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still from 'Positively sick' 15 minute film
still from 3 minute film
paper chair sculpture
perfectly imperfect irregular shaped t-towels
'amaretto' acrylic on paper
perfectly imperfect effigies
classified wishes
t-towels secret worker at your service....
mono print 2
mono prints
Details:
Kati Saqui
22 Duke St Deal Kent CT14 6DX
Tel: 07941 867 656
Email:biomorphiccustard@btinternet.com
Deal Kent UK.
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On Show
still from 'Positively sick' 15 minute film
On show
still from 3 minute film
On show
paper chair sculpture
On show
perfectly imperfect irregular shaped t-towels
On show
'amaretto' acrylic on paper
On show
perfectly imperfect effigies
On show
classified wishes
On show
t-towels secret worker at your service....
On show
mono print 2
On Show
mono prints
Followers
Kati Saqui Artist Statement
I like to turn negative things into positive things. I particularly like making misshaped irregular objects, to portray aspects of the human condition and this perfectly imperfect world. Western society considers this to have less value. In this show I am using chairs, tea towels, a family member’s fight against cancer and my dyslexia to show the very essence of what human kind is.
The techniques I use in my work vary from screen print, cyanotype - a photographic technique that translates positive and negative, drawing, short digital film narratives and book art. The style and materials I use are dictated to by the relationship to its content. It is predominantly conceptual and graphic-based which often develops into a conceptual installation.
This year I have specifically designed and created miss shaped limited edition fine art tea towels and side plates. These pieces are my statement of how modern day living has seduced me into believing life should be perfect at all times. I also like to emphasize the spontaneity of the human hand when making the individual pieces.
NIGEL RHODES Artist statement
I am an industrial screenprinter based in Westgate. I intersperse my industrial work with my art work. Consequently my art practice has an industrial feel. I classify my work as Industrial Contemporary Fine Art (I.C.F.A.).
I use driftwood and give it ‘star treatment’. I wash, clean, and apply three or four coats of paint to make perfect again, almost manufactured looking. This process places each piece metaphorically on a rostrum.
My early influences were artists Frank Stella and Philip Guston. Recently I am inspired by artists Harland Miller and Gerherdt Richter.
Julia Riddiough Artist statement
Do you remember me?
This book questions the foundations of documentary photography and the ‘truth’ in imagery by using found images and creating a narrative sequence from a random selection. I hope this challenges the viewer of the images, their own perception and interpretation / meaning. The project presents ideas around the subjectivity of memory, identity and truth. Highlighting the twilight difference between fact and fiction with images that fall between these boundaries.
Also engaging with the debates around ethics, editorship and authenticity and in turn the relative dilemmas that these areas pose to the creator, editor and author. It may also suggest that our memories can be vague and quixotic. Is the person we remember the person we perceive?
Does truth in imagery exist?
Laura Mars Artist Statement
This body of work is totally different to my usual oeuvre.This is the first time I have shown this private collection. I have used darkness as my motivator and the spider as a poetic metaphor. Figure heads, cobwebs, mice, and sock monkeys are my visual language.
Two artists Max Beckmann and John Bellany’s have especially influenced me in this particular work, in different ways their creations are for me, larger than life, dark twisted and fairground whirlwind narratives and make fantasy out of the everyday. These artists have, spirituality and escape from the minutiae of housework and the humdrum of every day.
I am not obsessed with housework but sometimes it becomes part of the narrative, the cobweb people are metaphors for life long dreams and aspirations that have been hanging around gathering dust.