Modern Panic Visual Artists
CHARLES BRONSON - CLICK HERE
GASTON UGALDE - CLICK HERE
KIRA O'RIELLY - CLICK HERE
RUFUS DAYGLO
Rufus Dayglo is a London-based comics artist working for 2000 AD and Titan Books in the United Kingdom, and IDW Publishing and Image Comics in the United States. Rufus started his career in the animation industry working on feature films, pop promos, storyboarding and commercials before moving into comic book art. He has taken over as the main regular artist on the Tank Girl series of comics.
He has drawn Snaked, a mini series with writer Clifford Meth for IDW, Tank Girl The Gifting, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Low Life with Rob Williams for 2000 AD, and Tank Girl Visions of Booga, Tank Girl Skidmarks. He is now working on a number of Tank Girl projects with co-creator Alan Martin.
http://rufusdayglo.blogspot.com/
http://titanmagazines.com/t/tank-girl/pages/tank-girl-digital/
Rufus Dayglo is a London-based comics artist working for 2000 AD and Titan Books in the United Kingdom, and IDW Publishing and Image Comics in the United States. Rufus started his career in the animation industry working on feature films, pop promos, storyboarding and commercials before moving into comic book art. He has taken over as the main regular artist on the Tank Girl series of comics.
He has drawn Snaked, a mini series with writer Clifford Meth for IDW, Tank Girl The Gifting, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Low Life with Rob Williams for 2000 AD, and Tank Girl Visions of Booga, Tank Girl Skidmarks. He is now working on a number of Tank Girl projects with co-creator Alan Martin.
http://rufusdayglo.blogspot.com/
http://titanmagazines.com/t/tank-girl/pages/tank-girl-digital/
CHARLIE TUESDAY GATES
Charlie Tuesday Gates practices D.I.Y taxidermy, creating bizarre and surreal sculptures from her warped imagination. Dark humour twists the natural with the artificial. Beauty and death collide with nostalgia and borderline insanity. Provocative, uncomfortable yet intriguing you with macabre assemblages. Gates is not a traditional taxidermist, she is an artist. Taxidermists preserve the illusion of life, Gates work preserves the reality of death.
Charlie Tuesday Gates was born in Dorset and studied Sculpture at Camberwell. 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 with live demonstrations. These performances are becoming increasingly popular and often oversubscribed.
Her work has appeared on the cover of DESIGN WEEK, inside TIME OUT & THE INDEPENDENT. She has worked with BBC FILM, FILM LONDON, DIESEL and created the set design for a semi finalist of the PLACE PRIZE.
Gates lives & works in London.
http://www.charlietuesdaygates.blogspot.com/
Charlie Tuesday Gates practices D.I.Y taxidermy, creating bizarre and surreal sculptures from her warped imagination. Dark humour twists the natural with the artificial. Beauty and death collide with nostalgia and borderline insanity. Provocative, uncomfortable yet intriguing you with macabre assemblages. Gates is not a traditional taxidermist, she is an artist. Taxidermists preserve the illusion of life, Gates work preserves the reality of death.
Charlie Tuesday Gates was born in Dorset and studied Sculpture at Camberwell. 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 with live demonstrations. These performances are becoming increasingly popular and often oversubscribed.
Her work has appeared on the cover of DESIGN WEEK, inside TIME OUT & THE INDEPENDENT. She has worked with BBC FILM, FILM LONDON, DIESEL and created the set design for a semi finalist of the PLACE PRIZE.
Gates lives & works in London.
http://www.charlietuesdaygates.blogspot.com/
LEE MANGAN
Lee Mangan is barely an artist, hanging on by the skin of his fingers. If the word 'art' was ever in Lee Mangan's mouth, it would be the equivalent of sticking a finger down his throat to make himself sick. Most of his doodles are no better then an inexperienced secretary trying to tackle shorthand. 'Koreanese' is once again an attempt and failure at trying to find a new way of drawing. But believe me, he does it for the love, bless him. Also, there may be some of Lee's 'Black and White Attack' pieces, from a time when Mr. Mangan was stupidly trying to impress other members of the human race.
http://www.sterankomusic.com
http://www.leemanganart.com
http://www.leemangans-r.com
Lee Mangan is barely an artist, hanging on by the skin of his fingers. If the word 'art' was ever in Lee Mangan's mouth, it would be the equivalent of sticking a finger down his throat to make himself sick. Most of his doodles are no better then an inexperienced secretary trying to tackle shorthand. 'Koreanese' is once again an attempt and failure at trying to find a new way of drawing. But believe me, he does it for the love, bless him. Also, there may be some of Lee's 'Black and White Attack' pieces, from a time when Mr. Mangan was stupidly trying to impress other members of the human race.
http://www.sterankomusic.com
http://www.leemanganart.com
http://www.leemangans-r.com
ALEX BINNIE
Alex Binnie (born 1959 in Oxford UK.) is one of the world’s most highly regarded tattoo artists is primarily known as a tattooist, and is also a printmaker; he has been a musician and performance artist.
As a tattoo artist he is known for being one of a group of artists who originated and popularized the use of large-scale tribal design (non-western, often Polynesian, and also involving elements of fusion across regional boundaries and traditions) in the West. His work reached a wide public with the publication of 1000 Tattoos by Henk Schiffmacher. Alex Binnie graduated with a BA(hons) in Fine Art from Cardiff Art School (South Glamorgan Faculty of Art and Design) in 1982.
Binnie was a founding member of the power electronics trio Pure in the early 1980s, along with Mathew Bower. This was experimental music using guitars to create a confrontational wall of noise, rather than the synthesizers employed by Whitehouse. Later he joined John Gosling's Zos Kia. He became a medical artist in 1985, first an AV technician at Royal Postgraduate Medical School, then a medical illustrator at St. Thomas and Guy's Hospitals.
His first tattoo studio in London was an unlicensed studio called Mother Art. It received some publicity from a newsletter published by Genesis P-Orridge and offered early clients as much tattooing as they could stand in one sitting for 10 pounds sterling. He moved to Los Angeles from 1991–1993, initially tattooing at the Gauntlet studio in West Hollywood. Following this he worked at Body Electric on Melrose Ave, and then travelled to Seattle, working with Vyvyn Lazonga. In Los Angeles, along with the association with The Gauntlet through his then wife Elayne, he collaborated with the performance artist Ron Athey, an association which continued after his Los Angeles period, in various international venues, including London's Torture Garden. He also appeared in Catherine Gund Saalfield's film, Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverence (1998)
Binnie returned to London in 1993 and established Into You Tattoo in Clerkenwell. In 2005 he established Into You Brighton with Jason Mosseri. Binnie has been involved in printmaking in quite a different style to that of his tattoo work. He is represented by Ink_d in Brighton and Rise in Berlin. In 2010, a woodcut portrait was accepted into the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London. He has also created murals in two New York spaces.
http://www.alexbinnie.com/
Alex Binnie (born 1959 in Oxford UK.) is one of the world’s most highly regarded tattoo artists is primarily known as a tattooist, and is also a printmaker; he has been a musician and performance artist.
As a tattoo artist he is known for being one of a group of artists who originated and popularized the use of large-scale tribal design (non-western, often Polynesian, and also involving elements of fusion across regional boundaries and traditions) in the West. His work reached a wide public with the publication of 1000 Tattoos by Henk Schiffmacher. Alex Binnie graduated with a BA(hons) in Fine Art from Cardiff Art School (South Glamorgan Faculty of Art and Design) in 1982.
Binnie was a founding member of the power electronics trio Pure in the early 1980s, along with Mathew Bower. This was experimental music using guitars to create a confrontational wall of noise, rather than the synthesizers employed by Whitehouse. Later he joined John Gosling's Zos Kia. He became a medical artist in 1985, first an AV technician at Royal Postgraduate Medical School, then a medical illustrator at St. Thomas and Guy's Hospitals.
His first tattoo studio in London was an unlicensed studio called Mother Art. It received some publicity from a newsletter published by Genesis P-Orridge and offered early clients as much tattooing as they could stand in one sitting for 10 pounds sterling. He moved to Los Angeles from 1991–1993, initially tattooing at the Gauntlet studio in West Hollywood. Following this he worked at Body Electric on Melrose Ave, and then travelled to Seattle, working with Vyvyn Lazonga. In Los Angeles, along with the association with The Gauntlet through his then wife Elayne, he collaborated with the performance artist Ron Athey, an association which continued after his Los Angeles period, in various international venues, including London's Torture Garden. He also appeared in Catherine Gund Saalfield's film, Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverence (1998)
Binnie returned to London in 1993 and established Into You Tattoo in Clerkenwell. In 2005 he established Into You Brighton with Jason Mosseri. Binnie has been involved in printmaking in quite a different style to that of his tattoo work. He is represented by Ink_d in Brighton and Rise in Berlin. In 2010, a woodcut portrait was accepted into the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London. He has also created murals in two New York spaces.
http://www.alexbinnie.com/
NICK ELPHICK
North Wales-based artist Nick Elphick is somewhat of a passionate visionary who has spent the best part of the past ten years working to better understand form and the human mind.
Back in 2002 Nick graduated from Loughborough University with a BA Hons in Fine Art Sculpture and since then he has strived to fully understand the techniques and meaning of sculpture. “I do not just replicate a form but search for a deeper meaning; I want the eye to travel over a piece to stimulate and breathe creativity into the viewer,” comments Nick.
His attention to detail and knowledge of the figurative has gained Nick a reputation as a perfectionist, a purist, and, of course, a man of notable talent. In the past few years he has been gaining headlines and global recognition for his beautifully crafted bronzes, which is probably why household names such as Jean-Paul Gaultier, Damien Hirst and most recently Ryan Gander have called upon Nick to work with them.
