Monica Alcazar-Duarte, Girls
MADE IN ARTS LONDON MULTIPLIED 2014 17th - 20th October 2014
Made in Arts London (MiAL) is a not for profit enterprise which sells art and design by University of the Arts London students and recent graduates. Through Made in Arts London you have the chance to buy work from some London’s emerging talents and to be the first to discover a new generation of creative practitioners. MiAL is nested within SUARTS, the Students' Union of University of the Arts London, Europe’s largest arts education institution. UAL encompasses a huge range of creative courses over a total of six colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. Our students and graduates are among the most respected in the world. MiAL artists are already being collected by top art collectors and our exhibitions offer you an opportunity to buy works from our emerging artists and designers and to meet and speak with them about their work too. When you buy from MiAL, you are not only investing in and providing invaluable support for the art and design stars of the future; you are also making an excellent investment for yourself. All work within this catalogue can be bought online at: www.madeinartslondon.com Made in Arts London would like to thank UAL student enterprise and employability for their support with MiAL’s exhibition stand at Multiplied.
MADE IN ARTS LONDON AT MULTIPLIED List of Exhibitors
Adam Sarjeant, Camberwell College of Arts, BA Illustration, 2016 Adriana Krawcewicz, London College of Fashion, BA Fashion Illustration, 2014 Annalaura Masciave’, London College of Communication, MA Publishing, 2013 Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari, Central Saint Martins, MA Photography/PhD, 2016 Bart Hajduk, Camberwell College of Arts, BA Painting, 2016 Cadi Froehlich, Chelsea College of Arts, MA Fine Art, 2013 Conall McAteer, Central Saint Martins, MA Fine Art, 2012 Emily Carter, London College of Fashion, BA Fashion Textiles, 2014 Fredrik Andersson, Camberwell College of Arts, BA Illustration, 2016 Imogen Parry, Wimbledon College of Art, BA Fine Art Painting, 2014 Jazz Szu-Ying Chen, Central Saint Martins, MA Art & Science, 2015 Julia Rodrigues, Camberwell College of Arts, MA Printmaking, 2012 Katy Binks, Camberwell College of Arts, MA Printmaking, 2013 Marta Barina, Camberwell College of Arts, BA Photography, 2014 Melissa Fairchild, Camberwell College of Arts, MA Printmaking, 2015 Monica Alcazar-Duarte, London College of Communication, MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, 2014 Rhys Allen, Central Saint Martins, BA Product Design, 2014 Robbie Porter, Camberwell College of Arts, BA Illustration, 2013 Rowan Ottesen, Camberwell College of Arts, BA Graphic Design, 2014 Silje Lovise Gjersten, London College of Communication, BA Photography, 2013 Stella Asia Consonni, London College of Communication, BA Photography, 2013 Sylvia Moritz, Camberwell College of Arts, BA Graphic Design, 2014
ADAM SARJEANT Canadian artist Adam was drawn to study at Camberwell, because of the strong international reputation of UAL and the specificity of Camberwell’s Illustration programme, where Illustration was not folded into the Graphic or Visual Design fields. Studying at the UAL has only reinforced to him this initial belief that Illustration is a field distinct from any other art form, with concerns and potential which exist nowhere else. His ‘personal awe’ for artist Yoshitomo Nara is the most important influence on his art. There is always an effort in his work to capture the elegance and power of Nara’s emotional succinctness as it gives way to a near infinite sense of semiotic meaning. Each piece of Adam’s is its own, modular exercise which he admits may be not so much intentionally, as out of a reluctance to commit to one idea. He believes there are two struggles embodied in varying degrees in all of his pieces: the struggle to exist in the great “after” (after the postmodern development, the collapse of traditional morality, the perceived failure of the metanarrative of fine
art), and the personal struggle for morale in a philosophically insoluble world. Lately he has been working primarily in print; media, zines, and comics. Adam sees the resurgence of these ‘traditional’ forms as symptoms of a greater sea-change in the art world, extending the demand, production and market for affordable art.
“New art journals, compilations, portfolios, art books, mini-comics, digests, online curation - these new forms seem to be surging in popularity and I feel the new generation of artists will owe more to these media than to any oldworld systems.”
