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Eva Pori was born in the United Arab Emirates and when she was nine she moved to her home country of Greece.
She has been working as an art director and illustrator in various companies including Team Athens of BBDO.
She currently lives in Oxford and devotes more time and energy to art. She explores and interprets things in which she sees beauty. In Connect she plays with the human figure, one of her favorite subjects, to portray an innate intimacy that goes beyond form and matter, into an emotional, spiritual realm.
Setting a PLACE
Emma Moxey is a multi-disciplinary artist who specialises in drawing, painting, printmaking, and installation enamel.
Her activities represent an enquiry into the mechanisms of the drawn mark, with a focus on the inherent processes of communication through sign and symbol, and re-iteration through serial translation and transmutation.
The exhibited works draw, and draw from, ‘placial’ aspects such as topography, cartography, mythology, history and sensory perceptions, whilst evolving and conversing through their interconnections. Through the work, Emma intends to encourage the dialogic relation between the viewer and their concept of place.
the moment is all
Hanuszik Zsolt is a Hungarian photographer who has, for the last four years lived and worked in and around Oxford. He has always worked in the documentary field of photography and although receiving no formal training, he has, by working closely with other peer group photographers, listened and learnt a great deal on camera work, darkroom techniques and black and white printing. Much of the printing was done, as we all do at some time in our lives, in his bath room working with an enlarger propped up on the toilet seat.
Zsolt when asked, who has influenced him most, replied “his photographic friends in Hungary” (A Compliment indeed) but when pressed, he felt that both Robert Frank and Henri Cartier Bresson gave him much inspiration for the style and development of his images. Like Cartier Bresson he uses the camera for composition and never crops in the darkroom. His black and white images are printed to superb standards retaining a black border as in the style of Bresson.
Zsolt has exhibited both in joint exhibitions and on his own in Hungary and has presented work to over 15 galleries. This is his first exhibition in the UK.
For the first time he has asked that the exhibition had an overall theme and feels that the images presented define the phrase:
“THE MOMENT IS ALL. “
This title works well with this group of images and reflect influences such as Bresson (the Decisive Moment) with each single photograph “drawing narrative” that makes the viewer want to find out more about the moment of capture and the lives surrounding the images. Viewed as a group the images are thematic with voyeuristic elements showing through. Zsolt uses light points within many of the photograph to draw the viewer into the image. On purpose, the images and printed small so as to get you to stand close and be intimate the result.
Having developed from the Nikon 35mm and Lomo camera in his early work he now uses a 1.5 mp phone camera for his photography. This camera although capturing the images in a simple effective way recording what is sees, also incorporates another element of this basic camera technology, recording all the flaws and aberrations of this instrument.
All the images are printed on Fine art photographic paper using the Giclee printing process where there is no visible dot screen pattern. The images keep all the tonalities and hues of the original image.
Please take time to view the images asking your self about the MOMENT.
OXFORD PRIDE Queer Arts
Finding yourself - Losing yourself
Lisa Whitehead is also known as ‘Miss Doubleyou’, a self-confessed
quote and lyric whore.
Finding her own way in the art world, she has exhibited and published in
numerous publications inside and outside of the UK.
Miss Doubleyou initially started out by photographing Musicians and Fashion
Events for newspapers. As part of her personal progression she then started
to experiment and express herself via other creative routes.
'Abstract art gives me a sense of freedom enabling me to consistently
experiment with new techniques and express my myself from deep within.
Therefore, self-expression for me is the best form of
therapy.'
Scribbel's art has most certainly been influenced by the era of PoP!
It combines a PoP style with expressive drawing, writing and abstract shapes.
As part of her progression, she also uses mixed mediums in the form of collage.
She creates her work on what she has around her; used envelopes, newspapers, napkins....
Her aim is to create something that doesn't look like it was created yesterday, but almost as if it has been around for many years and has a history to it or even a story to tell. The carefully selected materials used, and the processes she works with depict this.
For personal satisfaction, she wants to create something individual and unique, incorporating humour at times and her love of music also.
Paintings by Terrentius Andersohn
Terry, who is now approaching 60, has turned his hand to many things. He also has a natural and spontaneous comic wit which pours out every time he speaks, he might well have made a living as a stand-up comedian, such is his ability to ad-lib.
But he does look intensely at things with his bright blue eyes and he says that he paints from the inside out - he needs to feel something to paint. This is obviously appreciated by people who see his work as he has sold many over the years. Is this a man who lives to paint or paints to live?
Portraits & Landscapes from Portmeadow
Adrian Arbib is an Oxford based photographer. He has been photographing Port Meadow for around 10 years; capturing the changing seasons and the people that pass through. This work was recently featured in the photographic arts magazine Source.
Adrian has spent many years travelling the globe for the national and international newspapers and organisations like Oxfam and Christian Aid (and has photographed several Christian Aid week campaigns). His work has primarily focused on indigenous land rights and in 1997 he was awarded the Royal Geographical Societys Cherry Kearton Medal for his work in this area.
AIMS
ALISTAIR FRANKLIN
1981 Born Warrington, Cheshire
1992-1997 6 GCSE’s
Studied ‘A’ level art for one year
Studied ‘A’ level and BTEC. NAT. in music, music theory & sound recording
EXHIBITIONS
2007 AIMS Exhibition, (May) Town Hall Gallery, Oxford
2007 Oxford Town Hall, (Summer)
2008 ARTWEEKS at Restore with AIMS
I was bought up in Huddersfield, W.Yorks I started drawing/painting at the age of seven or eight years, then picked up music at about thirteen. I lived in Bath whilst studying at Bath City College. I have lived in Bicester for the last eight years after a nervous breakdown in 2000.
My main influences are probably psychedelic, surrealist & impressionistic movements. Also my work is mainly based on emotional & psychological experiences I have suffered in my life. Some of my recent work has been influenced by tattoo art & design and I am in the process of designing my own graphic art tattoo designs.
I have suffered from severe depression since early childhood (about age 6-7) I had my first breakdown at about eighteen and was diagnosed with schizophrenia, extreme paranoia, social/anxiety disorders in 2001 by
Dr. Dennis O’Leary.
