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Aurora Cañero

April 6, 2013, 4:13 am
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A concern for statuary and the desire to use it to represent mankind form the backbones running through the work of Aurora Cañero, who has been able to modulate her postulates without being absorbed by contextual tendencies that either fall into crude academicism or give themselves over thoughtlessly to experimentation in a quest that seems to find its sole justification in that it is a feature of dogmatic contemporary.  Javier Rubio Nomblot has pointed out that Aurora Cañero's sculpture enfolds a tension "between what has just happened - a past barely hinted at - and what is going to happen next - discovery, movement, metamorphosis.  Each of her works relates a decisive event, that instant in which mankind, inhabiting the centre of the universe, comes up against its moment of truth."  Through the especially subtle narrative tendency in her work, Aurora Cañero's pieces define a small world in which things that are on the edge of the fantastic, or at least the unusual, happen. Dreaming and curiosity are subjective states that define position in Aurora Cañero's sculptures. The use of pedestals as part of the rhetoric of her works is particularly significant in Aurora Cañero's aesthetic system: ladder, hoops, diving boards, boats resting on their oars, rectangular shapes on which the figures stand.


Aurora Cañero's poetic practice endeavours to reclaim that monumental dimension, in the awareness that the collective narrative has been completely dismantled but even so without giving rise to an overwhelming scale.  What her work presents are not, of course, memories of historical events but bodily demeanours with a touch of fiction: monuments to imaginary forms of subjectivity. One of the issues addressed by her works is the question of nakedness. Another of her visual artistic concerns is the attempt to reveal the relationships of couples, standing naked on two hoops. The man and woman are next to each other, yet deep down, they are far apart, the tenderness that keeps them in touch is something precarious, and for the moment they dwell in silence, recognizing the state of exile of love.


This sculptress's task is to embody mystery and furnish an outlet for the expression of emotion in her works, by means of a blend of strangeness and a refined sense of humour.  Identity remains a puzzle, even when we have no other shield but our skin the subjective narrative continues to reveal its depth: the curious gaze discovers the abyss of passion and for that very reason needs to avert the fall, holding on to those ramifications we call tales, which are made up not only of words but of traces, objects, and fascinating figures.













Extract from the text "Relatos Corporales. Unas consideraciones sobre la escultura de Aurora Cañero" by Fernando Castro Flórez




Aurora Cañero nació en Madrid, España en 1940. Ha trabajado el bronce por mas de 30 años. Desde 1964 fue educada en la Escuela de Cerámicas en La Moncloa, España. Ella ha sido reconocida en Europa, Sudamérica, y Estados Unidos; ha tenido exposiciones individuales en ferias como El Museo Gallery en Bogota, Galería Kreisler en Madrid y Barcelona, Revel Gallery en Nueva York.

Cañero es muy respetada en la comunidad artística internacional y en los últimos 10 años ha participado en exposiciones como la F.I.A. en Caracas, Kunst-Rai en Ámsterdam, y en Chicago International Art Exposition.

Trabaja en bronce y utilizando el método de la cera perdida de la fundición, Cañero crea meditaciones poéticas y fantasiosas del espíritu humano.








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Erwin Meijer

April 6, 2013, 7:24 am
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Erwin Meijer


"What young sculptors are still prepared to go to extremes when it comes to technique and finish? Erwin Meijer is a member of that select group. He creates bronzes with the feeling for detail of a violin maker. Anatomical perfection, exquisite detail and supreme quality of casting result in sculptures of sheer dedication without compromise. But this is not the entire story. Nor will this story ever be told, because Erwin Meijer's sculptures, however well-crafted their detail, ultimately remain unfinished stories. His figures are engrossed in activities, without being aware of the spectator. Meijer portrays them at their moment of inspiration, or as they collect their thoughts or are concentrating upon their surroundings. We are mere witnesses to an intimate moment of which we are no part. The maturity of Erwin Meijer's sculptures is striking. This is the result of his approach: he works on several sculptures simultaneously in a given period. By switching his attention from one work to another, he repeatedly affords himself a fresh look, which sometimes leads to rigorous changes. Thus, Meijer's sculptures are allotted ample time to "ripen” into well-balanced, inspired works of art. "












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Jane Perkins

April 6, 2013, 2:02 pm
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Jane Perkins


Education

2003-6 BA (Hons) (First)
Interior Textiles/Surface Design
Somerset College of Arts and Technology

2001-3 Textiles 1 (Distance Learning)
Open College of the Arts

1988 City and Guilds Certificate 730 (Teaching Adults)

1979 SRN (Charing Cross Hospital)


Awards

2005 Winner Student Medal for Textiles
(National competition for 2nd year students)
Chartered Society of Designers

2005 Runner-up, Art for Life in-house competition,
Musgrove Park Hospital

2006 Ian Logan Award for Innovation

2009 People's Choice Award, Thelma Hulbert Open, Honiton Devon

2009 People's Choice Award, Focus on Great Britain, Art Works Galleries, Newcastle

2010 People's Choice Award, Renewal and Regeneration, Thelma Hulbert Open, Honiton, Devon

2012 First Prize, Equality and Endeavour, Thelma Hulbert Open, Honiton








About Plastic Classics

In my current body of work, Plastic Classics, Old Masters are given a contemporary twist. I use anything of the right size, shape or colour: toys, shells, buttons, beads, jewellery, curtain hooks, springs etc. No colour is added - everything is used exactly 'as found'.