Adam Sarjeant - Krampus 20 x 24 cm ÂŁ37
ADRIANA KRAWCEWICZ Adriana Krawcewicz is a vivid fashion illustrator and singer songwriter, always pushing herself to discovery of innovative forms of illustration, music and moving image. A recent graduate of London College of Fashion, she previously gained a BA diploma in Graphic Design from Warsaw’s European Academy of Arts. She has interned at Hunger Magazine, as art director at Fashion Mode Agency, and art directs her illustrated street style blog ‘The Line Hunter’ inspired by London Fashion Week. Her artwork has been published in many magazines including Computer Arts (UK), Dash Magazine, Trendland. She has taken part in UK and international exhibitions and was selected for the external London College of Fashion Graduate show curated by David Downton. Adriana believes that Fashion Illustration is a powerful medium where many emotions can be transferred with colours and artist’s personality. Mostly she mixes her traditional drawing skills with digital media.
She also expands her horizons as visual singersongwriter, where she can accelerate her illustration, art direction and film skills into music performance inspired by the 1980s’ pop scene. Adriana has found that being in London helped her signature style emerge and become stronger. Through observation, inspiration from other practitioners, exhibitions and tutorials she has developed her work throughout her studies. It is not only fashion that inspires Adriana’s illustrations but also her emotions, feelings and experiences. She tries to combine her identity with the commercial aspects of her work. Specific inspirations include fashion illustrators Rene Gruau, Gabriel Moreno and David Downton. Through her work Adriana hopes that her audience will become exposed to the beauty and power of fashion illustration, which she feels is still quite a niche in the illustration world.
Adriana Krawcewicz - Bites 29.7 x 42 cm ÂŁ30
ANNALAURA MASCIAVE’ As an artists, Annalaura’s inspiration rarely comes from the visual arts but more often from classical music, within her work she regularly tries to translate the feeling that she gets from a piece of music into her photography. Annalaura hopes that her photographs give people a strong sense, without the need of any explanation, of the concept behind her work. She wants her images to be strong enough to say what they are saying by themselves in the most intrinsic way possible. She enjoys working in digital photography because she feels that the medium offers so much creative potential. She likes the fact that she can create very diverse pieces while still using the same medium, and the infinite range of possibilities that digital photography offers both during shooting and in post-production. Through this medium she finds she has the flexibility to experiment with style, aesthetic and concepts.
Annalaura would like to start travelling more and creating some strong landscape images to go alongside her striking portraiture pieces. She aims to be proud of her photography and would like to be able to see a part of herself and a phase in her life within every image she takes. In her photographic career so far Annalaura has been awarded and shortlisted for a range of awards including the International Photography Awards - One Shot: One World Competition 2014 / Honorable Mention (People category), Wells Art Contemporary 2013 / Shortlisted (Wells, UK), Fremantle International Portrait Prize 2013 / Shortlisted (Fremantle, AU). Selected artist for PHOTOcentric 2013 (Garrison, NY, U.S.), Life Framer / Shortlisted, Samsung NX Speed Pass (Paris) / Winner and Xhibit 2013, UAL (London, UK).
Annalaura Masciave’ - Riccardo 40 x 30 cm £230
Annalaura Masciave’ - Catherine and the Leave 70 x 50 cm £280
ARMENOUI KASPARIAN SARAIDARI Armenoui has always had a passion for photography and as a result in 2011 she decided to start a Masters Degree in Photography at Central Saint Martins and experience the London art scene. Her interest has remained in photography as well as archives and memory since her MA, and she is currently studying for a PhD. During her MA course Armenoui found that her perspectives, practice and methods of research progressed a lot and she became more confident in being involved in collaborations and external projects. The project in this collection is titled ‘Of Armenian origin who have never obtained any other nationality’. The project title is a phrase found stamped on the proofs of identity given to the Armenians when entering Greece in the early 1920’s. Each photograph is a set of an individuals belongings that, is significant to his profession. The expanded white area, the portrait format of the prints, as well as the titles of the images echo biographical data and identity documents. Arranged as one piece and lit in a dramatic way those objects symbolise a person in his absence. When Armenoui first encountered the objects within this project she didn’t think of using them for portraits. She had previously been working with archival photographs from her family collection that she was documenting
and cataloguing for use in later research and practice. However in the same way, she wanted to document the objects and archive them in her family collection. As she investigated the stories around the objects the still lives became photographs of individuals and narratives. Armenoui hopes that her images speak of a network of narratives about real people but at the same time reflect the history and memory of the Armenian Disapora. Her work seeks to address the issues of trauma, memory and forgetting through a crossgenerational dialogue.
