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Meet the artist: Daksha Patel

22nd January 2019
Where are you based? Manchester How did your artwork start out? The human body has been an important theme in my practice from the very beginning. My undergraduate work focused upon skin: I used macro-photography to take highly magnified images of its surface, which resembled landscapes. I was also making direct imprints of skin using soft-ground etchings. Overtime, particularly after my MA, I became interested in how technologies look at, represent and measure the human body. How do you get ideas for each piece of art? My work is often research-led and responds to specific aspects of scientific enquiry such as data about air pollution, geographic mapping systems or medical imaging. I regularly undertake residencies in scientific institutions, and my conversations with scientists, as well as images from their research are often the starting point for ideas. How do you go about transforming an idea like that into a physical piece? Drawing is a primary method for thinking through ideas and of realizing them. It is a very direct and immediate way to explore ideas. I use methods and processes that respond in some way to my subject matter. For instance, I have used clay - a material that is unstable and slowly drops off the paper surface as it dries - to draw landscapes that are undergoing desertification. Or animal fat to draw
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Meet the artist: Olivia Punnett

22nd January 2019
Where are you based? I am based in Haarlem Artspace in Wirksworth How did your artwork start out? I started working site specifically around 2011. I had been in art education at various points before that, and had read ‘The Poetics of Space’ By Bechelard on my first degree, and this informed my responses to place. I don’t work in this way now as much now but it was definitely my way in.   How do you get ideas for each piece of work? I have a set of central concerns, drawing inspiration from natural ephemera, and exploring the photochemical mark are two. I am a print maker and use photographs in that process often, taking medium format film photos myself and then choosing from the images I have which to take forward into printmaking processes. I then have ideas about ways of presenting these images, and how I would like people to perceive the images. These often mimic reflection, or I try to achieve this, often with mirrors. I play with these set-ups until they form a good position. How do you go about transforming an idea like that into a piece of art? Play is my main tool, I give myself lots of photos, prints or equipment to play with and test out different combinations of them. The blurred or washed over effect of an image that has passed through an imperfect lens translates, to me, to the recalled or remembered image.
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20 Sep

My first mentoring session with Frank Abbott

Last week, I had my first mentoring session with Frank Abbott, an artist who, like myself, plays with technology within his work. Frank and I discussed how I could enhance my paintings, by adding what we referred to as a ‘real’ material, something that could only be fully experienced in the ‘flesh’.  I have decided that I will experiment with materials that change appearance as the viewer moves around them, for example iridescent paints or reflective tape.  We also discussed the possibility of being more loose and disruptive in my paintings. I plan to do this by including more ‘playful’ imagery.

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A month into my residency

13th September 2018

So far I have completed one of the three paintings, I will be making for the IRL exhibition. This first painting, like all my work, was initially made on Adobe illustrator, from which I then transferred onto canvas using acrylic. This work provides us with a tangible window into the surreal digital landscape. Through the use of multiple vibrantly painted surreal flowers, the painting represents copy and paste, as well as repetitive ‘eye candy’ you may find on digital screens. All of the flowers share the same simplified visual DNA, to replicate the quick and passive qualities of digital imagery. After reviewing the finished painting, I now hope to alter it by making it more ‘Real’ and ‘Tangible’, through the addition of materials that would only display their desired effect in the ‘flesh’. I also hope to make more of the digital design language visible through the addition of more imagery.

 

When I haven’t been in Artcore, I have been working on the largest of three paintings, in my studio in Swindon. This work depicts the vastness of the digital world and I am using household gloss to make it. In my next painting I am planning on showing a more playful side to the digital world.

