Modern Panic VII
Artists
In alphabetical order
Joan Alturo
[Spain]
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Joan Alturo is an award winning illustrator from Spain based in the UK. Runner-up in the V&A Student Illustrator Award 2016. His artist name is Bec Negre 'Black Beak'. He was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1990. He studied Fine Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona, Illustration at Escola Massana and MA Illustration at Arts University Bournemouth.
Joan’s work is a juxtaposition between extravagant detail and a refined minimalist interpretation consolidated with handmade textures. He currently works with digital software which he mixes with traditional techniques and handmade textures. He illustrates intricate compositions with an acute awareness of the light and a selective colour palette to create dark atmospheric imagery. His multidisciplinary work can be seen in various fields. Alturo has had commissions for music bands, skateboarding companies and recently he has been working on conceptual illustrations and a personal narrative project. joanalturo.com |
Noel Basualdo
[Argentina]
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Noel Basualdo is a painter and fine art lecturer. Born in Argentina, Basualdo has lived, studied and worked in three continents, South America, Africa and Europe; where she has showed her work collectively and independently. Witnessing atrocities and people fighting for justice against fascist regimes enhanced her wonderment for the human spirit. She was born during the dirty war in Argentina, as a teen protested against the Pinochet regime while living in Chile and was chased by water cannons and police mounted on horseback. The following year while finishing high school, she witnessed the end of Apartheid and Mandela rising to power in South Africa. This has all shaped the way she thinks, reacts to and synthesizes the world through and in her art works. She is a great believer that art and education can help change and shapes the world we live in and is dedicated to contribute towards that change.
Basualdo's paintings were published in Rooms Magazine and she won the Mary Maclyntyre Memorial prize for her work and dedication in 2008. Before completing a postgraduate teaching qualification at the Institute of Education in 2010, she gained a first class honours BA at The Cass School of Art and an Art and Design Foundation at City Lit Institute. She was a self-taught painter before beginning her formal education at the age of 27. She has been living and working in London since 1999. noelbasualdo.com |
Rachael Berry
[UK]
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Rachael Berry is a self-taught, multidisciplinary artist and curator from the UK, best known for her hyper-realist portraiture although her work spans delicate kinetic papercuts to theatrical puppet making. She is currently working in oils with ephemera to create hyper-realist depictions of political figures at pivotal moments.
Berry worked as a portrait artist for many years, distilling the essence of her subjects through their faces - connecting with their humanity. The process of attempting to locate and distil the humanity in politicians, some of which many of us find unbearable to even look at, is a challenge to say the least. She is careful not to deliberately convey a particular message with her work. Her goal is for anyone to to be able to look at one of her paintings and see what they feel, just as they would if they saw the subject in the flesh - like little mirrors for ones own humanity. Ugly little mirrors. facebook.com/RachaelBerryArt |
Marc Blackie
[UK]
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Marc Blackie is a British Photographer turned Filmmaker, renowned for his surrealist compositions and irredeemably awkward interpretation of erotica and has been described by the New York Magazine as “Jarringly combining eroticism with the uncomfortable and sinister”.
Nick Knight’s ShowStudio has recently featured his two film collaborations with Tessa Kuragi, “Adoration” and “Parfois, mon corps me trahit” and with ongoing film festival appearances and exhibitions in New York, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Rome, Paris and many other international locations, Blackie's work continues to push boundaries and challenge preconceived notions of desire, lust and the ridiculousness of the human libido. disappointedvirginity.com |
James Frederick Boman
[UK]
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James Frederick Boman makes machines that do not work (at least not in the traditional sense) to explore the pre-conceived ideas surrounding function. Art is a machine that moves in a different way to the one we understand, art is an idea and the art object is a vessel to carry that idea forward.
Boman uses interactive mechanical structures to create temptation and ultimately deliver disappointment. jamesboman.com |
Francisco Lavina Carrera
[Spain]
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Francisco Lavina Carrera was born in Madrid, Spain, he moved into the UK in 1999, he is a graduate in Animation at Middlesex University London. He also studied a ABC Diploma in 3D modelling & Animation at London College of Communication.
Carrera found immense pleasure in painting and drawing. This recreational activity soon blossomed into a passion for visual communication and the need to express within the medium. He finds inspiration on Nature and likes to experiment with different techniques. He works predominantly in Animation, creating obscure, abstract animations, he uses a range of different techniques; from sand animation to water and ink. Carrera also likes to explore different drawing techniques like oil, watercolours and ink. He started his animation career at Prime Focus, a post production company base in London. Because he is constantly strived for new developments into his career, he then moved into a traditional animation studio in the Creative Quarter, Folkestone called Cognitive. A multi national company which explores educational narrative using scribe animation. He is working with clients such as BBC, TED, Royal Society of Art, Red Cross. Previously, Carrera worked in the music industry having his passion for music at an extent, he understood the importance of music within a narrative to arise viewer’s emotion and created the appropriated atmosphere. His latest animation, The Fold, has been officially selected at Be There! Corfu Animation Festival for screening. pascoanimator.wordpress.com |
Jimmy Cauty
[UK]
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Through a string of number one hits as co-founder and member of The KLF, to the implementation of the The K-Foundation and the seminal action The 1994 K-Foundation Award, to later artistic experiments with sonic weapons, stamp collecting and model making, Jimmy Cauty has distinguished himself as a musician, artist and cultural provocateur through fusions of high art and popular mediums; often to spectacular or controversial effect.
