Manchester School of Art
Fine Art Auction Catalogue
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Special Thanks MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ART
THE HOLDEN GALLERY MANCHESTER ART DIRECTORY TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Head of Department Tim Brennan and Sophie Benson Zoe Watson and Poppy Wallace Joe Preston and Eye Suriyanon
Manchester School of Art’s Fine Art Auction is an annual event organised and curated by final year students from the course. The event highlights emerging talent and provides a network for students beyond the studio walls. All proceeds made from the bidding will go towards class of 2018’s BA Fine Art 2018 Degree Show to further extend this connection.
Martin Dexter, Dan Nuttall and Chris Snape
‘Small, but yet mighty’ AUCTIONEER AUCTION COORDINATOR CURATORS
David Osbaldeston Gemma Spall Rufus Biddle, Jasmine Jones and Gemma Spall
PHOTOGRAPHER CATALOGUE DESIGN POSTER DESIGN
Joe Preston Joe Preston and Eye Suriyanon Joe Harris
FRAMING
Ruairi Barfoot, Aoife Devlin, Sam Draffin and Gemma Spall
MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Aoife Devlin Sam Draffin and Rowan Jones
FINE ART AUCTION TEAM Abby Munns, Aoife Devlin, Cade Burgess, Dominika Hrtus, Emma Bradley, Evan Parkes, Eye Suriyanon, Freda Wilken, Gemma Spall, Georgina Maynard, Jasmine Jones, Jessica Bewell, Joe Preston, Martha Shaw, Rowan Jones, Ruairi Barfoot, Rufus Biddle, Sam Draffin
is the ethos we are working with this year for our fundraising campaign, to illustrate the camaraderie between the students, the tutors and the city of Manchester. The task of building upon previous successes can be daunting. With an enormous cooperation and generosity from peers, tutors, visiting artists, alumni and technical staff, students were able grow and overcome the challenges involved. The amount of labour and consideration can be seen on the night.
Artist and Senior Lecturer, David Osbaldeston is the auctioneer leading the event. Along with this year’s contributions from:- Keith Brown, Liam Fallon, Ian Hartshorne, Naomi Kashiwagi, Andrew Lacon, Karol Kochanowski, Alyson Olson, Oran O’Reilly. and Cherry Tenneson. In addition, affordable limited-edition prints, zines and merchandises by students and Shy Bairns are available at the print stall.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
ACCESSIBILITY
By bidding in the auction, you are agreeing to these following rules:
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The Auctioneer will determine who the successful bidder is. In the event of a dispute between bidders, the auctioneer shall have sole and final authority to determine the successful bidder or to re-offer the item in dispute. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. There will be no exchanges or refunds. Successful bidders must pay for the items within seven days of the auction. If the payment is not received within this time, the auction organisers reserve the right to offer the item to the next highest bidder. PAYMENT METHOD Successful bidders can pay by cash or card on the day at the payment desk located at the back of the Holden Gallery. CASH The nearest non-charging cash machines are situated on Oxford Road outside the blue Govin Newsagent and Tesco Express. Alternatively, at The Union on Higher Cambridge Street. CARD The payment can be completed via online MMU store website on the day at the payment desk with one of our cashiers.
main entrance to the Holden Gallery does not a chair lift and has 9 steps from ground level.
TO ACCESS the Holden Gallery using a wheelchair The Benzie building on Higher Osmond Street, which is located behind the Grosvenor building. Take the lift located on the left hand side of the entrance to the first floor. Exit and head towards the Link Gallery. At the end of the Link Gallery there is a chair lift to the Holden Gallery which has 11 steps. TOILETS The nearest disabled toilet is next to the main reception of the Holden Gallery towards the main entrance. TOUR Unfortunately, the painting studios STUDIO located in the Grosvenor Building are not accessible due to the lack of wheelchair lifts. However, the main sculpture studio at The Old Student Union located on Oxford Road has lift access. FIRE In case of fire emergency, through the main entrance. The posite the Holden Gallery in
please exit the building meeting point is opAll Saints Park.
CATALOGUE A large print version of the catalogue is available upon request.
Emma Bradley
LOT 1
Emma Bradley is a sculptor from MSOA, she uses virtual spaces to explore the mass production and standardisation of supposedly uniquely personal domestic objects. She recently exhibited in the closing show of International 3 Gallery, Salford.
Nan’s House
Digital Print and USB 30 x 42cm
Alice Bradnack Alice Bradnack subjects like variety of
LOT 2
explores how online spaces form our identities, focusing on trauma and queer hood. Producing a digital-based work, fabric and lenticular prints.
