artist
list
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Edward
Summerton
Alba
Eddie Summerton’s conscious decision to base his studio and practice in rural Scotland for the past 40 years has enabled an exploration of a fragile folkloric relationship with the non – human and natural world that is sympathetic and relational. His works ,informed by an improvisation of materials moving between painting, object, print, film and neon ,to the organisation of events, appear as mediums, giving voice to an otherly pastoral.
He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the UK, Europe, North America, Australia and South Korea.
He has work in private collections throughout the world and in public collections that range from The BBC to The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
He has received critical acclaim for his collaborative works that explore alternative formats for the dissemination of his practice.
These have included – Delayed by Storm- with the writer Don Paterson. Bird of the Devil - a publication featuring seventeen writers including Michael Marra, Robert Crawford, , Jenny Brownrigg and James Robertson. Diary of an Egg Collector – A collaborative publication with the artist Graham Fagen.
As a curator he has produced innovative exhibitions and projects that have included Dr. Skin, Blind Sight, Digital VD, Prints of Darkness, Between the Late and Early and Shelter Stone –The Artist and The Mountain. He is currently a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee. The Secretary of The Royal Scottish Academy. The founding member of the band District Nurse. Warden at the Strict Nature Reserve. Member of The Armchair Mountaineering Club and Bothy Convenor for the Angus Cycling Club
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Isaque
Andrade
Iberia
Isaque Andrade is a painter and digital artist, working with in a variety of media ranging from photography, 3D, video, gifs, and sound, to engraving, silkscreen, literature, and mixed media.
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Rui
Martins
Iberia
Born in 1967, Lisbon. Graduated in Visual Design by IADE. Since the end of the 1990s, the works have been divided into different media such as video, digital art and installation. Regular collaboration with other visual artists, musicians, architects, and curators; as an artist and/or designer in the elaboration and design of exhibitions. Together with António Castanheira, he is the co-creator of the public art exhibition - "Contamination" - of the literary festival Escritaria in Penafiel, working on the conception and design of the event between 2007 and 2014. Also in 2007, he participates in the first Architecture Triennale of Lisbon, in collaboration with the collective of architects Embaixada, as a multimedia content designer. In 2008, he began his collaboration with the British musician Jono Podmore, working in the field of video and multimedia installation. Examples of this collaboration are the videos "Mr. Alucard" (2010), "Living Ghost Returns" (2019) and the multimedia projects "Horrorshow" (2012) and "P.E" (2020). In 2013 he started the online project "Feathers Allways Make People Attractive" and in 2015 he presented this project at the Luís Serpa Projectos gallery, curated by António Cerveira Pinto. Participates in The Wrong International Digital Art Biennial in 2015/16, invited by Australian artist/curator Joseph Flynn, and participates again in the 2019/2020 edition of this event, invited by artists/curators Kaspar Ravel (France) and Systaime ( France). In 2020 he is invited by Systaime to collaborate with SPAMM (Super Modern Art Museum).
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Júlio
Jara
Iberia/ Spain
Júlio Jara was born in 1971 in Toledo, Spain, he works for a homeless shelter run by the Catholic Foundation San Martín de Porres in the Caño Roto neighbourhood of Madrid which cares for transgender people. He is responsible for care, administration, and cooking. In this context, he also offers artistic workshops
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Tiago
Duarte
Iberia
Tiago Duarte lived and studied in various European cities, including Manchester, Edinburgh, Antwerp, and Lisbon. He completed a Master's degree in Fine Arts at the Metropolitan University of Manchester in 2012 and worked as a researcher with the University of Sint Lucas in Antwerp in 2015. In 2018, he participated in the artistic research residency at Maumaus in Lisbon, and since 2020, he has made Portugal his residence, specifically the city of Almada, where he develops a space for artistic creation and research (@irmãfeia). His artistic practice utilizes the inherent limitations of mechanical, laborious, and technological processes, such as repetition, differentiation, and variation, thereby challenging notions of automation to create unique pieces.
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Amarachi
Okafor
Naija
Amarachi Okafor’s art practice albeit international is very much rooted in the local. She works from ORIE STUDIO, an art production and research space she founded, in Abuja, Nigeria. Amarachi’s studies in the field of art reward her with the following degrees: BA (Painting), 2002; MFA (Sculpture), 2006 (both from the University of Nigeria Nsukka); and MA in Curatorial Practice, 2012 from Falmouth University, Cornwall, UK. Practising consistently since 2003, she has shared workspaces at Universal Studios and Aina Onabolu studios, Lagos; and had private studios at different times in Nsukka, Umuahia and Abuja- in Nigeria; and in a few other places around the world. She was the recipient of the Unesco Aschberg Artists’ Award in 2007- leading to a residency at Lademoen Kustnerverksteder [LKV] in Trondheim Norway. She was also the Commonwealth Foundation Commonwealth Connections recipient in 2009 which supported her travels for research projects and a collaborative exhibition. She has also been granted residencies to Nkd – Norway and to Popopstudios, Nassau- Bahamas. Upon graduating from Falmouth University, Amarachi won the Art Department’s internship scholarship that year. In 2014, she won the jury prize at the National Art Competition (Nigeria). She has exhibited at Babel Art Space, Norway, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales, Manchester Art Gallery, UK, Jogjarkarta Biennial, Indonesia; and in recent years she has taken to doing public art projects with audiences in galleries and alternative art spaces, a unique endeavour that she refers to as relational public art. She studied under and has worked with El Anatsui (renowned Ghanaian-born, Nigerian-based Sculptor), since 1999. She worked in the National Gallery of Art, Nigeria's curatorial department as a curatorial assistant and rose to Senior Curator, from 2008-2015. Her work has been exhibited widely on her home continent in Africa, in Europe, Asia and the Caribbean.
