As yet untitled, c-type prints, steel, 8mm film transferred to DVD, cotton, metal a-clamps, 500 x 300 x 200 cm, 2012 I am currently studying on an MA in Fine Art at The Slade School of Fine Art at UCL having completed my BA at Goldsmiths College in 2004. My research and practice is driven […]
I make objects and paintings that appropriate ancient artifacts, religious icons and modernist materiality from the expansive pool of an art history that stretches back over 30,000 years. The work centres around my affection for the distinctive swagger involved in nineteenth century personal collections such as the John Soane Museum; their suppression, superimposition or regeneration […]
During my MA in Fine Art at Chelsea, I am asking how, why and what it might mean to slow down our way of seeing, which is currently defined by multiple screens, uploads, feeds and mash-ups. How does a united painted surface survive in the current visual climate of Photoshop, fragmentation and glitch? Why might […]
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 […]