Impressionist paintings are the perfect inspiration for my work. It needs to be viewed in two ways (as in Impressionism) - from a distance to make sense of the whole image, and close up to identify the materials used (the brush strokes). Similarly, the 3D nature of Van Gogh's thickly applied paint which he squirted straight from the tube, lends itself to interpretation using found materials. Van Gogh painted 17 different versions of his Sunflowers in varying compositions and with different coloured backgrounds. I have made several versions of Sunflowers and Mona Lisa - each one is unique, according to the materials found at the time.

Re-interpreting work by previous artists is nothing new. Centuries ago, artists learned their craft by re-working paintings by their predecessors. Picasso famously copied works by many artists, creating 44 studies of Velasquez' Las Meninas alone, with his unique style. Da Vinci's iconic Mona Lisa has been re-worked many times by artists including Marcel Duchamp who gave her a beard.


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Calvin Nicholls

April 6, 2013, 2:37 pm
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Calvin Nicholls 

Inspired by family, friends and by my high school art teacher, I enrolled in the three year graphic design program (1976-79)at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario.

Upon graduation I spent my first year in an advertising agency before opening my own freelance design studio in north Toronto during 1981.

Experiments with paper sculpture began in 1984 and before long paper sculpture played a dominant role in most of my design clients' projects and campaigns.

It was a matter of time before my life-long interest in art and wildlife combined. I had just completed a bird of prey with outstretched wings for Noranda Recycled Papers when it struck me how well suited the layering of feathers was to the art of paper sculpture.

My first series of limited edition prints were launched in 1989 at the Buckhorn Wildlife Festival in Ontario and National Trust commissioned 15 wildlife sculptures for a national campaign in 1992.

Success at shows and with an increasing demand for my work in the corporate sector there was now a base for what has become a very exciting career.

My work was juried into shows for the first time in 1994 with the Society of Animal Artists in New York with whom I have enjoyed many years of gallery exposure throughout the United States.

Commercial Illustration awards have opened doors as well. An international firm, Follett Library Resources of Chicago, commissioned me to begin a wildlife themed campaign in 1995 which continues to this day with over 75 large sculptures completed and displayed throughout their offices. Posters of these sculptures are on display in FLR client libraries and school art departments around the world from Alaska to South Africa.

I completed 15 sculptures for an a children's book written by Rafe Martin and published in 2002 by Arthur A. Levine (an imprint of Scholastic Press in New York. The book was titled The World Before This One which gained high praise by revered Kirkus and Star Review book reviewers in the United States.

My interest in monochromatics continues. I want people to be drawn in to explore the work and to consider the medium. Although I have completed pieces in full colour I continue to experiment with the interaction of light and shadow on the surface of plain paper in off white or in multi-step grayscale equivalents as in my most recent piece titled Moonridge.

I look forward to the adventures that lie ahead and enjoy the times I have had working from my home studio with my wife watching all three of our children as they develop their own styles and skills in the world of art.







Special Achievements:

    1996 - Award of Merit - Society of Animal Artists
    Hawkeye - Red-tailed hawk - back to viewer with head turned - perched on a limb - monochromatic on triple matting
   

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Jeff Nishinaka

April 6, 2013, 3:12 pm
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Jeff Nishinaka




Los Angeles native Jeff Nishinaka is the world’s premier paper sculptor with a prolific career that spans 30 years. Nishinaka attended UCLA and graduated from the prestigious Art Center College of Design, where he first experimented with paper art and sculpture. Nishinaka’s commercial portfolio includes Bloomingdale’s, Galeries Lafayette, Le Bon Marché, Credit Suisse, Polo Ralph Lauren, Pfizer, Sprint, The Peninsula Hotel, Visa, Penn State University, Paramount Pictures and Coca Cola, among others. Actor Jackie Chan, who is a close friend of the artist, owns the largest collection of Nishinaka’s work. Nishinaka began working in paper quite by accident. “I have always wanted to be a painter, but while studying illustration at Art Center, I was given assignments in both a graphic design and fashion drawing class at the same time to experiment in different mediums, one of them being paper. That was my ‘Ah-ha!’ moment. I quickly developed a feel for working with paper. From then on, I began experimenting with different papers, finding ways to shape, bend, and round edges on it. I wanted to manipulate paper in the least invasive way, to keep the integrity and feel of it. Paper to me is a living, breathing thing that has a life of it's own. I just try to redirect that energy into something that feels animated and alive.



