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Alan
Grieve
Alba
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Roddy
Buchanan
Alba
Roddy Buchanan, trained in the Environmental Art Department of Glasgow School of Art in the 1980’s, where the Artist Placement Group’s moto ‘Context is half the work’ was central to the ethos, Buchanan’s practice developed from participation in the traditional contemporary art world circuit towards public commissions and residencies. In 2008 he was employed by the Imperial War Museum as British War Artist reflecting on ‘The legacy of the Good Friday Agreement’. Over the subsequent decade his strategies, developed in the field, were stress tested in the context of tension and identity division. On the International Masters Artist Educator course housed within ArtEZ in Arnhem, he currently works as an associate lecturer. Buchanan specialises in preparing students to be open to the encounter, working with students outside the studio, employing situationist strategy as a starting point to open-up locations, creating moments of engagement where empathy and epiphany achieve genuine art driven research.
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António
Manso Preto
Iberia
António Manso Preto. Multimedia student at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto. Having studied Cinema in high school, Multimedia becomes a means to explore and express himself in intermediate and multidisciplinary attempts, focusing on the fusion between theory and practice, text and image, and digital and analogue media. The visual arts allow for the exploration of both personal and collective narratives, in an archivist, as well as emotive, approach.
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Babajide
Olatunji
Naija
Babajide Olatunji (b. 1989) is a self-taught, visual artist living and working in London UK. Born in Portharcourt, Nigeria Babajide developed an early interest in artistic expression that has endured throughout his life. With over a decade of professional experience as a full-time studio artist, Olatunji has shown in multiple cities globally and works from his Tribal Marks and Aroko series have been incredibly well received. His portrait paintings of imagined subjects have been acquired by many important private collections in London, Lagos, Geneva, Istanbul and New York; including the private collection of his highness, King Mohammed VI of Morocco.
In 2017 Olatunji was selected for inclusion in a curated section of the Royal Academy of Arts summer show, in London and has worked in the permanent collection of the Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, Michigan and the Bank of England Museum, London. In 2022, a large-scale painting from Olatunji's History of the Yoruba series was unveiled at the John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture & History, Lagos, Nigeria. Babajide is currently working towards his first solo show in Shanghai, China in 2024.
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Christiano
Mere
Alba / Brazil
Christiano is a researcher, writer, artist and art technician. He was born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. As an artist, he defines his activity as a path. There is no search for a theme in his work, but an activity linked to the observation of the world through gaps - gaps between activities, gaps between actions, gaps between materials and time. Christiano holds an MA in sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon (PT, 2019) and a BA in Graphic Design from UNESA, Rio de Janeiro (BR, 2010). He has participated in residencies including Resvés (PT, 2019), Projeto Pontes (PT, 2019), Aldeias em Abandono (PT, 2017), Scottish Sculpture Workshop (GB, 2016) and Plataforma Emergências (BR, 2016). His work has been exhibited in the exhibitions d'ici-là, Labastide-Villefranche (Fr, 2021), [... ] un angle à perte de vue…, Biarritz (FR,2020), Resvés, Castro Marim (PT, 2019), Douro Híbrido, Porto (PT, 2019) and Galeria Celeiro, Niterói (BR, 2017). Christiano also has works published by the Off Flip Literature Prize (BR, 2020), Mauvaises Herbes (FR, 2020) and in Convocarte #8 (PT, 2019).
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Cristina
Ataíde
Iberia
Cristina Ataide was born in Viseu, Portugal in 1951. Lives and works in Lisbon. She graduated in Sculpture at Lisbon Superior School of Fine Art, where also she attended Design Studies. Head of the Sculpture and Design department in MadeIn, a Portuguese marble production company between 1987 and 1996, working there with artists such as Anish Kapoor, Michelangelo Pistolleto, Keith Sonnier, Matt Mullican, etc. She was invited to teach at the Lusofona University in Lisbon between 1997 and 2012. Her work, most of the time is done during the artist’s travelling, transits between sculpture and drawing, going through photography and video. The concerns about nature are one of the most constant worries in her work. Going through different landscapes around the world, trying to understand its questions - The denouncing of ecological crimes, the preservation of nature and the integration of the spectator, are always at the centre of her personal and artistic preoccupations. Her work is represented in different public and private collections, such as: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Collection, Lisbon; Caixa Geral de Depósitos Collection, Culturgest, Lisbon; António Cachola Collection, Elvas, Portugal; Foundation Carmona e Costa Collection, Lisbon; PLMJ Foundation Collection, Lisbon; City Museum Collection, Lisbon; Novo Banco Collection, Lisbon; Modern Art Museu of Sintra, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa Collection, La Coruña, Spain; Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Essaouira Collection, Morocco; Afro Brasil Museum Collection, São Paulo, Brazil, Contemporary Art Museum of Surocaba, Brazil, among others.
