Archive | June 2012
Vicky Stonebridge
Vicky is a freelance Artist, illustrator, digital colourist and Craftworker based in Lochcarron in the North West Coast of the Scottish Highlands. She is also a retained Fire Fighter and ‘Community facilitator’.
She spends a lot of time on community projects and has 20 years experience of running, organising & delivering Arts and Crafts workshops, classes and events, including Hi-Ex, The Highlands International Comic Expo.
Trained in Ceramics at Edinburgh College of Art in the 1980′s and ran ‘Balnacra Pottery’ 1995 – 2005.
Vicky explores the area between creative self expression and communication with others, seeking ways of creating accessible art without compromising it. She very involved with community and local politics, seeing all things as connected and using art to bring people together. There is a narrative element throughout her artwork. Her work has been widely published and regularly appears in graphic Novels and books.
Her inspirational journey starts with ancient myth and epic, people and places, nature, the Pict and Celts- it winds romantically, idealistically through Forests and green places, across the sea where the call of the steppes and the ancient Scythian cultures lure- pulling between Western shores and strange imagined Eastern lands.
Exhibitions;
- Group Christmas shows 2012, Inchmore Gallery, The schoolhouse Dornie, Beauly Gallery.
- Comic concept Poster art currently exhibiting in Scotland House, Brussels.
- exhibited in Edinburgh and Inverness with ‘Reactions to Vysotsky’ August 2011
- Contributed to Trees for Life charity Exhibition 2012
- Joint exhibition in Weatherford Offices, Aberdeen spring 2011.
- Participated in Rock Trust charity postcard art exhibition 2011
- Participation in Highland Russian connections charity exhibition in the City of Novokuznetsk and Mariinsk, Siberia
- Art Exhibition & Christmas Fair, New Lodge, strathcarron 20th November to 5th December
- Winter 2010- Inverness airport, Figurative paintings.
- Winter 2010-2011 Inchmore Gallery
- Exhibition in the Shishkin Gallery, Yelabuga Tatarstan, Russian 2010, of works produced during by the 5th International Arts symposium of Yelabuga, theme of ’Breath of the Epos’.
- May 2010 Highland open studios event.
- July 2009 Inchmore gallery-Firefighter art.
- June 2009. Highland Open studios event at the Lochcarron Fire station
Projects;
- Participated in Panel discussion at Bristol Comics Exp 2012 with launch of Book Bayou Arcana.
- did design work and involved with SKY1 programme currently under production ” the great Treehouse Challenge”
- contributed to ‘The Spirit of Hope’ Japan relief fundraising Comic book put together by the Comic Book Alliance. BBC report HERE
- Appearing as a Guest at The National Irish Sci-Fi Convention- Octocon 2011
- was a guest at 2D the Northern Ireland Comics Festival 2nd -4th June 2011
- Exhibitor & Panelist at Bristol Comic Expo 2011 ‘Slaughterman’s Creed’ and ‘Women, Politics and Cartoons’
- Appeared as a Guest at The National Irish Sci-Fi Convention- Octocon 2010
- Participation In the 5th International Arts symposium of Yelabuga, Tatarstan, Russian 2010, theme of ’Breath of the Epos’
- mosaic interpretive panels on bio-diversity & heritage for the Smithy Heritage Centre 2010
- March-April 2008, Recycled Art installation/seating area at Alness Academy,
- Participated in the Highland Printmakers ‘Lochcarron Animation project’ 2007, produced “The Giant of Lochcarron” short film.
- August 2007, worked in 4 west coast primary schools to produce banners and murals for the Blas Festival. Textiles and mosaics.
- 20th July 2008. ‘How to draw Comics’ with the BBC ‘BLAST’ Tour. Inverness.
- many others- information on request
Awards;
- Digital Eden project 2006, Bursary to create animation film for the Inverness film festival.
- shortlisted for 2010 Highlands and Islands Fire & Rescue service Commitment to Excellence awards- Community and Youth involvment.
Somu Desai (Nitesh Desai)
Born in 1969 in a small town in India, Somu realized his artistic skills from his teenage years and graduated with a fine art degree from Gujarat in 1992.
Somu Desai, as well as being an artist has the enviable quality of being able to engage and enthuse people to get involved in the many art projects he has organized through his passion for art.
Living in a large area of India renowned for its mango irrigation, which is also surrounded by one of the biggest industrial zones in Asia, Somu has personally witnessed the way industrial development is overpowering nature. His work expresses and exposes the industrial and political interferences in nature. Somu works using industrial media and expresses issues that he has experienced in his day-to-day life. Using the method of visual communication he is keen to emphasize and bring awareness to the viewer of the consequences of these actions. His medium of choice is the use of light sensitive chemicals on industrially sized surfaces and exposed by ammonia fumes (white print). He has adapted and specialized this media to meet his needs, and his use of it brings subtle but often haunting images to the audience. He also uses his large scale pen drawings to bring a different perspective to issues in Indian life.
