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In my work I try to deal with the concept of disruption between Culture and Nature and the notion of Nature as other. On one hand interested in the relations between the idea of idealisation of Nature and its disruption through scientific knowledge, on the other hand the interpretation of Nature through psychoanalytic symbols.
I use the animal as metaphor, using the idea of reportage to suggest the casual capture of an image. Also inspired by Film Noir and the dark symbols of Fairy Tales, my recent work and images evoke a sense of Otherworldly mystery alluding to the obscure and symbolised aspect of dreams, or the interpretation of traditional fables and fairy tales. |
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I work with drawing on paper and painting on canvas to explore visual perception and the boundaries between figuration and abstraction. I am currently working on a series of wolf paintings.Among my influences are the Impressionist paintings of Alfred Sisley; the Pointillist paintings of Georges Seurat and Abstract Expressionist ‘lasso’ paintings of Jackson Pollock.The luminosity and mystery imbued in my work references my experiences growing up in Rome, surrounded by a menagerie of animals and transient light. The intrinsic qualities of paint have always been a tactile delight. |
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She lives and works in London and studied at Chelsea School of Art and Design. Selected exhibitions include: 2006: Broken Romanticism, Standpoint Gallery, London; London Art Fair; Broken Romanticism, Standpoint Gallery, London; Between Worlds, Sartorial Contemporary, London; Cosmetic Vistas (solo show), Mark Jason Fine Art, London. 2005: AAF Art Fair, New York. 2004: The Horizon of Expectation, Empire Gallery, London. In 1995 she was the Royal Over Seas League 1st Prize Winner in Painting. |
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The paintings are initiated by visiting peripheral landscapes. Remote building sites, roadsides, disused canals - neither populated nor without human presence, they are lonely places. Drawings are made on site and brought into the studio, where in a more reflective environment I can become intuitively involved in making a painterly response to the psychological. |
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Gilvan-Cartwright’s work is dictated by a fascination for fantasy and “dreamworlds” as much as for the act of painting itself; to engage in “the imagination and the dynamic properties of a painted reality”. Reminiscent of Fragonard, the German Romantics and Victorian fairy paintings, his work is both rigorous and playful.
He studied at Central St. Martins, Brighton University and Crakow in Poland. He won the ROSL Travel Bursary 1997. He has had four solo shows at the East West Gallery Notting Hill; was shortlisted for John Moores Art Prize twice; and exhibited at the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2004. The Times, Independent, Telegraph and BBC Radio 4 Itchy Feet, have featured his work. |
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He works on paper and on canvas.
He expresses the fauna, in particular pigs and birds in different ways, sometimes as friends but sometimes as monsters. He is fascinated from the underneath world.
2004 Cable St Open Studio
Show at Whitechapel Hospital
Zoo Art Fair with Flaca Gallery
2005 Chambers Gallery two person show with Farah Syed
Keith Talent Gallery Group Show
Flaca Gallery two person show with Lucie Stahl
2006 Transition Gallery |
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A search for escape characterizes Valdes’s detailed and luscious oil paintings. Whilst navigating the disquiet of London’s urban chaos, she makes sudden and surprising slippages into patches of solitude- lakes, ponds, and quiet tucked away living spaces; which she photographs and uses as source material. In her paintings, landscapes and interiors form a zone between concrete urban centers and vast expanses of rural quietness, and they range from being photo-realistic images to newsprint-collages. Mood and impressionistic brushwork evoke an emotional engagement with light and weather; and recall and emblazon the countryside. |
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Cristina Marignoli’s work is constructed layer upon layer, as there are different levels of consciousness, and rests on a dynamic balance between the passage of time and a sense of immediacy and now-ness... the eternal present. The structures are spaces of the mind, labyrinths where a sense of anxiety prevents one from reaching the centre, where the body has become a stranger, they are also gates through which we can enter into parallel worlds which elude and yet define our conscious thoughts.
A painting by its very nature is a physical object occupying a certain space but also it is a psychological and spiritual entity. |
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Roberts seeks poetry and adventure in the most unassuming elements of daily life. In his paintings abandoned factories, dwellings, industrial units, deserted stadiums and parks shrouded in the ordinariness of the everyday, are rediscovered and transformed into enigmatic images. Memories of growing up at the RAF base and fascination with the wasteland glamour of film noir are major influences in his work.
He is based in London and studied at Cambridge University and Central St Martins. In 2003 he was short listed for the Jerwood Drawing Prize.
