One of the secrity guards at liberty park used to work here, he said it was a very surreal part of his life. High Royds was a lunatic asylum from 8 October 1888, which closed down in February 2003.
This promted my flatmates Holly and Vo to do a photography shoot there, as there title for there current project was surrealism and can the camera ever lie. We made a day trip of it, it is located in Menston en route to Bradford. It was easy to get in, there were broken windows so we climbed through one of them. All corridors were deserted, darkly light, yet all in perfect condition - magnificent wallpaper and high rised pattern ceilings and brass plated doors, it almost seemed too precious to have been abandonded.
He's a great artist who makes twisted lo-fi drawings, sculptures and other bits. They're often amusing but can also be dark and difficult. He lives in Glasgow where he went to art school. Although he has worked with various media, most of his work is in the form of mordantly humorous cartoons released in softcover books or postcard packs.
Shrigley's work has two of the characteristics often encountered in outsider art - an odd viewpoint, and (in some of his work) a deliberately limited technique. His freehand line is often weak, which jars with his frequent use of a ruler; his forms are often very crude; and annotations in his drawings are poorly executed and frequently contain crossings-out (In authentic outsider art, the artist has no choice but to produce work in his or her own way, even if that work is unconventional in content and inept in execution. In contrast, it is likely that Shrigley has chosen his style and range of subject matter for comic effect).
Kate Moross – Graphic Designer and Illustrator extraordinaire. Moross is fast becoming one of the most prolific young illustrators and designers to rise out of UK , and shes only 21!!
With a career that began by creating flyers for London clubs and innovative bands such as The Klaxons and The Mystery Jets, Kate's love of art and music has at last developed into a collaboration with fashion through the launch of her capsule collection of printed t-shirts, vests and hoodies designed exclusively for Topshop. Playing on her physics background, Kate's hand-drawn motif prints see structured spatial shapes intertwine with astrophysical typography, and the result; a phychadelic trip on a tee is her current promotion work with Topshop.
Started working for the folks of the music scene in london 3 years ago and has continued from there. She has been perfecting the art of hand drawn flyers, and heavily geometric graphics. she has a very strong right hand for a passion for drawing, her slighty angeled favouring for staright line drawings hold a simple yet bold quality of line.
Moross has recenly also set up her own re-branding recorde label called, Isomorphs Records. It involves her taking current music and repackaging it as limited edition art vinyls or cd's. Focusing on the aesthetics of each record and working with bands to create the perfect collabortaion. For collectors, art and muisc lovers alike.
Postmortum Bliss. In homage to Rebel Without A Cause, Sigismondi recasts Nicholas Ray's portrayal of the turbulence and pain of adolescence in a modern light. Today, institutions and their educators often diagnose these pains and confusions as a mental disorder. Postmortem Bliss is a film about the over-medicated, addicted, and misdiagnosed generation of today. I have always been a huge fan of her work, and she has a very distinstive reconginsable style to go wiht her works. Apart from her art exhibitions, she is best known for directing music videos for The Tea Party, Interpol, Incubus, Christina Aguilera, Muse, Billy Talent, The White Stripes, Sigur Rós, Sheryl Crow, The Cure, Björk, Amon Tobin, Marilyn Manson, Living Things and David Bowie. Her trademark dilating, jittery camerawork, noticeable as early as her video for Manson's The Beautiful People, has been replicated by a great number of directors since. In her childhood she became obsessed by drawing and painting.When she took a photography course, she became obsessed once more, and graduated with a photography major.
Floria Sigismondi started a career as a fashion photographer. She came to directing music videos when she was approached by the production company The Revolver Film Co., and directed music videos for a number of Canadian bands. Her very innovative, but also very disturbing video works, located in sceneries she once described as "entropic underworlds inhabited by tortured souls and omnipotent beings", attracted a number of very prominent musicians. She creates a hyper-surrealism based on the figure, using images derived from hallucinatory dream-states. Her videos mix seamlessly with her photography series, and her photographic images translate naturally into mixed-media forms. Sigismondi's images exist in a theatre setting that is both narrative and starkly visual, revealing the poetic and sometimes macabre world.
She explores the effects of science on our contemporary experience of the body and describes an undefined possibility for the future; with our current advances in biotechnology, it poses a possibility that is frightening, complex, mysterious and compelling.
We were given a day project breif, my question was, 'What is beauty?' and we had to come up with the answer and present it wihtin a photograph by 3.00pm. I wanted to represent the society within we live in current obsession wiht looking good, this lead me onto plastic surgery and what we do, our rituals and time wasting into what we percive, 'looking'.
