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Art Success: Adelaide Damoah in Conversation with Le Guo

Art Success: Adelaide Damoah in conversation with Le Guo
London-based artist Le Guo has been living in England for the past twenty years and has since presented his art at important venues such as Barbican Centre, Sotheby’s Institute of Art and The British Museum. His abstract paintings reveal influences by both Western Expressionism and Surrealism as well as a profound understanding of ancient Eastern philosophies, like Taoism. Le Guo’s art does not aim to fix a precise concept, and nor does it intend to provide the viewer with a final image. On the contrary his creations present a multitude of shapes, in which mutability permeates the canvas and continuously originates new forms and possibilities.

Le Guo employs oil, acrylic and ink on canvas or paper. His work presents a continuous dialogue between outward forces and inward impulses, perceived by the artist as energy of nature and human spirit. Through dynamic penetrations of light and interplays of colours, his paintings oscillate between prismatic fragmentations and vibrant brushstrokes. The paint textures created may be sensuous or plain, coarse or smooth, even or inconsistent. Evoking a sense of dynamism, once portrayed by Umberto Boccioni, and gestural movements reminiscent of Hans Hartung, Le Guo’s artwork skilfully captures a modern perception of motion through spontaneous yet rhythmic gestures.

Creating a visual resonance while preserving their own artistic identity, the Gao Brothers’ and Le Guo’s creations convey a fresh quality of sensuality, celebrating new harmonies expanding towards a dynamic rhythm of balanced energies.

Original text by: Dagmar Carnevale Lavezzoli, Contemporary Chinese Art Specialist. http://www.hua-gallery.com/artist_leg…

Le Guo works at Second Floor Studios in Woolwich. You can visit his studio and see first hand her work in progress, as well as some of the work whown in this video, during the Open Studio event this year. The event runs from the 2nd to the 5th of June 2016 and all are welcome. Le’s studio is on the top floor of Unit 7, studio number 212. Come and visit!

Learn more about Le Guo’s work here: http://www.hua-gallery.com/artist_leg…

Please click the link below for more information on this years Open Studio event.
http://www.secondfloor.co.uk/open-stu…

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About the interviewer: Adelaide Damoah

My name is Adelaide Damoah and I am an artist. I also have a studio at Second Floor in London. I make figurative oil paintings and am currently exploring story telling using figures with text on the painting surface.

The Art Success series of interviews started off in 2011 with written interviews for my blog. I started this project because coming from a science/business background, I had to rethink what success looked like to me and wanted to figure out what it took to become that in this unique business. In talking to other artists in this way on camera, I hope to pass on useful information to other artists and art lovers. Fellow artists can watch and learn from their contemporaries and art lovers can discover new artists and art. Of course, there is the added benefit of promoting my colleagues to new audiences.

Please subscribe to stay up to date with interviews and my art Vlogs.

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Art Success: Adelaide Damoah in Conversation with Laura Hudson

Art Success: Adelaide Damoah in conversation with Laura Hudson

Laura Hudson. Artist, curator and filmmaker.

Born in Darlington County Durham; as a child Laura was moved around Northern England and lived in Yorkshire, Merseyside, Cheshire and Northumberland before settling in Scotland at the age of 13.

Hudson studied Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art 1983-84, Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art 1985-89, and post graduate film-making at St Martins School of Art 1991-92. Whilst still a student Hudson was a member of the Women in Profile collective and co-produced the HerTake International Women’s Film Festival and the Photoworks site-specific show for European City of Culture in 1990 Glasgow. In 1991 she was awarded a travel scholarship to study experimental film in Eastern Europe and her interest in film developed into a career curating and promoting artist film and political media. She was a founding member of the Exploding Cinema Collective in 1991, cinema programmer at the London Film Maker’s Co-op from 1992-1996, manager for Cinenova Feminist Film Distribution 1997-2000 and project manager for ArtsOnline at the Arts Council of England 2001-2003.

From 2004-2012 Hudson stepped away from the art world to work on the land in the remote mountains of the French Cévennes where she put into practice her concerns about food security and the commercial patenting of plant life by producing open pollinated seeds for edible plants see blog: https://kitchengardennotebook.wordpress.com/

2012 saw a return to England and to her art practice, initially based in Devon before returning to London in 2016. Her early work spans light installation, film, interventions and site-specific works while in her more recent work she is exploring the interconnections between time-based media and the traditional fine arts. Visiting Artist 2015 and Tutor-Collaborative Practice 2016 at Plymouth College of Art, she now works at Second Floor Studios and Arts, Woolwich London.

