've been making art full time since 2006. I've made and sold work in 12 countries and all 50 states.
2006-2011 I was collaboratively painting live music under the name VORCAN. During this time I had a solo show in Berlin, Ran a collaborative Arts Program in Vukovar, Croatiatia teaching Croatian and Serbian kids. I've worked with Guerilla Zoo in Austria and London.
I make art everyday and put it in the street to be collected as a constant reminder to "Get Up Everyday". Get Out Of Bed and Make a Difference in someone's Life. I'm an artist and that's what we do..."
Julie Newton
I am a UK based artist currently studying on a BA (Hons) Interdisciplinary Art & Design course, at the University of Huddersfield. Along with a solo show earlier this year, I have been involved in numerous group shows, and currently have work on show in the select 53 Degrees North, exhibition at The New School House Gallery, York.
My practice is predominantly involved with the reciprocal relationship between home and identity; the vernacular role of domesticity forms the context from which the work is created. Complex notions of self are often explored through the mother daughter dyad. As I approach my fortieth year I feel compelled to underpin my existence through unconventional work, which challenges perceived notions of motherhood. Through the labour-intensive acts of making, I document my memories and experiences, creating work, which establishes intimate connections. I create the majority of my work in private, hidden agendas and acts of concealment demonstrate my need to make sense of experience, displacement pairs the familiar with the uncanny.
Clear resin casts of my adolescent daughters first pair of Clarks infant shoes, are embedded with soiled menstrual waste matter, rendering the inexorable natural decay inert. Raising questions of value relating to the female form and bodily function. Through the production process, the de-familiarisation of everyday objects and images, subverts their referentiality, through a perturbed personal narrative, resulting in evocative, juxtaposed work.
www.julie-newton.blogspot.co.uk/
My practice is predominantly involved with the reciprocal relationship between home and identity; the vernacular role of domesticity forms the context from which the work is created. Complex notions of self are often explored through the mother daughter dyad. As I approach my fortieth year I feel compelled to underpin my existence through unconventional work, which challenges perceived notions of motherhood. Through the labour-intensive acts of making, I document my memories and experiences, creating work, which establishes intimate connections. I create the majority of my work in private, hidden agendas and acts of concealment demonstrate my need to make sense of experience, displacement pairs the familiar with the uncanny.
Clear resin casts of my adolescent daughters first pair of Clarks infant shoes, are embedded with soiled menstrual waste matter, rendering the inexorable natural decay inert. Raising questions of value relating to the female form and bodily function. Through the production process, the de-familiarisation of everyday objects and images, subverts their referentiality, through a perturbed personal narrative, resulting in evocative, juxtaposed work.
www.julie-newton.blogspot.co.uk/
Berth Neutze
- born 1953 in Germany. - university studies in philosophy, sociology and communication in Muenster/Germany.
- working as a finance officer, forklift- and truck-driver and in other jobs.
- Since 1984 working as a boat-builder, carpenter, cabinetmaker and furniture designer.
- photography and painting since 1970
- wood sculpturing since 1990
- land-art projects, virtual art and machinima (together with magda piessens) since 2007
- living in Wales and Germany
- working as a finance officer, forklift- and truck-driver and in other jobs.
- Since 1984 working as a boat-builder, carpenter, cabinetmaker and furniture designer.
- photography and painting since 1970
- wood sculpturing since 1990
- land-art projects, virtual art and machinima (together with magda piessens) since 2007
- living in Wales and Germany
Bonnie Makes Pictures
"I run an artistic venture I call "Bonnie Makes Pictures" and look to serve the underground cultures in London with all manner of artistic imagery, from Illustration and Fine Art to Photography and Retouching. "
"I work with club nights and festivals as an artist, as well as being a creative advocate for illegal breeds of dogs in the UK, serving to pardon them their reputation and stop them being killed for it. These two parts of my life -dogs and alternative art- often overlap. "
"I work with club nights and festivals as an artist, as well as being a creative advocate for illegal breeds of dogs in the UK, serving to pardon them their reputation and stop them being killed for it. These two parts of my life -dogs and alternative art- often overlap. "
Vesna Parchet
Born in Japan, raised in Germany and trained in London, her works feel both eastern and western. As well as drawing influence from artists such as Egon Schiele, , Edvard Munch, Franicis Bacon and Fiona Rae her work is Largely influenced by abstract/expressionism and Japanese culture (manga and calligraphy). Vesna's primary medium is painting as reflected across her body work, however she effectively fuses painting with other mediums such as printmaking, photography, resin casting as well as sound and light installation.
