Artist Directory: Mixed Media
Abi Ashcroft
I've always loved art and had a keen eye for design, it wasn't until secondary school that my preferences got diverted more towards Graphic Design. I discovered that I preferred to communicate rather than express with my work, captivating audiences with messages and creating identities through branding campaigns, logo design, typography and print media. My medium ranges from skills in Adobe Suites to photography, web design/building and traditional pen to paper and more - experimenting individually and together.
Karina Cabanikova
My work always passes Freud's Essay Uncanny, familiar yet strange at the same time. I’m currently trying to be open to every method, problem and subject rather than categorize myself. Egon Schiele influences my work very often with his edgy, uncanny, sexist lines - yet minimal. My work is full of ''gaze''; questioning a womans position in ''male'' work and asking - is being naked and nude in front of male audience perceived as pornography? Berger insists that woman is still taken as an object as in oil paintings for pleasure to have an appearance benefits from woman. ''Men act and woman appear.'' I entirely agree with Berger but I have to ask, is not democracy all about freedom and equality?
Freya Clarke
My work is about imagery in particular photography. I'm interested in the consequences of copying, blogging posting and tweeting photography and images in a large scale. I draw influence from texts such as Hito Stelyro's essay in defense of the Poor image and works by Walter Benjamin. I favour showing my work in series or collections to make the connection with photo albums and the vast amount on photographs we see online on blogs and websites. A few series of my work are inspired by the Xerox book, a book made up of a photocopied page which is then photocopied again and again.
What if things had been different? This is a question that has permeated into my artwork ever since I began to get involved with the artistic world. As I developed experience creating and analysing art I felt myself become more mature and started to look at the question in a much broader sense. Instead of relating my artwork closely to my past I instead opened up this question to start thinking about reality itself. I started to wonder what the world would look like if its physical appearance could be limited to the informed and biased imagination of its inhabitants. This sudden change morphed into an obsession with the unknown; a wonderful adventure into my curiosity had begun.
Leigh Annie-Louise Hutchinson
The Brain, An Organ that even today's scientists still don't quite understand when it comes to its complicity and capability. For artist Leigh Hutchinson she looks at different ways of investigating the human psyche and the unique and individual ways we see and read into events and images placed in front of us, Along with behaviour and reactions to day, to day things. Using corrosive materials and looking at artist such as Kara walker's black and white silhouette art works for inspiration Leigh has used personal experiences of such discrimination and racism to mix together and use these feelings and effects to show the inner hurt that mentally the brain can find hard to forget and let go of.
Danielle Morrin
Through painting and photography, my current practice aims to recapitulate the experience of being immersed within nature. Translating experience into expression, I focus specifically on the aesthetic appreciation of the landscape, which has evolved into an articulate understanding of how the mind and eye work when perceiving a scene.
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