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'Bootylicious' has been chosen for the Emerald Winter Pride Art Awards

Simon Tarrant, Director of the Emerald Winter Pride Art Awards said, "Winter Pride's latest art competition was inspired by the 50th anniversary celebrations of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act that decriminalised homosexuality. Responding to our theme, Beyond the Binaries, we received over 700 entries from around the world and 17 Finalists have been selected. Artists have really risen to the challenge to create work that stimulates dialogue about modern day issues - not just of gender, identity and sexuality - but of race, religion and politics. The resulting exhibition is both profound and thought provoking, a show not to be missed."

Held in conjunction with The House of St Barnabas' not-for-profit visual arts programme The Collective, proceeds from the sales of all artwork goes towards The House of St Barnabas' Employment Academy, supporting people affected by homelessness into lasting paid work.

The exhibition runs from 26 January - 6 June at The House of St Barnabas. To visit please book on to their monthly art tour: http://bitly.com/HoSBTickets

A touring exhibition of the 2018 Winter Pride Art Awards will take place from 9 June to 30 July at Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight in partnership with Isle of Wight Pride, who recently won the bid to host UK Pride 2018

Finalist, Emerald Winter Pride Awards, House of St. Barnabas

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VOICE

Westminster Reference Library, St. Martins Street London WC2H 7HP

October 24-28.
Opening: Tuesday October 24, 6-8 PM

Artist Talk and Closing Event: Saturday, October 28, 2-4 PM

On the net four young gay men talk about the difficult terrain they have crossed to get to this point, sharing their struggles with school, bullying, racism, loneliness and prejudice, turning over current questions of identity and gender politics, the bonds and betrayals of friendship and their first thrilling, disappointing and troubling experiences of love. Over a year of broadcasts and Instagram streams and intense and supportive friendship, they experiment with multiple self-images and potential future trajectories, broadcasting in the process to a large online following.

Voice: Solo Exhibition, London 2017

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I am delighted to announnce that Min-Wei Ting and I will be showing a new collaborative film at Sheffield Instiute of the Arts, as part of 'In the Open', a multi-disciplinary exhibition held over several venues, opening on September 6 2017.

For this proposal we shall visit Bukit Brown, the ancient Chinese cemetery in Singapore, collaborating as painter and filmmaker, Singaporean and British. A new relief road has been carved through the rain forest, its non-traversable cutting cleaving in two the former cemetery’s sectors. Entering any rainforest space in Singapore is always to cross a boundary, to abruptly slip out of a cityscape that has been constructed on human exceptionalism into a world in which that exceptionalism is disrupted.

Exhibition website:

https://asleukiland2017.com/

Film Collaboration with Min-Wei Ting

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'Atlantis', shown in 'Antennae', Lubimorov/Angus-Hughes, London May 2017

Antennae, Lubimorov/Angus-Hughes

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Multi-image Projection on St Mary's Church, Walthamstow, London. December 2016.


Muhammed Sankari, a gay Syrian refugee went missing from the temporary home in Istanbul which he shared with friends. His body was found two days later; he had been killed in an act of extreme violence.

Refugee Project: Muhammed Sankari

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Recent major paintings from the series 'Stranger' , exhibited in 'Unnatural Histories' at the Sun Pier Gallery, Chatham, in October 2016

Unnatural Histories

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The second stage of DEM Project's trans-national exhibition 'Ghost on the Wire' was shown at Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore, August 18-September 4 2016. 'Ghost on the Wire #2' attracted 1,400 visitors during the exhibition run. An artist talk held in the gallery space featured many of the participating artists. GOTW#2 was made possible with the generous support of the National Arts Council of Singapore, the partnership of Objectifs, and with additional sponsorship from the Austrian Embassy and from Canon Singapore.

Project website: http://wireghosts.wordpress.com

 

Myself Coming The Other Way

Oil on Canvas, 2016

Ghost on the Wire #2

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October 2015. Mysterious Objects at Noon', first shown at Objectifs, Singapore, exhibited at ArtLacuna London.

Stills from LHRSIN collaborative split-screen film with Min-Wei Ting, 2015

Mysterious Objects at Noon, ArtLacuna, London

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DEN-City1 is a temporary utopian city of installations, dens and assemblages addressing the theme of Work in Progress. DEN - City1 will be mushrooming on a prime piece of land by the Olympic site, in response to the London Festival of Architecture.

Curated by Rebecca Feiner

Featuring art, talks, workshops, to poetry, performance and Opening Night events

Opening Event: Friday June 26 2015,- 6-9pm.

Exhibition: Saturday June 27, 2-9pm to Sunday June 29, 1-4pm

Forman's Fish Island Riviera

H.Forman & Son, Stour Road, E3 2NT London, United Kingdom

DEN-City, London, 2015

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What happens when  artists work collaboratively? – what changes in their practice and in their ways of thinking about making art? Ten artists, five from Singapore and five from the United Kingdom have joined together to  create five duo projects, in a 21st Century remake of the Surrealists’ game of  ‘Exquisite Corpse’. The films, performance, text, photo-montage and installations that have come from these collaborations will be shown at the  Objectifs Gallery in Singapore, March 10 – 17 2015.

While some of the  pairs knew each other before the start of the project, others are meeting for the first time –  and some of these may never even meet face to face. All of the five collaborations have this element in common: they have all been devised and predominantly created in virtual reality – by Skype, email, IM messaging or video file sharing, produced in separate rooms and studios across cities and continents.

