by Lisa | Mar 29, 2021 | Artist Profile
Photography artist Gert Kist made a name for himself at Galerie Eduard Planting, with his male images printed on weathered wooden subphases. As a photography artist, Kist has recently gone through a period of development and transition. His subject matter has shifted and his photographs have since also become more layered – both in a figurative and literal sense. In the new series of female portraits, there is a clear emphasis shift. No longer is the attention in Kist’s work solely on the male torso but focuses now on female faces that seem to want to either express something or in fact conceal it. Dashing women wearing extravagant costumes, jewellery, hair-dresses and masks. Something is happening inside these female portraits. The beholder can only guess, is intrigued and engages with them.
by Lisa | Mar 28, 2021 | Artist Profile
Juan Barletta’s works focus on consumerism and desire, his photo-realist paintings evoke an ambiguous duality of desire and beauty. Juan’s images of often controversial iconic figures within popular culture question the ideals of synthetic beauty and its imagined reality. He alludes to the falsity of images represented within the media and its distorted boundaries of what is real and artificial.
by Lisa | Mar 27, 2021 | Artist Profile
Frank E Hollywood is an esteemed Dutch contemporary artist. Hollywood studied at the St. Joost academy of art in Breda, the Netherlands, where he early on sought out the boundaries of autonomous and commercial art. His works explore the tensions between the past, present and future. Not interested in simply reimagining the past, Hollywood draws on a collective visual memory of the past, to present us with something truly new and exceptional.
by Lisa | Mar 26, 2021 | Artist Profile
Alva Bernadine was born in Grenada, West Indies and moved to Britain at the age of 6 to London. Bernadine became seriously interested in photography at the age of 21. His first pictures were of London tourist spots and the next year he started practising her present style. Bernadine is self-taught and has never been an assistant. He has worked mainly in the editorial field for the last 38 years completing projects for numerous national magazines and has had many profiles of his work in countries such as France, Spain, Italy, USA, Australia, Germany and, of course, Great Britain.
by Lisa | Mar 24, 2021 | Artist Profile
Viktoria Andreeva is a fine-art photographer, born and raised in Bulgaria. As a former ballet dancer, her love and passion for the art of movement have deeply influenced her aesthetic view. In 2015 she moved to Vienna to study Photography and Audiovisual Media at the College of Arts Die Graphische. Meanwhile, she started working on one of her biggest projects – a book about the many faces of ballet, containing personal interviews and photographic work of six professional dancers from the Vienna State Opera.
by Lisa | Mar 23, 2021 | Artist Profile
Steven Quinn is a London-based artist born in Belfast. Obsessed by collages, street photography and paintings, Steven Quinn likes to combine his own photography with cut-outs from old magazines and play with imagery to create often apocalyptic, sometimes humorous narratives. His most current themes are domesticizing nuclear, political and intergalactic conflicts. Quinn graduated with 1st Class honours from the University of Ulster –MFA and has shown his work alongside names such as Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas at Tate Britain. He has also exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, the renowned Photographers gallery in Soho, the James Freeman Gallery and in various venues throughout London. Quinn has also been showing his work overseas: New York in 2009, Frankfurt in 2014 and, more recently, at the ARC Gallery in Chicago for the “I can’t breathe” exhibition.