Cauty's current project, THE AFTERMATH DISLOCATION PRINCIPLE was first made in 2013, toured the Netherlands in 2014, was a highlight of Dismaland in 2015, has been developed and re-engineered in 2016, and now tours riot sites of the world in a customised 40ft shipping container. jamescauty.com |
Jade Chorkularb
[Thailand]
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Jade Chorkularb is originally from Thailand. She is a conceptual artist working in diverse media such as painting, sculpture, video, performance and installation. Her works are a reflection of her belief in Buddhism, particularly Anatta meditation (the practice of no self). The works describe the way she views life and the way that she interprets the meaning of life. She likes to explore human state of mind such as desire, fear, or illusion and then try to find explanations through the process of creating art. Chorkularb wants her art to be thought-provoking.
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Alex Colias
[UK/Greece]
Jorge Crespo
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Alex Colias is a sculptor, art photographer and illustrator of the dreamlike and surreal, drawing inspiration from nature, the esoteric and the subconscious mind.
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Jorge Crespo, Madrid 1983, is a visual artist who uses photography as his way to express himself.
His work has evolved from more explicit images, "Hipoxia" Project, to more interpretative images, such as "Unknown Reflextions" series. What really defines his work is, fiction, always elements that make the scene sureal, staging, all his work is staged, all the scenes are thought and produced if needed, taking care of all this process to the smallest details; also the light is one the most important elements, tending to use artificial lights to emphasizes the idea reflected in the images. Jorge has been wotking on his series for the past 7 years, a slow process due to the amount of commitment and self discovery that this takes. jorge-crespo.com |
Jase Daniels
[UK]
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Jase Daniels had always had an interest in animation and as part of his foundation art education created an animated short which won the regional prize from the Royal Television Society. He then went on to graduate from the Surrey Institute of Art and Design with a degree in animation in 2006. Unfortunately the education system sucked all the life out of animation, so Jase ventured off into the world of illustration.
Mainly working with those in the Bizarro Fiction genre, he produced cover art and interior illustrations for several books and magazines. After spending so much time in the realm of 2D art, Daniels began to feel a need to explore the world of sculpture and 3D. Having neither the space nor funds to produce physical objects he turned towards cyberspace and taught himself how to use the computer modelling program Zbrush. With his new skills and tools, he began to produce sculptural work of a quite unique nature. In 2012 he produced a series of works which were used as part of the immersive theatre event Virulent Experience performed by the Foolish People theatre group. Then in 2013, a selection of Daniels' work was included in the book Biomech Art: Surrealism, Cyborgs and Alien Universes. Daniels plans to publish his own book collecting his sculptural work in the not too distant future. facebook.com/jasedanielsart |
Silvia De Gennaro
[Italy]
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Silvia De Gennaro lives and works in Rome, Italy. Since 1999 she is a founding member of the Assaus art studio. For fifteen years she has been dealing with digital art, video art and animation. Her works have participated in several video art exhibitions and film festivals around the world, such as: Bnl Media Art Festival, IT; Video Formes , FR; Current New Media, U.S.A.; F.I.L.E. , BR; Visionaria, IT; Madatac, ES; Invideo, IT; Magmart, IT; Athens Video Art Festival, GR; Brooklyn Film Festival, U.S.A.; ECU, FR; Interfilm Berlino, D; Nastri d’Argento, IT.
Currently, De Gennaro's work is divided between the realization of social and political themed video and a video project about the city and the perception of the traveller, entitled "Travel Notebooks". assaus.it |
Spike Dennis
[UK]
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Dennis is an inter-disciplinary artist. Trained in London, he has exhibited widely, from London to Los Angeles, and he has delivered projects from Cardiff to Stockholm, and for organisations including the Illustration Research network and Cardiff Design Festival amongst Others. Dennis is also a founder member of the Pack of Wolves artist collective.
