As the Chelsea Arts Club Trust Research Fellow I had the opportunity to curate and assist on 16 exhibitions at Chelsea Space! The opportunity to work with Director Donald Smith in this unique gallery where there is such a diverse exhibition programme meant that my curatorial practice developed considerably. I curated, ‘We are watching: OZ […]
MA Materials and Research Award Eva Gold (b. 1994, Manchester, UK) works across sculpture, installation, moving image and writing. Her practice is centred around pleasure, positioned at the threshold between feelings of desire and disgust. Gold conjures bodies in states of trauma or quiet violence: fragmented or imagined characters which shape shift through materials and […]
Working predominantly through film, performance and sound, my practice focuses upon the folklore of the British Isles. Beginning with research it uses folklore as its primary material, drawing out folk’s inherent wonky temporalities and histories as it travels through other idiosyncratic and time-stamped cultural tendencies. These histories are then placed within a fictional space and […]
‘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 […]