“These still life’s restore the loss of individuality resulted by deportations and are an attempt to portray not only my ancestors but also a whole generation of the Armenian minority in the Ottoman Empire. If the experience of exile constitutes of whom those people were, these portraits manifest exile from a present scope.”
Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari - Chrepsime Agazaryan (1906-1983) Housewife, born in the Adana Province of the Ottoman Empire 39 x 23 cm ÂŁ300
Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari - Zadik Marderosyan (1893-1975) Gunsmith, born in Izmir in Asia Minor 39 x 23 cm ÂŁ300
BART HAJDUK Bart’s time on the BA at Camberwell is spent experimenting, exploring his ideas and increasing his skills and confidence through the freedom of practice it allows. Bart is inspired by the camp and erotic, such as James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus and Pierre and Gilles pictures; playfulness and artificiality of Rachel MacLean videos; and the fantastical paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. Bart was initially inspired by unicorn legends and his own fantasies of becoming a princess and so he based these pieces from the MiAL Summer collection on the series of 16th century unicorn tapestries. In addition, he gets a lot of ideas and excitement from contemporary London nightlife, especially the transvestite and homosexual club scene.
Bart would like the audience to fall in love with the vibrant saturated fantasy of the opulent and artificial world that he has created and also to appreciate the hint of playfulness and eroticism. He is looking forward to further exploring and playing with the concept of digital collage and to translate that to experimenting with moving image.
“What inspires me is the joy of creating new worlds filled with characters that I perform and the amount of effort that I put into design of sets, costumes and props.”
Bart Hajduk - Hunt for the Unicorn I 84 x 56 cm ÂŁ200
CADI FROEHLICH Within Cadi’s work she often finds herself coming back to the work of Cornford and Cross, a UAL Alumni artist duo, who are meticulous in concept, execution and material, whilst still keeping true to their wider investigation of the world we live in, and the human experience of modern life. Ideas of consumption, production, obsolescence and interaction are key. ‘Orange’ and ‘Purple’ are macro examinations of the cables which surround us unseen, of the materiality of them, and of the imagined traces of all the communications they have carried. At this scale they become almost abstract, resembling organic forms and patterns. The machining and production of the elements which make up our cables
becomes appreciated, whilst the full frontal confrontation risks overwhelming the senses. Cadi has recently been named as the winner of the 2014 Red Mansion Prize.
“We hold the object to our cheeks, but the information is transmitted invisibly. The vast network of wires, cables and conducting materials which enable this connection grows ever larger, yet is ever harder to see as it’s in orbit or in walls behind wireless routers.”
Cadi Froehlich - Purple 45 x 55 cm £440
Cadi Froehlich - Orange 45 x 55 cm £440
CONALL MCATEER Conall McAteer is an artist whose practice is formally diverse. Often engaging in site-based work outside of the gallery space and ranging through sculpture, publication, installation and intervention. Predominantly engaging with the role of the artist in a post-internet age, his work introduces the audience to a new take on familiar and less-well considered aspects of everyday experience and culture. From large-scale site-specific works to limited edition prints. Utilising world-wide web content as resource, platform and tool, McAteer’s narratives explore the interaction of art, popular culture and modern visual dissemination media. His work merges the digital and the tangible. Reflecting on the nature of creativity and notions of value, authorship and originality. McAteer’s future projects range from selfpublishing a luxury magazine to launching an internet dating website and mobile app.
McAteer was the winner of the Lowe and Partners NOVA Award 2012 and was shortlisted for the Catlin Art Prize 2013 – selected from the top art graduates in the UK. He also recently selected for the ArtQuest LifeBoat 201213 residency scheme during which he built his own studio.