Dennis finds inspiration in stories, folk tales, and mythology. He uses these tales as starting points from which explore our attitudes and morals within a digitally inter-connected contemporary society. His recent area of research has focused upon the history and symbolism of the Unicorn. He says the changing status of the unicorn throughout the ages can tell us a lot about ourselves. Dennis' work has sought to rescue this magnificent imaginary beast from the soft-focus, airbrushed new age mystical image with which it seems to have increasingly become associated. Exploiting the unicorn’s history as a symbol of innocence, rebirth and fecundity, he uses it to explore aspects of our contemporary society bringing to light issues of gender, sexuality and rites of passage revealing both the beauty and the horror of dreams, myths and fairy tales, the futility of being and the crumbling of innocence. Dennis seeks to break down the boundaries between reality and imagination. Dennis' work primarily revolves around process based practices such as drawing and stitch but has recently strayed into the realms of time-based media including performances and video work. Repetitive actions enable him to focus his mind upon those themes and ideas which inform his work as well as contemplating his own self in relation to this world and his work. spikedennis.com |
Thomas Eikrem
[Norway]
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Thomas Eikrem was born in Trondheim, Norway, but moved to London in 2001 via Copenhagen and NYC. Since 1994 he has made short films, videos and installations and exhibited at more than 100 festivals, galleries and clubs. Prices includes Best Experimental Film at The Chilean International Short Film Festival and 3rd Price at The Icelandic International Short Film Festival. He is also publishing FILMRAGE (since 1990), with contributions by Richard Kern, Marc Blackie, Jack Hill, Rick Castro and many more. His debut feature “Le Accelerator”, starring David Sakurai, will be released later this year. Eikrem is currently shooting “Detroit Rising”, co-written by Tim Dry and starring Jim VanBebber in Detroit, US and Tripoli, Libya.
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Taylor Ellis
[UK]
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A self proclaimed "internet artist" Taylor Ellis ventures into the online world, inspired by modern relationships and confrontation.
Emotionally raw, voyeuristic and erotic, Ellis' work explores elements of vulnerability and misogyny on the internet. Exhibiting on sites such as YouTube, her webcam videos give a platform for her to be presented in a way she desires, taking influence directly from social media and how we present ourselves online. Influenced heavily by online feminist artists such as Molly Soda and Arvida Bystrom, her work is both personally and aesthetically charged. gayior.weebly.com |
Sarah Gaafar
[UK]
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The gap between cultures, the bridge between what is British and what is Egyptian, between English and Arabic, between white and brown, between male and female; what is it to be a mixed-race woman? Sarah Gaafar is the link between ideals of the conventional and the other, the normal and the exotic, and through herself she explores these contrasts – gender, sexuality, race, religion, body-image, violence and perceived cultural conceptions – through her artwork she is documenting these various elements that form her identity.
Often at times aggressive and uncomfortable for the viewer, Gaafar's artworks challenge and confront the typical ideas of autobiographical art and introduce ambiguous expressions of the self. By way of creating artworks, she has been able to de-construct oneself, opening her consciousness to who, what and where she exists within herself. Tension and anxiety thrive in Gaafar's work, whether naturally or intentionally constructed – interactions between herself and others in her films, between herself and the viewer, and interactions she has with herself; through her intimate and intense work, recurrently subjecting the viewer to sometimes childish, sometimes violent, bodily functions and distorted narratives, she creates a dialogue between performer and viewer, exposing and divulging in the self, challenging both her own and the viewer’s consciousness and impressions of her body, her voice, her skin, her hair, her spit, herself. Sarah Gaafar is a Scottish-born English-Egyptian multimedia artist born in 1992 and currently based in London. In November 2015 Gaafar was awarded a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Fine Art from the University of Westminster. sarahgaafar.com |
Deborah Griffin
[UK]
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Deborah Griffin is a London based artist who has been exhibiting since 2008. She had her first solo show “The Pig Show” at London’s Resistance Gallery in 2010.
She works in a variety of mediums, from representational painting, photographic image-based pieces, to installation-orientated sculptural work, encompassing a confrontational politic and exhilarating sense of fun and transgression that is uniquely her own. Griffin examines themes of life, death, birth, loss and both the personal and universal experience of female identity. deborahgriffin.carbonmade.com |
Faten Hakimi
[Lebanon]
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Faten Hakimi is an artist, writer and curator based in London, United Kingdom. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, and determined that she is to become an artist she painted her first portrait (of Alice in Wonderland) at the age of eight. By 1999, she weaved a small silk carpet, read Sadegh Hedayat's Three Drops of Blood, and fell in love with Francis Bacon. She then completed a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the American University of Beirut (AUB). Her interest in current affairs led to her move to London, UK in 2006 to persue Higher Education in Economics and Political Science. She also completed an MA in Fine Arts from the City & Guilds of London Art School in September 2012. She started off her art career as a portrait painter and then moved on to having her first solo exhibition titled VEIL in November 2010. In May 2011 one of her paintings was used for a limited edition Royal Mail stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. In 2013, her artwork was shortlisted for the Mall Galleries Portrait Prize Award. In February 2014, she participated in Open Wall, a group show sponsored by Moderna Art and West Creative, and which was held in a rough-and-ready 1600sqft disused bank.
