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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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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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I believe that in our time people often lose the view for essentials. They might be very well informed about the context but miss out on the detail. Studying and scanning the urban life, I am constantly filtering out essential elements. These elements become the foundation of my artistic work, as I use them to create a new visual image. I intend...
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I am interested in re-discovery of everyday things that are around me. Or should I say I am interested in re-interpretation of trivial things in my everyday life?In my work, I attempt to show something special or uncanny about these "trivial" things by discovering what is hidden behind them. My fascination of these "trivial" things is driven from...
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Artist statement Where is this place that I have tripped, stumbled and fallen face down in? Some of the inhabitants appeared unfamiliar and possibly a little awkward; these have then introduced me to a whole host of splendid characters. The tools I have used to document my experiences I have found to have a sort of a duality: paint has...
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Artist statement 'Still life with Starbucks' Moca coffee', has shown by the skill of western earliest as an oil on canvas, is created by Kira Kim. I would like to talk about capitalism of humorous culture though the work as an art, has displayed to represent humorously ordinary capitalistic objects and junk foods in a society such as Burgers,...
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Concepts I have written many statements, all of them seem OK at the time, but when I reread them months later, I can not help but get depressed. To spare myself this misery, all I can say is, make up your own mind, whatever you think is true, probably is. Influences Aesthetic/Formal Concerns, Humour, Architecture/Urban environment; own cultural...
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Artist statement My aim is to make well designed glass products available and affordable to a wide cross section of the market. Previous experience as a designer-maker of exclusive collectible pieces has driven me away from the conservative market, leading me towards producing more simple objects that have character and subtle design...
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'Routes' explores the permeability of monocultures and specifically how a Park & Ride (P&R) bus route might be perceived as alien and detached from its surroundings, offering only one service to its customers. Pinsky engages with P& R users views and aspirations, re-considers the schemes connections with...
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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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The inspiration for my works often comes whilst travelling. Concentrating on the details of a passing moment, a view from a train across dry plains, fields of drooping sunflowers, angular mountains with tiny villages perched like a nests on jutting outcrops or a group of old men talking in a square, I see the magic in the ordinary. Sometimes its...
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My current work interrogates human attempts to define and order nature. It asks how our position in relation to the natural world has evolved according to the fashions of scientific and artistic enquiry. One of the ways it does this is by exploring the juncture between abstraction and ornamentation (Modernism and historicism). I see both of these...
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My work engages with the limits of photographic representation and its potentialities. For me, this can mean creating impermanent installations either in the studio or in a given place (in the current work, the Mediterranean landscape). These itineraries record my physical movement and intervention into the place or onto objects. It is a memory...
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'Essentially my paintings reflect the techno sublime, where information overwhelms the individual, causing a flickering perception of realities.' (Gordon Cheung, 2004). Gordon Cheung (b 1975, London) is interested in the notion of an artificial reality, in the way that the modern world of cyberspace and new technologies has increasingly demanded...
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Follow the trail of links for Ron Haselden on this website, and you will see something of the importance and impact of this artist, particularly in terms of public art. He has a prior nomination on Public Realm, for a piece featured in the 2006 Liverpool Biennale.Anyone involved in major public art projects will appreciate the stamina,...
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'London-based artist Adele Prince draws on instructional graphics to communicate observations on human nature. Her work focuses on the little movements and quirks of the body and makes the unconscious self-conscious. I particularly like the way her work exploits web technologies, exploiting its inherent interactivity in a very web-savvy way. Its...
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At first I was thrown somewhat by the fact that Anne-Laure Ponsin exhibited her work in two different locations. The body of work which caught my imagination was a series of small prints depicting Lewis Caroll's characters from Alice in Wonderland. Unlike John Tennial's depiction of Alice, Ponsin, appears to take her cue from Francisco Goya's 'Los...
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To categorise my practice, I am essentially an installation artist. My research places the visual outcomes of my work both within a tradition of sculpture and conceptual art. I articulate the relation between experience lived in contact with phenomenon and experience conceptualised through the conventions of language. Drawing links my practice as...
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Tomaz Kramberger's installation 'Inexterior' (2006) is first glimpsed from the outside of the building through a window - a chaotic assemblage of timber and discarded materials piled up a small purpose-built space. Within the space is a video playing on a monitor; the video documents Kramberger destroying a room, which was once part of a previous...
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My sculpture explores the relationship between such categories as the synthetic and the organic, the static and the generated, the functional and the defunct. Symmetry and order is presented as an immaculate fullness, a clean existence, made of the solid three-dimensional and the empty flats of the two-dimensional, the hard and the soft. In 'Dont...
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Otto Seitung (b.1909. Painter and Puppeteer) He died in 1929 unsuccessful and isolated with a visual era leaving its creators body: It became his body I guess. He still shows up now and again though Telling the tales he missed out on viewing, for history to record as a reality. What a wonderful and surprising experience when I entered...
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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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Fascinated by our emotional attachment to objects, Maria Lintott explores and encourages this interaction in her work. Her quest is to make functional objects that 'bring something special to our day-to-day lives'. Not surprisingly then, viewers are drawn towards her elegant bone china cups, keen to pick them up and handle them. They are...
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Across the gallery I glimpsed a series of moving geometric objects. 'Clever mechanics', I remember thinking to myself. By the time I reached Heike Brachlow's pieces, they were motionless. What did I have to do to reactivate them? Not a push button in sight. The clue was in the title of a pair of forms: 'Please Touch'. And so I did. One of the...
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The museum-like environment that Chrysanthe Staikopoulou had created for her work immediately drew me in: found furniture, an old mirror and a wall-mounted vitrine. Inside the case was a curious collection of objects, including a tiny gold spoon 'for Sir John Soane' accompanied by a folded piece of paper in a box, a bangle that looked as if it had...
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