Olly Moss

Born in the UK, 1987

Olly Moss creates alternative film posters for some of Hollywood most classic films, he also works with Magazines and publishers such as GQ, New York Times, Financial Times and The Independent. He produces t-shirts and posters all designed in his own unique and simple style.

http://www.ollymoss.com/

Raven Row

Susan Hiller

Monument (Colonial Version), 1980-1

This piece was a very hard hitting work about sacrifice that people take in saving the ones that they loved to complete strangers. All these people died in their attempts to save people from fires, drowning and many other situations that put themselves in harms way for the sake of others.

David Critchley

Pieces I Never Did, 1979

This was the most entertaining and powerful piece in the exhibition by far. It showed three televisions, one showing the artist talk about ideas that he had but had not attempt and giving the reasons for why he did not. The other cameras were of his ideas put into motion. For instance he had the idea to shout 'shut up!' at the top of his voice until it went coarse. This piece was very fast paced and the viewer had to hold concentration to keep up with all three cameras.

Roberta Graham

Campo Santo, 1981

http://www.ravenrow.org/home/

Simon Starling: Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts)

The exhibition was curated by British artist Simon Sterling. Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts) bring together works by 30 artists and designers. It featured works that had been exhibited from the past 50 years in the Centre and they were reinstalled in the exact same position that they had originally been featured. Starling also featured new works by artists as an imagined future for the Centre's exhibitions programme.

Francis Bacon

Figure Study II, 1945-46

Oil on Canvas

Francis Upritchard

Sloth with Roman Plastics, 2005

http://www.camdenartscentre.org/exhibitions/?id=100954

BFI Gallery

Yvonne Rainer

I found this piece to be very interesting not so much in the film piece but more in the set up of the exhibition, especially the circular room in which the projector hung in the middle and circled around the walls. This made the audience participate by having to move around to view the piece and either avoid the projector or become part of the wall that was being projected upon.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank/exhibitions/bfi_gallery

Hayward Gallery

Eric Van Lieshout

How can I help you?

Van Lieshout opened a temporary 'shop' in Rotterdam South, a working-class district of Holland that consists of several large immigrant communities. Instead of selling goods, he used his shop as a base from which to reconnect with the neighbourhood and its people. His method was to engage them in frank and yet very funny conversations on issues such as roots, regeneration, consumerism and the rise of the Dutch right wing.

Bringing art into a consumerist culture, with a crowd that is vastly unappreciative of it created very comical and amusing scenes with the public and their bemusement with the project itself.

The setting of the exhibition room in the Hayward gallery at first seemed very thrown together but after watching the film, you could see that it was set in the same style as he had created his 'shop', with an angled wall which featured the projection and thrown together cello-tape graphics.

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/hayward-gallery-and-visual-arts/tickets/erik-van-lieshout-1000079

Masaaki Yuasa

(Mind Game, 2004)

Masaaki Yuasi started his career as an animator in the late 1980s and is celebrated as the director of the film version of Kureyon shinchan, a very popular TV anime series. Yuasa acknowledges his respect for the anime films of Hayao Miyazaki, especially his masterpiece Lupin the Third: Castle of Cagliostro. Mind Game (2004) is based on a manga of the same name by Nishi Robin, with music composed and performed by Seichi Yamamato, a member of the Boredoms, an infamous Osaka-based noise band.

Mind Game has a slapstick storyline delivered at a rapid pace with a meticulous juxtaposition of very different anime styles and methods.

Yuasa uses an elaborate combination of highly detailed, naturalistic drawings in the traditionof miyazaki, intercut with rudimentary drawings in a jerky, stop-action style; real time images complete with voice overs; wildly distorted cartoon styles, and so on. this dense visual style is combined with an equally complex narative that jumps around in time and space.

Using Studio 6 I created a short stop-motion animation that was able to loop, unfortunately the space allowed to upload a film is minimal on the blog and so I can only show you the loop once. Using tracing paper and permanent markers I followed the style of the graffiti artist BLU to create the cartoon effect. I used 15 frames and the repeated them backwards so that all together there are 30 in this short video.

If you have trouble playing the video, please click the centre of the image and it should work.

I found that in the end the animation took too long for their to be any point in doing anything along the lines of 2-3 minutes long.

OBEY.

Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey printed images of the wrestler Andre the Giant and decided to experiment with repetition of an image. He travelled all over the world and put these large posters up using fly-posters. The simple image began to take on new meanings as the public tried to understand what the poster meant. The image was left open to interpretation of the audience and would become a symbol of something much more important than it actually was.

Almost all of his work is politically motivated and using posters as his personal method of spreading information and politically charged and controversial images in the centre of cities and towns, right in the middle of the everyday life of normal civilians.

http://obeygiant.com/

Paul Barritt - Animation Artist

Works with Projection animation combined with theatrical production company 1927.

To watch a short film of the theatre companies work click on the link below -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/dec/10/theatre

Olivia Plender - Saatchi Gallery

Olivia Plenders work consists mainly on Historical research. These works look into the forgotten pieces of history that are still relevant and awkward in the way we live now.

She explores the themes of genius and 'taste in her comic book series The Masterpieice.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/olivia_plender.htm

Oriell Gallery, South Wales.

I have recently been back home to Wales and through my research on local art galleries I came across the Exhibition of the Graduates from West Wales School of the Arts, 2010. One artist especially took my interest, his unique style of creating almost the contrasting form of 'cuddly' comic book characters and the shiny smooth Anime forms that can be seen in Japanese artists work, such as Takashi Murakami. Masazumi Yamazaki has created these pieces through ceramics giving them a rough and not nearly 'perfected' shaping they still hold their own character and style.

http://www.orielqueenshallgallery.org.uk/Graduatesculpture2010.html

Masazumi Yamazaki

Masazumi's ceramic work is extremely varied, inspired by his own drawings and illustrations of human and animal forms. His sculptures explore the possible ways of interpreting these forms, resulting in distinctive designs which express his personal interpretation of the subject. He is also keen to preserve elements of simplicity and unpredictability in his work.

All of Masazumi's work is made by handbuilding. The clay he uses for a particular piece depends on the subject and the effect he wants to create. Therefore he employs a wide range of clays, including brick clay, earthenware, stoneware and porcelain to suit the diversity of forms and surfaces he produces.