Although I’m Neutral I Have No Angles
Digital fabric print 29.7 x 42cm
Jordan Williams
LOT 3
Jordan Williams explores Biophilia through the use of installation art, and how we view and interact with the natural world in and around our daily lives through the combination of botany and urban materials.
Brutally Floral
Concrete pot 17 x 13 x 17cm
Alyson Olson
LOT 4
Alyson works in sculpture with clear references to painting. She explores the tension she can create through colour and balance, which she achieves by testing the limitations of modern materials with combinations of humble materials, such as wood, clay and found objects.
Beyond the Baroque
Aluminium dibond 70 x 35cm
Emma Davidson
LOT 5
Emma Davidson is a digital artist graduating from Manchester School of Art later on this year. Her practice focuses itself around the aesthetics of water, as she attempts to communicate the beauty of fluidity through abstract compositions.Â
Square Distortion Plus Circle Distortion
Digital print 42 x 59.4cm
Laura Newby
LOT 6
Laura Newby is a multimedia artist who encourages and welcomes different interpretations of the work, which embodies the feeling of uncertainty. The artist is actively involved with the local art scene, with previous work shown at Pangea Festival.
Evolution
Sublimation print 21 x 29.7cm
Beth Mollart Evans Beth clear
Mollart Evans is a digital focus on feminism, sexism
It was then she knew
LOT 7 and and
print based artist. Her work has a problems we face in the everyday.
Print on synthetic fabric 50 x 31cm
Stephen Barr
LOT 8
Through focusing on the process and material properties of painting, Stephen’s work questions the relation between making and looking; combining the emergent properties of different methodologies to examine how painting operates.
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Oil on canvas 42.5 x 37.5cm
Talia Misan
LOT 9
Talia Misan works predominantly with paint, exploring the interior by the use of grids. This reoccurring motif allows the artist to expand her investigation of the manipulation of perspective through a considered use of colour.
Intersection Isolate
Oil on canvas 60 x 60cm
Naomi Kashiwagi
LOT 10
Naomi Kashiwagi is an award-winning artist and has shown work across the UK and internationally. Naomi’s art practice playfully provokes the fringes of disciplines and genres, the intersections and impacts of visual art, music and everyday life upon one another.
Hole Punches in C Major (2017)
Manuscript paper 29 x 20cm
Arthur Simons I am a painter in my final year I make abstract paintings interplay of the non-representational
Untitled 2017
LOT 11 of
study at Manchester School of Art. and am interested in the painterly mark and written language.
Oil and gesson on canvas 60 x 80.5cm
Johnny Humes
LOT 12
Johnny Humes uses different articles and case studies to explore the instinctive nature within our psychology. The work is represented on canvas, on topics such as narcissism, repression, life and death.Â
Simulacrum
Oil on canvas 30 x 42cm
Bethany Pounder
LOT 13
Bethany Pounder is in the third year of a BA Hons Fine Art degree, studying at the Manchester School of Art. Her practice is primarily influenced by personal experiences, and aims to question historical ideologies attached to the process and stages of painting.
Untitled 2018
Oil on canvas 100 x 100cm
Amy Brookes
LOT 14
Amy Brookes is a 3rd year Fine Art Student studying at MSOA. Her practice explores contemporary ideas of the sublime by creating windows into other realms, produced by thoughts of society’s unsatisfactory, mediated experiences of nature due to our dependence on technology.
Untitled
Oil on canvas 60 x 90cm
Alexander Perris
LOT 15
Alexander Perris, an upcoming graduate from Manchester School of Art, undertakes an obsessive approach to drawing and its potential for diverse application. He explores the historical and current plights of the Queer community through the layered relationship between the human and the object.
Untitled (brick face 2018)
Drawing, pen, 200gsm cartridge paper 14.8 x 21cm
Keith Brown
LOT 16
Internationally recognised as a pioneer and leader in his field, he has exhibited in many prestigious venues; SIGGRAPH USA; SIGGRAPH Asia; ISEA Japan; SXSW; Royal Academy; Beijing Art Biennale; World Design Capital 2014, Cape Town.​
Metaform_0_0
Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle​paper. (Frame included) 42 x 60cm
Cecilia Sebastián de Erica Cecilia Sebastián de textures to represent
Untitled
LOT 17
Erica is a painter who uses vibrant colours and cultures all around the world in an abstract style.
Acrylic on canvas 30 x 30cm
Emily Harding
LOT 18
Emily Harding is a printmaker, who graduates from MSoA this year. Her work explores man’s relationship to landscape. Using traditional printmaking techniques to document individual experience and as a way to comprehend immense landscapes.