RYAN MARSHALL
1971 Born in Oxford.
1988 - 1998 I was a full time mother
1998 Gained N.V.Q level 2 in Hairdressing.
2002 Worked for Mencap as support worker.
2004 Diagnosed with Mental Health, mood disorder.
2007-2008 Studied and gained access to higher education at the Oxford and Cherwell Valley College, Oxpens Road, Oxford.
2008 Currently BA Honours degree course at the University of East London, Fine Art.
My main influences in my art work is portraying life how it is including emotions of thoughts and feelings and the reasons behind them and
the current state of society and how people interact with one another. I practise painting, drawing, installation pieces, printmaking and bronze casting.
The reason I decided to become a mature student is firstly because I wanted to set a good example to my children and help them realise that they can do anything they want to do in life as long as you work hard at it. And secondly I chose to study as a mature student as I found expressing myself though art very therapeutic for my moods and it gave me a direction in my life at a very bad time.
MICHAEL HOLTZORF
Born 14/3/79
I am a scientist working in chemistry.
I have lived in Hong Kong, Germany, Italy and UK.
My paintings are based on adventures and experiences
KATE WILKINSON
BA Geography (Oxon), University of Oxford
2006-2007 Working with children in schools with behaviour, learning and social difficulties to better engagement with education.
Exhibitions
2008 Wolfson College for Rethink
I am interested in my work in noticing and capturing small details of local nature particularly the vivid colours and the contrasts between dark and light. This has aided me in recovering from severe depression where the whole world appears black.
KEVIN J. CALKIN
1962 Born Braintree, Essex
1976-1982 Obtained 9 ‘0’ levels & 4 ‘A’ levels
Unfinished degree course B A (hons) Social Analysis,
University of Bradford
EXHIBITIONS
Two serious poems published in different books
2000 Two mixed exhibitions at Didcot Civic Hall
2007 Town Hall Gallery, Oxford with AIMS
2008 ARTWEEKS with AIMS at Restore
2008 ‘Life’s Landscape’ a solo exhibition at The Mill, Cowley Road
My work is influenced by the French Impressionists and Vincent Van Gogh as he suffered similar schizoid tendencies. My style of painting I call Tortured Impressionism. I wrote a series of poetry ‘Wistful Witterings and Tosh’ based on the misery of homelessness, depression and poverty as a revolving door mental hospital patient during most of the 1980’s. I also wrote a humorous book of ‘Loony Limericks’.
I was diagnosed as a young man with schizoid-affective disorder, following a serious road accident in 1981. I received head injuries and went into a coma. I also experienced much violence and other abuse until my thirties.
At that time I made many suicide attempts and many of my peers killed themselves.
I am now settled with a wife and three children as well as an older daughter (and grandson) from my first wife.
I am self taught painter and family man. I have done and continue to do much voluntary work and give donations to children’s charities and others.
These days I appreciate all that I have and try not to keep looking back and wallowing in pain that cannot be changed.
JOHN WILLIAMS
1961 Born Sutton Coldfield, Warwks.
1972-1979 Marlborough School, Woodstock
1979-1980 Lived and worked in Strasbourg
1980-1984 University of London
1981 Diagnosed as having mental illness
1991 Began to live in East Oxford where I live to the present day
EXHIBITIONS AND POETRY GROUPS ATTENDED
Various Occupational Therapy Groups (Warneford Hospital, Oxford)
1987-1988 Bloomin Arts Writers Group
1987-1988 Old Fire Station Poetry Group
2005 AIMS group Exhibition Birth of Recovery at Ark-T Gallery, Cowley, East Oxford
2005-2006 ITHACA’S Synergy Touring Exhibition
2006 AIMS Exhibition (Artweeks) Michael Young Building, Manzil Way, East Oxford
2006&2007 Oxford City Council Exhibitions (Town Hall)
2007 Town Hall Gallery with AIMS
2008 The Oxford Open, Modern Art Oxford
2008 AIMS Exhibition (Artweeks) Michael Young Building,
Manzil Way, East Oxford
2008 Exhibition c/o Rethink
STATEMENT
I have had no formal training in poetry. My inspiration for writing comes from Rock Music especially Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, and the Waterboys.
Also, I was inspired by the performance poetry of Apples and Snakes in London in the early 1980’s.
n 2005 I helped to produce and publish my poetry in the booklet, Birth of Recovery, as well as exhibit photographs for AIMS group Exhibition at Ark-T Gallery. I have continued to exhibit poems and photographs in all the AIMS annual exhibitions mentioned above since then.
JANE ELIZABETH REEVE
1958 Born Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
1978-1981 Loughborough University English Degree 2;1
1982-1983 Periodical Journalism Certificate National Council for the Training of Journalists, London College of Printing
Various creative writing, poetry and photography courses
1991-2002 Oxpens, Pottery and Drama
1991-2003 Libra Drama Group
2000-2003 Learning Centre, Art and creative writing course
2001-2002 Performance at Old Fire Station and Pegasus Theatre
2003-2005 Chairwoman of AIMS
2007-2008 Vice chairwoman of AIMS
2005 Exhibited with AIMS at Ark-T Centre.
2006 Exhibited with AIMS (Artweeks) Michael Young Building, Manzil Way, East Oxford
2007 Town Hall Gallery with AIMS
2008 Exhibited with AIMS (Artweeks) Michael Young Building,
Manzil Way, East Oxford
Lives in Cowley Road
I love writing poetry, photography and drama. I am inspired by all things around me, nature and people, myths and legends gardens, colour and texture.
I am fascinated by Magpies and want to capture beauty in the eye of the camera.
JAMES CARNEY
1968 Born Oxford
Passed ‘O’level English
Exhibitions
Playhouse Theatre
The Mill, Yellow room
2007 AIMS exhibition at Town Hall Gallery
I am interested in Dali, Hockney, Picasso and Pollock.
I suffer from schizo affective disorder.
