TRANSMISSION: 30 Nov-18 Dec 2022
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Matthew Benington
Abigail and Phebe Cameron
Loughborough University, BA Fine Art
The Cameron Twins’ practice incorporates many familiar, recognisable and pop-culture references from their childhood, such as Barbie, Trolls and My Little Pony. ‘We enjoy using this popular imagery in our sculptures and prints as they add a playful and witty quality to the work adding to the connectivity of our art across ages and social confines whilst still remaining personal and anecdotal’. The often-familiar subject matter and the bright and juvenile colour palette used in the work can create a misleading cheerful aesthetic which then juxtaposes with the more sinister tones and darker imagery often revealed under closer inspection. The artists want the viewer to question the effect of nostalgia on their own memories and past experiences, revealing the true monstrous troll hiding beneath the bridge.
camerontwins.art
Lorenzo Davitti
London College of Communication, MA Illustration and Visual Media, University of Florence, BA Psychology
In his practice, Lorenzo Davitti explores the subtle balance between control and chance through an expressive and flowing process that leads to creating work that’s colourful, dynamic and playful. The resulting imagery is constructed with a dialogue between analogue mark making and digital manipulation. The prints feature ambiguous objects; shapes that are more suggestive of movement and temporality rather than mass, space or volume.
Inspired by the work of artists such as Gillian Ayres, Josef Albers and Bridget Riley Lorenzo’s recent prints explore the creative space that sits between digital and analogue image making, through chance events, distortions and colour combinations.
Ellie Hayward
The Slade School of Art, BA Fine Art
Hayward’s practice focuses on both sculpture and print. Within both mediums she explores ideas around liminal spaces. The architectural language of everyday spaces such as thresholds and boundaries create places of transition in everyday life. How we encounter different spaces and environments is never static and the way in which architecture directs and influences our behaviour or movement is something that Hayward tries to highlight within her work.
elliehayward.co.uk
Adam Hogarth
Northumbria University, BA Fine Art
The Royal College of Art, MFA Fine Art Printmaking
Set 900 years after a global humanitarian and ecological catastrophe, humans have reverted to a second dark-age in which global communications have long broken down, living in a world of mass extinction and poisoned seas: Hogarth’s work is an anthropological study of various disparate folk communities and their struggles to exist. Told through songs and storytelling, ritualistic re-enactments, drawings, prints and mask masking, Hogarth speaks of humanity’s impending doom and the story of ‘The Future’s Forgotten Rituals’.
adamhogarth.com
Daisy Jarrett
University of Brighton, BA Fine Art Printmaking
The Royal College of Art, MFA Fine Art Printmaking
Jarrett was recently awarded the Slaughterhaus Print Studio Prize at Woolwich Print Fair 2021 and has a selection of artworks on display at the new Soho House venture in Brighton. Still currently living and working in South London as an Artist and Print Technician, Jarrett works across media but has always loved the tactile, painterly nature of monoprinting. She is interested in themes of the domestic, womanhood, social media, body image, self-portraits, and the everyday. These pieces, almost like film stills, are inspired by the everyday life of women. Snippets of the mundane. Working from life, personal memories, dreams, social media and the imagination to create dreamlike vignettes of daily life.
daisyjarrett.co.uk
Jazmyn Maher
Wimbledon School of Art, BA Fine Art
In her most recent works, Maher has been working on a large format scroll drawings based on Dante’s Divine Comedy. Working in graphite, each drawing lays out the story of Dante and Virgil as they journey through Heaven, Purgatory and Hell. In the tradition of etchers and engravers such as Goya, Hogarth, Blake and John Martin, Maher has created a series of etchings with aquatints that outline details of these drawings. Whilst referencing print masters, Maher also looks to contemporary references of hell, such as album covers of heavy metal bands and horror films.
jazmynmaher.bigcartel.com
Karl Peter Penke
Camberwell College of Arts, BA Fine Art
The Royal College of Art, MFA Fine Art Printmaking
Penke sources his playful work – transmissions, if you will – from observations of our, now Queen-less, life together. The complexities which bombard our day-to-day existence, alongside nagging historical baggage, are pulped, filtered, and regurgitated as pictorial vignettes, populated by “anachronistic, apocalyptic superheroes”, as he describes them. “Sometimes headless,” he continues, “they were born from the same concentrated immersion by which a child draws a memory or a perception. Reality through fiction.”
karlpeterpenke.com
Adam Shield
Newcastle University, BA Fine Art The Royal Academy of Arts Schools
Shield’s work has drawing and printmaking at its core. Using the riso machine to make publications, zines and paste-ups, there is an immediacy in Shield’s way of working. In Shield’s world nothing seems fixed. Images drift between motifs of the recognisable and the abstract. Playfully aesthetic exhibitions rely upon collaboration with group workshops, audience participation and artist talks that create ever evolving art exhibitions.
adamshield.com
Adam Shield and Thomas Whittle
Adam Shield and Thomas Whittle established Long Distance Press in 2013 as a way to solidify their collaborative practice. Working between Glasgow, Newcastle, London and Edinburgh, Long Distance Press first started as a postal art project that quickly turned into collaborative works, publications, and exhibitions. Together they explore the research, drawing and works on paper that often live at the unseen edges of an artists’ practice.
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