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Salvatore Fiorello’s paintings depict depopulated urban spaces that are devoid of people but full of atmosphere. However they are anything but menacing as he uses bright colours: purples, pink, aqua and oranges. The result is a set of paintings that look like the backdros to a kitsch 1960s psychedelic film noir.
Fiorello studied at UCE, Birmingham (BA Fine Art Painting) and Royal College of Art (MA Painting). He lives and works in UK. |
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Winston's typographic stories became widely collectable after he started selling them through London's ICA. His books can now be found in the special collections of MoMA New York, the Tate Galleries London, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Library. Winston is also a visiting lecturer at various universities including The Royal College of Art and Camberwell College of Art. He has written for Baseline magazine and worked on various design projects, most recently the third Muse album, and typographic consultancy work for Ogilvy & Mather.
Winston studied at Camberwell College of Art - BAhons Graphic Design and Plymouth College of Art National Diploma. He lives and works in London. |
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He lives and works in London and is currently in his first year studying for an MA in painting at the Royal College of Art. He studied his BA in 1999-2000 at University of Brighton. Selected exhibitions include RCA Interim Show. In 2002 he won the Star Gallery Exhibition Award. |
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Sarah Bridgland is known for her pop-up assemblages of miniscule paper cut outs - comic book speech-bubbles, graphic symbols, flower watercolours all competing for our attention and switching back and forth between popular culture and the history of art. This 3 dimensional clutter of scalped paper meticulously overflows out of vessels in the form of gunned toy soldiers and matchboxes. Bridgland’s work fascinates by transforming her outsiderist obsession with the insubstantial through a mesmerising level of deft technique into objects that are extreme, ordered, detailed and intense. |
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She lives and works in London and studied at the Royal College of Art. In 2004 she won The Sheldon Bergh Award, RCA; in 2003 The Basil Alkazzi Travel Award to New York, RCA |
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I am fascinated with the way that interiors work on many different levels: At face value they can be both beautiful and ugly, on a another level they can provide a narrative to the viewer about current fashions and locations in time. Deeper still, they can give clues as to the lifestyle and class of the occupants. By placing incongruous figures in certain interiors I am interested in exploring the stereotype of perfection, harmony and order in middle and upper class society.
She is based in London and studied at the Royal College of Art. |
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Sparkes wallpaper installations reference the history and popular culture of wall papers in England. The ‘pub wallpapers’ dedicated to a particular leitmotif- the artist’s drinking haunts in her home town of Reading, are a homage to the fabulously grotesque wallpapers that grace the walls of these establishments. The labour-intensive process of hand-painting each repeat motif, is both an obsessive and cathartic act, an attempt to exorcise the ghosts of memories that are held within each building.
She lives and works in London and studied at Chelsea School of Art & Design, Kingston University and Middlesex University. |
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Shelagh Wakely’s work has for many years been concerned with the ephemeral and transitory.
Before studying painting and screen printing at Chelsea College of Art (1958-62) studied agriculture. 1963-68 freelance textile designer, made large scale screen prints and clothes also ttaught in UK, Ghana & Pakistan. 1968-71 held a research fellowship at the RCA,London. Since 1972, when she started making sculpture, showing & making installations in galleries. 1989-99 video documentaries of artist's works for Henry Moore Trust and others.Recently commissioned to make large scale works for private & public buildings. Works and lives in London. |
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Controversial, from California |
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I attempt in my work, both abstract and figurative, to demonstrate a physicality and energy that can transcend the static medium to glimpse the roiling emotions of the subject, be they sensations of guilt, melancholy, aggression etc. Most of my figurative paintings are portraits, in which I use light or fluid effects to see how sophisiticated human expressions can be captured. I might, for example, place the sitter in a consciously dramatic evironment, such as entrapped in a cage formed by light and shade, or perhaps with his features partially obscured by a semi-opaque liquid that has overtones of bodily fluids and brings out issues of sexuality. |