Conceptually, her work focuses on the exploration of the complexities of the human form -- the body as a convoluted entity in an information and technology saturated world. The motif which resonates throughout her work is the portrayal of the human form out of its shape, out of focus and out of proportion, reflecting on our increasingly distanced relationship to nature, ourselves and our bodies. The mixed media use of anatomical images with expressionist style aims to reflect on the ambiguity between the intellectual and sensual portrayal of the body.
http://www.vesnaparchet.com/
Conceptually, her work focuses on the exploration of the complexities of the human form -- the body as a convoluted entity in an information and technology saturated world. The motif which resonates throughout her work is the portrayal of the human form out of its shape, out of focus and out of proportion, reflecting on our increasingly distanced relationship to nature, ourselves and our bodies. The mixed media use of anatomical images with expressionist style aims to reflect on the ambiguity between the intellectual and sensual portrayal of the body.
http://www.vesnaparchet.com/
Carrie Reichardt
Carrie Reichardt aka The Baroness was born in 1966. Her title, used ironically, has a connection with the last Tsar of Russia, who made her grandfather an honorary general for helping the allied forces in WW1.
After completing her foundation at Kingston Uni in 1988 she went on to study fine art at Leeds Metropolitan University. Much to the horror of her tutors she was awarded a First by the external examiners. In 2000 the Baroness was to meet her soul mate and artistic collaborator the loving Mr Spunky. Together they decided to transform their home into a living work of art; hence The Treatment Rooms was formed. They are currently working on an ambitious, unique mission to cover the entire outside walls of their home in bespoke mosaics and ceramic artefacts. The Baroness has been described by art critic Laura K Jones as a ‘visionary muralist’
Nude magazine commented ‘It’s a work of sheer beauty, done for all the right reasons’.
The Baroness’s art has featured in a diverse selection of publications, including Raw Vision, The Guardian, The Evening Standard, Nude, Tile and Stone, Grout, Westside, The Londonist, Abort, Mozake and That’s Life.
http://www.carriereichardt.com
After completing her foundation at Kingston Uni in 1988 she went on to study fine art at Leeds Metropolitan University. Much to the horror of her tutors she was awarded a First by the external examiners. In 2000 the Baroness was to meet her soul mate and artistic collaborator the loving Mr Spunky. Together they decided to transform their home into a living work of art; hence The Treatment Rooms was formed. They are currently working on an ambitious, unique mission to cover the entire outside walls of their home in bespoke mosaics and ceramic artefacts. The Baroness has been described by art critic Laura K Jones as a ‘visionary muralist’
Nude magazine commented ‘It’s a work of sheer beauty, done for all the right reasons’.
The Baroness’s art has featured in a diverse selection of publications, including Raw Vision, The Guardian, The Evening Standard, Nude, Tile and Stone, Grout, Westside, The Londonist, Abort, Mozake and That’s Life.
http://www.carriereichardt.com
Louise Riley
"I am inspired by life’s quest, the force that draws us through our thorny paths. I find it fascinating how predictable and startling people are at the same time and overwhelmed by how awesome humankind is, how beautifully designed, something I thought a lot about while breastfeeding my daughter, who so neatly
fit into the curve of my body – inside and out. These thoughts give me vertigo and I have to convince myself it is all ordinary to get my balance again.
My current work explores union and communion and the construction and distruction within. Societal pressure versus primal urges. Are they symbiotic, or opposing forces? The literal abundance of fabric and thread as domestic content and construction, not limited to gender, makes our relationship to it very close. They are a huge part of communion and relationships, family sofas, beds, carpet…
When I am sewing figures, I think of the thread being strands of DNA and the stitches binary codes and the fabric (our second skin anyway) a grid and that leads me onto String theory, experiences happening along side each other with endless alternative outcomes, it all just feels like cosmic alignment! It really makes me think that paint is just so pointless…
I use the mattress as a backgroundless background that holds weight of experience conceptually, spiritually and physically. Blood, sweat and tears like tree rings in its core. Its presence in our rights of passage, our sleep, rest, thoughts, dreams, the theatre of life spilled out onto it. How could I work on anything else! It is a ready-made canvas, it allows my ideas to penetrate it and collaborate with it to unearth a supposed breath-taking, yet ordinary, history or herstory. "
http://louiseriley.co.uk/
fit into the curve of my body – inside and out. These thoughts give me vertigo and I have to convince myself it is all ordinary to get my balance again.
