Enclosure
Welcome to Enclosure, our brand new special exhibition, which explores artistic responses to the physical restrictions of lockdown!
Please find a list of contributing artists below, alphabestised by surname.
Analia Adorni
Bio
Analia Adorni was born in Argentina and studied at the National University of Arts of Buenos
Aires. She won the fellowship for artisans in the Region of Tuscany and moved to Italy where she
continues her studies at Visual Center of Pietrasanta (Tuscany) and Il Bisonte (Center for
Printmaking in Florence). She participates in collective exhibitions in Argentina, Italy and
other countries in Europe and The Americas and she has had solo exhibitions in Iceland (Lhistus Art
Gallery), Italy (Casa di Dante, Florence), Spain (Cal Gras Residency of Arts) and Argentina
(University of Social Sciences) . She developed arts residencies in France and her artworks
are in museums in Italy, Argentina and Ukraine.
Website
Articles & Interviews
Social Media
Instagram: @analiaadorniarts
Facebook: @analiaadorniarts
Fazar Roma Agung Wibisono
Bio
Fazar Roma is a painter from Bandung, Indonesia. He studied fine arts and design at high school and then went on to take the subject at university. After graduating, he worked at Srisasanti Art Gallery in Yogyakarta, Indonesia for 7 years (2008 – 2015) as a contracted artist. He is now freelance and continues his career as a painter.
Website
Media
The Artist's Circle – Assemblage
Social Media
Instagram: @fazar.r.a.wibisono
Twitter: @FazarRoma
Irma Angélica Bejarle
Bio
In her artistic practice, Irma uses photography to explore themes relating to the human body in relation to the concepts of time and movement both literally and metaphorically; She's created works in the past which literally explore the human body in motion, while other works have got to do with the metaphorical movement of our bodies and the land we inhabit in transformation as a result of global warming.
Irma's main interest is to explore the relationship between our organism and the environment, through an interdisciplinary approach that involves fields of sciences and philosophy in her creative process. Her most recent work titled Radiation (2019-20) is born from the experimentation with the dermatological technique of monochromatic UV Photography to expose the invisible imprint that the Sun leaves on our skin, with the purpose of alluding to a future where global warming will progressively leave the home we inhabit (be it the skin or the land) even more vulnerable to damage caused by Solar radiation.
Irma's UV photography work had to be put on hold because of the pandemic, and she used this time to do more introspective work, like writing and digitizing photographs from her childhood archive, like the ones in the exhibition.
Website
Media
Aerogramme, The Mobile Library – Volume 1, Issue 3: 'Walking on a Line'
Article on thesis (Spanish) – Presenta cimarrona examen de grado en línea
Social Media
Instagram: @irmaabejarle
Tyler S. Bennett
Bio
Tyler is an Abstract Expressionist from Los Angeles, California. He is currently residing in Lakeside, Arizona and has been painting abstractly for 10 years now.
Tyler's career as an abstract expressionist started when he quickly fell in love with Jackson Pollock’s No. 5 1948 painting and began transitioning into Abstract Expressionism work. He knew from the moment he saw that painting that he was going to work in a similar field, with a certain spontaneity and a goal to inspire others through the creativity of his palettes, mediums and brush strokes.
Tyler considers himself to have two styles that he terms “paint smearing“ and “splatter painting.” Paint smearing is a form of abstract expressionism where he will take a very unique palette and begin simply by layering paint over and over, blending it. His splatter painting usually includes his paint smearing style. After building the background that way, he then throws either acrylic or spray paint on top of it.
Website
Etsy – By Tyler S Bennett
Social Media
Twitter: @bytylersbennett
Instagram: @bytylersbennett
Facebook: @bytylersbennett
DROSS
Bio
Active since 2016, D R O S S are a collaborative group of gallery invigilators who critically examine their work and workplace. Consisting of a fluid membership of casual workers employed in several institutions across Britain, D R O S S are interested in art-working while at work, interrogating spectatorship and subjectivation and in subverting curatorial intent. D R O S S makes both public and covert works, research, and interventions.
Website
Media
2019: Emergency INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, vol. 8
2020: Being Together is not Enough. Five Years Publications: Public Series no. 8. vols. 1-3, a brief description of DROSS' contribution can be found here.
Simone Fazio
Bio
The body, its attitudes, its expressions, its physicality, is the starting point of Simone's research (Modena 1980). The artist is interested in showing the weakness of the human soul through the observation of its envelope: the body. The body is the medium that the artist has chosen because it’s the only vehicle of pleasure and desperation that is essential for us, it’s the root that still anchors us to reality, to the world, to be able to feel it and to modify it. The analysis of the human body is carried out through a very detailed meticulous process, which has its roots in the artist's education: the Anatomical and Surgical Design studies at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bologna, which have profoundly influenced its research and his poetics. The paintings, now characterized by a total break down of the picture that results in tears, fractures and cuts, that completely deconstruct the appearance and the idea of the classic canon of "oil painting" analyze the precariousness of feelings, life and and the human condition.