Hakim has been interviewed twice by London based Keyhan Newspaper and her work has been featured on BBC Worlds Arts website. Following the completion of her dissertation on the subject of Aestheticizing Traumatic Historical Experiences Through Art, Faten continues her research and artistic experimentation in the fields of socio-political identity, and addressing the inner self within the constraints of the present reality. She also regularly reviews art exhibitions and files features for Trebuchet Magazine. Her articles include reviews of the Welcome to Iraq Exhibition shown at the South London Gallery and the Kazimir Malevich Retrospective shown at the Tate Modern. fatenhakimi.com |
Geoffrey Harrison
[UK]
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As a sculptor, in making ‘islands’ of anatomical parts, Harrison satisfies his urge to categorise and delineate one thing from others, like islands whose borders are absolute and immutable. There is ultimately a contradiction to this conceit: the shoreline of an island is not a clear margin. The tide ebbs and flows, the waves lap over the rocks and water seeps between the grains of sand making the difference between land and sea impossible to distinguish. What may appear to be one thing is typically an allegory for something else, mostly a human experience or condition. These proxies aren't necessarily to be seen and deciphered in the way that he sets out to communicate.
Harrison is from Manchester. After completing an undergraduate degree in Fine Art Printmaking from the School of Art in Hull, he lived in Japan for several years. After returning to the UK to complete an MA in London, Harrison now lives and works in London where he was Artist in Residence at Barts Pathology Museum at St. Bart's Hospital and recently completed a Leverhulme residency at The Royal Veterinary College. He has a studio in Bermondsey and exhibits in the UK and internationally. Geoffrey Harrison is originally from Manchester in the north of England. After completing an undergraduate degree in Fine Art Printmaking from the School of Art in Hull, he lived in Japan for several years. After returning to the UK to complete an MA in London, Geoffrey now lives and works in London where he was Artist in Residence at Barts Pathology Museum at St. Bart's Hospital and recently completed a Leverhulme residency at The Royal Veterinary College. He has a studio in Bermondsey and exhibits in the UK and internationally. geoffreyharrison.co.uk |
James Hollenbaugh
[USA]
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Hollenbaugh is a Pennsylvania-based American Filmmaker and Emmy Nominated Cinematographer predominantly working in small gauge film formats. Focusing primarily in the documentary and experimental genre’s, his work has screened in all fifty states and fourteen different countries. Hollenbaugh's films have screened in institutions, galleries, and museums - including The Venice Biennale, The National Gallery of Art, and Anthology Film Archives. He is the recipient of the 2015 Stellar Award in Documentary from the Black Maria Film Festival. He has been the Program Director for over ten years at MOVIATE, Harrisburg Pennsylvania’s only film cooperative.
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Emma Hopkins
[UK]
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In 2014 Emma Hopkins was awarded the Bulldog Bursary by The Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Subsequently Hopkins has exhibited within both of the Society’s annual shows, in a joint portrait show at the Mall Galleries with artist Sarah Jane Moon and in various group shows across London. She holds on firmly the traditions of Portrait painting, and the intimate dynamic that is developed between artist and model while pushing her work into new areas. 'I work with subjects that have, in their own right, fascinated me. I tend to paint these subjects more than once to mirror our multifaceted nature and to allow me to explore themes that I fear the most; hidden motives, illness and death.'
Hopkins describes her work as having two very distinct driving forces; 'One is a painfully analytical, scientific mind set that continually questions everything that you or I do. This side of me wants to break us down, both physically and mentally, to analyse all the parts and to live in hope that one day I will understand us as a whole. Then there is the other, the free spirited, creative mind set that instinctively knows- there are no definitive answers. This side of me feeds on emotions, on sensations, and loves, more than anything, freedom from thought. In my current paintings I am seeking to harmonise these two forces.' Combining her experience in prosthetic making and her innate fascination, Emma Hopkins continues to develop her knowledge of the human anatomy. She allows parts of her work to revel in the deep analysis of concrete substance; skin, flesh and bones. Focusing in on the parts of the body that we use most to express our thoughts and feelings; the face, hands and eyes. Simultaneously, Hopkins allows parts of her work to flow freely in between as if the blood feeding oxygen to a preserved life force. emmahopkinsartist.com |
Maslen & Mehra – in collaboration with Shuby and Delete
[UK/Australia]
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Maslen & Mehra – in collaboration with Shuby and Delete.
Working in a diverse, imaginative and experimental graphic language, Maslen & Mehra’s collaborative practice engages in dialogues which compare, contrast and juxtapose the natural and human world in which we live. Maslen & Mehra are recipients of a grant award from the Arts Council Of England for their ongoing work titled Cash, Clash & Climate. Clash: Maslen & Mehra's sculpture installation, Clash is comprised of a series of papier-mâché plates based on ceramics in collections in London, Barcelona, New York, Istanbul, Italy and Singapore. The narratives of each plate are altered to highlight a variety of ideas tied to a trilogy of themes, Cash, Clash & Climate. Here, Maslen & Mehra focus on the theme, Clash which includes the use of social media to organize protests and the charged debate concerning gun control and gun rights. The sculptures are exhibited on a bespoke stand, street artists Shuby and Delete have added their work to the surface. voidgallery.com |
Rosie McLay
[UK]
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A love of materials has been key to the direction of Rosie McLay's practice; how copper, wood and glass can suggest fragility, change and decay, to the Artist these are alive. For several years her playfully macabre work has provoked ideas of mortality and questions how we think about our anatomy and our existence as "vessels of mathematically moulded magic material".
