Modern Panic VIII
Artists
In alphabetical order
David Alderslade [UK]
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David lives and works in a caravan in Wiltshire, equidistant from the Ministry of Defense firing range on Salisbury Plain and the Megalithic stone circle of Avebury.
Inspired by the natural world, David paints wildlife and atmospheric landscapes but is also continually compelled to document a personal psychological struggle, utilizing the meditative practice of precise drawing to clarify and acknowledge an alternate reality. His inspiration for art work is traditional, but believes it to be timelessly important in the experience of human consciousness. David tries to renew attention to these universal experiences through the medium of watercolour, gouache, pencil crayon and air-brushed acrylic paints, employing a contemporary and graphically dramatic style. davidalderslade.com |
Caitlin Alexandra [UK]
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Caitlin Alexandra is a multimedia artist from North Yorkshire. Caitlin
studied at Leeds College of art before going on to do a BA in Sculpture and Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 2014. She is currently studying for a Masters in Fine art at Brighton University. Caitlin's research is centred around gender, psychoanalysis and the body, and her work culminates in both photography and video works. caitlinalexandra.com |
Emma Allen [UK]
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Emma works in a range of mediums, from body-painting, animation, sculpture, sewing to even light.
Best known for her body-paint animation work which has been exhibited all over the world, received millions of views online and press coverage worldwide including recently being selected for the the TED conference and National Geographic Short film channel. She not afraid to tackle big issues, working a number of charities, refugees, prisoners and founded her own arts charity for disadvantaged children in Sri Lanka. emmaallen.org |
Roger Ballen [South Africa / USA]
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One of the most influential and important photographic artists of the 21st century, Roger Ballen’s photographs span over forty years. His strange and extreme works confront the viewer and challenge them to come with him on a journey into their own minds as he explores the deeper recesses of his own.
Roger Ballen was born in New York in 1950 but for over 30 years he has lived and worked in South Africa. His work as a geologist took him out into the countryside and led him to take up his camera and explore the hidden world of small South African towns. Over the past thirty five years his distinctive style of photography has evolved using a simple square format in stark and beautiful black and white. rogerballen.com |
Kirstin Barnes [UK]
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Kirstin Barnes looks at elements of the self, dissemination of image and
exploration of the patriarchal view. Barnes' current research is investigating her interest in the uncomfortable and the prurient, along with new pornography and online laws. Within this, she is looking at the importance of authenticity within pornography and explore this by using found footage from online pornography sites and her own films. By mixing found film and filmed performances she hopes to blur the boundaries of what is real and what is not. Finished works tend to manifest themselves as film and installation and they are often sexually charged. Kirstin is not afraid to offend or disturb viewers and whilst her work looks at serious themes, she tries to keep some tongue in cheek humour, as an antidote to the more unsettling content. kirstinbarnes.com |
David John Beesley [UK]
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David John Beesley's work is predominated by his fascination with assemblage and narrative; he loves putting things together which shouldn’t fit… this incorporates his interests in: Folk and Mythology, Political and Ideological Power Structures, Spirituality, Philosophy, ‘Conspiracy’ theories and Critical Thinking.
He was born and lives in Greater East London, he attended Reading University to gain his BA in Fine Art and then on to Goldsmiths University to gain his MA. He is also a member of the Green Party and has stood twice as a local candidate. He is currently looking for funding to start his PhD. https://www.davidjohnbeesley.com/ |
Erik Bergrin [USA]
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Erik Bergrin is an artist based out of brooklyn NY. After developing skills
constructing costumes for nightlife, he got his first job at a costume shop and started constructing for parades and mascots. Learning a bit more and then finally settling at a costume shop that specialized in historical replicas, Erik's skills became refined as a tailor for Broadway shows in New York City. He had an interest in embroidery and weaving and traveled to Peru where he first learned how to weave. The objects started from clothing, then went to costumes, and evolved to the fiber sculptures they are today. Erik has a strong connection with mediation and psychology and the work reflects. He uses his learned realizations as symbols in the work. The ideas start with something he wants to explore in himself or a problem he wants to examine, and he will make a visual representation of it in order to confront it and change it. Erik has shown in galleries all over NYC, and his work has been featured in magazines such as Dazed and Confused, King Kong, Zink, The NY Times, NY Mag, and more. It has also been featured in tv and film such as Americas Next Top Model and Violet Tendencies. erikbergrin.com |
James Boman [UK]
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James Boman makes machines that do not work (at least not in the traditional sense) to explore the pre-conceived ideas surrounding function.