My current work explores union and communion and the construction and distruction within. Societal pressure versus primal urges. Are they symbiotic, or opposing forces? The literal abundance of fabric and thread as domestic content and construction, not limited to gender, makes our relationship to it very close. They are a huge part of communion and relationships, family sofas, beds, carpet…
When I am sewing figures, I think of the thread being strands of DNA and the stitches binary codes and the fabric (our second skin anyway) a grid and that leads me onto String theory, experiences happening along side each other with endless alternative outcomes, it all just feels like cosmic alignment! It really makes me think that paint is just so pointless…
I use the mattress as a backgroundless background that holds weight of experience conceptually, spiritually and physically. Blood, sweat and tears like tree rings in its core. Its presence in our rights of passage, our sleep, rest, thoughts, dreams, the theatre of life spilled out onto it. How could I work on anything else! It is a ready-made canvas, it allows my ideas to penetrate it and collaborate with it to unearth a supposed breath-taking, yet ordinary, history or herstory. "
http://louiseriley.co.uk/
Sandra Robinson
Robinson is an interdisciplinary figurative artist who works both two and three dimensionally concerning the human condition. Originally from Northern Ireland, she has won Outstanding Student of the Year award from the esteemed Royal Ulster Academy in 2009, and Young Artist of the Year Award in 2010 from Lisburn Arts Advisory Committee, from her home town. Now based in London, after completing a Masters from the Royal College of Art, she works to commission and create bespoke pieces of art based on Science, the figure and identity.
Although all aspects of her practice inform and complement each other, she is foremost a maker of things. Using her hands has always been fundamental to Robinson's practice, and central to her artistic expression. It is due to the tactile nature of the natural material clay, that she chooses it as a transformative medium in her creative process. Every scratch, line, volume, and physical mark transfers messages and meanings – a record, as such, of her personal involvement.
In many ways Robinson views her practice as embodiments of transition from one state to another; from wet to dry, unfired to fired, from human to in-human and from craft to sculpture. This parallels the transitory potential that Science has to alter evolution from natural to artificial; shaped not by natural selection but by man-made selection into a ‘new stage of evolution.’
www.sandra-robinson.com
Although all aspects of her practice inform and complement each other, she is foremost a maker of things. Using her hands has always been fundamental to Robinson's practice, and central to her artistic expression. It is due to the tactile nature of the natural material clay, that she chooses it as a transformative medium in her creative process. Every scratch, line, volume, and physical mark transfers messages and meanings – a record, as such, of her personal involvement.
In many ways Robinson views her practice as embodiments of transition from one state to another; from wet to dry, unfired to fired, from human to in-human and from craft to sculpture. This parallels the transitory potential that Science has to alter evolution from natural to artificial; shaped not by natural selection but by man-made selection into a ‘new stage of evolution.’
www.sandra-robinson.com
Le Roy
Le Roy's paintings are trying to portray the fragility and illusion of existence , the knowledge that life, after the illusions and distractions are swept away , is one in which we are all ultimately alone in our bodies and death is the one companion that will follow us to the very end where the bodies we are trapped in during life will corrupt and reveal the calcium prison , so beautiful and yet so clearly recognisable as the absence of life.
'John Currin's shrill, elongated harpies are another background presence, touched too in a different way from Freud with Old master allusions - notable in le Roy's "Sandra".' - Jackie Wullschlager Financial Times September 2009
http://www.leroylondon.com
'John Currin's shrill, elongated harpies are another background presence, touched too in a different way from Freud with Old master allusions - notable in le Roy's "Sandra".' - Jackie Wullschlager Financial Times September 2009
http://www.leroylondon.com
Masumi Saito
Masumi Saito was born in rural Japan. Dancing from the age of 3 she moved to the UK in 2005.
With training in many diverse dance forms, she started her solo performances shortly after graduating from London Contemporary Dance School and has carved a unique path owing to her expressionistic and cathartic dance style.
She has devised performance for stage, film and photographic projects, presenting work on a number of alternative and internationally acclaimed platforms.
