2013, Oil on Linen, 200 x 200 cm. Curtesy of Workplace Gallery
Lancaster’s paintings find sources in anonymous snapshots, slides, and films the artist finds in flea markets and junk shops. As a result, her subjects are people and settings she is not familiar with, but that are nonetheless presented in an intimate way. Lancaster paints gesturally, using broad strokes that appear to blur the images; sometimes her paint application is so thick that the strokes drip and distort surrounding forms and give her work a ghostly feel. Lancaster’s palette is usually ghostly and muddy; in 2005, she made a series of monochromes using black paint and the raw canvas for the contrasting color value. More recently, she has begun to explore other categories of photo-based figurative painting in the absence of a figure, as in her series of paintings based on photographs of gravestones.
Fadlabi
Fadlabi (b. 1975) in Sudan. BA political Science, Elnilain University 1995-1999, Khartoum, Diploma of painting1996-1998, Sudan University, Khartoum, BA visual Arts, Kunstakademiet, 2007-2010 Oslo, MA visual arts, Kunstakademiet, 2010-2012 Oslo. Founder of ONOgallery.com Showed at The Museum of contemporary art Oslo, The national gallery Oslo, Kunsthall Oslo, Kunstnerforbundet Oslo, UKS Oslo,The city hall Oslo, Kunst Station Kleinsassen, Cima Norma Dangio, Lava Kultur hus Stockholm and many other solo and group shows in different parts of Europe and Suda.
2013 Artists in Residence
SAM BELINFANTE
MELISSA BUGARELLA LAZZARO
AYAN FARAH
BEN RIVERS
LOUISA YOUNG ( writer on residence)
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Ayan Farah
Ayan Farah’s output is led by her interest in the provisional and the ephemeral. Though the work she makes is mainly wall based and loosely defined within painting, it stretches over several mediums and often is a result of the application of paint or other substances to various fabrics more frequently found in fashion, clothing, household furnishings and bedding. These fabrics have been effected by chance induced chemical or organic change. Controlled environmental and synthetic forces at play include immersion, dying and sun bleaching and while the work is process based it is also often based on locational narrative.
Born in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Ayan Farah graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2006 and most recently from the Royal College of Art in 2012. Since then she has won several residencies including the Eilean Shona residency, had her first major solo show at Vigo which sold in its entirety to DRAF, exhibited in Xtraction at the Hole Gallery in New York, Alchemy at Dover Arts Club in London, the Contemporary art Society Auction in London, and various art fairs internationally and was featured in the New York Times in the summer. She has just been listed in the 25 Artists to watch list prepared by Seth and Elisa Carmichael and published in Complex Magazine.
Ben Rivers (born in 1972) is an experimental and artist based in London. His work has been shown in many film festivals and galleries around the world and has won numerous awards. His work ranges from themes about exploring unknown wilderness territories to candid and intimate portrayals of real-life subjects. Rivers’s practice as a filmmaker treads a line between documentary and fiction. Often following and filming people who have in some way separated themselves from society, the raw film footage provides Rivers with a starting point for creating oblique narratives imagining alternative existences in marginal worlds. Rivers uses near-antique cameras and hand develops the 16mm film, which shows all the evidence of the elements it has been exposed to – the materiality of this medium forming part of the narrative.
He has been the recipient of a number of commissions and awards, including London Artists Film and Video Award 2007, Vauxhall Collective Commission 2008 and Film London Artist’s Moving Image Network production 2009.
2012 ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
FADLABI
LAURA LANCASTER
RICHARD RIGG
TOM SANDERS
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Laura Lancaster
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