Bristol, UK based McLay graduated in 2014 from University West of England, BA Drawing & Applied Arts (Fine Art) and has since hosted two solo exhibitions in 2016 and currently works as a Fine Artist, Curator, Picture Framer and Print Studio Technician. rosiemclay.com |
Ore Miamshick
[UK]
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Ore Miamshick, the alter ego of Rosie Hammick, is a digital video artist practicing in the movement of Visionary Art. Her work incorporates themes of psychedelia, the esoteric and the otherworldly by exploring multiple characters within the self.
Her work aims to question what lies beyond our everyday sight, to transcend the physical world and portray inner awareness. The work endeavours to take the audience on a journey directed by Miamshick's characters through the visual narrative that steers the work. This allows the viewers to find themselves reflected and represented within the work, encouraging them to realise their own alter egos. Miamshick partly draws inspiration from her own personal experience with mental health. By creating alter egos of herself, her work aims to express the intrinsic duality of the individual, and the conflict that exists within us all. She aims to confront these themes which are often treated as a social taboo by bringing them to the forefront in symbolic ways by using shamanic devices such as tarot, crystals and sacred geometry. Ore Miamshick also draws inspiration from works such as Alejandro Jodorowsky's film The Holy Mountain, as well as work by Visionary artist Alex Grey and the writings of Aldous Huxley. Ore Miamshick is a Fine Art BA(Hons) graduate of Farnham UCA and is currently based in London. rosiehammick.moonfruit.com |
Sofi Moore
[UK]
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Sofi Moore is a recent graduate from Camberwell College of Art. Her work aims to renegotiate a new value for the animals it represents; who are elevated from their abjection, to a position of purity and importance. One might kill a mouse without even considering it's status, however, in the alternate world suggested by these Icons, these animals are allowed to assume the role of a God; thereby placing into question how we incarnate and visualise our belief systems. All animals used are ethically sourced.
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Tasleem Mulhall
[Yemen]
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Tasleem Mulhall is based in Redlees Studio where she showcases much of her work, from photography, oil paintings, and various sculptures from small clay models to giant metal statues. She is the first British Yemeni female artist to be exhibited abroad and in many different mediums.
Mulhall also works as a photojournalist and is a high profile campaigner against forced and child marriage. Artist's work is mainly paintings and sculpture and it often touches upon how women are depicted and treated in Arabic culture, which led her to her latest exhibit at London’s prestigious Mall Galleries fro Passion for Freedom, where her sculpture “Stoned” attracted much praise and attention. So much so, that the police even tried to ban it one stage, and she had to fight hard to get it shown. But the exhibition was a huge success and attracted record attendances for the gallery with long queues into the night and many visitors unable to get in. Mulhall's work is very powerful and is not afraid to highlight the plight of women in Arabic cultures whilst also showcasing them as sexual beings. tasleemmulhall.com |
Dominic Negus
[UK]
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The death of Negus' father four years ago prompted his career change. It also acutely affected his feelings towards dying and his own mortality. Negus' work follows an overarching theme using a breadth of media and an academic interest in the Psychology of death, it is deeply personal yet universal and invites others to reflect on their own experiences of loss & dying.
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Amie Norton
[UK]
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Norton has recently graduated from Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London, having completed a degree in Technical Arts and Special Effects. Her skill set includes sculpting, mould making, concept and character development, model making, set design and building, drawing and painting.
She is currently a London based artist but has travelled and lived abroad for seven years. Prior to this, Norton has studied theatre design as well as furniture making. She has worked for several production companies for both set design in festivals and theatre. Recently, social, ecological and environmental issues have heavily influenced Norton, which is reflected in hercurrent work. She also spent time researching how beauty in the grotesque within art, film and television often creates a moral ambiguity and as a result of this isnot afraid to tackle complex and controversial issues. Colour is an integral thread throughout all of her work both conceptually and aesthetically. She believes it is a powerful but often subtle tool of communication. Norton loves to push herself out of ercomfort zone, both technically and intellectually and relish in discovering new challenges. What Norton says she has learned about herself is that she is happiest when deeply engrossed in a project, and have come to accept that she is a contented workaholic. amienortonart.weebly.com |
Oneslutriot
[UK]
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Oneslutriot is a London based political and social art activist who has exhibited around Europe, including Germany, Italy, Switzerland and UK . Her artworks and organized events are usually targeting injustice in daily life on themes such as repression, stereotyping, homelessness, climate change and the refugee crisis. Her work has been exhibited at events across her adopted home of London, as well as internationally in autonomous galleries and art venues in Koch Areal, Zurich, Rigaerstrasse in Berlin and at the Crack! Festival in Rome.