From the techniques and materials used to the featured characters and understanding of the aesthetics itself Nick boldly takes on the traditionalist and basically sticks two figures up. His work is bold, playful, beautifully crafted but with an edge that literally rips through the subconscious of the viewer to leave an impression that goes further than skin deep, an impression that literally brandishes itself upon the psyche.
http://www.nick-elphick.co.uk/
North Wales-based artist Nick Elphick is somewhat of a passionate visionary who has spent the best part of the past ten years working to better understand form and the human mind.
Back in 2002 Nick graduated from Loughborough University with a BA Hons in Fine Art Sculpture and since then he has strived to fully understand the techniques and meaning of sculpture. “I do not just replicate a form but search for a deeper meaning; I want the eye to travel over a piece to stimulate and breathe creativity into the viewer,” comments Nick.
His attention to detail and knowledge of the figurative has gained Nick a reputation as a perfectionist, a purist, and, of course, a man of notable talent. In the past few years he has been gaining headlines and global recognition for his beautifully crafted bronzes, which is probably why household names such as Jean-Paul Gaultier, Damien Hirst and most recently Ryan Gander have called upon Nick to work with them.
From the techniques and materials used to the featured characters and understanding of the aesthetics itself Nick boldly takes on the traditionalist and basically sticks two figures up. His work is bold, playful, beautifully crafted but with an edge that literally rips through the subconscious of the viewer to leave an impression that goes further than skin deep, an impression that literally brandishes itself upon the psyche.
http://www.nick-elphick.co.uk/
BEN HOPPER
"Growing up and having started photography in sunny Israel, I got used to shoot a lot of my portraits outdoor, on locations. London is a bit limiting, to say the least, weather-wise. I photographed a lot of my test-shoots inside my small flat in North West London. Having no private studio to hand – I’ve tried to make the best of it. The process of being a photographer at the beginning of his career made me think that these photos, which I’ve taken throughout the past two years, could make an interesting collection – especially in a few years time when l’ll be working in my own dedicated space. This is a preview of a series I call In a Box” - Ben Hopper (© 2008-2011 Ben Hopper)
Exclusively Previewing at MODERN PANIC
Ben Hopper is an Israel-born London-based commercial and fine art photographer. His work includes scenery, movement, and mood. He primarily photographs conceptual fashion, portraits of dancers, circus artists, musicians, and risqué nudes. His latest series, Naked Girls with Masks, falls squarely into the last category. Naked Girls with Masks was previewed at the underground London group art exhibition ACT ART 8 in July 2010, where it was the talk of the show. Along with his earlier series, The Black and Whites, Ben quickly received more exposure as he came to the attention of bloggers all around the world.
Through working intimately with London’s alternative and underground nightclubs, he has forged close and trusted relationships with many of their performers and more extravagant clientèle. From luxurious Mayfair members clubs like Maddox to the world’s biggest fetish club,Torture Garden, the characters he has met have influenced his work and become close friends - many of them appearing as subjects in his imagery.
Ben was recently commissioned by the European Federation of Professional Circus Schools (FEDEC) to photograph at Circa Festival (Auch, France). He also started working with The Roundhouse, one of London’s premier performance theatres, earlier this year. His other clients include fashion designers, musicians, corporations, design and architecture firms, nightclubs, and performance and entertainment companies. Ben is currently in-house photographer for Bête-Noire (PKA The Last Days of Decadence) and White Mischief. (London, UK).Ben is also taking some time to concentrate on creating new personal work. Edgier and bolder, he is questioning mainstream culture, identity, and sexuality.
“My photographic style is always evolving - I also think I’m a little jaded; I never want to take predictable pictures. When I take pictures or select them afterwards I think, ‘If I saw that image in a book, a magazine or a gallery, would I think it’s a good image? If it’s good enough to look like a timeless classic image, I’ll be happy.” says Ben. “I particularly love the challenge of working solely with available light, and capturing bodies in motion. I like every element of my compositions to fascinate; it might be the energetic, quirky image of a nude woman in a stag head jumping into the air that first arrests the viewer, but then they notice interesting elements in the background too. I want everything about my photographs to provoke comment and exclamation. And I consider ‘What the fuck..?!’ to be a compliment!”
“Hotter-than-wasabi up-and-coming fine art photographer” - Bizarre Magazine
“Philippe Halsman lives in him, but he brings a whole fresh thing" - Doug Menuez (photographer)
http://THEREALBenHopper.com
"Growing up and having started photography in sunny Israel, I got used to shoot a lot of my portraits outdoor, on locations. London is a bit limiting, to say the least, weather-wise. I photographed a lot of my test-shoots inside my small flat in North West London. Having no private studio to hand – I’ve tried to make the best of it. The process of being a photographer at the beginning of his career made me think that these photos, which I’ve taken throughout the past two years, could make an interesting collection – especially in a few years time when l’ll be working in my own dedicated space. This is a preview of a series I call In a Box” - Ben Hopper (© 2008-2011 Ben Hopper)
Exclusively Previewing at MODERN PANIC
Ben Hopper is an Israel-born London-based commercial and fine art photographer. His work includes scenery, movement, and mood. He primarily photographs conceptual fashion, portraits of dancers, circus artists, musicians, and risqué nudes. His latest series, Naked Girls with Masks, falls squarely into the last category. Naked Girls with Masks was previewed at the underground London group art exhibition ACT ART 8 in July 2010, where it was the talk of the show. Along with his earlier series, The Black and Whites, Ben quickly received more exposure as he came to the attention of bloggers all around the world.
Through working intimately with London’s alternative and underground nightclubs, he has forged close and trusted relationships with many of their performers and more extravagant clientèle. From luxurious Mayfair members clubs like Maddox to the world’s biggest fetish club,Torture Garden, the characters he has met have influenced his work and become close friends - many of them appearing as subjects in his imagery.
Ben was recently commissioned by the European Federation of Professional Circus Schools (FEDEC) to photograph at Circa Festival (Auch, France). He also started working with The Roundhouse, one of London’s premier performance theatres, earlier this year. His other clients include fashion designers, musicians, corporations, design and architecture firms, nightclubs, and performance and entertainment companies. Ben is currently in-house photographer for Bête-Noire (PKA The Last Days of Decadence) and White Mischief. (London, UK).Ben is also taking some time to concentrate on creating new personal work. Edgier and bolder, he is questioning mainstream culture, identity, and sexuality.
“My photographic style is always evolving - I also think I’m a little jaded; I never want to take predictable pictures. When I take pictures or select them afterwards I think, ‘If I saw that image in a book, a magazine or a gallery, would I think it’s a good image? If it’s good enough to look like a timeless classic image, I’ll be happy.” says Ben. “I particularly love the challenge of working solely with available light, and capturing bodies in motion. I like every element of my compositions to fascinate; it might be the energetic, quirky image of a nude woman in a stag head jumping into the air that first arrests the viewer, but then they notice interesting elements in the background too. I want everything about my photographs to provoke comment and exclamation. And I consider ‘What the fuck..?!’ to be a compliment!”
“Hotter-than-wasabi up-and-coming fine art photographer” - Bizarre Magazine
“Philippe Halsman lives in him, but he brings a whole fresh thing" - Doug Menuez (photographer)
http://THEREALBenHopper.com
BUDDY NESTOR
Buddy was born and raised in Collingswood, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a Latch-Key Kid during the birth of cable TV. This led to endless hours in front of the television, watching movies and drawing. He gravitated toward strange cult and horror films. As a skateboarder in the late 80’s and early 90’s, he was exposed to Punk, Indie, and Heavy Metal music. In 1997, after the birth of his son, Buddy decided to teach himself to paint. In 1999, he traveled around the world on an aircraft carrier and painted every day. This was critical in his development as an artist. Presently, he drinks beer and paints in his basement.
“My latest series of paintings are portraits of female artists. These physical and psychological images are my attempt to capture the true nature of humanity. They are spiritual X-Rays. The models that I use in my work are all beautiful women. However, there is nothing beautiful about the portraits I create.”
http://buddynestorartwork.com/
Buddy was born and raised in Collingswood, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a Latch-Key Kid during the birth of cable TV. This led to endless hours in front of the television, watching movies and drawing. He gravitated toward strange cult and horror films. As a skateboarder in the late 80’s and early 90’s, he was exposed to Punk, Indie, and Heavy Metal music. In 1997, after the birth of his son, Buddy decided to teach himself to paint. In 1999, he traveled around the world on an aircraft carrier and painted every day. This was critical in his development as an artist. Presently, he drinks beer and paints in his basement.
“My latest series of paintings are portraits of female artists. These physical and psychological images are my attempt to capture the true nature of humanity. They are spiritual X-Rays. The models that I use in my work are all beautiful women. However, there is nothing beautiful about the portraits I create.”
http://buddynestorartwork.com/
CLIFF WALLACE
Cliff Wallace owns creature effects, one of Europes leading movie special effects companies. His credits include, Hellraiser, Mission Impossible, Black Hawk Down, 28 Days Later, Clash of the Titans, Hellboy 2 and the forthcoming Steven Spielberg film Warhorse. He started exhibiting his personal sculptural work in 2009 and has shown at galleries throughout Europe and the States.
http://www.creature-effects.com
Cliff Wallace owns creature effects, one of Europes leading movie special effects companies. His credits include, Hellraiser, Mission Impossible, Black Hawk Down, 28 Days Later, Clash of the Titans, Hellboy 2 and the forthcoming Steven Spielberg film Warhorse. He started exhibiting his personal sculptural work in 2009 and has shown at galleries throughout Europe and the States.
http://www.creature-effects.com
LUCY SPARROW
Lucy Sparrow is a textile artist based in Brighton. Her biggest work to date has been 'The Bakerloo Tapestry' which is an enormous fabric tube map, painstakingly embroidered with the names of all 270 stations.
