Mexico City August 2019
Index 1. Min Angel Patricia RAIN Gianneschi
12. 5537 Fernando Holguin Cereceres GABRIELA FARNELL
2. Seain Mandy Wilkinson
13. Alice Karveli Ronald Gonzalez
3. Raen Barnsley Mara Girone 4. Vivian Y. L. Emma Dolphin 5. Nikki Allford Oliver Martyn 6. Rosemary Hurrell Skye William Eade 7. Timothy Forster Despina Petridou 8. Steve Carrick Zsolt Salamon 9. Matthew Birchall Katy Hammond 10. Panos Lezes James Hallinan 11. Patricia Edith Mary Thompson Fred Fabre
14. Artdobro Chris Monokrousos 15. IRIS SUN ART Shahina Jaffer 16. Richard Graville Katarina Balunova
Min Angel min.angel@mac.com www.minangel.com Instagram: minangel_
Touch, reflection, exploration and invention are key elements in Min Angel’s practice. Walking a tightrope between illustration, abstraction and expression, Angel’s paintings are drawn from inner thoughts and external sights and experiences. Making art she says is performative and engages all the channels in the body through which we observe ourselves and the world. Her interest in art history, human behaviour and relationships and the ancient energy art of Chi Kung all inform her work. She exhibits nationally and internationally and her work can be found in public and private collections in the UK. In 2018 Angel won the KPP Prize for Art, Architecture and Design. She graduated with a Masters in Fine Art from Slade School of Art in 2008. She lives and works in London.
Patricia RAIN Gianneschi www.praingianneschiart.com patriciaraingianneschi@gmail.com instagram: @patti_rain facebook: Patricia Rain Gianneschi I deal with thousands of new ideas that like dreams knock at the door of my brain to become real and tangible art. Those ideas, once they are alive, are pieces of art, unique, with a very personal character. Fabrics, threads and colours are in front of me like raw materials, tools that need my help to transform my dreams in a tale to be told, in a new adventure to be lived. My aim is to create emotions, to inspire feelings through the representation of what has inspired me and through the process I followed to get to the final piece. The combination of illustration and handembroidery in an oneiric atmosphere permeate every inch of my work creating fantastic, whimsical and almost impossible realities. 1
Seain lauseain@gmail.com https://seain.tumblr.com/ https://www.instagram.com/seainart/ https://www.facebook.com/seainart/ Seain, Shiyan Liu is an artist from Hong Kong and born in 1994. She graduated from Hong Kong Design Institute in visual Communication and B.A in Visual Arts in Hong Kong Academy of Visual Arts. Her works focus on intimate relationships and reflecting upon the true self. Visual language takes primary in her work the characters that she depicts are simple with smooth shapes, lines and without facial features. She favorably conveys the message through posture and colors. Her works are direct and simple offers the viewers an opportunity to reflect on their own relationships and self-identity.
Mandy Wilkinson email: mandy.wilkinson@talk21.com Website: http://www.axisweb.org/p/mandywilkinson
Artist whose work does not start from realistic subject matter. The composition is not worked out beforehand and is based on the structure of paint, hard edge masking, shapes, line and colour. The biggest influence is the emphasis that abstract art is independent and exists entirely as an entity in its own right.
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Raen Barnsley Email: Raen.barnsley@googlemail.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/raenbarnsley
Raen Barnsley is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is largely concerned with the functions of her own mind, the possibilities of digital imaging software, and cartography’s subjective depiction of space. Producing visual representations of how her dyslexic mind behaves when inundated with stimuli and information, Barnsley makes physical her experiences when understanding and processing written and verbal language. Using the motif and structure of the grid that is at times disrupted and at times complete, the pattern sits among an alphabet of shapes, which fluctuate in and out of its bounds. The shapes hinting at broken and suspended connections, existing as lively, floating silhouettes that create illusionary depth.
Mara Girone Simple Sophistication hello@maragirone.com www.maragirone.etsy.com www.instagram.com/maragirone www.facebook.com/MaraGironeSS I deal with thousands of new ideas that like dreams knock at the door of my brain to become real and tangible art. Those ideas, once they are alive, are pieces of art, unique, with a very personal character. Fabrics, threads and colours are in front of me like raw materials, tools that need my help to transform my dreams in a tale to be told, in a new adventure to be lived. My aim is to create emotions, to inspire feelings through the representation of what has inspired me and through the process I followed to get to the final piece. The combination of illustration and handembroidery in an oneiric atmosphere permeate every inch of my work creating fantastic, whimsical and almost impossible realities.