As a founding member and choreographer of the Theo Adams Company, she has been featured in W magazine and collaborated with Louis Vuitton for an exclusive show in Tokyo.
http://masumisaito.com/
With training in many diverse dance forms, she started her solo performances shortly after graduating from London Contemporary Dance School and has carved a unique path owing to her expressionistic and cathartic dance style.
She has devised performance for stage, film and photographic projects, presenting work on a number of alternative and internationally acclaimed platforms.
As a founding member and choreographer of the Theo Adams Company, she has been featured in W magazine and collaborated with Louis Vuitton for an exclusive show in Tokyo.
http://masumisaito.com/
Elizabeth Sandford Richardson
Elizabeth's practice uses light and sound, through the use of performance. To explore the way these phenomenon's may be seen and used. Elizabeth converts musical notation in to light formations, conducting light alongside musicians or using the vibrations of pre-recorded sound. She has titled these performances 'Light Compositions'.
This light movement is captured in the dark room, were she creates a performance space and produce what she has called 'Performergrams'.
Elizabeth challenges the notion of how a photograph is made and how the dark room functions. This has lead her to character performance. Her fictitious performance character is named ‘Apple Tart’. An ultra-ego who uses her body as a camera lucida, an instrument in which rays of light are reflected by a prism to produce a hologram. In theory she has a holographic state of mind: by reflecting ideas with movement to develop a narrative of memory.
This has directed her to use holography as a creative medium, together with lenticuar technology that captures and replays movement.
Elizabeth's intention is for her practice is to give performance a new context, a new perspective.
http://elizabeth-sandford-richardson.co.uk
This light movement is captured in the dark room, were she creates a performance space and produce what she has called 'Performergrams'.
Elizabeth challenges the notion of how a photograph is made and how the dark room functions. This has lead her to character performance. Her fictitious performance character is named ‘Apple Tart’. An ultra-ego who uses her body as a camera lucida, an instrument in which rays of light are reflected by a prism to produce a hologram. In theory she has a holographic state of mind: by reflecting ideas with movement to develop a narrative of memory.
This has directed her to use holography as a creative medium, together with lenticuar technology that captures and replays movement.
Elizabeth's intention is for her practice is to give performance a new context, a new perspective.
http://elizabeth-sandford-richardson.co.uk
Lucy Sparrow
Lucy Sparrow is a visual artist currently based in Manchester. She works mainly with felt and wool to create over-sized soft versions of existing objects which, when placed in different surroundings, convey an altogether fantastical approach to life. This playful affection she has with her work relieves the conditions that are often put upon artists to produce something deeply profound and monumental.
Lucy’s ‘Feltism’ plays on the distorted scale of childhood and the dreamlike quality to textures. Whilst taking a walk through the surreal fabric landscape where giant sardines lollop next to an innocently blunt pen-knife, the land of the soft conquers the harshness of a sharp edged reality. The subject matter that she uses with her work is often one that provokes nostalgia and a wish for all things to remain un-harmful; a kind of felt Utopia if you like.
Her most recent work includes making a series of cartoon tapestries of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady in a planned exhibition later next year. 'Fred West Tuna' which can be seen here is a taste of what's to come from this softly controversial artist.
She has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and had her first solo show, 'Imitation' at Hoxton Gallery earlier this year which included felt parodies of the world's most famous artworks recreated in felt with a cynical twist. This is her third time showing with Guerrilla Zoo at Panic.
http://www.sewyoursoul.com
Lucy’s ‘Feltism’ plays on the distorted scale of childhood and the dreamlike quality to textures. Whilst taking a walk through the surreal fabric landscape where giant sardines lollop next to an innocently blunt pen-knife, the land of the soft conquers the harshness of a sharp edged reality. The subject matter that she uses with her work is often one that provokes nostalgia and a wish for all things to remain un-harmful; a kind of felt Utopia if you like.
Her most recent work includes making a series of cartoon tapestries of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady in a planned exhibition later next year. 'Fred West Tuna' which can be seen here is a taste of what's to come from this softly controversial artist.
She has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and had her first solo show, 'Imitation' at Hoxton Gallery earlier this year which included felt parodies of the world's most famous artworks recreated in felt with a cynical twist. This is her third time showing with Guerrilla Zoo at Panic.
http://www.sewyoursoul.com
Arcane Sin
From the backstreet's of London, the silent corners of pubs, the dark shadows under the bridges Arcane Sin has been creating art and exploring symbolism and allegories for many years.
