Salon Contemporary is offering emerging, innovative and passionate artists out there a chance to display their work in the creative hub of Notting Hill!Artist of the Week’ is a new and exciting competition, with the opportunity for one selected artist each week to have their work featured on our website in the run up to our AoW Christmas Exhibition. The winning candidate will then be offered a residency in London’s West End! We’re calling on artists from all fields including the visual arts, performance, dance, film, theatre, animation and music!

VIEW THEIR WORKS, VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE AND COME SEE THE SPECTACULAR EXHIBITION, OPENING DECEMBER 1ST!!!

The exhibiting artists 'Artist of the Week: The Exhibition' are:
Akleria * Alyona Larinova * Dragana Jurisic * Helen Gorill



Monday 28 March 2011

This Weeks' Artist of The Week Winner is Nicolas William Hughes!

Nicolas Willam Hughes deals with the contemporary relationship between man and nature and contemporary anthropology. Intrigued by the exponential growth of population and the ongoing shift to urban environments he explores notions of our changing society and self developed post-culture fictions using photography, video, installation, performance and participatory projects..

Hughes believes that within the Global mindset we are all trying to cling onto our own sense of cultural heritage, be this from the country/city or province we grew up in, our religious views, our class values, our historical roots or stories that we pick up on the way. Often this work uses humor to emphasize Hughes' view of the importance of the approachability of contemporary art. This approach often proves to create works that can be interesting and engaging to everybody and not only the creative and academic.

Hughes usually begins the process of his practice with personal reactions to the environment around him leading him to academic, non-academic and artistic research usually worked on in a playful manner. Often Hughes undertakes participatory-based research projects to inform and inspire his personal practice, which leads to the ultimate creation of work. His key interest is in the immediacy of lens based media, although his practice has diversified to a vast amount of different mediums.



























Conversations with Birds Participatory Project, 2010, Video, HD 1080p, 8mins
All birds like humans have regional dialect. In fact birds regional dialect is more defined than our own, to the point that birds from different areas of the same country can not understand each other.
This project aims to query the relationship between mans understanding of birds utterances, but also the crossing of regional dialects.
4 of the most common European birds were chosen as examples and individuals were shown an illustration of each bird and asked to utter the sound of each bird as they understand it.




One word to describe you?

Absurd


Your favourite place to visit?

the beaches and woods of South Gower, South Wales.

What's it like talking to birds?

Depends which bird,

Robins are overtly territorial so playing robin song makes them agitated, they puff them selfs up ready for a fight nothing like the cute bird that adorn our christmas cards.

Starlings are hard because they are mimics so simply recording them and playing their song back does not always work.

JackDaws are great because they have such a vast array of utterances their particularly chatty towards the end of the day.

sometimes no birds want to chat I suppose much like bird watching its a waiting game,

Have you got any exhibitions on the cards?

I am awaiting feedback from a few galleries and I have a show coming up next month with 8week Gallery in Bristol.

What makes your practice unique?

To be honest in a world of 7billion people it is hard to be unique, But I guess the mixture of both academic and non academic research and the notion of absurdity that is prevalent in my work is what makes it unique.

Top three galleries?

Mission Gallery, Swansea

Arlofini, Bristol

Debut Contemporary, Notting Hill, London


Do you have advice for emerging artists like yourself?

If you love what you do it should be the driving force behind your practice. Do not be afraid to be wrong and never accept the banal.

Visit www.nicolaswilliamhughes.com for more information.

Monday 21 March 2011

This Weeks Artist of The Week Winner is Sally Hogarth!


