Maia Conran
Maia Conran’s research interrogates the structural forms of film and photography production and disstribution. Her artworks challenge the politics of these infrastructures and seek to offer a critical and collaborative methodology of resistance. Through movement, voice, and collage she leverages the everyday to reflect on institutional power structures.
Residencies have been instrumental to devloping Maia ‘s artwork. She has been selected for residencies in the National Slate Museum of Wales, for Cardiff Contemporary Arts Festival, Kingsgate Workshops, London, Standpoint, London, and at Station in Bristol.
Maia has exhibited extensively in collaborative and group exhibitions nationally and solo exhibitions include Grand Union (Birmingham), G39 (Cardiff), IMT Gallery, Kingsgate Workshops (both London), Phoenix Gallery (Exeter) Bristol Diving School (collaboratively as Conran and Haimes) and Skelf online project space. Her work has also been selected for international awards, film festivals, group exhibitions, screenings. A single screen version of her multi-screen film Term was published on DVD by Filmarmalade and her work is the subject of a monograph entitled Here is the Yard published by Grand Union Gallery. Her screenplay Monkey Puzzle was a podcast for Quote Unquote in 2020.
Maia is Course leader for BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography at Camberwell College of Art.
www.maiaconran.com
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Maia Conran’s research interrogates the structural forms of film and photography production and disstribution. Her artworks challenge the politics of these infrastructures and seek to offer a critical and collaborative methodology of resistance. Through movement, voice, and collage she leverages the everyday to reflect on institutional power structures.
Residencies have been instrumental to devloping Maia ‘s artwork. She has been selected for residencies in the National Slate Museum of Wales, for Cardiff Contemporary Arts Festival, Kingsgate Workshops, London, Standpoint, London, and at Station in Bristol.
Maia has exhibited extensively in collaborative and group exhibitions nationally and solo exhibitions include Grand Union (Birmingham), G39 (Cardiff), IMT Gallery, Kingsgate Workshops (both London), Phoenix Gallery (Exeter) Bristol Diving School (collaboratively as Conran and Haimes) and Skelf online project space. Her work has also been selected for international awards, film festivals, group exhibitions, screenings. A single screen version of her multi-screen film Term was published on DVD by Filmarmalade and her work is the subject of a monograph entitled Here is the Yard published by Grand Union Gallery. Her screenplay Monkey Puzzle was a podcast for Quote Unquote in 2020.
Maia is Course leader for BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography at Camberwell College of Art.
www.maiaconran.com
Contact here.
Duncan Wooldridge
Duncan Wooldridge is a photographer, curator and art critic who uses different methods of mechanical reproduction to explore the ideas of possession, authorship and interruption.
Working directly onto postcards found in museum gift shops, Duncan's practice highlights the flawed nature of recreating conceptual and minimalist artworks onto documents. By slightly modifying these commercialised reproductions of original artworks, Duncan further complicates the way art history is revised, interpreted and exchanged by entwining his own mythology into the process.
Duncan’s work is regularly exhibited at major museums throughout the UK, including Spike Island (Bristol), Hayward Gallery and The Royal College of Art (both London). He also curated Anti-Photography at Focal Point (Southend) in 2011, and is a regular contributor to Source, Eikon, Untitled and Art Monthly.
Duncan is currently conducting doctoral research in the Department of Art History and University College London on the work of German Anti-foto artist Hans-Peter Feldmann.
www.duncanwooldridge.com
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Working directly onto postcards found in museum gift shops, Duncan's practice highlights the flawed nature of recreating conceptual and minimalist artworks onto documents. By slightly modifying these commercialised reproductions of original artworks, Duncan further complicates the way art history is revised, interpreted and exchanged by entwining his own mythology into the process.
Duncan’s work is regularly exhibited at major museums throughout the UK, including Spike Island (Bristol), Hayward Gallery and The Royal College of Art (both London). He also curated Anti-Photography at Focal Point (Southend) in 2011, and is a regular contributor to Source, Eikon, Untitled and Art Monthly.
Duncan is currently conducting doctoral research in the Department of Art History and University College London on the work of German Anti-foto artist Hans-Peter Feldmann.
www.duncanwooldridge.com
Contact here.
Mervyn
Arthur
Working
mostly with photography and both found and constructed objects, Mervyn Arthur's
practice explores the transformative capabilities of the photographic process.
Recent projects have involved re-mapping everyday objects (Camera Interiors, Objects about something else) and constructing
simple sculptural forms derived from the screen image (Screen Test, Slipshod). His latest work
is based on the re-modelling of public/virtual architectural spaces.
Mervyn has exhibited in various selected group shows both abroad and in the UK including What is Research at UAL 2017, SOLAS Photographic Prize at the Museum of Photography Ireland, 2015, Scope: new photographic practices in Beijing, China, 2011 and at EASTinternational, 2009. His work has been published in Philosophy of Photography in 2012 and in SOURCE in 2015 and 2008.