“Today’s viewer, increasingly accustomed to experiencing art as electronic representation (rather than as reality within a cultural setting), accedes to production and exhibition becoming more collaborative and interactive.”
Conall McAteer - Not For Love Nor Money 40 x 40 cm ÂŁ195 Made by order artwork from the exhibition list above
EMILY CARTER Emily was draw to study at University of the Arts London because of the location, its connections, its reputability and the fact it was the only place she could find which had a course that incorporated both fashion and textiles. As she has worked through her studies, Emily’s work has changed so much that she claims she barely recognises it from when she began at UAL. Although Emily has always loved to draw, she never dreamed that her skills would progress as much as they have during her time at London College of Fashion. The development in her work is, as Emily puts it, entirely down to the tutors and her ambition and drive throughout the course. Most of Emily’s current illustrations are from her second year of study when she discovered the fine pen composition style and aesthetic used in her pieces. The pieces are inspired by Emily’s lifetime interest in natural history, animals, science and biology; and the beauty of the natural world. Salvador Dahli has been a strong influence in Emily’s work throughout, which is where the
surreal elements of her illustrations derive from. But generally she finds that she can draw inspiration from everything around her, rather than just a few specific sources. Emily hopes that her work will lead her audience to gain an understanding of the beauty of the natural world, she believes that society does not pay enough attention to this beauty anymore or respect it in the way that we should. Although Emily is normally a person drawn to colour she finds the contrast between the black and white in her currently work incredibly appealing. She likes the clean, sharp lines, and how the animals seem to become more figurative and accurate depictions. Emily is forever allowing her work to evolve, her intentions currently are too add more geometrics and abstract shapes to enable her to incorporate more colour into the compositions. She would also like to expand the inspirations that impact her work and would also like to start working on a far larger scale including wall hangings.
Emily Carter - Lion 30 x 40 cm ÂŁ45
FREDRIK ANDERSSON We are very lucky to have Fredrik, he had initially planned to study Illustration in Sweden but luckily for us he came on holiday to London and loved the place. Finding the city to be full of inspiration and places he’d never seen before he actually stumbled upon Camberwell when out walking with a friend.
Fredrik loves working with his hands, finding screen-printing to have a slick feel that is able to recreate his line work in perfect detail and still manage to create small differences in every piece that makes them special in their own way. Something you lose when using a digital printer.
He asked around and only heard good things about it and so here he is today!
“I love beards. And London is a place that is overflowing with handsome men with amazing beards. This is my way to show my appreciation and maybe a little bit of an obsession about my own and others beards. Hopefully the audience will take away a smile and a thought!”
“I love telling stories through my work so narrative and visual storytelling is something that I will focus on heavily during my time at UAL. I want to show people other sides of life that they usually don’t think about. Encouraging them to a better way of understanding other people’s differences.”
He is currently writing a comic book on LGBT prejudice based on his on experiences of coming out in a small town in the north of Sweden.
Fredrik Andersson - Infinite Beard I 42 x 59 cm ÂŁ45
IMOGEN PARRY Drawn to UAL by a desire to be in London, one of the great creative and artistic capitals of the world, Imogen began studying art on the Foundation Course at Wimbledon College of Art. She found the course outstanding, so carried on to do BA Painting at WCA. Imogen developed a clearer understanding of the subject of her work throughout her studies, and now has a concrete theme that she finds keeps her captivated as an artist. Imogen hopes that her audience find excitement and delight in the visual qualities of her work; she strongly believes that visual pleasure is fundamental in art and aspires to this in her pieces. There are strong inspirations behind Imogen’s work from American literature and L.A. culture, which are apparent in her subject matter and iconic imagery. Bret Easton Ellis and British science fiction writer J G Ballard are two authors that have been paramount in the development of these pieces and in the forming of their narrative.
Imogen’s work has also been informed by artist David Hockney and photographer Jordan Sullivan. It is through these cultural influences that Imogen has developed and refined her current practice. Imogen often combines different media: she will print drawings, photograph paintings, collage photography and through doing this she has developed an exciting way of making work which keeps her inspired. She enjoys printmaking because it takes away the immediacy of the handmade mark. Imogen notes that the Western world often experiences life in an indirect way, for example through the Internet, and this is something she likes to replicate in her work. Having graduated in 2014, Imogen has exciting plans for her future work. She intends to develop some more situational pieces. Imogen has been shortlisted for the Clyde and Co. Art Award and the Hix Award 2014.
