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Alex Gough |
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English
Alex’s Finnish ancestry and his own voyages into the magical Finnish landscape are immediately evident throughout his work. He describes mid winter in Lapland as ‘disorienting, beautiful and frightening, where the landscape melts into a long dark night revealing the harshness and enormity of nature’. Many of his works are indeed imbued with the contrasts of the blue and white; reflecting the magical twilight dancing on the snow.
The already mature handling of this young artist can be traced to his interest and knowledge of the works of JWM Turner and Caspar David Friedrich. The German master of the sublime informs Alex’s work at times with a strong sense of counteracting desolation and hope. Influences of Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Yves Klein are also identifiable in Alex’s work, yet a very powerfully individual style emerges, inviting us in to ‘a dreamy place of isolation; the place of one’s memories’.
Education:
2005 - BA (Hons) Painting, Camberwell College of Art London.
Solo Shows:
2006 ‘Sinen Syvyys’, The Arts Gallery, London, UK
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Untitled
acrylic, oil and indian ink on canvas
40x65cm |
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Andras Kallai |
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Hungarian
Andras is the second Hungarian artist we are proud to represent. Whilst he has been exhibited throughout Europe; this will be the first public presentation in England of his work.
His predominant interest is sculpture and he uses drawings and paintings to further explore his ideas – to which fertility is central. Andras has commented on parts of his practice as involving the two polarities of fertility – Venus and Barbie. The best exponent of this clash of extremes is ‘Fat Barbie’ where the two morph into one.
Education:
2006 – MFA in Sculpture, Hungarian Academy of Fine Art, Budapest
Selected Exhibitions:
2008 - Ungarisches Kulturinstitut, Vienna, Austria
2008 - Kampa Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
2008 - 2/B Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2008 - Georgshof Galeria, Alfred Toepfer Stiftung, Hamburg,
Germany
2007 - 52nd Venice Biennale, The Roma Pavilion, Italy
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Fat Barbie
Sculpture
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Annett Bank |
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German
Annett’s painterly idiom focuses on capturing the coexistence between silence and the dynamic. She depicts the human body in powerful movement thus presenting the viewer with images imbued with an elegant yet intense energy.
Annett is unmistakably influenced by the German Expressionism clearly visible in the colourful treatment of her figures. Moreover, in a process started whilst studying she has “felt drawn to develop ambiguous body forms engaged in enigmatic actions…fusing the real with the dreamlike”. This leads her works beyond being bodies of colourful beauty into a metaphysical exploration of the world around us.
Education:
2007 - BA (Hons), Fine Art Painting, Northbrook College Sussex
Solo Shows:
May 2009 – Complete recent works, Brunswick Place Studio
2006 - Solo Exhibition, ‘Start Contemporary’ Gallery Brighton
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Male Figure
Oil on canvas
73x58cm |
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Claire Hamer |
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English
Claire has been much influenced by environmentalist sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, who utilises nature itself to create art, and Paul Kenny, who generates images employing ephemeral materials. She too strives to produce work that is governed by nature and explores the deterioration of natural substances to create a permanent trace.
This study begun in earnest during Claire’s stay at the Utah State University. Here the organic growth and mutation of natural elements such as ice and heat was explored through a conditional freedom of the medium.
Through continuous experimentation with colours, materials, temperatures and preparation of the paper she has brilliantly succeeded in creating pictures that breeds curiosity and excitement in the viewer – as we are drawn to explore the images created through the combination of the human hand and nature.
Education:
2006 - BA, 1st Class in Fine Art, University of Northampton
Awards:
June 2006 - Daniel Wilkin Purchase Prize
May 2005 - NDFAS Competition - First Prize in Drawing
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Copper II
Mixed media on paper
76x55.5cm |
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Dénes Marόti-Bόdy |
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Hungarian
Dénes’ work immediately strikes the viewer as being strongly rooted in a very thorough understanding of the traditions of the pictorial idiom. His work is strewn with references to classical imagery (such as St Michael and the Dragon) yet this may not be immediately apparent other that in the titles. Figures in well known groupings and portraits of unknown faces are as Dénes puts it, observed through his ´ controlled application of forms of colour, not to mention spatiality´.
Repetitive figures and the use of few but powerful colours coupled to a very fine drawing technique lead the viewer further along from the strong initial visual impact. We come to consider the notion that ´the use of repetition, as a conscious constituent element, stresses that artistic creativity is not a discrete, simplistic, confined entity; but rather operates in systematically restructured situations’.
