‘Twenty-seven’, 2019, oil on canvas, 160 x 130 cm STATEMENT: I paint those I love, or have loved. Intimate moments are often stacked upon one another, leaving hints of previous decisions visible on the final surface. This technique is called pentimento. It seems appropriate to use this method because what interests me most is the […]
My practice aims to question pop culture, I am particularly interested in the Americanisation of British culture. We are constantly surrounded by images, that tell a specific narrative. Our identities and our existence are consistently up for political debates. I work with the moving image and photography and appropriate images and sounds that are a part of the pop culture […]
Adam Shield makes drawings, paintings, and collages. Recently he has been producing a series of large scale, multi-layered, sequential drawings on transparent paper. The work plays with visual drama, dystopian narratives and comic tone through shifts in scale, perspective and unreconciled pictorial zones. Alongside his studio practice, he also works on independent and collaborative publishing projects.
The Eccentricity of an Ellipse (2016), Video Still Tom Varley is an artist working with film, video, text and installation. His artworks explore themes of prediction, prophecy and projection, considering the effects of advanced technology and the internet on human thought, speech and memory. Previously based in Glasgow, Tom is currently a postgraduate student at […]
My working practise always begins with a biro drawing on a paper notepad. The drawings I produce tell short stories, make glancing observations or document whimsical thoughts. The settings within the drawings are often autobiographical. I draw pictures of my Nans Monkey Puzzle Tree or of the wind turbines in the field behind my Aunties […]
Flamboyant 170 by 170 – Oil, various mediums yarn on burlap – 2016 Picasso’s “Le demoiselles d’avignon,” Patra live performance of “Worker Man” on The Word, Ginuwine’s “Pony” have each asked me what can be thrown at art to open up more possibility with painting. These artworks pushed against the dominant logic of their mediums to […]
Film still of ‘un/foling in’, 14min56s, Bo Choy, 2016 Working primarily in moving image and performances, Bo Choy’s work centres round collisions between the past and present, how they are manifested in the present moment and the politics that is resulted from living in a late-capitalist urban environment. Comprising of archival footage, animation and own […]
My artistic vocabulary is formed through the mediums of Installations, sculptures, constructions, photography, performance, and most recently the act of walking as a form of art and art practice (flaneur). With my work, I research how social, cultural and political phenomena have an impact to our senses, our bodies and affects the way of forming […]
“My work aims to examine a particular kind of mysticism in our experience of nature and technology. Even using the word mysticism is troublesome, as it comes with so much conceptual baggage, but I want to explore mysticism as ‘function’. For example, forests provide inspirational groundwork for modes of artistic reception – this idea of […]
In my practice, I work with texts and the performative acts they can generate, such as speaking, listening, reading, and writing. These acts attempt to situate texts, and the fictions they can produce, as sites of somatic semantics, in an effort to orientate praxis, or inform ways of acting and living in the world. I […]