Imogen Parry - Bikini 84 x 57 cm £200
Imogen Parry - Stellavista 84 x 59 cm £200
JAZZ SZU-YING CHEN Jazz initially came to study at University of the Arts London partly because of the alumni and partly because of London’s subculture scene. She was enchanted by the amount of strong personalities that UAL has produced and wanted to be one of them. During her time at UAL she has found that her practice has progressed dramatically, she has over time refined her techniques and improved her understanding of subject focus within her work. Before she began at UAL her interest lay in socio-cultural relations topics and fantasy, but her pieces have now developed a more specific focus around morbid anatomy and art of the grotesque. Jazz’s work takes inspiration from 18th century Italian anatomical wax models by sculptors such as Clemente Susini. She is drawn to the uncanny element of calmness within his dissected and opened wax models. She also finds herself taking a lot of her
inspirations from medical textbooks and from drawings or engravings by anatomists such as Jacques-Fabien Gautier D’Agoty. Another strong influence on the path that Jazz’s work has taken was her former tutor Eleanor Crook, who helped Jazz develop a clearer focus within her work and helped cultivate her current practice. Jazz found that Eleanor’s knowledge and own artworks were very influential on her, and the respect she has for her tutor has had a profound impact upon her own work. Each of Jazz’s pieces has their own story, some are drawn from personal experiences and observations on certain cultures, and in this series of work she examines Taiwan vs UK culture. These stories are often very subtle within the works, but Jazz often enjoys discussing these with her audiences and discovering what different people see within her work.
Jazz Szu-Ying Chen - Standards of Beauty 50 x 72 cm ÂŁ156
JULIA RODRIGUES Originally from Portugal, Julia has an impressive background of qualifications and exhibitions both at home and in the UK. Julia’s current practice is informed by Portuguese folk art, repetition and chance. She has been researching traditional iconography, mostly pagan ceramic sculpture, and relating this to a contemporary concept of spirituality. Julia initially studied a BA Fine Art, Printmaking course outside of University of the Arts London. However on completion of the course she felt that she still needed to develop her work and learn more about the medium. As a result, and with a suggestion from her tutor, Julia chose to study an MA in Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts due to its fantastic reputation and the reputation of the staff involved. This collection of work stems from a longstanding interest in minimal art and extensive research for an essay Julia wrote entitled ‘Repetition against Repetition – The Path to Spirituality in Contemporary Visual Art’. The essay focuses on repetition as the most basic inner emotion of humanity and
of universal functioning; and that the act of repetition as a ritual or mantra opens the path towards spirituality and freeing ourselves from the banality of everyday life. Julia enjoys working in the medium of Intaglio etching, she loves the unexpected magical element of it, and finds that it is the medium which best represents her approach to printmaking. She is interested specifically in the act of the imprint, and the act of producing marks and patterns which connect to an emotion. This repetitive mark making language is something that Julia intends to turn into a lifelong project, allowing it to develop in different ways over time. Her long term goal is to research and learn new ways of creating her mark making by allowing her printing methods to become more conceptual. For example she would love to explore 3D printing techniques and elements such as sound within her work. Julia won the John Purcell Paper Award in 2012 for her degree show pieces, these pieces were also shown at with Made in Arts London at Affordable Art Fair in 2013.
Julia Rodrigues - Penal Colony VIII 40 x 50 cm ÂŁ50
KATY BINKS Katy was initially drawn to study at UAL because of, the opportunities that the university offers graduates; she was also very drawn to the course itself and the staff involved.
In the future Katy intends to work on larger installation pieces, for her personal development, to take into a gallery context and also to branch out and work within cultural, commercial and more unexpected settings. She would especially like to work on projects that take part outdoors and in urban environments.
