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'Smoke' and 'Fog': Iris Garrelfs, 2022
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Smoke from Iris Garrelfs on Vimeo. |
FOG from Iris Garrelfs on Vimeo. |
Smoke and Fog are two short experimental documentaries come audiovisual poems made from historical black & white photographs documenting early to mid-20th century air pollution. Whilst Smoke focuses on the cities of Pittsburgh and St Louis (courtesy of the Smoke Control Lantern Slide Collection, University of Pittsburgh), Fog uses images of the infamous London pea-soupers (sponsored by Getty Images). Each soundtrack presents a digitally transmuted vocal response to these images, referencing the equally smokey jazz clubs of the time by fragmenting a popular jazz standard of the period, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach, as well as "A Foggy Day" by George and Ira Gershwin.
BIO: Iris Garrelfs works on the cusp of music, art and technology across improvised performance, multi-channel installation and fixed media projects. With a PhD from CRiSAP (UAL), Garrelfs convenes the MMus Sonic Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she also co-heads the Sound Practice Research Unit. Elsewhere she is the commissioning editor of the online journal Reflections on Process in Sound. ww.irisgarrelfs.com f/t/i @irisgarrelfs
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Lucky Man, 2012, by Stacey Blythe
In a R4 interview Edward Cawdrey takes us back to when he was a young man serving in Arctic Convoy, where he witnessed the profound horror of war. He saw 100s of young men being killed. He told of pulling the trigger on the gun that sank the Scharnhorst, over 2,000 lives were lost that day. “I’m not a hero, I was lucky, I just did what I was told, “ he said. I composed an underscore on piano, and could hear a song following, with his words rising out of the story. The opening piano part was improvised live under the interview, the final song I worked on separately then recorded it as a piece in its own right. I pulled everything together in the edit as I imagined. The song was played at his funeral at the request of his family.
BIO: Composer, performer, multi instrumentalist, and storyteller Stacey Blythe has performed all over the UK and America. She is a regular composer for the Welsh National Opera's max department (new opera '9 stories high' coming soon). She performs with Ffynnon and Elfen (a new welsh folk trio at elfen-duo). She has toured and recorded as a composer and performer with many different artists (Maria Hayes), poets (including Patrick Jones), musicians (Dylan Fowler, Julie Murphy, Meredith Monk) and storytellers including Nick Hennessey - (currently touring with Adverse Camber, 'Hunting the giants daughter' with Michael Harvey and Lynne Denman). Stacey has worked with new singer songwriters; Rachel Taylor-Beales and Pamela Wyn-Shannon and has performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, on the Orient Express, played for Stephen Sondheim, shared the stage with Billy Bragg (who sang a song I wrote!) and Michelle Shocked. She has performed (with her students from the Royal Welsh College) for Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Bassy and the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace. She lectures as a musical director and repertoire coach at the Royal Welsh Conservetoire of Music and Drama. Websites: www.staceyblythe.com www.ffynnon.org |
Chimera States - Carol Laidler 2020-2022
Chimera States. The title refers to the unihemispheric slow wave sleep that migratory animals experience, where they can sleep and be alert at the same time. I have terrible problems sleeping and Chimera States touches on consciousness and perception, on voices heard and drifted through. It exists mostly in the form of words that I have been reading to people remotely and in the dark. I am planning to perform it/ read it live in a darkened space for people to fall asleep to.
I have a studio at Spike Island, Bristol. Recent and current work includes: Map of Erosion, research and development with Pat Jamieson (2021/ongoing); Chimera States, readings, performance and installation (2020/ongoing); In Free Fall, sculpture and sound installation, in collaboration with Huma Mulji, David Alesworth, Eilis Kirby, Sarah, Rhys, Centre of Gravity, Gardiner Haskins, Bristol (2020).
Website: https://www.carollaidler.com
Instagram: @carol.laidler
I have a studio at Spike Island, Bristol. Recent and current work includes: Map of Erosion, research and development with Pat Jamieson (2021/ongoing); Chimera States, readings, performance and installation (2020/ongoing); In Free Fall, sculpture and sound installation, in collaboration with Huma Mulji, David Alesworth, Eilis Kirby, Sarah, Rhys, Centre of Gravity, Gardiner Haskins, Bristol (2020).
Website: https://www.carollaidler.com
Instagram: @carol.laidler
Crow, A Recitation. An artist's book, by Genie Poretzky-Lee. Blue Lotus Publications, 2022.
https://www.genieporetzky-lee.com
https://www.genieporetzky-lee.com
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PERCEPTION an art installation.
Website: https://www.genieporetzky-lee.com Instagram: @genieporetzkylee6442 
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Rosana Miracco was born in Brazil and has a BA in fine arts and art history. Her most recent exhibition was at the Espacio Gallery, London (2021).
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Carlos David
The artist Carlos David lives in the suburbs of Paris and considers himself an image maker. He exhibits his work when there's no more room to move in the room.
Website: artmajeur.com/carlosdavid Instagram: #carlosdavidoo, #diablo-paz
The artist Carlos David lives in the suburbs of Paris and considers himself an image maker. He exhibits his work when there's no more room to move in the room.
Website: artmajeur.com/carlosdavid Instagram: #carlosdavidoo, #diablo-paz
Andrew Spira
These works attempt to capture something of the temporality of pieces of music. Perpetuating the theme of time passing, the works also resonate with chronological charts - diagrams of historical developments from the origins of civilisation to the present day.
Andrew Spira is an independent art historian, author, lecturer and curator. For many years, he worked at the Temple Gallery (specialists in Byzantine and Russian icons), the Victoria and Albert Museum and Christie's Education, all in London. His work focuses on the interface between practical spirituality/psychology/epistemology and the history of art and culture.
Instagram: androidspire. Website: www.andrewspira.com
These works attempt to capture something of the temporality of pieces of music. Perpetuating the theme of time passing, the works also resonate with chronological charts - diagrams of historical developments from the origins of civilisation to the present day.
Andrew Spira is an independent art historian, author, lecturer and curator. For many years, he worked at the Temple Gallery (specialists in Byzantine and Russian icons), the Victoria and Albert Museum and Christie's Education, all in London. His work focuses on the interface between practical spirituality/psychology/epistemology and the history of art and culture.
Instagram: androidspire. Website: www.andrewspira.com
Yong Min Cho
Yong Min Cho began his dance studies at the Italian dance theatre school founded by Paolo Grassi, Piccolo Teatro, in Milan. After three years of training in Milan he moved to Venice to join the Accademia Isola Danza, where he worked with the renowned American contemporary dance choreographer Carolyn Carlson. He remained in Venice for several years working independently as a dancer at the Centro Teatrale di Ricerca Venezia. Since 2005, he has been living and working in London whilst touring in Italy and South Korea. Website: http://www.ymcho.co.uk/
Rashid Maxwell
Selfie: Subject and Object by Rashid Maxwell.
Watercolour on paper, 210 x 297mm
Anna Walker
I am interested in a multimedia approach while addressing the connections and the contradictions across disciplines. (By contradictions I mean those things don't quite fit together). It is a means to link the material and immaterial body and address the space in-between—that liminal space of potentiality, discovery, transition and change inhabited by the likes of ghosts, tricksters and witches. It is a subtle attempt to question, push boundaries, poke holes and create interventions.
Website: https://www.anna-walker-research.com Instagram: @sanga32
Website: https://www.anna-walker-research.com Instagram: @sanga32
Minami Kobayashi
Working with egg tempera creates complex colour tones by brushstrokes, allowing me to capture transitory moments and transient people, depicting figures as permeable outlines of their character. The subjects and their environment seem never to reach a stasis. This is an idea from Buddhism, Shogyo-Mujo諸行無常, means “all things must pass”.
My work seeks to invite the audience to experience gazing and rediscover the joy of patiently looking at something. In my paintings, the images reveal more with time. Feminism has increasingly worked itself into my paintings through discourse, and I hope it becomes another subtle revelation to viewers.