Boman uses interactive mechanical structures to create temptation and ultimately deliver disappointment. James' machines comment on the nature of humanity in an age where humans are increasingly becoming more redundant to the production of goods and are becoming more and more machine themselves. Where does the human stop and the machine begin? jamesboman.com |
Marie Brenneis [UK]
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Marie Brenneis creates Absurd, Sculptural Installations. Her practice explores
monochrome homogeneous design and architecture. She considers how today’s utilitarian spaces and the built environment increasingly conditions our visual freedom and imaginative potential. Brenneis was born in Wigan in 1970. She now lives and works in Hackney Wick, London. She completed a BA in Fine Art and Photography, UEL (2009) followed by an MA in the Body and Performance, Trinity Laban, London (2010). She is currently undertaking a Fine Art practice-led PhD at the Cass, London. Her work has been exhibited in the following platforms: Public Art, Scenography, Fine Art, Dance Theatre, Performance and Live Art, Photography, Costume and Video. mariebrenneis.com |
Tom Cox [UK]
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With over 50% of the worlds population now urbanised, and this set to
reach 70% by 2050, Tom's artwork seeks to capture our ever changing urban landscape. He indulges the viewer with paintings exploring all the progressions and nuances of modern city life. With a careful consideration to the balancing of human narratives with bold physical angularity, he deals with scenes of social and architectural evolution. He uses a unique combination of Indian ink and oil paint to develop his canvas, whilst retaining a loose, free style to his mark making. Often using the palette knife to gain depth, he likes to realise rough textures and sculptural qualities in the work. tomcoxstudio.com |
Boldizsár CR [UK]
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Boldizsár is self taught filmmaker with a background in video art and
sociology. Born and raised in Budapest, he drew on his love of classic and avant garde film-making and began to develop his own rich style. Moving from art film into more broadly narrative pieces as a director, Boldizsár manages to maintain the visual richness of his early work and a new mature venture into storytelling. He now collaborates with artists, musicians and brands to create beautiful and engaging filmic content, and has recently collaborated with Valentino, Tory Burch for Italian Vogue, Chloe, and Numero. boldizsarcr.co.uk |
Sam Creasy [UK]
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Sam Creasy is a young artist living and working in Brighton, operating out of
Red Herring Studios. Sam works in a mixed environment of ceramicist's, painters, sculptors, textiles and fashion designers and graphic designers. Sam graduated from the Fine Art Painting course at Brighton University last year. The work is very visual on the surface and falls into a certain canon of painting. He is interested in exploring the catalytic in the so-called ‘fate’ of the discourse of painting as a medium, by which to engage with and represent life as we know it visually. The fate which he says "ends with it being of no real meaning to our development of human beings in the mind and body." Creasy has since returned to University to give a series of talks and debates with students regarding Art, Technology, Painting and The Digital. samcreasey.com |
Marc-Aurèle Debut [France]
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The Internal Human Being and its reactions with the environment
constitute is Debut's main source of inspiration and study. He explores the cultural and psychological complexities of sexuality, body language and particularly the state of mind of an individual when one reacts to the structural and environmental influences of an object. Debut's work influences the viewers in their perception and emotions, encourages them to move in space and to question themselves on the tangible limit of the object. He transcends the traditional techniques of furnishing and industrial design by distorting the utilitarian status of everyday objects and furniture through visual processes and various materials. Twisting these objects into sexual entities materialises his constant sexual visions and thoughts, it works like a therapy. Central Saint Martins 2015 graduate. marcaureledebut.com |
Katia Ganfield [UK]
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Greatly inspired by surreal cinema and directors Jodorowsky,
Kenneth Anger, Fellini, Katia Ganfield's art is there to encourage people to think differently and see the world through different eyes. The audience becomes her subject. Graduating from Goldsmiths University, it was there that her art was progressed to then become shortlisted for the prestigious DBACE Awards for Creative Enterprise in 2016 and winner of Ideastap Innovators fund. Her work has featured globally across MTV,Vevo, Channel 4, Dazed, i-D and Hunger TV. Most recently the ICA in partnership with Ch4 have commissioned No Tape Inside to make a short film as part of the Stop Play Record programme. Specialising in music promos, documentary and experimental transgressive film, her work has premiered across screenings split between London, Brighton and New York. katiaganfield.com |
