Crit#12+13, @Matt Roberts Arts, 8 May 2010
May 8th 2010, Matt Roberts Arts, Morning Session
Graduate BA Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University
In “ADR” I use the language of filmmaking and the production attributes inherent in video to self-consciously discuss the distinctions between video art and cinema. The monologue pulls focus towards the authority of the speaker to interrogate the authenticity of their message.
Despite its ability to confirm the truth of an image, language can act as an artifice to disrupt our preconceptions by contradicting an image, provoking thought about its authenticity. Using mimesis translation and disguise I try to create a narrative whose structure, stability and meaning alters on each viewing in order to demonstrate how many gradients there may be between real and fake, between original and copy.
Graduate, BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths
My work contains discrete observations of small quiet moments, which are amplified by my focusing on them. I am interested in what happens when this is viewed and observed and responded to by others, and in turn, what happens when it is presented as a piece of art work. setting up a dialogue between the work & the landscape, my practice explores found everyday moments. I find fascination in how we place ourselves in this world, our social and personal positioning. my work often refers back to the subject matter through the location & position of showing, having a real relationship with the space. Living and seeing is the main influence of my work.
MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths
I am interested in the potential of the photographic event to transform the everyday and to explore this question I am making a series of photographs of floors. Since I am interested in the event these pictures will be taken in ‘real’ locations and will not be manipulated in any way other than in terms of scale.
MFA Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art
My work evolves from a fascination with the transformative potential of mundane materials and the transient impact of light on form, surface and space. By manipulating and reworking them my aim is to re-present materials that linger in the background of our everyday landscape to discover new sculptural ideas that provoke contemplation and consideration of the materials’ perceived aesthetic value. Through physical play and experiment I am receptive to chance and spontaneity in my work. This approach allows me to explore and create new forms and physical interventions that reveal the poetics of very simple things
MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art
My art practice is concerned with ‘openness’, which could be defined as unobstructed perception or meaning. My practice is multi-disciplinary, incorporating the following mediums; drawing, found imagery/objects, installation, photography, sculpture and video. I use a combination of visual hardware and software along with traditional mediums e.g. sculpture. This methodology is inspired by Buddhist practices and philosophies, existing art, music and technology.
The motive behind this work is to establish and maintain openness to allow the possibility for change and liberation.
Afternoon Session
MA Fine Art, Slade
Breathe is a series of work in which the human breath is etched onto copper plate. The work originated from the desire to make permanent the ephemeral traces of our bodily processes, to create a permanent record of a moment in time, and to make visible our exchange with our immediate environment.
Graduate, BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths
My work contains discrete observations of small quiet moments, which are amplified by my focusing on them. I am interested in what happens when this is viewed and observed and responded to by others, and in turn, what happens when it is presented as a piece of art work. setting up a dialogue between the work & the landscape, my practice explores found everyday moments. I find fascination in how we place ourselves in this world, our social and personal positioning. my work often refers back to the subject matter through the location & position of showing, having a real relationship with the space. Living and seeing is the main influence of my work.
ALEX LAWRINSON AND ALASTAIR BIRCH
Year 2, BA Art Practice, Goldsmiths
In our practice we focus on trial (PERSONALITY). Using funny EVENTS and floating on THE STYLE!
MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths
My work is an ongoing process of experiential research. I approach portraiture as social exchange, using the relationship between artist and subject as my site of investigation. I find the particular transactions between painter and sitter or director and actor or photographer and subject, for example, to be particularly valuable.
These image-making exchanges provide a dialogical icrocosm within which to interrogate the politics of the image-world around us and the psychology of our relationship with it.
Year 1, BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins