Alison Bickmore
Jayne Corfield
Bea Denton
Shuxiang Jin Farrel
Ian Glazier
Penny Hamblin
Karen Legg
Renata Moritz
Miki Pink
Omolara Ige-Jacks
Group show. Artists: Alison Bickmore, Jayne Corfield, Bea Denton, Shuxiang Jin Farrel, Ian Glazier, Penny Hamblin, Karen Legg, Renata Moritz, Miki Pink, Omolara Ige-Jacks, digital images, prints, sound, glass.
exhibition
Aug 7 - 17 | Weds - Sat, 1-5pm
Private View: Weds Aug 7, 6-8pm
Alison Bickmore, Jayne Corfield, Bea Denton, Shuxiang Jin Farrel, Ian Glazier,
Penny Hamblin, Karen Legg, Renata Moritz, Miki Pink, Omolara Ige-Jacks
digital images, prints, sound, glass
Alison Bickmore
My work is concerned with the initial heartbeat recording in which I contorted
the sound waves into visual formations and apply them to my work in digital
print and then into light boxes. I am interested in rhythms, both bodily and
outside of the human body, so I added the rhythms of the sea and recorded
my own sounds of waves from a beach in Sussex, a memorable place in my
childhood. This work also includes a sound piece.
Bea Denton
This work is produced by sandblasting glass using the Helio relief technique. I
have taken the idea of confession and, in a modern context, interpreted it as
a form of story telling and catharsis. I placed advertisements in various
publications requesting anonymous confessions and secrets. Respondents are
also asked to say whether the process of telling is cathartic. I have used this
material in my work.
Penny Hamblin
My work is developed using a combination of drawing, photography, and
projection to explore and evaluate the nature of layering and illusion. Using
this process I endeavour to define the theme of abstraction of memory and
transient existence. The work reveals the transitory nature of light, time
forming barriers by repeating and overlaying images, leaving a trace fading in
and out of memory.
Renata Moritz
My work investigates the question of space. What space does the human
figure inhabit today? New communication systems shift distances and
nearness; this creates a new form of reality. These aspects impact our
awareness of space. Persons and localities meet in a 'virtual' space or
projected space, which appears through digital technology. Virtual space
excludes mass, is not static and cannot be contained in a defined shape e.g.
the Renaissance invention of space defined via perspective in am imaginary
cube. The figures in my images are in motion, a kind of vibrating state,
without mass and look projected - figures in virtual space. This is an
existential phenomenon of today, it is also unique. The figures in my
compositions travel through their personal landscapes. There are no 'scenic'
objects, yet certain areas are sensitised as being part of a personal history,
being significant. These space scenes have often an underlying map, records
of human traces and their individual story.
Jayne Corfield
I am inspired by microscopic imagery, detailed observations through the
microscope and exploring this abstracted imagery. I am in the process of
collecting bodily samples from myself and relevant people in my life. The
microscopic images from these samples will form the basis of a body of
autobiographical work. I am interested in the fusion between imagery that
combines both the unique and indisputable with the artist's interpretation. A
delicate balance between the scientific and the emotional.
Ian Glazier
My work originates from an obsession with the human body. A synthesis of
figurative and abstract elements, with a suggestion of biological and scientific
illustration, it expresses my state of mind and body as the two become fused
in the physical activity of making. I am currently working on a series of
coloured reduction prints using both lino and wood as well as multi-plate zinc
lithographs.
Karen Legg
The flower is a repetitive symbol used in the work, a symbol of the fragility of
human nature. My work is highly influenced by the idea of wild flowers being
referred to as 'weeds', sometimes just because they grow where they are not
wanted. During the summer of 2001 I researched wild flowers in Cumbria which
grew around the fields where cows and sheep grazed. These flowers had a
special poignant significance at this time of the foot and mouth disease.
Miki Pink
I am interested in seeing the difference between the original image and the
transferred images. I find there is a significant meaning in the 'distance'
between them. I think that this distance suggests something more profound
about life and identity.
Omolara Ige-Jacks
This unending cycle of abuse, poverty, and death of children is harrowing and
sad. It gives me a painful hollow feeling deep in my soul, my emotions swirling
back and forth between fear and intense anger dreading every news hour. My
mind races every time with the question
Image: a work by Jayne Corfield
Century Gallery
ACAVA, 1-15 Cremer Street, Shoreditch, London E2 8HD
contemporary fine art in an artist-run gallery
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