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Vivian Y. L. ocularmoonpies1031@outlook.com website: https://vthyl.io Instagram: @ virtio_cell_stem_spa.djvu
‘versare | the lemony grapefruit,’ a work in moving image and performance, analyses the facets and affect of an individual’s role within an institutional structure, and in this case, a ballet company and its repertoire. Through a time-based exposition consisting of an emotionally sterile dining scene and intercepting surreal choreographic sequences, the work explores how dinner table conversation may function as a temporal place for insight into a character, their psyche, and the possibly complicit role of the viewer as the surrogate body of the interrogative interlocutor. The work presents a character who recalls various cinematic stock figures and, in conjunction, a critique of dialogue and archetypes as cinematic devices to counter customary character portrayal. Themes in the work include the gaze, the institution, the body, communicational dynamics, and psyche with regards to surreal humour, character as spectacle, absurdist dramedy, and deformity of the anima. The short film belongs to a body of work grappling with societal roles and intersections of individuals from different disciplines and occupations, taking on a visual approach to investigate the intra-relational dynamics and emotionality in observed and fictional circumstances and scenarios with cinematic parallels.
Emma Dolphin
email: emma_dolphin2000@yahoo.co.uk
Life/death/after-life … is it all an ethereal illusion? Most of our experiences of life, comprise of a myriad of stimuli - moments and incidents which impact on our senses both sequentially and simultaneously. These serendipitous moments are a coincidence of material elements and our reactions to them, through our senses and perceptual systems. Our interactions with the physical world relies on many factors; predominantly, our being there to bear witness to the event. This work examines the elusive and the illusory, memory, dream and what may be considered reality. It often presents the viewer with a depiction, or traces of events. These events may take different forms , describing a subject that may be current, previous or have the potential to be experienced. 4
Nikki Allford Email: nnikki.allford2@gmail.com Beauty and the Beast made during a residency at the Edwardian Cloakrooms, Bristol, in response to it’s atmosphere of melancholic beauty and decay . As a maker and Installation artist , I work with time consuming processes. The Installations have a presence that disrupts a space, as I continuously searches for new ways of inhabiting spaces while making connections between the past and the present. I am interested the way repetitive actions can result in the formation of a work. Structures are built from the accumulation of lines and tape . The resultant pieces can be read as abstract, or as hinting at other qualities ,reminiscent of the innards of the body, pools of blood, skins, pelts, feathers or flowers.
Oliver Martyn www.olivermartyn.com Instagram: oliver_martyn
Self-portrait in Preparation of Death is concerned with death and portraiture, predominantly of the self.
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Rosemary Hurrell Email: hurrellrosemary@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/RosemaryHurrellArtist/ Instagram: rosemaryhurrell “Initially inspired by traditional embroidery my work gravitates towards abstraction, using contemporary machine embroidery which is subsequently moulded into three dimensional forms. Incorporating the exploration of landscape, environment and curiosity of inherited DNA it communicates a visual representation into the integrated complexities between the union of perceived and true reality. The question of memory in all forms is quintessential in my work, an interest to understand how a prompt from our senses can bring to the fore long forgotten memories makes the sculptures emotionally intense. The sculptures represent strength and fragility creating an interconnection between delicacy and lightness, whilst including an emotional tone of unfolding and unravelling memory. Whether consciously or unconsciously we all leave an imprint in the world.�
Skye William Eade https://www.instagram.com/skyewilliameade/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1143946293 http://www.skyewilliameade.com Email: skyewilliameade@gmail.com Skywards gaze (looking up) and a close up view of a morphing raindrop in descent. Executed in watercolour on paper. On the North Downs, England last summer and freak downpour of very large raindrops descended on us. I was able to capture these very large raindrops in slow motion. The square symbolises the material world, the circle the spiritual and water is the connection. Metaphorically; the raindrop connects heaven to earth.
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Timothy Forster Website: www.timothyforsterarts.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ timothyforsterarts/
‘Timothy Forster is a conceptual artist working in the North of England who is primarily concerned with how we might fragment and reconstruct the experience of landscape. Creating during self-propelled adventures, Timothy adopts an autobiographical approach, exploring themes such as immersion, endurance and minimalism, as well as candidly documenting his personal struggles with depression. He is an advocate for mental health, promoting through his work and external lectures the benefits of running and hiking, as well as the ways we might interact with the natural world’.
