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20/8/2002

Two exhibitions

Century Gallery, London

You're nothing but a pack of cards

Aug 21 - 31 | space 1&2 | Weds - Sat, 1-5pm
Private View: Weds Aug 21, 6-8pm

2nd Year BA students from Central St Martins & Chelsea:
Nat Breitenstein, Charlotte Freer, Dorothy Howard, Cameron Irving, Louise H Alexander, Philippa Hadley, Sarah Hart, Deb Hoy
sculpture, video, photography, and installation

Group Statement
This show is by 2nd Year BA students from Chelsea and Central Saint Martins Colleges of Art. Our intention is to bring work out of the Art School context and into the public domain of Century Gallery. In offering a preview of upcoming work, we hope to promote the concerns and practises currently emerging from our colleges.

"You're nothing but a pack of cards'' is a quotation from Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland"': they are Alice's last words before she wakes up in reality, having in her daydream confronted and defeated the tyrannous Queen of Hearts. We chose it as our exhibition title because it encompasses the themes in which we are commonly interested: ideas of boundary and spatial interference, blurring of fantasy and reality, issues of gender, and the narrative of childhood.

Nat Breitenstein
My interests lie in the realm of female identity: how women are viewed in social, political, and interpersonal and personal contexts. Up to now my work has largely focused on gender conflict and how women identify themselves within/through this conflict; the frustrations, fears, and even paralysis this can cause. Recently however, I have begun to concentrate more on how women see and create their own images, not irrespective of the male view and gender conflicts but inclusive of them and beyond them. I have begun to investigate this by devising an 'asexual' fantasy world, a genderless world, within which things can happen without having to adhere to the rationale and logic of the 'real' world. I am presently working on what I see as, and call, the ''Fantasy of a Garden Gnome". The piece I intend to show will be a continuation of this theme - the creation and manifestation of an imaginary world.

Charlotte Freer
My work combines animation, film, photography, and sculpture. I have recently made an animation corresponding with a sculpture. The piece concentrates on childhood memories and illusion. The sculpture is of two menacing looking birds coming out of a large old-fashioned parrot cage. I am currently working on a film which documents a Leicestershire medieval tradition called 'Bottle Kicking'. I hope to combine this film with animated images. My main concerns are with colour, narrative fantasy, and memory.

Dorothy Howard
My most recent work is performance related. Amongst other media, I am using edited video footage in order to display the documentation of live events featuring me in character, performing in public places. This documentation is intended for display in a gallery, either coupled with a live performance (if appropriate) or as an individual piece of work. My work for this show is a series of videos of events performed on the Hungerford Bridge walkway.

The concepts surrounding being a performer and the emotional implications of doing so are explored. The work also touches on the manipulative power that the character (performer) experiences and how she can control the movements and reactions of her audience. I have a general interest in the various ways in which we overpower day to day challenges and achieve personal goals. The characters I personify have the ability to accomplish what I often find difficult and unnatural.

Cameron Irving
Increasingly my work has involved linguistics and text. Language and the use of linguistic symbols have been used to investigate the mechanics of looking at art, as well as conveying emotional aspects in the activity of making my art. The articulation of these apprehensions, anxieties, and aspirations that all too often arise in the making of work, relate to a much wider universal and everyday context.

Louise H Alexander
My purpose is to explore the ways and means of articulating the larger dynamics of the world in the material sense, how we can engage in a discourse or activity that materialises that which exists only in principle. I focus on the act, process, and practise of making such things manifest. This has been investigated in my art practise via a wide range of executions meant to clarify and develop this line of thinking. I use the word 'reifier'to mean that which concretises the abstract, and that which focuses the amorphous. The themes which I have been using recently as vehicles for this enquiry have been related to time, memory, and loss of a referent in a physical and ideological sense.

Philippa Hadley
My work is increasingly concerned with examining and interpreting the covert behavioural codes of femininity. I have become interested in applying and comparing social practises - the conduct of sexual relationships - with that of animals. I have tried to single out human behavioural characteristics, such as paranoia and jealousy, that are unique to people and translate them within my work in a way that conveys this quiet code.

Sarah Hart
My work explores the concept of public and private space, challenging the viewer's understanding of these realms. It questions our interpretation and separation of these areas and asks whether we are willing or able to cross the divide between these two spheres.

I look at the interaction between culture and physical environment, and how this affects our response to the space in which we live. My recent pieces look at the conflict between the manufactured concept of nature as a commodity and the actual wilderness of the natural state.

Deb Hoy
My own work explores spatial perimeters and physical boundaries in relation to metaphysical boundaries and psychological space. I am interested in transitory spaces and the blur between conflicting emotional states. Recent works have implemented my own body documented through video as the subject for examination and combined with subtle interventions in the architecture of a given space. For example, in 'Still Breathing' my own breath was recorded and played out from a concrete alcove while 'Exhalation' showed my lips engaged in a repetitive exhalation, steaming up the camera lens and obscuring the image of an intimate part of my body from the viewer. I am continuing to use my body in a performative manner and like to install my work site specifically interacting with the chosen showing space.

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London's Sky

Aug 21 - 31 | space 3 | Weds - Sat, 1-5pm
Private View: Weds Aug 21, 6-8pm

Enrique Verdugo
photography

My photography deals with our personal memory that provides us with an open frame within which our perceptions evoke fear, desire, happiness, and so on: all the icons that build up the stereotype of an urban life.

My interest is in the various elements of life that play in different combinations, like clouds in the sky; the window of projection in every personal thought.

Image: a photography by Enrique Verdugo

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