DENNIS DAY
1946 Born Birmingham
Bought up in South Wales/ attended Tywns. M school Caerphilly
Exhibitions
2007 (March) Spectrum Art Gallery
2007 (May) Spectrum Art Gallery
2007 Ten Feet Away, Novas Gallery, London
2007 Town Hall Gallery with AIMS
2008 The Oxford Open, Modern Art Oxford
2008 ARTWEEKS with AIMS at Restore
I was born in Birmingham but bought up in South Wales. I am sixty years of age and I started painting in 2006. I just decided to do it.
I am an ex-miner who worked in the South Wales coal fields. I work from my imagination and I like John Constable’s work.
KEVIN COOPER
1960 Born Newcastle, Staffs.
Educated at Caldwell Hall School, Derbyshire
EXHIBITIONS
2005 AIMS Exhibition Birth of Recovery, Ark-T Centre, Cowley
2006 &’08 AIMS Exhibition (Artweeks) Restore, Michael Young Building
Various Restore Exhibitions
I am interested in landscapes, particularly those in Cornwall
YVONNE MABS FRANCIS
1945 Born Oxford
1962 ‘63 Oxford Polytechnic Foundation course
1963-‘66 Brighton College of Art
1966-‘68 Slade School of Art, London, Postgraduate
1968-‘69 Lectured on Contemporary Art at Wolverhampton Art School
1969 Nervous breakdown: hospitalised in Warneford for three months
1969-‘80 Returned to Oxford and created a dress design business called Mabs
1979 Gave birth to a son and began gradually to paint full time.
Exhibitions and Publications
1966-‘68 Young Contemporaries, London Group,
John Moors Liverpool Exhibition
1996 The Mill Banbury
1999 Modern Artists, Whitchurch-on-Thames. Nr. Reading
2001 Began to publish with Reflections / front cover of Openmind magazine
2001 Reading Museum, ITHACA exhibition
2002 Diorama Arts Centre, London
2002 I.C.I. Main headquarters and boardrooms, Central London.
2003 Reading Museum and X-gallery, Oxford. ITHACA exhibition
2004 Ark-T Gallery, AIMS group show
2004-’05 Raw Arts Festival, London
2004 University of Edinburgh with Artesian
2004 Mexico Gallery, London
2005 Ovavda Gallery, Oxford. ITHACA Synergy Season
2007 Town Hall Gallery: AIMS Exhibition
2008 The Oxford Open, Modern Art Oxford
2008 Wild Old Women, (W.O.W) Novas Gallery, London
I am interested in the low tech medium of paint on canvas and for that reason although I am a trained artist, I am more draw to the ranks of the untrained artists known as ‘Outsiders’ whose popularity over the last decade has considerably grown. I have for many years exhibited with today’s ‘Outsiders’ turning my back on mainstream artists and the training I received in the sixties.
I am interested in using images that simply draw one in and hopefully ‘wow’ you. Images have been lost to mainstream painting for a very long time. Filmmakers have stolen the powerful images of the Symbolists, the Surrealists and the past and present comic makers and had a renaissance with them.
I want to see some part of that renaissance returned to painting.
MATTHEW JOHN HOUNSLOW
1965 Born in Oxford
attended Cherwell School
2008 ARTWEEK with AIMS at Restore
I am interested in plants, nature and portraits. This is my second exhibition.
ANGUS WILLIAM DAVIDGE
1969 Born Oxford
1986 ‘O’ Levels
1988 ‘A’ Levels
1991 Degree in maths, Southampton University
Exhibitions
2006 ARTWEEKS, Beehive, Restore
2008 ARTWEKKS with AIMS at Restore
2008 Beehive at Restore
In 2005 I discovered that it is easier to do portraits if the photo was turned upside down which enabled me to develop my own style. This year I gave up turning the photos upside down because it was no longer necessary.
I am teaching myself art. I like to learn by experimentation. I use photos from newspapers. I admire Impressionism more than any other type of art.
I hated art at school, believing I was bad at it. I dropped out of University twice and have not worked since then. I was diagnosed with dyslexia and personality disorder and went on benefits. I am not interested in letting anyone try, to teach art to me.
ELINOR KITZINGER
I was born in Freeland, Oxfordshire in 1958. I gained 10 CSE’s at Bartholomew School, Eynsham and 2 ‘A’ levels at St. Helen & Katherine, Abingdon. I was educated as a Montessori teacher and a gardener. I worked as a teacher at St. Augustine’s Church Hall Oxford, Brighton and Hove Church Hall and Northhills and as a gardener at Mont Vernon Hospital, Oxford University Parks, Restore and Elder Stubbs allotments. I am also a masseur, kitchen cleaner and bread maker.
I was given a kiln by my mother at 16 in 1974 and since then on many weekends, I have made pottery. Firstly I made wall tiles and then in 1994 I made sculpture. I have been doing sculpture for 10 years, making heads, birthing women and mermaids.
I have exhibited:-
Westgate library, College of Further Education
Women’s art show at the Manor House Standlake.
The Mill, for Artweeks.
X-change Gallery, Oxford
Ark-T Gallery, Cowley with AIMS group
I was invited to exhibit at the SAIO Gallery
Michael Young Centre, Artweeks with AIMS
Town Hall Gallery, Oxford
As a sculptor I’m inspired by Henry Moore as well as Pablo Picasso and Gauguin.
SUSAN JESSICA ROBERTSON
1949 Born Amersham, Bucks
1961-1964 Loundes Girls School, Chesham
1979 Journalism and fiction writing course
1996-2003 I worked in the print shop at Restore, developing designs with Oxford Wild Flowers.
2004-2008 Ruskin College, 5 courses
EXHIBITIONS
2006 Christmas Restore
2008 Town Hall Gallery, Oxford with AIMS
2008 ARTWEEKS with AIMS at Restore
I am interested in graphic design. Monet is one of my prime influences. I admire his
work tremendously.
OXFORD FASHION WEEK
Eleanor Hardwick
Eleanor was born in Oxford, England in 1993. She became interested in photography at the age of twelve when she began to take photos of collectable Japanese fashion dolls. The hobby then progressed into a passion for portraiture and fashion.
