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Victoria Ferrand Scott uses a wide range of tools as an artist but thinks of herself primarily as a sculptor. When working in three dimensions her forms are often abstract but with a strong organic character. They do not resemble or imitate anything specific but have their own identity. She works with materials such as plaster...
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My work deals with how we engage the virtual reality of the online role-playing video game. It is now possible to enjoy a rewarding, interactive and sociable virtual life via a computer internet connection and many do; currently numbering around 200 million the global population of 'avatars' (the character which represents the...
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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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In our work as LOW PROFILE, Hannah Jones and I are drawn to tasks which are unfeasibly large, seemingly ridiculous and on the edges of sense and nonsense. Our concerns are human scale, they are based on the specific, particular fixations and everyday details of our lives – in an attempt to reclaim things that would otherwise be overlooked or...
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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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'Airborne (MAD)' (2009) is installed in a narrow room with a partially tapered entranceway, like a giant mouse hole, forcing visitors to bend over in order to walk in. Inside the room an animation of stark, simple geometrical shapes is projected onto a trapezoidal screen which is continually rotating, causing the image to drift...
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Matthew Cowan's practice is in the realm of traditional British customs and culture. His work combines elements of photography, video, installation and performance to reflect the joyous ceremony of the folk world. Recent pieces have tapped into the English folk identity, and play with a broader English obsession with its own uneasiness about its...
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Artist statement My artistic practice has previously involved large interactive maze-like installations, and rhizome-like structural and ephemeral sculptural installations. All concerned with a sense of wonderment, arcadia, the city, and the universality inherent in architecture, whilst also questioning issues of population growth, an and...
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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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The most basic ecology of the contemporary art scene would place the uber Contemporary Art Museum at the top of the food chain, with dealers, collectors, art fairs and biennales scrapping it out for second. Next up would be the galleries, art prizes, art magazines, journalists, funding bodies and the spaces the support jostling for...
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In my art practice I engage with the principle of emotional insulation as a defensive manoeuvre. Benson (1979)1 uses the following definition of this term that was introduced by Freud: 'Emotional insulation is an attempt to reduce affective involvement in a given situation by separating, that is, insulating, ones feelings from ones cognitive...
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Clay's work is a bold challenge to the viewer with her constallation of enchanting, titilating products all available to buy from a website that won't allow you to purchase. As a collection, the pacman pastiche video and beautifully made nickers, vests, books and cans on display for her MA show demonstrated her pinpoint accuracy at locating the...
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About Love Actuality (PDF 50KB) Research proposal Technological innovation continually extends human influence over nature and synchronously brings about a corresponding shift in the cultural perception of nature. Although humans have always responded to environmental limitations with technology the current and...
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