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Print 24 x 12.5cm
Gemma Spall Gemma Spall is a collage artist working inspiration from both the natural using the language of aesthetics to
Untitled 2018
LOT 19 in 2D and 3D. Her work takes environment and bodily forms, explore the feelings of being.
Collage 30.5 x 24cm
Rowan Batoctoy
LOT 20
Rowan Batoctoy works with paint and focuses on portraiture. The work highlights the struggle of reconciling the realm of consciousness and subconsciousness together.
Untitled 2017
Oil on board 15 x 19cm
Cherry Tenneson
LOT 21
Cherry Tenneson was born in Liverpool in 1980 and studied at Manchester School of Art between 1998 - 2004. Projects undertaken include collaborations with Becks Fusions, In Certain Places, HOME and Matt Roberts Arts.
The Luxury of Air Travel triptych (for Preston Bus Station) (2016)
Silkscreen prints on paper Triptych of 59.4 x 42cm
Rufus Biddle
LOT 22
Artistic beauty naturally lies within nature, this same beauty lies within the pub(lic house), however it is never thought of in the same way. Through art, I can juxtapose these two aspects of life. They can be celebrated together.
Pub Study #1
Pen on paper 21 x 30cm
Ruth Bassett
LOT 23
Ruth Bassett is an installation artist who graduates from MSoA this year. She works with ideas around process and fluidity. She works with a range of materials including glass and perspex, while incorporating more unconventional materials such as syrup.
Untitled
Slumped glass 10 x 5.5cm
Jasmine Jones
LOT 24
Jasmine Jones works with varying modes of documentation to capture a singular event. Currently, the collection of documents includes critical texts, video, floor plans, and Labanotation. The body of work is exploring archiving, challenges the way it is displayed and how it is interpreted by others.
Steps from page 6 (minus 1)
Pencil on graph paper 20 x 54cm
Liam Fallon
LOT 25
I am interested in exploring queer culture and I reference this through the materials that I utilise. Since graduating in 2017 from Manchester School of Art, my exhibitions have included the Woon prize 2017, Beginnings 2017 and Nomadic Vitrine 2017.
Untitled
Jesmonite, MDF and gloss 39 x 9 x 21cm
Karol Kochanowski
LOT 26
Represented Saatchi Art, Karol Kochanowski creates semi-abstract illustrations of mind maps in forms of geometric constructions, quasi improvised and unpredictable. These visuals overlap with elements of personal interests: nature, cult or symbolism; often creating dreamlike portraits of absurd existence.
“untitled future� (2016)
Oil on canvas 21 x 15cm
Alkmini Gkousiari
LOT 27
Alkmini Gkousiari’s work investigates how the historical narrative we carry within our bodies and objects can be inherited through the use of performance.
Untitled
Screenprint 59.4 x 84cm
Eye Suriyanon
LOT 28
Eye Suriyanon constructs sculptural-like objects which interfere with the existing acoustics to highlight our underdeveloped relationship with listening.
Untitled Jan 2018
Paper and plaster 19 x 30cm
Rowan Jones My practice sensual walking
Untitled
is about altering experience and letting
LOT 29 language which derives it visually manifest out
of
from a context.
Drawing on paper 85 x 57cm (x3)
Ruairi Barfoot
LOT 30
Ruairi’s practice utilises hand-cut paper that is augmented and assembled to create natural, ethereal forms that enhance the materials fragility while remaining ambiguous in reference point, resembling a myriad of natural phenomena such as storms and cloud formations.
Kirigami
Paper 42 x 59.4cm
Andrew Lacon
LOT 31
Andrew Lacon received his MA from the Royal College of Art in 2011, and his work has been shown nationally and internationally in solo and group Exhibitions. His recent Exhibition and publication ‘Fragments’ took place at Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2017/18.
Untitled (Fragments)
Marble, cement, pigment on wood TBC
Freda Wilken
LOT 32
Freda Wilken is a Fine Art Sculptor and time-based media artist who graduates from Manchester School of Art this year. A Feminist approach to motherhood in contemporary art is the anchor points in her studies and seeks to infuse concepts such as the violation of the body and fertility in the work.
Journey of Reconstrution 2018 (edition 1 & 2)
Screen print on Fabriano paper 40 x 28cm
Joe Preston
LOT 33
In my work I am interested in discussing socio-political issues through new angles. I consciously try to use as many mediums as I can, though sculpture and video are the two that recur most.
