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New London Kicks Part II
Sarah Dwyer
Artists
Statement
Sarah
Dwyer (in Cork Ireland) graduated in 2004 from the Royal College of Art
Masters in Painting, (2002-3004) having studied at Staffordshire University
a Masters in Fine Art and at the University of York she studied a Bsc in
Environmental Economics. She has been awarded
The Basil Alkazzi Studio Award 2004
RCA, The The Alkazzi Travel Award RCA 2003, Jeremy Cubitt Prize
for Painting, 2003, RCA, The Amlin Award for most promising student,
2003 RCA, The Arthur Berry Fellowship, The New Vic Theatre, Stoke on
Trent 2002. Recent exhibitions include ‘New London Kicks’, Soho House
in association with the Armory Show, NY 2005, ‘New London Kicks,
Wooster Projects, New York, 2005, ‘Salon’ at Hollow Contemporary, London
2005 and ‘Peculiar Encounters’ in association with ecArtspace, London 2005.
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Her work deals with maps of
terrain, created as remembered, fantasized spaces. A play of opposite
appears on the surface; nature and culture; resolute and teasing ways of
addressing the viewer; methodical and accidental painterly marks. A constant
doubling exists, the interplay of colours and the language of the
unconscious, landscape and interiority; nature and artifice. Recurrent
motifs of grottoes and tombs act as ruptures to the multicoloured expanses,
and as such prompt ‘peculiar encounters’ within the act of painting.
Landscapes are accumulated in layers and subjected to all manner of
transformations, to become the site of transition between the real and the
imaginary.
Rui Matsunaga
Artist Statement
I am interested in the tension between reality and fiction in the
everyday, where the fairy-tale seeps through guiding and revealing a
dimension fused with the magical and spiritual. Books and films of
fantasy, Science Fiction, mythologies and Japanese comics (Manga)
inform my paintings and merge around the figures I paint. Everyday
images collected from magazines, newspapers and photographs I have
taken are used as starting points and are morphed into something
otherworldly. Through the slow process of painting, I become far
more involved into the images, nurturing the ordinary figures into
revealing the entities existing in a magical or spiritual world.
Katy Moran
Artist Statement
My interest lies very much in the ability
to balance apparent opposites, representation and abstraction. I like
to action the paint itself. I often disrupt the act of painting to
introduce chance elements and intensify the already unpredictability of the
fluid medium. I identify with a kind of yearning in the images I
choose to paint; a melancholy undercurrent of feelings bound up with notions
of desire and disappointment.
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Miho Sato
Artist Statement
Excerpt from The Independent - Art for
Sale by Sue Hubbard
Miho Sato was born in Japan in 1967 and
studied at the Royal Academy Schools. Using images from magazines,
postcards and reproductions of other artworks as catalysts, her paintings
have a simplicity of form and resonate with dense stillness. The mood
that predominates is one of absence. Here images are emptied out, as
if the subject had simply departed, leaving a trace of its former presence.
A woman pokes her head stiffly above the surface of the sea; her face is
bereft of all detail. Evocative and ghostly, she is almost certainly
"not waving but drowning". Others of Sato's figures relate back to
childhood recollections from popular culture, story books and the history of
art.
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Hannah Wooll
Artist Statement
The characters that inhabit my paintings
are on the cusp of poise and beauty as they display themselves, striking
poses inspired by old masters and old Hollywood. These figures are
temptresses derived from hand made doll-sized models. There is
something desperate, however, about these poor creatures: they are
unaware of their physical distortions. Their beautiful faces stare
wantonly from beneath outsized bows, attached to malformed, dysfunctional
bodies. They are forlorn but showy creatures steeped in pastiche,
frivolity and contradiction. Hopelessness, humor, shyness, vanity and
aspiration.+
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