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A month into my residency

12th September 2018
It’s hard to believe almost a month has passed since the beginning of the residency- time does fly by! I began the first week building some objects with wire and paper, and then I decided to concentrate more on the wearable sculptures that I would be making. For the wearable sculptures I wanted to work with modular pieces, so I began doing several small sculptures to then assemble them together and make a larger piece. This process of making the clay shapes, waiting for them to dry and then assembling them togethers has been what’s taken most of the time that has passed so far. I have also done a couple of tests with the 360 camera and then playing the video into the Virtual reality headset to see how it works- it’s actually really cool!   As to when I’m not in Derby, I am also working from Leeds. At home I am working focused on materials other than ceramic as I wanted to mix different materials into the project, and unfortunately trying to make everything out of ceramics would be too heavy/unpractical. So far I have two “characters” and their accessories almost ready and two that are halfway there. The hardest thing so far though, was thinking that I wouldn’t be able to work with other people, as this was an essential part of the project. However, Artcore helped me find a couple of really good volunteers- one of which made me feel more at ease by telling me her
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Meet the artist: Maria Cepeda

31st August 2018

Maria Cepeda is Fine Arts tudent from Leeds Arts University.

She works with sculptures to investigate the existing relationship between self-other-environment.

Work across  different materials, approaching sculpting in a performative and innovative way her research is currently focused on how this relationship is studied by new materialism, stressing the impact of technology on the way we perceive our own material bodies.

She is one of the two artists selected for In Real Life residency, second of 4 artist residencies organized and curated by Artcore between 2018/2019.

We visited her in the artist studio, where we had a conversation about how she looks at her sculptures as both organic and technological elements use to reflect on future condition of human body.

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Maria Cepeda, Wear, Ceramic, 2018

Where are you based? I’m originally from Colombia but I’m based in Leeds How you would like to use this residency to develop your current research and how do you think the time spent at Artcore can benefit your process of doing? My current research deals with the idea of a saturated self that receives so much stimuli and information from its surroundings that it becomes an abstract entity that takes on multiple identities. I’d like to use the In Real Life residency to develop this by relating it directly to the cybernetic world we are all a part of- more specifically linking this idea to video games where players take on a
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Meet the artist: Tom Van der Meulen

30th August 2018

Tom Van der Meulen is a recent Fine Arts graduate from the University of Reading. He creates his own digitally influenced paintings that explore the relationships between painting and the digital world. Van der Meulen’ work can be described as ‘A-temporal’; painting that has entered an unrestricted arena where all forms and periods of art can coexist at once taking influence from a range of sources.

He is one of the two artists selected for In Real Life residency, second of 4 artist residencies organized and curated by Artcore between 2018/2019.

We visited him in the artist studio, where we discovered some interesting aspects of his research concerning the representation of digital spaces and imagery through the medium of contemporary painting.

Have a read of what he says!

Tom Van der Meulen, Elide, 2018, Household Gloss on canvas

Where are you based? In Swindon, Wiltshire. How would you like to use this residency to develop your current research and how do you think the time spent at Artcore can benefit your process of doing? I am using this residency to give my undivided attention to my own practice for two months. This residency gives me a specific goal to work towards. It also gives me a great opportunity to showcase my work and develop as an artist. In the proposal you mentioned you would like to break down the subjective wall surrounding
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Responses

20th June 2018
After going for a meeting with someone from Derby City Mission, I was able to get more knowledge on homelessness in Derby. This information included other homeless charities as well as numbers surrounding homelessness which helped open my eyes to the problem. These numbers are from a night shelter that took place over 4 months in the winter. Over those months there were 319 guests, a number that surprised me as I previously found out –from the same interview- that there are only 40 registered homeless people in derby. This is something I felt important to share as it shows how bad the homeless crisis really is in Derby. Another thing I have been curious about, is how people in our community view the materials I use in my work. I wanted to ask people who are both from an artistic background as well as people who aren’t, to get a larger range of thoughts and opinions. I asked this question on several of my social medias, on my art Instagram as well as my personal and on Facebook. Using these different platforms gives me the chance to communicate with people from different backgrounds. Here is the question I asked and some of the responses. For me it kind of gives me security to look at because most buildings houses are made from bricks and they give you a roof over your head, somewhere to be safe and dry and warm and can protect
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