Curry Mile Tea Towels
Screen print on calico 119 x 84cm
Olly Stapleton
LOT 34
Olly Stapleton experiments with colour and surface to explore how the act of painting can expand the relationship between the artist and the landscape.Â
Sun, Sex and Suspicious Paintings
Oil on canvas 38.5 x 42.5cm
Katie Tomlinson
LOT 35
Katie Tomlinson is an artist in her final year. Her work challenges our reception of paintings by using Brecht’s theory of the Fourth Wall, to bridge the gap between painting in a two-dimensional state to three dimensional state.
Baldy From Behind
Oil on canvas 50 x 50cm
Dominika Hrtusova Dominika photography
Untitled
Hrtusova interrogates in an attempt to grasp
LOT 36 landscape through walking the overwhelming power of the
and nature.
Digital print 45.5 x 36.5cm
Emma Scott
LOT 37
Emma is graduating from MSoA this year. She primarily works with photography, with a specific interest in long exposures. Emma has been using long exposures as a tool for capturing time and creating transcendental imagery.
Untitled
Photographic print 51 x 37cm
Alex Taylor
LOT 38
Alex Taylor’s work explores the figure and found imagery harmoniously in an abstract style through the use of composition, colour and materials. These manipulated scans further question the role of used materials.
Untitled
Print of collage painting A4.2 x 60cm
Shahram Farrokhnejad Sharham Farrokhnejad explores the struggle of the surround environment, through the use
Improvise 1
LOT 39 identity of of chances
the and
self and accidents.Â
Oil on board 58 x 47cm
Ryan Brown
LOT 40
Ryan Brown produces a body of work based on a single still from a sci-fi film. The image is explore repeatedly through various painting processes and techniques. As a form of inquiry to the artist’s relationship and the medium.
Untitled 2017
Oil on canvas 30 x 40cm
Aimee Woodcock
LOT 41
Aimee Woodcock is a final year sculptor, working primarily with wax, latex and plaster in a playful manner akin to the works of Berlin de Bruyckere. To question the audience’s own notion of death and the stigma of how ‘dead’ body is perceived.
Epidemis Ridge
Gloss photograph 42 x 59.4cm
Jayson Gylen
LOT 42
Jayson Gylen is an interdisciplinary artist producing work concerning memory, through the use of digital technology to question the impact it has on the formation and construction of the subject.
Introspection
Digital photograph of projection 10 x 15.5cm (x3)
Martha Shaw
LOT 43
Martha Shaw’s work challenges the authorship and authority that artists and curators has within art. Influenced by Social Constructivist Theory, to ‘free’ the viewers from this.
The Death of the Author
Handmade paper 38 x 56cm
Cade Burgess
LOT 44
My practise is a result of my interest and anxiety regarding complex concepts like the infinite progression of time, memory, and our eventual annihilation. Using installation, video and sculpture, I aim to challenge viewers to question their basic assumptions of reality.
Loop
Film still 59 x 84cm
Rhiannon Hancocks
LOT 45
Rhiannon Hancocks is a multimedia artist, currently working in video and print, who graduates from MSoA this year. Her work mainly involves challenging tropes and models of behaviour presented in Western cinema and television, and often examines issues surrounding body image and feminism.
Untitled (love actually)
Screen print 59.4 x 84.1cm
Kate Robinson
LOT 46
Kate Robinson is a digital artist working with virtual reality softwares to blend the two realms together. Her work currently focuses on creating a positive outlook of female bots in video-games where hysteria characteristics are normally associated.Â
Untitled
Digital prints 10 x 15cm (x 4)
Evan Morgan-Parkes
LOT 47
Evan Parkes is a final year art student who has been looking into gentrification and consumerism within the nostalgic perception of British history. He works with a range of mediums from video to printing and photography.
No Nonsense
Screen Print 21 x 30cm
Oran O’Reilly
LOT 48
Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2001, he has exhibited in London, New York and SanFranciso. Recent exhibitions Impressit:The Art of Printmaking, Harris Museum Preston, International Print Triennial Bunkier Stuzki Gallery Krakow.
Axis Mundi
Etching print 49.5 x 34.5cm
Christopher Priestman
LOT 49
Christopher Priestman utilises data such as found digital texts and images to explore our interaction with information. The work manipulates the data to create disruptive prints which disorientates the space.Â
On the Phone (wallpaper)
Digital print on wallpaper 150 x 56cm
Ian Hartshorne
LOT 50
Ian is a Senior lecturer at Manchester School of Art. He trained for his M.A at Chelsea College of Art and was a Stanley Picker fellow at Kingston University and a subsequent Boise Scholar at The Slade.