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Fernando
J. Ribeiro
Iberia
Fernando J. Ribeiro's work includes diverse media, with a main focus on drawing, sculpture and performance. Solo exhibitions include PRIVATE, Stolen Books, Lisbon, 2021; SELF-SERVICE, Sismógrafo, Porto, 2014; THANK YOU, DANKE, XIE XIE, Projecto A Montra, Lisbon, 2013; CLOSE-UP, Espaço Campanhã, Porto, 2012; HORIZONTE E OUTROS BRILHOS, Galeria Presença, Porto, 2009; NEONS AND CHANEL, A Certain Lack of Chance, Porto, 2009. Recent books include artist book PRIVATE, In. Transit editions and Stolen Books, Lisbon. 2019. Recent performances include HOME SWEET HOLE, in International Performance Festival, Noseland, Zurich, 2015; LOL SPAM LOL, Festival Verão Azul, Lagos, 2012; TELL ME MY NAME, Containers Project, Docas de Alcântara, Lisbon, 2010; BLIND DATE, Caroline Pagès Gallery, Lisbon, 2010. Recent group exhibitions include CAPITAL WORK. GENERAL GREVE, Oliva Creative Factory, São João da Madeira, 2020; THEM OR US, Galeria Municipal do Porto, 2017; ART AS EXPERIENCE OF THE REAL: IVO MARTINS' COLLECTION IN DEPOSIT AT THE SERRALVES MUSEUM, Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães, 2017; ART STABS POWER. QUE SE VAYAN ALL!", Bermondsey Project, London, 2014; RISO. UMA EXPOSIÇÃO A SÉRIO, Museu da Eletricidade, Lisbon, 2012. The artist is represented in several art collections namely the Serralves Museum.
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Gair
Dunlop
Alba
The pleasures and terrors of science, technology, change and daily life are at the heart of Gair Dunlop’s creative process. He works in text, photography and video, colliding categories of place, documentary and the imaginary. The works do not offer straightforward narratives but hint at the complexities of how we live within the remnants of a fantasy military/scientific pastoral nation. Collaborations are a key factor in the work. The process of making involves building up long term relationships with publics, scientists, archivists and site-keepers. The collision of factual and fictional archive material with new footage has led to experimentation with multiscreen projection as well as single screen formats. Collaborations with geographers, musicians,UKAEA archivists, with writer and broadcaster Ken Hollings, sound artists Zoe Irvine and Mark Vernon, and other artists are ongoing. Previous work has involved photography and signage across Scotland, online work, and then from 2009 onwards an increasing interest in expanded video documentary. Between 2003 and 2011, in collaboration with Dan Norton (ablab.org) he produced a series of online interactive works which explore the imaginaries and public memory of modernity. New Towns, ideas of the future as embedded in film archives, and the omnipotence of industrial control panels were explored within surreal interfaces where the path was deliberately unclear. ablab + dunlop are once more working together. Gair was born in Glasgow. His formative experiences have included 4 years as a projectionist at London’s Scala Cinema. He is a senior lecturer at DJCAD, Dundee.
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Isaías
Griñolo
Iberia
Isaías Griñolo is a visual artist, filmmaker, researcher and curator. Lives and works between Seville and Moguer (Huelva). Trained in the UNIA_arteypensamiento programme at the International University of Andalusia and in the Tejidos conjuntivos programme at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS). She is a member of the PRPC (Plataforma de Reflexión de Políticas Culturales). She works on intercommunicated projects in her immediate environment in order to address, from art, issues related to antagonistic practices through relations of memory, ecology, economy, flamenco, poetry and art. He has curated, together with Paul B. Preciado, La Noche del Apagón (Macba, Barcelona, 2014). In live cinema, Cantes tóxicos de Los Flamencos, a project carried out between 2012-2016 with the poet Antonio Orihuela and the flamenco singer Niño de Elche. As a filmmaker, the film essays La España Profunda (de Ortega y Gasset a Rocío Jurado) and AUSCHWITZ ON THE BEACH are worth mentioning. As an artist, he is currently a member of the group of researchers attached to the Tejidos conjuntivos programme of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS).
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Januário
Jano
Iberia / Angola
Januario Jano is an interdisciplinary artist who works across sculpture, video, photography, textile, sound installations, and performance. He holds an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University and his practice is substantially research-based. His practice reflects on the ideas of home and self, constantly challenging the norms through explorations of historic and contemporary narratives within the context of the growing interdependence of the world’s economies, cultures, and populations. Enthralled with the hypothesis of a delicate balance between fiction and reality, galvanised to explore the relationship between humans and non-humans in time and space. In this context, the role of the body is pivotal, and its multidimensional representation occurs within the framework of proverbial globalisation and cross-cultural interaction.
