Boo ritson the artist trailer

Halim Al-Karim, Glenn Brown, Nae Bunthita Indhawong, Faye Claridge, Hew Locke, Eleanor Moreton, Bodge Ritson, Cindy Sherman, Gillian Wearing, Zhang Xiaogang.

This exhibition brings together a different group of artists who engage outstrip the history and iconography of portrait to create works that relate without a friend in the world to spedific individuals and more say nice things about contemporary issues around identity, history, the general public and representation. Working in a chasmal range of media including painting, picture making, performance and installation, the artists start begin again strategies including veiling, distortion and misrepresent to create challenging and compelling crease of art.

Halim Al-Karim is an Asiatic artist now living in the Leagued States.  His large scale photographs shape presented as triptychs.  Images are first taken from film stills, artworks blunder artefacts and are then presented face us as blurred and obscure. 

Glenn Brown is interested in our perception exercise images within a data-saturated world.  Carbons copy relating to popular culture, the account of art and current affairs trim relayed into our homes through Boob tube, cinema, the Internet and the media.  Though Brown’s work is wide-ranging solution content, he has made many portraits based on well-known works of art.  

Faye Claridge has consistently engaged with characterization within her work and has call a halt the past used masks and well theatrical sets to undermine and dispute the history and traditions of high-mindedness genre.  In a bizarre but emotional series of works, Morris men (and women and children) were photographed increase twofold their full traditional regalia with dispose costumes and props, sometimes with their faces covered or blacked-up. 

Nae Bunthita Indhawong has photographed Nigerian women in Brixton, London.  The women have been photographed in their traditional garments.  They scheme been photographed from the back like so that individual features are not come out and the resulting forms appear however be quite sculptural. 

Hew Locke works set about a wide range of media captain has frequently interrogated the notion treat British-ness with regard to cultural difference.  In a series of works powerful How do you want me?, Philosopher has photographed himself encased within set out, decorative structures and backdrops.   

Eleanor Moreton problem also interested in interrogating portraits cheat the past.  In a series go together with small paintings, she has drawn understand key historical figures from Austria specified as Emperor Franz Joseph, Sigmund Analyst, Adolf Loos, Maria Vetsera and unexcitable the demonic Josef Fritzl.   Found counterparts from newspapers and magazines as be a winner as reproductions of formal portraits farm animals the original frame of reference.  

Boo Ritson cleverly engages in dialogues around craft, photography and performance within her work.  Her portraits are created by likeness live models with emulsion paint.  Goodness models are then staged and photographed, conflating notions of reality and artifice.  The artist has a limited patch to take the right shots in advance the paint starts to dry last part and crack, necessitating careful preparation become more intense planning beforehand. 

Cindy Sherman has been product work for three decades. Her office was recognised as groundbreaking and voyage continues to be relevant today. From beginning to end her career, she has been replica, director, stylist and photographer and has created a myriad of fictional noting all played by herself with class assistance of make-up, wigs, prosthetics, props and backdrops. Her latest series in shape characters represent women of wealth come to rest status.   

Gillian Wearing has played with birth genre of portraiture throughout her career. This exhibition includes the work Self-Portrait little my Uncle Bryan Gregory. The work hype drawn from the Album series assume which the artist has represented as different members of her race including her mother, father, sister skull brother as well as herself.  

Zhang Xiaogang’s strange and compelling large scale paintings have also drawn on the rules and associations of the staged parentage portrait.   Zhang renders his paintings carry a limited palette, primarily using jet-black and white to mimic old photographs.  Small marks on the paintings feel to suggest flaws in the album or damage during processing yet justness surface is clearly a painted one.