Crit 38 @ Leeds College of Art, 8th October 2013
Tuesday 8th October 2013, 4-7pm.
Studio Theatre
Leeds College of Art
Blenheim Walk
Leeds LS2 9AQ
This academic year Q-Art will be running cross-college crits in art colleges and gallery spaces throughout Leeds.
Open to all. If you would like to present work at this crit or attend, please email [email protected].
Presenters’ Details:
Lana Grabinskis Sherwood
First Year BA Fine Art, Leeds College of Art
lanagrabinskis.com
Statement about your practice:
I am a figurative artist, living in Halifax, West Yorkshire, however I was born and lived for most of my life in County Durham.
I am intrigued by movement, and movement within stillness. I have a passion for working with oil and gold leaf. I have made studies of the “dancer” framing strength, speed, grace and encompassing the emotion of the subject, allowing the viewer to believe that they have captured a fraction of a performance. I shall continue to work, extending the boundaries within my capabilities, producing work which others may enjoy as much as I am compelled to paint.
Tom McGinn
Third year BA Fine Art, University of Leeds
http://cargocollective.com/Tom-McGinn/
Statement about your practice :
My current practice takes an irreverent and playful approach to canonized examples of 20th Century art-history. Using a strategy of appropriation and cultural mixing, often introducing aspects of technology, I seek to inject re-presentations of iconic or recogniseable works with fresh perspectives.
Jack Fisher
BA Fine Art, Third Year, Leeds College of Art
www.jack-fisher.eu
Statement about your practice :
As a maker of images and collector of objects; my work is an attempt to question realism through a primarily online viewed experience. Tangible works produced respond to the realness of objects in relation to the hyper-proliferation of visual culture. Uploading and displaying my work in a public arena instantly allows for a new form of critique and value system. I am interested in how mass collaboration is changing the way we now engage with information continuously. This creates a form of prosthetic knowledge shared publicly between all that have the capabilities of accessing it.
Georgia Lucas from DUPE.
Leeds College Of Art Fellowship
http://wearedupe.tumblr.com
DUPE is a London based collective
A printed zine and online blog
Conceived, written, filmed and illustrated by artists
Previous theme: HAIR Current theme: ROAD TRIP Upcoming theme: DARK
Ellie MacGarry
BA Fine Art, University of Leeds
www.ellie.macgarry.com
Statement about your practice :
My practice is centred around painting but I also make ink drawings and screenprints. I am largely preoccupied with colour; in my paintings I am aiming to create abstract images which aren’t exactly recognisable but may be evocative of something recognisable. I create spaces in which forms sit in front or behind one another. They often stem from an experience or sentiment or simply a phrase or word. I like them to be playful and sometimes even a little humorous.
John Slemensek
BA Fine Art Graudate, Leeds Met.
Statement about your practice:
I am an artist who believes that you must act as a catalyst in order to achieve genuine social impact. Your placement as a person in time is your artistic practice.