Since then she has had features in The Independent and Dazed & Confused, and various other publications worldwide. At the age of fifteen she has already had offers for several exhibitions, and has worked with various professional models, musicians and individuals."
Emma Tempest
"British photographer Emma Tempest's work is a stylish fusion of the sensual and the elemental and exudes the sweeping grandeur and artistry of a cinematic fantasy.
Her rigorously beautiful imagery eschews photography's ever changing trends of the moment in favour of a scene that is intrinsically compelling and of timeless power and appeal.
Barely into her second year she has shot for Mulberry, Warehouse, Davidoff, Remmington and Amanda Wakeley. She has also had work published in The Telegraph, The Financial Times - How to Spend It and British Vogue."
Reza Ebadi
Reza Ebadi was born in Tehran, Iran and raised in Duesseldorf, Germany where he currently lives and works. After travelling around the world he returned to Duesseldorf in 2003 and decided to become a professional photographer. He studied communication design at the University and began freelancing in his home city, assisting several German photographers and working on his own portfolio.
In 2007 he found more inspiration in fashion photography and the next year finished his Masters of Photography and Design from the highly respected University of Essen, Germany.
After this top flight education, Ebadi is now represented by Samir Chala, Director of Communications, KIN, Agency for the Arts globally.
Ebadi’s professional services work with Sustainable Business practices. This allows clients to know they are contributing to a healthier planet with every image they use. Using new technology as well as traditional techniques, Ebadi seeks to raise awareness about environmental concerns through sustainable advocacy, incorporating many sustainable aspects in executing his projects and photography. He uses sustainable paper, works on his own, and makes everything by hand, which lowers his carbon emission more than 40%. Everything Ebadi does is broken down and simplified, and carefully looked over to implement his ideals, beliefs, and advocacy for the Environment and Sustainability. Reza 's first priority when styling the models is to ensure and try to use organic fabrics, silk, silk lace or even paper in his couture styled models as shown in his work today such as ''Dream'' 100% recycled paper and in others, silk lace and 100% silk facric.
O. Yordonov
Bulgarian-born, London-based photographer working in the field of Fashion Photography, Art Photography, Documentary and Portraiture.
Yordanov started assisting his father at the age of 16 and acquired hands-on experience in both video and still imaging, editing and retouching. In 2001 Yordanov moved to London and focused on photography through assisting and freelancing on various media projects. Over the last 6 years his work has been published in a number of international publications, i.e. Wound Magazine, One, Egoiste, Insight, Dazed and Pop amongst others. His art projects have been exhibited in galleries in Sofia, Berlin, Manchester and London, including the prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum. In 2008 his collaboration with a long-time friend, the designer Veronika Vapirova, was exhibited alongside her fashion show in Sofia and gained critical acclaim and had extensive media coverage. In January this year, he exhibited in San Diego Art Institute as part of a group show and with more shows booked in Milan, London and California, his name is quickly becoming of international status which he has always pursued.
Erin Petson
An artist and illustrator, Erin works at the cutting edge of traditional and mixed media. Her love of drawings blends seamlessly with textures and montage to create powerful and provocative images. Her subjects are often withdrawn, on edge and detached from their surroundings, which adds to the mystery of Erin's work and contrasts its delicacy. Her assemblages have a paper doll like quality they have been described as bondage leaning glam-vintage images.
Stephen Nelson
Stephen Nelson was born in Liverpool
He was educated at Cardiff and Birmingham where he was awarded a masters in Fine Art since then he has lived in London since 1986 where he has established his sculptural practice.
He has collaborated with several artists on multi disciplinarily projects including New Child Sexuality with Struan Leslie at Chisenhale Dance Space.
In 1999 Stephen was appointed the Arts Council of England Helen Chadwick Fellow in sculpture where he developed a series of works about wolves that related to his time spent at the British School in Rome and at Oxford University.
He has exhibited in both Britain and Abroad recent exhibitions in 2006 include Elefes t Elephant and Castle, London, and Thy neighbours ox,Space Station 65 London
In 1996 and 1998 he curated two exhibitions of British Artists for the British Council in Eritrea and Tanzania.
John F. Cooper
New- York city based photographer.
INSPIRATION
Tina Vietmeier
“My motivation is in living, imagining and connecting. In the process I use up a lot of paint.” tinavietmeier.com
Tina has lived in the United States for 30 years but she still feels a strong connection to and identifies with her British heritage and tradition. She studied at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco before having her daughter Madeleine in 1998 and feels strongly about developing community through the arts. Tina is a member of International Encaustic Artists and teaches art and gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area, working with children and adults.
In 2003 Tina was Artist-in-Residence with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and in 2004 was honoured to be one of 125 artists participating in Hearts in San Francisco, a public-art project that raised over $2 million for the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation. Tina was represented Danielle Steel Gallery from 2003 to 2005 and is now with Andrea Schwartz Gallery. In 2006 recent paintings were purchased by Bloomingdales for their permanent collection. Tina’s encaustic artworks celebrate the every day with calm and sensual energy.
Robert Taylor
Specializing in portraits and nudes, Robert’s work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, The Victoria & Albert Museum, the Royal Society, and several private collections. www.taylor-photo.co.uk
Dr Jane Andrews is from his ‘Women of Outstanding Achievement in Science, Engineering and Technology’ series of commissioned portraits, and she says:
“I enjoy working at Aston University because of it’s friendly, student focused approach.
I was an undergraduate and post-graduate student at Aston, but actually left school at 16 to join the RAF. By accepting me as a mature student (20 years after I left school) Aston gave me the opportunity to ‘get my life back’ following the onset of Multiple Sclerosis. Aston welcomed me for my ability and made sure my disability didn’t get in the way of my studying. Now I have a PhD and a future!”