Somu has worked extensively on often large-scale public projects, and has participated in camps, workshops and residencies. He has also played a key role in organizing some of the major camps, events and residences in India, and is also collaborating with a Scottish artist to arrange a series of original international artist residencies named “Ceangal” in the rural Highlands of Scotland and traveled there in 2011 to assist with the research and development.
Somu lives and operates from a small town in India where he has a studio named “Zero Kilometer”, where young artists can do their art practice and attune themselves for the wider art world. Somu Desai has showcased his works in India and abroad.
Born
1969, Dist- Valsad, Gujarat, India.
Education.
1987-1992 Diploma in painting (Gujarat)
Camp / Workshop
- 2004 Rupda artist association workshop
- 2005 Kala Guru Jasubhai Naik art foundation
- 2007 Gujarat kala Pratisthan
- 2007 Sandarbh site specific workshop
- 2008 monsoon magic painting workshop
- 2009 Sandarbh site specific workshop
- 2009 FALCAT Udwada
- 2010 FALCAT Kutch
Projects
- 2009 Vibrant Gujarat, Mural project
- 2009 Art Routes, ways of seeing
- 2010 Still in Baroda, Thrill in Baroda.
Group Exhibitions
- 2004 Rupda Artist association
- 2005 Kala Guru Jasubhai Naik art foundation
- 2007 Gujarat Kala Pratisthan
- 2007 Samsara arts
- 2007 New Gujarat contemporaries
- 2007 Art within reach
- 2008 intimate earth
- 2009 video Wednesday
- 2010 video show
- 2011 cross currents
- 2011 here and now (UK)
www. zerokilometer.com
Lynn Bennett-Mackenzie
Born in 1967, Lynn Bennett-Mackenzie is an established artist living and working in Gairloch, NW Scotland. Brought up in remote rural areas of the Highlands of Scotland, Lynn studied at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, graduating in 1990.
She enjoys creating in a variety of media and exploring new methods of working. She has exhibited widely and taken part in several community and international projects including The Big Picture, Wild Wood , Landfill art, an International Art Symposium in Russia and is currently collaborating with an Indian artist to create Ceangal, a series of international artist residencies in the NW Highlands. A major project in connection with this was a schools participatory project supported by SNH at Beinn Eighe Nature reserve in collaboration with Indian artist, Somu Desai. She also travelled to India in January 2012 to further develop Ceangal.
In her painting and drawing works she successfully expresses the emotion of the often isolating atmosphere of the Highlands.
She has also worked out of the box, most recently completing an installation work at Inverewe Garden, intended to engage the viewer to consider their sense of place.
Lynn also finds her body a perfect medium to express her artist context and has recently done a performance on Displacement which is an on-going project.
Living in a remote rural area, Lynn has learned to adapt and create opportunities for herself and the area she lives in. She is open to new ideas and is always looking to expand her boundaries in her field of interest of people and place. She connects with the issues of people and place globally and enjoys interacting with people and developing and understanding cutlures around the world.
Solo shows
Solo Exhibition Eden Court Theatre Inverness 1991
Projects
Wild Wood Community Project Gairloch 1993
Exchange Group Trip – Wild Wood Poland 1995
The Big Picture Highlands 1997
Landfill art project International ongoing
Breath of the Epos –international art symposium Elabuga, Russia 2010
Smiles Warsaw 2011
Beinn Eighe schools participatory project Beinn Eighe, Scotland 2011
Mixed shows
An Talla Solais Ullapool 2005, 2006, 2007
West Coast Open 3 An Talla Solais Ullapool 2007
Highland Open studios Lime tree, Fort William 2007
Highland Art Fair Strathpeffer 2007
Macmillan show Strathpeffer 2008
Highland Open Studios Beauly 2008
Highland Art Show Strathpeffer 2008
Postcards for sick kids Edinburgh 2008
An Talla Solais – West coast open 4 Ullapool 2008
An Talla Solais – members show 5 Ullapool 2009
Highland open studios Eden court theatre, Inverness 2009
Macmillan highland art fair Foulis Castle 2009
Salon de Refuses Tore Gallery 2009
Christmas show Beauly Gallery 2009
ESSA show Edinburgh 2009
Strathpeffer art fair Strathpeffer 2009