During her time at university her work has developed to include more colours and vibrancy. In her own words her work has Katy was shortlisted for the New Business become “Bigger, Brighter, Bolder”. She Award for UAL Creative Enterprise Awards. has also begun to develop her work into installation a lot more now and has branched out to collaborate with other artists and creative people. The inspiration behind this current collection is African textiles, Katy’s work has taken on inspiration from the detailed patterns and the stunning overall effect that African textiles emit. In particular Katy finds the work of Kusama has had a specific influence on her three ‘Coloured Shapes’ pieces. Katy mainly works with screenprint, she enjoys the process in this style of working and finds that there is always something new to learn, and different ways to work within this technique.
“I’m very much interested in the immediate visual impression that artworks can have. I like to use colour to draw people in and I like the potential of pattern and installation as means of disorientating the viewer.”
Katy Binks - Coloured Shapes I 70 x 100 cm ÂŁ600
MARTA BARINA Italian photography student Marta is passionate that the very act of making of art is an expression of our inner selves. Her work is driven by reason, outlined by detail, and reinterpreted in metaphor:
“Rather than the instinctive and rabid jets of colours, I prefer the black straight line that conceals a meticulous interpretation of feelings.” She initially chose to study Architecture and Design in Italy, attracted by clean lines and technique. She found designing something realistic gave her even more of a chance to dream and imagine more than if she had had free rein. During those 5 years Marta also studied photography on her own which influenced many of her projects,
recognising the appropriate balance between rules and creativity. With ‘Inward’, Marta wants to give her response and represent her life conditioned by the hiccup: due to a medical condition, she has been having this tic for almost 10 years, without ever finding an explanation or cure even with the help of doctors and psychologists. The camera’s pinholes face inside as figuratively inside her body looking for her “hic”, and it is also designed specifically for the creation of the video in stop motion. ‘Inward’ wants to combine science and fine art, design and photography. A pinhole camera, a print, and the video. Each element represents a step of the research, composing a climax that brings practicality to the abstract.
Marta Barina - Inward II 2013/14 51 x 61 cm ÂŁ400
MELISSA FAIRCHILD When Melissa initially came to University of the Arts London to view the degree shows and open days she was always blown away by the facilities of the print studio at Camberwell College of Arts. She was also taken with the colleges accepting attitude towards experimental work and the crosscollege community for MA students; all of this led to her choosing to study on Camberwell’s MA Printmaking course.
Melissa’s ‘Resurgence’ series was inspired by man’s ever evolving relationship with nature during a time of intensive change and adaptation. The wreaths attempt to evoke feelings surrounding lifecycles, arcadia and how man represents nature through images. The series is intended to provoke thoughts surrounding the fragility, uncertainty and complexity of the beautiful world we live in.
While studying in London, Melissa felt the absence of nature in the harsh urban environment of the city. The feelings affected how she began to research and create her work, and through her pieces she began to ask questions about the state of humanity. She found that as this went on underlying environmental themes began to appear in her work.
Printmaking is an inspiring medium to Melissa due to new technologies constantly becoming available, which immediately inform printmakers as practitioners. She finds, that as a printmaker, she is able to mix traditional, historical techniques with the most up to date image making tools. The experimental nature constantly excites her.
Melissa Fairchild - Resurgence I 46 x 46 cm ÂŁ90
MONICA ALCAZAR-DUARTE Monica completed her first degree at Central Saint Martins to gain a deeper understanding of her practice from a Fine Arts perspective. She then completed an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at London College of Communication to apply her passion in producing work with social issues. This has lead to her photography having a multidisciplinary approach. Monica is inspired by the work of choreographer Pina Bausch and musician Philip Glass, these practitioners influence the narrative and structure behind her photography. ‘Your Photographs Could Be Used By Drug Dealers’ tests the charged image of Mexico offered by the media and popular culture. As a Mexican herself, Monica is well aware of the richness and complexity of Mexican culture and contemporary life, and this project offers a small glimpse of this. The principle behind the project stems from Monica’s interest in notions of meaning and interpretation in flux. She wanted to make evident how interconnections are transitory, and how conclusions and preconceptions are not fixed. Monica hopes that her images help her audience reach a subtle awareness, regarding
how they read and interconnect images and information. Her aim is that the audience examine how they reach their conclusions and what that says, not only about the images, but also about themselves. She is currently working on two further projects which involve groups that embrace the extraordinary and refuse to lead mainstream lives. Both projects will explore unusual forms of narrative, and make use of fluid photographic storytelling
“The way we use photography today has deeply changed our approach to the medium itself. It is going through a very exciting phase in which I feel the need, as a photographer, to go beyond the sole production of images. For me it is the way I present my photographs, as much as the content and form, when inviting the audience to experience an idea through my work.”
