Mona Hatoum’s poetic and political work incorporates installations, sculpture, video, photography and works on paper.
Hatoum started her career in the 1980s making visceral video and performance work that focused intensely on the body. Since the early 1990s, however, she has increasingly created large-scale installations that aim to engage the viewer in conflicting emotions of desire and revulsion, fear and fascination. In her sculptures, Hatoum transforms familiar, every-day items such as chairs, cots and kitchen utensils into works that seem foreign, …
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“Born 1955, Nairobi, Kenya. One person shows include Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Walker Art Centre. A Place of Rage: Best Historical Documentary, National Balck Programming Consortium 1992. Recipient of the Frameline Award for her contribution to lesbian and gay media 1993. Sari Red is in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Museums of Modern Art, New York. Writer and editor.”
David Curtis (ed) A Directory of British Film and Video Artists. …
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Madelon Hooykaas was born in 1942 in Maartensdijk, Holland.
From 1960 to 1964 she studied and worked in photography. She attended Ealing School of Art & Design in London in 1966. In 1970 she travelled throughout the world and stayed for several months in Japan.
Elsa Stansfield was born in 1945 in Glasgow. From 1962-1965 she studied at Glasgow School of Art. Stansfield then went on to study photography and film at Ealing School of Art & …
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Catherine Elwes studied Fine Art at the Slade School of Art, and graduated with an MA in Environmental Media from the Royal College of Art, London in 1983. In the late 1970s she was a member of the Women Artists’ Collective and Women’s Art Alliance. She co-curated two landmark feminist exhibitions, ‘Women’s Images of Men’ and ‘About Time’, both held at the ICA in London in 1980. From the early 1980s onwards she began specialising in video and time-based media works, …
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Lei Cox works with video installation, video art, performance-to-camera and photography and has shown his work worldwide since 1985. His work has often been described a surreal, humorous and science fictional. Cox began working with black and white photography, this was essentially shot straight and with no special effects where finding the unusual in everyday landscapes and portraits was the dominant theme. These early photographs were made with full-frame purity, dramatic light with high contrast and tonal exaggeration. …
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Pictorial Heroes began as a collaboration between two graduates ( Doug Aubrey and Alan Robertson ) from Maidstone College of Art seminal Fine Art Video course. With the legacy of the Falklands War and the Miner’s Strike leaving a deep emotional and creative scar, Pictorial Heroes was their way of collectively responding to the times they were living through in Thatcher’s Britain. Pictorial Heroes was a fusion between art, pop, politics and technology, …
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Marty St James, high exponent of the video portrait, has worked primarily across performance art, video art and drawing. “Exploring the physical, the electric and the pencil”, as he describes it. A time-based media artist straddling modernist and post-modernist times, his work locates itself between the narrative of meaning and the meaninglessness of re-assemblage. Working with Anne Wilson in the 1980s, he developed a satrical performance style of video chronicling the life and times of suburban England. …
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“Born in London 1953. Studied at Ealing School of Art, 1972-75; Royal College of Art, London, 1976-79.
Screenings include Bracknell Video Festival; Hayward Gallery, London; The Kitchen, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; National Film Theatre, London; Image Forum, Tokyo.
Video Fellowship (awarded by Arts Council of Great Britain and Sheffield City Polytechnic), 1982-83.
Co-instigator with Chris White of HOUSEWATCH (est. 1985): a group of mixed-media artists who collaborate, individually or collectively, …
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