Just recently found out that I’ve won one of the rounds of the Amateur Forum monthly competitions – the July round ‘Square Format’ with the image ‘In the Land of Grey and Pink’
Again I came across this by accident, and again it was the last day so I really couldn’t dedicate as much time to looking at the works as I would like to. Disappointingly there didn’t seem to be a catalogue of the works as in the earlier BA show had.
Information was much harder to come by this time as well, fewer of the artists had cards or flyers to even give contact points, I eventually found the site for the show but that wasn’t that easy either.
So onto the artists (in no particular order);
Lyn Hagan (in collaboration with Agustin Fernandez
‘Tony and Angela – The Opera’
sound work with embroidered dress, referencing Maxican drug culture and cartels, murder, hail terms, romance between Tony and Angela – the ‘soap’ opera
Also ‘Drug Tales’, ‘Love Tales’, and ‘Crime Tales’
Vivianne Chatel
‘Whence comes the light’
large cardboard structures intersecting with the space of the room, making new spaces and habitations within the installation – entrances and exits through the structures inviting exploration, layers
Gareth Hudson
‘In Ecstasy’
large video/light/sound piece – visceral, mythical, ecstatic, using choral sounds linked with slowed video from a heavy metal concert – passion
Zoe Allen
‘Genius Loci’
found object sculptures, exploring spatial relationships/juxtapositions
Iolando Rocha
‘Interweaving and crisscrossing’
raised shanty town structure – reminded me of the bridge from William Gibson – overhanging, accretion – growing through the structure of the exhibition space – barred on the inside – no thoroughfare
Scott Aaron Tait
‘We are the forest dwellers’
sound and video – dodecahedrons – private mythology
Jennifer Prevatt
papercut forest with sound piece – alluding to Sleeping Beauty, roses and thorns, an inked forest
Kate Liston and Dan Wilde
spatial sculpture with sound and video – reimagining of domestic/office spaces
Theresa Poulton
William Flynn
pencil exploration of textures, quite lo-fi, inhabited the long gallery really well