Ronald Gonzalez [USA]
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Ronald Gonzalez is a contemporary figurative artist based in upstate
New York. Since the mid seventies the artist has worked from his garage studio creating elegiac sculptures and installations that are embodiments of death and loss infused with grotesque narrative, and pathos. Gonzalez’s sculpture is mournful, confrontational, and estranged, standing on the border between human personage and doomed phantom. The demonic pincushion is a dissolute and abhorrent image of human perversities and misfortune. It is one more conjured memory from the pit of handed down extraordinary inhabitants who live within and among us in our panicked times. His restless investigation of animating materials has produced an art of dissolution with archaic, apocalyptic, and quasi-alien elements that convey an animistic mode of thought and intensely evocative expression of the human condition. ronaldgonzalezstudio.com |
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Deborah Griffin is a London based artist who has been exhibiting since
2008 and had her first solo show in 2010. Whichever medium she works in, the core preoccupations that run throughout her work are the same: in life we are in death; he not being busy born is busy dying and the best we can aspire to, is to leave the world a more beautiful place than we found it. Her own experience of triumphing over an aggressive blood-related cancer thirteen years ago adds further subjective weight and the ability to be simultaneously flippant and deadly earnest on the subject, bringing a a cheeky sense of Situationalist playfulness to the table. deborahgriffin.carbonmade.com |
Sam Hamilton [USA]
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Toonpunk (Sam Hamilton) is a political cartoonist, comic book artist, animator and painter.
His love of comics and cartoons is a theme that runs through his artworks but often with depth that implies a sinister dystopian existence underneath. Toonpunk has emerged from the underground punk scene to become a recognised figure within London's art world. He has exhibited in Barcelona and Berlin as well as having worked with established galleries and art fairs in London. His most recent works merge analogue and digital techniques to create an aesthetic of serendipitous perfection that mirrors his imperfect psychedelic existence trapped in a digitally sanitised world. Wikiman 3.0 is a portrait of Julian Assange giving his infamous speech at the Ecuadorian Embassy in 2012. toonpunk.space |
Mia-Jane Harris [UK]
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Harris' work delves into the curious, fascinatingly odd and morbidly beautiful. She aims to intrigue the viewer and pull them in to her world with strange objects and morbid curios to manipulate their emotions on the subject of mortality - life, death & resurrection.
Her creations are about helping overcome the fear of nothingness, by accepting death as a thing of beauty and using preservation and upcycling to show herself that if she can stop decay and disappearance then she can have some sort of control over her own demise. There were complications during her birth which resulted in the artist being born deceased and after resuscitation, left with Erbs Palsy, the partial paralysis and stunted growth of her right arm. Harris gathers materials from charity shops, house-clearance stores, dumps, boot-sales, skips and antiques markets. She then takes these thrown away materials and uses: deconstruction, reconstruction, re-painting and assemblage combined with taxidermy/mummification to turn discarded objects in to curious new art objects for people to admire. mia-janeharris.co.uk |
Luke Francis Haseler [UK]
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Luke is a full time artist, commissioned portrait painter and picture maker based in London. His current body of paintings focus on the inheritance of violence and the confrontation with the beast of desire.
Other current projects include a macabre comedy, short play titled 'SKIN - two skeletons fighting over the body of a hanged man.' in which Luke is responsible for the creative direction and set design. He has a growing history of taking over disused spaces and transforming them into environments for multi-discipline collaboration and exhibition. In 2013 he founded the art collective Vermilion Hook, who went on to curate three independent exhibitions of paintings bridged with performance cabaret and music in Central London; namely the ‘Wine-Dark Sea’, in the basement of infamous Soho tailor Mark Powell. Currently occupying a studio at The Workshop, SE1, with a built-in stage, he is outwardly looking to collaborate with actors, performers and dancers, to create first-hand a collection of visceral work for exhibition in London next year. lukefrancishaseler.com |
Mehreen Hashmi [Pakistan]
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Mehreen Hashmi is an independent visual artist and curator from Pakistan. Born and raised in Karachi, she has graduated in Bachelor's in Fine Arts from Indus Valley School of art and architecture in 2009.