She has exhibited in both Brighton and London with Prescription Art and Guerilla Zoo and continues to work on her practice in a one woman mission to convert the world into a fluffier place
.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. She sees Art that is aesthetically pleasing as the new 'Shock of the New'.
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 unharmful; a kind of felt Utopia if you like.
http://www.sewyoursoul.com
Lucy Sparrow is a textile artist based in Brighton. Her biggest work to date has been 'The Bakerloo Tapestry' which is an enormous fabric tube map, painstakingly embroidered with the names of all 270 stations.
She has exhibited in both Brighton and London with Prescription Art and Guerilla Zoo and continues to work on her practice in a one woman mission to convert the world into a fluffier place
.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. She sees Art that is aesthetically pleasing as the new 'Shock of the New'.
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 unharmful; a kind of felt Utopia if you like.
http://www.sewyoursoul.com
DANIEL REGAN
Daniel Regan has been an obsessive image maker for over a decade and has successfully established himself as an internationally published portrait and fashion photographer. He has worked with clients ranging from large scale newspapers to independent fashion brands.
www.danielregan.com
Daniel Regan has been an obsessive image maker for over a decade and has successfully established himself as an internationally published portrait and fashion photographer. He has worked with clients ranging from large scale newspapers to independent fashion brands.
www.danielregan.com
JOHN BOWERS & RYAN JORDAN
For this new collaborative project sonic artists John Bowers and Ryan Jordan have been influence from the magical, mathematical and philosophical practice of John Dee (1527-1608) and the mediumship of Edward Kelley (1555-1597):
During the period 1582-7, the Tabula Sancta (the Holy Table or Table of Practice) was created by John Dee and Edward Kelley as place where they conducted their scrying sessions and, in particular, communication with Angels. It was covered with forms and characters drawn from Platonic, Pythagorian, Hermetic, Jewish and Christian symbolism and from the Enochian language (the Language of The Angels which was revealed to Dee via the mediumship of Kelley), with wax seals supporting the legs. The table carried the artefacts that Dee and Kelley used for scrying, in particular, a black obsidian mirror and a 'shew-stone' or crystal ball.
The Monas Hieroglyphica is John Dee's treatise on symbolic language which he wrote in twelve days in a highly inspired mystical state. He claimed it would revolutionise astronomy, alchemy, mathematics, linguistics, mechanics, music, optics, magic, and adeptship. In particular, the Monas proposes a glyph which combines alchemical, astronomical and geometrical forms in a single integrative shape which embodied, for Dee, the unity of the Cosmos.
For the exhibition the duo are re-creating the Tabula Sancta for 21st century scrying. This will include:
sigils of conductive paint and circuitry / scrying machines / obsidian mirrors and cameras / an Enochian speech translator/synthesiser
The table will be constructed for people to use in order to communicate with the spirits and Angels Dee and Kelley were in communication with. Through the application of circuitry and electricity passed through the sigils and other inscriptions on the table we will be able to connect ourselves directly with the ether and open up a conduit for the Angels.
The interpretations from the Monas Hieroglyphica will be embedded directly into the circuitry and programmes creating a direct link to Dee and Kelley's Workings.
J. M. Bowers works with home brew electronics, self-made instruments and reconstructions of antique image and sound-making devices, alongside contemporary digital technology. He is concerned with making performance environments which combine sound, vision and human gesture at a fundamental physical level. Recent work includes projects to build a music synthesizer using 19th century techniques (The Victorian Synthesizer), explorations of random circuitry (Ohm-My-God), a miniaturisation of Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville's Dreamachine (My Little Dreamachine), and a reconstruction of early television technology (This Nightlife Instrument). He has been artist in
residence at Fylkingen, Stockholm, and is currently interpreting David Tudor's music to Merce Cunningham's Rainforest performed by the Rambert Dance Company, London. He is co-founder of the Onoma Research label and also plays electric guitar in the fundamentalist noise rock band Tonesucker. J. M. Bowers is part of the Interaction Research Studio, Department of Design, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Ryan Jordan (born Ipswich, 1983) is a UK based electronic artist working with self made instruments and tools for live interactive performance. His work is focused on movement and the physicality in live electronic performance, noise and underground music, hypnosis and trance states, D.i.Y culture, FLOSSArt, and multimodal perception and illusion. He has performed and presented his work internationally in a wide range of venues from art and academic institutions to derelict warehouses and squats. Some international performances have been at Piksel Festival, Norway; 3rd International Pure Data Convention, Brazil; xxxxx, Germany; APO33, France; Coxpon Ambient Theatre, Hungary; Tweak Festival, Ireland; Royal Opera House and Science Museum, UK; MediaLabPrado, Spain; and Sound and Music Computing, Italy.
http://onoma.co.uk/
http://ryanjordan.org/
For this new collaborative project sonic artists John Bowers and Ryan Jordan have been influence from the magical, mathematical and philosophical practice of John Dee (1527-1608) and the mediumship of Edward Kelley (1555-1597):
During the period 1582-7, the Tabula Sancta (the Holy Table or Table of Practice) was created by John Dee and Edward Kelley as place where they conducted their scrying sessions and, in particular, communication with Angels. It was covered with forms and characters drawn from Platonic, Pythagorian, Hermetic, Jewish and Christian symbolism and from the Enochian language (the Language of The Angels which was revealed to Dee via the mediumship of Kelley), with wax seals supporting the legs. The table carried the artefacts that Dee and Kelley used for scrying, in particular, a black obsidian mirror and a 'shew-stone' or crystal ball.
The Monas Hieroglyphica is John Dee's treatise on symbolic language which he wrote in twelve days in a highly inspired mystical state. He claimed it would revolutionise astronomy, alchemy, mathematics, linguistics, mechanics, music, optics, magic, and adeptship. In particular, the Monas proposes a glyph which combines alchemical, astronomical and geometrical forms in a single integrative shape which embodied, for Dee, the unity of the Cosmos.
For the exhibition the duo are re-creating the Tabula Sancta for 21st century scrying. This will include:
sigils of conductive paint and circuitry / scrying machines / obsidian mirrors and cameras / an Enochian speech translator/synthesiser
The table will be constructed for people to use in order to communicate with the spirits and Angels Dee and Kelley were in communication with. Through the application of circuitry and electricity passed through the sigils and other inscriptions on the table we will be able to connect ourselves directly with the ether and open up a conduit for the Angels.
The interpretations from the Monas Hieroglyphica will be embedded directly into the circuitry and programmes creating a direct link to Dee and Kelley's Workings.
J. M. Bowers works with home brew electronics, self-made instruments and reconstructions of antique image and sound-making devices, alongside contemporary digital technology. He is concerned with making performance environments which combine sound, vision and human gesture at a fundamental physical level. Recent work includes projects to build a music synthesizer using 19th century techniques (The Victorian Synthesizer), explorations of random circuitry (Ohm-My-God), a miniaturisation of Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville's Dreamachine (My Little Dreamachine), and a reconstruction of early television technology (This Nightlife Instrument). He has been artist in
residence at Fylkingen, Stockholm, and is currently interpreting David Tudor's music to Merce Cunningham's Rainforest performed by the Rambert Dance Company, London. He is co-founder of the Onoma Research label and also plays electric guitar in the fundamentalist noise rock band Tonesucker. J. M. Bowers is part of the Interaction Research Studio, Department of Design, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Ryan Jordan (born Ipswich, 1983) is a UK based electronic artist working with self made instruments and tools for live interactive performance. His work is focused on movement and the physicality in live electronic performance, noise and underground music, hypnosis and trance states, D.i.Y culture, FLOSSArt, and multimodal perception and illusion. He has performed and presented his work internationally in a wide range of venues from art and academic institutions to derelict warehouses and squats. Some international performances have been at Piksel Festival, Norway; 3rd International Pure Data Convention, Brazil; xxxxx, Germany; APO33, France; Coxpon Ambient Theatre, Hungary; Tweak Festival, Ireland; Royal Opera House and Science Museum, UK; MediaLabPrado, Spain; and Sound and Music Computing, Italy.
http://onoma.co.uk/
http://ryanjordan.org/
RAFAEL PEREZ EVAN
Rafael Perez Evans is a multi-disciplinary Spanish/Welsh artist, living and working in Mexico. Received A BFA from Goldsmiths University London UK. Rafael engages in work dealing with current relational sexual practices, landscape as well as documenting spaces of personal as well social-political significance, through narrative and documentary still and moving image production which he then pushes into new possible myths. He is also a photographer who's editorial work is published in magazines internationally including Dazed and Confused, Harpers & Queen, Oyster magazine, as well as regular contributions on Neo2 & Showstudio. He has interviewed and photographed personalities such as Tilda Swinton, Hussein Chalayan, Gareth Pugh, Rankin, Alejandro Jodorowsky. He Recently completed an arts residency at Sassafras TN, USA. As well as teaching photography at the University of Rochester, (UK). Rafael’s work has been exhibited internationally, including Spain, London and Berlin.
http://www.rafaelperezevans.com
Rafael Perez Evans is a multi-disciplinary Spanish/Welsh artist, living and working in Mexico. Received A BFA from Goldsmiths University London UK. Rafael engages in work dealing with current relational sexual practices, landscape as well as documenting spaces of personal as well social-political significance, through narrative and documentary still and moving image production which he then pushes into new possible myths. He is also a photographer who's editorial work is published in magazines internationally including Dazed and Confused, Harpers & Queen, Oyster magazine, as well as regular contributions on Neo2 & Showstudio. He has interviewed and photographed personalities such as Tilda Swinton, Hussein Chalayan, Gareth Pugh, Rankin, Alejandro Jodorowsky. He Recently completed an arts residency at Sassafras TN, USA. As well as teaching photography at the University of Rochester, (UK). Rafael’s work has been exhibited internationally, including Spain, London and Berlin.
http://www.rafaelperezevans.com
ESINEM
Esinem is a Japanese style bondage (shibari/kinbaku) artist who regularly appears at UK and European events such as Torture Garden, Erotica, Rubber Ball, Wasteland, Boundcon, Nuit Demonia and most recently represented the UK at Japan’s first international kinbaku event, Toubaku. He is also known for his monthly bondage courses and evening classes, which run regularly in south London and as co-organiser of the London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage.