Dr Jane Andrews
Research Fellow, Aston Business School, Aston University
Maree Azzopardi
The artwork of Maree Azzopardi are included in private and public collections including Artbank Australia, St Vincent’s Public Hospital Sydney, the Collezione Farhad in Rome, Collezione De Cecco in Pescara, Italy, The French Embassy in Valletta, Malta and Marisa Del Re Gallery in New York. She has exhibited alongside such prominate artists as Cindy Sherman, Annie Leibovitz (USA), Tracey Moffatt (Aus) and recently Vanessa Beecroft (USA) in Beyond Lilith – The Sacred Femine, a group show in Scuderie Aldobrandini, Frascatii, Italy curated by Rosetta Gozzini.
She was artist-in-residence at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney in 1995 and produced the award winning Chrysalis series. An image from her Momento Mori Series from Missing…From the Garden appeared on the front cover of the prestigious American art journal, ARTnews (NY) (1998) and an image from Fishworks has appeared on the front cover of Photofile (2000). Azzopardi was one of 5 artists representing Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome at the Melbourne International Art Fair in 2004.
Her Italian survey exhibition The Poet Assassinated was exhibited at Galleria Zerotre, Orvieto in 2005 and The All Australian Show was exhibited in Naples after being exhibited in Galleria IL Ponte Contemporeanea in Rome and Lipanjepuntin Arte Contemporanea in Trieste
alongside the works of Tracey Moffatt, John McCrea, Paul Ferman, Matthew Griffin and Selina Ou. Azzopardi exhibited The HUMANA Series – Shadow, Relic & Flesh curated by Jonathan Turner (Italy’s curator of the year 2006) at Libby Edwards Galleries in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, simultaneously in 2007.
Azzopardi is represented by Galleria Il Ponte Contemporanea in Rome. www.ilpontecontemporanea.com
In 2008 the Chaos and Revelry series was exhibited at Galleria Il Ponte Contemporanea in Rome and Galleri Tapper-Popermajer in Sweden.
NB: As part of ‘inspiration’, the images “Pink” and “Wings” from Chaos and Revelry series are available as original prints signed by the artist, from a limited edition of 10, as Archival Pigment Ink on Hanemule Fine Art Paper, size 60cm x 80cm.
Contact Afroditi at aarght! for details. afroditi@aarght.com
Stavroula Kounadea
Actress and performance artist originally from Greece, who has been living and working in England since 2005, Stavroula is an interdisciplinary artist, practitioner, technician, and writer working with sound, lighting, new media, Installation, and experimental theatre.
Her personal work could be considered Performance Art, taking on a more experimental approach to performance and its various guises. She still remains highly attached to her theatrical background and often employs related modes of practice and technique to inform my work.
Stavroula is fascinated by issues related to the sense of self, the importance of female stereotypes and madeup theories and rituals. She often draws inspiration from media personae, newspaper articles, ancient
philosophy, social anthropology, semantics and magic.
Besides her personal artwork she has also collaborated with several film, television and theatre production companies in Greece, Germany and England as an actress and assistant director and with musicians and DJs as a live artist and vocalist.
Mazz Image
As an artist, performer, designer, and award-winning photographer,
Mazz (MA Fine Art/ Photo-media - UNSW) has been chronicling the LGBT community for 20-years with her work published and exhibited internationally.
She divides her focus between her home city of Sydney and the UK where, as the elected Chair of Oxford Pride, she not only continues to document the world’s queer history she is also helping to make some.
The images selected for ‘inspiration’ celebrate the fantasy and illusion of live performance. Jimmy James as Marilyn is a tribute to an iconic female and the passionate dedication of female impersonation. Not only does he look like the legendary actress but he also sings and talks like her during the cabaret show. Tracey the Laser Dancer appears to fly from the stage towards the 1,000’s of partygoers during the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Party. Blue Girls weaved and swayed on stage during the Homo Sutra Sleaze Ball party. Images from the book “You & Mardi Gras | images by Mazz” - www.mazzimage.com
Barbara Gorayska
In her practice she explores the idea of borderlines. Images she creates are ambivalent between the abstract and the real, the old and the new, the personal and the public. They attempt to capture the space where different objects and ideas transform into one another.
To her synthesis is much more important than analysis. She is particularly keen to experiment, through practice, with the boundaries of what an oil painting can be. In particular, she investigates what it is that makes people perceive an art object as a painting and not any other form of art. Her paintings are only a means to an end and not the end in and of themselves. They always function as tools and become a part of larger, more complex art events. She is not bound by any particular technique or style of painting, nor is she bound by any particular subject matter. Instead, she borrows freely from the current and the past practice to achieve a desired effect. Her long term aim is to create an experimental art space where the boundary between the artist, the art object and the spectator is dissolved.
Deborah Hirst
Having worked in the film industry on the script and production side for 10 years, Deborah graduated in 2004 from Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design with a BA in Fine Art and a MA in Interdisciplinary Art practices from Oxford Brookes University in 2008.
Since being on the MA program she has developed a collaborative drawing practice with PhD student, Ruth Harvey, Chisenhale Biennale, 2007; Obsessions at Modern Art Oxford, 2008 and worked together for a Conference held on Connective Practices, 2008. Her work is in the collection of the University of London Collection, Clerical Medical.
Group Shows: ‘Bite” at Menier Gallery, Southwark (2002); “A Current Affair” at Menier Gallery, Southwark (2002); Degree Show CSM (2004); “Contact”, L’Espace Lhomond, Paris (2005); “Art Weeks” Oxford as member of Magdalen Rd Studios (artist’s cooperative) (2005); Ovada NightFair December 2007, “M8show” Ovada Gallery, Sept 2008. Collaborations: “Majam” Ovada Gallery with Oxford Contemporary Music at the Jam Factory, Oxford (2007) with Afroditi Aparti. Chisenhale Biennale, Mile End, September 2007; Obsessions, Modern Art Oxford, 2008. ”She works” Said Business School, Nov 2008, with Rosalind Elliott.
Afroditi Aparti & Wasma Mansoor
This collaboration explores the idea of duality,
coexistence between two equal opposites; individual vs. community. Their understanding is inspired by the friendship between them that they have developed on the grounds of Oxford, coming from very different cultures. These cultures are often seen as fundamentally distinctive, but also opposing. Greek/Saudi. One aspect both their cultures share is the importance of belonging and sense of loyalty towards the group. While appreciating the benefits of communitarian thinking, this type of social organisation is often restrictive to those members who exhibit a more individualistic nature.