Members Christmas show An Talla Solais, Ullapool 2009
Highland Hospice show Beauly 2010
An Talla Solais Ullapool 2010
ESSA Edinburgh 2010
Artswap 2010 International 2010
Postcards for sick kids Edinburgh 2010
Art off the rock Stirling 2010
Highland Art Fair Strathpeffer 2010
Twitterartshow Moss,Norway 2010
Artswap II International 2010
Smiles Warsaw 2011
Joint shows
Elements Gairloch heritage museum 2007Elements II Macphail Centre, Ullapool 2007
Elements Gairloch heritage museum 2007Elements II Macphail Centre, Ullapool 2007
Gallery Artists Regent Gallery, Somerset April/May2009
Fine Lines – joint show with Kate Mackay Regent Gallery, Somerset June 2009
Mixed show Beauly Gallery 2009
Mixed show The Studio, Fortrose 2009
Beauly Gallery Beauly – May – July 2010
Breath of the Epos – Ivan Shishkin gallery Elaguba, Russia & to tour 2010 ongoing
Joint show Galerie Sigvardson, Denmark 2010
Mixed shows Inchmore Gallery, Inverness 2010/2011
Collaboration
Ceangal – director Scottish Highlands/International 2011 ongoing
I have over the years done various works for illustration purposes including Visitscotland, wedding invitations and Two Lochs radio. I have been interviewed for several blogs online. Some of my works are on permanent show in Bridge Cottage Gallery, Poolewe , and I am a member of Highland Open Studios from 2007- present, An Talla Solais, Ullapool, Visual Arts Scotland
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JUANAN EGUIGUREN
Qualifications and training
ñ 2006 MA Fine Art, University of West England, UWE, Bristol (UK)
ñ 2000 BA Film and Video, International Film School Wales, UWCN, Newport (UK)
Group exhibitions
ñ 2011-12 “Sandarbh”, Partapur, Rajasthan (India)
ñ 2009 “En:Countering”, StadsGalerij (IDFX), Breda (The Netherlands)
ñ 2009 “Mareas Migratorias”, CAAM, Las Palmas (Spain)
ñ 2009 “I am comedy”, Arnolfini, Bristol (UK)
ñ 2009 “Mareas Migratorias”, Anciens Combatents, Dakar (Senegal)
ñ 2008 “I am comedy”, Hotel MariaKapel, Hoorn (The Netherlands)
ñ 2008 “I am comedy”, W139, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
ñ 2008 “I am comedy”, Worm, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
ñ 2008 “We Used to be Painters”, Plan 9, Bristol (UK)
ñ 2007 “Kultur Kalean”, Distrito 7 Rekalde, Bilbao (Spain)
ñ 2006 “Txoria”, Zinebi, Bilbao (Spain)
ñ 2006 “Cromados MAEC”, Zinebi, Bilbao (Spain)
ñ 2006 “There you Are”, Marksman Gallery, Reading (UK)
ñ 2006 “Obert en canal”, L’escorxador, Esparreguera (Spain)
ñ 2006 MA Show, University of West England, Bristol (UK)
ñ 2006 “Send by post”, travel exhibition, The Crypt, Bristol (UK)
ñ 2006 “Send by post”, Electron, Breda (The Netherlands)
ñ 2006 “Send by post, travel exhibition”, Casa Torre, Santurce (Spain)
ñ 2006 “DAVE”, Hengrove Art Space, Bristol (UK)
ñ 2005 “You could have gone larger but you didn’t”, Paintworks, Bristol (UK)
ñ 2005 MA Show, University of West England, Bristol (UK)
ñ 2003 MA Show, University of West England, Bristol (UK)
Live/Performance
ñ 2008 “Origenes”, Fundacion Canal de Isabel II, Madrid (Spain)
ñ 2007 “Mas alla del mar”, Gran Canaria Ballet, Teatro Perez Galdos, Las Palmas Spain
ñ 2006 Clausura Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Auditorio Alfredo Krauss, Las Palmas Spain
ñ 2006 Inauguración Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Auditorio Alfredo Krauss, Las Palmas Spain
Residencies
ñ 2011-12 “Sandarbh”, Partapur, Rajasthan (India)
ñ 2009 “En:Countering”, StadsGalerij (IDFX), Breda (The Netherlands)
ñ 2008 “I am comedy”, Hotel MariaKapel, Hoorn (The Netherlands)
Fred Martin
Biography
Born in Lille in 1969
Studied in Fine Art School, Tourcoing, France
Lives and works in Lille, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2011
Les veilleurs/ The watchmen, Festival « Aux arts etc », Écouflant, France
2010
The right hand, Parc Maingoval, Douchy les Mines, France
How did i cast my face in the basement earth, Gallery Der Kanal, Neukoln, Berlin, Germany
Earth baptisms, Penitentiary, Sequedin, France
2009
Golem, Festival « Aux arts etc », Écouflant, France
2007
La bête humaine/ The human beast, Aulnoy-Lez-Valenciennes, France
The borderers, Quiévrechain, France
The residents, English Channel, Berck sur mer, France
100 faces for 100 years, Penitentiary, Loos, France
2006
A day a train, Maison Folie, Moulins, Lille, France
Earth baptisms , Parcours d’artistes, Maison du Peuple, Saint-Gilles, Brussels, Belgium