Over the last few years, he has been improving his skills in Japan with the help of two of their best known and respected kinbakushi, Arisue Go and Osada Steve. More recently, he has benefitted from tuition from Kinoko Hajime, Japan’s hottest young star. Whilst drawing from classical methods, his style is distinctive, blending sensuality and sadism in equal measures, often departing from the typical serenity of shibari shows and flying in the face of tradition to produce some striking and unusual performances.
In addition, he has worked on various videos, artistic collaborations and photo shoots both on and off camera. He recently contributed to Rope, Bondage & Power, edited by Lee Harrington and is currently involved with a number of documentaries on kinbaku.
http://www.esinem.com
Esinem is a Japanese style bondage (shibari/kinbaku) artist who regularly appears at UK and European events such as Torture Garden, Erotica, Rubber Ball, Wasteland, Boundcon, Nuit Demonia and most recently represented the UK at Japan’s first international kinbaku event, Toubaku. He is also known for his monthly bondage courses and evening classes, which run regularly in south London and as co-organiser of the London Festival of the Art of Japanese Bondage.
Over the last few years, he has been improving his skills in Japan with the help of two of their best known and respected kinbakushi, Arisue Go and Osada Steve. More recently, he has benefitted from tuition from Kinoko Hajime, Japan’s hottest young star. Whilst drawing from classical methods, his style is distinctive, blending sensuality and sadism in equal measures, often departing from the typical serenity of shibari shows and flying in the face of tradition to produce some striking and unusual performances.
In addition, he has worked on various videos, artistic collaborations and photo shoots both on and off camera. He recently contributed to Rope, Bondage & Power, edited by Lee Harrington and is currently involved with a number of documentaries on kinbaku.
http://www.esinem.com
GEORGE TRIGGS
"My pieces speak individually, but, as an artist, I'm interested in confronting and exploring emotions with my sculptures as well as asking questions about society and one's place in the world. I endeavour to distil my concepts to a point where clarity and truth emerge, the viewer drawn into the complexity as well as the purity and essence of my creations.
I often feel that in our moments of greatest despair, when we have exhausted and broken down all thought, we can reach the calm in the storm. It can feel so pure and enlightened, a fragment of hope, a determination to survive that seems so small and fragile, but containing such power and importance. I want to talk about these moments in my sculptures, to try and understand why they happen and whether we are perhaps ignoring our inner selves and these moments that can become beautiful, helpful, hopeful, cathartic, and inspiring when examined and understood.
In life we tend to grasp at happiness: glimpse clarity and find purpose through life's most severe trials. The hope and inner spirit that pulls us through is paramount to me: it is a quality I try to capture in the life of each sculpture, along with the realisation that these moments change us, claim parts of us and define who and what we are."
http://www.georgetriggs.com
"My pieces speak individually, but, as an artist, I'm interested in confronting and exploring emotions with my sculptures as well as asking questions about society and one's place in the world. I endeavour to distil my concepts to a point where clarity and truth emerge, the viewer drawn into the complexity as well as the purity and essence of my creations.
I often feel that in our moments of greatest despair, when we have exhausted and broken down all thought, we can reach the calm in the storm. It can feel so pure and enlightened, a fragment of hope, a determination to survive that seems so small and fragile, but containing such power and importance. I want to talk about these moments in my sculptures, to try and understand why they happen and whether we are perhaps ignoring our inner selves and these moments that can become beautiful, helpful, hopeful, cathartic, and inspiring when examined and understood.
In life we tend to grasp at happiness: glimpse clarity and find purpose through life's most severe trials. The hope and inner spirit that pulls us through is paramount to me: it is a quality I try to capture in the life of each sculpture, along with the realisation that these moments change us, claim parts of us and define who and what we are."
http://www.georgetriggs.com
MARIA ALMENA
Maria Almena is a London-based artist, whose work connects diverse installation spaces through performance and video art. Using sculpture, body casting and working around the concept of the human body and its surroundings.
Her interests are based around ideas of human evolution, within the context of social revolutions and today's technological and virtual phenomena. She expresses these ideas through the experimentation and the mutation of the human form and the environment in which it exists.
Her career began in 2004 when she started the collective CANTBELIEVEIT which designed performances for several shows and events in Madrid. She has recently started a new project call 'Kimatica', a creative studio that offers creative direction, set and costume design, and special effects for films and different events.
www.kimatica.net
www.behance.net/kimatica
www.cantbelieveit.kimatica.net
Maria Almena is a London-based artist, whose work connects diverse installation spaces through performance and video art. Using sculpture, body casting and working around the concept of the human body and its surroundings.
Her interests are based around ideas of human evolution, within the context of social revolutions and today's technological and virtual phenomena. She expresses these ideas through the experimentation and the mutation of the human form and the environment in which it exists.
Her career began in 2004 when she started the collective CANTBELIEVEIT which designed performances for several shows and events in Madrid. She has recently started a new project call 'Kimatica', a creative studio that offers creative direction, set and costume design, and special effects for films and different events.
www.kimatica.net
www.behance.net/kimatica
www.cantbelieveit.kimatica.net
ENJOY KAOS
Guerrilla Zoo presents Agent 0023, Ridjet "jimfuk" Briley: a maverik of kaos whose mind bending artwork reflects the complex monochromatic imagery and semiotics endemic to the free party/festival and 'teknival' movement as pioneered by collectives such as the infamous Spiral Tribe soundsystem. Whilst developing her methods at London's Central St Martins College of Art in a previous era, Ridjet became involved with the legendary London based rave crew Headfuk, whose underground parties smashed out twisted forms of aural and aesthetic pleasure often referred to as "rampaging phuntimes". The imagery of Enjoy Kaos can be seen (dis)gracing streets, squats, soundsystems and festivals throughout Europe and beyond, only now the Modern Panic Exhibition makes these remarkable images availalble for all who dare to enter. Expect to be puzzled, unnerved, charmed and truly beguiled...
Enjoy. Kaos.
Guerrilla Zoo presents Agent 0023, Ridjet "jimfuk" Briley: a maverik of kaos whose mind bending artwork reflects the complex monochromatic imagery and semiotics endemic to the free party/festival and 'teknival' movement as pioneered by collectives such as the infamous Spiral Tribe soundsystem. Whilst developing her methods at London's Central St Martins College of Art in a previous era, Ridjet became involved with the legendary London based rave crew Headfuk, whose underground parties smashed out twisted forms of aural and aesthetic pleasure often referred to as "rampaging phuntimes". The imagery of Enjoy Kaos can be seen (dis)gracing streets, squats, soundsystems and festivals throughout Europe and beyond, only now the Modern Panic Exhibition makes these remarkable images availalble for all who dare to enter. Expect to be puzzled, unnerved, charmed and truly beguiled...
Enjoy. Kaos.
CELIA ARIAS
London-based artist and costume designer Celia Arias specialises in mixed-media textiles, performance and installation work as well as one off wearable pieces. A Goldsmiths graduate, her work explores the blurring boundaries between opposites like beauty and ugliness, reality and fantasy, pleasure and pain. Using contrasting materials and elements like are the organic and the artificial, old and new, chaos and order, luxury and discomfort. Other subjects of interest are contemporary identities and its extremes; the obsession with perfection and the poetics of the absurd.
http://celiaarias.blogspot.com
London-based artist and costume designer Celia Arias specialises in mixed-media textiles, performance and installation work as well as one off wearable pieces. A Goldsmiths graduate, her work explores the blurring boundaries between opposites like beauty and ugliness, reality and fantasy, pleasure and pain. Using contrasting materials and elements like are the organic and the artificial, old and new, chaos and order, luxury and discomfort. Other subjects of interest are contemporary identities and its extremes; the obsession with perfection and the poetics of the absurd.
http://celiaarias.blogspot.com
IAIN MACARTHUR
Iain Macarthur is a freelance illustrator based in Swindon, UK. Graduated from Swindon College in 2008. Since then he has completed art pieces and commissions for companies such as 55DSL, Nike, Tank theory and be street magazine, creating crazy designs for shirts, snowboards and magazines. He has also had a few exhibitions in 2010 at the ABV gallery in Atlanta and Phone booth gallery in LA.
His work is a mixture of realistic pencil drawings and dreamlike pattern elements that he likes to combine into the subject to make it appear to look like it’s a part of it. He enjoys drawing portraits and making them look like broken dolls with patterns exploding from within.
Iain takes his inspiration from textile like patterns and wildlife, especially birds. Quite often he will combine these features in his work to produce beautifully patterned birds and animals with intricate detail; most of his work tends to be in black and white.
www.behance.net/iainmac
www.iainmacarthur.blogspot.com
Iain Macarthur is a freelance illustrator based in Swindon, UK. Graduated from Swindon College in 2008. Since then he has completed art pieces and commissions for companies such as 55DSL, Nike, Tank theory and be street magazine, creating crazy designs for shirts, snowboards and magazines. He has also had a few exhibitions in 2010 at the ABV gallery in Atlanta and Phone booth gallery in LA.
His work is a mixture of realistic pencil drawings and dreamlike pattern elements that he likes to combine into the subject to make it appear to look like it’s a part of it. He enjoys drawing portraits and making them look like broken dolls with patterns exploding from within.