The video was initially made for and projected on the ‘sacred ground’, front quad, of Lincoln College. Breaking the sacred nature of the grass by projecting imagery onto it, symbolized their own cultural experiences both in adhering to some of the cultural restrictions they were raised with as well as defying other aspects of it.
Athena Hatzi
Studied interior design in the College for the Distributive Trades, London U.K. Following, she founds Material Force Limited (MFL) based in London U.K., a consultancy specialising in textile design and interior design in England and abroad. Additionally, she organises art exhibitions in the premises of the old wine factory which her family converted to art gallery.
Athena graduated in 2004 with excellence from the Vakalo Scholl of Art and Design and she has been exhibiting her paintings since then. Her work was chosen for the FrontPage of weekly “ATHENS Voice” (vol. 90, 28 July – 3 August 2005) and presented to the Benakis Museum. Her work can be found in private collections in Greece and abroad.
Jane Hughes
The whole world of transvestism and cross-dressing is commonly misunderstood and misinterpreted and as a result there are
a significant number of transvestites that feel segregated from society.
Jane Hughes (a.k.a. David Ross) is a local Professional Photographer and University Lecturer and has, within this personal project, tried to show transvestites as ordinary, quiet individuals which is not the image commonly portrayed by other photographers.
The two images are from a collection of self portraits capturing the feminine side of his ego. It was important to show this aspect of transvestism and in a more contemporary way. The two images presented show Jane as she wants to be seen, rather than as society typically sees transvestites.
CHAOS IN THE CONTINUUM
Collective-Era
Collective-Era return to Oxford to present their latest group show 'Chaos in the Continuum'. Each of the artists in the group shows a range of their work, new, and some old as well as a series of collaborative paintings on which all the members have added. Collective-Era are known for their bright, intense and hyper-surreal work, incorporating elements of contemporary fine art, urban art and surrealism within their collaborative paintings. You can see Collective-Era's work on their website www.collective-era.com
An Eye For Iran
Kazem Hakimi
Kazem Hakimi is an Iranian – born photographer, who has lived in England since 1974. His main interest is in street photography and he is always on the look-out for beautiful compositions. He uses his camera as a sketchbook to capture unrepeatable instances at a dicisive moment.
These images are a selection of pictures taken on his last trip home in 2004. They were taken in a fly-on-the-wall manner and portray typical Iranians going about their everyday lives.
Kazem’s next exhibition entitled ‘Eye Spy’ will be at Art Jericho, 6King Street (behind Jude the Obscure Pub, Walton Street). From 1-31 March 2009.
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FROM GREEN PARK TO THE RED SEA
Icons in colour and form
KEVIN O'CONNOR
Kevin O'Connor has been a professional artist for over forty years with interests that have included graphic design, exhibition design, painting, sculpture performance art, music and drama. He has exhibited regularly in the UK and abroad.
Artistic education began at Wolverhampton College of Art, studying Graphic Design to National Diploma level (1961-4) on leaving college employed as exhibition designer and design consultant with a firm of architects under contract to the Ministry of Defence.
In 1966 became a full time lecturer at Portsmouth College of Art and Design teaching Foundation Course students. During this period moved into fine art practicing as a painter and exhibited widely in the UK and USA. 1972/3 Exchange Lectureship with Hope College, Holland Michigan USA. 1976/7 studied art education at the University of Sussex awarded Masters Degree in Curriculum Studies.
1981. Moved to London becoming involved in community based arts in the voluntary sector. Founded Brixton Art Gallery the Brixton Artists Collective and the Brixton Festival between 1981/4 With small group of community activists. Work during this period included performance art, and experimental sculpture focused on political issues.
1986 Set up home in a derelict barn in the Northern Lakes with partner Ruth Charlton. Worked in partnership with Ruth in small business producing sculptural artefacts mainly for small craft outlets in the UK and abroad.
Whitehaven
Awarded Millennium Fellowship. Rural Initiative Scheme 2000.
Recent exhibitions have included the Millennium Art Center in Washington D.C. Hutton-in-the-Forest, Hebden Bridge Sculpture Trail, and the Edinburgh Festival. Current projects include a tribute to Paul Cezanne at Keswick Museum and Art Gallery and a ‘Learning Festival’ at St Benedict’s High School, Whitehaven Cumbria.
Pause and Out-takes
MAZZ IMAGE
Mazz Image is a designer, performance artist and an award-winning photographer who has been chronicling the LGBT community for 20 years and her photo-media continues to be published and exhibited internationally. She divides her focus between her home city of Sydney and the UK where, elected as the chair of Oxford Pride in 2008 she not only continues to document the world's queer history she is also helping to make some.
Corfu to Corinth
ISOBEL PRAVDA
After taking A-level art, Isobel Pravda did not paint again for 10 years. In the intervening years she trained as a actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 2001. At drama school, her creative energy had a different outlet. During her career as an actor, she played in theatre,film and television, a highlight being the lead female, Camille Monet, in the 2006 BBC 1 drama 'The Impressionists'. In 2007, Isobel decided to move to Greece and during that time felt the energy and need to paint again. Isobel feels that the source of her creativity, expressed both in her acting and her art, is the same. She further believes that, in both disciplines, the accumulation of experiences and influences enriches and informs her work. Isobel's grandmother. Hana Pravda: Holocaust survivor; actor; director; and painter, took a young Isobel around the galleries of London and Europe. This was Isobels' true art school and these European experiences feature heavily in her work.
New begginings
JASON GRAIN
Jason is 20 years old and lived in oxford all of his life. He is currently studying for a HNC in photography at Oxford and Cherwell Valley College. He s been doing photography for about 3 years so far, and in terms of subject matter he shoots anything from portraiture to landscapes, and everything in between.
Artist s contact:info@basephotography.com
UNCANNY?