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Eva Antonini

April 6, 2013, 3:49 pm
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Eva Antonini



"Eva Antonini was born in Rapperswil-Switzerland, the place of her childhood and adolescence.As a young girl, Eva reveals a natural proneness for molding clay, matter that later will be privileged in the creation of sculptures of medium and large dimensions.From 1981-1985 she lives in Geneva, where she takes her first steps in the working world, following her diverse and complex education: language studies; singing, music and dance; a horizon of journeys, stays in England, Italy and United States with stops in the Middle and Far East. In l985 she moves to the Canton Ticino with the intention of refining her linguistic knowledge, particularly in italian and english.Together with specialization courses, she attends studios of master sculptors such as Oreste and Antonio Quattrini, Giorgio Eros Morandini, Giovanni Cimatti.In 2003 she takes part in the first collective exhibitions and in 2005 she is the recipient of a prize for sculpture at the International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence.In 2006 she receives her first commission for the creation of a bronze sculpture to be placed in an open space.In 2010 some of her work is chosen for the exhibition at the Carousel du Louvre, headed by the National Fine Arts Society of Paris. Her expository curriculum ranges from Switzerland, to Italy, from France to the United States."



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"Questa artista è scultrice per innata vocazione, sia che modelli la creta, sia che scolpisca il marmo. Le sue opere emergono tutte dal mistero del mondo femminile che si rivela nelle molteplici figure sinuose e sensuali, a volte rese più enigmatiche dai veli che avvolgono il corpo.
Classicismo e realismo, armoniosamente riuniti nelle sue sculture imprimono alle sue dita quel tocco capace di dar loro vita e impulso."
                                                                                                        Sussy Errera


Il suo interesse per i materiali modellabili risale all’infanzia; nel corso degli anni ha continuato a plasmare istintivamente la creta, ma la sua passione per la scultura è letteralmente esplosa in questi ultimi anni.
Inizialmente l’apprendimento di importanti nozioni è avvenuto mediante frequenti viaggi in Toscana, terra dell’arte soprattutto scultorea, e con la frequentazione di corsi e laboratori di noti maestri scultori in Svizzera e Italia.
L’artista è di origine svizzero-tedesca, risiede e lavora nella Svizzera Italiana. Le sue opere sono esposte in patria e all’estero.

  "Modellare è per me come un dialogo con me stessa,
un’immersione in un’altra dimensione, in un mondo
di forme, colori e sensazioni. E’ una sfida riuscire a
dare forma concreta a un’idea, a un pensiero, a una
fantasia. Durante il lavoro, spesso notturno, sento
che le mie mani sono guidate da una forza maggiore
che sfugge al mio controllo e questo ha segnato
il mio cammino in maniera irrevocabile!"

Formazione (Corsi e scuole di scultura frequentati)
Ritrattistica scultorea
Lavorazione del marmo
Riproduzione su marmo mediante il sistema a punti
Tecniche di cottura
Tecniche di patinatura e trattamento superficie
Tecnica di cottura specifica terra, ossidi e vetro
Tecnica di abbinamento terra e sabbia
Studi del nudo
Scribbling – disegno spontaneo e a riduzione
Scuola di scultura, docenti Giorgio Eros Morandini (marmo),
Oreste Quattrini (terracotta)


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Álvaro Peña

April 7, 2013, 3:04 am
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Álvaro Peña

Pintor y humorista gráfico Murciano

Licenciado en Ciencias Políticas y Sociología

Alterna su trabajo entre la pintura, el cómic y el humor gráfico, publicando actualmente sus trabajos en diferentes medios de comunicación tanto regionales como nacionales.

Es académico Correspondiente de la Real Academia de Alfonso X “el Sabio”, habiendo impartido diferentes cursos de pintura así como de ilustración y cómic.

Premio Institucional a la Solidaridad. Madrid 2010 Otorgado por FEBHI

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Pere i Josep Santilari

April 7, 2013, 2:34 pm
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Twin Painters JOSEP SANTILARI and PERE SANTILARI
Spain


Germans Santilari
Pere i Josep Santilari 



Josep y Pere Santilari son dos pintores realistas, que a parte de ser hermanos gemelos han compartido desde siempre el mismo espacio como estudio.

Estas circunstancias les ha permitido desarrollar un concepto pictórico similar, hecho que ha provocado que en algunas ocasiones hayan pintado obras conjuntamente.

Sin embargo en su obra hay un punto de diferenciación: Josep aborda con preferencia la figura , y Pere el paisaje, quedando como temática común el bodegón. 

Tanto la obra de Josep como la de Pere, es una obra minuciosa en la que hay una reflexión sobre la realidad y la luz. Se les puede definir como pintores clásicos que inciden en la realidad desde una mirada actual, contemporánea. 






