PRESS
RELEASE
corbettPROJECTS
and CiTYINN
PRESENTS
Young Female & Scottish
23rd NOVEMBER - 28th JANUARY 2005
PRIVATE VIEW 23rd November 2004 6.00-9.00pm
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with the participation of Glenfiddich
Young
Female & Scottish, an exhibition curated by corbettPROJECTS
at prestigious arts hotel CiTYINN, Westminster
(next to Tate Britain) focusing on six young and emerging female Scottish
artists who, although recently graduated from Scottish art schools have
already received notable recognition for their work. The artists
work in a variety of media including painting, sculptural installation,
photography, video and painted papier mache.
corbettPROJECTS was launched in 2004 and focuses on exhibiting young, emerging artists and experimental art forms and operates from innovative spaces such as hotels, offices, homes and shops. By operating in non-traditional art spaces corbettPROJECTS brings art into unexpected environments and enhances the viewers’ appreciation.
CiTYINN Westminster is a keen supporter of the arts and not only sponsors various visual and performing arts events but also features contemporary art throughout the building. This includes Side Street, the capital’s first ever street conceived as a work of art, created especially for CiTYINN by artist Susanna Heron and a year round programme of temporary exhibitions in the first floor Private Dining and Meetings area.
corbettPROJECTS was launched in 2004 and focuses on exhibiting young, emerging artists and experimental art forms and operates from innovative spaces such as hotels, offices, homes and shops. By operating in non-traditional art spaces corbettPROJECTS brings art into unexpected environments and enhances the viewers’ appreciation.
CiTYINN Westminster is a keen supporter of the arts and not only sponsors various visual and performing arts events but also features contemporary art throughout the building. This includes Side Street, the capital’s first ever street conceived as a work of art, created especially for CiTYINN by artist Susanna Heron and a year round programme of temporary exhibitions in the first floor Private Dining and Meetings area.
Sara
Barnes, Painting Installations
Sarah
Barnes is a 2003 graduate of Edinburgh College of Art whose work consists
of painted papier mache installations, executed in meticulous detail.
Everyday objects, including clothing, books and CD’s are replicated
in papier mache and are presented as either painting installations or,
in the case of clothing as individual objects or part of a series (such
as Pants, left). Her work is a kind of self-portrait of the artist’
s own possessions.
Sarah Barnes is exhibiting courtesy of HamesLevack.
Sarah Barnes is exhibiting courtesy of HamesLevack.
Lois
Carson
In
2003, Lois Carson completed a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Gray’s School
of Art Aberdeen, was artist in residence at Glenfiddich and received a
fellowship from the Royal Scottish Academy to study in Florence. The materials
Carson uses in her sculptures vary from the traditional stone or bronze,
to a more contemporary medium such as Perspex and digitally generated
images. The issues which underpin her work often evolve around the passage
of time and how through image, subject and process, the presence of passing
time may be sensed. In her latest series, Davids, left, Carson is
exploring how the personification of high Renaissance art Michelangelo’s
David has been hijacked for commercial purposes and Carson has “dressed”
David in contemporary clothing. Her latest works have seen David don kilts
– from formal traditional to casual chic – the irony is personified.
Alex
Cooper, Painter, Sculptor
?Alex
Cooper, a 2003 Graduate of Edinburgh College of Art and a recipient of
the 2002 residency at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, is
a painter of extraordinary maturity and innovativeness. She uses a unique
burning process to create a three-dimensional effect to her work and experiments
with a range of organic substances and the effects of different burning
processes on this material (predominantly on wood). The layering, covering,
exposing and burying mix, which is achieved through heavy use of varnishes,
allows for a combined transparency and opacity both stopping the viewer
on the surface and allowing glimpses of marks beneath. Cooper’s
work engages with the element of fire in its production – the making
of the work is as important as the final outcome.
Vanessa
Wenwieser, photographer
Wenwieser
was born in Munich, Germany, and is a 2003 Fine Art Photography Graduate
from the Glasgow School of Art. She has had several exhibitions in Glasgow
and London including the Atrium Gallery, Westbourne Studios
and with corbettPROJECTS. Her works convey the influence of German Romantic
tradition, but also contemporary German photography. Her images are about
travelling and being immersed in different cultures, involve the symbolism of the past
and present of the city environment through the observation
of monuments including graveyards. She is interested in how the
city changes through time and how the symbols of the past merge
with a new modern environment.
Elaine Woo, Painter
Woo
is a 2003 Glasgow School of Fine Arts Graduate, was born in Edinburgh
and despite her young age has already won numerous awards including the
2002 Royal Glasgow Institute of fine Arts Torrance Memorial Award. Her
hotel room series are impregnated with ambiguous, evocative and elusive
atmosphere. A city hotel room where the figure is absent is the setting
of a story, which will evolve later or has already finished. Painted in
rich earthy colours, the works have a cinematic mood and her use of space,
light, shade and colour is eerie and enchanting. Other works focus on
the relationship between women’s poses and their spaces. The body
language is sexy and seductive.
Jet,
Photographer
Former
studio manager for Turner Prize winner, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jet, received
an MA in Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art. For her series called
Ravers, Jet was living in Glasgow and was commissioned by Scottish-based
music magazine M8 to document the Scottish rave scene. Jet is currently
living in London, documenting the Routemaster Buses and the people that
work on the numbers 19 and 38 as in less than a year The Routemaster will
be discontinued and replaced. The rave scene in Scotland was such a phenomenon
at the time that the images now have a cultural and historical resonance
to them, which will also be reflected in the Routemaster series. Both
photographic projects are a documentation of changes in cultural mores
and societal priorities.
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