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Nusra Latiff Qureshi
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Art Forum: Art & Identities Nusra Latiff Qureshi’s miniature paintings are exquisitely detailed and executed with technical perfection. She layers appropriated imagery from colonial photography, patterns from Middle Eastern textiles or English Arts and Crafts’ movement, silhouettes and…
Alwar Balasubramaniam
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Art Forum: Art & Identities Born in Tamil Nadu, Southern India, Alwar Balasubramaniam trained as a painter and printmaker; he is now better known for his works in sculpture. His works often activate illusionary space and prompt viewers to question the connection between the semiotic and visual…
Mella Jaarsma
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Art Forum: Art & Identities Mella Jaarsma’s works are bodily modifications of the social space in between the layers of skin, clothing, sartorial inhibition and housing / architecture. Through her work, she questions origin and actually deconstructs identities by producing renewable identities…
Fringe Forum: Ray Chen
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Ray Chen’s sculpture explores form, space and line. His sculpture is the physical language that crosses the boundaries of culture, representing both Eastern and Western culture and aesthetic influences. In recent years his work has addressed his relationship with his mother and subsequent ideas…
Art Forum: Raquel Ormella, Amanda Stuart , Steven Holland
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Art & the Bestiary Steven Holland, Amanda Stuart and Raquel Ormella are each concerned with ideas about the natural world and the interactions between humans and animals. Steven is currently researching the complex symbolism of snakes, Amanda is exploring humans’ ambiguous relationships with…
Fringe Forum: Andrzej Zieliński
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Andrzej Zieliński's work reflects on electronic devices that saturate our lives: cell phones, ATMs, computers and paper shredders. His colour palette includes the use of interference pigments and saturated bright hues that are at odds with the staid grays and cold reflective metals of the actual…
Art Forum: Rona Green
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Art & the Bestiary Rona Green explores ideas about identity, in particular the darker side of the psyche. She is a fancier of Egyptian art, historical figures, science fiction, B-grade movies, secret societies, tattooing traditions, subcultures and the animal kingdom, all of which inspire her…