‘Slide’ Medium: Black & white photograph There is always something fascinating about objects. Over the recent year I have been looking at objects and exploring their ability to evoke our memory and convey a sense of nostalgia. I am interested in the way objects tell their own history and also the way people look at […]
The work responds to the space inhabited by tension between everyday experience and the creative impulse. Positioned in the transitory moments within the dream like state and waking self the work exists in the ‘spaces in between the real’. The practice is concerned with the polysemous nature of commonplace objects and occurrences and engages in […]
Education 2002 – 2003, Camberwell College of Art, Foundation Diploma 2003 – 2007, Slade School of Art, BA (Hons) Painting 2008 – Present, RA Schools, Postgraduate Diploma Exhibitions 2007, Slade School Final Degree Show 2007, Group Show, Gissings, Finsbury Square, London 2008, The New Dome Summer Show, Cable St Studios, London 2008, ‘A Calzone’, Group […]
‘Universes’ Video, floating objects, black ink and milk, Mini DV / no sound,1:42 min, 2010 Floating objects transformed into visual poetry. Floating geometric objects on liquids, caught in video. All works rely on simple arrangements of basic volumes and voids, manual produced surfaces and movements in a controlled choreography and algebraic permutation of pattern and […]
Black Powder Drawing Type 1A My work is formed by the individual and its inheritance of an evolutionary culture. Dealing with the idea of constructions of reality, of internal and external anthropic forces mutating its own laws. It tries to be like a cartographer of these elements of perception, realities and fantasy. The work consists […]
‘Amnesia and Oscillation’ 2009 Materials: paraffin wax object approx. 8cm x 10cm x 15cm, 12 prints 20cm x 25cm – Medium: Installation “The ultimate uncertainty of the past makes us all the more anxious to validate that things were as reputed. To gain assurance that yesterday was as substantial as today we saturate ourselves with […]
‘THE FUTILITY OF PARTICIPATION’ – steel, clay, varnish, teeth, wax, glass eyes, paint, 197cm x 33cm x 100cm, 2009 There is a moment, not a nightmare as such, but the uncanny moment at the cusp of waking where the real world takes on dream world qualities..” Working in a range of media, from sculpture to […]
I am inspired by the individuals position in the community. What role they play, their trials and tribulations. My work is an inner picture of what I envision lies beneath the persona. My work ranges from sculptural approaches, painting on the 2 Dimensional surface,performance and video work. I enjoy the abstract approach to painting as […]
Michael Armitage Born 1984 Nairobi, Kenya Education: 2002-3 Byam Shaw School of Art- Foundation 2003-7 Slade School of Art BA 2007-10 Royal Academy Schools Postgraduate Diploma Exhibitions: 05/2007 Slade School Degree show 10/2008 Ascension, Group Show with Poly Morgan, Katy Kirbach 02/2009 Royal Academy, Premiums 06/2010 Royal Academy Schools Degree Show Collections: Franks Suss Collection
Within *3 – 2009, Acrylic on Canvas Iva Kontic was born in Belgrade (former Yugoslavia) in 1982. Currently, she is on her II year of MFA at Goldsmiths College, London. Ranging from painting to video and video-installation, Iva’s work is mostly focused on exploring the issues of personal and collective memory, belonging and identity in […]
