BEA DENTON

BEA DENTON /// SOUL IMAGING

Soul Imaging is a series of photographs created in a transition from photography to projection; from projection, through a Camera Obscura and from there back to photography. The merging and separation of these layers results in mysterious, shadowy images that somehow float one-step removed from the picture surface. Like 19th Century 'spirit' photographs they have an aura which is hard to pinpoint, floating one-step-removed from the figure in the waiting room.

Traditionally, purgatory is a place in which the souls of those who have died in a state of grace are believed to undergo a limited amount of suffering to expiate their venial sins. But it is a place of only temporary torment from which, eventually, the gates into Heaven will lead.
The lift in which these images are located is a similar transitional space between one world and the next, a waiting room in which we have a few moments to reflect - if you are going up, are you returning to the light? If you are going down...?

☁ BEA DENTON

BEA DENTON

BEA DENTON
ART AND FAITH/// VIA DOLOROSA

This site-specific instalation work draws upon the narrative aspects of the 14 Stations of the Cross. The images are taken from one of the 21st Century's most well-known and controversial TV series, Channel 4's Big Brother.
It is an observation of a new 'religion' that worships Celebrity and celebrates auto-idolatry, public persecution and suffering.
The work provokes uncomfortable questions about our belief systems, in the context of a media-driven, quick fix, and instant-satisfaction society.
The site of the installation, the Ha'Penny Hatch Bridge that crosses Deptford Creek, alludes to the tradition of the Stations of the Cross as a journey or pilgrimage made by Christians. The work supplies an uninvited intervention into the viewer's conscience during the course of an otherwise ordinary journey across the bridge from Deptford to Greenwich, transforming the location into a place of contemplation. An artist's book for this body of work using photo etching and blind emboss is in process.

☁ BEA DENTON

BENOIT GODDE

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GUY DENNING

WHAT :CELEBRITY WILL EAT ITSELF BY GUY DENNING
WHEN : Thursday August 6, 2009
WHERE: Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
1257 N. La Brea Avenue - West Hollywood, CA 90038

"Hailing from Bristol and now residing in France, Guy Denning has taken the urban art world by storm with his beautiful, often haunting works. His androgynous figures, with their strange and often ethereal beauty, form a statement about the modern obsession with the fantasy of youth, beauty and cosmetic surgery as a surreal substitute for real life.

Denning is often viewed as an enigma. Sexual and temporal politics, objectification, and isolation are themes which are widely explored in his work, illuminated through the carefully honed juxtaposition of shape and shade to create a mood as well as a theme. The paintings blend the smoothness of classical form with harsh yet honest statements about contemporary issues that plague Western Society." (CARMICHAEL GALLERY )


☁ GUY DENNING
☁ GUY DENNING @ CARMICHAEL GALLERY
☁ GUY DENNING @ LE ZÈBRE BLEU

TOM PRICE

TOM PRICE series of chairs created using the same technique with different materials.

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The first 2 chairs up here (the Fleece chairs) are part of a series commissioned by Arts Co for the exhibition, 'From Now to Eternity', and are made exclusively from discarded polyester fleece clothing.

The seat area is created by placing layers of polyester clothing onto a hot steel seat-shaped former. As it heats, the fabric begins to melt, exposing and integrating colours and patterns of the various layers. When cooled the surface is transformed into a rigid, shiny, colourful display of dissolved pattern and colour.

From Now To Eternity is a celebration of and debate around design, with a focus on one material: plastic.

Plastic is with us virtually from now to eternity: impervious to bacteria, acid, salt, rust, breakage and, in some cases, able to withstand heat, plastic is something of a miracle substance. One hundred years ago, when it was first invented, no one could have anticipated that plastic would present one of our biggest recycling challenges.

Pioneering arts consultancy Arts Co commissioned eight leading contemporary designers and design collectives to celebrate plastic through their work and look at ways to re-think our growing mountains of discarded waste.

The designers in the exhibition show how plastic’s versatility - transparent or opaque, hard or pliant, able to take on a myriad of colours and forms – can serve their creativity. The designers are Committee, FAT, Hiroko Shiratori, Raw Edges, Rolf Sachs, Stuart Haygarth, Tom Price and Tomoko Azumi.
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TOM PRICE
Born in London, 1973.

Studies:

- 2005-2007: MA Royal College of Art
- 2002-2004: HND Furniture Design & Realisation at London Metropolitan University
- 1993-1996: BA (hons) Fine Art: Sculpture at Bath College of Higher Education,

Awards:

- 2004: Boss Design Mentoring Award.
- 2004: Peter Walker Award for Innovation in Furniture Design.
- 2005: Finalist: BIDA Awards
- 2005: Finalist: Design & Decoration Awards


☁ TOM PRICE