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Edition: Quarter 1, 2007 | Themes of Patterning and Wallpaper | Curated by Kathy Battista
The A-WAL email exhibition is a quarterly curated art project that is two-fold in approach. Each quarter, a curator recognized for having achieved a unique distinction in an area of experimental practice will construct the email exhibition around their own set theme. This is featured on the A-WAL website as an online exhibition, and the art images are available for use as art wallpaper for A-WAL users as an extension of this project. The A-WAL email exhibition is a non-profit public art project, with this edition being sponsored and brought to you in kind by Batteli.
For this quarterly installment, we are pleased to feature independent writer, lecturer, and curator Dr Kathy Battista, who is based in London. Kathy’s abiding interest in and support for experimental art forms and innovative practice has been displayed through her past involvement and work with organizations such as Artangel, Tate Modern, and the Serpentine Gallery. Kathy has regularly contributed to Contemporary, Frieze, Third Text, and Art Monthly amongst other publications, is an editor of Art & Architecture Journal, and has recently authored the forthcoming book Women’s Work: Feminist Artists in 1970s London (I B Tauris, 2007), resulting from her doctoral research re-considering the work of feminist artists in 1970s London and their role in the context of perfomative practice and alternative spaces. The artists featured in this exhibition include: Daniel Jackson, Delaney Martin, Jamie Robinson, Sans Facon (Tristan Surtees & Charles Blanc), Dallas Seitz, Krisdy Shindler and Heather Sparks.
Click here to view curator's writings for this edition
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Daniel Jackson
Born in London in 1966.
Lives and works in London.
Artist's Bio
www.danieljackson.info
5000 To A Point Somewhere - Reds/Yellows, No. 16, 2006
Bespoke software output
Image courtesy of the artist.
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Delaney Martin
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1976.
Lives and works in New York and London.
Artist's Bio
www.lukeanddelaney.com
Twelve Tribes - Memorandum of Agreement, 2005
Video Still
A to scale recreation of Moses' biblical Sinai Desert Tabernacle built into Fordham gallery located in historic Spitafields, London.
Images courtesy of the artist.
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Dallas Seitz
Born in Strathmore Alberta, Canada in 1972
Lives and works in London.
Artist's Bio
Cowboy, 2001
Ink on Paper.
One of series of drawings produced between 2001 and 2004. The obsessive line drawings are derived from a process of doodling and illustration, and influenced by psychedelic posters of the Seventies, country and western patterns and children's books from the artist's past. This series specifically relates to Seitz's own upbringing on his family cattle ranch at the foot of the Rocky Mountains of Alberta.
Image courtesy of the artist.
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Heather Sparks
Lives and works in California.
Artist's Bio
www.stanford.edu/%7Ehsparks/
Within My Nature, 2006
Video Stills
Video Stills made from models for new sculpture used in the artist's Human Kaleidoscope video. Self-generated utopias generated from models made from digital prints of artist's own hair and skin scans.
Images courtesy of the artist.
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Krisdy Shindler
Born in Vancouver.
Lives and works in Glasgo.
Artist's Bio
Multiply 2, 2005
Oil on linen
Romantically inspired by the voyage of science into the depths of our physical universe, Shindler's paintings play with ideas derived from theories from contemporary physics.
A Reciprocal Process Of Becoming - 2006
Animation Still - Animation of oil paint on drafting film, mounted on a light box
Duration 4:02
In this particular animation, Krisdy Shindler utilizes the dramatic effects of lighting. By lighting from either back or front, the animation reveals the unfolding movement of one painting, but in two drastically different views. This particular still image demonstrates a back-lit segment of the animation.
Images courtesy of the artist.
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Sans Facon
Tristan Surtees & Charles Blanc
Live and work in Glasgow, Scotland.
Artist's Bio
www.sansfacon.co.uk
Bristol Promenade, 2006
Digital rendering.
Heavily influenced by the dazzle camouflage of 1920s war ships, this abstract image is inspired by the distinct history on Bristol's Harbourside, in which the artists have been commissioned for a public art project interacting with the landscape.
Image courtesy of the artist.
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A-WAL thanks the curators who have assisted in artist selection for this new form of techno-vernacular display, as well as the artists who boldly embrace new forms of installation practice. For its Pre-launch, A-WAL email was a featured project used by artists participating in Satellite Project,
Shanghai Biennial 2006 as an extension of exhibition, and has been featured in various international projects since its launch.
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