Interview with Dawn Woolley

24/04/17

Interview: Dawn Woolley

From Selfie to Self-Expression

Saatchi Gallery

31 March - 30 May 207

An artist and researcher whose work constitutes an enquiry into looking and being looked at, Dawn Woolley was selected from more than 14,000 entrants to the #SaatchiSelfie competition, judged by Tracey Emin, Idris Khan, Juergen Teller, Juno Calypso and Saatchi Gallery CEO, Nigel Hurst, with her photograph, The Substitute (holiday) (2008), winning first prize and being labelled by GQ magazine as “the best selfie in the world”. It is now being exhibited alongside nine other shortlisted works as part of Saatchi Gallery’s larger exhibition, From Selfie to Self-Expression.

Read the interview here

Gideon Koppel: an essay

24/04/13

Gideon Koppel: BORTH

Chapter Arts Centre

1 - 31 May 2013

Having originally studied mathematics, Gideon Koppel went on to gain a postgraduate degree from the Slade School of Fine Art, and is today something of a filmic polymath: a prolific film maker for cinema, television and art gallery exhibition, an award-winning director of film commercials, a Professor of Film at Aberystwyth University, and an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. In 2008, he won The Guardian’s Best First Film Award for his feature-length work, sleep furiously, a portrait of Trefeurig, a small rural Welsh village which he moved to with his parents, age 13. For Diffusion 2013, Koppel will be showing a single-screen film installation at Chapter, depicting “the wild west Wales town of Borth.”

To read the rest of this review, go to: http://www.photomonitor.co.uk/2013/04/gideon-koppel-b-o-r-t-h/

f&d cartier: an essay

22/04/13

f&d cartier: Wait and See

Oriel Canfas

1 – 31 May 2013

We are the camera. The title of one of f&d cartier’s previous exhibitions (2004), but equally an apt epithet for the Swiss artistic duo themselves. Having met at college at 20 years old, the pair built up individual careers – Françoise as a painter and sculptor, and Daniel as a black and white photographer – before entering into a shared dialogue in 1995, and uniting their creative practices with the collaboration, f&d cartier, in 1998.

As minimalist visual artists, they work with the two basic prerequisites for photography – light and photosensitive paper – opting mainly for camera-less techniques, often in combination with found objects. Their professed aim is to question everyday life, intimacy, the passing of time, and the position and role of the artist and the image in today’s society.

To read the rest of this essay, please go to: http://www.photomonitor.co.uk/2013/04/we-are-the-camera-fd-cartier/