Jade Montserrat

Jade Montserrat is a U.K based artist and writer living and working in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Montserrat is known for her dedication to address the deep rooted racism, gender inequality and discrimination engrained in so many art institutions. Using a wide variety of materials and techniques from drawing and painting to performance, film and use of text. Montserrat intertwines art with activism and often use techniques such as ;phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax to to highlight the defects in our understanding of culture.

Montserrat has notably started a collaborative project; “Rainbow Tribe: Affectionate Movement R&R'“ The combinations of these two phrases is interesting, affectionate movement is a reference to Nina Kane ‘s anthology ‘Reflections on Female and Trans* Masculinities and Other Queer Crossings’ which describes “an approach to exploring shifts in freedom, agency, ethics, care, and being in a community.” Furthermore, ‘Rainbow Tribe’ is a reference toJosephines Bakers experiment ‘The Rainbow Tribe’ in which she adopted twelve ethically diverse children all from different unalike backgrounds. Baker’s idealistic hopes of a mixed-race family spotlights the ever-continuing problems and protests surrounding cultural diversity and political freedom. This is such an interesting concept and experiment as despite Bakers intentions and effort you cannot fix a global problem with a flawed solution, race and ethnicity is a part of us and the discard rather than to embrace these aspects is not and ‘affectionate movement’ for these children. In “Rainbow Tribe: Affectionate Movement R&R'“ Monterserrat showcases a wall drawing made from charcoal and whitewash, completely= encompassing the gallery’s walls using text from her research on the matter. The piece is the brought to a new level as she invites multiple artists and members of the original rainbow tribe to expresses themselves and sculpt the walls. All participants are invited to erase and highlight elements of her text they see fit. This representation of being present and then erased by a group may feel very potent and real for some cultural minorities. This piece also presents the genuine process of art creation, he journey all pieces go through; being there and then being gone. It narrates the deletion and exaggeration of many elements of our lives, including cultures, differences in sex, differences in religion and also thoughts, feelings and companionships.

https://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/event/artist-talk-jade-montserrat/

http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/exhibition-programme/future-space/jade-montserrat-rainbow-tribe-affectionate-movement-rr/

http://www.metalculture.com/artists-area/jade-montserrat/

https://www.artsinconversation.com/interviews/2018/jade-montserrat

Joseph Noon Gangely

Joesph noon Gangeley (b.1987) is an Irish artist based in London. his work transpires and interweaves through his experimentation with video, spoken word, writing, sculpture and textiles. He explores themes of sexuality, biology and plays with the ability to manipulate and mould materials into his own meanings. Noon-Gangely seems to likes to brake and rebuild the boundaries between a gallery and theatre.

Noon-Gangleys recent exhibition using moving images studies; “ The Cesspool of Rapture, 2017” is an exploration of the exploitation and eroticised labour in the making and wearing of 20th century dresses. He shows short clips studying the generally ignored details such as zips, stains, rips, and the openings and closing mechanism in a series of dresses made by the American designer Charles James (1906–1978) clips of these elements vary in speed creating sometimes a violent and threatening aura and other-times a more timid and fragile feel. This subject is very prominent in the news of today, with victim blaming, extreme exposure laws and labour cruelty all to present in todays society.

https://www.josephnoonanganley.com/bio

https://www.artrabbit.com/events/joseph-noonanganley-and-frank-wasser-sad-mirror

Rosa Johan Uddoh

Rosa John Uddoh(b.1995 in croydon) is the youngest artist to receive the biennial fellowship. She often works in ceramics y exploring her body and casting and using it as tools; homeware products such as jugs and bowls. Uddoh also uses sound , performance and fan-fiction. Uddoh’s work also often references her background in architecture - using this framework to cement her stories and thoughts from various places. Understanding framework structures’ her interest in exploring over-identification and our exaggerated understanding of necessities created from bit-pop culture, celebrities and objects. highlighting these subjects makes the audience question the effects our world has on our self-esteem.

Uddoh’s work “The Serve” is currently being displayed in the Bluecoat Gallery, and is a performance, written text and video exploration of the William’s sisters battle in Wimbledon, and the inspiration this had on Uddoh and many others across the world. She expresses her feeling of augmented reality and interconnection through the TV set, “reality and fiction, my life and theirs blurs with the speed of Venus William’s double handed backhand” .I found this exploration a really interesting exhibition and in the future this will encourage me to personalise my work with my prominent memories despite their actual global prominence. it has the effect of feeling more relatable to the audience and encourages us to question our own reality and analyse the small differences we can make to out lives so that we can become at one with our competition and yet still achieve our desired outcome. The focus on the juxtaposing simplicity yet so detailed ‘serve’ and the effects of simply ‘extending(the body)’and ‘realesing(the ball)’ mirrors the inner peace we all need to achieve.

https://www.architectural-review.com/rethink/the-serve/10028281.article?blocktitle=Reviews-and-Interviews&contentID=14985

https://www.rosajohanuddoh.com/the-serve

https://www.rosajohanuddoh.com/about

http://www.sarabandefoundation.org/2017/02/06/rosa-uddoh/

Laura Yuielle

Laura Yuielle was born in Glasgow and is now a London based artist who focuses on sculpture, video and performance. she like to explore juxtapositions and uses language and various mediums as an art form. She explores the unhealthy relationship between need, desire and excess which i think is an ever expanding problem in this materialistic society Yuielle also notes that “I'm interested in exploring the boundaries between public and private space, the fetishisation of transcience, and notions of displacement, transition and transformation in relation to time, place and the invisible infrastructures that shape our existence” i find this an interesting as the concept of public and private space is an everlasting problem which has caused many wars and conflicts, since we can remember territory has been engrained into our minds yet the world was not made with barriers. This adoption of instinct seems to correspond with the movement from Pangea to the world we know today.