Oneslutriot has not disclosed her identity and stays anonymous in protest of nowadays selfie - obsessed egotistic culture. She believes that art should carry out the message – not the appearance of the artist. In her exhibitions she often performs as part of the artwork, extending her paintings on to herself, rather than putting herself in the front of the artwork as so many artists do these days. She thinks that the selfie phenomenon should be understood as a shameful chronic narcissistic mental disorder. Odd poses are often seen in between her painted figures – like the ones seen on social media websites – where people are spending hours and hours to get that 'perfect' picture, that little frame which mass media portrays 'as a completely normal thing to do'. These habits are poisonous for a persons' self esteem and mental health. Oneslutriot's art is a social and political commentary on the relentless act of full time posing - just like a celeb who noticed the paparazzi in the bush - and that our attempts to fit into society's required standards can seriously harm the individuality of a person, and the subconscious. oneslutriot.com |
Lindsay Pickett
[UK]
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Pickett's main practice involves painting with oils on canvas, linen and board. She starts with a basic study of a composition idea, take it further as a small watercolour painting as a final idea and then develop it more as the finished oil painting. She also uses photographs to create a visual reality that can be convincing at times and especially if she wants to get the likeness of a person’s face. It has also been good for jer in the fact that it has taught her to use observational skills a lot, she says. A lot of what Pickett now paints is something that she has mainly taught herself. She enjoys painting a lot because it gives the imagery more colour and character as well as being hands on.
The historical influences in herwork arise from Surrealism and fantasy art. Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Brueghel, Rene Magritte and M. C. Escher are also influential. With Escher, metamorphosis is a recurring theme as it is with Salvador Dali and this drew her to their work. Pickett's painting practice started when research into Hieronymus Bosch and Salvador Dali took place. lindsaypickett.co.uk |
Gianluca Pisano
[UK]
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Born in Sardinia, Pisano has lived in London since arriving in 1996.
The focus of his work is on the human figure, re-interpreted to include contemporary themes. Whilst he has worked with digital art and made images through computer technology, it is important for his work to return to the medium of painting. If the abstract and conceptual aspects of his paintings are contemporary, their presence recalls the Baroque, especially the painters who pursued and developed Tenebrism, from the Italian, tenebroso (murky), also called dramatic illumination. His worked canvases are concerned with the abstract shapes and surface textures of the painting as object, whilst the dark content of the paintings is concerned with the intense human condition of being situated in a strange world. The use of dramatic illumination affords the paintings an air of mystery. Mystery is powerful in attracting the human mind, leaving the narrative incomplete so that the spectator is puzzled or left in a state of wonder. More broadly, the contrast between light and dark suggests the difference between that which we know and are, therefore, able to contain and control; and that which lies beyond our present epistemological capacities. In philosophy, the enlightenment promised illumination, but acknowledged a realm that remains beyond our grasp. gianluca-pisano.com |
Pascale Pollier
[Belgium]
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Pollier’s work attempts to capture the point where art and science meld. An alchemist at heart, her work begins with observation and experimentation, and is steeped in solid scientific research and findings.
Her inspiration is drawn from observing the internal and external human body in all its diversity, life and nature in all its beauty, strength, fragility, disease, mortality, immortality and death. New technologies and philosophies, quantum physics, nanotechnology, animatronics are amongst her interest and are important in her work. A Belgian National, Pollier studied fine art and Painting at St Lucas art school in Ghent, Belgium, and subsequently a postgraduate training with the Medical Artists Association, London UK. She is co-founder and president of BIOMAB (Biological and Medical Art in Belgium) and now in the role of Sci/art advisor to Biomab’s study programme (ARS) Art Researches Science, she is curating and organising exhibitions, dissection drawing classes, collaborative art/science projects, symposiums and conferences. In 2015 she became co founder and president of the non profit organisation ARSIC (Art Researches Science International Collaboration), an international collective where Art and Science become entangled. This interdisciplinary association unites artists, scientists and those with a passion for the synergy between Art and Science, Technology and Philosophy. ARSIC pursues several goals. Organising and curating SciArt exhibitions, conferences and collaborative projects, supporting the publication of articles, books and films. Pollier was an external examiner for the medical art course at The Centre for Anatomy & Human Identification, University of Dundee, and is President of AEIMS (Association Europeenes des Illustrateurs Medicaux et Scientifiques). Pollier exhibits worldwide and currently lives and works in London as a self-employed artist. artem-medicalis.com |
Carrie Reichardt & Bob Osborne
[UK]
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Carrie Reichardt is a craftivist whose work blurs the boundaries between craft and activism, using the techniques of ceramic and mosaic to create intricate, politicized works of art. Carrie trained at Kingston University and achieved a First class degree in Fine Art from Leeds Metropolitan. In 2015 she spent 2 months as the International visiting artist at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA.
