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Adam King explores landscape and the pastoral through two and three dimensional collages. His work reveals post-apocalyptic terrains pieced together from the collected imagery of an urban consumer culture. These landscapes and their inhabitants are a disturbing reflection on our fixation with all things fashionable.
He is based in London and studied at the Wimbledon School of Art.
Award:
Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Open Exhibition Prize 2002; Pizza Express Prospects short-listed prize winner 2002; Surface Gallery Print Open Exhibition Winner 2004, 2006 Finalist Celeste Painting Prize, 2007 Exhibiting Finalist Celeste Painting Prize. |
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Michon’s practice is emblematic of 90s Third Wave obsession with punk, girls with guitars, anti-consumerism and the fetishization of ambiguity. Utilising drawing, painting and craft techniques she makes interventions with post-feminist attitudes, creating very personal essays: Decoupages over pages of romantic fiction disrupt concepts of ideal love, and revel in a fascination with dark romanticism. Drawings and paintings of Beatniks, Ronettes, dandies and 50s heart throb Billy Fury, reveal a contemporary obsessional need to create uber worlds of lost longing.
She lives and works in London and studied at Central Saint Martins. She co-directs Transition Gallery. |
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Artist Statement:
‘The compelling energy of my work is a plundering of documentation, a revisiting of people or places which are half-remembered, or which remain never entirely realised. I seek to present the transitory, almost exotic feel of experiences and instances as they become blurred and augmented by memory.’ |
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Harper’s practice is engaged with the idea of evolution. Predominantly an exploration in mark-making, the paintings develop an ever widening vocabulary. Earlier paintings relied on the repetition of a single and simple brush stroke to yield a mono-cultural field of grass.
He lives and works in London and studied at Middlesex University, Royal College of Art and Brighton Polytechnic. Selected exhibitions include: 2006 John Moores 24, Walker Gallery, Liverpool. 2005 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space & UK Tour; Cloud & Vision, Museum of Garden History. He teaches at Goldsmiths College, Central St. Martins and City Lit. |
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MA Fine Art: 1976-1981 Studied at the Hochschule fur Blidende Kunste, Hamburg with Frnz Erhard Walther. |
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Balraj Khanna’s paintings are a joyous congregation of luminous colours and magical shapes, existing in a constant state of weightless free-fall or restless play in a dreamlike gravity free zone. Sporting the playfulness of Klee and the tranquility of Calder, the floating forms in his work seem to follow no pictorial laws and regularities, and come together in a spirit of celebration and extreme freedom.
He lives and works in London and studied at the Punjab University, Chandigarh, India. He has exhibited in many places including: Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, Oldham Museum and Art Gallery, Oldham; De La Warr Pavilion, Galerie 695, Frankfurt, and Galerie Belleuve, Berlin. |
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London (1978- ) |
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Cathy Lomax’s practice is rooted in the romance of popular culture, assimilating media fictions and mythologies of fame into a seductive story- telling process. Photography is the source material through which she re-invents her wish-list of popular icons- particularly from English history and contemporary culture.
She studied at Central St Martins, London; is the editor of Art Fanzine Arty and Garageland; and runs Transition Gallery. Selected exhibitions include: 2006 Vignettes: Sad stories of beauty, exploitation and prestige, Rosy Wilde; 2004 She's No Angel, James Coleman; Girl on Girl, Transition Gallery, London. |
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Artist's statement:
My work is driven by what I might call a romantic obsession. I use the word ‘romantic’ in its fullest sense, and see it as both the deeply felt urge to create something with emotional impact and meaning to at least myself, and encompassing the sentimental, popular ideas found in many a keepsake. (...)
Education:
1978-81 Canterbury College of Art
1983-1986 Middlesex Polytechnic
1986-88 the Royal College of Art
Selected exibitions include:
2003-4 Grizedale/Roosevelt Island Grant
2004 Romantic Det |
