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30. Simon Faithfull

10/24/2012

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  • Drawing
  • He produces traditional images of landscape/still life but uses a 'Palmpilot'. His drawings are minimalist with a lot of negative space and are usually done on a journey.
  • 'Investition Bank' (13/10/2012) found at
http://www.simonfaithfull.org
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29. Gaia Persico

10/24/2012

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  • Drawing and painting
  • Her images are made of the views from hotel rooms while travelling, using paper and biros from the room. They reveal details that the distracted traveller might have missed in his rush to see tourist sights highlighted in tourist guides
1. Crowne Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, USA, Room 4075, Fri, Jul 20, 2007,12:58. Archival inkjet print, dimensions 45 x 31.5 to 330 x 236 cm.
2. From Union Square to Darling Harbour (detail), 2010, archival inkjet print on Hanhemühle paper, 477 x 51 cm, edition of three.
http://www.gaiapersico.com/
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28. Chuck Close

10/24/2012

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  • Painter, printmaker, photographer
  • Starts with a photo as a reference and then breaks it down into small squares, reducing it to its simplest elements. He has used up to 28 blocks to create one print and a print can take up to two years to complete
  • 'Emma' (2002), woodcut,113-color woodblock Ukiyo-e print found at
http://www.chuckclose.coe.uh.edu/life/gallery.html
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27. Paul Noble

10/24/2012

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  • Paintings, drawings and installations
  • He has invented whole new worlds, including the painstakingly detailed and engrossing drawings of the fictional metropolis Nobson Newtown. Undercutting the precise, technical drawing is a dark satirical narrative which unfolds in the micro-cosmos of these monumental works. He has been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2012 (commentary from Tate website below)
  • 'Volume 3' 2006–7. The Gagosian Gallery. Found at
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2012
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26. David Haines

10/24/2012

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  • Hyperrealist drawing in pencil on paperHaines draws on imagery and fashions of the 'scallie' street culture of northern England. His work refers at times to both ancient myths and present day culture, for example layering images, meanings and associations.
  • Image 'Nike Air Sneakers vs Colonel Sanders' (2009) pencil on paper, 181 x 140 cm. Seen  in 'Nothing in the World but Youth' exhibition at the Turner Contemporary Gallery 2011. 
http://www.davidhaines.org
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25. Vaughan Oliver

10/24/2012

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  • Graphic designer, specialising in album covers
  • An influential member of the small group that changed the face of British graphics in the 1980s
  • His work has been described as visceral, and he was iconic in his use of unusual materials. This image is a photo of Oliver dancing naked wearing a belt of dead eels. Found at:
http://www.vaughanoliver.co.uk/
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24. Alexandre Farto aka Vhils

10/24/2012

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  • Street artist
  • Scratches away paint, plaster, brick and stone to leave huge portraits on the facades of run down buildings. He also peels back advertising posters in the same way.
  • He seeks to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try to understand what lies behind it.
  • Article 'The walls have ears (and eyes, and noses...). The Independent, 4 March 2011, p9
http://alexandrefarto.com/
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23. JR

10/24/2012

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  • Photographer/graffiti artist
  • He takes photos and then blows them up to super size and pastes them onto buildings
  • He focuses on communities suffering poverty or degradation and tries to energise them and bring them together through the medium of art
  • I took this photo of his work as part of a street art exhibition at the Tate Modern in 2008 - the camera becomes a weapon
http://www.jr-art.net/
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22. Lisa Ruyter

10/21/2012

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  • Photographer and painter
  • Takes photographs, then draws the areas she wishes to render further and paints them, mixing new media and technologies with traditional techniques
  • She seeks to document the world around her. Recently she has done a body of work based on Dorothea Lange's photos of the great depression
  • 'The Woman 2' seen at Alan Cristea Gallery
http://www.lisaruyter.com
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21. Alastair MacKinven

10/21/2012

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  • Drawing, painting, sculpture, audio and photography
  • Abstract Capitalist Realism, the title of the series to which this painting belongs, flirts between ideas of Abstraction and Pop, citing Capitalist Realism, an art movement in Germany that paralleled early pop and presented a viable alternative to the commodity fetishism which became the hallmark of the genre.
  • 'South of Heaven', screenprint and oil on canvas, seen at British Art Now exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery July 2010
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    I am a second year student studying Drawing and Applied Arts at the University of the West of England.

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