John Stezaker Work from his oeuvre. “John Stezaker’s work re-examines the various relationships to the photographic image: as documentation of truth, purveyor of memory, and symbol of modern culture. In his collages, Stezaker appropriates images found in books, magazines, and postcards and uses them as ‘readymades’. Through his elegant juxtapositions, Stezaker adopts the content and […]
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Clare Strand
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Clare Strand Work from Conjurations and Gone Astray. “Over the last ten years, dissatisfied with the often complacent values of the photography world, Clare Strand has assembled a body of work that is both subversive and celebratory in its approach to photographic conventions. During this period Strand’s art has developed through a series of increasingly […]
Michael Dean
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Michael Dean Work from his enigmatic and difficult to navigate website. “Michael Dean starts from short texts written in original print formats to give rise to an almost physical linguistic space that is meant to urge the audience not only to read, but to take part — both visually and spatially — the meaning of […]
Abigail Reynolds
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Abigail Reynolds Works from Universal Now and Mount Fear. “The Universal Now, is a series of collages that uses imagery sourced from publications such as guide books and atlases, combining photographs of landscapes or monuments, enmeshing them together. In the process of splicing and joining the images, cuts are made into the printed surface and […]
Sam Taylor-Wood
Friday, 23 October 2009
Sam Taylor Wood Stills from Still Life. “Still Life is one of the most classical works of contemporary art I know. It inscribes itself in art history with hardly any commentary. This is not just a Still Life. It is a vanitas, a particular type of still life developed in the 16th and 17th centuries […]
Kate MccGwire
Monday, 19 October 2009
Kate MccGwire Work from her oeuvre. “Kate MccGwire’s work asks questions about the very nature of beauty. She’s intrigued by the possibility of envisaging beauty as something more complex than merely what delights the senses: beauty can be about a problem; it can be something that repels you or makes you question the status quo. […]
Martin Creed
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Martin Creed Work No. 227, Work No. 790, and Work No. 990. Creed’s website is a treasure trove of great conceptual art that I strongly encourage you visit at length. There is a nice piece about him in Esquire here. “WORK NO. 227: THE LIGHTS GOING ON AND OFF We all have our bad days, […]
Tess Hurrell
Saturday, 9 May 2009
Tess Hurrell Work from Chaology. “My practice is primarily using photography as a framework, a context for ideas of perception, discovery, proof and understanding. Using it’s uniquely complex language, I aim to create images that communicate on different levels about the way in which we see and observe. ‘Chaology’ This series grew from a […]