Blog Archives - Kollektiv Gallery

Michael Whelan

April 12, 2019 | Blog, Event, Lokal Stories, Picture interview, Press Release, Reviews, Uncategorized

Primarily I am interested in collective behavioural patterns, and the impact that innovations have on our planet and societies within it.

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Jacintha Philip

March 28, 2017 | Blog, Event, Lokal Stories, Picture interview, Press Release, Reviews, Uncategorized

This series of collages is a play between monoprints and photographs exploring transparency in architecture as well as negative space.

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Laura Duffy

July 20, 2016 | Blog, Event, Lokal Stories, Picture interview, Press Release, Reviews, Uncategorized

A visceral sickness is created by the heightened fake-ness and artificiality of the work, becoming toxic and potentially damaging to our organic form which is the human body. Underpinning Laura’s work is a reminder to the viewer of our primitive humanness and inescapable shared mortality.

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Tom Lester

March 29, 2016 | Blog, Event, Lokal Stories, Picture interview, Press Release, Reviews, Uncategorized

I've been drawing for years, but I've recently started to take drawing a tad more seriously. My art consists of pen and ink drawings and is usually inspired loosely by my dark taste in music and film; but also just based on my childish imagination.

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Ralph Solly

October 22, 2015 | Blog, Event, Lokal Stories, Picture interview, Press Release, Reviews, Uncategorized

Ralph Solly is a UK based graphic designer and illustrator, he tells Kollektiv: "The picture interview was very challenging, so my process of coming up with ideas took a lot of work and research with preliminary sketches to start with. I use mixed mediums, with combination of illustration, photocopying, painting, Photoshop and Illustrator. I’m proud of my family history, so some of this was a ‘base’ for inspiration for creating my visual responses. I constantly surround myself with inspiration with a huge variety of vinyl / art / design / typography / architecture, books etc. I’ve never classed myself as a ‘proper creative’, as I studied graphic design and illustration, so I’ve never felt I fitted into one box."

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Roshan Adhihetty

July 3, 2015 | Blog, Event, Lokal Stories, Picture interview, Press Release, Reviews, Uncategorized

Nude, NSFW, Mountains, woods, men, naked, nudists, risky, playful, funny. hmour, photography, art, photographer, woman, age, young, old, ginger, shapes, regular, Sweden, travelling

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Shannon Novak

March 28, 2019 | Blog, Event, Lokal Stories, Picture interview, Press Release, Reviews, Uncategorized

Shannon Novak uses geometric forms to render his understanding of the plurality and tensions of gay desire, muddy and morph, purity and idealism.

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Violet Blyth

March 20, 2017 | Blog, Event, Lokal Stories, Picture interview, Press Release, Reviews, Uncategorized

Violet primarily works with moving image and installation to explore our mediation of reality. By isolating insignificant incidents she plays with possibilities of missed or forgotten connections, questioning the relevance of linear narratives.

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Hannah Beattie

July 12, 2016 | Blog, Event, Lokal Stories, Picture interview, Press Release, Reviews, Uncategorized

Beauty, intimacy, pain and sensation.

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Hana Pera Aoake

March 22, 2016 | Blog, Event, Lokal Stories, Picture interview, Press Release, Reviews, Uncategorized

Hana Pera Aoake is an artist, writer and curator based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa who primarily works within the Fresh and Fruity collective. Her work explores female pain, digitality, social class, mental illness, sex work, colonisation, aliens, cyborgs, and humour. Hana used to make lots of performance, video and photographic work, but is now quite jaded and prefers instead to take lots of screenshots of alien sightings, cyborgs like Kim Kardashian and sharks. She also writes about her feelings online through twitter and google docs.

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