Thursday, January 29, 2009

Artists from the RCA

I should begin by stating that all can be kind of hesistant to talk about their work. They always have the opportunity to not tell the truth about their work, or to skip a question, or to choose which images are shown or not shown.

Anna M. R. Freeman




Her favourite colour is green.
Anna was asked to identify an inspiring artist. She recommended Machael Borremans.
Anna deals with ideas of nostalgia, memory, longing, and anxiety, and how spaces provoke such ideas. The works are meant to be viewed in relation to each other - these works would commonly be displayed as part of an installation. Works typically display a lack of grounding, resulting in a vertiginous space.


Gareth Cadwallader.

His favourite colour is blue
Gareth identified Neo Rauch as an inspiring artist.
Gareth's work is about a lot of stuff. It is quite often autobiographical, resulting in a deliberate, mostly personal collection of signs and symbols. People are allowed to read what they want.








The works are all small and intimate, worked up entirely in oil. Lots of effort is put in to the source material: they are not images all photshopped together, but constructed like a set and photographed.