Carrie has been involved in international community and public art projects for over two decades. She has designed and consulted on large-scale mosaic murals and completed public projects celebrating with local communities in Mexico, Chile, and Argentina. Her most recent ceramic installation was for the facade of the Victoria and Albert Museum, whilst her Tiki Love Truck, a ceramic-adorned vehicle, was the star exhibit inside as part of the critically acclaimed Disobedient Objects exhibition. carriereichardt.com Bob Osborne makes art in a variety of mediums. His constructions and collages are imbued with the sensual textures of nature and the random wit of Surrealism. He sources materials from the sea or the street and worked for several years in St Ives, Cornwall making driftwood reliefs and working in the studio of Abstract artist Sandra Blow. He is now living and working in Chiswick, London and collaborating with fellow artist Carrie Reichardt. robertosborne.org.uk |
Yuri Shewedoff
[Russia]
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In 2008 Shewedoff graduated from the painting department of the Moscow Academic Art Lyceum of the Russian Academy of Arts.
He has recently graduated Surikov Moscow State Academic Art University. He is also a member of Moscow Union of Artists. yurishwedoff.gallery |
Emily Simeoni
[UK]
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Simeoni is from Scotland and has lived in Edinburgh for most of her life. After school she completed a Foundation course at Leith School of Art and is currently a student at Coventry University on the Illustration and Animation course. Emily does portrait commissions when she has time free from studies and enjoys working in lots of mediums but primarily with ink and paint. She has many influences, from Old Masters and Medieval Art to comics and Japanese culture. In her work Emily enjoys exploring elements of horror, and depicting uncomfortable subjects with a pleasing and sensuous aesthetic. She is still working to find her style. When she has completed her studies she hopes to work as a comic artist.
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Austin Osman Spare
[UK]
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Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956) is one of the most influential and innovative figures in twentieth century occultism. A natural artist and psychic, Spare’s explorations of the creative focus gave rise to an ontology and body of work that departs radically from conventional occultism, both then and now. His work was full of grotesque, sexualized human figures and magical symbols. These elements appealed to avant-garde London intellectuals, and brought him to the attention of Aleister Crowley. Spare became a Probationer of Crowley's order Argenteum Astrum ("Of the Silver Star") in July 1909, but was not initaiated as a member, although he contributed four small drawings to Crowley's publication The Equinox.
Spare spent most of his life near Holborn, his place of birth. Spare’s formative years were spent at the school attached to the nearby Catholic church of St. Agnes, yet although many of his early drawings show us traditional religious themes, there is also evidence of interests in Eastern mysticism, Theosophy and Spiritualism. This latter movement was to become a key influence in the development of Spare’s ontology, especially the central role played by ‘automatism’ which came to form the basis of the artist’s modus operandi. He left art college in 1905 without completing the course. The same year, aged eighteen, published his first book, Earth: Inferno (1905). Spare's first exhibition was at the Bruton Galleries in 1907. It was widely attacked by the critics and George Bernard Shaw suggested that "Spare's medicine is too strong for the average man". |
Joseph Steele
[UK]
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Joseph Steele is a multi disciplinary artist based in London. Since graduating in 2009 with a 1st in Fine Art from Newcastle University Steele has worked primarily in drawing, painting and film making.
He is known for causing a scandal at Newcastle University after filming a sex tape on University grounds, and for a 2013 collaboration with handbag designer Lulu Guinness. His painting and sculpture practice centres around recreating acts of terrorism to make art. In 2014 he released 'Thus' a filmic response to Friedrich Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' His drawing practice centres around experiences and stories from his 2016 trip around Ukraine, Turkey, Iraq, Northern Syria and the Greek islands. Steele is currently studying a Masters in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London. Steele is also an illustrator, his work has been nominated for the AOI awards. JosephSteele.work |
Biserka Stringer Horne
[UK]
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Some people make art in order to communicate with others. Some people make art to try and communicate with themselves. Biserka falls squarely into the latter category.
Disarming and oftentimes painfully honest, her work navigates the difficult spaces of existence; from chronic mental and physical illness to gender identity and nightmares. It takes these spaces and tries to find something beautiful in them, celebrating the strange, deformed and marginalised. As a result, her pieces are melancholic but hopeful, never resting purely on one side of the positive / negative divide. Rather than being a conscious choice, this reflects the complicated nature of life itself and of the attempt to understand the experiences we all go through. Although her work is autobiographical in nature, its minimalism and the distance of its characters leaves it open to individualised interpretation by the viewer. Bringing your own experiences and understanding to the art is welcomed and encouraged; in that way your relationship with it mirrors the artist's and completes the piece. Biserka was born in Newcastle in 1991. She is self taught and creates all her work freehand using hand embroidery. bisbiserka.com |
O Yemi Tubi
[Nigeria]
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Olabamiji Yemi Tubi, commonly known as O Yemi Tubi and also known in the art world as MOYAT was born in 1955 in the city of Ibadan, Nigeria. He currently lives and works as a Graphic Artist in United Kingdom. He works with pencil, water colour, acrylic and oil paints. He works are influenced by Renaissance artists and current world politics; they evoked him to undertake some of his recent paintings.