JOSEP SANTILARI
1959
Neix a Badalona.
1981
Obté la llicenciatura en Belles Arts per la Universitat de Barcelona



PERE SANTILARI
1959
Neix a Badalona.
1981
Obté la llicenciatura en Belles Arts per la Universitat de Barcelona









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Afshin Pirhashemi

April 7, 2013, 3:12 pm
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 The work of Iranian painter Afshin Pirhashemi examines the complexities of life in modern day Iran. On sparse or empty backgrounds, his largely monochromatic, photo-realistic depictions of women nod to gothic fantasy in an exploration of issues of contemporary social and political identity.



Born in 1974 in Urmia, Afshin Pirhashemi lives and works in the city. His works are housed in public and private collections throughout the Middle East and Europe and he is the recipient of awards from the 2003 Tehran 6th International Art Biennial, and the 2004 Beijing Art Biennial Award. Solo exhibitions include Homa art Gallery, Tehran (2009); Seyhoun Art Gallery, Tehran (2005); and Barg Gallery, Tehran (2005). Group exhibitions include In & Out, Milan (2009); Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran (2006); Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran (2004, 2003). 



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Afshin Pirhashemi, the young ingenious experimentalist painter was born in 1974 in Tehran. He began painting in childhood and held his first exhibition when sixteen at Bamdad Gallery, Tehran, while simultaneously participating in a group exhibition at Seyhoon Gallery.
Refusing to cut his long hair he was forced to change high schools until he finally convinces his father whose library he preferred to school, to yield to his son’s wish to study arts, thereby obtaining his bachelor of arts in 2007 from Azad University, Tehran. Before that he received a grant from the Italian Ambassador to study at Rome Art Academy for two months.
His works do not find their way to any biennials inside the country until 2004 when he wins the juror’s award as well as the visitors’ prize for the best work, and in the following year, he wins the prize for ‘excellent work’ in the second Beijing international art biennial.
To this day Afshin Pirshami has held 15 solo exhibitions and participated in more than 50 group exhibitions inside and outside the country.
His success in Tehran’s sixth painting biennial followed by Beijing biennial opened his way to major art auctions. While the hammer on his works and thus his fame began to sound continuously louder, particularly after April 2010 Dubai Christie’s auction when his Rapture triptych sold for $554500.



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Safwan Dahoul

April 7, 2013, 3:38 pm
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Safwan Dahoul




Safwan was born in Hama, Syria in 1961.  He graduated from the Fine Arts Faculty of Damascus in 1985 and continued his experimentation and education till 1997 when he was awarded a Doctorate in Plastic Arts from the Higher Plastic Arts Institute of Mons, Belgium.  During his career, Safwan has exhibited and sold out most of his solo shows throughout the Middle East and Europe.




 Safwan Dahoul’s evocative canvases, all of which share the title Dream, examine some of the most intimate moments of the human experience: slumber, companionship, solitude and death. The soulful, dreamy human figures that populate his work are ‘substance matter’ for the artist, a tool through which he depicts and preserves his own biography.



Dominated by black, white and muted tones, Dahoul’s canvases explore the relationship between the figure and its background, between the human being and space. His minimalist use of colour references his surroundings and is a response to the absence of colour now seen on the streets of Syria and the rest of the Middle East.














Firmly rooted in the personal, Dahoul’s work is also rich in art historical references; from the elaborately maquillaged eyes and cavalier perspective of Pharaonic Egypt, to gestural fingers that trace their lineage to Roman oration; to the checkerboard patterning common on Insular metalwork. The geometric shapes and curvature in the lines of Dahoul’s figures elude to the elaborate patterns of Arabic calligraphy.



Born in 1961 in Hama, Syria, Safwan Dahoul live and works in the Dubai. Selected solo exhibitions include Ayyam Gallery Al Quoz, Dubai (2011, 2009); Ayyam Gallery DIFC, Dubai (2011); Ayyam Gallery Beirut (2009).

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Cecilia Z. Miguez

April 7, 2013, 4:43 pm
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Cecilia Z. Miguez





CECILIA Z. MIGUEZ (b. 1955 Montevideo, Uruguay) Cecilia Miguez's sculptures are animated figures, dreamily gliding between the worlds of mythology and reality. Miguez utilizes found objects in her cast bronze and carved wood creations and brings into existence fantastic creatures that reawaken our imaginations.

Drawing upon classical sources from sculpture, painting and draftsmanship, her work consists of figures, simply elegant in form, yet possessing inherently complicated histories. Her creations come from a place rooted in dreams and possibility. They confront us, invite us into a dialogue between the reality in which we live and the unconscious one in which we dream.

Miguez's work has been exhibited throughout the United States and South America, including the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA., Bakersfield Museum of Art, Loyola Marymount University Laband Gallery, Praxis Gallery,Buenos Aires, Argentina, Museo de Arte Americano de Maldonado, Uruguay and Galeria del Portal, Buenos Aires, Argentina.