My work seeks to invite the audience to experience gazing and rediscover the joy of patiently looking at something. In my paintings, the images reveal more with time. Feminism has increasingly worked itself into my paintings through discourse, and I hope it becomes another subtle revelation to viewers.
Minami Kobayashi (b.1989 Japan) is a Japanese artist. She makes figurative egg tempera and oil paintings which combine intimacy and mystery through their depictions of ordinary people, animals, and places that seem vaguely surreal and ever so slightly off- kilter. She has had solo exhibitions at Goldfinch (Chicago) and Baby Blue Gallery (Chicago) and has exhibited in group shows at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Setouchi International Triennale 2019 (Japan), Western Exhibitions (Chicago), Dongdaemun Design Plaza (South Korea) Stems gallery(Belgium),and numerous other venues. She participated in a solo residency at Kate's little angel (Los Angeles) Kobayashi's work has been featured in publications such as New City (review, February 2019), Frase Got Talent (Italy). She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (2018) and a BFA in Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts (2016).
https://www.minamikobayashi.com/
Instagram @korominami
https://www.minamikobayashi.com/
Instagram @korominami
The Colour of Pomegranates, part 2—the digital space
The Colour of Pomegranates, part 2—the digital space, is the continuation of a discussion that began with an exhibition in 2018, when the artist Genie Poretzky-Lee emailed an image of her pink stained hands to Rosalind Wilson as she was casting a sculpture of an open pomegranate. A connection was made that extended outwards to a shared appreciation of the Soviet director, Sergei Parajanov and his film, The Colour of Pomegranates, a visual poem dedicated to the life of 18th-century Armenian poet and troubadour Sayat-Nova, (1712 –1795).
Veronique Maria
MA Art/Psych, Artist, Artists Mentor, Creativity Coach
Website: www.veroniquemaria.co.uk
Website: www.veroniquemaria.co.uk
Antoni Malinowski
Artist who lives and works in London
Website: www.antonimalinowski.co.uk
Website: www.antonimalinowski.co.uk
Genie Poretzky-Lee
'Language of the Birds,' 2018.
A series of 30 Monoprints, based on “The language of the Birds” by Attar. Woad Ink Monoprints; each, 28cms X 38cms.
A series of 30 Monoprints, based on “The language of the Birds” by Attar. Woad Ink Monoprints; each, 28cms X 38cms.
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Stephen Carter
Stephen Carter is an artist who lives and works in London.
Website: www.stephencarterpaintings.co.uk instagram @stephencarterpaintings
Website: www.stephencarterpaintings.co.uk instagram @stephencarterpaintings
Moich Abrahams
Eternity has worn a human face,
Contracted to a little human span,
Lo, the immortal has become a man,
A self-imprisoned thing in time and space.
Harindranath Chatopadhyaya
For this project space, I chose to offer a 'portrait' of my friend Michael, who I have known for more than three decades. He rarely communicates, avoiding close contact, though I have become an exception. He likes to talk about art. He told me that His father was an artist, as was He, in His youth, and had met Picasso. Michael recently turned 87, and I thought it would be nice to make a book about Him. So, I began asking Him more probing questions about His life. For example, His father actually was a flamboyant, rather successful, society portrait painter, who drove Michael around, as a child, in Knightsbridge, in a bright yellow, open top Rolls Royce; and His stepmother was a famous actress, and so on.
In His late 20's, Michael may have experienced a 'Spiritual Crisis'. It seems that sometime around that period, Michael began to adopt His current 'life style', to all intents and purposes, that of a 'street person', resting in 'simply being', like an urban saddhu. I began to see Michael in a different light, as being a sort of quasi-sage. For example, when I asked, what does His finger pointing upwards mean, Michael replied "Union with G-d". Asked about His view on "spiritual crisis', He answered, " It's just a game" How does the game go? "Self-study", He replied, just like Ramana Sri Maharashi might have said. What helped to overcome Spiritual Crisis? "Self - remembering". "Self-study is Self-remembering", He said. What is the best practice for following The Way? "Stop the expression of negative emotions". He often quotes Ouspensky, "Stop this turning of thoughts". Similar to Jesus, "Why take Ye thoughts for raiment" and so on.