Iain takes his inspiration from textile like patterns and wildlife, especially birds. Quite often he will combine these features in his work to produce beautifully patterned birds and animals with intricate detail; most of his work tends to be in black and white.
www.behance.net/iainmac
www.iainmacarthur.blogspot.com
LEO COHEN
Leo Cohen, an inter-disciplinary artist, works in drawing, sculpture and large scale temporary installations. A “polymathic” artist, he utilises a wide range of materials and visual sources, including reclaimed materials and even his own semen to explore diverse themes. He often uses these sources as catalysts for both drawings and installations to dramatic effect, fearlessly exploring cultural and political tensions, identifying and exposing societal differences. His work makes vital statements on dualities which affect us all, creating juxtapositions to enable space for transitions to exist. Described by critics as ''controversial'' due to their often stimulating and challenging impact, it is not simply shocking or thought provoking, but provides his audience with an experience that is both atmospheric and engaging. Visitors enjoy being encapsulated within his work.
Often his drawings reflect a lively and enquiring mind, acting as visual diaries where the nature and themes remain fluid, unbound and often automatic. The drawings exhibited at Modern Panic use iconic symbols and spermheads combined with the medium of his own semen to represent desire and sexuality.
Cohen, a graduate of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Byam Shaw School of Art continues to live and work in London. He is regularly invited to exhibit both his drawings and installations.
Elisa Bray (The Independent) - "Controversial is the word that comes to mind when considering Cohen's work"
http://www.theleocohen.com
Leo Cohen, an inter-disciplinary artist, works in drawing, sculpture and large scale temporary installations. A “polymathic” artist, he utilises a wide range of materials and visual sources, including reclaimed materials and even his own semen to explore diverse themes. He often uses these sources as catalysts for both drawings and installations to dramatic effect, fearlessly exploring cultural and political tensions, identifying and exposing societal differences. His work makes vital statements on dualities which affect us all, creating juxtapositions to enable space for transitions to exist. Described by critics as ''controversial'' due to their often stimulating and challenging impact, it is not simply shocking or thought provoking, but provides his audience with an experience that is both atmospheric and engaging. Visitors enjoy being encapsulated within his work.
Often his drawings reflect a lively and enquiring mind, acting as visual diaries where the nature and themes remain fluid, unbound and often automatic. The drawings exhibited at Modern Panic use iconic symbols and spermheads combined with the medium of his own semen to represent desire and sexuality.
Cohen, a graduate of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Byam Shaw School of Art continues to live and work in London. He is regularly invited to exhibit both his drawings and installations.
Elisa Bray (The Independent) - "Controversial is the word that comes to mind when considering Cohen's work"
http://www.theleocohen.com
EDWARD HAYNES
Edward has always found himself inspired by his immediate surroundings, be it buildings, hedgerows, shop fronts or the people working in them. After three years at Leeds University studying Environment and Business, Edward travelled to Africa and Croatia and was attracted to documenting Societal events, rituals and parties. While documenting these he has developed a style, aiming to combine his love for the natural environment and the characters within it.
After completing a diploma at LCC in 2009, Edward continued his travels, visiting the East Coast of Australia where he continued to explore and develop his passion for portrait work.
Edward is now based in London and building on a portfolio of thought provoking images. Edward has just exhibited in a group show at the Seven Dials Club in May and his first solo show will be at Amnesty International HQ in July.
http://www.edwardhaynes.co.uk
Edward has always found himself inspired by his immediate surroundings, be it buildings, hedgerows, shop fronts or the people working in them. After three years at Leeds University studying Environment and Business, Edward travelled to Africa and Croatia and was attracted to documenting Societal events, rituals and parties. While documenting these he has developed a style, aiming to combine his love for the natural environment and the characters within it.
After completing a diploma at LCC in 2009, Edward continued his travels, visiting the East Coast of Australia where he continued to explore and develop his passion for portrait work.
Edward is now based in London and building on a portfolio of thought provoking images. Edward has just exhibited in a group show at the Seven Dials Club in May and his first solo show will be at Amnesty International HQ in July.
http://www.edwardhaynes.co.uk
FATEN HAKIMI
Born and raised in war-torn Beirut, Lebanon, this 26 year old artist of Persian origin always sought after painting as her only means of expression. Her attachment to existential aspects of her cultural framework is sensitively revealed in her paintings. She believes “the entrapment caused by social structures on the human is a parallel reflection of the entrapment created by the body on the self, the soul and the imagination. That is pain. Every singly portrait she paints is an attempt to bring out the soul from the body and the self from the structure. That is freedom. And freedom is the truth. Nothing can be more honest to us than our senses, for it is with our senses that we explore emotions, precisely to make sense of them. However when one is crippled under the weight of suffocating pressure then one may actually come to wish that these same senses didn’t exist. One begins to wish that they are dishonest in their representation of reality and hence what one may feel and see is neither true nor real. The impartial and the objective become an aspiring illusion. And just then you begin to wish that life is a hallucination. This is a rejection of the self, and the power that is deep seated within the self rebels to unveil the brutal feelings of displacement, loss, seclusion, repression and rape both emotionally and physically. Thus art becomes a mechanism by which rebellion can occur and takes form, as the language and the body of rebellion. The rebellion is about releasing the wish within, and being at peace with this wish that is not deluded with excuses but liberated by action to find and establish truth. Art then becomes a journey to make heard a silenced voice
http://www.fatenhakimi.com
Born and raised in war-torn Beirut, Lebanon, this 26 year old artist of Persian origin always sought after painting as her only means of expression. Her attachment to existential aspects of her cultural framework is sensitively revealed in her paintings. She believes “the entrapment caused by social structures on the human is a parallel reflection of the entrapment created by the body on the self, the soul and the imagination. That is pain. Every singly portrait she paints is an attempt to bring out the soul from the body and the self from the structure. That is freedom. And freedom is the truth. Nothing can be more honest to us than our senses, for it is with our senses that we explore emotions, precisely to make sense of them. However when one is crippled under the weight of suffocating pressure then one may actually come to wish that these same senses didn’t exist. One begins to wish that they are dishonest in their representation of reality and hence what one may feel and see is neither true nor real. The impartial and the objective become an aspiring illusion. And just then you begin to wish that life is a hallucination. This is a rejection of the self, and the power that is deep seated within the self rebels to unveil the brutal feelings of displacement, loss, seclusion, repression and rape both emotionally and physically. Thus art becomes a mechanism by which rebellion can occur and takes form, as the language and the body of rebellion. The rebellion is about releasing the wish within, and being at peace with this wish that is not deluded with excuses but liberated by action to find and establish truth. Art then becomes a journey to make heard a silenced voice
http://www.fatenhakimi.com
ELLE BUNDY & CECILE GRACE JANIVER
Elle Bundy and Cécile Grâce Janvier paint, draw, film, take photos, project whatever ambiguous fluids on whatever stable solids. Since we're still babies, these works are probably some frustrated representations of some sort of teenage angst. We started individually, and found that joining our binarism, whatever that means, multiplied the initial purpose times a thousand. But this is just the beginning of the search for IT.
http://cgjanvier.blogspot.com
http://c-bundy.blogspot.com
Elle Bundy and Cécile Grâce Janvier paint, draw, film, take photos, project whatever ambiguous fluids on whatever stable solids. Since we're still babies, these works are probably some frustrated representations of some sort of teenage angst. We started individually, and found that joining our binarism, whatever that means, multiplied the initial purpose times a thousand. But this is just the beginning of the search for IT.
http://cgjanvier.blogspot.com
http://c-bundy.blogspot.com
LEFKI DERIZIOTI
“My name is Lefki Derizioti I come from Greece where I did my first studies in design. After graduating a two year design course I worked as the main costume and character designer in Greece for plays like “Medea” and “The Night of the Murderer” in colaboration with a creative team called “Polymichani”. At the same time I did several collaborations with independent creative teams publishing comics for various newspapers.”
“ At the age of 25 I had the opportunity to join the three year BA course “Theater Design for Performance” in Central Saint Martins.Through these three years I designed costumes and set for Midsummer Night’s Dream in a performance that took place in Back Hill, I also did costume and set design in a collaboration with a choreographer for a a dance piece that took place in the Cochrane theater. Meanwhile I collaborated with “Kiss me Miss me’ team and exhibit some of my drawings in several galleries.”
“My name is Lefki Derizioti I come from Greece where I did my first studies in design. After graduating a two year design course I worked as the main costume and character designer in Greece for plays like “Medea” and “The Night of the Murderer” in colaboration with a creative team called “Polymichani”. At the same time I did several collaborations with independent creative teams publishing comics for various newspapers.”
“ At the age of 25 I had the opportunity to join the three year BA course “Theater Design for Performance” in Central Saint Martins.Through these three years I designed costumes and set for Midsummer Night’s Dream in a performance that took place in Back Hill, I also did costume and set design in a collaboration with a choreographer for a a dance piece that took place in the Cochrane theater. Meanwhile I collaborated with “Kiss me Miss me’ team and exhibit some of my drawings in several galleries.”
ELEANOR MACFARLANE
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1964. Now living and working in London.
Originally trained as a classical musician at the Royal College of Music, an interest in Renaissance music led me to the wonderful diversity of stringed instruments of the time, and I then studied Instrument Making. With children now on board, I had a variety of occupations, including hatmaker and book reviewer, all the while drawing, painting and writing. Photography led me to making moving photographs, and in Moving Image I found my home. I retrained in Fine Art, gaining a First in 2006. My practice is mainly in Moving Image, sometimes Installations and Photography, and also writing, in art and novels. I am currently amongst the first cohort of an innovative distance MA in Fine Art with the Open College of the Arts. I also still review books on art, culture and music, and am an Artistic Assessor in Visual Arts for the Arts Council.
http://www.eleanormacfarlane.com
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1964. Now living and working in London.
