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Artist Directory: Drawing and Painting

March 04, 2015

Karina Cabanikova kcabanikova.blogspot.co.uk 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? Zan Dani 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 ex...

Regarding... Harvey McDonald and “The Torment Trees”

May 11, 2015

Ladies and gentlemen, here comes “The Torment Trees”, a short-film by Harvey McDonald. “The Torment Trees” is a 5-minute clip based on a popular Brothers Grimm’s fairy tale, starring Harvey McDonald, Jessica Jayne Harney and the voice of Rachel Eben. Some curiosities: it has been inspired by a scene from James Cameron’s Avatar and captures the audience' s attention thanks to a cliff hanger ending. After rolling it out at The Arches Project in Birmingham, the film is now available for those who didn't have the chance to watch it at the première. Enjoy it! REGARDING HARVEY... Harvey McDonald is an Actor, Director and Creative Lead at Lyrebird Creative. “My work – he recounts – comes from a long-standing desire to simply create. The freedom to express my thoughts and feelings is one of the fundamental things I don’t feel I could live without and capturing that through the media of acting and film making is my passion.” He says about his experience at The Arch...