Selected Exhibitions include: 2005 Point Blank Lounge, London. 2004 Contemporary British Painting Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Sussex. |
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Lives and works in London, UK
Education:2007 Royal College of Art, London, MA Photography
2004 Kent Institute of Art and Design, Rochester, UK, Ba (Hons) Photography
Group Exhibitions
Circles and Loops, House Gallery, London, 2007
Prix Leica, Paris, 2006
Could be about Landscape, KunstKlub, Berlin, 2006
Interventions/Speculations, The Hockney Gallery, RCA, May 2006
Film 9, Arbetets Museum, Norrköping, Sweden, 2006 |
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Fiona MacDonald makes alternate realities, scenarios or details -paintings and sculptures that act together –which are constructed from various sculptural materials, found objects, living and natural organisms. Her work borrows from sci-fi, Romanticism and an overactive imagination as well as the ongoing experience and observation of nature. There is a constant exploratory roving between the act of making, dealing with the nature of the material, and the seductive gazing at or being in nature. She shows a way through the philosophical and aesthetic fracture between nature and our cognitive experience of it. |
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Working from documentation, photographs and drawings, as much as the memory of places traveled, from Scandinavia to The Baltic States and the forests of California, Douglas-Morris creates paintings of beautiful dreamlike idylls. Rather than relating to any specific place or destination, they are fleeting glimpses of landscapes that slip between the abstract and the representational; far removed from human presence. She lives and works in London and studied Fine Art at Brighton University.
Selected exhibitions include: 2006: Group Show, Start Gallery, Brighton. 2005: Picture This, The Bargehouse, London. 2005: Chase, RCA, London. |
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Tooks Chambers, London
2005 Lounge Gallery, London, 'Sublime State'
2003 University Of Hertfordshire
2002 Galerie Van Der Planken, Antwerp
2002 Holland Art Fair, Den Haag. Galerie Van Der Planken
1999 Windsor Art Centre, Windsor
1998 Institute of Physics, London
1997 Orfeo Gallery, Luxembourg
1994 Philip Graham Gallery, London
1994 Pump House Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Lounge Gallery, London, 'Wintry'
2007 CAP Projects, London, 'Close at Hand'
2006 Lounge Gallery, London, 'Talkshow'
2005 Lounge Gallery, London, 'Real Strange'
2002 Elzenveld Foundation, Antwerp
2002 Prenelle Gallery, London |
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The structure of my work is based mostly from industry and architecture, however, the meaning comes from issues surrounding us: social, religious, political and environmental. My work has often been compared to that of Heath Robinson as it has an element of the mad inventor's quality to it. I feel that juxtaposing a natural or recognisable element within the mechanics, gives the piece life; a connection for the viewer to hold on to.Gemma Coyle is based in Edinburgh, Scotland |
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Cerveira’s luminous intensely patterned paintings reflect the powerful impact of fashion in contemporary society. By exalting clothing to the authority of icon, her visually arresting works bring the spectator face-to-face with mythical consumer counterparts to religious icons. Cerveira lives and works in London and studied at Central Saint Martins, London and Chelsea School of Art.
Selected exhibitions include: 2006: V22:ON, V22 Contemporary Art Collection Exhibition; Outdoors, Danielle Arnaud, London; 2005 And it all went Brazilian, Design Shop, Edinburg Festival Fringe. She was shortlisted for the 2006 Celeste Art Prize. |
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She lives and works in London, studied at Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design. Selected exhibitions include: 2006: Solo Show, Gimpel Fils, London; Day-To-Day Data, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London; Between Place and Space, Blythe Gallery, London. 2005: Dyscotopiary, Hockney Gallery, London; Day-To-Day Data, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham and Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth; Intervention, Camden Arts Centre, London; Short and Sharp, Royal College of Art, London. |
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Hannah Kaye’s work highlights the essential fluidity and structure of natural forms. Sculptures emerge from an organic process of drawing and experimenting with materials, leading to the creation of ambiguous structures. Drawing and sculpture are strongly interlinked within her practice. Sculptures become an extension of her drawing practice and present themselves as three-dimensional drawings. Works are often informed by the linear structure of trees and fluid structures such as flames and water. |
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MA Painting, Royal College of Art, 2007. "There is a hillside with a waterfall cascading down it. Richard heads towards it knowing that at the bottom would be the perfect creek for trout fishing. It's a long journey but he knows it'll be worth it. Nearing the creek he can almost feel the cool waters and sliminess of the trout as he tickles them. Finally he arrives at the point where the creek should be, but there is nothing. Puzzled he looks back up to the waterfall, to follow its path and ponder where he went wrong - only the waterfall was never a waterfall; it was a white spiral staircase set into the hillside."
Hannah Knox, The Great Exhibition 2007, Royal College of Art Catalogue. |
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Plants, strange creatures and landscapes in bold and acid hues of 1960’s pop-candy colours reminiscent of cartoon imagery and graffiti, populate Helen Melland’s canvases. Playful, upbeat and quirky, they are rooted in an interest in exploring the sensation rather than the illusion of space as found in medieval painting and traditional Japanese picture planes. It lends her work the effect of a curious caustic celebration whilst retaining twentieth century abstraction’s moments of elegy. She lives and works in London and studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Selected exhibitions include: 2005+2003 Solo show, Coningsby Gallery, London. She was also selected for the Royal Academy Summer |
