To The Studio

Tahmina Negmat is currently on a year-long residency at the Carpenters Wharf Studios in Hackney Wick and

making paintings about Joe Exotic from Tiger King in her quarantine flat in Moscow.

Tahmina treats her studio as a spectacle arena where she wants to throw a real

celebration for the anti-hero the Trickster ("A demonic-comic double of a

cultural hero, endowed with the features of a naughty dodger”. For her The Trickster is

the main protagonist of today and takes a lot of inspiration from cinema

and books.

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As a way into this thinking Tahmina explains that her painting ‘Endless Infatuations with Malcolm Mcdowell', which you can see over on our instagram page is a tribute towards my obsession over the portrait of the antihero. Sh says ‘I have a real antagonistic reaction to pitch-perfect moralism, as I think I see most

things that are perfect and clean-cut as a nice antisocial package where the

whole investment goes towards oneself. However the anti-heroes are raw,

and they are rare. They have this weird self conflicted duality going on.

Similarly like looking at the rock in Goya’s painting and never quite seeing

just the rock, but the tripled eyed devil, ongoing mutating faces, a depiction

of the birth of something and the whole mortality is in that rock. So I see the

same rawness and wrongness in the rounded and enlarged facial features

of Malcolm McDowell who played a lead role in Kubrick’s “Clockwork

Orange”. And Malcolm’s face is round and beautiful like it’s been sat on by

the birth of Venus.

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Gala is a London based multidisciplinary artist. Engaging with ideas of value, taste, hierarchy and absurd labour, her work is the aftermath of a reaction to substance and situation. Materials and actions become metonymic, swapping roles between quotidian interactions and traditional art processes.

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She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and City and Guilds Art School London. She has been selected for exhibitions with The Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the Great Exhibition Road Festival, The London Design Festival with Mint Gallery, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz in Berlin, and Galerie der HBKsaar in Saarsbrucken. Bell has had commissions by BBC One and Tate and Lyle for her sugar sculptures, with a piece acquired by the Tate and Lyle Museum archive in London. She has been included in publications with Dazed magazine and Art Reveal, with interviews by BBC One Tribe and The Royal Docks.

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Alexander Pollard graduated from his BA at Glasgow School of Art in 1999 and In 2017 he earned an MPhil from Goldsmiths for his thesis A Genealogy of Bad Painting – Legacies, Soft Objects and Networks. . . Alex is a Steiner student having attended Brighton Steiner School prior to university. This education has left a deep and lasting impact in the way he approaches his work and research where he continuously explores the way human intuition affects and interacts with the creative process especially in the art of painting. 

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Alex has also recently set up The New Art School. Which is a rigorous, international online programme suitable for artists anywhere in the world. Designed to offer a contemporary art education and meaningful support structures at an affordable rate, it provides an art education for everyone, not just the few. Providing fresh, relevant and smart educational programmes for contemporary artists and cultural practitioners looking to take the next step in their work. 

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http://research.gold.ac.uk/22392/ -  A link to Alex’s Thesis : A Genealogy of Bad Painting. 

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Matthew Burrows was born in 1971 in the Wirral, UK, and he currently lives and works in East Sussex. He studied as an undergraduate at Birmingham School of Art in 1990-93 and graduated with a Master's Degree in painting from the Royal College of Art London in 1995.

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Matthew's studio, on the site of an old windmill, is perched on a ridge between valleys. Despite the beautiful views and clear vistas his sense of place is far from sentimental. His relationship with habitat is not one of description or nostalgia, but one of dwelling and ritual. It is a process of mythologising, of drawing meaning from the particularities of the environment, of realising its wilderness and ours.

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I caught up with Matt a week or so after he set up his most recent initiative - The Artist Support Pledge. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many artists have found themselves without work, teaching, technical support, gallery work. The initiative aims to alleviate some of the stress the pandemic has caused, as many artists around the world have now found themselves without work.

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The concept is a simple one. Artists post images of their work, on Instagram which they are willing to sell for no more than £200 each (not including shipping). Anyone can buy the work. Every time an artist reaches £1000 of sales, they pledge to spend £200 on another artist/s work. . . As well as this initiative we talk about his other project -The ABC Projects Atelier that aims to support, create and maintain critical engagement and networks for artists, his interest in wilderness, the importance of support structures and breaking down hierachies, the power of generosity and how artists might readdress their roles with our current systems. 

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Neena Percy and Lizzy Drury studied together on the MA Painting Programme at the RCA. Since graduating, the pair formed Hot Desque, a collaboration in which they curate theatrically presented site-specific group exhibitions, staging artworks together within a mise-en-scene. They encourage cross-disciplinary collaborations between practitioners, have written essays and hosted an artist talk as part of Art Licks Weekend, that addressed issues around ‘work culture’ and jobs alongside developing an artistic practice.

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Laurence Owen was born in Gloucester and now lives and works in London.

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He completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at Royal Academy Schools, London in 2015, and holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Falmouth College of Art in Cornwall.

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I caught up with Laurence a week or so after the opening of his exhibition Gerund, where Laurence showed a completely new body of work that split across both Zublowicz Collection and Lychee One Galleries in London.

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Recent solo exhibitions include those at Galerie PCP, Paris,

And Evelyn Yard, London.

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Group exhibitions include Mushrooms: The art, design and future of fungi, Somerset House, London,

Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London,

Something Else, Triumph Gallery, Moscow,

Absent Bodies, OSL Contemporary, Oslo

John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

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Luca George was in Brighton in 1990, he graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2013 and the Royal College of Art in 2019. Recent exhibitions, projects and performances include, London and the Devil at Brockley Gardens, William Blake and the idea of the artist (organised by and taking place at both Paul Mellon Centre and Tate Britain), The Ghost of the Flea Under the Bridge as part of Mark Leckey's Tate Britain retrospective 'O magic power of bleakness at Tate Britian' and Sour Persimmons Chasm at Ex-Baldessarre (curated by Andy Holden).

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Luca George is the ghost of a flea, he is a leaf on a tree, he's the angel hesitating near, he's the human being full of fear, he is dread, he is anguish and he is a sandwich...

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