Hackney Wicked Arts Festival

This years Hackney Wicked Art Festival was a major success.

Here are a few images courtesy of Annamal

If you were unable to make it this year, I look forward to seeing you next August.

Giles Miller

A Photoshoot for the Designer - Giles Miller

www.gilesmiller.com

Work in Progress..

Here are a few images from a coming series of reflections in my Black photograph.

Hossack and Grey

Tina Gibbard

These images are the beginnings of a series of Portraits of people involved in the Hackney Wick arts scene.

In taking one of my Black Photographs in to their studio and making a portrait of the Artist or Designer in their workspace in Hackney Wick, I am using my Black Photograph as a device to see things differently and creating an impressionistic series of photographs that verge on the painterly.

The Black Photograph, as it has a High Gloss finish, is very reflective. Showing through the gloss is the texture of the paper and the reflections seen in it are unclear; they are broken apart by the materiality of the paper and have quite a painterly, impressionistic quality. Leaving the 'image' to be made by the viewer when looking at the Photograph. These new photographs also have this quality, as the surface is also highly reflective, and the image dark and mysterious, and will reflect the viewer back upon themselves...

It is a kind of exploration on the process of the Work of Art, the Maker and the Viewer and the interplay between them, through the medium that is created.

On another thought...

These are some of the images I have been working on as part of my ongoing series on Untitled Interiors..

Printing during this week and next, I will hopefully have a few of these images ready to be shown at the Hackney WickED festival in our open studio here at Oslo House.

If you are interested in coming along it would be great to see you...
My open studio address is: Unit 16 East Wing Oslo House, 15 Prince Edward Road E9 5LT.
And the Festival runs from Friday 31st July - Sunday 2nd August.
There are loads of studios and a bunch of galleries in the area and with Bands, a Fete, Art Jumble sale, and Boat races you too can experience some of the fun that will be Hackney Wicked.

Velfac - 2 Yew Gate

This is a Photoshoot for Velfac the window manufacturers and (TBC) Homebuilding and Renovating Magazine

Velfac Windows

Lorna Soar

Valency Engine

GasWorks Gallery - Froebel Suite

A Photoshoot for the Gas Works Gallery

Froebel Suite, Aurélien Froment's first solo exhibition in a UK public space, continues the artist's ongoing reflection on the function and semantic power of images.

At Gasworks, Froment presents new works that turn images and objects into the subjects of scrutiny. In these works, a brick, a maritime knot and the image of the boat on the hill taken from Werner Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo (1982) are presented out of their own contexts and dissected in a series of sequential photographs or, as it is the case with the latter work, through a conversation between the artist and Herzog.

MMoser Ex-EMI Building

This is my second shoot of the building that used to be EMI's Headquarters over in Hamersmith.

This series of compelling images were shot for the Architects MMoser Accociates of the Phase Between the old EMI 'fit' being stripped out and the new 'fit' being begun.

I look forward to seeing the images I took in Black and White and also Colour on my 5x4 camera after I had finished the commercial shoot. This series may become part of my own 'Untitled Interiors'.