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Pierre Williams

April 7, 2013, 5:02 pm
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Pierre Williams



Pierre Williams was born in 1962. He completed his foundation at Hereford College of Art and Design in 1998; where he was awarded the Brian Hatton Award. He then went on to study ceramics at the University of Wales in Cardiff (UWIC), graduating in 2001 and also exhibiting at the New Designers Show in Islington later that year.   Pierre then returned to Hereford College of Art and Design as a tutor between 2002 and 2004, exhibiting at the Hereford Contempoary Craft Fair (winning the new exhibitor award in 2003 and the Booker Arts Prize 2004). He then worked as a part time tutor at Hereford College for the Blind between 2005 and 2008, and has continued to exhibit locally during h-Art, and in other rergional galleries.  He has been exhibiting with the GreenStage since Christmas 2008, and we represented Pierre at both the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea and Bristol with considerable success.















Artist Statement

PRECIOUS SERIES This series of work came about after a conversation with a fellow artist which centred round deserving to achieve your own success through the things you love doing. We all battle our inner demons each day and as my work is now exploring more personal issues I wanted to explore the idea of learning to appreciate and love the person you are. Part of the reason I now work as artist is to aspire to be better, to do the best I can, instead of doing what, maybe, I’m second best at. After lots of thought and experiments with surface, texture and finish it’s manifested itself as a golden being pealing back a layer of ceramic skin. Ceramics in this country is viewed as a poor relation in the art world so it’s been the perfect way to reflect this concept and also makes a statement about the material itself. We also have different facets to our personalities with some aspects being more likeable than others, our bright side and our dark side for instance. This has also been expressed through different surface qualities on separate figures. PUGILIST AND THE SWIFT. The series of work entitled the ‘Pugilist and the Swift’ came about by the summer arrival of the swifts at my studio, which is thier nesting territory. They only ever land for this sole purpose and when the young are ready to fly the nest, for some strange reason, instead of flying out to the sky they come into my sutdio. I take great delight from rescueing and releasing the young swifts, some will sit in my open hand for a while to regain thier strenght and some will fly sraight off. To be the only human to handle this amazing creature fills me with amazement and takes me back to the innocense fo my childhood, where I was discovering the wonders of the natural world. As a child I was always on the lookout for frogs, toads, lizards, slowworms and the like on my adventures. I decided to make some work to reflect these thoughts, but the first figure turned out a little stockier than I had intended and resembled a bit of a scrapper, which I quite liked. This gave rise to the notion that my struggle to be an artist is not just a mental, but also a physical one, where I have to work at other jobs to allow me to pursue my dreams. Working seven days a week, some of which is extremely exhausting and then entering the studio where I am required to be extremely sensitive. I feel the piece of work I produced captured all of these things and will lead on to more work in this vein. The smaller pieces came about due to the cold winter sat next work my wood burner when I was thawing my clay out and found myself wishing for the return of the swifts as this woulkd mean it’s summer. ORIGINAL INSPIRATION This main body of work has been inspired by many recent visits to Hereford Cathedral, which I have been rediscovering. The skills of the craftsmen who created this work of art and that are also being matched in the restoration work is something I try to replicate in my own work, all be it on a smaller scale. I can be influenced by one stone in the building, a group of arches or the patterned ceramic floor tiles and this may manifest itself in a three dimensional form or surface decoration.   The figures have been developed by also looking back in time to classical sculpture and the work of Rodin as well as the contemporary work of Anthony Gormley. The environments Gormley sets his figures in have been a catalyst for the juxtaposed figure to the architectural form. I like to play with how the human body may interact with different forms in every day poses or performing contemporary functions.  The complex surface decoration which may require up to five firings has been developing over the last five years, by looking at contemporary painters, ceramic and textile surface patterns and the work I have carried out with students with learning difficulties. I also tap into the blue and white tin glaze tradition of  earthenware ceramics, with my top firing temperature being 1120 degrees. I will use slips, oxides, under glazes, glazes, enamels and lusters to achieve the desired effect. With this type of finish I am trying to recreate the same qualities as the antique collections in museums that I have looked at many times where there is not one particular piece I am drawn to, but the shine, colour and feel of the whole display.     
   







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Disasters happen!

April 15, 2013, 4:37 am
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The  Disk is not deadbutisin a Deep Coma.
I couldn'trecoveranything (artists,galleries,images, favorites, documents)since March 2012( yes, thelast backup ...) so,  thingsherewillbe a littleslower.Thanks for yourpatience
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Wolfgang Stiller

April 15, 2013, 4:56 am
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Wolfgang Stiller

.......1961 born in Wiesbaden, (Germany)
.......1981 - 84 study communications design, GHS Wuppertal/Germany
.......1984 - 89 study art "Kunstakademie Düsseldorf" , (Germany)
.......1996 – living and working in Istanbul (8 Monate) ,(Turkey)
.......2000 - 2007 living and working in New York (USA )
.......2007 - 2008 living and working in Peking (China)
.......2007 guest professor for NYU (New York University.) in Shanghai, (China)
.......2009 living and working in Berlin, (Germany)









