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James Winnett (Birmingham, 1983) is a Glasgow based artist working primarily in sculpture, intervention, print and video. His work focuses around forms of spatial enquiry, merging processes of research, intervention, and documentation. An examination of place, borders and cultural identities is central to his practice as is an exploration of the...
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Recognition begins the instant we encounter any form of representation, our cognitive memory grasps onto certain aspects and we begin to interpret what we see. My current work is an investigation into this process of perception, how we forge mental links in order to understand. I am interested in the metaphor of language as a structure, one...
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Faced with the question of what to make or how to make, it seems impossible to ignore current events or to work outside of my means. Whilst I have no desire to be didactic, I must make work from a position true to my beliefs. Under these circumstances I find it best to work with materials that are close to hand, abundant, inexpensive or free.My...
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‘The Acute Disaster’ (2012) is a short film comprising extracts of archive material that range from super 8 footage of Trade Union marches, to grainy black and white documentation of civilians running through the streets, ruined buildings and bomb sites, and bodies lying face down on the ground. The footage of the marches appears to be...
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Emma Pratt’s 'I pushed too hard. His head fell off' (2009) is a series of four sculptural works made from vegetable fat and paint. These works are treated like traditional figurative sculptures, even if a figure is not obviously present in the work, Pratt’s background in interior and environmental design means she is...
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The last room of the ECA Edinburgh College of Art’s MFA Contemporary Art: Practice degree show was by far the most powerful. Framed by dramatic views of Edinburgh Castle crowning its outcrop of a site, and surrounded by atmospheric photographs of Scottish coastlines by Iain Sutherland, Kim W. Wilson’s black, white and amber sculptures...
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Appropriation and representation are keys to apprehend myths. Sometimes objects can be difficult to apprehend, then, mythology becomes the key.Most of the time under the form of object and installations, Jocelyn's pieces escape from the dark ground of subcultures like rock music, bikers, surf, club culture etc, due to their capacity to reverse...
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A tick can stay dormant for eighteen years when isolated from the conditions that trigger its behaviour. My work attempts to appropriate something of this inscrutable poise, in a set of figurations as pauses in habits around the use of languages and objects, which simultaneously seek to refer to their own consumption, where pausing could reveal...
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For The Glasgow School of Art MFA degree show, Giuseppe Mistretta presented a single video work entitled 'The Form You Adopt Upon Entering the Room' (2011) in a small, self-contained room in the former Glue Factory on Speirs Locks.Projected on to a large screen against the wall, the film features a couple awkwardly embracing for 13...
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This Is NowFor his degree show at Edinburgh College of Art (MFA Contemporary Art: Practice), Stuart David Fallon produced a series of nine daily exhibitions from 11 to 19 June entitled This is Now. Each exhibition was curated, installed, interpreted, branded and promoted. The project website, thisisnow11.blogspot.com, presented (and still...
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Dr Kristin Mojsiewicz writes on the sound and performance work of Glasgow-based artist Aileen Campbell.Open Frequency ProfileAileen Campbell has an expansive voice. To use the term ‘soprano’ does not say enough. To state that she slides from consonance to dissonance does not express the feelings of vertigo this causes.She...
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'Because he stands all day outdoors, he knows everything.'Eva Isleifsdottir graduated this year from the Sculpture department in the Edinburgh College of Art MFA Programme. Within her degree show she presented a range of works, including casts, photographs and film. The show attracted my attention, as it seemed to cut against the...
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Museum of the Hyperreal: Boo Inside the White CubeOn entering Matthew Wickham's MFA exhibition space you encounter an odour which, even through an extended period of time, never loses its potency, defying the rules of persistence. The smell is difficult to place as it conjures both wholly natural, earthy environment and also an unpleasant,...
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Emily Donnini's practice explores the room for fluctuation within the study of understanding through its simultaneous relationship to antiquity and contemporary methodology and technology. She achieves a non-hierarchical reading of information, codes, and texts by taking a more playful role in the utilisation of these traditions. Through the...
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For her MA exhibition Katie Abel concentrated on re-producing a single still from the film Solaris, a 1972 production directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. In the gallery space I was presented with a series of monochrome graphite drawings all similar but with a subtle difference: the film still had been printed out on paper and then repeatedly crushed up...
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Amelia Bywater is an artist from New Zealand who now lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. Amelia's practice explores the means by which we make connections between visual information and personal and shared narratives, considering our subjective experience of objects and the construction of meaning for the viewer. Through the...
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My practice involves exploring process and repetition through abstract drawing, mark making and installation. By doing so I seek to understand the passing of time and working becomes an attempt to document it and so hold on to it; a notion that remains at the core of my overall working practice. It is a form of ordering my life with a possibility...
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I work in a variety of media including photography, video and installation and my current interest is in how we experience our environment, looking in particular at interior spaces. I have been particularly interested in how we experience institutional spaces, and the effect that these may have. I produced a body of work informed by medical...
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My practice is stimulated by what I perceive as challenges within the act of portrayal. I am fascinated by what lies behind the surface of the subject as an essence to be grasped or sought after through attempting to re-present it. The dialectic between the possibility and simultaneous hopelessness of this endeavour emerges in the abstraction of...
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Artist statement I am a freelance ceramic designer, working on limited edition studio ceramics and prototypes for factory production. My own practice is concerned with the re-contextualisation of existing generic objects, reinterpreting their form, and reinventing their function. I love working with porcelain and bone china, though I am also...
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Krisdy Shindler's work explores the visual re-definition and describing of the landscapes and cartography of knowledge. Using a variety of methods, primarily painting and stop-frame animation, her work investigates the movements, mechanics and progression of knowledge. As a chronological development, the animated painted image might be seen as a...
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