Her work has been displayed in local galleries as well as internationally including Australia, Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. She has various exhibitions on her curatorial venture. Recently she has received 'Art Commendation' award from Dawood Foundation. She has been curating exhibitions in collaboration with Culture and Tourism Department, Government of Sindh and promoting local artists' work. She is currently curating Karachi Art Summit which has organized by Spaces gallery, Karachi. Hashmi's work is a narration of her emotional struggle being a survivor of sexual abuse. It is a statement about psychological and emotional impact of abuse on children, as well as adults. "Social taboos do not allow women as well as men to raise a voice about their sufferings which makes it more suffocating. We don't have a way out of this because we don't have any one to listen or understand." - Hashmi mehreenhashmi.com |
Alexander Heaton [UK]
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Alexander Heaton is a painter and printmaker based in London. Having spent his early years in North Yorkshire he moved to London and graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2005 with an honours degree in Fine Art; he exhibits widely, both nationally and internationally. His most notable recognition to date has included his solo show, Do The Ravens Still Circle The Mountain Top? at VJB Arts London.
These works comment on feelings anxiety and fear currently in western society. Space its self seems to be being torn apart and is entirely surrounded by gnarled tree roots commenting on the complicated structure of consciousness. Two ravens circle a figure dressed in a glossy black jacket. The central figure's identity is deliberately ambiguous commenting on perceived notions of "others" or "outsiders" in society. A Valkyrie stands before a triskelion. The three legs are known in Manx as ny tree cassyn ("the three legs"). The triskelion is an ancient symbol, used by the Mycenaeans and the Lycians. This could be an alter ego, disguise or fantasy. The work was inspired by costumes and collages of images from magazines. The viewer is invited to take a fascinated look at the slick surfaces that the glossy and matte paint evoke and suggest. alexanderheaton.art |
Anna Henderson [UK]
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Anna is a technical artist from Exeter, Devon, and living in London. She
studied at Wimbledon College of Art which encouraged her to create realistic pieces. She is inspired by natural history and the natural world, which she uses to juxtapose against the mechanics of humanity. annachenderson.com |
Ben Hopper [UK]
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Ben Hopper is a fine art photographer working mainly in the performing
arts. Since 2007 he has been working closely with local and international artists, companies and venues to produce promotional imagery for creative projects. Hopper’s clients and partners include Cirque du Soleil, The Roundhouse, The School of Dance and Circus (DOCH), The European Federation of Professional Circus Schools (FEDEC), Les 7 doigts de la main (The 7 Fingers), DV8 Physical Theatre, Arts Council England and more. His work appeared in more than 30 exhibitions worldwide including CIRCa Festival, Cirque de. Demain, CircusFest and Secret Cinema. Hopper’s personal work, often challenging identity taboos, censorship, nudity, sexuality and gender - attracted tens of thousands to exhibitions and has reached millions online through major media outlets including The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, ELLE, The Guardian, The Daily Mail and GQ. therealbenhopper.com |
Chiho Iwase [Japan]
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Chiho Iwase was born in Japan, currently lives and works in London. She studied Fine Art/Sculpture at Chelsea College of Art & Design (University of the Arts London) after she had academic training of drawing and painting in Japan.
Iwase has taken part in group exhibitions in London and Tokyo since she graduated from Chelsea College. She also had solo shows at Hell Gallery 2011 and the Window Gallery in ASC studios 2014. Her practice is motivated by the situation in which her repressed negative emotions uncontrollably come out as a result of events that undermine her identity. Iwase attempts to visualise this uncertain destructive energy and embody her fantasy with playful expressions in her work. chihoiwase.com/index.html |
Lowell Johnson
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Lowell H. Johnson is an artist born in London, UK in 1983 where he now lives. He paints mostly in oil on board and furthermore uses media including acrylic, inks and the application of sand to his paintings’ surface. Johnson is strongly inspired by neo-expressionist trends of emphasising emotional characteristics through paint techniques and he paints in highly gestural and textural ways. He paints both real and dreamlike depictions of cityscapes and buildings, striving to blur the boundaries between reality and the surreal.
Having lived in and between pastoral settings and a large city, he became enlightened by the scope and patterns of population densities across the world from rural to urban settings. He is also fascinated by the way in which these demographic features shape the very outlooks, philosophies and ethical values people hold. Johnson has sought to convey this idea through the use of expressive painting. He employs colour palettes ranging from broad to narrow and further incorporates surface texture through the use of palette knives and the addition of raw materials. He often juxtaposes figurative and semi figurative components, with the intention of creating stark contrasts between the real and the imaginary. https://www.lowelljohnsonart.com/paint |
Rebecca Johnson [UK]
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Rebecca Johnson is a Brighton based visual artist who creates performance, costume and visual media. Her work focuses on femininity, self-transformation, symbolism and sexuality through costume, performance and personal adornment. Are the elements of costume and performance interchangeable? If so, where does one element end, and the other begin?
