Archives for posts tagged ‘british’

Josephine Pryde

Josephine Pryde Work from The Splits at The CAC – la synagogue de Delme. “In preliminary discussions with the artist, the curator expressed enthusiasm for an exhibition exclusively of photography. He felt that not only had there never been such a display in the building, but he also remained interested in how Josephine Pryde deployed […]

Alice Channer

Alice Channer Work from Out of Body. “For her South London Gallery exhibition, British artist Alice Channer has created an installation of entirely new works which extend her exploration of the relationship between the human body, personal adornment, materials and sculpture. In these figurative works, Channer questions established hierarchies within the history of art, objects […]

Krister Klassman

Krister Klassman Work from his oeuvre. “Krister Klassman’s sculptures engage with the possibilities and traditions of the medium, utilising a range of processes along the way. In his first solo show Klassman incorporates ink drawings, digital manipulations, domestic printing and chemical reactions to produce a body of work that suggests a way of approaching a […]

Shih Hsiung Chou

Shih Hsiung Chou Work from his oeuvre. “Since my art practice has taken on ideas of making art through an investigation of material processes and the formation of meaning and identity, I have begun considering the relationship between my work and the history of painterly art, but inflected through questions about how the meaning of […]

Paul Flannery

Paul Flannery Work from 7 Rainbow Minutes. “7 rainbow minutes is part of an occasional series of clocks. Each clock uses a computer file type to keep its time. Often this is a gif with each frame ticking over at one second intervals. In this piece though, each minute is witness to one colour of […]

Bethan Hews

Bethan Hews Work from her oeuvre. “‘Piss off I’m a fountain!’ an abusive notice board proclaims in white plastic letters on a black ground. Are these the words of an offended ornament that we have mistaken for a urinal? Or are they the angry reaction of a readymade that feels it has not been identified […]

Bryan Dooley

Bryan Dooley Work from Gold County Real Estate. “‘Gold County Real Estate’ ‘(Bud) …sorry, what a fox… funny, the most beautiful girls in the world are always on the street or in elevators, never get to talk to them, shy … my looks, never had confidence in them … overcompensating work syndrome… prove your worth […]

Gabriele Beveridge

Gabriele Beveridge Work from her oeuvre. “…Locations normally seen out of the corner of the eye. The happy themes of advertising removed to a slightly off centre context, where the falseness in the smile becomes foregrounded. Imagery from other eras where both the treatment of the subject and the physical elements of the photography (film […]

Samara Scott

Samara Scott Work from her oeuvre. ” I think about it as a sort of liquidy making, where naive absent-minded processes direct material – leftovers, scum, scraps that I surround myself with – and trickle it through all sorts of ranges. This might be anything from an interiors range, a fashion range or a range […]

Kate Owens

Kate Owens Work from her oeuvre. “There is an argument that contends that we only really become sensitive to a given object’s characteristics – its truth – when it is no longer able to perform its prescribed function. According to this logic, the hammerness of a hammer becomes most apparent when we see it lying […]