Despina Petridou Email: despinapetridou@hotmail.com Website: www.despinapetridou.com Instagram: @despinap.art
The STUDIO RECIPES artist book provides an alternative perspective into the processes used within the studio to make objects linked to the theme of domesticity. These objects are the result of an exploration and re-consideration of the domestic space as a gendered sphere based on my memories and experiences as a woman growing up in Cyprus. The book uses a domestic-related method of recording a sequence of actions usually associated with the preparation of food, providing an alternative use of the idea of recipes in relation to ‘making’ in contemporary art practice. This handmade book includes eleven recipes of different sculptural objects produced within the studio, including a written recipe with the ingredients and method and a photo of the relevant object. 7
Steve Carrick steve.carrick.artist@gmail.com video projection installations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysns41mxp30&list=PL-aZht-EUKf4blODcleDYRIxcEPoaIkCy My practice operates within an extended notion of the term ‘cinema’ and I use both still, and moving, projected images as a means to interrogate the nature of the screen and what might constitute such a surface. This involves the placement of objects, with associated projected images, in a variety of different environments. In this work, animations are projected onto an accumulation of objects and materials placed on, and around, a desk in an office environment. Essentially the animations attempt to propose a degree of suspicion as to what is physically present and what is simply a projected image. The projection continuously promotes a re-reading of both the projected image and the set of objects receiving the projection.
Zsolt Salamon zsolt.salamon.note@gmail.com website: www.zsartist.com Instagram: zsolt.salamon Let’s pretend we are looking up at sun from underwater. These fine gradients, effects and forms were created in Adobe Illustrator to please the eye.
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Matthew Birchall matthewbirchall.co.uk instagram : mat.birchall
I’m restless in the way I work, shifting from medium and from ideas in a short space of time. I attempt to record this state in my works which vary from painting to construction to audio and film. The piece on show is part of a relatively recent body of work exploring structure and form from discarded material.
Katy Hammond info@katyhammond.co.uk www.katyhammond.co.uk instagram.com/katyhammondphotography This image belongs to a larger body of work that is an ongoing investigation of the sublime through fictional scapes. Utilising alternative photographic processes the work explores the fluidity of images, looking at the connection between pattern and chaos and the spaces in-between. Katy Hammond is an artist and lecturer in photography at Norwich University of the Arts. Her practice is currently focused on working with alternative photographic processes to explore the relationship between photography and materiality. 9
Panos Lezes
www.panoslezes.com
Panagiotis Lezes continues his practice “Adult playground, by creating this time a toy, a small scale sculpture, objet d’ art (resin with hand-made painting 30x25x7 approximately 1,7 kilos, 2019. With this work of art Lezes evokes the nostalgia of lost childhood. With his sculpture, “the twin headed horse”, he creates an iconic reawakening of Homo Ludens– Man the player. Play does matter because it is a basic element in society, and a foundation of civilization, a form of understanding what surrounds us, and a way of engaging with others, a translation of our thoughts, revealing a part of our subconscious during its performance. Lezes after his career as a bureaucrat in the Hellenic Ministry of Finance working as an expert in E.U in Brussels he found himself to a completely deferent field of art. Lives and works in Athens Greece.
James Hallinan Website: jameshallinanartiste.com Instagram: James_hallinan
This work expresses visually the combination of anxiety both internally and externally. The grinding of the teeth with the long smeared brush strokes combined with a condensed and foggy background that the mouth sits in conveys the restlessness of mind and body. When viewed next to each other they continue the erratic movement and feeling.
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Patricia Edith Mary Thompson Email Address: pemt7@yahoo.co.uk Facebook:@Patriciafineart7 Instagram: patricia_thompson10 2 Art Websites: 1create.co.uk/patricia-thompson-fine-art artgallery.co.uk/artist/patricia_thompson
Patricia’s expressive work is well known for its spontaneity, Impressionism and atmosphere, created through Line and a unique use of color. Being part of the London Scene in the 1960s and then travelling widely, greatly contributed to her work, which displays versatility and originality. The breadth of her oeuvre extends from loose Impressionism, Caricature, Painting ‘in-Situ’ and en-plein-air, through Narrative Illustration, to tight Architectural, and formal Figurative, and refined Studio pieces.
Fred Fabre fredfabreartist@gmail.com www.drawlogia.com Instagram: @ Drawlogia
Fabre’s technique is driven by the empathy between sitter and painter. Fabre is in some instances painting a particular and new rhythm of urban sub-cultures in London, creators themselves, self defined – a punk sensibility that embraces queer, feminist, non-binary worlds and as well as single Mothers .
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5537 Fernando Holguin Cereceres Fernando@5537gallery.com Info@5537gallery.com https://www.5537gallery.com/ https://www.facebook.com/5537Gallery https://www.instagram.com/5537fernandoholguincereceres/
‘Half being’ Is about the sense of existence with human interaction, not trying to question our own lives or suggesting paths to a better wellbeing, but rather unpretentious depicting the simplest scenes in our quotidian life and attribute these with an opportunity to reflect in the overlooked beauty of ordinary scenarios. The concept of half being takes shape from a mix of familiarities, coincidence and possibilities. Half being provides an opportunity to think laterally when presented with a non-congruent, strange and bizarre structure. Half being is an exploration on the subject matter of human existence, it depends of the viewer how to look at it, and how to understand it.