Originally trained as a traditional Fakir over a decade years ago, and then diversifying, Rebecca creates work with full respect to an aesthetic that’s inspired by her rich cultural heritage of travelling show-women. Rebecca has been featured in international press, feature films, numerous books and research papers, music videos, television programmes and has toured extensively bringing her unique style of performance to audiences worldwide. missymacarbe.com |
Wednesday Kim [US]
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Wednesday Kim was born in Korea, immigrated to America in her early
teens. Kim is a multimedia artist whose work is in the medium of video, performance, installation, and sculpture. wednesdaykim.com |
Dion Kitson [UK]
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Dion Kitson is a British born international artist, working across a range of media, noted for his work in collage, film and his contemporary Dadaist approach to making work, Dealing with 'working class' culture, detritus, and death.
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Iain Macarthur [UK]
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Born in Swindon, Macarthur became an art fanatic at the age of eight, when he was first introduced to art through the medium of cartoons and comic books.
In 2008, the artist graduated from Swindon College with a degree in HND Illustration. He is influenced by many artists and illustrators – all with differing styles and mediums – and has turned to their work for artistic stimulation over the years. Among them are Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, Lucian Freud, James Jean, Aurbrey Beardsley, Sergio Toppi and Harry Clarke. His inspiration is furthered through anime art, american and polish folk art, art nouveau, textile patterns, geometry and different forms of organic patterns and shapes. His work has been described as surreal and unique. Using mostly pencil, watercolours and pigment pens, Macarthur creates portraits of ordinary people in an unusual way. He dos this by, embellishing patterns and watercolour effects into the portrait to give a vivid explosion effect, transforming their faces from something plain, into something entirely bizarre. iainmacarthur.com |
Rob Maslen [UK]
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As a Dadaist, Maslen uses the technique of the dèrive to produce work: travelling without purpose. He arbitrarily encounter objects and photograph them.
The environment that Maslen moves through composes random associations of objects, bodies and messages: signifiers that come adrift from the moorings of their original context and are continuously reassembled. He sees this as a kind of automatic poetry in the landscape. From this continuous process of chaotic convergences occasionally come small scenes that appear to contain a significance or aesthetic that Maslen wants to capture as a photograph, like a Rorschach test in reverse. oneneoeon.co.uk |
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Dominic Negus [UK]
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The death of Dominic Negus's father five years ago prompted his career change. It also acutely affected his feelings towards dying and his own mortality.
His work follows an overarching theme using a breadth of media and an academic interest in the Psychology of death & trauma, it is deeply personal yet universal and invites others to reflect on their own experiences of loss & trauma. dominicnegus.com |
Ricki Nerreter [Germany]
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"Smoke and Mirrors" is a piece reflecting the turmoil and sick ideology
behind the sacred face of faith. Triggered by the greed the religions followed their need for wealth , disrespecting the universal message "thou shall not kill ". Nowadays again a war of Faith in the name of a god, claiming innocent lives, for absurd political reasons, fought on the back of unsuspecting victims. "All religious cults are using and abusing their faith to gain whatever makes them feel devine." - Nerreter Ricki Nerreter born 1967 in Germany. She had a stroke at the age of 38, which changed her practice from painting to sculpture. Using toys she builds her 3 D Diary. Narrative is her perception of everyday events in her life. rickinerreter.com |
Andrea Nevi [Italy]
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Andrea Nevi was born in Foligno, Italy on April 30, 1985. He is a
psychologist, filmmaker and video artist. He has directed some short films and music videos selected at many festivals. He is also the author of video installations selected for many collective exhibitions held atvarious museums around the world. As a psychologist, his work consists of abilitational and psycho-educational interventions for young children with developmental disorders, overall Autism spectrum disorder. behance.net/andreanevi |
Ellie Pennick [UK]
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Pennick's work deals with manners such as politics and society. She often sexualises her pieces through a satirical perspective.