Laura Hudson works at Second Floor Studios in Woolwich. You can visit her studio and see first hand her work in progress, as well as some of the work mentioned in this video, during the Open Studio event this year. The event runs from the 2nd to the 5th of June 2016 and all are welcome. Laura’s studio is on the top floor of the Telegraph building. Come and visit!

Visit Laura’s website here: http://www.laurahudson.co.uk/

Please click the link below for more information on this years event.
http://www.secondfloor.co.uk/open-studios/default.html

Share this video: https://youtu.be/-oJatxnuhYE

About the interviewer: Adelaide Damoah

My name is Adelaide Damoah and I am an artist. I also have a studio at Second Floor in London. I make figurative oil paintings and am currently exploring story telling using figures with text on the painting surface.

The Art Success series of interviews started off in 2011 with written interviews for my blog. I started this project because coming from a science/business background, I had to rethink what success looked like to me and wanted to figure out what it took to become that in this unique business. In talking to other artists in this way on camera, I hope to pass on useful information to other artists and art lovers. Fellow artists can watch and learn from their contemporaries and art lovers can discover new artists and art. Of course, there is the added benefit of promoting my colleagues to new audiences.
Please subscribe to stay up to date with interviews and my art Vlogs.

Follow my other social channels:
Instagram: http://instagram.com/adelaidedamoah
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AdelaideDamoahArtist
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdelaideDamoah

My website is: http://adelaidedamoahart.com/

Thanks very much for your support!

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Art Success: Adelaide Damoah in Conversation with Rachel Ara

 

Art Success: Adelaide Damoah in conversation with Rachel Ara.

Rachel Ara is a Conceptual and Data artist. She gained her BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London where she won the prestigious Burston award for painting. In 2016 she won the International Aesthetica art prize for her digital sculpture “This Much I’m Worth” . She currently lives and works in London.

She has had a successful 25 year career as computer systems designer and is also a trained cabinetmaker. In 2013 she started her professional art practice.

Rachel combines her manual skills with her programming and analytical ones to create nonconformist artworks with a socio-political edge that often incorporates humor and irony.

Her most recent work is a self-evaluating artwork using complex algorithms to calculate its own value. A four dimensional piece, constructed in neon, cathode tubes, sensors and circuit boards that communicate information back and forth to the Internet. Other recent works include CAD drawings inspired by scenes of gender based violence, D.O.A.M III shown at the Royal West Academy.

In the early stages of her career she has already been picked up for major art shows and has exhibited Internationally.

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Rachel Ara works at Second Floor Studios in Woolwich and is currently focusing on building a significant portfolio of work. You can visit her studio and see first hand her work in progress, as well as some of the work mentioned in this video, during the Open Studio event this year. The event runs from the 2nd to the 5th of June 2016 and all are welcome. Rachel’s studio is in Unit 5 and is studio number 105. Come and visit!

Visit Rachels website here: http://www.2ra.co/

Please click the link below for more information on this years event.
http://www.secondfloor.co.uk/open-studios/default.html

About me:
I am an artist and I also have a studio at Second Floor. I make figuritive oil paintings and am currently exploring story telling using figures and text on the painting surface.

The Art Success series of interviews started off in 2011 with written interviews for my blog. I started this project because coming from a science/business background, I had to rethink what success looked like to me and wanted to figure out what it took to become that in this unique business. In talking to other artists in this way on camera, I hope to pass on useful information to other artists and art lovers. Fellow artists can watch and learn from their contemporaries and art lovers can discover new art. Of course, there is the added benefit of promoting my colleagues to new audiences.
Please subscribe to stay up to date with interviews and my art Vlogs.
Follow my other social channels:
Instagram: http://instagram.com/adelaidedamoah
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AdelaideDamoahArtist
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdelaideDamoah

My website is: http://adelaidedamoahart.com/

Thanks very much for your support!

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This is Us. Exhibition. 4th and 5th November 2015

 

 

 

 

 

This is Us…

Adelaide Damoah.

4th and 5th November 2015 12 till 7pm daily.

Preview: Tuesday 3rd November 6 -9pm

“This is Us,” explores the movement of two females in an emotionally intense dance, telling a passionate story of love and heartbreak. Damoah uses text directly on the work to explain the story of the models, as well as her personal stories about love.

Combined with text taken directly from various literary works, Damoah hopes to provoke discussion which is outside of the generally accepted “norm,” when it comes to female sexuality and identification.

With special thanks to models and professional dancers Rachel Sparks and Marie Eisenhardt who are featured in the work.

The music- which was the inspiration for the title of the show, and the dance itself, will be performed at the opening reception by Yvonne Mathieu.

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