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Kristín
Sigurðardóttir
Ísland
Kristín Sigurðardóttir is a visual artist and a photographer from Iceland. She graduated in 2014 with a Masters's Degree in Photography from Parsons The New School Of Design, awarded Dean's Scholarships 2012-2014. She also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art from Iceland. Previous work experience includes being, Intern at Adam Fuss Studio, Teaching Assistance at Parsons and On Set Photographer for the award-winning Web Series „ That Reminds Me“. Her work has been published by Grymogea, Conveyor and shown in Iceland, the UK, Faroe Island, China and the US.
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Logi
Bjarnason
Ísland
Logi, born in Iceland in 1978, is a prominent artist who resides and operates in his home country. He received his formal training at the Iceland University of the Arts and subsequently at Städelschule Frankfurt a. Main in Germany. With a solid career spanning over several years, Logi has showcased his art on numerous occasions, both locally and internationally, earning good recognition for his art. Through his art, Logi captures Iceland's beauty and by blending poetry and realism in his works makes it his own. Employing a mix of media and experimental techniques, he creates captivating pieces that blur the boundaries between 2D and 3D art forms. Logi's artistic expressions have earned him a position as a figure in the contemporary art scene. One of Logi's most significant themes in his work is nature which is his ability to capture the essence of Iceland's nature in his works, while simultaneously exploring the relationship between humanity and history and the environment. His art is a poignant reminder of the fragility of our planet and the need to preserve it for future generations.
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Misha
Biés Golas
Iberia
Misha Bies Golas (Lalín, 1977) is a visual artist, trained in the field of photography and design. His work covers areas of different disciplines, focusing his most recent works on the accumulation of waste, books and objects of various kinds. He is an artist of minimalism, who uses the modesty of the means clearly to his advantage to create a work full of references to an earthly, absurd and sometimes abject world, but from the point of view of the acute and perspicacious observer who is always looking for a stitch in what is lived as his daily life. He has held solo exhibitions at venues such as CGAC, Santiago de Compostela; Fundación Luis Seoane, A Coruña; Appleton Square, Lisbon; DIDAC, Santiago de Compostela; SALÓN, Madrid; Nadie Nunca Nada No, Madrid; Ateliê Fidalga, São Paulo, or at the galleries Luis Adelantado, Valencia; Adhoc, Vigo, or Trinta, Santiago de Compostela. He has participated in collective exhibitions in venues such as MARCO, Vigo; Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid; Sala de Arte Joven, Madrid; Centre del Carme, Valencia, and LABoral, Gijón.
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Raydale
Dower
Alba
Raydale Dower (b. 1973 in Aberdeen, UK) lives and works in Glasgow. Dower’s practice is wide-ranging and diverse with a sculptural approach to installation, sound, object, events and situations, informed by research and personal experience coupled with a long-term interest in anarchic philosophy and its relationship to avant-garde movements. A key element, maintained across Dower’s projects, is an interest in the treatment of space through the lens of cultural, social and sonic signifiers. Combined with a DIY ethos Dower often initiates projects and activates the potential within spaces or found objects provoking a shift in perspective and a demonstration of new use.
Solo shows include: The Gift, The W OR M / Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, UK (2017); On Memory and Chance, The Changing Room, Stirling, UK (2011); Piano Drop, Tramway, Glasgow (2011).
Group Exhibitions include: The only way to do it is to do it, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow UK (2015); Continue without losing consciousness, Dundee Contemporary Arts (2014); Caesura, Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art (2014); The Glasgow Weekend, Volksbühne Theatre, Berlin, Germany (2013); Beethoven’s 5th(X8), Art Basel Miami, Miami, USA (2010); Le Drapeau Noir, GI2010, Glasgow, UK (2010); The Associates, Dundee Contemporary Arts (2009). Dower co-founded bands Uncle John & Whitelock (2001–6) and Tut Vu Vu (2007–ongoing).
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Rogério
Taveira
Iberia
Rogério Taveira, Lisbon, 1966. Graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon in 1989. PhD in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 2011. He began his professional career in 1988 as an illustrator and graphic designer. In the late 1990s he began exploring the interactive possibilities of working with photography and video through experimental documentaries, winning several awards. Since 2006 he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Multimedia Art of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, where he teaches in the 3 cycles of study. He has collaborated with different international art schools (Spain, Estonia, France, Norway) winning several Erasmus+ KA1 scholarships to develop research in the Mediterranean space (Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Montenegro): the 2018 and 2023 exhibitions entitled Re-Imagining the Mediterranean: Portugal and Montenegro result from this work. She has integrated two projects of participatory community public art in Almada (2011-13) and Lousal (2018-2020). Her artistic activity develops in the fields of drawing, photography, video, performance and sound with a focus on work and memory in a site-specific context.
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Yemi
Disu
Naija
Yemi Disu is an award-winning photographer based in Lagos, Nigeria and the founder and creative director of Four23photography. Her photography journey started a decade ago as a wedding photographer. Thereafter I took part in a collective of 12 female photographers in Nigeria known as 'The Xperspective' and participated in two exhibitions organized by the Goethe Institute in Nigeria showcasing the works of female photographers in 2011. Titled “Battle Scars”. other exhibited at Niphec 2013 and also at world photography day 2013. The 2014 Nigeria Photography Expo and Conference (NIPHEC) on Maternity and newborn photography (Facilitator). Photography of A Child Project Season 2 (Participant). In furtherance of her expertise, she attended the Pan-African University, EDC and earned a Certificate in Entrepreneurial Management (CEM 21) in 2012, as a recipient of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Scholarship Program.
