BA ART STUDENT – UNIVERSITY OF READING
Purges work consists of performance and installation as well as aspects of archival research. He has curated performance and moving image programmes with Spike Island, De La Warr Pavilion and Arnolfini.
https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/residents/paul-purgas
Ifekmya’s work currently investigates the possibility of erotic and poetic occupation using film as well as performative writing and sound. These are focused on co- authored, intimate forms of knowledge production and the radical potential of spectacle.
Began with drawing tress as a child (18yrs) charcoal sketches. He believes art school is a sort of corruption.
He speaks about the importance of drawing surroundings. he then wanted to represent an architectural environment- an idea of a place rather than a simple representation of one. paintings about travelling, speed, landscape etc. he accepts painters that want to just be formal.
He became interested in relationships and when in Spain he began painting images of desire. He focused on a backlight in order to solve his painting problems of creating large scale works.
Pope explores the currency of sociopolitical and feminist monologues and researches into how pain can be manipulated through humour, and presented virtually. She has made t-shirts, bags, audio and film as her art as well as performing some readings of her writings. I am interested in the feminist monologue aspect of her work and find this most interesting due to her humorous approach of presentation.
artist, musician, painter. career began in 2009, after leaving a reading band. Decided to move on to an art that uses his mind rather than physical. Went to study an art curating course regarding the shortage of black men in the art world- he worked at an institution. Alongside this he began writing art critism (for art monthly magazine) he looks at questions such as:
whats it like aesthetically?
is it challenging and pushing boundaries?
how does it relate to art history?
He was pulling things off the web (archives) and presenting it in the gallery. q
film- Holly head. starting point of a surrealist film. stereotype characters.
logos trademarks as a child trying to link it with current possessions nostalgia etc.
film includes documents, he shows them as damaged objects that don’t represent what actually happened in those situations
Rose-Anne Gush is a writer and artist who writes from a feminist point of view. She explores the history of women and engages with woman artists of the 60s and 70s and so on. She is pursuing a feminist practice of the body and politics. Discussions of rape and sexual violence are present in her work.Her thesis, Artistic Labour of the Body explores the work of artist VALIE EXPORT and writer Elfriede Jelinek in relation to critical theories of art and feminism. (Valie Export 1971- Documentation courtesy of the Generali Foundation.)
The main project O’Mahony spoke about was ‘The Spud’ project which began in 2009. Other collaborative projects, artworks, events and installations in Ireland and internationally have stemmed from this. She focuses on the ways of growing food and the extent of tacit cultivation knowledge shared by some farmers resulted in the SPUD research.
She explores food and farm land.
London-based curator, writer and artist, known as an expert and researcher on street art and graffiti.
distortion, playing with recognition, playing with the psychological field, domestic material (Carpet) to transfer drawing into a rug.- the image consisting of individual fibres and lots of information. Lino cut piece- her work became more expressive.
Interest in German expressionism- masks.
Ceramic piece- grew out of masks.
Juxtaposing the ceramic pieces with leather. The work becomes a character.
Suspended piece called birds in University- is the character rising or landing?
Blaize Lynch 