Like some of the old art masters Delacroix and Goya that spoke about social and political upheavals of their time in their works, O. Yemi uses some of his paintings to express himself about on-going political and social issues around the world. “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art” so said Paul Cezanne; He was deeply moved by the horrors of wars and the plight of immigrants drowning in the sea to pick up his brushes again. O. Yemi has widely exhibited his works around the world in group and solo exhibitions. His works had featured in exhibitions in Bogota, Colombia; Vancouver, Canada; UN exhibition, Milan Italy; Tokyo, Japan; USA and in many cities across United Kingdom. O. Yemi has received many awards for his works across the world; his works have also been published in many art magazines and contemporary arts books. o-yemi-tubi.pixels.com |
Mike Turner
[UK]
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Turner has been a practicing artist for over 23 years, living and working on 3 continents. He began his career in London as a jewellery designer, developing his unique style with works often incorporating false teeth and eyes.
In 2000 he moved to Australia where he began to work on a larger scale, incorporating techniques learnt from occasional work in the film industry to build metal objects, props the odd mechanical sculpture. He relocated to Chengdu in western China in 2008 where he honed his sculpting skills, combining metalsmithing with hyper-realistic body parts to produce a wide range of bizarre oddities. He has now come full circle, moving back to London in late 2012 and developing some of his least disturbing works to date in carved acrylic. His work is featured in a number of publications , including Unclasped (1997) Time out (London)( 1998) the Compendium of Contemporary Jewellery (2009) and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert museum , London as well as private collections throughout the UK, Europe, Australia, Japan and China. miketurner-art.com |
Matthias Von Braun
[UK]
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Von Braun, a student at the National Film School at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology before relocating to London, has worked in West-End theatre and independent film. He currently juggles freelance video editing work with producing his own films and teaching Film and Video through the Trinity College London Arts Award Programme.
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Kieran Wakeman
[UK]
Daniel Wechsler
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Kieran Wakeman is a London based digital artist. Using copious amounts of face paint and making masks and costumes, to create various characters or to represent different themes, the results are photographed and brought together in Photoshop. A lot of his work is based around and inspired by human emotions and human illness. Suffering from depression himself has also been a source of inspiration and a running theme within his work. He also draws inspiration from horror films and music and anything weird.
Kieran has also worked on a few music related projects. Most recently he has created artwork for Frozen Oceans latest album, the King Is Blinds debut album 'Our Father' and is currently working with Bestial Mouths. He is now also expanding his dark visions by exploring video. divinechaosart.com |
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Daniel Wechsler (b. Israel 1982) is an emerging video & print artist, with academic certification in audio engineering (SAE, London).
Recent exhibitions include: VIDEOFORMS 2016,16th INTERBIFEP, TIAF 2015, From East to the BARBICAN, Digital Graffiti, FILMIDEO 2015. Focusing on the creation of new video techniques, he uses computer errors and malfunctions to create visual ’bugs’. daniel-wechsler.com |
LG White
[Netherland]
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" I am a vector.
I am a line connecting dots. Sometimes, a point I would like to stick to" LG White is a Dutch contemporary fine artist who has been based in the UK ( London) since 2010. Inspired by poetry and music, LG's work references her life and surroundings. Often and always mischievious, her work encompasses a varied subject matter that is driven by her personal life experiences and her keen interest in history, politics, philosophy, literature, dance, film, science and pop culture. lgwhite-contemporary.com |
Laura Woodley
[UK]
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Laura May Woodley is a recent graduate of The university of Brighton. With a background in traditional drawing and illustrative painting, she began exhibiting her work at The Brick Lane Gallery’s “Haze” show in 2010.
Her disciplines have now evolved in photography, moving image, performance, animation and visual media production - all with a heavy focus on creating a dark atmosphere and a strong aesthetic dialogue. Her video piece “Fetish” was shown this summer at Nachtschatten film festival in Munich and received high acclaim. “Fetish” is a visual exploration of underground fetish subculture. The intent is to steer away from clichés and present a raw and unsettling reality. Focusing on texture, fear and manipulation of the human form, this piece aims to arouse and disgust in equal measure. Having recently relocated to central London, Laura may is currently taking visual media commissions and looking to collaborate with other artists in the city. instagram.com/vega_may |
Cong Yao
[China]
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Yao is a contemporary artist who currently lives and studies in London.
Sensitive emotions have always been the driving force behind his inspiration. He explores the existing modes of primitive impulses, gender differentiation, identity politics, and replaces struggle with tranquility. Yao develops his unique emotional driving force, creating scenes with a very personal artistic style. He produces his works through restructuring self-perception and retranslating human feelings. In his constant attempts and explorations he has embraced moving images, social interaction, physical theatre, and other multimedia approaches. These works try to present multiple artistic expressions with hazy, poetic and sharp aesthetic feelings. yao-cong.com/work |
Zoita
[Romania]
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Delia Calinescu aka Zoita's art is based on sincerity. She paints what her eyes see, what she feels and what she thinks of the world. Zoita explores and experiment, beginning with expressionism and then venturing into conceptual art, decorative art, street art and then coming back to expressionism, concluding with a mixture of styles.
Zoita sees the world in colors, silencing it through black and white and then letting it scream through sound, image and color. The world and herself are in a dialogue called Art. Herself and the world are ONE. zoita.ro |