‘Mysterious Objects at Noon’ has been made possible with the generous support of the National Arts Council, Singapore.  It runs in conjunction with the GREAT British Week Singapore (7-14 March 2015) hosted by the British High Commission and British Council Singapore.

We are grateful to Objectifs for all their help in staging the exhibition. The show will travel to ArtLacuna, London, in October 2015.

Mysterious Objects at Noon Team:

Suzanne De Emmony & Gavin Maughfling, DEM Projects,United Kingdom.  Project Curators.

May Leong, Singapore. Project Co-ordinator.

Website: https://mysteriousobjectatnoon.wordpress.com

Mysterious Object at Noon, Objectifs, Singapore 2015

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Short film 'Loitering' (https://vimeo.com/110193105), painting and text for 'Over Time', curated by Anne Robinson, University of Greenwich, September 2014

Over imearThe Over Time Art roject

OVER TIME.

Over Time  is a visual arts project about time passing, curated by Anne Robinson. There are ten artists taking part, working across a range of media including painting, film, performance and animation.   Each one will make a response to spending precisely the same fixed amount of ‘clock time‘ in specific stretch of the Thames foreshore around Enderby’s Wharf, during the weeks and months leading into the exhibition/performance period. The work derived from time spent in this historically resonant and atmospheric riverside space will result in a weekend of activities: 13th and 14th September, 2014 and an exhibition at the University of Greenwich 18th September to 16th October There will also be a day of performance and film works at the National Maritime Museum on Sunday 26th October. All of the invited artists are already engaged in some way in working with aspects of temporality, such as perception, elasticity, affect, politics, recording and value.

The space on the foreshore is particularly important to the project because of the richness of the layers of time visible there – the current rapidly changing landscape, the natural markers, the tides and the bend of the river and the industrial heritage and history, including the site where the first underwater telegraph cables were laid. We are also working with local contacts to set up workshops responding directly to this environment in light of imminent changes. The project is being developed in collaboration with Ian Thompson, sound artist based at the University of Greenwich and The Facility Creative Practice as Research group at London Met University. The other confirmed artists are: Ella Finer, Rachel Gomme, Ian Thompson, Claudia Firth, Charlie Fox, Sarah Sparkes, Victoria Gray, Katharine Fry and Gavin Maughling, Jo David and Birgitta Hosea all of whom have outstanding  reputations in their various fields, including performance digital animation, dance and sound and  have been involved in arts projects of international standing. Please use the Contact link above if you have any queries about the project.
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Over Time, London 2014

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Curation, in collaboration with Suzanne De Emmony and with the support of the National Arts Council of Singapore and the Bermondsey Project Space and the participation of twenty-two artists from the United Kingdom, Singapore and Belgium:

 

Ghost on the Wire

Bermondsey Project Space

46 Willow Walk,
London.
SE1 5SF

Private View: Thursday June 12, 6.30 – 10 PM

Opening Hours: Friday June 13-Sunday June 15, 10 - 7 PM

How do we talk to each other when our communication is mediated by language and technology across time and space? In this exhibition twenty-two established and up-and-coming artists from the United Kingdom and Singapore address this theme with diverse and exhilarating responses.

Works range from Eleanor Moreton’s I Narcissus, her re-interpretation of the Greek myth of Echo and Narcissus and Dan Hays’s painting of his Colorado doppelganger to Tania De Rozario and Lynn Lu’s two-room installation Fuse with myriad grazing silkworms.

In her haunting film Fragments on Machines Emma Charles observes the evolution of New York’s architecture to accommodate the matconnectors that comprise the physical manifestation of the “virtual” world. Natalie Dawkins uses humour in works exploring the ways in which we control - and are controlled by - social media. Min-Wei Ting’s elegiac work You’re Dead To Me communes with the tropical forests and ancient tombs of Singapore’s Bukit Brown cemetery, a location further explored in Zai Tang and Simon Ball's animated soundscape composition Exploit.

In Love, Piracy Manu Luksch invites visitors to collaborate in an act of undermining censorship, while Sarah Choo’s film Hidden Dimension explores moments of solitude within contemporary family life, and Debbie Ding’s gentle sculptural work Lint reflects on intimacy and traces in a long-distance relationship.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a full colour catalogue. On the evening of Saturday June 14th at  the gallery will also host ‘Broken Telephone’, a celebration of contemporary Singaporean and British writing and poetry presented by Singapore writer and artist Tania De Rozario, with invited guest writers.

Ghost of the Wire is an immersive and richly textured show which asks us to think again about our public and private modes of communication in the modern age.

Full exhibition details are at

http://wireghosts.wordpress.com/

https://www.facebook.com/WireGhosts

http://bermondseyproject.com/

Ghost on the Wire is curated by DEM Projects (Gavin Maughfling and Suzanne De Emmony) with the support of the National Arts Council of Singapore. 

Ghost on the Wire, London-Singapore 2014

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'Sam' selected for Ruskin Shorts 2013. https://vimeo.com/44971969

 

Short film 'Sam' seleced for Ruskin Shorts, shown at Modern Art Oxford, February 2013. The selection panel included Elizabeth Price, Turner prize winner 2013, Emily Korchmaros, Curator at Modern Art Oxford, and Gil Leung, LUX.

Modern Art Oxford, February 2013

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Two paintings from the Singapore HDB series in Part 1 of 'Cities: All Dimensions' at the Tokarska Gallery, London.The exhibition runs from February 14 - 24.

Cities: All Dimensions, London 2013

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Two large canvasses, 'Kirkdale' and 'North' loaned to the Westminster offfice of the Leader of the Opposition, the Right Honourable Ed Milliband MP.

Works on Display