Adam Chodzko
Adam Chodzko, Art360 Documentary Film by David Bickerstaff, 2019, atomictv.com @atomictv
Exhibiting work nationally and internationally since 1991, Adam Chodzko is an artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores the interactions and possibilities of human behaviour.
His artworks includes video, installation, photography, socially engaged practices, drawing and performance. Bringing together fragments from diverse fields of knowledge to make work that sits between documentary and fiction, his artworks are propositions driven by the question; if this is our current reality together then what, really, should happen to us next?
Chodzko’s exhibitions range from a solo survey show at Tate St Ives to major installations at Tate Britain, MAMBo and Raven Row and commissions range from Creative Time, NY to the Wellcome Trust. He has had work in the Venice, Istanbul, Athens, Whitstable and Folkestone Bienniales/Trienniales and has received awards from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, the AHRC, and in 2015 was shortlisted for the Jarman Award. Until 2018, Chodzko was Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Kent. He lives in Whitstable, Kent.
Angela de la Cruz
Angela de la Cruz disrupts the gallery with unruly works that sit between painting and sculpture. She engages with the discourse about the ‘problem’ with painting by targeting its basic anatomy: the stretcher, normally left to its job of keeping the canvas smooth and pliant. De la Cruz breaks convention, quite literally, by mangling the stretcher and piercing the flat edifice of the canvas to unleash it into three-dimensional space.
Slashed, twisted and reformed into something approaching sculpture, there is a dark humour at play: “The moment I cut through the canvas I get rid of the grandiosity of painting”, she says. Convention punctured, her works seem to mimic aspects of human behaviour or states of mind – cowering, cringing, surviving – and, more recently, this sense of human scale has been bolstered by works incorporating items of domestic furniture, such as chairs and tables. Prostrate on the floor or hanging on the wall like macabre trophies, they are evidence of a violent process and, as such, confront it as something thrilling, fearsome and, whether soiled or slick, just beneath the surface.
Angela de la Cruz was born in La Coruña in Galicia, northwest Spain in 1965 and lives and works in London. She studied philosophy at the University of Santiago de Compostela (1987) before moving to London, where she obtained a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College (1994) and an MA in Sculpture and Critical Theory from the Slade (1996). Solo exhibitions include Fundación Luis Seoane (2015), Camden Arts Centre, London (2010), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain (2005) and Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Annex Space MARCO, Spain (2004). She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2010.
Jeffrey Dennis
Jeffrey Dennis, Art360 Documentary Film by David Bickerstaff, 2018, atomictv.com @atomictv
Jeffrey Dennis is a painter, born in Colchester, who has lived and worked in London since graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art in 1980. His work has been exhibited internationally since the mid-1980s.
Jeffrey recently wrote about his paintings: 'My work is rooted in daily experience: how people move around, inhabit spaces and make sense of their daily routines.’
His past paintings have embedded glimpses of contemporary urban life within landscapes of processed peas, rotting fruit or Victorian wallpaper designs and, more recently, the 'bubblescape', an organic matrix which seems to offer the potential for continual mutation and evolution.
Jeffrey Dennis is also a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts.
Alan Dimmick
Alan Dimmick was born in Glasgow in 1961. He studied photography at Glasgow College of Building and Printing from 1979–82 and was a founding member of Glasgow Photography Group, exhibiting at their inaugural exhibition in Hillhead Library in 1988. Early works were purchased by The People’s Palace, Glasgow and Scottish Arts Council in the 1980s and he exhibited in group shows at Collins Gallery, Glasgow the Pier Art Centre, Orkney and Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, among others. His work was part of the Contemporary Camera exhibition that toured Scotland in 1983.
Since the mid 1990s Dimmick has documented the lively contemporary art and music scene of his home city, Glasgow, capturing many of the events that have shaped a significant period in Scottish culture. In recent years, his images have been included in various publications and exhibitions of his work have been held at Street Level Photoworks and the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Glasgow and Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh. In 2012, Glasgow Museums acquired a number of Dimmick’s photographs to add to their collection of contemporary Scottish Art.
Alan Dimmick, an Art360 Documentary Film by Marissa Keating, 2022
Katy Dove Estate
Katy Dove, Meaning in Action, animation, 2013. Digital installation at Dundee Contemporary Arts exhibition, 2016. Photo © Ruth Clark, Courtesy of the Katy Dove Estate
Katy Dove (1 December 1970 - 27 January 2015) was born in Oxford and grew up in the village of Jemimaville on the Black Isle in north-east Scotland. She was an artist working across a variety of media including animation, painting, music and installation.
Katy studied Psychology at the University of Glasgow followed by an art degree at Duncan of Jordanston College of Art and Design, Dundee. She moved back to Glasgow where she developed her art practice and several music projects,
most notably with the band Muscles of Joy.
"My work is an attempt to articulate ideas that are beyond language. I am trying to create work that stands on its own as a visual experience and doesn't need a literary translation. Thinking in images rather than words is an attempt to keep the idea it its purest form."
- Katy Dove, quoted in 'Katy Dove' catalogue, 2016 (Dundee Contemporary Arts in partnership with High Life Highland)
https://www.katydove.com
Rose English
Born in 1950 Rose English has been writing, directing and performing her own work for over 35 years in venues including Tate Britain; Royal Court; Queen Elizabeth Hall; the Adelaide Festival and Lincoln Center, New York. Her productions feature a diversity of co-performers including musicians, dancers, circus performers, magicians and horses.
English’s shows range from her site-specific performances and collaborations of the 1970’s including Quadrille, Berlin and Mounting, her acclaimed solos of the 1980’s including Plato’s Chair and The Beloved to her large scale spectaculars of the 1990’s including Walks on Water, The Double Wedding and Tantamount Esperance.
Recent solo exhibitions include The Eros of Understanding at Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2015) and A Premonition of the Act, at Camden Art Centre (2016). English’s awards include the Time Out Performance Award and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists.
Maggie Evans Estate
Maggie Evans (1932 – 2015) came from Wigan art school to the Slade School of Art in 1954. There she was championed by William Coldstream who greatly valued her unique talent.
Ruth Ewan
Ruth Ewan (b.1980, Aberdeen) is an artist based her Glasgow. Her work stems from context specific research resulting in a wide variety of forms including events, performance, writing, installation and print. For some time, Ewan’s practice has extended beyond making artworks and exhibitions. She has worked with collaborators to create music projects, guided walks, radio programmes, design projects, education workshops and books. These build on Ewan’s long-term interests in creativity and social justice, alternative systems and radical histories.
She has previously exhibited at venues including Yorkshire Sculpture Park, CAPC Bordeaux, Victoria and Albert Museum, Camden Arts Centre, Tate Britain, Collective Gallery Edinburgh, Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, Dundee Contemporary Arts, CAAC Seville, the ICA London and Studio Voltaire.
Her work was included in the São Paulo Biennial (2016); Glasgow International (2012); Folkestone Triennial (2011); New Museum Triennial, New York and Tate Triennial, London (2009). She has created public commissions for High Line, New York (2019), Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh (2018) and Artangel, London (2013 and 2007). Her work is included in the collections of Tate, The Scottish Parliament, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne and CAAC Seville. She is represented by Rob Tufnell, Cologne.
http://ruthewan.com/