Contracted to a little human span,
Lo, the immortal has become a man,
A self-imprisoned thing in time and space.
Harindranath Chatopadhyaya
For this project space, I chose to offer a 'portrait' of my friend Michael, who I have known for more than three decades. He rarely communicates, avoiding close contact, though I have become an exception. He likes to talk about art. He told me that His father was an artist, as was He, in His youth, and had met Picasso. Michael recently turned 87, and I thought it would be nice to make a book about Him. So, I began asking Him more probing questions about His life. For example, His father actually was a flamboyant, rather successful, society portrait painter, who drove Michael around, as a child, in Knightsbridge, in a bright yellow, open top Rolls Royce; and His stepmother was a famous actress, and so on.
In His late 20's, Michael may have experienced a 'Spiritual Crisis'. It seems that sometime around that period, Michael began to adopt His current 'life style', to all intents and purposes, that of a 'street person', resting in 'simply being', like an urban saddhu. I began to see Michael in a different light, as being a sort of quasi-sage. For example, when I asked, what does His finger pointing upwards mean, Michael replied "Union with G-d". Asked about His view on "spiritual crisis', He answered, " It's just a game" How does the game go? "Self-study", He replied, just like Ramana Sri Maharashi might have said. What helped to overcome Spiritual Crisis? "Self - remembering". "Self-study is Self-remembering", He said. What is the best practice for following The Way? "Stop the expression of negative emotions". He often quotes Ouspensky, "Stop this turning of thoughts". Similar to Jesus, "Why take Ye thoughts for raiment" and so on.
Moich Abrahams is an artist who lives and works in London.
website: www.moichabrahams.co.uk
website: www.moichabrahams.co.uk
Daniel Davidsson
Void #1 2019 Spanish Alabaster / Black 3.0
(H) 305 mm (W) 140 mm (D) 120 mm
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Void #2 2019 Welsh Slate / Black 3.0
(H) 340 mm (W) 450 mm (D) 80 mm
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Asymmetric Worlds #5 2019 Spanish Alabaster / Black 3.0 (H) 300 mm (W) 150 mm (D) 150 mm
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Rupture #1 2018 Lava / Aluminium
(H) 370 mm (W) 100 mm (D) 70 mm
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Being As Multiple 2019 Spanish Alabaster
(H) 295 mm (W) 145 mm (D) 130 mm
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Rupture #2 2018 Lava / Aluminium
(H) 440 mm (W) 110 mm (D) 80 mm
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Daniel Davidsson is a sculptor who lives and works in London.
website: danieldavidsson.com | instagram: @danieldavidssonsculpture
Rosalind Wilson
Image 1: 2 x AA
Material: Rusted battery and lichen covered twig
Size: (l)7cm x (w)5cm x (h)2cm
Date: 2020
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Image 2: Just Enough
Material: Seed pods and terracotta pot
Size: (w)6.5cm x (h)5cm x (d)2.5cm
Date: 2020
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Image 3: Terracotta Mints
Material: Mint green plastic bag and rich terracotta coloured flat leaves
Size: (w)23cm x (h)12cm x (d)22cm
Date: 2020
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Image 4: Lichen Roll
Materials: Yellow felt and lichen covered bark
Size: (l)15cm x (h)5.5cm x (w)7.5cm
Date: 2020
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Image 4: From Kerala
Materials: Postcard
Size: (h)8cm x (d)5xcm x (l)15cm
Date: 2020
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 Image 4: Blue Fist
Material: Blue Felt and Brick
Size: (h)12cm x (l)13cm x (d)7cm
Date: 2020
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Rosalind Wilson is a mixed media artist and educator based in London. She is interested in everyday occurrences and how we value them. What is deemed worthy of attention and what is dismissed? What ideas are imposed in public and private space and what is overlooked? As part of her practice she documents her encounters with the collected ephemera she uses in her work. Working with and from collected found matter she explores arbitrary notions of value, where attention is drawn or distracted and the invisible limitations that govern public space. website: rosalindwilson.com instagram: @rosalindfreyaclaire