Website
Articles & Interviews
Social Media
Instagram: @simonefazio9
Facebook: @simonefaziopittura
YouTube: Simone Fazio
Tim Garneau
George Graziani
Bio
George Graziani is a self-taught Canadian artist based in Ontario, Canada. George has been painting for over three decades. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries in Canada, and is included in both corporate and private collections, internationally and in Canada. George has been recognized by the Ontario Arts Council, and awarded an Ontario Arts Council Grant. George holds an honors degree in mathematics and philosophy from the University of Toronto. George is also a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, and an Ironman triathlete.
Website
Articles & Interviews
Why? An open letter to artists and art lovers
Social Media
Instagram: @ggartcanada
Facebook: GG Art
LinkedIn: George Graziani
YouTube: GG Art Canada
Jazmin Hana
Bio
London artist Jazmin Hana is currently studying Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, UAL and prior to this, studied History of Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Jazmin works primarily in oil, acrylic, film, 4D installation and performance. She cites Classical and Gothic art and literature as main inspirations, looking to theatre and subcultural movements for influence. Her work concerns the human experience, and aims to provoke emotion and sympathy with the purpose of inciting social change.
Website
Social Media
LinkedIn: Jazmin Saville
Lesley Hilling
Bio
Lesley Hilling is an English self taught artist working solely with recycled materials. She trained and worked for many years as a graphic designer, during this time she became interested in a more art based practise and began to make box constructions heavily influenced by the work of Joseph Cornell and Louise Nevelson. These grew into large wall pieces and human size towers and eventually the art took over from the graphic design.
‘Lesley’s work conveys a powerful sense of longing to preserve the fragments of the past, a desire for order, a passionate and mysterious evocation of lost moments.’ – Jane England
Lesley has lived in Brixton, south London with her partner Nel for over thirty years. They have two dogs, an allotment and are active members of Brixton Housing Co-op.
Website
Articles & Interviews
Circle Arts – Art Ideal, Issue 1 (p72)
The Art Detective’s Muse – I Went Through a Portal in Brixton
The Guardian – The Art of Changing the World: In Pictures
The Ecologist – The Arts Interview: The 'real' Lesley Hilling
Floor Online – Exhibition Exh 5
Social Media
Instagram: @lesley_hilling
LinkedIn: Lesley Hilling
Facebook: Lesley Hilling
Vimeo: Lesley Hilling showcase
Alejandro (Alex) Pascual
Bio
Alex Pascual is an artist and illustrator from Barcelona who came to the UK in 2012. He now lives in London and works as Visual Merchandiser for IKEA. He studied for a BFA in Fine Arts and Design shortly followed by a Master of Creative Producing which he completed in 2011 at the University of Barcelona (UB). His passion has always been rooted in art and the idea of becoming a full-time artist and he always find the time to keep developing his artistic process.
Drawing is at the center of Alex's practice. With a peculiar and original drawing style, he usually gets inspiration from his everyday life, looking for poetry and beauty in the small things. He likes to put his own spin on ordinary objects, daily routines and quotidian scenes. Sometimes, if he finds himself limited by physical media, he uses video art to express the same ideas, but expand on them by adding movement.
Websites
Etsy: Alex Pascual Artworks
Etsy: Alex Pascual Sketches
ArtPal: Alex Pascual
Social Media
Instagram: @alexpascuau
YouTube: Alex Pascual
Marie Ruprecht
Bio
Marie Ruprecht was born in 1975 in Upper Austria where she lives and works. She studied Experimental Design at the Institute of Fine Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Art and Design Linz and graduated with honors. Since 1994 she has been working in the fields of photography, drawing, painting and sculpture as well as spatial installation.
An essential feature of her work is the direct engagement with the existing spatial and contentual conditions and the theme-related appropriation of new cultural techniques for the realization of her works. The physical nature of the materials used, just as the experimental handling style with vastly varying work methods flow consciously in the formation process. The chosen materials are tested for their possibilities and the relationship between the aspects one can precisely plan and the unforeseen coincidences are time and again newly fathomed out.
Website
Interview
Interview with Antonia & Burkhard Zimmermann (Austrian German)
Social Media
Instagram: @marieruprecht
Kailas Sreekumar
Bio
Kailas is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Kerala, India. Being a keen observer of socio-political developments, his works are often responses to events and phenomena happening around him. He sees himself as a trans-national person/citizen of the world and I despises authoritarian fascist forces which divide people. Inspired by the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari he sees his works as ‘nomadic war-machines’ trying to resist the dominant, generating empathy and creating dialogues which could have the potential to generate a creative space for the marginalized. Often, Kailas uses absurdity as a tool in his works to question the status quo, bring out sense of defamiliarization and destabilisation.
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Media