From having his photography published all around the world to having his work shown in various galleries in London and the UK, such as getting his work selected to be in the window of Brick Lane Gallery, as well as putting on his very first solo exhibition this year titled DOLLS, which was a huge success, so much so that the exhibition got extended.
Arcane Sin is constantly trying to explore the idea of the self and the dark regions of the human mind which people constantly try to forget and cover over with the shiny and shallow.
“Art should get you thinking and get you exploring yourself, painfully, exploring your very soul, if you look at a piece of art and then walk away and forget it, it hasn’t done its job.”
From having his photography published all around the world to having his work shown in various galleries in London and the UK, such as getting his work selected to be in the window of Brick Lane Gallery, as well as putting on his very first solo exhibition this year titled DOLLS, which was a huge success, so much so that the exhibition got extended.
Arcane Sin is constantly trying to explore the idea of the self and the dark regions of the human mind which people constantly try to forget and cover over with the shiny and shallow.
“Art should get you thinking and get you exploring yourself, painfully, exploring your very soul, if you look at a piece of art and then walk away and forget it, it hasn’t done its job.”
Sarah Sitkin
Sarah Sitkin was born in 1983. She is currently residing and living in California, USA. Her work is wonderfully artistic and unique in a different way. She had no formal art education and yet her images conjure surreal and fantastical worlds to make even the most studied artist covert.
http://www.sarahsitkin.com/
http://www.sarahsitkin.com/
Kyle Thompson
Kyle Thompson was born in Chicago in 1992. He began taking photographs at the age of nineteen after finding interest in nearby abandoned houses. His work is mostly composed of surreal and bizarre self portraits, often taking place in empty forests and abandoned homes. He has no formal education in photography.
www.facebook.com/KyleThompsonPhotography
www.facebook.com/KyleThompsonPhotography
Greta Wallner
Greta Wallner was born in Singapore in 1989 and lived in Australia and Indonesia before moving to London at the age of 10. She discovered a flair for making pictures sometime in her teens and hasn’t looked back since.
She is interested in depicting surrealism, the human anatomy and spirituality as topics of her artwork and generally uses a mix of her own and found material and experimenting with new techniques and mixed media.
Greta has recently graduated with a degree in Photographic Arts and isn’t really sure where she is going with things.
http://gretawallner.com/
She is interested in depicting surrealism, the human anatomy and spirituality as topics of her artwork and generally uses a mix of her own and found material and experimenting with new techniques and mixed media.
Greta has recently graduated with a degree in Photographic Arts and isn’t really sure where she is going with things.
http://gretawallner.com/
Roger Williams
Roger Williams has been painting and drawing for over 40 years. Son of an artist an potter he claims to be able to make anything. Often exhibiting his favourite creation a big scary mess.
Working from a fashionable hangar in Brighton his performance works with Twisted Cirque have led him down the path of sanity to call at goblins, zombies and zebras.
Tonight's piece will take a new twist on the medical installation, spurning the scalpel and piercing needle we will revisit the 70's game of operation. "Nurse, paintbrush, I'm going in for the charley horse"
Working from a fashionable hangar in Brighton his performance works with Twisted Cirque have led him down the path of sanity to call at goblins, zombies and zebras.
Tonight's piece will take a new twist on the medical installation, spurning the scalpel and piercing needle we will revisit the 70's game of operation. "Nurse, paintbrush, I'm going in for the charley horse"
Martha Zmpounou
Martha Zmpounou studied Fine Art at AUTH, Greece and Illustration at Central Saint Martins College, London.
She has participated in numerous exhibitions in London and Greece; some of them are the discerning eye exhibition, The Threadneedle prize, the Royal society of Portrait painters, Images 35, and many of her works are part of collections in the UK and abroad.
In addition, numerous publications, commissions and awards have been part of her curriculum.
She now works as a visiting lecturer teaching drawing and illustration in several Universities in the UK such as, the London College of Fashion, the University for the Creative Arts and De Montfort University.
She has participated in numerous exhibitions in London and Greece; some of them are the discerning eye exhibition, The Threadneedle prize, the Royal society of Portrait painters, Images 35, and many of her works are part of collections in the UK and abroad.
In addition, numerous publications, commissions and awards have been part of her curriculum.
She now works as a visiting lecturer teaching drawing and illustration in several Universities in the UK such as, the London College of Fashion, the University for the Creative Arts and De Montfort University.