GABRIELA FARNELL Email address: gabyfarnell@gmail.com Website; https://gabifarnell.blogspot.com/ Facebook; Gabriela Farnell Instagram: @gfarnell The mixture of materials on different types of paper, intervened with fire, allows a game of textures and superpositions that turns the work into a pleasant game of multiple possibilities. My work tries to propose to the viewer personal and exclusive readings from capricious images of an intimate iconography, an invitation to the enjoyment of a creative action initiated without greater pretensions than the pleasure of doing.
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Alice Karveli blackarrowsinspace@outlook.com Website: https://www.alice-karveli.co.uk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AliceKarveli/?fref=ts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackarrowstothesun/ In working with the body, she uses the kinaesthetic element, intuitive expression through sound and the sounds created by the performative actions themselves. Materials used, whether natural or artificial, always bear symbolic significance in relation to the human element. In recent years, she has also used spoken word poetry and song to facilitate the narrative in her performance work. She is interested in the transformational potential of both the making and the showing of the work, by means of the symbolic processes undertaken. Thus, the performance works become personal rites facilitating esoteric work: transforming psychological and physical pain into protective and creative power, exorcising fears, and integrating aspects of the shadow-self in a process of liberating the true self.
Ronald Gonzalez rsculpture@yahoo.com wwwronaldgonzalezstudio.com Flash Friction is a series of burned and charred drawings of grotesque facial expressions that emerge from the process of burning wax on paper to create deliberate exaggerations of caricature, aberrations, accidents, and annihilations. I use a welding torch and water, in gestural movements to capture instantaneous appearances. The flash fiction refers to the destructive elements of the fire hitting the water and wax that creates the face that has been through hell. These drawings go through stages of decomposition and mutation. The deformed faces are tortured and solitary, conveying psyche, fear and anxiety. At times they appear to be victims, disfigured creatures of decay and devastation, expressing a distorted reality that is stunned and petrified, bearing witness to their own aftermath. 13
Polina Dobrotina | ARTDOBRO Email: artdobro.uk@gmail.com Instagram - @artofdobro Facebook – ARTDOBRO www.artdobro.com Polina Dobrotina is a London-based contemporary impressionist passionate about bringing Contemporary Art to a more accessible level. She established ARTDOBRO Foundation seeking for funding to raise popularity of Art Education and Aesthetics for future generation. She contributes to the foundation by selling her own paintings around the world and creating artist network. She started painting over 10 years ago, living and studying in France, more specifically in Normandy – the birth-place of impressionism, artist explored the works of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Sisley who influenced the development of her own style. Taking inspiration from the vibrant beauty of nature, Polina expresses raw emotions on canvas which the talent transforms not into the fine artwork but into the essence of life. These abstract impressionist paintings reflect young passions and desires, celebrating the love of life.
Chris Monokrousos lynxchris@hotmail.com
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IRIS SUN ART email: info@irisunart.com www.irisunart.com facebook: @IRISUNART twitter: @IRISUNART instagram: @iris_sun_art
Human intervention and human indifference on nature leads to climate change. Whatever is not respected, revenges you.
Shahina Jaffer shahinanow@googlemail.com
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Richard Graville r.graville@ntlworld.com richardgraville.com instagram: richard_graville
My artworks share visual codes used by animals to protect themselves. I am interested in how animal coloration is used in the wild and how we mimic this in our environment. I use a form that functions to grip the attention of the viewer. A form we are confronted with everyday. Especially when things are dangerous, fast moving and we need to pay attention. The aposematic colour codes I use pre-date us. Our sense of sight has evolved around them.
Katarina Balunova www.katarinabalunova.com katarina.balunova2@gmail.com
At first sight Katarina Balunova’s work seems to be impersonal. However, first impression is not necessarily true or complex. The author deals with questions of site memories and recollections which transform technical geometric patterns: minimalistic floorplans and axonometric projections of architecture into the records of her own experience and contemplation of the meaning of inhabiting and home. The town borders are visually recorded and crossed. The bird‘s eye view gives the possibility to perceive things from the distance. Katarina Balunova defines the relations among the public, the universal and the personal by putting it in the framework of the variable geometric language. It forms the basis of urbanism and architecture. The relations thus created between places influence us – the inhabitants or visitors to a higher extent than we ever realize or acknowledge. 16
Exhibition Catalogue
Mexico City August 2019
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