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I believe art is the complex and compound science we use to investigate reality and a complex form of communication with which we can communicate its meanings and ascribe it significance.Artists create art by placing objects concepts behaviour sounds images text anything into a notional aesthetic space we negotiate the right and the power to do...
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Computer screens scattered with tabbed pages and windows, expertly expanded, collapsed and psychically ordered through layering and editing. Holly Antrum’s video and printwork echoes our tacit interaction with digital media. Unlike the simulation of liquid plasma, the work has an obvious physicality as an index of the editing process it...
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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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'...The dream is the theatre where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic' (Carl Jung, General Aspects of Dream Psychology)In a show comprising some fine work, including Alistair Freeburn’s musings on the woodbutcher’s art and the accomplished paintings of Tim Millen, Paola...
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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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I began exploring colour and emotion through painting after I experienced the powerful impact of Mark Rothko’s ‘Seagram Mural’ paintings in the Tate. I wanted to make work that created a similar response – I found that blue and red work best for me but it was very interesting that I had strong negative feelings toward yellow and green. When...
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Frances Young, Nadia Hebson, Lucy Harrison, Michael Day, Dave Cushley,Toby Huddlestone, Bryan and Laura Davies Curated by Anthony Shapland It could have all been different. The past drives the present forward toward everything that may be. The sinking of the Mary Rose, a g-plan chair, the shipping forecast for 22 April...
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Working in installation, sculpture and drawing, my practice explores my interest in community, isolation, shelter and home. Many of my works are large composites of smaller parts, as a metaphorical reference to individuals within a larger community. Using imagery such as houses, roofs, and other protective structures, I engage ideas of comfort...
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Neil Webb is a practising artist based in Sheffield working predominantly with sound. His practice includes sound installation, video, performance, curation,CD releases under the name bocman and is a founder member of Host Artists Group. He is now senior lecturer in sound at Sheffield Hallam University.2003 saw performances by bocman at Sheffield...
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I must listen well to learn your liquid voice Luce irigary: marine lover Artist statement 'I long for your fluidity... I must listen well to learn your liquid voice.' (Luce Irigaray: Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche) In my working processes, I established the analogy of conversation - water and self were participants in...
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The works explore the issues that can build up inside us and the processes that we, as individuals, can take in order to overcome them. The works deal with the notion of transition, going back in order to create a sense of reconnection before invoking a feeling of moving forward. They appear primitive and ritualistic, as the reclamation process...
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The way to a man's heart is through his stomach The mouth is probably the most ambivalent of our orifices, made to kiss and bite, suck and spit, eat, laugh and swallow. It serves both tenderness and cannibalism. 'Eat me' (2006) coarsely evokes the possibilities of this fascinating cavity, slapping lipstick on a lump of guts. Marilyn's...
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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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Robin Warsany’s work is an investigation into the sculptural object and its relationship to the body. It is an attempt to articulate their commonalities; their struggle to adapt, to exploit and to resist gravity, their impossible desire to resist the effects of time. Warsany interacts with an object in a purely physical way but with a...
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Heart-rate rises and flesh begins to prickle as the hair on your body raises in anticipation, you almost do not want to look because you are afraid of what is going to happen, but because of the obscene beauty of the composite image before you it becomes impossible to look away. Composition is central within the work; the videos possess a...
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Claire Harbottle's premise is to equate 'art making with child rearing' in which 'the drive to create involves endless repetition, everyday frustration, and the impossibility of ever getting it quite right'. This selection of recent work, combining sculpture, video, photography and performance, is likewise something of a mixed...
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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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A genuine enthusiasm for pop culture and a light touch with her material characterise Linda Monks's final show for the University of Ulster, Belfast MFA.Monks is playfully adroit with a variety of media: the show includes video, animation, drawing, and a range of other elements including a faux neon sign made from Christmas decoration rope...
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Enoch Cheung’s MA work includes two videos. The first room presents 'Secret dialogue: about children hospital' (2009). It is a dual screen HD video about the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children in Hackney, which was closed down in 1997. The video portrays empty rooms and corridors, derelict hospital beds and equipment,...
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I am an artist who works primarily with photography and video, and whose work makes use of performative strategies to engage groups. My work elicits responses to test and reveal groups assumptions about their place in the world. My work begins with an investigation of subjectivity, and most often takes the form of research projects working...
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A statement which is not about me, really...“A dialogue between artist-art-audience generating various forms of collaborations, audience interactions, various forms of art dispersed into many events and art instances. A multi-layered art practice which is more like an alchemist who mixes, incubates and grows than an artist who produces a...
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HeliocentreThe installation featured in Pending presents a reconstruction of elements drawn from the illusionary visual experience of a nightclub. The title of the work refers to the scientific theory that the sun is at the centre of the Universe as proposed by Copernicus in the sixteenth century. A political/religious debate around the...
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Darren Banks Public sculpture private radar, 2008Selected by Neil MulhollandIn a parallel universe, Darren Banks makes drawings of enigmas, blobs, microbes, and beasts from beyond. In this, his elusive process of slow erasure produces phantasms of a homespun calibre. A collage of film clips feature (or rather don't feature) the invisible...
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Tereza Buskova (b.1978, Prague) is a Czech artist who has been based in London after completing her Fine Art Printmaking MA at the Royal College of Art in 2007. Her intuitive practices capture and renew Czech folk traditions through a combination of film making, screen printing and performance. She has proudly developed collaborative creative...
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Ballad for the Zacheta GalleryThe piece uses audio and video recordings from the Ballada na Gmach Zachety* acoustic performance – a composition created in collaboration with Zorka Wollny specifically for the building of the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. A wide spectrum of sounds and noise was produced by eleven performers moving...
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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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Laura Cresser's exhibition The Hanging Gardens Project consists of four scale models of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, based on differing descriptions by ancient Greek and Babylonian writers and historians. Each model is displayed on a low plinth, resulting in the observer towering over them and having to crouch down in order to observe any...
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'There is a particular economy, almost in the nature of a delicate ecological balance, in the video works of Nim-Jo Chung. Like an observant diarist, he encourages serendipitous encounters with the world and its occupants, merely by being out there and amongst them. He catches a bus or plays guitar, takes a ferry or chats to a casual...
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Entering John Karabelias' 'Room 14' I didn’t expect to like what I was about to encounter. Over-hyped warning signs and slightly shabby blackout did little for the wealth of cinema knowledge and interesting visual style employed in his digital animation of the same name. The animation's tone is classic Film Noir: the first...
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Armindokht Shooshtari presents a video-collage of portraits of women in Iran. Mixing styles and eras from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, the images belong to the realm of vernacular photography, recalling school portraits, high-street studio photos, and head-shots promoting local hairdressers. Presented as a grid, and further...
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Explored through film, installation and interactivity, Laura Ellis' observations, participation and documentation respond to the positions she adopts within the different social realms she routinely operates in. Constantly shifting between these places, each of the different roles in which she functions, such as the artist, has its own set of...
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Since the beginning of the MA course, I have been focusing on the use of objects as materials in art making. The chosen objects include leaves, text, magnets, balloons, boxes, books, egg shells, cotton wool, sand and lost objects such as gloves. The project comprises a number of works and some of the pieces were selected for display at the...
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