Artists
A selection of established and emerging artists will be showcasing their work at A Fluid State 02 – 05 December.
greyworld
grey TV – Interactive Video, 2001
grey TV was one of the first new media artworks to incorporate live video feed while manipulating images in real time. It has been exhibited worldwide at various galleries including Eyestorm in New York and is part of the permanent collections of SONY in Manhattan and the 360 Degree Gallery at London’s Sketch bar and restaurant. While a hidden camera captures the space and its inhabitants, the mirror like projection becomes a visual palette for an altered version of reality. The volume of people, their movements and their spatial relationships generate the real time ‘treatment’ of the final piece. Watch yourself literally melt into the crowd, before bursting into flames and then evaporating into thin air.
Tereza Bušková
Winter and Spring – Limited Edition Screen Print, 2009
Tereza Bušková is a Czech artist based in London after completing her Fine Art Printmaking MA at the Royal College of Art in 2007. Her intuitive practices capture and renew Czech folk traditions through a combination of film making, screen printing and performance. She has proudly developed collaborative creative relationships with actress playwright Zoë Simon, pioneering electric cellist Bela Emerson and the foremost of curators including Elizabeth Neilson amongst others. Critics and collectors have described how her works are ‘hard to pin down and utterly captivating’.
Juhana Moisander
At the Door – Looped Video Projection, 2009
Little Devil and a Mushroom- Two Looped Video Projections, 2008
Juhana Moisander is a Finnish artist who constructs scenes or spaces that attempt to create what he calls an opening or a crack. Through these schisms, Moisander believes we experience the link with either the natural environment itself or to the structures built up from the surrounding world that culture has found worthy of remembering and passing on. His methods often have an ethnographical approach, utilizing old and new stories, interviews and research of collections and archives. The artwork takes the form of installations combining sculptural elements, digital prints, sound and video.
http://www.juhanamoisander.com
Leslie Deere
Message in a Bottle – Interactive Sound Sculptures, 2010
Artist in Residence for The Tasting Sessions 2010
Originally from Tennessee, Leslie Deere is a London based artist working with a variety of media. She has a BA Honours degree in Sonic Art and obtained an MFA last year from the Royal College of Art. Leslie has exhibited internationally with solo shows in Italy and Switzerland and has a permanently installed piece in Geneva at the Forever Institut. Her work is anthropological and investigative. She often focuses on representations of the miniscule, attempting to create snapshots of microcosms by zooming in on different slices of life.
Joe Gwynn
Skyline – Sillouettes, 2010
Joe Gwynn is a photographer and graphic designer. He graduated this year from Kingston University and is currently working on projects in and around London. Joe approaches design as a functional tool attempting to engage people with their environment. He uses photography to both inform and inspire as a method of illustrating his imagination.
Page Tsou
The Gift That Keeps On Giving – Original Illustrations, 2009
Page Tsou is a Tiawanese artist living and working in London. After completing his MA from the Royal College of Art in 2009, Page has gone on to develop a successful illustration practice, including freelance work for Disney, Ogilvy and Gestalten. He has exhibited internationally and his work can be found in various collections including the Conran Collection and the Yamaha and Sony corporate collections.
Robbie McIntosh
The Rorschach Inkblot Test Machine – Kinetic Sculpture, 2010
Robbie McIntosh graduated this year from Cardiff School of Art and Design with a focus on sculpture. Robbie attempts to remove his self from the creative process, questioning notions of authorship and exploring the places where ‘meaning’ is thought to unfold and reveal its self. The Rorschach inkblot and references to the mechanical are reoccurring themes within his practice.
Tom Gilbert
Bloody Mary Machine, Rube Goldberg Inspired Kinetic Sculpture, 2010 (Sponsored by Ketel One Vodka, commissioned for A Fluid State 2010)
Originally from rural Gloucestershire, Tom Gilbert is a London based designer and creative. He graduated from Kingston University earlier this year with a degree in graphic design. Tom uses his graphics training in conjunction with a penchant for making things to create functional installations for specific urban environments. His work is resourceful and draws upon a flare for invention.
