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I am a Japanese artist and now working in Tokyo. To me, the creatures I invented are essential to realise what I want to do in the field of expression; they would grow in proportion as I explore my interests. Artist statement 'Human beings are endlessly interesting. Human emotion always fascinates me. Through my invented form I am exploring...
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My recent work has reflected my day-to-day inspiration from new media, like the internet, television and photography. I am using these media as components to create tension in the painting by using marks and gestures individual to myself. I daily research new influences and ideas for my work, and take from the world around me the parts which...
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Questions and Paradoxes, Enigmas and Wonders; excerpts from 'the Manifesto of a 'Global Village'-Idiot'.What is art? Why am I an artist? I’ll answer the second question first, as I think I know the answer to it; whereas it’s harder to be sure about the first. I am an artist because I feel the need to make art. But surly...
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I have been working almost exclusively with flower imagery, drawing on the dark significance of their art historical symbolic meanings from the Northern Renaissance and Dutch Still Lifes in particular, to explore issues relating to and arising from contemporary culture, (the same visual language from which the ubiquitous contemporary skull is...
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My work is abstract and is inspired by landscape and environment.  Strongly characterised by colour, rhythm and movement, I seek to express the excitement of travel and new experiences. Artist statement 'Rhythm' (2007) comes from a body of work made from abandoned derelict artefacts found in a rural environment. In its painted form, this...
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My current practice explores human and nature relationship. In my artwork I examine different possibilities in interpretation of human alienation from nature by hinting at consumer lifestyle as a probable reason. My work implies landscape elements, regarding landscape as a portrait of nature. Landscape can be looked at as a focus for the...
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My work has always been about my concern with 'being in the world'; 'being' as a human, 'being' as a transient occupant in time, space and condition.   Work begins with the intention to explore and to incorporate possibilities.  The outcome is open-ended to allow room for interpretations.  Sometimes failures play a crucial part in...
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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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Lucy Stevens is an artist whose environmental soundscape art investigates the relationship between humanity and nature. Working with field recordings to produce aural portraits of wildlife in her surroundings, to share as headphone recordings or as art installations. Collecting data from bird watching to produce complex digital visuals to share...
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Artist statement This place, if I could describe this place, portray it, I've tried, I feel no place, no place around me, there's no end to me, I don't know what it is, it isn't flesh, it doesn't end, it's like air. (Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable) These paintings attempt to describe a temporal and topographical non-place, a frozen...
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Artist statement Following a career in commercial illustration (mainly children's picture books and educational work) and a move to southern France, I decided to realise an earlier intention of mine to pursue an interest in fine art by studying for an MA at UWIC in Cardiff. In the course of a year's full-time study, I became interested in...
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Liam O'Connor's work displays a technical finesse that is, at once, seductive, energetic and revealing. In simple terms, Liam is a portrait painter, but as with the best portrait painters, these are not mere representations of people, but studies that capture something more elusive. Through his work, Liam acknowledges that at one time, portrait...
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Liam Jolly graduated from the University of Hertfordshire with a First Class BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art in 2001. Based in Cornwall he is currently studying an MA in Fine Art Contemporary Practice at University College Falmouth. Rooted in the language of abstract painting his concept driven multi disciplinary works question notions of reality...
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Briony Anderson’s practice ranges from studio-based work to collaborative projects, often seeking a reinvestigation of the cultural significance of landscape. Current work responds to 18th and 19th century portraiture, but only to its backgrounds (backdrops of landscape). The resulting paintings are limited solely...
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'I want to slow down the reading of an image: I want to say, this is important – look at this.' - (Elizabeth Peyton, The Painting of Modern Life) My work to date has been an investigation into individual identity and the ordinary as heroic. These investigations have led, most recently, into the realms of media imagery. This has meant...
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Normal 0 I am a figurative painter. My work is sourced from personal archives- some mine, some from others. These fragmented encounters then become a recovery operation of sorts, a continuation of a process that begins with the transfer of salvaged super 8 film, “rescued” to VHS and then...
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My work includes sculpture, painting and video; I'm interested in contrasting the everyday with the strange, combining found objects, waste materials and paint to construct three-dimensional compositions. My paintings and video often depict mundane scenes or objects, aiming to capture a sense of oddness in the ordinary. Susan Massey's...
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Distilled memory and current affairs underpin my art practice. Elucidating common issues of concern. As Mike Kelley put it 'Attempting to strip away the façade of domestic bliss'. My scripts encourage us to view familiar spectacles from a dislocated perspectives. Selector text In 'Mrs McLaren's Labour' Ann Denison has created a humorous video...
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I have an art practice making paintings.  The work is figurative, but with an eye for the abstract.  Colour, shape, and mark making play their role in imagery that strives towards an otherworldliness/ surreal environment.  Subject is varied, addressing issues such as cultural observation and anthropology, both local and further...
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I am concerned about new natural energy sources and in demonstrating the importance of considering what we might do after the current energy sources (oil, gas, coal) are depleted. My dream is to see how we can ensure that we leave a safe and healthy future environment for our children and grandchildren. I create my work from these dreams, in an...
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Artist statement 'Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have consistently objectified all this in the visual, spiritual and cultural triggers which have for years forced the internal lyrical motives that impelled me to create. This is the most sincere...
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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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Working with paintPainting has gone through many shifts over the centuries and the only obvious similarity is that all painting involves some type of pigment on a surface. And even that may vary. So how can one determine the essence of painting as an artform? How can one define and evaluate it? Is it the artist's depiction of their soul on a...
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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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Contrary to the first president of the Royal Academy's belief that a painter should not slavishly copy nature but seek an ideal form or 'grand style', 'Reynolds' (2007) by Gareth Cadwallader depicts the artist in the form of an ageing bronze bust ossified and caked in muddy patina. Extracted from the mayhem of Leicester...
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Maria Högbacke (b. 1982, Stockholm, Sweden) previously studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She makes colourful 'semi-abstract' paintings of collected visual impressions from everyday life and imagination. Altered through the process of memory the pictures reappear in a more subjective and personal attire. Högbacke is...
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Part photograph, part painting, Rosie’s work shows glimpses of realities that slip in and out of focus and deceive the eye. Her work also makes reference to the powerful dialogue between nature, the city and the individual. Floating tower blocks seem sure to crumble at their foundations, symbolising the financial collapse and the fragmentation of...
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Determining which of the postgraduate students at Goldsmiths to focus on is no easy task. After visiting the exhibition several times I decide to opt for the work that I identify with most as a curator and that is most sensitive to its given site or position. As I turn a corner and see 'Last Dance in Disco Valley' (2009) ethereal...
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For his MA exhibition held in the University of the West of England studio area of Spike Island, Theo Cuff showed seven paintings varying in size but, in this exhibition, the typical size was approximately 40cm x 50cm.Unusually for MA exhibitions this one was characterised by a certain curatorial flair, placing works together that offered...
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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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Artist statement I had a number of works in the degree show. Two share some elements. One audio piece relied on a photographic image, the other on the installation space itself. But both works materialised (in their immaterial way) through the audio descriptions of trees or branches. The image of the tree acts as a visual stand-in for an...
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