2005
Prints, Robespierre Gallery, Grande-Synthe, France
2004
Those who came from earth 2, Houet Museum & French Cultural centre, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
By himself , Fine Art School Gallery, Calais, France
2002
Belong, Gallery Arc-en-ciel, Liévin & La Malterie, Lille, France
2001
Exvagus , Gallery Chatillez, Tourcoing, France
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2012
Dedans la terre, Mine d’art en sentier, Vieux Condé, France
2011
Nymphaeaceae, Festival Pépète Lumière, Dompierre les Ormes, France
Exvagus, Maisons Folles, Ronchin, France
2010
Drawing on water #2, Entre Lacs, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Cité perdue/ Lost city, Collectif LEM Utopia, Palais Rameau, Lille, France
2009
Drawing on water #1, Workshop Ici & Là-bas, La Roche qui boit, France
French kiss, Symposium Sites en ligne, Silly, Belgium
2008
13 isolations, Cell A1D0, Oostereiland Penitentiary & Hotel Mariakapel Gallery, Hoorn, The Netherlands
The exchange, Expo Cool Art Café, Festival Couleur Café, Brussels, Belgium
Within limbo, I is another, Lost action hero, Harmony Art Foundation Residency, Mumbai, India
2007
Cavern, Symposium Sites en ligne, Silly, Belgium
Materia Prima, Cool Art Café, Festival Couleur Café, Brussels, Belgium
2006
The narcisses, La fête de mai, Mozet, Belgium
The offering, Faunique, Maison Folie of Moulins, Lille, France
2005
The gift, Sites en ligne, Silly, Belgium
Catch, Cool Art Café, Festival Couleur Café, Brussels, Belgium
2004
Infans, Tambacounda Genève Dakar 4 International workshop, Senegal
The passengers, Art/Terre, Comines-Warneton, Belgium
2003
Those who came from earth, Geumgang Art in Nature Exhibition, Yatoo, Gongju, South Korea
RESIDENCIES
2012
Artists In Residency, Dune Eco Beach Hotel, Pondicherry, India
2008
« Harmony Art Foundation », International sculpture residency, Mumbai, India
2007
« L’art dans les quartiers, les quartiers vers l’art », Aulnoy-Lez-Valenciennes, France
« Eclats d’art », Quiévrechain, France
2005
Gallery Robespierre, Grande-Synthe, France
2002
Workshop with Richard Wentworth, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Calais, France
1999
« Des artistes chez des habitants », Associations À Voir & ARIAP, Lille, France
PUBLICATIONS
2008 Mayak, Traditions Modernités I, Belgium
Catalogue Harmony Art Foundation Residency, India
Catalogue Harmony Art contemporary works, India 2008
2007 Catalogue Geumgang Nature Art Pre-biennale 2007, South Korea
2004 BIL BO K Métamorphoses, Lille Capitale européenne de la culture, France
2003 Catalogue Geumgang International Nature Art, Exhibition 2003, South Korea
Chemin d’art, Saint Flour, France
2002 La fête de mai, Mozet, Belgium
Ximena Labra
Mexico City, 1972. Visual artist and Graphic designer. www.ximenalabra.com
BA Graphic Design at Universidad Iberoamericana 1991-1995 Mexico City.
MA Art and Ephemeral Architecture UPC Barcelona, 2000, where she worked lived until 2008.
Actually lives in Mexico City working on public space intervention projects, photography, video, and development of specific projects for cultural institutions.
She has received two grants from the National Culture and Arts Fund in Mexico and an honors mention for Mexico City at the VIII Monterrey Biennial as well as the Europrix top quality seal for net. art, Croatia 2004.
She has curated several exhibition projects in Mexico and Spain for institutions like the Spanish Cultural Center in Mexico and the Espais Foundation in Catalonia.
Among her recent projects are a collaboration with Joseph Kosuth for Casa Encendida in Madrid, and her work has been exhibited at museums such as MACO Oaxaca, México, Centro Cultural de España Mexico, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Centro de Cultura Ccontemporánea de Barcelona, Museo Universitario del Chopo México,Offlimits Madrid,CELARG Caracas, and private galleries in Mexico, Spain, Holland, Germany and Peru.
Among her recent projects are public space interventions such as Tlatelolco 1968-2008 (http://webcronic.com/ximenalabra/tlatelolco), her participation in Moscow Young Art Biennial and the development massive toys and inteventions for public spaces. She is currently obsessed with books and is developing a Phantom Library http://vimeo.com/30593174 and a public intervention for the Denver International Airport.