.awards and grants
.......1986 ART Stiftung Plaas, (Germany)
.......1991 Kunst und Kirche Heilbronn, (Germany)
.......1991 Arbeitsstipendium, Senat Berlin, (Germany)
.......1991 Kunstpreis Sickingen, (Germany)
.......1993 artist in residence, Tokyo, (Japan)
.......1996 Artist in residence, Istanbul (Berliner Senat)
.......2000 ISP studio program, New York (USA)
.......2009 Kunstfonds grant


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Ivan Prieto

April 15, 2013, 6:06 am
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Fabien Mérelle

April 15, 2013, 8:02 am
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Fabien Mérelle



•Freshly graduated from the Beaux-Arts, former resident of the prestigious Casa Vélasquez in Madrid, Fabien Merelle distinguishes himself through his style, at once realistic, minute and oniric. After having tamed his childhood drawings, which he completed with humor, his latest series takes its author as its main subject.Invariably dressed in pyjama trousers, a conspicuous sign that the perception of the world is done through dreams, the boy takes us with him on a fanciful ride. Fabien Merelle loves the shadowy world of tales. He re-entered it by rediscovering his childhood drawings which had been carefully preserved. He completed it with his experience and his imagination. The dream can easily turn to nightmare when it shows a young man of 29 years, with hardened and emaciated features, suffering from the attack of a trunk which invades and devours his body. This ain't no Disney cartoon.A sort of Robinson Crusoe of modern times, Fabien Merelle comes out of his cave to confront a funny world referencing ancient myths and legends as much as major figures of art history or the tradition of anatomical drawing. He fights. He also plays with puns and quotes which he transforms with a telling stroke. The drawing are small formats, 210 x 282 mm, showing an obsession for detail veering on mania and pointing out the precision of a line layed minutely with China ink. If he pays homage to the Little Nemo comics, he projects the spectator in a universe much more complex, mixing evil spirits, watches and childhood fears. Following the unrolling of a dream, playing with the free association of shapes and ideas, he seems to say that everything is transforming,
metamorphing, opening itself to the most diverse interpretations...






•Fabien Mérelle vit et travaille entre Tours et Paris. Il est diplômé en 2006 de l’Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, pensionnaire de la Casa Vélasquez à Madrid entre 2007 et 2008. Il est le lauréat du prix Canson 2010.
Ses œuvres dessinées à l’encre noire et à l’aquarelle trouvent leur sens et leur inspiration dans une mise en scène de son quotidien, de son personnage, de son entourage, à la fois cruelle, ironique et douce.
Il est représenté par la Galerie Guy Bartschi à Genève (Suisse) Michel Soskine à Madrid (Espagne) et New York (USA).


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Hasan Kale - Mini, mini, mini paintings

April 15, 2013, 10:29 am
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Born in 1959 in Bursa.  He's interested in painting since his childhood, his career began by drawing a miniature of Istanbul, then he became involved in many art projects in other areas, as design. He produced many  jewelry (special collections) to a famous company.

Dedicated to miniature paintings he paints things taht we  encountered in daily life,- nails, screws, silk cocoons, rice, bee wings,etc. You just have to see !!!!!!
























1959’da Bursa’da doğdu. Çocukluk yıllarından itibaren resimle ilgilenen sanatçı; kariyerine İstanbul’da minyatür çizerek başladı. Ardından birçok sanat projesine dahil oldu, başka tasarım alanlarıyla ilgilendi. Resim çalışmalarına ara vermeden mücevher tasarımı yapmaya başladı. Alanında çok ünlü birçok mücevher firmasına özel koleksiyonlar hazırladı. (Sur-u Sultani, Siyah Beyaz, Esinlenmeler)
Minyatür alanındaki pratikleri resimleriyle birleştiren Hasan Kale; minyatür sanatını çağdaş bir gözle yorumlamaya çalışıyor. Günlük hayatta karşılaştığımız, önemsemediğimiz objelere - çivi, vida, ipek kozası, pirinç, arı kanadı, toplu iğne başı - minyatür resimler çizen Hasan Kale; bu mikro çalışmaları kariyerinin dönüm noktası olarak görüyor.

Mikrolar haricinde, büyük tablolarında da sanatçının minyatür tekniklerinin bir yorumunu görebilmek mümkün. Sanatçı detaycı bir uslupla; sanatta estetiği herşeyin önünde tutuyor ve sadece güzel eserler yapmak istiyor. Bakış açısı olaraksa; Neo-Classic ve Neo-Orientalist sanat akımlarını kendine daha yakın hissediyor.

