It’s the Dada and Surrealism issue!! Watch out for that flying fish and wry sense of fun and fury …
How we love the absurd … so strap into your fur-lined ice cream cone and let’s go!
And this is how our selected artists responded to the topic …
Artist name: Noel Molloy
Description: Noel’s practice is Performance Art, influenced by the Dadaists and their actions such as Cabaret Voltaire and their use of objects and costumes He also makes performance videos using photographs which are then animated and manipulated . This simple work was done around the time of a major house move and the feelings of anxiety and the question did he make the right move and somehow wanting to turn the clock back, like reversing a photograph, but Time waits for no man.
Instagram: @noelmolloy61
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Artist: Andy Reeve
Title: Margie in the Park
Description: Dame Margaret Bonniemore posed for celebrity photographer Ramekin in a cheeky photoshoot at Norfolk Sculpture Park celebrating the septuagenarian's glittering performing arts career.
Instagram: @the_spectacle_of_andyreeve
Artist name: Kathy Bruce
Instagram: @kat2bruce
Description: Kathy’s collages explore archetypal female and mythological forms within the context of poetry, Surrealism and the natural environment. She is especially interested in how the poetic aspects of animal "nature" are interchangeable with psychological traits of humans; the surreal moment of hybridization in which animal and human nature merge.
Artist: Alexey Adonin
Website: https://www.alexeyadoninart.com/
Instagram: @otherworldlydream
Description: These artworks explore the inner universe of humans, somewhere at the point of convergence between abstraction and surrealism. I was inspired by the sea and the people on the beach. I made sketches and found it would be a great idea to transport my vision of different human states on canvas. The most important thing in my work is establishing deep involvement in the emotional and intellectual aspect.
Artist: Ryan Peter French
Instagram: @ryanpeterfrench
Description: “Landscape” (2022) 70x100cm. Ryan’s artwork is about the necessity of fantasy in the face of reality. The writings of CG Jung inspire the creation of works that engage with the subconscious mind and play around with symbolism and imagination.
Artist name: Leanna Moran // Instagram: @leanna.moran
Description: My repeated bedroom scenes; simplistic in style yet paradoxically complex in narrative; depict the act of sleeping, an escape where subconscious would influence waking life.
The bedroom series surrealistically delineates a dreamlike universe. Originally works were repeated linear sketches portraying a childhood memory.
The sketches were then reproduced using an intricate technique where the drawing is dissected into layers. Differing paper layers are then cut and laid into position.
Artist name: PATRICIA FIGUEIREDO
Instagram: @art_of_patfigueiredo
Description: “Octopus”. Through this analogical collage I represent the accumulation of actions and functions that women are demanded and the guilt generated by the feeling that we women carry to always be in debt within this patriarchal society.
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Artist name: Sophie Kyriakopoulou
Instagram: @sophiekyr.art
Description: The works that I am submitting are portraits from my Terasformation series. Terasformation is a Greek-English hybrid word I came up with to describe the process of monster transformation. From monster to something else or something more even. Loosely inspired by the story of Frankenstein, my creations come to life first as paper collages. During my online strolls I collect images which I use to create paper collages. I then use these as sketches for my paintings. With each brush stroke, as I spend more time with the material of oil, I get to inquire deeper into what lies hidden, dormant and unacknowledged within me. Through the process of painting and communicating with this, I let it slowly come to the surface. I accept it and love it and keep it safe by my side. My invitation is for the viewer to see it, see me and be inspired to perhaps attempt a similar process of reconciliation.
Artist name: Rowena Comrie
Instagram: @Rowena Comrie
Description: “The Tail Light Dress” – A Wearable Deconstruction of motor vehicle parts - Dr Who meets Dr Strangelove, with a touch of Dali. A moving piece of sculptural dressmaking – car couture" As Andre Breton said :“ Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize".
Artist: James Padgham
Instagram: @lost_nor_found
Description: Working between assemblage and collage I am building “imaginarsual” stories, re-appropriating the nature of the objects I have collected. A childhood playfulness is inherent in these “confiberative” works. This is just the surface to a practise that challenges the viewer and asks them to engage in discovering what the suggestive offers. The placement of the work and the context that they are viewed offers further juxta poses and often contradictions.
Artist: Laurene Bois-Mariage
Instagram: @laureneboismariage
Description: ReCOLLAGES is series of screen shots featuring open internet windows arranged online after some famous modern and postmodern collages and photomontages by such artists as Max Ernst, Raoul Hausmann and Kurt Schwitters. The work explores both the diversity of sources found on the Internet and the dematerialization of image in the digital era -where boundaries between photography, painting and drawing become blurred and finally irrelevant. ReCOLLAGES also reconsiders the validity of boundaries distinguishing amateur, art and professional productions; and correlates an increasingly easy access to pictures with the increase of legal restrictions of use.
Artist: Richard Kitchen
Instagram: @richardkitchenart
Description: These are collages built from media cuttings, postcards, selected artworks and digitally manipulated text and drawing. All are analogue pieces in that they are collaged by hand. The dreamlike juxtaposition of imagery seems appropriate to both the danger and the absurdity of the state of humanity in the present time.
Artist: Mark C. Hewitt
Instagram: @mark_c_hewitt
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Description: This is one of three micro-videos made as a counterpart to a poem sequence entitled Les Coffrets, meaning the (little) boxes, taken from the shape of the texts on the page. The collection of eight filmpoems + two variations, all less than 90 seconds duration and each spoken by a different actor, were a collaboration between writer/theatremaker Mark C. Hewitt and digital artist Matt Parsons. The texts and films use multiple chance elements such as words overheard or seen on clothing or lines from advertising spam and combine the re-purposing of found out-of-copyright footage and sound with the moods and atmospheres of film noir and early surrealist photography.
Artist: Christian Goddard
Instagram: @christiangoddardartist
Description: A UK contemporary painter pushing the conversation around ecology, the environment and existence through the prism of Surrealism. Depicting entities both at once foreign and alien, my works materializes in a place of imagination, begging for consideration but ultimately denying full comprehension. Employing the automatic drawing techniques of André Masson the imagery of these paintings grow from my subconsciousness and mutate in unpredictable ways.