 


A descendant of William Hogarth, Sally's work often engages with the exchanges, moral values and private spheres of the virtual internet society. Sally Hogarth is a Manx born artist who studied Fine Art and Art History at Goldsmiths College.  In recent years she has exhibited for curators of the South London Gallery, Bob and Roberta Smith and  Deptford X Art Festival . She has also received  exhibition  funding from Ideas Tap, The Arts Council and The John Nicholson Foundation. Last year, out of 400 applicants she received a six month ‘Big Idea Award’ selected by Kevin Spacey.  In 2008 she  was  awarded a sculpture commission by BAA for  the newly opened Heathrow Terminal Five. In 2009-2010 she completed a full year artist residency funded by the Isle of Man Arts Council culminating in an exhibition at the Sayle Gallery. She has also created a video installation at Cregneash Village in association with Manx National Heritage. She is currently taking postgraduate studies at Central Saint Martins in Fine Art. In all, her work aims to allow one to take a fresh look at the cultural landscape we live in, its values and the aspirations it presents to us.

 
 
 
 

 
Describe Sally Hogarth in one word?
Bolvane

Your favourite place to visit?

The Isle of Man. While I only go back occasionally now, the tranquillity, cultural history and solace you can find compares to nowhere else. I’m also reminded of a folk song we used to sing at school – ‘ And the Laxey Wheel keeps turning, turning, turning/ In Lady Isabella's memory / And while the water flows / The Laxey Wheel still goes/ And the Laxey river runs down to the sea’. I’d like to think of the lines ‘while the water flows the Laxey wheel still goes’ as a constant – wherever you are, and whatever you’re doing, certain things will stay the same.


Where did your internet fascination stem from?
It stems from an idea of the internet being simultaneously public and private.

Who do you love to hate in the art world?

Arts managers who use interns as free labour.

What is your signature identity?
My assigned identity is a Gallerina.
Top three artists?

Glen Edwards, Mark McGowan and Kirsty Buchanan

If you were going to watch a film tonight what would you put on?

Borat



Monday 7 March 2011

The Winner of Artist of The Week is Anna T!

Born in Athens, Greece in 1984, Anna studied Photography, Video and New Technologies in Athens and obtained her MA in Queer Studies in Arts & culture from Birmingham City University in 2010. Her work mainly deals with the relation between private / public, identities and the ways the interactions between time and space form them. Her practice spans from photography to interactive installations and she often uses ready-mades.
Her work “Balloons” is an interactive game on the assigned/imposed identities of the newly-born, while “Lines” deals with notions of “home”, queer space and time and the formation of the inhabitants’ identities. Her video work “Doll” (http://annatee.co.uk/doll.html) is a comment on the performativity of femininity and the installation “Queering Blyton” investigates the different readings of each viewer.


We love the playful text and lust for exploration in these vibrant series.
Visit: www.annatee.co.uk

Tuesday 1 March 2011

Artist of the Week WINNER - Dan Crosby!

 





Congratulations Dan!

Dan Crosby is exploring the world of ‘Pataphysics; the indeterminate solutions
to imaginary science, and notions beyond metaphysics (example: Time travel).
The research so far has taken him to understand the formations and analysis
of psycho-sexual Paraphilia, beginning with Erotophonophilia all the way to his
self-postulated fetish ‘Leukhtamophilia’, the desires towards obtaining light;
bioluminescence.


'Incubator'



'Marie-Claude Baehler'




'Pogotrophy'




'The Woman'





Born in Burnley 1988, works in Manchester and is currently planning to do at
least one show in each city in the U.K before 2013. One of his goals is to become
a ‘Pataphysician. He has had interest from galleries in London and news papers
contacting him about his piece ‘Ideas Towards Perfection’, though he refused
publishers and interviews, the work gained some notoriety amongst the audience
due to its content. Dan is an installation artist, but also works in painting, drawing,
sculpture and writing.

This week's Artist of The Week is Jenny Core!




Congratulations Jenny!


















Art is a mimesis of reality; the reality being the everyday. This reality that we have become accustomed to has been appropriated. This alternate ‘reality’, which has been created, embraces humorous obscurities by acknowledging the mundane and the ludicrous. The work is an investigation that explores where
the alternate reality is present and where it ceases to exist.




Don't Sit On The Fence



Is Ting Good
Listen and Come On Up


Mother King




Anti Social




To follow more of Jenny's work check out her website:

www.jennycore.com