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The “People” series by Junghee Roh is a semi-abstract composition of lines and areas alongside more detailed human figures. In the painting, the composition as divided by colours looks horizontal - which gives the sense of security. The sky shadows and reflections on the water depict the landscape through colours and lines, in vague figures rather than specifically and realistically.
The semi-transparency of the image emphasizes the horizon while the layers of the image represent the worlds above and below the surface of the water. Although, these layers mix two different space, and time, perceptions, these perceptions remain connected harmoniously. Indeed, the surface of the water link |
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KCM's paintings are explorations of the 'singular' image: the vision of an object or event that is so unusual or unexpected; so charged with affect or import, that it 'stands apart' -suspended outside of the normal sequence of time and the customary coordinates of understanding. These images stand apart even from their owners. Her paintings present us with isolated instants; stills or snapshots of life that have been cut adrift from their moorings in a particular, personal history. They are, therefore, both inexplicable but also strangely intimate, since they address the viewer as a familiar. They involve us in the profoundly uncanny act of recognising something that is apparently unknown. |
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Manipulating, scratching into, peeling back, covering, revealing, seducing. The paint itself is central to all works. The development of the work is intuitive with an ever-shifting focus of interest. The work thus moves, evolves and grows. Once finished the images conjure up a world of thoughts, feelings and memories, floating fantasies; they become dreamscapes. |
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Louisa lives and works in London. She studied an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2005-2007) and at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design (2002-2005) where she achieved a BA(Hons)Fine Art with first class honours. Selected exhibitions include: 2008 I Regret to Inform You, Madam Lillies, London, 2007 East End Arts Show, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, 2007 My Penguin, 39, London, 2007 Secrets, RCA, London, 2007 The Great Exhibiton, RCA Summer Show, Kensington Gore, London. She has recently been selected for this year's John Moores 25 Contemporary Painting Prize. |
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Lucie Winterson:Thinking Nature
“But to the Eyes of the Man of Imagination, Nature is Imagination itself” William Blake
Western culture has divided and opposed culture and nature, most often to the destruction and detriment of nature but also with the result of alienating human culture from a creative contact with natural reality. There are, however, ways in which culture does and can find its way back to nature and it is argued that poetry is a place where culture and nature can meet. If for poetry you also read painting, then the work of Lucie Winterson is situated here. |
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Madeleine recently graduated from Leeds University following an Art foundation at Wimbledon School Of Art where she specialised in theatre design. At Leeds she read Theatre with English, and in her final year became interested in performance art. This was significant because it fused art and theatre together, her two major interests.
Currently she is developing these ideas in the form of relief pictures on Perspex that involve using light and photography. Her work forms a cycle starting with collages from initial photographs and drawings, followed by semi 3-dimensional work with the use of light and photographs. |
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1987 - 89 The University of Reading
Masters in Fine Art
1982 - 85 Saint Martins School of Art
First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art ( Painting )
1981- 82 Watford School of Art and Design Foundation Course in Art and Design
Much of Matthew’s work celebrates the sensuality of the human form - figures often luxuriating, nude, against lush decorative backgounds or sometimes frozen, naked, into empty fields of muted colour.The textures of flesh are captured with the use of layers of delicate colour and the sensitive rendering of light. The paintings often seduce the viewer with a dream-like flow of imagery, a careful attention to detail and an intense use of colour. |
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Lives and works in London.
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Jerwood Contemporary Painters (2007)
Artfest Residency Grant - Transylvania, Romania (2006)
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2005 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design
1996-99 BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class), Nottingham Trent University |
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Miho Sato
is something of a militant magpie for the information age. Borrowing at will from a variety of printed source matter, Sato liberates the images she chooses of the artificial facets that bind them to time, place and sentiment and gives them back to us devoid of detail. But there is a catch. In choosing to re-present familiar subjects, Sato forces us to confront just how complicit we are within the endless cycle of data reproduction. Rifling through other people's histories, she is free to shine a light under the murkier aspects of contemporary image making.
Rebecca Geldard, London, December 2006 |