She likes to embody the grit of the working class. She feels she is part of a generation that is undermined and scarred by the post-Thatcher, neoliberal society in which we operate. Coupled with her Northern mining town roots, her practice questions and challenges the prevailing political and social discourse with far reaching repercussions indicative of a climate responding to inequality which affects millions. The work deals with manners such as politics and society. It is a comment on the decisive vote to leave the European Union, and the successive Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to trigger Article 50 became imminent, particularly given my leftist political stance. Theresa May is wearing her infamous £995 leather trousers, however, Pennick pushed this statement further converting them into leather chaps. To hit the nail on the head Pennick designed her model masturbating with the EU flag. cargocollective.com/elliepennick |
Emily Robinson [UK]
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Robinson's work deals with the topic of Body Dysmorphia Disorder (BDD). It is a mental illness in which an individual will interpret a minor or imaginary defect as
ugly and focus on it exessively. Her work is a life size sculpt portraying the mental and physical effect BDD has on its sufferers. This unforgiving ilness targets men and women from all ages and backgrounds. Based in London, she has recently graduated from Wimbeldon UAL, where she studied Technical arts and special effects. Robinson's background in art is aimed primarily in figurative sculpture. Her goal is to become a figurative artist and professional mold maker; with her particular interest, conceptually representing mental ilness and taboo subjects relating to the body and the human condition. emilyrobinsonart.weebly.com |
Elinor Rowlands [UK]
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Elinor Rowlands is a disabled female artist and writer/film director who makes provocative and bold work formed from people's ableist and sexist attitudes towards disabled women, survivors of violence, sexuality, body image/presence, sensitivity and a woman's wildness. She creates art through dense fragments of the moving image and words to disembogue a narrative that speaks out against a society sold on misunderstanding the 'other' by segregating, blaming and judging them due to fearful and angry attitudes. Rowlands' narratives meets this violence with grace, listens by being with trauma, and allows outsiders to contribute in whichever way makes them feel alive, strong, seen and heard. Being an outsider artist herself has meant soaking up the light and the dark and showing it for what it is. She is part of film and music collective Melu Bel Productions and an experimental duo band, People I've Loved.
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Marc Savior [Sweden]
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Marc Savior’s paintings describe unseen solitude places on the edge of
destruction. Dark and mysterious environments, where the intimate experience is exposed, unraveling a sense of our inner discontentment. While much of the imagery in his work is in fact drawn from things observed during his experiences, the material itself is often even more so. Marc’s surfaces are held together by a network of well-understood sequences of color, along with a torturous process and crude precision. "I have always been intensely focussed on self-transformation. It’s a recurring theme found in my work, which has lately been heavily influenced by personal experiences and observations on life in urban environments." - Savior marcsavior.com |
Dolly Sen [UK]
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As a child, Dolly Sen was an alien in Empire Strikes Back. She knew
then she would never know normal life. Her journey as an artist has taken her up a tree in Regents Park, to California’s Death Row, to the Barbican, Tower Bridge and the Royal Academy, Trafalgar Square, and up a ladder to screw a lightbulb into the sky. Dolly’s creativity aims to put reality over her lap and slap its naughty arse. Dolly is an award-winning writer, artist, performer and filmmaker. She has had 10 books published, been nominated twice for a Dadafest Literary Award (2006 & 2007), and won several awards for her poetry. Her subversive blogs around art, disability and humour have a huge international following. Since 2004 she has exhibited and performed internationally. dollysen.com |
Natalie Shau [Lithuania]
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Natalie Shau is illustrator and photographer from Vilnius, Lithuania. Her digital masterpieces have graced the pages of the French Vogue Magazine during a Lydia Courteille jewellery campaign and her extensive client list of music labels includes Island Def Jam, Sony Music Entertainment (formerly “Sony BMG”) Century Media and Nuclear Blast.