Hollis & Dyer
Hollis - Surrealist / abstract painter and visual artist. Medium: Paints / photographs / video stills / collage / raw data / waxes and layering. Interests primarily about life. Through the aid of a visual diary, I record events of interest. Metaphors, the uncanny and subliminal messages on sub-conscious levels are a very important part of my work. Recent research includes looking at the uncanny, i.e. memory, people, places, déjà vu, paranormal and scientific observation.
Dyer – Abstract painter and visual artist. Medium: Oil and Acrylic paints, photography, raw material, collage, drawings, charcoal, layering and visual diary. My inspiration chiefly comes from memory to present day, aspiring to express my work best through visual forms and abstract painting. I document my ideas through a series of walk, people and place observation, aided by a personal diary (recording words and doodles), always keeping an open mind. Interests / Research: Nature, people, places, the weird and uncanny, supernatural and science observation
REFLECTIONS OF OXFORD
Rob Judges
Rob Judges was born in 1951 in Buckinghamshire. He went to Rushmoor and Bedford Schools before getting a BSc. at Bristol University. He has since completed a BA via Cintinuing Ed., at Oxford and the Open University.
Shows include the ICA London, RPS Bath, Carlisle and Stirling Museums as well as group shows at Association of Photographers Gallery and two Oxford Artsweek years.
He works as a photographer for several top 100 companies, Oxford University, Oxford Brookes Univeristy, local publishers and most of the national press especially the Daily Telegraph,and The Times feature departments. His work also appears in magazines as diverse as The New York Times and Home Building and Renovating.
He has two girls and lives with Mary-Ellen in Oxfordshire.
www.robjudges.com
CAPTION COMICS COLLECTIVE
Jeremy Dennis
Jeremy Dennis documents her struggles with the strangeness of modern life, her snowballing job-list and the strange creatures that crawl out of her head in elaborately decorated nine-panel grids. Her comics and drawings have been widely anthologised, and are also available online, and as small-press hand-finished comic books.
Website: www.jeremydennis.co.uk
Andrew Luke
An Ulster-born promoter and reviewer of mini-comics currently residing in Oxford. Entering the final year of his degree in Media, Society and Education at Oxford Brookes. A maker of mini-comics about pop culture, Andy recently attracted critical acclaim with a comic produced in 24 hours about his relationship with the life and afterlife of his grandmother.
Website: http://andyluke.livejournal.com/profile
Deirdre Ruane
Irish-born cartoonist on her self-published 'Wasted Epiphanies' book about love for life, festivals, and a temp-work bear. Shes also mixed her comics with visually-accompanied readings and enjoyed success at the Zoom In / Zoom Out interactive map-making exhibit at the Magic Cafe in Janurary. Amongst all this, Deirdre just about manages organising the Oxford Literary Festival, and the Caption Comics Festival.
Website: http://epiphanycast.com/
D'Israeli
Matt Brooker has contributed to Deadline, and co-created cyberpunk series Lazarus Churchyard. He has a rich history as a professional comics writer, artist, inker and letterer, in 2000 AD, Sandman, and as the artist on Grant Morrison's Kill Your Boyfriend. Major works with writer Ian Edginton are Kingdom of the Wicked, the H.G. Wells influenced Scarlet Traces, and steampunk horror Leviathan. He also created XTNCT for the Judge Dredd Megazine, a satirical series involving genetically modified dinosaurs. Most of his recent work is created directly on computer using Adobe Illustrator, with 3D modelling software used for some complex designs.
Website: http://www.disraeli-demon.com/
Terry Wiley
Co-creator of the wonderfully strange Sleaze Castle, Surreal School Stories and the award winning Petra Etcetera. His current work is Sisters of the Head with author Daniel O'Mahoney in the Factor Fiction Press webcomic.
Website: http://factorfictionpress.co.uk/webcomic/tag/terry-wiley/
David Baillie
A freelance writer and artist born in Scotland, he now lives and works in the East End of London. Has previously written a monthly column for Judge Dredd Megazine about life at the bleeding edge of independent comics in the UK, and contributed to the success of London Underground Comics.His latest comics are Tongue of the Dead and RocketBoy, and the Belly Button Chronicles, a meditaion on life in his thirties. He has recently been working on web projects for Digital Punk and VOIP Express, as well as designing logos for Mojopig, OsCar, Hedonism and the Dead Roads. He is available for illustration, design and writing projects of any size, in and out of comics.
Website: http://www.davidbaillie.net/
Sally Anne-Hickman
A graduate of The Surrey Institute of Art & Design in England, majoring in animation, which she loves almost as much as puppies and cloud shapes. Interested in illustration, reading and creating comics."I like watching science fiction films and movies by Tim Burton. One day, when I grow up, I would like to make comics for a living, or be a rock star.Whatever I do I think it's important to be a good and happy person and eat lots of chocolate."
Website: http://www.cheesecomics.com
Daniel Merlin-Goodbrey
A comics creator and new media lecturer based out of St Albans, England, with a masters degree in the Digital Practices of Hyperfiction. The Last Sane Cowboy won the the Isotope Award for Fiction in 2005, and his recent eponymous collection has gained critical acclaim. Gail Simone has remarked insightfully of his hypercomics, "I'm afraid he might not only be making comics for the new century, but for the one after that, as well,"
Website: http://e-merl.com
Ellen Lindner
Educated at Smith College and Camberwell College of Arts, Ellen Lindner is a cartoonist, writer and illustrator. "Little Rock Nine", drawn by Ellen and written by historian Marshall Poe, will be published in July by Aladdin Paperbacks
Website: http://www.littlewhitebird.com
Jess Bradley
Jess Bradley graduated from the University of the West of England, Bristol in 2003 with a BA Hons Degree in Illustration (First). She works primarily in acrylic paints but also like to use pen and ink, watercolour and a graphics tablet. Jess writes and draws her own self-published comic called Guide Dog Detective and has appeared Jamie Smart's Fat Chunk anthology, published by Slave Labor Graphics.
