Charlie Franklin (b.1983 London) completed her BA in Fine Art at Middlesex University in 2005 and her master’s degree in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, in 2008. Recent exhibitions include ‘Other Structures’ (London), ‘PITV’ (Stockholm) and ‘Inland’ (Suffolk). She is one of the winners of The Whitechapel Gallery East End […]
Berta Koch (Katrin Albrecht, Monya Pletsch, Talaya Schmid) For this ritual we transform the exhibition space into a contemporary chapel, western waste into costumes, kitchen utensils into ritual objects, mundane activities into deliberate choreography and there is no anonymous viewer but one participant. Extending the performance’s impact over its timeline, actors spread the word during […]
Aaron McPeake b. 1965, Belfast, Co. Antrim McPeake works with a wide range of media and materials and regards the making and viewing process as akin to writing and reading poetry – where the visual imagination becomes dominant in exploring meaning. In 2002 he had to abandon a long career in stage lighting design due […]
Experimental Film Workshops – Interrogating Film Making Ed Webb-Ingall (film maker, producer and facilitator) and Patrick Staff (video artist) will lead a number of participatory workshops, games and exercises exploring the way a camera can be used as a a tool for investigation, improvisation, and documentation. The workshop will use ideas developed in community video […]
Image from sound-work of a record that plays the sound of its own making, translating its production process into sound/music.12” vinyl record, turntable, pre-amp, amplifier, speaker, sound, 9 minutes. Rosie Farrell’s projects in sound, film, video and other media form an ongoing investigation into mysteries and doubt. A central concern within her practice is to […]
“All acts are political and whether one is conscious or not, the presentation of one’s work/production does not escape this rule” Daniel Buren (Terranova, Performing the Frame, p1) My practice is an investigation of the political and cultural layers of our personal lives. I have been investigating ways to express the concept that as we […]
My paintings may be best read as abstractions, whether they contain figurative elements or not. I am continually redefining my concept of what a painting is or can be, in relation to current debates and the masterful works in oil that brought me to love painting to begin with. What I have discovered is that […]
Working predominately within video & film, my main concerns are firmly routed within the realms of collage and its power to disorientate the viewer through edit, cut or juxtoposition. Recent works have taken found footage as a visual starting point and, through it’s re-filming/re-investigation, the original visual finds itself redundant, making way to new narratives […]
I am interested in all species, ideas of metamorphosis, anthropomorphism, Evolution, Cryptozoology, belief systems, Horror, hierarchical thinking and great British eccentrics and experts. My work takes the form of installations, sculpture, video, sound pieces, Photography, taxidermy, drawing and text. This award will enable me to travel across Britain to meet with various experts, visit far […]
Goliath in white sneakers Inkjet print – 111 x 82.7 cm – 2011 These images document sensual and playful encounters between the camera and my body in a London cemetery, whilst undertaking intense fitness training. I enjoy the power of being on display and the little performances that take place between the moment I press […]
