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!!!
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Alyona Larionova in Salon sindow space this week!
Shortlisted Artist of the Week winner Alyona Larionova was in the gallery space yesterday to set up her window installation - a projection of her film 'Untitled' 2009. Passers by were enticed by the film, many stopping outside Salon Contemporary to enjoy!
Alyona will be displaying her work at Salon Contemporary THIS December, along with the other shortlisted Artists of the Week: Akleriah, Dragana Jurisic and Helen Gorrill.
Show begins December 1st. DONT MISS IT!!!!
Dont forget to VOTE for your favourite artist on the voting poll situatied on THIS BLOG! The winning artist will be anounnced on the opening night of the Artist of the Week Exhibition!
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| Alyona with friend, setting up the projector. |
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| Checking if the screen fits... |
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| Covering the window floor space to minimise reflection... |
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| Experimenting with the projection |
'Untitled' is going to be shown from 4-7pm for the week, until Sunday 14th November.
COME AND SEE IT!
Marina Rees: Aow Winner 12! Nov 8th 2010
Congratualtions Marina Rees - Salon Contemporary's Artist of the Week!
A Few Facts About Marina:
If you could use one word to describe yourself, what would it be?
Marina?
What sea creature are you most like? Why?
Some days I feel as slow as a jellyfish, some days I feel as foreign as a narwhal, some days I feel as playful as an octopus.
What is your favourite food?
A tough question. Let's just say licorice just for this instance.
What is your favourite colour?
Blue. With a bit of green in it.
If you had to save only three of your possessions from a burning house, what would they be?
My husband, the laptop and my record player.
What ocean would you most like to sail/swim across?
North Sea. I heard there were sea serpents sightings over there...
What is your favourite mode of transport? Why?
Cycling.
1 - It forces me to exercise
2 - It is cheap
3 - It is green
Marina recently graduated from an MA Fine Art at Wimbledone School of Art. She has had great experience in developing and exhibiting her work, showing in many group exhibitions nationwide, working at a residency in Iceland and developing workshops for schools in Manchester.
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| Mussel Man, 2010 |
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| Whale Head Piece, 2010 |
Marina's practice is essentially derived from how the human response to the natural world is
transcribed in folklore and other cultural events. She is particularly interested in our perception
of marine life and how it affects both our past and present culture.
transcribed in folklore and other cultural events. She is particularly interested in our perception
of marine life and how it affects both our past and present culture.
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| 'Your Inner Fish', 2010 |
Within this research field Marina Rees is investigating the uncanny natures of anthropomorphism and zoomorphism, which have developed out of our efforts to communicate with and understand nature.
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| 'Arctic Fox', egg shells, 2010 |
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| Sea Serpents, 2010 |
The use of natural material is an essential part of her work, as it plays a mediator role
between the man made and the natural, as well as reinforcing the authenticity she strives to
achieve when creating fake artefacts.
between the man made and the natural, as well as reinforcing the authenticity she strives to
achieve when creating fake artefacts.
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| Polar Bear, 2010 |
Rees' work usually takes form in sculptures and installations, and has previously been embodied
into fake artefacts or/and representations of folkloric characters.
into fake artefacts or/and representations of folkloric characters.
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| 'Your Inner Fish' Installation, with Mussel Man suit. |
'Through my installations I hope to evoke the magic of hidden corners in our imagination, as
well as reuniting ourselves (romantically) with nature.'
well as reuniting ourselves (romantically) with nature.'
View more of Marina's work on her website:
www.marinarees.co.uk
Friday, 5 November 2010
Four artists announced for Salon Contemporary's Artist of the Week December Show!
The nine winning Artists of the Week were interviewed at Salon Contemporary today by our selected panel of judges: Samir Ceric, Jean-Phillipe Vernes, Ben Young and Tigz Rice. Each artist individually presented their work to the judges, who were then left to deliberate over whose work will be displayed in the Artist of the Week exhibition this December!
It was a tough decision. All nine artists displayed an incredibly high standard of work. The ones who particularly stood out and will be exhibiting this Christmas are...........
Akleriah
The unique performance collective
Alyona Larionova
The innovative video/installation artist
Dragana Jurisic
The photgrapher who 'slices time'
Helen Gorrill
The controversial mix media artist
We now have a voting poll on this blog.....so START VOTING FOR YOUR FAVOURITE ARTIST!!! The winner will be announced on December 1st, and will be offered a residency in Londons West End to develop work towards a solo exhibition at Salon Contemporary!
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Akleriah in the Space Yesterday performing 2+1!!
Akleriah drew in the crowds at Salon Contemporary performing their eccentric, quirky piece '2+1' in Salon Contemporary window space! The gallery was buzzing all day. Can we have you there every day please Akleriah?
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Getting ready: Make-up lessons downstairs We want one of those mirror dresses!
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| The last half an hour of the magical performance....Akleriah stole the attention on Westbourne Grove |
Thank you Akleriah!
We'll see you Wednesday, 3pm at the gallery in preparation for the First Wednesdays tours beginning at 7.30pm!
Monday, 1 November 2010
Laura Jacobs: AoW Winner 11 - 1st Nov 2010
Congratulations to our 11th Artist of the Week winner!
Laura Jacobs is interested in the interplay between photography, film, drawing and painting, and how they impact and influence each other. Her current work explores film by animating her photographs with slow cross dissolves. She is particularly drawn to the new imagery created during these cross dissolves; a dreamy, nostalgic reverie, fading in and out of focus and reality, the disappearance, absence and reappearance of the figure. Light is pivotal in the work as it is historically in painting, photography and film. The work has a physical, real exterior space and a psychological interior space
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| The Gaze, mix media monoprint (from Viewer Viewed Series 1) In this series, various facets of the self are captured within the tension and return of 'the gaze'. Laura is concerned with the notion of the viewer as both the artist and the muse. |
'I am the viewer and viewed, thje artist and the muse, the voyeur...being watched, caught, seen? Who has the power, the viewer or the viewed? Who is looking at whom?'
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| (1, film still) Print on Somerset paper |
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| (4, film still), print on Somerset paper) In her recent work, Viewer Viewed Series 2, (seen above) Jacobs takes these ideas further by exploring viewing/representing/posing as parts of a dramatic scenario, which then becomes the main theme in the image. She takes fragments from her photographs and works from them using different media and scale, producing a new series of paintings and photographic prints. This changes the context and makes the image unfamiliar again. The narrative is reinvented through this process of veiling and abstraction. |
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