Website: http://www.jessbradley.com
OUT & OPEN
Mazz Image – MA – Photo-Media COFA/UNSW
Specialising is portrait and event photography, Mazz been documenting the colour, beauty and drama of the LGBT lifestyles since the 1980's. Her work is held in many private collections around the world and her limited edition book
“You & Mardi Gras” is available via www.mazzimage.com
Robert Taylor Photographer - www.taylor-photo.co.uk
Specializing in portraits, nudes, Robert's work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, The Victoria & Albert Museum, the Royal Society, and several private collections.
Sam Axford just finished his national diploma in art and design at Oxford and Cherwell college and be will be starting an illustration degree course at Swansea Metropolitan in September.
He has a keen interest within the creative industry he is an artist with many different quality’s and still learning at the young age of twenty. He has always shown an artistic talent; Sam had a natural drawing ability at a very young age.
His work is mostly based around the human form Sam approaches his work with extreme seriousness and perfection focusing on detail and explosive colours. The work has a real sense of character you can almost relate the work to your life someone you know personally. He really gets the essence of a persons personality and there life style they live. He captures the moment like it was a photograph. He has a real dedication towards learning new processes and techniques with in the arts industry.
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Andi Whiting studied photography at North Oxfordshire College of Art where he graduated with a distinction in the medium. He has always been into photo–manipulation, inspired by the work of artists like Oscar Rejlander and Man Ray.
He began to tentatively experiment with digital photography in the mid nineties, impressed by the scope and speed of the process compared to chemical photography.
Since late 1997 the focus of his work has shifted away from conventional photography towards digital imaging and most recently film. The context and content of his work has also undergone a transition. Early pieces, like Trade Resurrection and Acid Galatea, were digital composites constructed from images he had taken in nightclubs. These were then combined with paintings that had a religious theme, predominately early renaissance works.
Intent on learning new creative strategies he continued his learning at Oxford Brookes University where he graduated in 2000 with a 1st class honours degree in fine art. He then stayed a further year Brookes to take an MA in electronic media.
His most recent work consolidates a more autobiographical theme following the death of his parents coupled with the loss of a close friend due to the HIV virus. AIDS has played an important part in his life; it has claimed the life of one of his closest friends and as such has made him re-evaluate his own life and beliefs.
He has exhibited his work abroad and in this country, including an exhibition at the Springfield Gallery in Oxford along one of the countries premier contemporary painters Jenny Saville.
Tom Caley hails from Sydney, Australia. He is an actor working predominantly in musical theatre.He moved to the UK in March 2006 and intends to stay for quite sometime. He says he loves it.
Zac Bonhay has always been a chemist but always messes with paint. Science focuses the mind. For him painting messes it up again restoring the balance.
Daramoto is British born, multi ethnic, openly gay artist, showcases a selection of retrospective works. Having studied fashion, graphic design and photography at the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, he is now embarking on a long awaited destiny to become a fully fledged artist and is about to finish an MA in Contemporary Arts & Music at Oxford Brookes University with a clear vision of the future and a mission of inspiration. Daramoto is a chameleon. Who are you today?
Afroditi Aparti graduated the International Baccalaureate in 2000 doing high level in Art. She completed the 1st year of architecture in Brookes but subsequently changed her studies to fine arts. She graduated in 2004 having specialized in painting.
Later she was honored from the Greek Para Olympic team for the donation of money that was raised from her final project. All sculptures that were not sold are still being hosted at the Mayor’s Hall of her hometown in Greece Rafina.
In 2005 she attended a year’s course in video art, in Greece Athens, using Premiere and in September 2006 she started her part time MA in Contemporary Arts and Music at Brookes. She is now in her 2nd year and the materials that have become to inform and shape her practice are walks, sound, time, space, mythology, objects as instruments, human senses, painting and writing, always accompanying her personal sketch book.
During 2006 - 2008 she took part in a sound improvisation with Raul Keller in Mao, collaborated with Deborah Hirst in a group exhibition at the Jam Factory and also in Mao. Now, she currently manages the exhibition program at the Jam Factory Gallery and has started a new collaboration with Wasma Mansour, working with projections on sacred ground.
ENRIQUE AGUILAR
Enrique Aguilar Montalvo was born in Latacunga Ecuador. His professional work with photography dates back to 1972. He has always focused his work on the culture and people of Latin America. He has had numerous photographic exhibitions in Ecuador, Spain and Mexico.
He is a member of FOTOIMAGEN USA and winner of various international photographic competitions such as second prize in Europe of ‘Best photograph of Routes of the World 2000’ and second Prize in the international competition ‘Exploring the Planet 2001. Enrique is the author of the book Amanecer en los Andes and in 2000 he started his documentary production company: Pueblos de America as well as the virtual magazine: Worldvillages, www.worldvillages.net He is in permanet colaboration with cultural institutes such as SHAAM which works in the amazonian region of Ecuador and FINAE (Federa\cion Indigena Achaur) as well as IDSI, the Institute for the Social Development of Indigenous people of Ecuador.He has been living and working in Mexico since 2000 during which time he has worked on 12 documentaries which he filmed and developed in Ecuador, Guatemala, Bolivia, Peru and Mexico.
These documentaries have been acknowledged at international festivals such as Amiens and Biarritz France, Documania in Madrid, Festival de Albacete Spain, Festival de Boltana y Malaga, Spain. Festival Cultural Guadalupe USA, Festival de La Habana Cuba as well as various others in Colombia, Mexico and Ecuador. He was invited to participate in the Italian festival of UN MONDO DI MUSICA Palazzo de Venecia 2006 and in the Brasilian festival, MOSTRA CINEMA DIREITOS HUMANOS 2006. His documentaries have been shown in Europe through TV5 France and in Mexico through CANAL 40 together with the HABITAT project. In Mexico it has also been shown in TV UNAM (University of Mexico). His documentary projects have been done with the support of the following Mexican anthropological institutes: Instituto de Investigaciones Antropologicas de la UNAM, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, la Comision para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indigenas and Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas de la UNAM. He is currently working on a new documentary series related to Archeoastronomy in Middleamerica and his most recent production is: OLMECAS, las primeras huellas.
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