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Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir + Fora D’Oras Chorus
Ísland
Gunnhildur Hauksdottir received her MFA from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2006 and her BFA from the Iceland University of the Arts in 2002. Hauksdóttir’s works include drawings, installations, and performance. She uses drawing as an intermedium between forms or events to musical score for choirs or musical instruments. Her performances include side specific public outreach and workshops where she trains people to read her score creating musical compositions based in visual material. Her works and performances have been exhibited and performed widely throughout her career, she took part in the Silver Lining, Collateral Event at the 56th International Art Exhibition at the Biennale di Venezia in 2015. Among the institutions that have displayed her works are the Galeria Municipal do Porto, the National Gallery of Iceland, the Reykjavik Art Museum, the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, the Uppsala Art Museum and the 21 Haus at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna. Her works are found in public collections including the National Gallery of Art in Iceland, Uppsala Art Museum in Sweden, the Goethe Institute in Copenhagen, the Hess Gallery Collection in Lethbridge, Canada and the Living Art Museum collection in Reykjavik.
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Jessica
Ramm
Alba
Jessica Ramm is an artist. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions at leading galleries and museums, including the Royal Scottish Academy and Newlyn Art Gallery. In the MutualArt press archive, Jessica Ramm is featured at the Edinburgh Art Festival 2015 Announces Commissions Programme, a 2015 ArtLyst piece. She often works in desolate landscapes: in peat bogs, in mountains and in swampy lands. My struggle to achieve a hard-won balance in these shifting environments takes shape through an ongoing series of performances that are punctuated briefly by events of containment and release of energy. As human beings, we tend to relegate non-humans and non-organics to the role of substrate on which to act. However, the living human experience is punctuated by natural phenomena that provoke a state of rupture; wild, uncontrollable forces that addict and alter human bodies. By establishing processes that have no defined beginning or end: chemical reactions, or objects on which physical forces are exerted; I am able to explore the plasticity of the material world we inhabit, scrutinizing human anxiety as experienced in the face of forces elementary.
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Ademola
Onibanokuta
Naija
Ademola Onibonokuta, born over seven decades ago, was a member of the famed Duro Ladipo Theatre and the Osogbo Art School. He is a visual and performance artist, musician, poet, writer and everything in between a multifaceted career. Ademola played Gbonka, a powerful Yoruba warrior, in the famous play, Oba Koso. As Gbonka, powerful incantations were read by Ademola to secure the help of witches in this play. At 21, Ademola achieved a measure of international fame and went on to establish an illustrious career. He is the author of three books and three albums, the last with the trio, Okuta Percussion. Ademola’s quest for a new kind of musical instrument led him to the rediscovery of the ancient lithophone and the invention of the Odu gongs which he played in several concerts in his home country and Europe and before important audiences. After he retired from the Nigeria civil service, he slowly delved into the world of Yoruba traditional medicine, having lived in the forest for some 2 years where he and disembodied spirits communed in the forest. He claims to have returned to the career envisaged for him by his father and today, happily consults for people in search of wellbeing
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Luís
Palma
Iberia
Luís Palma is a leading artist in the recent history of Portuguese photography. He has been critical in mapping the territory, in which his technical eloquence is combined with a careful strategy to expand the image as a way to create social and political memories. In portraits or landscapes, his main interest is the underlying context of his projects, which are often developed over very long periods. He thereby fosters reflection about the passage of time and the vicissitudes of human intervention in its material organisation.
He is represented in several public and private collections, including Encontros de Fotografia, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra; Sala Rekalde Collection, Diputácion Foral de Bizkaia, Bilbao, Spain; MACE (António Cachola) Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art of Elvas; Collection of the Coca-Cola Foundation of Spain, Madrid; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; PLMJ Foundation, Lisbon; Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto; Ilídio Pinho Foundation, Porto; Novo Banco Photography Collection; Rio Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; EDP Foundation, Lisbon.
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Pedro
G. Romero
Iberia
Pedro G. Romero (Aracena, 1964) is an artist and curator based in Seville, Spain. He is part of pie. fmc, a platform for the study of flamenco from an artistic, social and anthropological point of view, and edits the series ‘Flamenco and Popular Culture’ by Athenaica Editions. In 2017 he took part in Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel and was one of the artists in residence at the Spanish Academy in Rome during 2018-2019. In 2021-2022, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in Madrid, held a major retrospective of his work, ‘Versifying Machines.’
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AnaMary
Bilbao
Iberia
AnaMary Bilbao is a Portuguese-Spanish visual artist born in Lisbon (Portugal). She has a BA in History of Art (FCSH - New University of Lisbon), a MA in Contemporary Art Studies (Faculty of Human Sciences - UCL, Lisbon), and a PhD in Artistic Studies (FCSH - New University of Lisbon / School of Arts - Birkbeck University of London) (degree expected). She has been the recipient of FCT PhD Fellowship, which enabled her to do research field in Johannesburg (South Africa, 2018), and also to be a researcher in the department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at School of Arts - Birkbeck University of London (2018-19).
