Paul Burgess

I am primarily an illustrator and art educator. Recently my work has been going through a transitional stage towards more freedom of form and function. I work with collage and use often nostalgic imagery to create portraiture with a contemporary edge. This new work contains more of a dark parody and effacement of the subject. 

Jaye Ho

Here are three photos of pill box bunkers in Surrey with fireworks being set off inside the structure. I like the fact that fireworks give off the same effect as military weaponry, as well as being very decorative and frivolous. I also like the idea of the bunker being a target as opposed to being a safe haven. This idea links in with my Nesst installation in Krakow, where the video projector shoots light out of one of the gun emplacement slits. This was a collaboration with Mordant Music, where MisinforMation, Ian's commission for the BFI was projected onto a screen at the opposite end of the room. As this is a finished piece you can see more images on my website www.jayeho.com

Lastly there is a photo of my back garden during fireworks night. Nothing is set up (apart from the pumpkin) and I like this image because I realize how quirky my back garden must look to other people. It looks very much like a stage set. I took this photo right after the fireworks had gone off, hence the smoke inside the shed (which is my studio).

Images
1. Pillbox bunker fireworks no 1, 2, and 3
2. The Nesst, The Hidden at Unsound Festival Krakow
3. Fireworks night in my back garden

Günther Herbst

My paintings until recently were a series of work based on homeless shelters that I had been photographing over a number of years. The materials and fibers that made up these shelters, and the way they were at odds with the surrounding architecture or immediate environment was the starting point for a series of work that soon departed from the premise of ‘studies’. I appropriated a language of history and contemporary painting practices and used these as a transparent medium in order to comment on the subject matter from a different perspective.

I am in a transition phase at the moment having stripped the work back to purely formal painting issues. The work still has its origin in photography. Within these images I look for grids and patterns, which remind me of the work of other artists. My work has long been concerned with converging a number of different types of space into a single act. It has always been connected with the public arena, or 'social space', specifically that of the violence enacted in public, urban space as both a place of global arrival and terminal resort of the dispossessed. My work focuses on the painterly, two-dimensional space of the canvas as an arena of art-historical techniques and possibilities.

Paintings:

Waterloo Rd. 3 Red Blue White Grey 2009 Oil on canvas 100 x 130 cm

Tottenham Court Rd. 3 Black Blue Red 2009 Acrylic and oil on board 30 x 22 cm

Tottenham Court Rd. 5 Yellow Red Blue Grey 2009 Acrylic and oil on board 50 x 64.5 cm

Waterloo Rd. 4 Red Blue 2010 Acrylic on paper 19 x 25.5 cm

Work in progress New Oxford St. 3 Red White Blue Yellow Black 2010 Oil and acrylic on board 47.5 x 69.5 cm

 

Sam Basu

Treignac Projet 2010 Archive. 

1. International Cabaret Cycle. 

2. July Video Coalition. 

3. New International School evolution. 

4. Projects October 2010

Technique and material:
A4, paper mounted on card. Some with folds to give shallow depth, some direct onto card. Hand tracing of printout through carbon paper of groups and individual names.
Notes:
The diagrams represent real groups that I have been involved in creating or work with through the artist run project Treignac Projet. I am not presenting the formations of the groups as my work; this leads to too many problems in relation to the other people involved in the collaborations. Instead, I was thinking of them as an archive of the evolving groups, and as a file record. (Four simple ones like the 3rd image down, were used as secondary gallery commentary (and not as official art ) in a show that work from some of these groups was shown in. )
I think they have the quality of sketches and notes, perhaps there is something educational about them, perhaps a little sci-fi?

"If you want to create a space for innovation, you won't get far by cloistering yourself away from the world and waiting for inspiration to hit you. 

CHANCE FAVOURS THE CONNECTED MIND".  

from a book by Steven Johnson called  Where Good Ideas Come From.

Kurt Shwitters, Merzbau