Volume Control
Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm
Affordable prints, Limited edition books and zines, Made by students, Are available at the print stall. Shy Bairns Shy Bairns is a multi disciplinary collective specialising in DIY arts publications. Shy Bairns usually print in muti-coloured riso unless they absolutely can not do that then will reluctantly roll their eyes and print like normies.
Tanica Powell Tanica Powell uses etching to explore subjects like reproduction and aesthetics with a socio-political undertone to her work.
Other student’s work also available.
CONTACT A-Z by Surname
BAIRNS info@shybairns.com @shybairnsgetnowt www.shybairns.co.uk
Shy
BARFOOT Ruairi ruairibarfoot@btinternet.com @ruairibarfoot BARR stebarr28@gmail.com @stephenbarr_art BASSETT bass.ruth8@gmail.com @ruth_bassett.art www.ruthbassett.co.uk
Stephen
BROOKES @amybrookesartwork
Amy
HARTSHORNE i.hartshorne@mmu.ac.uk
BROWN j.k.brown@mmu.ac.uk
Keith
Dominika HRTUSOVA domcahrtusova@gmail.com @domcahrtus_art
NEWBY @laura.i.art
BROWN ryan.b_20@live.co.uk @rybrownn
Ryan HUMES Johnny johnny.humes@yahoo.co.uk @j.humes
OLYSON Alyson alysonolson100@hotmail.com www.alysonolson.com
JONES Jasmine jasminejones1995@hotmail.com @jasminemaj www.cargocollective.com/jasminejones
O’REILLY mail@oranoreilly.co.uk www.oranoreilly.co.uk
Oran
PARKES evan1132@hotmail.com @no___nonsense
Evan
BURGESS Cade cadeburgess21@outlook.com @cadeeveart DAVIDSON @emmadavidsonart
Ruth
BATOCTOY Rowan rowan-batoctoy@hotmail.co.uk @ rown.b.art BIDDLE Rufus rufusbiddle@googlemail.com @rufusbiddle_ BRADLEY @emmabradleysculpture
Emma
BRADNACK a.bradnack@gmail.com @alicebradnack www.alicebradnack.com
Alice
FALLON l.fallon@hotmail.co.uk www.liam-fallon.com
Emma
Liam
FARROKHNEJAD Shahram shah-manch@hotmail.com GKOUSIARI Alkmini alkminigkousiari@gmail.com @alkmini_gkousiari GYLEN @jaysongylen HANCOCKS @rhiannonhancocks
Ian
JONES Rowan rowanjones1995@gmail.com @rowanhjones KOCHANOWSKI Karol info@karol-kochanowski.com www.karol-kochanowski.com KASHIWAGI Naomi info.naomikashiwagi@gmail.com www.naomikashiwagi.co.uk
Jayson Rhiannon
HARDING Emily @emilyhardingfineart www.emily-harding.co.uk
LACON Andrew andrewlaconstudio@gmail.com www.andrewlacon.co.uk MISAN taliamisanart@gmail.com @taliamisan www.taliamisan.com
Talia
MOLLART-EVANS Beth bethmollartevans@outlook.com @bethbethbethart Laura
PERRIS Alexander alex_perris@hotmail.com @alexander.perris POUNDER Bethany bethanypounder96@hotmail.com @bethanymbe PRESTON Joe joefredpreston@hotmail.com @joefkreston cargocollective.com/joepreston PRIESTMAN @bookofrevelation ROBINSON @kjr.art
Christopher Kate
SCOTT Emma @emmascottphotography SEBASTIĂ N ceri.seh@hotmail.es @cecilasebastianart SHAW marthashaw@me.com @martharoseshaw
Cecilia WILLIAMS Jordan jordanreecewilliams@gmail.com @brotherjordan Martha WOODCOCK Aimee aimee.lousice96@live.co.uk @aimeelouiseartist
SIMONS Arthur arthurjsimons@hotmail.com @arthurjsimons SPALL Gemma gemmahelenspall@gmail.com @gemmasmall_ STAPLETON oli.staps@hotmail.com @ollystapleton
WILKEN Freda @fredawilken www.fwfa.portfoliobox.net
Olly
SURIYANON Eye email:siriya.suriyanon@gmail.com @eyesuriyanon TAYLOR Alex tayloralexmaddy@gmail.com @alexmaddytaylor TENNESON Cherry www.cherrytenneson.com TOMLINSON Katie ktomlinson1996@gmail.com @kt_tomlinson