AnaMary Bilbao's work has been addressing time within its historical, cultural and existential implications and in an attempt to question the anthropocentric logic that imposes acceleration as a natural rhythm and the understanding of the digital as being the closest approach to the real. For this reason, in her pieces there is a strong manuality and a proximity with the analogical, were the digital is almost always introduced in dialogue with the latter. Currently, AnaMary Bilbao articulates documentation from different sources (photography, drawing, sound, moving image). Through the combination of these elements, she seeks to start fictional narratives that put into question the idea of a single truth. As the artist states, «there is no truth beforehand, only connections, interruptions, and incompleteness».
Her work has been recently exhibited at Photo Basel (Basel), Field Projects (New York), International Studio & Curatorial Program (New York), Paris Photo / Curiosa (Paris), MAAT – The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (Lisbon), Opening Arco Madrid (Madrid), Novo Negócio / Zé dos Bois Gallery (Lisbon), Leal Rios Foundation (Lisbon), PLMJ Foundation (Lisbon), Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art (Lisbon), among others.
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Alexandra
Ferreira
Iberia
Alexandra Ferreira lives and works in Vila Viçosa, Portugal. She studied Fine Arts / Sculpture at ESAD in Caldas da Rainha, spending one year of studies in Barcelona. Her individual works include Chaise longue (2000), a sculpture in the public space of Evora, and the solo exhibition Mountains are for Masochists (2008) in Galeria Plumba in Oporto. Her sculptures and drawings are inspired by objects of daily life that are transformed into reflections on the material and immaterial aspects of the pieces. In 2005, she founded the duo Windferreira with the dramaturge Bettina Wind, with collaborations in various cities such as London, Paris, Helsinki, Lisbon and Berlin, resulting in several works such as State of Translocality (2008) at the VanAbbe Museum, Eindhoven, Withdrawal (2011) at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Ad hoc (2012) at the South African National Gallery, Cape Town and No Record, Just a Sound (2013) at Almanac and Gasworks, London. The collective works are based on extensive artistic research that includes subjects such as public memory, documentation as well as local and trans-local politics.
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Àsìkò
Naija
Àsìkò is ais a UK-Based Nigerian artist whose practice is anchored by the interpolation of his emotional experiences as a Nigerian-born (and raised) British citizen, into a life-long, cultural and spiritual exploration of his Yoruba heritage. He explores his ideas using the mediums of photography, digital collage, artificial intelligence, film, and sculpture. His work was recently exhibited at The Gagosian Gallery in London and in the past he has exhibited work at Southbank Centre, London; the British Film Institute, London; Museum of Gloucester, England; the Royal Photographic Society, London; the Royal Shakespeare Company, London; Brady Arts Centre, London; and the Sarabande Foundation, London. His work is held in the Artemizia Foundation, AZ and The Wally Bakare Foundation.
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Carla
Cabanas
Iberia
Born in Lisbon in 1979, Carla Cabanas’s work revolves around the methodologies of stretching the defined borders of the photography medium while dwelling on the issues of collective and cultural memory. Cabanas graduated in 2003 from the Visual Arts at the School of Fine Arts and Design at Caldas da Rainha. In 2004 she finished the Advanced Course at Maumaus – School of Visual Arts, in Lisbon. She has presented her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions including MAAT, Lisbon (2020); Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon (2020); Aa Collections Gallery, Vienna (2019); Arquipélago – Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, Açores (2019); Grimmmuseum, Berlin (2018); Centre D’art Contemporain, France (2018); GlogauAIR, Berlin (2018); Panal 361, Argentina (2017); Ox Warehouse, China (2016); 7ª Biennial São Tomé e Príncipe (2013); CCCB – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (2009).
Her work is held in prominent collections, including the National Gallery of Art Washington, DC; Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), Lisbon; LPS Collection (Stanislas y Leticia Poniatowski), Colección Kells, Santander; PLMJ Foundation Collection, Lisbon; Novo Banco Art Collection, Lisbon; Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild Europe, Lisbon; Lisbon City Hall, Lisbon; Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection, Lisbon; Marín Gaspar Collection, Lisbon; José Carlos Santana Pinto Collection, Lisbon; and other private collections.
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Craig
Coulthard
Alba
I graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with an MFA in Drawing & Painting in 2006. Since then I have exhibited widely, helped to establish an artist-run gallery and worked on variety of public and private commissions. The best-known of these would be 'Forest Pitch' - a £460,000 commission for the Cultural Olympiad, as part of the London 2012 Games. I currently live and work in Manchester, and work in a variety of mediums. Since Covid, I have focussed chiefly on painting and printmaking.
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Egill
Sæbjörnsson
Ísland
Egill Sæbjörnsson, born 1973 in Iceland, has been making artworks that bring together 3D environments, digital projections, technology and sound for over 20 years. These range from small intimate installations in museum and gallery settings to large scale permanent architectural installations. His pioneering public art commission for the Robert Koch. Institute in Berlin, entitled Steinkugel, was the first permanent, self generative video installation in an outdoor space in Germany.
Sæbjörnsson conceives his work as a technological continuation of painting and sculpture, exploring the space between the virtual and physical. His work is playful and humorous but always probing deeper ontological and philosophical questions. Egill Sæbjörnsson gives regular performance lectures in which he explores the theoretical underpinnings of his practice.
