Reflections is an art exhibition
showcasing work by twenty-six emerging young artists from all over London. The
purpose of the exhibition is to reflect on the future state of the arts, by examining
students’ work as they are about to leave art school. The organisers and
curators are 4Art, a student-lead initiative from the University of East
London.
The
Exhibition takes place in the stimulating gallery-space at Mile End Pavilion,
overlooking the lake in Mile End Park. Several of the artists are responding to
the building by creating site-specific.
Reflections opens with a Private View on
Friday 18 November 2011, from 6pm to 9pm and continues until Monday 21
November, and is open from 11am-5pm each day. The Pavilion is 3 minutes walk
from Mile End Station, and is 20 minutes by tube from Bond Street. Map and
address http://artpavilion.info/#2103440/About-Mile-End-Art-Pavilion
Beatriz Acevedo
Reflecting three elements of the theme,
Beatriz Acevedo’s work intends to show a literal, physical reflective quality;
a modified image reflected by material; and a psychological/emotional state
that is indicated by the physical object.
Anna Adamkiewicz
This body of work investigates the relationship
between people and their environment. Through printmaking Anna Adamkiewicz
explores the mystery of people’s existence in their surrounding world.
Alexandra Bondi de Antoni
This work interprets the theme
Reflections as seeing something that is no longer there; contemplating
something that was there previously encourages the viewer to reflect on
consumerist society.
Philip Bradshaw
Philip Bradshaw will be recreating
his installation piece ‘Between Here and Now and Gone’ which will be developed,
altered and adapted to take onboard additional ideas and to reflect the
location.
Joshua Brown
This diptych uses highly
reflective liquids and reflections from architecture; the two images work in
unison to create a path or 'window' into an unknown void. He says “My work is
intended to transport viewers from the gallery to a detached outer space”.
Lauren Cole
Lauren Cole’s small brass
objects are highly polished to interact with each other and generate an
illusion of a six-sided shape created in light, shadow and reflection.
Oliver Durcan and Danny Watson
This collaborative partnership works with the concept of audio/visual art in
the modern age of new media. Their film aims to make sound and vision equally
important, and plays with the themes of new territory, imagination, levels of
consciousness and human perception.
Philippa Edwards
Her series 'Within' explores the Baroque
sensibilities of decoration and disruption, inside a framework of mundane
modern-day building materials, and refers to the passage of time with its
accumulation of experience and memory.
Irina Ferli
Interested in creating
abstracted photographed images, Irina Ferli is using reflection to capture
light, optical illusion, and movement. Showing the work as projected images
emphasises these characteristics.
Steven Gee
His sculpture ‘Viridian
Concave’ re-evaluates the notions and processes within Early Renaissance
paintings. Those of mathematical proportions, perspective and architecture. His
work focuses on concepts of the linear using light to influence perception.
Barbara Graham
This work analyses the part that women play in
their representation in modern society by translating pornographic images found
on the internet into glossy "high art" paintings as a process of
reclamation. Barbara Graham believes women are in a tug of war between being
free to express their sexuality and encouraging their own objectification.
Tafari Grant
Exploring the use of organic
materials in an unconventional way, Tafari Grant has responded to the Pavilion
building while pushing the boundaries and limitations of the materials he uses.
His work relates to nature and temporary existence, reflecting the continuous changes
that create new meaning and possibilities.
Mariwan Karim
Taking inspiration from the geometrical Islamic
design of Muslim Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq), Mariwan Karim’s ceramic
reliefs, hand-built with ceramic tiles, show traces of the Hellenistic, Persian,
Mongol and Turkish influences, which have all left their mark on Iraq’s rich
cultural heritage.
Denia Kazakou
The premise of this work is that underneath our
skin-colour we all have the same colour flesh. This most recent painting is
more sculptural than previous work, as she plots a more descriptive way of
working.
Nektaria Lampitsi
In her work Nektaria Lampitsi
is exploring whether society still harbours old-fashioned beliefs about women.
When a woman enters the marriage bed, her life can be one full of pleasure; or
of pain and despair. Her sculpture ‘Pain or Pleasure’ hints simultaneously at
an old metal bed and a medical stretcher.
Elevine Lillebuen
Through simplistic familiar
elements and materials Elevine Lillebuen aims to reflect upon the present time
on earth. Her work is about binding together nature, human faults, and
hope, and resolving the resultant challenges.
Vix Martin
Her wall of gradated colour utilises the shape of
the gallery ceiling. She exploits the materials of Capitalism for colour and
signification; transforming the disposable language of the everyday into a rich
paint. 'Wound' is a patchwork of signifiers collectively producing a mass of
colour, which embodies blind consumption, death, destruction, and exploitation.
Valeriya N-Georg
This work is the beginning of a series that is a reflection of Valeriya N-Georg’s unconscious, interweaved with memories from the communist regime,
which was in power in her native Bulgaria during her formative years. She
explains “When drawing I feel sometimes my hand takes control and creates an
automatic drawing whose meaning I can only read after it is finished; a page
from my memories”.
Viktorija Osipova
The artist utilises processes of etching,
embossing and drawing to create a sophisticated collage. Her works focus on her
memories of her homeland Lithuania and the comparison between the small town
where she grew up and London where she now lives.
Carolina Piteira
Through her painting "Everyone who loves has been born of God"
Carolina Piteira is exploring homosexuality and homosexual love in relation to
the "Word of God" – it asks the question do God and The Bible condemn
this love or condone it?
Larry Poulton
“Words
Apart” is based on relationships whose meaning is open to
interpretation. The physical reflections of the environment are akin to the
relationship between the two people within the painting who may be purposefully
ignoring each other or interacting, either knowingly or unknowingly, using the
electronic world.
Dione
Roach
Using
liquid emulsion on wood 'Contemplations' is an installation that contains
images of literal reflections of light, leaves, water and mirrors but also the
sense of reflections as thought. They have a nostalgic and dreamlike quality
that relates to the fleetingness of youth and summer, while reflecting on the
artist’s home country and her longing for a return to nature.
Julia
Rodrigues
Julia
Rodrigues’ current practice is informed by Spirituality, Folk Art and organic
abstraction using traditional methods of Printmaking, such as etching, along
with an experimental approach - with a special focus on mark making.
Edita Treigyte
Using photographic images of night scenery in the
big city, Edita Treigyte’s work reflects on London while referencing her life
in the former Soviet Union. ‘Frozen’ shows how a tunnel into the unknown looks
to newly arriving aliens, travelling towards the light of a new life, while
leaving behind the crushed fragments of their old lives.
Karina Vettorel
Karina Vettorel’s work is inspired by her
surrounding landscape, captured in photographs; painted or printed to reflect
the atmosphere of place and the emotions that were encountered there. By
layering the images in ‘Reflections of My Life’ her work maintains a sense of
movement between literal and emotional reflection.
Anthia Vryoni
Her work is concerned with the darker side of society, in this piece Anthia
Vryoni reflects on the bombings in July in her home country of Cyprus, using
colour to symbolise associated feelings. Photographic images are coupled with
domestic materials to bring a personal element into a global situation.