Mervyn has lectured in fine art photography at Camberwell College of Arts UAL since 1997 and has led workshops at CAFA in Beijing (2017), Yarat in Baku (2013), and Falmouth University (1997).
Image: galleria, c type, size variable, 2023.
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Mervyn has exhibited in various selected group shows both abroad and in the UK including What is Research at UAL 2017, SOLAS Photographic Prize at the Museum of Photography Ireland, 2015, Scope: new photographic practices in Beijing, China, 2011 and at EASTinternational, 2009. His work has been published in Philosophy of Photography in 2012 and in SOURCE in 2015 and 2008.
Mervyn has lectured in fine art photography at Camberwell College of Arts UAL since 1997 and has led workshops at CAFA in Beijing (2017), Yarat in Baku (2013), and Falmouth University (1997).
Image: galleria, c type, size variable, 2023.
Cotanct here.
Melinda Gibson Melinda Gibson, born 1985 UK, is an artist based in London. Melinda works at the boundaries of Photography; her practice is grounded in contemporary visual digestion through the appropriation and re-invention of existing material. She is a Senior Lecturer and Third Year Leader of BA Fine Art Photography at Camberwell College of Arts.
Melinda has exhibited widely across Europe, United States and Australia, with selected shows including; Beg, Steal and Borrow, Bermondsey Project Space, (London 2020), Reversiones, Centro de la Imagen, (Mexico City), A Motley Crew, Christian Larsen Gallery (Stockholm), Surface Tension, FOMU (Belgium), Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts (London), Second Hands, Galerie Binome, (Paris), Her First Meteorite, Volumes I & II, ROSEGALLERY (Santa Monica), The Smoke House, Performative Installation, Turbine Hall Tate Modern, (London) The Constructed View: UK Photography Now at Dong Gang Museum of Photography (South Korea) In Appropriation, The Houston Centre of Photography (Houston) and Alice in Wonderland, Logomo Turku, The European Capital of Culture (Finland).
Melinda is a recipient of Foam Talent Call and Magenta Foundation Awards and is the author of three titles, including the award winning reworked The Photograph As Contemporary Art, Miss Titus Becomes A Regular Army Mac and SPBH Book Club Volume VI.
https://rosegallery.net/artists/67-melinda-gibson/overview/
In Progress website: http://melindajgibson.com/
Contact here.
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Melinda has exhibited widely across Europe, United States and Australia, with selected shows including; Beg, Steal and Borrow, Bermondsey Project Space, (London 2020), Reversiones, Centro de la Imagen, (Mexico City), A Motley Crew, Christian Larsen Gallery (Stockholm), Surface Tension, FOMU (Belgium), Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts (London), Second Hands, Galerie Binome, (Paris), Her First Meteorite, Volumes I & II, ROSEGALLERY (Santa Monica), The Smoke House, Performative Installation, Turbine Hall Tate Modern, (London) The Constructed View: UK Photography Now at Dong Gang Museum of Photography (South Korea) In Appropriation, The Houston Centre of Photography (Houston) and Alice in Wonderland, Logomo Turku, The European Capital of Culture (Finland).
Melinda is a recipient of Foam Talent Call and Magenta Foundation Awards and is the author of three titles, including the award winning reworked The Photograph As Contemporary Art, Miss Titus Becomes A Regular Army Mac and SPBH Book Club Volume VI.
https://rosegallery.net/artists/67-melinda-gibson/overview/
In Progress website: http://melindajgibson.com/
Contact here.
Smriti Mehra
Smriti Mehra is an artist and educator from Bangalore, India. Moving image forms a large part of her practice. As a storyteller, she employs ethnographic research methods to unearth local perspectives in her non-fiction practice. Interacting with Bangalore’s ever-changing, ever-growing residents with their multi- lingual, cultural, economic backgrounds she has become a mapmaker of sorts. Mapping the desires, hopes, needs, dreams and disparities of this city from her particular vantage point has been born out of a desire to establish reference points for her own personal memories. She is both a purveyor of information, and storyteller and like the mapmaker challenged by taking the mundane and every day, and unravelling and reassembling these details into visible intricacies.
Her work deals with issues of labour, material culture, identity and memory and has shown widely internationally.
Smriti earned her MFA in Media Art from NSCAD University at Halifax in Canada with a scholarship from the AAUW Educational Foundation. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Centre for Experimental Media Art and has taught at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology.
She is currently the year-one leader of BA Fine Art Photography as well as a Senior Lecturer working across Fine Art at Camberwell College of Arts.
www.smritimehra.com
Contact here.
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Her work deals with issues of labour, material culture, identity and memory and has shown widely internationally.
Smriti earned her MFA in Media Art from NSCAD University at Halifax in Canada with a scholarship from the AAUW Educational Foundation. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Centre for Experimental Media Art and has taught at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology.
She is currently the year-one leader of BA Fine Art Photography as well as a Senior Lecturer working across Fine Art at Camberwell College of Arts.
www.smritimehra.com
Contact here.
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