Egill Sæbjörnsson’s works have been exhibited in The Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Frankfurter Kunstverein, National Gallery of Prague, The 57th Biennale Arte in Venice and in 2019 he was nominated for the Ars Fennica Art Prize in Finland.
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XKristín Helga
Ríkharðsdóttir
Ísland
Kristín Helga Ríkharðsdóttir is an interdisciplinary visual artist and filmmaker from Iceland currently based in New York City and Iceland. She graduated with a MFA degree from the Studio Art at the New York University Steinhardt in 2022 and prior to that she attained a BFA degree from Iceland University of the Arts in 2016. She also participated in an exchange program at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). Her work is influenced by her personal experiences and visual surroundings, as well as, math, sci-fi, cult movies, advertisements, memes and stock images. Through mixing phenomena and working with familiar imagery, she explores the hyperreality of her everyday environment. Ríkharðsdóttir is interested in the contrast between the natural, the man-made and the staged. She is a fellow of prestigious foundations such as the Leifur Eiriksson Foundation, Educational Grant of Gudmunda Andresdottir and others. Ríkharðsdóttir has been active in exhibiting, screening and taking part in various international film festivals and projects and has received awards for her video art, films and music videos.
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Heather
S. Roberts
Alba
Heather S Roberts is a visual artist whose work often dwells on alienation within relationships and the breaking down of social bonds. Hailing from Glasgow, Scotland Heather spent twelve years as a performer and event organiser before entering the Glasgow School of Art, where she is currently in her final year studying a BA in Fine Art Photography. She studied abroad at Pratt Institute in NY where she expanded her practice into metalwork and fabrication.
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Jack
Hughes
Alba
Jack Hughes is a 28-year-old rapper, producer, and poet known as Jackill. He hails from a lower-class background in Aberdeen, Scotland, and has been writing poetry and rap for approximately 18 years. Jack began writing as a means to escape his surroundings and make sense of the chaos that surrounded him. He quickly discovered that it was an excellent method for expressing not only his anger and confusion towards the world but also for gaining clarity. Initially, Jack's writing journey started with poetry, but it swiftly progressed into hip-hop, and he soon connected with like-minded individuals in his city. At the age of 17, he formed a group called "The ill collective" which quickly gained traction and received a SAMA award nomination. As the group grew older, they each focused on their solo careers, and Jack made efforts to explore diverse creative avenues. Throughout the years, he has collaborated with folk and jazz bands, and indie pop artists, and commissioned spoken word pieces. He has also worked with numerous other hip-hop artists. In 2019, Jack released his debut album titled "A Day with the Jackal." Currently, he is working on a project slated for release at the end of 2023.
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Jorge
dos Reis
Iberia
Jorge dos Reis was apprenticed as a typesetter with a First Officer of the Imprensa Nacional in an old typographic workshop in Cais do Sodré. Started his design career working with designer Robin Fior in Lisbon and typographer Alan Kitching in London. He set up his own atelier in 1996. His work is extensive and diverse, with a dual activity as designer and artist: he does graphic design, typography; he exhibits drawing and painting. He attended the National Conservatory in António Wagner's singing class, studying with composers Jorge Peixinho and Paulo Brandão while he graduated in Communication Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Jorge dos Reis holds a Master of Arts degree from the Royal College of Art in London, a Master of Arts degree in Sociology of Communication from ISCTE and a PhD degree from the University of Lisbon. He is currently Assistant Professor at FBAUL, where he founded and directs the MA in Contemporary Typographic and Editorial Practices. He chairs the External Evaluation Committees of the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) and is a member of the evaluation panels for project funding of the Directorate-General for the Arts (DGArtes).
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Lizzie
Hudson
Alba
Lizzie Hudson is an artist, writer, administrator & food systems worker. She is interested in the intersections between labour, land rights, commons, public space, folk history & non-human personhood. Her artworks take various forms but have at their core the politics and poetics of everyday life. Recent projects include: a performance for lifting a curse in the artist’s home; a banner reinterpreting the archives of Aberdeen’s women’s liberation movement at The Worm, Peacock Visual Arts, Scotland; an installation on protective customs and community land rights at Le Garage with Artistes&Associés, France; a peer-learning programme about bees, produced in collaboration with Šilainiai Project and residents of Šilainiai, Lithuania; a game for sharing testimonies of enclosures of public space for Something Beautiful at La Vallée, Belgium and EIRPAC International Meeting of Community Artistic Practices, Portugal; a series of fly-posted photo-poems about the joint claiming of space by plants and communities in squatted sites at Edifício Arte Continua, Portugal; a public shopping trolley joust satirising the city branding of deviance for Glasgow International; and a participatory performance-lecture on privatisation of space and folk tradition for Rites and Terrabytes Inter-format Symposium, Nida Art Colony, Lithuania. She has had solo exhibitions at Glasgow Project Room; Intermedia, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow and Bocs Celf, Wales. As a member of curatorial collective VERBureau, she co-curated the projects ‘Pokey Hat’ and ‘Who Owns the Cone?’, about ice cream and societal integration, for Glasgow International and Likky Ruph, New York; ‘The Gift If There Is Any’, which was shortlisted for the Workweek Prize, at Art Licks Weekend, London and ‘Penumbra’ at APT Gallery, London. Individually, she has worked as researcher in residence at Grizedale Arts and had supported training from the European School of Urban Game Design and Jerwood mentoring programme. She is currently on the board of Market Gallery, Glasgow.
