SENSORIAL/CENSORIAL
2013
University of Portsmouth Masters of Fine Art show.
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Peter Missen
Peter is currently researching the aesthetics of binary based codes, the randomness of chance, and codified game rules for his MA in Fine Art at the University of Portsmouth – a coupling to an already awarded MSc in Artificial Intelligence. Work for the MA end of course show has an underpinning of an as yet unpublished binary code system created by Peter. The “code” combines Latin characters with Japanese katakana phonemes. Various systems have been used to instantiate the code, such as, zeros/ones, colour/no colour, pattern/no pattern…
Johnny Hamer
Sometimes I sit down on the bus, wearing my headphones, with the music turned off. Just to hear all the crazy things people say……..
“It’s all ok, until your belly button gets cold. Then you’ll shit yourself!”
As an artist, my work has often been based around my interactions, and observations with the eclectic mix of people I have come across in my life. Portsmouth, aptly described to me before as ‘the last stop on the train’ provides a constant diverse cross section of personalities and views, ready for a social slut like myself to document, and recreate in my own desired way.
My current body of work, is an on-going collection of quick representations of honest stories, throw away comments, and fleeting moments from various disjointed memories, present, past, shared, and personal.
The work tends to mainly sit within the medium of humour, or at least in a variety of. And even though despite sometimes depicting serious subject matters, with sprinklings of blood boiling ignorance, I do believe one of the last things that you can do is lose your ability to laugh, and to take the piss out of yourself. It is one of the last things you can do in life that is still free.
Johnny Hamer.
“I cannt fukin understanz a word dey says, forrin contss!” Oh my, the irony of it all.
Tina Signorelli
The drive for comfort is arguably mankind’s raison d’etre; whether comfort manifests itself in that which is tangible or, more habitually, within the performance of routine.
I am interested in human behaviour - both the collective and the individual.
My work explores the polar aspects of desire; the solace found through that which we know, and the want of the Other - How we take psychological refuge in the familiar and emerge ourselves in a ritual of comfort that often results in obsessive, unhealthy behaviour.
The one is the shadow of the other.
Gerogette King
Artist/ photographer who composes her work with found imagery, creating narratives from disposed photography and tracing the history in relevance. Currently developing an ongoing two year biographical project on the discovered 1920's imagery of her great grandfathers Naval Trip to China, establishing the concept of cultural exchange and the purpose of the trip.
Barry Zee
Not dis-similar to the style of Gustave Corbett “The Meeting (Bonjour Mr. Courbet)” (1854), I endeavour to make the viewer aware of the value of ordinary people. In my work I piece together photographic images of these people at their work or generally going about their daily life.