SERGİLER

1999 - World Gold Council tasarım ödülü
2000 - Fibula Esinlenmeler Koleksiyonu
2000 - İsviçre Sergi, Reflexionen aus der Geschicte im Dialog mit, Schmuck Miniaturen
2001 - İsviçre Sergi, Unterwasserwelt, Schmuck Miniaturen
2003 - Göcek Sergi, Club Rosemarine
2005 - Zen, Sur-u Sultani Koleksiyonu
2006 - Zen, Siyah-Beyaz Koleksiyonu
2006 - Ada Antik , ”Filiz Gibi” Sergisi
2006 - Artistanbul Sanat Fuarı
2007 - Bursa, “Kaftanlar” Sergisi
2007 - İspirtohane, “Kaftanlar” Sergisi
2008 - Pera Sanat Galerisi, “Siyah” Sergisi
2009 - New York Artexpo Sanat Fuarı
2010 - Bursa, Ördekli Kültür Merkezi
2010 - Bursa, İnegöl Kent Müzesi
2010 - Bodrum, Kaleiçi
2010 - Bodrum, Rixoss Premium
2010 - İstanbul, Büyük Klüp

Düzenleyen: Nilüfer Moayeri
Yer : Pera Art Gallery
Baslangiç Tarihi: 30.10.2008
Bitis Tarihi: 14.12.2008


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Anna Gillespie

April 15, 2013, 11:38 am
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Anna Gillespie was born in 1964.

Having obtained degrees from Oxford University (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) and the London School of Economics (International Relations), 1992 saw a change of direction and the decision to become a full time sculptor.

Anna qualified as a stone mason in Bath before travelling to Italy to study with the sculptor and master carver Nigel Konstam.

In 1998 she took an MA in Fine and Media Arts at Cheltenham.

Anna now works in Bath where she lives with her young family.

Thoughts and images from the studio, informal, creative, practical notes on the everyday business of being an artist. Designed to show process rather than the finished image which can be viewed on the website.





1983-86 1986-87    BA Hons Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Oxford University. Diploma in International Relations. London School of Economics.
    
1992    Decision to become a full-time sculptor after five years travelling and working for non-profit organisations.
    
1993-95    City and Guilds in Stone Masonry and Carving. City of Bath College
R.W.A. Printmaking Open
Bath Society of Artists. Open 
R.W.A. Open
    
1995    Bristol. The Happening Gallery. Solo.  
Bristol. The Happening Gallery. ‘Cruciform’ group show.  
London. Wembley Exhibition Centre. Natural Stone Show.  
City of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. ‘Broad’s Boards’.  
Edinburgh. C Venue 19, Fringe Festival group show.  
R.W.A. Open.  
Italy. Studio assistant to Nigel Konstam at the Centro d’Arte Verrocchio.
    
1996    Bristol. The Happening Gallery. Solo.
London. Work shown at The Cadogan Gallery
London. Work shown at The McHardy Sculpture Gallery.
Worcestershire. Work shown at the Ombersely Gallery.
Bristol. Group show by ‘Artery’ at the Leadworks.
Edinburgh. C Venue 19. Fringe Festival five women show.
    
1996-98    MA in Fine and Media Arts. Cheltenham.
    
1997    Italy. Scholarship and teaching assistant at the Centro d’Arte Verrocchio.  
Ireland. Work shown at the Yello Gallery, Kinsale. 1997-1998.  
Gloucestershire. Work shown at the Anderson Gallery. 1997-1998.
    
1998   
Work shown at the Gardens of Gaia Sculpture Park, Kent. 1998-1999.
Work shown at the Michael Wright Gallery, Bristol.

    
1999    Birth of first son.  
Bristol. Work shown at The 3-D Gallery.   Totnes. Ariel Centre. Work shown alongside solo exhibition of paintings by Sarah Gillespie.











    
2000    Italy. Chiostro della Collegiata. Group show. Casole d’Elsa, Siena.
    
2001    Salisbury. Site-specific stone commission for Lord Chichester.   
Birth of second son.
    
2003    Bristol. Centrespace Gallery. Solo.  
Dorset. Sherborne House Arts Centre. Two person show.   
R.W.A. Open.   
Bristol. Botany Studios. Open studio show.    Bristol. Black Cube group. UV light exhibition.
Lichfield District Council. ‘Inspire’ 100 people collaboration.
    
2004    Bristol. R.W.A. ‘Encore’ group show.
London. Candid Arts Trust. Network A.D. group show.
Bristol. Centrespace group show.
Bristol. Tobacco Factory. Black Cube group.
Bristol. South Bristol Art Trail.
Bath. Fringe Festival. Installation in Bath Abbey.
Yorkshire. Hebdon Bridge Sculpture Trail.
London. ‘Art London’ with the Berkeley Square Gallery.
Athens. ARTiade 2004. ‘Olympics of Visual Arts’.
Gloucestershire. Prema Arts Centre. Solo.
London. Spectrum Fine Arts.
Bristol. RWA. Autumn Exhibition.
Bath. Hotbath Gallery. Pause: capturing the sublime.
Exeter. Home is Where the Hurt Is.
Plymouth. New Street Gallery. Christmas Show.
Ashburton. Gallery No 8. Christmas Show.
Somerset Museum Services art collection.
    
2005    Bristol. New Gallery at the RWA. Solo.  
Plymouth. Peninsula Art Centre. Four person show.   
London. Osborne Samuel. Three person show.
Frome, Somerset. Black Swan Arts.    Buckfastleigh, Devon. Rill Centre.   
London. Osborne Samuel Gallery. Summer Show.   
Bath. BANA group exhibition.   
London. The Artist and Radio 4. South Bank Gallery.   
Manchester. Artzu Gallery. Big Shots.
    