Monica Alcazar-Duarte - Girls 29.7 x 42 cm £150
Monica Alcazar-Duarte - Double 29.7 x 42 cm £150
RHYS ALLEN Although Rhys came to UAL under the guise of a product designer on the Central Saint Martins BA course, it was in fact his artwork that developed during his studies and is now at the forefront of his creative practice. Within his course there was a contextual studies section, which Rhys found he began to integrate into his artwork; he found that it was his art, over the products that he made in which he found an outlet for the themes he wanted to address. His design work became about people’s interactions with the manmade world and each other, whereas his artwork was about people’s relationship with the natural world. This collection of pieces is created with the intention of evoking a feeling or emotion within the viewer. The work is very personal to Rhys, and is inspired by his own experiences and places that he has visited.
The main source of inspiration within the majority of Rhys’s work is human relationship with the natural world. He is interested in how we seek to preserve the world whilst also changing it for our needs. Having studied product design Rhys is well aware of our own material culture and links with nature, as well as the impact that the human population has on the environment. Rhys finds a personal dilemma in coming to terms with our need to change and effect the world whilst also wanting to preserve it, and it is this which is the driving force behind this work. Rhys hopes that viewers of his work can enjoy it and interpret the pieces in their own way. He hopes that they see a beautiful image and enjoy viewing something that is beyond the ordinary, he wants his pieces to convey to the viewer the beauty that can be found in both the natural and manmade world.
Rhys Allen - Bubble 28.7 x 42 cm ÂŁ300
ROBBIE PORTER Robbie Porter is a Scottish illustrator currently based in London. He studied Visual Communication in Leeds and then worked at a printmaking studio for a couple of years before becoming a freelance illustrator. Robbie graduated in 2013 from MA Illustration at Camberwell College of Art where he also created his first children’s book. Robbie initially wanted to move to London but was apprehensive of going straight into freelance work, so he decided to do an MA to give him the opportunity to illustrate a book. The decision to study at Camberwell was made because they provided an MA which was exclusively focused on illustration. He has created work for an impressive client list including The New York Times, New Scientist Magazine and The National Museums of Scotland, as well as album covers and a full length graphic novel entitled ‘The Librarian’s List’. Robbie uses a variety of tools from pen and paper to computer and camera in order to create images that convey a message, feeling or story.
His work stems purely from his imagination, ideas pop into his head and he turns these into uniquely recognisable illustrations, which promote a quirky and creatively fun attitude. Robbie enjoys the immediacy of drawing and getting his ideas onto paper, however he also enjoys developing his work on a computer, where he can edit and perfect the piece to achieve the final result. Robbie’s inspiration comes from a wide range of famous practitioners such as Bill Watterson, Craig Frazier and Brendan Monroe. He likes work that has a concept behind it and that is communicated interestingly, and this is what he hopes to achieve in his work. However most of all he would like to achieve a unique voice in his pieces that is clearly his own. This voice shines through clearly in Robbie’s work with his comical way of looking at the world always present. For example when asked “What would you like to achieve through your work?” Robbie simply replies:
“World peace or world domination. I can’t decide…”
Robbie Porter - Let Your Mind Wander 30 x 40 cm ÂŁ32.50
ROWAN OTTESEN A lover of all things typographical, playful designer Rowan considers Camberwell to be a potential launchpad, not only for his career but in the ongoing widening of his practice, what graphic design is and what it has the power to achieve. Rowan is currently working on two projects for the King’s College Hospital, London. The first, an series of animated cartoons with fellow MiAL artist Sylvia Moritz and the second is a large-scale mural illustration for a newly renovated development, both are expected to be completed July 2014. With his ‘Read Between the Words’ series Rowan focuses on the hidden potential of everyday words. It spans a whole series of phrases that have been analysed and redefined by extracting hidden definitions from within the alphabetical structure of the words themselves. This project originated from a small one day workshop with the very talented Camberwell Artist Sam Winston. After completing his first series of ‘Read Between the Words’ Rowan discovered, by chance the concrete poetry of American poet Emmet Williams. Studying him
has greatly informed the project and inspired Rowan to expand the series.