Education:
2005 – Hungarian Academy of Fine Art
Exhibitions:
Solo Shows:
2008 - Instinctively, Glasgow
2008 - Austin Gallery, London
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St Michael and the Dragon
Silkscreen printed in colour, ed. of 20
sheet size 297x210mm |
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Juliana Cerqueira Leite |
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Brazilian
From the furthest points to the most proximal of spaces, what becomes is a result of the recognition within ones' own reach. Self-constructed challenges and trials offer in evidence– a hand-made map, a trace, a gesture, a monument. Each work endeavors to uncover the connections between the body as form, process, extension, and vessel.
Juliana Cerqueira Leite is a Chicago-born Brazilian artist currently based in London. Her various works of sculpture, drawing, video and photography have been exhibited internationally. She is also a curator, part-time arts educator, and active contributor to various art publications.
Education:
2007 - Camberwell College of Art, MA Drawing.
2006 - Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. MFA Sculpture.
Awards:
2006 - Winner of the Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Award
Solo Show:
2009 - Up Down In Out, Trolley Gallery, London. |
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The Singularity
C print mounted on aluminium
ed. of 6
76x76cm |
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Keith Johnson |
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American
Keith is an artist and teacher of long standing on the west coast of the US. His practice involves a multitude of media from painting to printmaking. Since the 1960s he has also taught at a variety of art colleges and private studios in California and Oregon.
His recent works are all wonderfully abstract compositions drawing upon the magnificent scenery of California and Oregon. As Keith puts it these “are born from the world around me, and, through some mysterious journey, are transformed into images caught in time onto canvas or paper.”
Education:
1961 - MFA California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
Solo Shows:
2008 - Liquid Assets Gallery, Ashland, Oregon
2008 - Harper Howell Gallery, Grants Pass, Oregon
2006 - Chelsea Gallery, Palo Alto, California
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Oregon Coast, Rocks II
Mixed media on card
30.5x35cm
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Max Lowry |
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English
'In my pictures a composition of figures may suggest an untold story or one for the viewer to invent. Nothing is fixed of definite, but I hope that a dialogue is thus set up between painter and spectator, a narrative dynamic bringing the picture to life.
Inspiration may come from one of the great themes of personal life: love, hatred, death or birth . . . or something as trivial as an advert on TV or a glimpse of a face on the Underground. The titles I give my paintings will always hint at the scene I am trying to set; after that my only wish is that my work either tells a story or is intriguing enough to make you invent your own.'
Education:
1998 - BA Hons in Art & Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
Special Commissions:
2009 - ‘Hole in Regents Canal towpath’ 3D art commissioned by British Waterways for national bike week
2009 – ‘Warning, Labours £1 trillion black hole’ 3D art outside the Bank of England on the day of the budget
2006 - Flown exclusively to Dubai to perform/draw anamorphic/3D art in the central IBAN shopping centre of Dubai
2005 - Commissioned to paint a ‘mural’ to cover the inside of the shutters of the dining room at Delamore House, Devon
2005 - Commissioned to paint a 20ft mural for a television commercial. The commercial spearheaded the pan European campaign for the pasta sauce company SACLA.
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Did I wake you?
Diasec Print, ed. of 3
100x75cm |
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Sarah Lederman |
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English
‘My practice is an exploration into self, fantasy and desires. I am strongly influenced by my childhood fantasies; fairytales, castles and the loss of innocence. I am fascinated by the dichotomy between our fantasies and our real desires. I explore these ideas through films and performances but ultimately they reside in my paintings. My painting seeks a magical land of fantasy and fairytale.
When I use paint to represent my ideas I work to conjure the illusion of skin and containment in the body. …The containable becomes uncontainable. The body becomes fluid, unfixed…I am thinking a lot about how we are able to stay in our own body and how the skin keeps us in. At the moment I am trying to push these ideas of containment of soul as well as body, stretching that sense of awkwardness.’
Education:
2008 - Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, BA (Hons) Fine Art
Awards:
2009 - The Catlin Art Prize |
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Standing Girl
oil on canvas
149x60cm |
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Vladimir Anokhin |
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Russian
Working in the artistic community in Moscow Vladimir developed a style of landscape and portrait painting that rejected any social or political overtones striving to depict the otherness in creation. Each painting was considered a story in which the viewer is invited to take part.
Whilst Kuindji and other Russian Masters still exert an influence on Vladimir’s work – notably in colours and tonalities – his renewed painting is moving further into the psychoanalytical, dreamlike, exploration of our world and thoughts.
Education:
2005 - MA, History of Art, Birkbeck, University of London
1985 – Diploma in Fine Art, Moscow College of Art |
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Postludium
Oil on canvas
91.5x76cm |
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