Originally trained as a classical musician at the Royal College of Music, an interest in Renaissance music led me to the wonderful diversity of stringed instruments of the time, and I then studied Instrument Making. With children now on board, I had a variety of occupations, including hatmaker and book reviewer, all the while drawing, painting and writing. Photography led me to making moving photographs, and in Moving Image I found my home. I retrained in Fine Art, gaining a First in 2006. My practice is mainly in Moving Image, sometimes Installations and Photography, and also writing, in art and novels. I am currently amongst the first cohort of an innovative distance MA in Fine Art with the Open College of the Arts. I also still review books on art, culture and music, and am an Artistic Assessor in Visual Arts for the Arts Council.
http://www.eleanormacfarlane.com
LAURA MILLER
Born in York in 1982. Education at Goldsmiths College (Masters in Image and Communication - Distinction) and Swansea Metropolitan University (Photography in the Arts - 2:1)
Laura Miller is a practicing artist with a Studio at Belgraeve Hall in Leicester. This space is used to display fine art paintings and store photographic portfolios. The series 12 is a portraiture project which is available online.
http://www.ljmiller.co.uk
Born in York in 1982. Education at Goldsmiths College (Masters in Image and Communication - Distinction) and Swansea Metropolitan University (Photography in the Arts - 2:1)
Laura Miller is a practicing artist with a Studio at Belgraeve Hall in Leicester. This space is used to display fine art paintings and store photographic portfolios. The series 12 is a portraiture project which is available online.
http://www.ljmiller.co.uk
HARRY STARLING
Harry is a designer\maker and photographer with a taste for the unusual, taboo and morbid. His work raises questions about death, decay and emptiness occasionally featuring roadkill and decomposing carcasses. Previouly an engineer, he has been working in the visual arts for four years and is entirely self taught.
Harry is currently producing sculptures and timepieces featuring taxidermy and skeletal remains. He has only recently begun to exhibit his work and Modern Panic will be one of the first showings of his large scale installations.
Harry is a designer\maker and photographer with a taste for the unusual, taboo and morbid. His work raises questions about death, decay and emptiness occasionally featuring roadkill and decomposing carcasses. Previouly an engineer, he has been working in the visual arts for four years and is entirely self taught.
Harry is currently producing sculptures and timepieces featuring taxidermy and skeletal remains. He has only recently begun to exhibit his work and Modern Panic will be one of the first showings of his large scale installations.
CHRIS KELLY
Chris graduated from the University of Brighton in 2008 with a degree in Digital Media. In 2010 he moved to London and works as designer for INQ Mobile.
His personal work aims to use graphic design as a tool to engage people with experiments in various aspects of design (online, print, type) as well as many methods of delivery: this could mean an image based online journal, releasing message balloons from Primrose Hill or photographing animal hearts. Chris' work will prove to be a highly personal, unexpected and thought provoking graphical journey.
http://www.onemorechris.co.uk
Chris graduated from the University of Brighton in 2008 with a degree in Digital Media. In 2010 he moved to London and works as designer for INQ Mobile.
His personal work aims to use graphic design as a tool to engage people with experiments in various aspects of design (online, print, type) as well as many methods of delivery: this could mean an image based online journal, releasing message balloons from Primrose Hill or photographing animal hearts. Chris' work will prove to be a highly personal, unexpected and thought provoking graphical journey.
http://www.onemorechris.co.uk
BOLDIZSAR CSERNAK-RISKO
Csernak-Risko is London based Hungarian filmmaker who follows his passion
to create moving images. His films tend to be personal and focusing on the relationship between the body, psyche and location. Inspired by filmmakers such as Fassbinder, Casavettes, Cocteau, Anger and Warhol´s collaborators he is interested in working with improvisation, unusual narratives and creating visually exciting imagery.
He holds an MA in Artists´Film, Video and Photography (University for the Creative Arts). Apart from his personal work he has collaborated in several Fashion Films and Music Videos. He has been showing work internationally in art galleries and film festivals. Recently his fashion video work has been published in Volt Magazine and What Else Magazine.
http://www.boldeazy.com
Csernak-Risko is London based Hungarian filmmaker who follows his passion
to create moving images. His films tend to be personal and focusing on the relationship between the body, psyche and location. Inspired by filmmakers such as Fassbinder, Casavettes, Cocteau, Anger and Warhol´s collaborators he is interested in working with improvisation, unusual narratives and creating visually exciting imagery.
He holds an MA in Artists´Film, Video and Photography (University for the Creative Arts). Apart from his personal work he has collaborated in several Fashion Films and Music Videos. He has been showing work internationally in art galleries and film festivals. Recently his fashion video work has been published in Volt Magazine and What Else Magazine.
http://www.boldeazy.com
LISA JAHOVIC
The work predominantly uses a figurative language to explore ideas of domesticity, reality and habit. The human body being a subject Jahovic automatically goes to draw and that tends to be prominent in many ideas. Characterization and human nature can be as important as the aesthetic of the body, though there is a captivation in self-inflicted body deformations, especially excess skin and obesity. Detailed drawing with ink, being the most frequent medium used, but sculpture, photography, painting and film can be applied into the practise. Recurring ideas are weaved throughout the work, such as still-life inanimate objects displaced with fluid, would be animated figures, distorting everyday reality and its objects.
The work predominantly uses a figurative language to explore ideas of domesticity, reality and habit. The human body being a subject Jahovic automatically goes to draw and that tends to be prominent in many ideas. Characterization and human nature can be as important as the aesthetic of the body, though there is a captivation in self-inflicted body deformations, especially excess skin and obesity. Detailed drawing with ink, being the most frequent medium used, but sculpture, photography, painting and film can be applied into the practise. Recurring ideas are weaved throughout the work, such as still-life inanimate objects displaced with fluid, would be animated figures, distorting everyday reality and its objects.
BONNIE MAKES PICTURES
Bonnie Makes Pictures is run by young illustrator Bonnie Baker. Bonnie came to London in 2005 to study, and since then has been making her way into the underground art world, becoming artist in residence in two large alternative London clubs and main visual artist for the promotion of the Dark Mills Festival last year. She is currently working on her own series of artworks, "Cruel Brittania", for which these pieces are part, and freelancing as an illustrator/photographer/photo retoucher. Her studio is in Hackney
http://www.bonniemakespictures.blogspot.com
Bonnie Makes Pictures is run by young illustrator Bonnie Baker. Bonnie came to London in 2005 to study, and since then has been making her way into the underground art world, becoming artist in residence in two large alternative London clubs and main visual artist for the promotion of the Dark Mills Festival last year. She is currently working on her own series of artworks, "Cruel Brittania", for which these pieces are part, and freelancing as an illustrator/photographer/photo retoucher. Her studio is in Hackney
http://www.bonniemakespictures.blogspot.com
EVANGELIA CHRISTAKOU
Evangelia Christakou is a multi-disciplinary artist from Greece, currently based in London.
During the last five years she has completed an MA course in Performance at Central St Martins, she has collaborated as a director, performer, choreographer and video artist with various companies and artists in theatre, film and music, and along with her short films she has participated in various festivals in different countries (Athens Festival, Athens International Performance Festival, Art-Athina, CologneOFF, Rushes Soho Shorts, IdeasTap, NYIFVF).
Her live performances are "cinematic" and they involve the intergration of cinematic techniques in live theatre with the use of projection and live filming.
Both her performances and films discourse on a large aspect of subjects and aesthetics, combining elements from various types of performance, dance, digital arts, music and cultures.
http://contemporaryperformance.org/profile/EvangeliaChristakou
Evangelia Christakou is a multi-disciplinary artist from Greece, currently based in London.
During the last five years she has completed an MA course in Performance at Central St Martins, she has collaborated as a director, performer, choreographer and video artist with various companies and artists in theatre, film and music, and along with her short films she has participated in various festivals in different countries (Athens Festival, Athens International Performance Festival, Art-Athina, CologneOFF, Rushes Soho Shorts, IdeasTap, NYIFVF).
Her live performances are "cinematic" and they involve the intergration of cinematic techniques in live theatre with the use of projection and live filming.
Both her performances and films discourse on a large aspect of subjects and aesthetics, combining elements from various types of performance, dance, digital arts, music and cultures.
http://contemporaryperformance.org/profile/EvangeliaChristakou
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
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
TOM ELLIS
Tom Ellis is a creator of weird and worderful creatures and minature sets formed from my surreal and bizzare imagination. He uses a broad range of media with a wide range clients from Illustration for Books to Prosthetics and Creature Design for film to Editorial Work. What connects his work is a strong influence from the Victorian period with its roots in the darker side of life. He always embellishs his work with rich detail and age to make often fantastically and other worldly creations vibrantly believable. Tom enjoys exploring his style constantly to push it further by experimenting with interesting new materials whlist meeting new bold and imaginative creative people.
http://curiousoddities.carbonmade.com/
Tom Ellis is a creator of weird and worderful creatures and minature sets formed from my surreal and bizzare imagination. He uses a broad range of media with a wide range clients from Illustration for Books to Prosthetics and Creature Design for film to Editorial Work. What connects his work is a strong influence from the Victorian period with its roots in the darker side of life. He always embellishs his work with rich detail and age to make often fantastically and other worldly creations vibrantly believable. Tom enjoys exploring his style constantly to push it further by experimenting with interesting new materials whlist meeting new bold and imaginative creative people.
http://curiousoddities.carbonmade.com/
SOPHIA DISGRACE
Sophia Disgrace is an accomplished model,actress,performer,writer and artist.She has travelled extensively via her work and enjoys expressing her passion for creativity immensely ,through various mediums.Themes of interest include the exploration of nihilism,relativity and the reality of self.Random,obscure and unique.