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Lança
Iberia
Independent freelancer in various languages in the field of culture, such as programming, translation, journalism, research, and cinema. Since 2010, she edits the BUALA website.
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Oluwafunminiyi
Raheem
Naija
Oluwafunminiyi Raheem lectures in the Department of Tourism Studies, Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria. He is also a doctoral student in the Department of History and International Studies, University of Ilorin, Nigeria, where he is completing his thesis on the African context of holy wells in southwest Nigeria. His research interests intersect several themes within African studies such as sacred water bodies (holy wells); heritage studies, African/Diasporic belief systems; gender; and contemporary popular culture. Raheem has published widely in top-tier journals and several chapters in books. He has also travelled widely to present his research. His recent publication is titled (co-authored): “The Sacredness of Water and Place: African and Diasporic Religious Cultural Encounters,” in Anat Geva (ed.), Water and Sacred Architecture, New York: Routledge, 2023.
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Pauliana
Valente Pimentel
Iberia
Pauliana Valente Pimentel was born in Lisbon in 1975, the city where she still lives but she is working all around the world. As an artist and a freelance photographer, she has been producing photo reportages since 1999 for various Portuguese and foreign magazines and newspapers. In 2005 she took part in the photography course of the Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation Program. She was a member of the [Kameraphoto] collective from 2006 until its extinction in 2014, and a founding member of the “N’WE” collective in 2016. Besides her participation in collectively authored books, she produced her own first book ‘VOL I’ in 2009, published by Pierre Von Kleist and ‘ Caucase, Souvenirs de Voyage’ in 2011 by Gulbenkian Foundation. Filmography: “Diz-se que Portugal é um bom país para se viver”, 40 min, Portugal 2011; “Jovens de Atenas / Youth of Athens”, 13 min. Athens, Greece, 2012; “Entre Nous”, 51 min. Portugal, France, 2014. In 2015 she won the prize for the best photographic work of the year by the Portuguese Author Society and in 2016 she was nominee for the Novo Banco prize, the most important prize in Portugal for contemporary photography. She did already several exhibitions in Europe – Portugal, Spain, Italy, England, Germany, Greece, but also ou tside such as EUA, Turkey, China and Africa (Morocco, and Cape Vert).
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Roddy
Buchanan
Alba
Trained in the Environmental Art Department of Glasgow School of Art in the 1980s, where the Artist Placement Group’s moto ‘Context is half the work’ was central to the ethos, Buchanan’s practice developed from participation in the traditional contemporary art world circuit towards public commissions and residencies. In 2008 he was employed by the Imperial War Museum as British War Artist reflecting on ‘The legacy of the Good Friday Agreement’. Over the subsequent decade his strategies, developed in the field, were stress tested in the context of tension and identity division. On the International Masters Artist Educator course housed within ArtEZ in Arnhem, he currently works as an associate lecturer. Buchanan specialises in preparing students to be open to the encounter, working with students outside the studio, employing situationist strategy as a starting point to open-up locations, and creating moments of engagement where empathy and epiphany achieve genuine art-driven research.
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Peter
McCaughey
Alba
Peter McCaughey, (born N. Ireland 1964), is an artist based in Glasgow, who has exhibited and lectured in the UK, Switzerland, Germany, Portugal, Finland, Norway, Belgium, Serbia- Montenegro, the Czech Republic and Australia. He is also Lead Artist and Director of WAVEparticle, an award- winning, artist-led art organisation he set up in 2006, to support and direct a team approach to large urban regeneration arts projects, public art commissions and various levels of consultation and engagement. WAVEparticle produces events, processes and objects focused on re-thinking the relation of art to urbanism.
Over the past 2 years WAVEparticle has won a number of prestigious awards including: the 2015 SURF Award for Creative Regeneration for “Laurieston’s Open Spaces”; the Arts & Business Award for Placemaking; (Laurieston) and the Saltire Society’s Art in Public Places Award for the Outdoor Museum in Helensburgh. The new public realm in Helensburgh, including the Outdoor Museum, has also won a further raft of national awards including the Scottish Design Award, the RIAS Award and was also shortlisted for the Doolan Award, the largest architectural prize in the UK.
Peter is the Lead Artist developing and delivering Art & Living : Laurieston, a 5-year art strategy for Laurieston, South Glasgow, which has garnered a number of significant national awards for best practice in creative regeneration; he is Vice Chair of the Board of WASPS Artists Studio and co-organiser of Cultural Hijack. He is a senior lecturer in the Sculpture and Environmental Art Department of the Glasgow School of Art, lecturing in Mapping Strategies and Public Art Practice.
Peter has most recently been invited by the Scottish Government to curate The Happenstance Scotland's contribution at La Biennale di Venezia’s 2018 International Architecture Exhibition, in partnership with Architecture and Design Scotland, Creative Scotland, the British Council Scotland and Year of Young People.