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In my practice I use photography, video and performance to examine the self and its relationship with its surrounding environment. I am interested in how we negotiate the current landscape of advertising and corporate branding where everything has a logo on it and we are all the target audience. My work has been described as 'banal in the...
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Artist statement Through the appropriation of images and sounds, styles and ideas, Ruth Hopwood examines the role of media imagery in the formation of attitudes and beliefs. Drawing from many sources, including popular film and television, academic texts and literature, this material is edited and contorted to question what is portrayed and...
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Artist statement I have set out to observe live and dead exhibits. The theme of drawing animal specimens took me to the Booth museum in Brighton and to London Zoo. At London Zoo I sat down to draw a gorilla, she came right up to me and seemed to pose which was very unexpected and was documented by film. The glass barrier between the gorilla and...
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Kate MccGwire’s work exists in a twilight zone where beauty butts up against ugliness, rapture meets disgust and reason superstition. She will take an everyday material or object – a chicken wishbone, pigeon feather or book – and, by re-framing it, generate ‘a field of attraction’ around it. The viewer is left reeling, simultaneously seduced...
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Artist statement My practice exists across artforms, as a negotiation of various varied modes of working offered by disparate disciplines, technologies, materials and rooms. Whether as a performance, a text, a video or object, the work always exists performatively, alert to its situation of showing and how the viewer is positioned within and by...
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Selector text A considered and confident aesthetic emerges from the sculpture and video work of Magali Reus. Brightly coloured beach towels, tinted lenses found in sunglasses, Formica, ratchet straps and a video of a guy holding a surf board make up Reus' MFA show at Goldsmiths. 'Fire Storms' is the key work here (a piece that was also...
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Artist statement In the dark poem The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Tennyson, when the woman looks into the mirror (reality) it cracks, and the spell (imaginary) is broken so the wo(man) must die. But the mirror has a silver backing which is hidden from the gaze and so she has the possibility of being reborn. The MA project is about looking into...
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Artist statement The foundation to my artwork is a post-feminist perspective, I attempt to deconstruct and break boundaries and recreate perspectives, between viewers/cultures, through the layering and framing of the viewers (including myself) with in a space. I use cameras as a means to gain control, to force the viewer to confront their own...
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Artist statement Two people, two narratives, one interactive space. During the final stages of our Masters degrees, a collaboration developed. This emerged from a mutual concern in the difficulties and frustrations of trying to connect with experiences that are far removed from us culturally, physically and mentally. The final piece 'Re...
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Artist statement My practice is concerned with the intense identification with 'place', felt by members of the local history group to which I belong. Their shared feelings of belonging to a community that no longer exists become a tangible entity that resonates within the group whenever they meet. While they spoke to me about their shared...
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Artist statement Cultural Travelling in Leeds Communities, 2006-2007Cultural Travelling in Leeds Communities is a research project started in October 2006 and developed during the eight following months through various visits, interactions and recordings. Following processes of an ethnographic practice, the project concentrates on...
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Artist statement Following the January assessment, my work featuring the film, 'Sisyphus' (DVD 45 mins) explored the 'human condition', I wanted to explore dance/drama further, but this time looking at the female 'single voice'. The films presented here, 'Tango per Una', and 'Azulejos' take as there starting point two films by Carlos Saura,...
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Selector text Mark Emblem's current work explores his personal relationship with his creative practice and cinema. While self defined as a painter, he feels a deeper empathy with film. Citing it as the dominant art form, he explores how this medium, informed by a fixed linear narrative, informs and contradicts his own practice. A highly...
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Artist statement The practice I engage with pushes issues of public art, autonomy versus social engagement, and also issues of ownership, authorship and the resulting commerce. For my MA show I auctioned a large portion of my assigned space to the highest bidder after placing adverts on several mailing lists and free ad sites. The winning...
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Artist statement Collaboration is central to my practice, frequently including people and organisations not necessarily situated in the contemporary art world, such as gardeners and archaeologists. These collaborations, located on boundaries between disciplines and communities, aim to identify spaces for connections between people, and between...
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Artist statement My work addresses the construction of objects with distinct and independent existence, questioning how the representation of objects can be made to be more fragile allowing fractures between the artist and the object exploring this through the production of dysfunctional landscapes. I am interested in creating machines that...
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HK119 Ready For Lift Off, album launch party Heidi was born and raised in Finland, where she developed a passion for art, music and acting from an early age . She came to London and joined the foundation course at the former City of London Polytechnic followed by both a BA and MA at Central St Martins. Her previous projects include a sound work...
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Palmer's practice is located between photography and film and manifests an enduring interest, as can be seen in works, State, Murmur and Hiroshima, in addressing the question of if and how the intangible properties of memory, atmosphere and character are bound up in the physical substance of a place. Seldom have I been so struck by the...
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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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Bruce Sharp works with video and sound to explore the performative potential of drawing. His recent exhibition as an MA Drawing graduate at Camberwell College of Art comprised of a sequence of short video pieces. Each video 'sketch' explores the act/action of drawing, using himself or others as physical instruments, creating movement or leaving...
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A very assured hand and eye with a film camera, Annmarie Crampton conjures worlds of tenderness, empathy, beauty and humour. Word and image work together well as does the overall presentation. I had the feeling that what was lacking was the requisite self belief or commitment to rigorously follow through an idea (always a fundamental issue when...
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My work has been characterised by the use of site and context specific interventions that start by the reflecting on the inherent functions and features of specific architectures. My attitude has been that of analysis and comment and my subject, the legitimising, system and propagation of the contemporary art world. I recurrently use...
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The Oyster Bar This installation is based on the Manet painting 'A Bar at the Foiles-Bergere'. People were invited to come into the space one at a time and sip champagne while they were asked to exchange a tale of loss for an oyster (or an orange if they'd rather). The loss could be as intimate, mundane or as bizarre as the participant wished....
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Bolser's MA show used video to manifest themes and ideas of spectacle, memory and histories to draw the viewer into revealing their own past and preconceptions. Using Super 8 footage of her family juxtaposed with other grainy childhood type images she gently instigates a genuine interaction from the viewer. She expects us to confront that strange...
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A Goldsmiths graduate, Walker makes videos about the impossibility of the Romantic engagement with the landscape. His works, recently selected by Hans Op der Beeck for a show at Amsterdam's Consortium, often use music composed and performed by the artist in an ever-thwarted attempt at reconciliation with the vistas he contemplates. In successive...
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