Sophia Disgrace is an accomplished model,actress,performer,writer and artist.She has travelled extensively via her work and enjoys expressing her passion for creativity immensely ,through various mediums.Themes of interest include the exploration of nihilism,relativity and the reality of self.Random,obscure and unique.
GAVIN CAMPBELL
Gavin Campbell is a visual artist based in Derry, Ireland. He studied Sculpture at Belfast Art College. In his practice he employ varying visual media to construct video/audio, performance and sculpture installations that study themes of identity, senses of mental and physical positions and displacements and our understanding of ownership and alienation in spaces and places. Gavin believe the subject matter on which he creates work from has been influenced by growing up in Northern Ireland and living only minutes between the Irish and northern Irish border. He feels all spaces are potentially contested, occupied and desired.
http://www.mart.ie/index.php/artists/g-i/gavin-campbell/
Gavin Campbell is a visual artist based in Derry, Ireland. He studied Sculpture at Belfast Art College. In his practice he employ varying visual media to construct video/audio, performance and sculpture installations that study themes of identity, senses of mental and physical positions and displacements and our understanding of ownership and alienation in spaces and places. Gavin believe the subject matter on which he creates work from has been influenced by growing up in Northern Ireland and living only minutes between the Irish and northern Irish border. He feels all spaces are potentially contested, occupied and desired.
http://www.mart.ie/index.php/artists/g-i/gavin-campbell/
CLARE WHITTINGHAM
Often referred to as a little shit. Being 5ft and a welder/artist only heightens the fact.(Background) At the tender age of 15 she embarked on a course of Engineering/Welding which turned into a full time unfulfilled profession. Over the years welding away in the darkness she fell into a creative trance that no longer wanted to see the same mass produced product. Having a maverick nature and a wondering mind this is the (little shit) rebelling with the once dull uses of scrap metal or other material’s that captures the eye, to bring that entrancement to life.“Waste not, want not”
http://whityoulilshit.wordpress.com/
Often referred to as a little shit. Being 5ft and a welder/artist only heightens the fact.(Background) At the tender age of 15 she embarked on a course of Engineering/Welding which turned into a full time unfulfilled profession. Over the years welding away in the darkness she fell into a creative trance that no longer wanted to see the same mass produced product. Having a maverick nature and a wondering mind this is the (little shit) rebelling with the once dull uses of scrap metal or other material’s that captures the eye, to bring that entrancement to life.“Waste not, want not”
http://whityoulilshit.wordpress.com/
KAT MONROE
Kat Monroe is from Huntington Beach, California. A unique artist with a flair for transforming run-down household items into unique works of art. She is self-taught and has accumulated many unorthodox techniques through years of trial and error. Ms. Monroe is most well- known for her “shrines,” mixed-media assemblages consisting of porcelain doll parts, old toys, and cutlery among other miscellany. She also produces collages and paintings, most of which are comprised of gouache, melted beeswax, and ironic sayings pulled from 50’s children’s readers. Her works combine many contradicting elements, such as the fantastical and the mundane, the innocent and the devious. Plastic spiders are framed like precious relics, and rosy-cheeked dolls are stripped of their hair in order to the reveal raw emotion encased in their glass eyes.
http://www.outlandishfeline.com
Kat Monroe is from Huntington Beach, California. A unique artist with a flair for transforming run-down household items into unique works of art. She is self-taught and has accumulated many unorthodox techniques through years of trial and error. Ms. Monroe is most well- known for her “shrines,” mixed-media assemblages consisting of porcelain doll parts, old toys, and cutlery among other miscellany. She also produces collages and paintings, most of which are comprised of gouache, melted beeswax, and ironic sayings pulled from 50’s children’s readers. Her works combine many contradicting elements, such as the fantastical and the mundane, the innocent and the devious. Plastic spiders are framed like precious relics, and rosy-cheeked dolls are stripped of their hair in order to the reveal raw emotion encased in their glass eyes.
http://www.outlandishfeline.com
VALENTINA LARI
Born in Florence, Italy. Postgraduated with an MA in Film at Goldsmiths College in 2003 she currently lives in London.
Lari`s professional background includes graphic art and photography, however filmmaking has always been an essential element of her artistic development. Her visual work mainly focuses on sense of loss, death, medical history and childhood. She has exhibited in Italy and London as photographer and illustrator ('Big Sensuality' a show on children’s sensuality at SestoSenso Gallery, Bologna, 2000) and her early short films (Scheinruhe, October Games) of a more classic narrative approach, have been awarded and screened in various film festivals. Interested in alternative and independent cinema, she graduated at DAMS, University of Bologna, in 2001 with a thesis on the Quay Brothers, and eventually organised a complete retrospective on their work in collaboration with the film archive of Bologna. In March 2005 and May 2006, she exhibited at The Old Operating Theatre Museum, London and at the Giubbe Rosse Art Cafe‘, Florence with a video installation piece and a series of hand printed b&w photos titled In Loving Memory. In The Dark Closet (2007) again a mix of film installation and b/w photography was selected as part of the art showcase of The Human Right Nights Film Festival in Bologna and the most recent experimental film Post Mortem Souvenir (2008) based on JG Ballard’s story The Drowned Giant was part of the collective exhibition 12 Steps Down at Shoreditch's Town Hall, London. Her latest exhibition The Kiss Hoarder (2008) in collaboration with novelist Lana Citron (Sucker, Spilt Milk, The Brodsky Touch) showcased a series of bleak watercolours illustrations based on the eponymous short story.
She has been awarded with a travel grant by the Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia in 2010 for the production of an experimental shortfilm and photographic images. The project is currently in post-production.
http://www.valentinalari.co.uk
Born in Florence, Italy. Postgraduated with an MA in Film at Goldsmiths College in 2003 she currently lives in London.
Lari`s professional background includes graphic art and photography, however filmmaking has always been an essential element of her artistic development. Her visual work mainly focuses on sense of loss, death, medical history and childhood. She has exhibited in Italy and London as photographer and illustrator ('Big Sensuality' a show on children’s sensuality at SestoSenso Gallery, Bologna, 2000) and her early short films (Scheinruhe, October Games) of a more classic narrative approach, have been awarded and screened in various film festivals. Interested in alternative and independent cinema, she graduated at DAMS, University of Bologna, in 2001 with a thesis on the Quay Brothers, and eventually organised a complete retrospective on their work in collaboration with the film archive of Bologna. In March 2005 and May 2006, she exhibited at The Old Operating Theatre Museum, London and at the Giubbe Rosse Art Cafe‘, Florence with a video installation piece and a series of hand printed b&w photos titled In Loving Memory. In The Dark Closet (2007) again a mix of film installation and b/w photography was selected as part of the art showcase of The Human Right Nights Film Festival in Bologna and the most recent experimental film Post Mortem Souvenir (2008) based on JG Ballard’s story The Drowned Giant was part of the collective exhibition 12 Steps Down at Shoreditch's Town Hall, London. Her latest exhibition The Kiss Hoarder (2008) in collaboration with novelist Lana Citron (Sucker, Spilt Milk, The Brodsky Touch) showcased a series of bleak watercolours illustrations based on the eponymous short story.
She has been awarded with a travel grant by the Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia in 2010 for the production of an experimental shortfilm and photographic images. The project is currently in post-production.
http://www.valentinalari.co.uk
ANGELA HO
Angela Ho was born in 1987 in Hong Kong, at the age of 13 she immigrated with her family to England. After graduating from Chelsea College of Art and Design at 2010. She now lives and works in London. Her work mirrors the bizarre fantasy of Surrealism with subconscious subjects and collective experience. Angela likes the challenge of creating odd scenarios by consciously selecting subject matter with cultural and ethical connotations. This also challenged her audience not necessarily with their own oddity but with the introduction of their soothing ethical familiarity into unsettling circumstances. She would describe myself as a story-teller, each piece of art has a message underlying via face expression of the portraiture, unusual juxtaposition,vivid colour, cuddly animals and so on.
http://www.angela-ho.com
Angela Ho was born in 1987 in Hong Kong, at the age of 13 she immigrated with her family to England. After graduating from Chelsea College of Art and Design at 2010. She now lives and works in London. Her work mirrors the bizarre fantasy of Surrealism with subconscious subjects and collective experience. Angela likes the challenge of creating odd scenarios by consciously selecting subject matter with cultural and ethical connotations. This also challenged her audience not necessarily with their own oddity but with the introduction of their soothing ethical familiarity into unsettling circumstances. She would describe myself as a story-teller, each piece of art has a message underlying via face expression of the portraiture, unusual juxtaposition,vivid colour, cuddly animals and so on.
http://www.angela-ho.com
JAMES VOLLER
James Voller is a New Zealand artist whose practice investigates aspects of place, photography and site specific installation. Voller graduated from The University of Canterbury with Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography in 2007. His final year’s work was the successful documentary book and series On my way Home which was shown in the United States and New Zealand. In 2009 Voller completed a Master of Fine Arts through The Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology where he explored site specific installation and reconsidered the role of the camera in his practice resulting in work which questions the role of the photograph in contemporary society.
Since completing his MFA, James has exhibited successfully internationally, both with photographic and installation work, with interest from different areas continuing to grow. He has been a finalist in many art awards, specifically he has been awarded the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Research Art award, and was selected for an Artist in Residence programme in Krems Austria. In late 2010, he spent five months in Austria and around Germany, furthering his research. In early 2011, Voller relocated to London where he continues to make art concerned with concepts of dislocation and place.
James’s recent public interventions are concerned with how industrialism and urbanisation effect growth and change within cities and towns, and how this process impacts on the manner in which people construct a sense of identity. The works focus on the preservation of towns, which buildings are preserved and which are left to become ruins, and how through this one can see how a sense of identity is buttressed. Placing imagery of ruins in preserved ‘historic’ town centres highlights the constructed aspects of local identities.
