Self portrait with skin

‘Self Portrait with Skin’ is an example of my recent series of self-portraits where I am considering fragmented nature of a preceived image and multitude of layers which compose my perception of myself. The portraits speak about the inability to see oneself as others see us. For myself I am never a complete, whole being but rather a moving, changing network of lines, angles, thoughts, expressions, tensions, gestures. There are so many aspects of myself that I can not see it all despite twisting and turning my body and mind.

‘What we are dealing with here is the negative link between visibility and movement: movement equals blindeness; it blurs the contours of what we perceive.(…)The person who has stopped being alive exists more fully than when actually alive, moving around before us’. Slavoy Žižek The Plague of Fantasies.

Joanna Wodzicka is a 2nd year Fine Art student

Contact the Artist: jwodzicka@yahoo.com

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Work by second year part time Fine Art student, Henry Blackshaw

Henry Blackshaw
BA Fine Art (part-time)

I am interested in the mundane, and how at times it can be a hypnotic and beautiful place. Hence why I have been doing a lot of drawings and paintings lately inside garden centres.

Contact the artist: henryblackshaw@hotmail.com

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Work by Fine Art student, Amelie van Moorsel Orssich

In her final year at Chelsea, Amelie has been invited to exhibit her work with 4 other artists, at the town hall of Founex, in Geneva, Switzerland. The exhibition was held on the 2nd of October. Undergraduates go Global!

Contact the artist: swissame@gmail.com

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Event Flyer

Presenting Obsess(us), a group exhibition that explores ideas surrounding the consumption of oneself by one’s own personal or interpersonal desires. Investigating what it means to obsess or be obsessed, these artists create a contorted beauty; whether this comes from a tension of absence, of boundaries, of sensory perception or even of identity.

Each artist brings to the exhibition what they think of as their Obsess(us). Shared qualities and ideas in their work, such as social and self, body and space, physical and mental, reality and imagination, all play a part in each of the works. Some of the artists deal with ideas surrounding their identity, opening up a dialogue with the viewer and questioning their own identity in turn. The boundaries that the individual and society create are challenged both passively and actively. Other artists tackle obsession through the senses, by creating serenity, or a sense of haunting or liberation.

The anxiety that obsession brings with it is present in all of the works, leading the viewer into a state of ambivalence and contemplation. The artworks engage the viewer into the consuming nature of this exhibition.

Contact: SylviaNicolaidou@hotmail.com

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Work by year one student, Ruben Cardeira Ferreira

This work reflects how society reflects apreciation towards its own efforts and hard work.

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David Wightman - Behemoth

David Wightman: Behemoth and Other New Paintings

Part of Cornerhouse Projects

From Saturday 31 October to Wednesday 16 December

David Wightman appropriates images from both geometric abstraction and classical landscape painting – motifs associated with aspiration, idealism, and modernity. Using collaged wallpaper, which signifes the domestic, he personalises these images and renders them nostalgic – capturing their beauty, banality, and the desires they represent. The colours and patterns he uses in his work link aspirational working class homes and high art.

CORNERHOUSE, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH

'Digesting Information' film to shown at the Portobello Film Festival later this month

‘Digesting Information’ is a video about creating an artwork. We artists often dress up to look professional and try hard to process the huge amount of information and make it work.

The video will be shown at Portobello Film Festival , Westbourne Studios at 6pm on Thursday 10 September.

Contact the Artist: jwodzicka@yahoo.com

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Sangyoon Yoon

In the context of Post modern art, my works are initiated from nomadic life of globalised society. I employ unusual elements and fabricates them in my paintings which make audiences feel and understand ‘strangeness’ in the fictive circumstance.

Based on my personal experience, the ‘strangeness’ implies metaphor of tension which I have confronted in new society. Individual’s movement from low context to high context society, from Far East Asia to Europe, I started thinking of meaning of geographical and political territory and its society and individuals. My notion of territory is marked in contrast to those societies I have experienced. In which, individuals’ identities are characterized by their society’s nature.

Contact the Artist, Sangyoon Yoon, at: aplo4444@hotmail.co.uk

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Work by Mahenderpal Soyra, BA (Hons) Fine Art Part Time

Work by BA Fine Art Part-Time student Mahenderpal Sorya. The pub sign, titled ‘Southall 1980′ is part of 2 other similar works, ‘Croydon 1840′ and ‘Mahurai 2009′.

Email: msorya@hotmail.co.uk

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