“When we were children, we learnt new words, studied their meanings, and thrived for an opportunity to use them in a sentence. As adults we say hundreds of thousands every day, but if this project could rekindle forgotten appreciation of these words, this would be a surprising but rewarding feat.” Rowan’s medium for this project, being language, has provided him with a different perspective on the tools we use. He is inspired to explore it’s potential and to expand the series through more words with experimentation into scale, colour, orientation, and typography. Rowan won a D&AD Best of Year award in 2013 for a Graphic Design brief for the V&A.
Rowan Ottesen - Mistakes 42 x 30 cm ÂŁ44.50
SILJE LOVISE GJERSTEN Silje Lovise Gjertsen  is a Norwegian artist currently based in London. She recently graduated from BA Photography at London College of Communication and will be starting her MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art this autumn.
Looking at the body in pain, Gjertsen explores the topics of mortality, temporality and human relationships. By juxtaposing her parents’ scarred bodies with fractures in the landscape where she grew up in Norway, she draws parallels between human and nature, both affected by the passage of time.
Left: Silje Lovise Gjersten - Untitled Portrait 61 x 76 cm ÂŁ1,300 Above: Silje Lovise Gjersten - Portrait of Mother 61 x 51 cm ÂŁ1,100
STELLA ASIA CONSONNI Stella Asia Consonni is originally from She has also had ten solo exhibitions and has Bergamo, Italy. She now lives and works in East featured in 14 other collective exhibitions. London, where she co-founded Studio House a creative studio space. She was 1st classified in MicroSpaceCompetition for ‘Micro²’ itinerant Having studied photography at London exhibition August 2010, 1st classified in Picasso College of Communication she has since Sconosciuto, StatArt Milano May 2010 and 1st worked for some big name clients such as Vice classified in Mellow Mood photography Magazine, Nokia, Peroni and Dazed Digital. contest ‘The Street’ December 2008.
Left: Stella Asia Consonni - Celestica Detail II 20 x 24 inch ÂŁ130 Above: Stella Asia Consonni - Celestica 30 x 30 inch ÂŁ208
SYLVIA MORTIZ Sylvia Mortiz initially studied Graphic and Communication Design at Die Graphische in Vienna. Afterwards she spent a year in the USA studying Illustration at the SMFA (School of the Museum of Fine Arts) in Boston, and taking part in a printmaking course at the University of Berkeley in San Francisco. In 2012, she enrolled at the University of the Arts London to study BA Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts. She also took part in an Erasmus exchange programme, in a six-month intensive at The Parsons New School for Design, New York. Observations of her surroundings play a vital role in shaping the direction of her practice, which usually has underlying environmentalist attitudes. Sylvia tends to work quite meticulously with techniques such as printmaking and pencil illustration, however she also transfers these traditional techniques into digital, allowing different media to work hand in hand. Sylvia’s work was early on inspired by some staggering artworks she discovered with meticulous attention to detail, such as the work of George Bohle and Matthew Borrett. She began to take this inspiration and tried to communicate current affairs that were close to her through this detailed processes. Having undergone a three year course in graphic
design, she was able to develop a strong graphical style within this technique, which she found instantly exciting and suitable to her drawing skills. This particular collection is inspired by how Sylvia views the cities she has lived in Sylvia’s work makes a statement about overpopulation and urbanization. She aspires for her audience to take a closer look and notice the complexity of the world we live in. She enjoys leaving the conclusion to the viewer; she allows them to decide whether this piece of art communicates the negative aspects of overpopulated urban areas or the positive view on its diversity.
“My interest in urban environments that I’ve lived in heavily informs my work. Having travelled and viewed a wide range of cities and places I became fascinated by how diverse and vivid our cities are designed, built and maintained throughout decades.”
Sylvia Moritz - Capacity 50 x 50 cm ÂŁ400
Monica Alcazar-Duarte, Girls
MADE IN ARTS LONDON MULTIPLIED 2014 17th - 20th October 2014