Altering urban, transitory and central spaces by inserting photographs generates areas where illusion and actuality exist simultaneously; one sees buildings and structures where they do not actually exist. These altered spaces reflect growth and change and question how sites, spaces and ideas of identity are constructed.
James Voller is a New Zealand artist whose practice investigates aspects of place, photography and site specific installation. Voller graduated from The University of Canterbury with Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography in 2007. His final year’s work was the successful documentary book and series On my way Home which was shown in the United States and New Zealand. In 2009 Voller completed a Master of Fine Arts through The Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology where he explored site specific installation and reconsidered the role of the camera in his practice resulting in work which questions the role of the photograph in contemporary society.
Since completing his MFA, James has exhibited successfully internationally, both with photographic and installation work, with interest from different areas continuing to grow. He has been a finalist in many art awards, specifically he has been awarded the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Research Art award, and was selected for an Artist in Residence programme in Krems Austria. In late 2010, he spent five months in Austria and around Germany, furthering his research. In early 2011, Voller relocated to London where he continues to make art concerned with concepts of dislocation and place.
James’s recent public interventions are concerned with how industrialism and urbanisation effect growth and change within cities and towns, and how this process impacts on the manner in which people construct a sense of identity. The works focus on the preservation of towns, which buildings are preserved and which are left to become ruins, and how through this one can see how a sense of identity is buttressed. Placing imagery of ruins in preserved ‘historic’ town centres highlights the constructed aspects of local identities.
Altering urban, transitory and central spaces by inserting photographs generates areas where illusion and actuality exist simultaneously; one sees buildings and structures where they do not actually exist. These altered spaces reflect growth and change and question how sites, spaces and ideas of identity are constructed.
ANDREA ROSSI
a car produced by Fiat. Tutor on this project was Paolo Rosa from Studioazzurro.¾Andrea Rossi studied Visual Communication at Istituto Statale d’Arte in Monza, Italy; he then received a Honours Degree at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, Italy, with a major in advertising. ‘Interactive environments’ was the subject of his thesis, which resulted in the project for an interactive installation inspired by Coupé
After working for some advertising agencies as an art director, he moved to London, UK, where a few years later he started focusing on his art practice. In London, amongst others, he exhibited with artists David Medalla and Caroline Coon.
To date, Rossi’s work has been shown in several countries: Germany, Italy, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the UK and the USA. As well as being included in exhibition catalogues, it has been featured in various publications: NY Arts, Boe’, Riabita and Artecultura; it has also been the subject of and mentioned in articles appeared in newspapers and magazines including TZ, Abendzeitung, Augsburger Allgemeine and a-n (artist’s newsletter).
http://www.andrearossi.biz
a car produced by Fiat. Tutor on this project was Paolo Rosa from Studioazzurro.¾Andrea Rossi studied Visual Communication at Istituto Statale d’Arte in Monza, Italy; he then received a Honours Degree at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, Italy, with a major in advertising. ‘Interactive environments’ was the subject of his thesis, which resulted in the project for an interactive installation inspired by Coupé
After working for some advertising agencies as an art director, he moved to London, UK, where a few years later he started focusing on his art practice. In London, amongst others, he exhibited with artists David Medalla and Caroline Coon.
To date, Rossi’s work has been shown in several countries: Germany, Italy, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the UK and the USA. As well as being included in exhibition catalogues, it has been featured in various publications: NY Arts, Boe’, Riabita and Artecultura; it has also been the subject of and mentioned in articles appeared in newspapers and magazines including TZ, Abendzeitung, Augsburger Allgemeine and a-n (artist’s newsletter).
http://www.andrearossi.biz
MARC BLACKIE
"Under the banner of "Disappointed Virginity", Marc Blackie has created for himself a self contained monochrome world. Herein he explores his sexually charged mindscapes via the mediums of photography, short film and animation, exploring the nature of eroticism and picking away at the sinister underbelly of desire.
Each of his still or moving pieces convey their own individual narrative yet also exist entirely in context within this world, in what he describes as "A blend of the erotic, the surreal and the anhedonic". Citing influences from such figures as Hans Bellmer, Koji Wakamatsu and Georges Bataille and with an (un)healthy dose of pornographic imagery, his highly stylized and unique work is simultaneously laced with a certain dark humour and a queasily unnerving quality. "
"What Marc Blackie has created with “Disappointed Virginity” is a virtual playground of extreme erotica. Each photograph is a glimpse at an extreme moment and time… a visual story your mind is left to complete."
http://www.disappointedvirginity.com
"Under the banner of "Disappointed Virginity", Marc Blackie has created for himself a self contained monochrome world. Herein he explores his sexually charged mindscapes via the mediums of photography, short film and animation, exploring the nature of eroticism and picking away at the sinister underbelly of desire.
Each of his still or moving pieces convey their own individual narrative yet also exist entirely in context within this world, in what he describes as "A blend of the erotic, the surreal and the anhedonic". Citing influences from such figures as Hans Bellmer, Koji Wakamatsu and Georges Bataille and with an (un)healthy dose of pornographic imagery, his highly stylized and unique work is simultaneously laced with a certain dark humour and a queasily unnerving quality. "
"What Marc Blackie has created with “Disappointed Virginity” is a virtual playground of extreme erotica. Each photograph is a glimpse at an extreme moment and time… a visual story your mind is left to complete."
http://www.disappointedvirginity.com
SIMONA UMARAITE
Simona Umaraite (Lithuania/UK) is an experimental installation, video, mixed media, photography and painting artist. She has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from traditional and digital printmaking to interactive physical theater performances. She has held solo exhibitions at Cavendish Gallery, Link Gallery Manchester. Her work has been exhibited at Stone Gallery, Rochdale, Manchester Art Gallery, Space Gallery, Manchester, Cube Gallery, Manchester, Cavendish Gallery, Manchester, Link Gallery, Freak Show Exhibition, London, Trans-Siberian Arts Centre.
Born April 18, 1984 in Klaipeda, (Lithuani), SImona began painting as a toddler. At the age of 6, she starts to attend the Fine Arts School, Siauliai.And already at the very early age was planning on becoming a professional artist. Simona moved to United Kingdom at 22 after graduating English language and Literature degree in Siauliai(Lithuania). She began Photography foundation degree from City College Manchester and Interactive Arts degree from Manchester Metropolitan University .
http://www.saatchionline.com/njugamona
Simona Umaraite (Lithuania/UK) is an experimental installation, video, mixed media, photography and painting artist. She has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from traditional and digital printmaking to interactive physical theater performances. She has held solo exhibitions at Cavendish Gallery, Link Gallery Manchester. Her work has been exhibited at Stone Gallery, Rochdale, Manchester Art Gallery, Space Gallery, Manchester, Cube Gallery, Manchester, Cavendish Gallery, Manchester, Link Gallery, Freak Show Exhibition, London, Trans-Siberian Arts Centre.
Born April 18, 1984 in Klaipeda, (Lithuani), SImona began painting as a toddler. At the age of 6, she starts to attend the Fine Arts School, Siauliai.And already at the very early age was planning on becoming a professional artist. Simona moved to United Kingdom at 22 after graduating English language and Literature degree in Siauliai(Lithuania). She began Photography foundation degree from City College Manchester and Interactive Arts degree from Manchester Metropolitan University .
http://www.saatchionline.com/njugamona
JIM SANDERS
Born December 1975 in Solihull, West Midlands, UK. Studied Graphic Communication and Illustration.
Sanders’ work is primarily concerned with a desire to understand the human condition, constantly striving to make sense of interactions and relationships .
Sanders’ work has a strong affinity with primitive, outsider, non-traditional Western and intuitive arts, sharing their common concern with the universal experiences of birth, love, sex, reproduction and death.
Sanders works predominantly in painting, assemblage and sculpture. He also regularly creates artwork, murals, sets and costumes in collaboration with live art practitioners.
www.jimsanders-sans.com
Born December 1975 in Solihull, West Midlands, UK. Studied Graphic Communication and Illustration.
Sanders’ work is primarily concerned with a desire to understand the human condition, constantly striving to make sense of interactions and relationships .
Sanders’ work has a strong affinity with primitive, outsider, non-traditional Western and intuitive arts, sharing their common concern with the universal experiences of birth, love, sex, reproduction and death.
Sanders works predominantly in painting, assemblage and sculpture. He also regularly creates artwork, murals, sets and costumes in collaboration with live art practitioners.
www.jimsanders-sans.com
IAIN COILEY
"I love making things especially out of metal.I have been creating my own sculpture pieces for about three years and have worked on projects with the mutoid waste company over the past five. They have heavily influenced me into starting to make my own work. I have had pieces at mutate britain and synthetic gardens. My ideas are naturally progressing as I'm starting to understand what works and what doesn't for me. Pretty much all the metal used is scrap, things i found lying around or scavenged for.I make a mixture of work thats either thought provoking, dark or just fun.I have been living out of trucks and trailers in England and Europe for about twenty years and been welding for over ten.I find making sculpture gives me an outlet for expression and creativity and hope its enjoyed by all."
"I love making things especially out of metal.I have been creating my own sculpture pieces for about three years and have worked on projects with the mutoid waste company over the past five. They have heavily influenced me into starting to make my own work. I have had pieces at mutate britain and synthetic gardens. My ideas are naturally progressing as I'm starting to understand what works and what doesn't for me. Pretty much all the metal used is scrap, things i found lying around or scavenged for.I make a mixture of work thats either thought provoking, dark or just fun.I have been living out of trucks and trailers in England and Europe for about twenty years and been welding for over ten.I find making sculpture gives me an outlet for expression and creativity and hope its enjoyed by all."
