John Hipwell’s practice has a significant computational component, involving the transformation, decomposition and reconstruction of image information across a range of media.
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2016
Stephen Rusk
Stephen Rusk’s practice involves portraiture of performance, faces, and expressions. Using still photography and slow-moving image, working with contemporary and ballet dancers, he examines the meaning of faces in performance, questioning how the human face is read in a world of scrutiny.
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2015
Alex Grace
‘Sugarcandy Mountain,’ a fairytale phrase evoking a pleasant image even if one is unfamiliar with George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ indirectly and ironically references death.
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2014
Veronique Rolland
Veronique’s work is part of a project about the centroid location of Britain, the point at which a cardboard cut-out of the area could be perfectly balanced on the tip of a pencil. Islands are assumed fixed to the mainland in their precise position by invisible wires.
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2013
Ruth Campbell
Once a year and now is a series of photographs that focus on the annual event of a birthday, specifically the homemade birthday cake. The images are a combination of family photographs that were never inserted into the ‘family album’, juxtaposed with new fabricated images.
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2012
Nathalie Joffre
The video and sound installation He told me that his garden… by Nathalie Joffre is the result of the artist’s subjective exploration of the photographic archives of Bethlem Royal Hospital and more specifically of a collection of patients’ pictures, taken by portrait photographer Henry Hering between 1857 and 1859.
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2011
Antonio Marguet
‘Deodorant Games by Antonio Marguet brings together sculpture and photog-raphy in an exploration of the cultural and material construction of consumer identities. In his images the raw materials of consumer culture playfully seek their future forms.’
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2010
Orestis Kalvaris
The work of Orestis Kalvaris deals with existential concerns, the notion of existence as part of non-existence and vice versa, of the body as both object and eternal image – sacred, divine almost.
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2009
Jessica Mallock
Jessica Mallock’s photographic-sculptures explore ideas around ordering, arranging and disruption, making links between the domestic obligation to keep house and the desire to make art.
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‘Palindromes’ from the series ‘Line&Point’ by Krzysztof Szmigielski revisits the formal concerns of traditional black and white art photography to question the ways in which photographs communicate with and through each other in an endless deferral of meaning.