Gothic horror fiction, fairy tales and Russian classics (e.g. Dostoevsky and Gogol) are among the influences she lists for her surreal and strange creations. Shau uses a range of media, mixing photography, digital painting and 3D. The quality she seeks is “at once fragile and powerful”. natalieshau.carbonmade.com |
Guli Silberstein [UK]
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Artist-filmmaker, moving-image researcher and video editor, Guli
Silberstein is a British citizen raised in Israel. Based in London UK since 2010, he received his BA in Film from Tel-Aviv University in 1997 and a MA in Media Studies from The New School University, New York City, where he studied and lived in 1997-2002. Since 2000, he creates work involving personal recordings, found footage, and mixes of both, processed digitally by noise, glitch and other disruptions of “clean” image, dealing with perception of reality and social-political issues. His work is widely shown and winning awards worldwide and in the UK. guli-silberstein.com |
Zoe Simon [UK]
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Zoe Simon is a performance and video artist drawn to create female characters
with a transgressive, overpowering sexuality, who have no place in mainstream society. Since 2014 she has been performing as Lulu Goldman Deceased, a dead bunny girl and prostitute who possesses my body when she performs as her. She first performed as Lulu in ‘The Last Breath’ when she exhibited with The Chapman Brothers at The Clearlake Hotel. She also perform as Femme Cheval, a Pony /Woman hybrid, and Baby, an adult baby who likes to suck a dummy and fall asleep; she exhibited these characters on film and in performance in March in ‘Salomania’ at Hundred Years Gallery. She finds her characters compelling,in part, because of their strength, and because they are not set on a straight or conventional path, the subject of adoration, derision and disgust, they expose the limitations of conventional society, whilst having a spellbinding attraction for the viewer. zoesimon.co.uk |
Guy Wilthew [UK]
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At first glance this is a religious painting, but actually it's subversive. It seeks to re-connect the word 'Fetish' (Nun) with its original religious meaning. i.e. The worship of an object, namely the smart phone. The angels are looking down at the smart phone. The female crucifixion is the ultimate symbol of bondage, but also spirituality. Complete freedom, when completely imprisoned. The fetish nun is a statement about the hijab, sexuality and religion.
Guy Wlthew started painting in the summer of 2016. In those nine months or so he has produced 13 paintings, this is No.12. Wilthew's background has been in graphic design, from college to present day. Firstly by hand, (before computers!) lately, entirely computer generated imagery, including 3D visualisations. GuyWilthewArtist |
Vort Man [USA]
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Vort Man feels he is being respresented on the world stage by a liar,
a bully, and sexual predator; thus feels it is his responsibility as an artist to respond. This piece is called "There is only one way to stop him from lying (For 5-7 minutes)." "Freedom is something that dies if it isn't used"- Dr. Hunter S.Thompson Vort Man used to say "I paint everyday; and I did.' In recent years he found it more accurate to say "I make art everyday". For the last 1276 days, he has been making a collage everyday as a meditative practice, as much as anything. In 2014, he made animals everyday. 2015, words in Spanish. 2016, was Vexillology, and 2017 are landscapes. He still considers painting as his favourite medium and has a new series called "Dinosaurs are a Gateway Science" hanging in Portland, Oregon until the end of the year. "These are dark days and politics weigh heavy on my mind. I will continue to create every day. May this encourage art and adventure in your life" - Vort Man thevortman.com |
Anita Zaman [Russia]
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Anita Zaman describes herself as a Russian/Indian cultural chaos living in London and creating visualimagery through variety of mediums, including videography, painting,drawing and digital art. Inspired by the Surrealist filmmakers, nature outside and human nature within, she believes that Art is the greatest tool of magic that helps to open people's minds and connect them with their intuitive understanding of the world and of themselves. She recently
graduated from Central Saint Martins and is currently working on personal projects. anitazaman.com |
Lim Zeharn [Singapore]
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Lim Zeharn is a Visual Arts student in the International Baccalaureate Career-Related Programme (IBCP) at School of the Arts, Singapore (SOTA). As a Design Student, he works across fine art, craft and technology to express ideas in innovative and thought-provoking ways. Zeharn has participated in many curatorial projects and group exhibitions in school, the latest being “In an Echo We Remember”, the tangible companions project by Curating Whampoa. He also enjoys facilitating and organising independent arts-related projects. For his excellence in artistic practice, Zeharn was conferred the Best in Visual Arts Awards at the SOTA Awards Day ceremony in 2015. http://cargocollective.com/limzeharn |
Shona Davies, Dave Monaghan and Jon Klein [UK]
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Shona Davies and Jon Klein both studied at Sir John Cass College of Art where they graduated in 2007 with first class honours. They were also joint recipients of the Owen Rowley Prize and John Cass Purchase prize. Klein specialised in Time Based Media and Davies in Printmaking and 3-D. Dave
Monaghan studied at Liverpool and Canterbury Colleges of Art where he specialised in sculpture. daviesandmonaghan.co.uk |