2006    Art Miami Art Fair with Osborne Samuel Gallery.
Palm Beach Art Fair with Osborne Samuel Gallery.
London, Affordable Art Fair, Battersea ArtzuGallery
London, Osborne Samuel, Summer Show
Manchester, Artzu Gallery, Group Show
Oxfordhsire, Art in Action
    
2007    Bristol.  Royal West of England Academy.  Open Sculpture.
London Art Fair with Victor Felix Gallery
London, New York, Amsterdam, Affordable Art Fair with Victor Felix Gallery
Bath. Chapel Row Gallery, Solo Show. 
Bath. Beaux Arts Gallery, Summer Show.
Cambridge.  "Breath of Fresh Air" and Summer Show, Byard Art.
Oxfordshire. Art in Action
Corsham. Pound Arts Centre, Solo Show.
    
2008   
London Art Fair with Victor Felix Gallery.
London. "The Figure" at Sarah Myerscough Fine Art.
London. "Coda" with Chuck Elliott at The Gallery in Cork Street.
Plymouth University. "Artspaces". Group Show.

London. Art London Fair. Byard Art.
Manchester. Artzu Gallery. Solo
Bristol. Bristol Contempory Open. Group Show.
Bristol. View Gallery. Opening Group Show.
2009
London Art Fair, Waterhouse & Dodd.
London,Three person show with Peter Randall-Page and Sarah Gillespie. Waterhouse & Dodd,London.
Cambridge -Solo Show. Byard Art, Cambridge.
SEEDS Film Festival. Minneapolis, USA.
Art London, Beaux Arts (Bath).
London. Victor Felix Gallery, Three person show.











2010

London Art Fair, Beaux Arts Bath.
Solo Show - Beaux Arts Bath.
Burghley House, Sculpture Garden.
The Big Draw Self-Portrait Drawing Show, Chapel Row Gallery, Bath.
Work also shown at Byard Art, Cambridge
and Artzu Gallery, Manchester.
2011

London Art Fair, Beaux Arts Bath.
Two Person Show, Beaux Arts Bath.
Summer Show, Beaux Arts, London.
RWA, Autumn Exhibition.
Abbey Walk Gallery, Grimsby, Group Show.
20/21 and Art London Art Fairs.
Derwent Wye Fine Arts-Group Show.

2012

London Art Fair, Beaux Arts Bath.
Gloucester Cathedral, Open West group Show.
Solo Show, Beaux Arts Bath.
160 Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy.



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Paul Richard James

April 15, 2013, 1:13 pm
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Paul Richard James

1966 Wales U.K.
Emigrated to Canada in 1973. Paul has exhibited largely in Toronto.

I work on several bodies of work at one time and each body of work is as important as any other. My work is at the same time, both traditional and radical in style and content. I am interested in the bridge between the digital and the organic. My "Lilly" series investigates the relationship between the pixel and the brushstroke through large oil paintings that mimick digital imagery. The "Seduction" series focuses upon the female gaze in the fashion industry, combining female models and a painterly surface. My working process includes the use of digital imagery as source material and the digital process to "heighten" the synthetic nature of the painted surface. I make work that is both gallery based and "street" based. My "painted cutout" series as well as the "art plus tax" series are highly political in nature and are installed in site specific environments. Recently, I have begun to combine digital imagery and encaustic to push this relationship between the organic and inorganic even further








Education
1992 -Michael John Angel Academy of Classical Realism, Toronto
B.Ed.Faculty of Education, Queens University, Kingston,
B.A.University of Guelph, Guelph,
A.O.C.A.Associate of the Ontario College of Art, Toronto



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Paul James

April 15, 2013, 3:32 pm
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Paul James

Leading international animal and landscape artist. Paul is world-renowned for the skill and craftsmanship in which he depicts the fine details of fur, fleece and feathers.



Paul James is an exceptionally gifted and uniquely different animal and landscape artist. Currently resident in Southern Ireland, he was born and grew up in Leicestershire. His artistic and musical abilities were apparent from childhood.

Essentially self-taught, he began painting professionally in 1986. It was the haunting beauty of the nearby Charnwood forest that greatly influenced his early atmospheric landscapes (a trade mark that continues on). Paul has become renowned for this together with his animal portraiture and has perfected a style of his own. The originality of his compositions along with the attention to detail means that his works take time and Paul dedicates himself to each piece with a passion rarely seen in today's commercial art world.

Paul insists on the freedom to paint the subjects he chooses which allows him creative flexibility. It is this freedom that keeps his work fresh and current. Although Paul continues to paint in fine detail he has recently given his pieces a more humorous edge, experimenting with perspective and size, thus creating a more contemporary feel.

It seems that his ability to surprise, delight and push boundaries is limitless.


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