Yuielle recently presented a solo exhibition, “obscolescent vibes and me” which features human figures intwined, tangled, connected and strangled by household appliances which are made to make our lives easier. It seems to be exploring the frustration of so called ‘improvement’ to our homes and cities which all to often just feel like quick fixes to a much more complex problem. Yuielles work has this reccuring motif of connecting wider global conditions to local conditions and the importance that the whole world being secure has on our domestic life and wellbeing.

https://www.saatchigallery.com/uk/raine/artist.php?id=293

http://recentactivity.org.uk/project-space/laura-yuile-obsolescent-vibes/

https://www.artrabbit.com/events/laura-yuile-obsolescent-vibes-and-me

http://recentactivity.org.uk/project/assembly/

Morten Norbye Halvosen

Morten Norbye Halvosen, (born in Norway 1980) is a diverse artist practicing in various medias such as sculpture, photography, drawings and sound and performance art. Halvosen plays with many ways of exploring these motifs, most notably his portrayal of sound which he uses to unravel stories, scenes, places and memories and often emphasises these performances with props, drawings, music and recordings.

Halvosen often works in collaboration with other artists, for example his exhibition in the Liverpool biennial alongside fellow artist Jessica Warboys with the exhibition, “wave tabel project” composed especially for and within the Kunsthall Stavanger's gallery, the work presented thrashing and rippling waves of sound which then crossfade between studio and field recordings, on top of which both Halvosen and Warboys reciet poetry over the immersive sound in this consuming environment.

his work really captures my imagination, i love his freedom with presentation and what i conceive as purposeful ignorance to the rules of art. This is especially apparent in his photography pieces; in which i can almost feel the the wind hear the bees, yet what is more profound to me is with his images he portarys sounds which do not exist yet are now relatable.

http://www.sommerakademie.zpk.org/en/former-academies/2014/fellows/morten-norbye-halvorsen.html

http://mortenhalvorsen.com/arkiv/

Iacopo Seri

iacopo seri born in 1983 lives in Naples, Italy and explores how to misplace common ideas and conceptions into unconventional understandings of human mythology. Seri uses different techniques and medias to broadcast knowledge taken from living myths, a concept inspired by the late professor Joseph Campbell.

Seri was involved in the liverpool bienall 2018 showcasing his piece; '“A drunken meditation on the mystery of existence” this was an communal and interactive piece where he invited people to a bar, provided them with bottomless red or white wine and insinuated conversations about philosophy, in order to encounter and document the change of ideas and behavioural patterns of the public due to the influence of alcohol. this highlights the effect intoxication has on our reality and artistic conceptions.

I feel a connection to his work and admire his constant deliberations to push the boundaries we have put in place, and encourages us conquer our own barriers in life. We can see examples of this in his piece; ‘Qualcosa è successo’ a performance with a couple of lovers in 2010. he explains; '“I brought two persons in the space of an exhibition, the night before the opening. I asked them to make love there, then I left them alone. Nobody knows what really happened; I wrote conjectures about the circumstance on the catalogue, by hand, a different one for each copy'“ this is an example of how he questions and pushes us to ask ourselves what is too much and why do we have these pre conceived ideas of what is appropriate and what is not.

http://www.fondazioneratti.org/mat/corso/CSAV/iscritti/2011/600_portfolio.pdfhttps://biennial.com/events/what-is-a-drunken-meditation-on-the-mystery-of-existencehttps://www.biennial.com/2018/exhibition/artists/iacopo-seri

Heath Bunting

Heath Bunting, born 1966 is a Bristol based contempory artists. he is respected for his outlandish ideas and pieces and for his involvement in the the net.art movement in the 1990-of which the ideas reflect that of the conceptual art, the link between association and dissociation of of art and everyday life. One of buntings ongoing projects relating to status is ‘A Terrorist’ a map showing all the information needed to make a purchase on the internet following the Uk’s terrorist act in 2006, showing the how easily our thoughts and movements can be tracked and analysed. this subject is now even more topical with the extensive ‘cookies’ recorded on our browsers and that facebook Cambridge analytica scandal. the piece itself has a really eye catching composition, the bold line cutting through one another, resembling a web or a cell. The dedication he puts into his projects and beliefs i find so inspiring and brings information into action.

http://www2.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/a_terrorist.shtm

https://www.furtherfield.org/heath-bunting-the-status-project-the-netopticon/

http://www.necronauts.org/cubitt_heath.htm