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Anne Chapman

These transient visions have been captured through the mysterious eyes of the pinhole camera. The hand-made pinhole cameras are an infinitely more subtle and synergic transmitter of image from subject to film. As light penetrates the dark box registering its presence on the high-speed photographic film inside, a spectral world of tunneling space is born.

The strange hallucinatory figures within are the artist herself; a simple smudge in the illusory abyss.

The camera takes on a viewpoint which a human being seldom has; being placed inside random objects and spaces. As gravity and perspective are subjected to manipulation, the images relationship to reality becomes uncertain.

Karen David

“Break it down to bring it back together: The act of searching for an image, an idea, a faith, a person, something beautiful. Of deciphering codes of lines, shapes and colours till that moment of enlightenment when suddenly it all comes together and all at once everything becomes louder and clearer and you wonder how you ever saw anything else.”

My practice always begins with the theft of a web pornographic image. Through digital means the image is abstracted to seductive colours and visually ambiguous forms.
This transformation brings an ambiguity, subtlety and curiosity that is absent in the original source material leaving the painting with an invitation of discovery.

Tapestries
Karen David’s practice includes an ongoing project: The Pixel and The Stitch.
Based on a female identity conflict of the homemaker and the whore, she creates mixed-media tapestries of images from porn sites using pixels as references for the stitch. Stealing manufactured images existing in cyberspace and weaving this into a handmade craft, she allows space for a certain romantic reinvention and reclaiming.

Georgina McNamara

Bio:
Georgina McNamara studied Art History at East Anglia University followed by a second BA in Jewellery Design at Middlesex University.

Since 2001, McNamara has been making photographic images which, through the use of models and garment distortion, explore the relationship between the body and the imagination.

With influences including classical iconography and contemporary dance, she constructs images with strong formal and sculptural qualities using garments not simply as props but as emotional vehicles to create a psychological space for the exploration of fantasy.

Living and working in London, McNamara has exhibited widely in the UK and London.

CV:

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:
95 - 01 BA Jewellery: Middlesex University
80 - 83 BA History of Art: University of East Anglia

SOLO SHOWS:
02 Icon: Aurum Gallery London (4.3 - 29.6)

GROUP SHOWS:

05 Yabba Dabba Doo, Trailer, Cell Project Space London (14.10 - 13.11)
05 Future Landscapes, Shrewsbury Art Gallery Shrewsbury (19.07 - 4.09)
05 Wood for the Trees, John Jones London (18.07 - 9.9)
04 Evolution: Shrewsbury Art Gallery Shrewsbury (23.7 - 5.9)
04 Inspired: Gainsborough Studios London (1.7)
04 Ooze: John Jones London (8.04 - 7.05)
03 Godzilla: Trailer London (26.10 - 9.11)
03 Kay Harwood & Georgina McNamara: Quodart Brighton (5.8 - 16.9)
03 Gladrags: Stroud House Gallery Gloucestershire (12.7 - 16.8)
03 Slip It To Me: Hat on Wall Gallery London (12 - 26.6)
02 Neo-Classicism: Preston Fitzgerald London (15 - 25.10)
02 Fresh Art 2002: The Business Design Centre London (19 - 21.7)
02 Guns & Roses: Trailer London (5 - 21.7)
02 Jubilee: Felstead St, London (2 - 3.6)
02 Do this - Do that: Hat on Wall Gallery London (9.5 - 1.6)
01 Vougelle: Hat On Wall Gallery London (7.12 - 19.01)
01 Hidden Talent: John Jones London (5.12 - 5.01)
01 Human Interest: St Paul’s Vicarage Lancaster (9 - 18.11)
01 Beautiful & Unique: Beatrice Royal Gallery Hampshire (20.10 -

20.01)
01 Fresh Art 2001: The Business Design Centre London (27 - 29.7)
01 Trailer: Calvert Avenue London (13.07 - 1.08)
01 New Designers: The Business Design Centre London (5 - 8.07)

AWARDS:
05 London Photographic Awards: Bronze Winner (September)

Marilyn Petridean

Jo Scholar

Victoria Turnbull

Biography:
Exhibitions

Battersea Art Fair, Battersea Art Centre, November 18th – November 20th 2005, showing paintings made during the last year.
Sefton Open, Group Show, Atkinson Art Gallery, Liverpool, September – October 2005, Shortlisted for the Sefton Open prize.
Peer Critique, Artist Presentation, Whitechapel Art Gallery, February 2005, presented work to arts professionals as part of Space and the Whitechapel’s programme 'access for artists'.
#20, Bermondsey Open, December 2004, new work done during summer residency.
Marcus Garvey, Group show, Brixton Art Gallery, July 2003, work done in South London Schools.
Coloured, Group Art Exhibition, Trafik, March 2003,
I curated a group show featuring four up and coming Black artists.
Group show, Alan Baxter and associates, May - June 2002, I exhibited my own work alongside designs made for urban regeneration in partnership with Free Form Arts Trust.
Project coordinator and Artist, KelpRa, Camden Centre, February 2000 - October 2001
I created scene decorations which included three 8ft banners for a Black cultural events company.
Strange Pilgrim, Brixton Art Gallery, November 2000, Solo show of paintings.

Artist Residencies - 2004/2005

West London Academy, November 2005
I worked with year 8 and 9 students on a permanent mural within the new school.
William Tyndale Primary School, January – July 2005
I worked with two year 4 classes and their teachers. We created a story quilt which was based on a narrative we explored as a group and created in fabric, which went on permanent display and project work that fed into the curriculum. I also ran an after school arts project for the gifted and talented.
Gillespie Primary School, January – July 2005
I worked with a range of different year groups alongside teachers leading art projects that linked into the school curriculum. I created temporary public art with year 3 students and created character chairs with year 4 students partially informed by Geffrye Museum’s exhibition on the same subject.
Alywin Girls School, September 2004 – April 2005
I worked with a year 11 GCSE textiles class looking at contemporary art, and the issues that inform it, to develop the classes’ critical awareness of their work. This involved presentations of artists work and one on one tutorials.
Mount Carmel Secondary School
I worked with a year 8 class on developing narrative based work developed from their personal identities. We took personal objects and played story telling games to enhance their experience which then developed into final mixed media works.

Education

• BA (hons) Fine Art (Painting), Norwich School of Art, September 1996-June 1999,
• Foundation in Art and Design, Camberwell College of Art, September 1995-June 1996
• A-levels in Art, English and French, Highbury Sixth Form, September 1993-June 1995

• Cultural Enterprise Training, Free Form Arts Trust, February 2002-May 2002
Public Art, Regeneration and consultation training