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Grid No. 3

Marina Visic (CRO)

Based in Netherlands, Visic works within an ambivalence between the sensate world and
formal minimalism. With an obsession for geometric pattern and modern architecture, her
painted, drawn and photographic works evoke an undulating relativity between what is felt
and measured in the world.

Untitled (Forest)

Mark McCullough (UK)

Based in London, McCullough's practice revolves around the exploitative possibilities
of photographic processes. Using sculpture in conjunction with his pursuit to "exaggerate
the flattening qualities inherent in photography", McCullough looks to bring the notion
of the 'photograhic object' into question.

Pukatja

Amanda Brown (AUS)

Based in Western Australia, Brown uses a variety of photographic media to explore the identities

of the environments she encounters by travelling to remote communities such as 'Pukatja' which

borders South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Green Grass

Kate Hill (AUS)

Currently based in Melbourne, Hill's works are a fresh take on traditional print processes.

She was recently awarded a Highly Commended prize at the Port Jackson Australia

Graduate Print Award 2011.

Connected

Benjamin Fox (UK)

Working across sculpture, video, photography and animation, Fox's practice has a distinctly
theatrical sensibility. Based in London, Fox uses this collage of elements to explore the
adaptation of humans in urban environments

Kuna Yala Climate Change Refugees (Panama 2010)

Francesco Vicenzi (ITA)

Currently based in Melbourne, Vicenzi's works are as far reaching as the travel he undertakes
to capture his subjects. With a strong sensibility for the ever-changing world, it is Vicenzi's political
and cultural snapshots that seize a particularly arresting candor in his subjects.

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I Just Like It Here

Todd Anderson-Kunert (AUS)

Based in Melbourne, Anderson-Kunert employs photography and sound as he explores
the dynamics of human interaction, states of mind and how this manifests psychologically
within intimate relationships.

Lacuna Series 3

Wendy Tuxill (UK)

Tuxill's practice stems from her fluid investigation into the material possibilities of porcelain

through process led sculptural drawings. With expressive, ordered and chaotic linear qualities,

Tuxill's works emphasise the inherent ephemeral nature of liquid porcelain.

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Untitled (Fruit)

Gemma Pardo (ESP)

Pardo uses video and photography to explore locations where human intervention and natural

cycles coincide, transforming and revealing their intricacies over time. Based in London, Pardo's

captivating work has been emerging internationally following her selection for the

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007.

Captive, Impossible

Adam Kite (UK)

Drawing on elements of euclidean space and geometry, Kite's work investigates the ways that sight
as a projected phenomenon can influence the viewers perception. Using projection and photography,
Kite's works create an illusive blur between perceived space and tactile object, encouraging
the viewer to construct the spaces they encounter.

Innocence

Isabel Infantes (ESP)

Based in London with a professional background in photography, Infantes searches everyday
scenes for the figures and moments that go undetected in chaotic urban environments.

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" L"

Claire Barrett (UK)

With a recurring curiosity in how the natural world is structured by elements of limitation and the sublime,
Barrett creates landscapes that offer alternative spatial encounters.

borderland ii

Clyde McGill (AUS)

McGill is an interdisciplinary artist whose art comprises performance, video, drawing,

photography, print, installation and artist books. His current interests include borders,

politics, film, loss, writing, inside/outside, self portraiture,

conversation, and language.

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Ink and Paper 1, 2, 3

Heidi Kozar (AUS)

A recent graduate from the Victorian College of Arts in Melbourne, Kozar's practice

is a subtle assertion of aquatint and woodblock print processes.

Forms to Freedom

Craig Burgess (AUS)

Burgess works across disciplines such as photography, drawing and painting to
investigate "dualism, division and frontiers." Based in Melbourne, his practice develops
from an interest in exploring ideas that transcend form.

Untitled 01

Sam Still (USA)

Oscillating between dark/light, figure/ground, and negative/positive space,

Still's large scale works invite viewers to linger. "Are these empty vessels,

or spatial voids that contain one strange object?"- Sam Still

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Dreaming Bee 2

Megan Evans (AUS)

Based in Melbourne Australia, Evans utilises photography, video and installation to create

luminous work that examines the nature of community dynamics and social change.

Artery Heart Bypass, Taupo 2010 (Top), Raycroft Intervention Christchurch 2009 (Above)

James Voller (NZ)

Based in Wellington, New Zealand, Voller works with photography and site specific
installation to investigate notions of 'place' within the changing psyche of the New Zealanders.

Where and how does 'home' exist in transitory urban spaces?

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0123 (from Museum of Contemporary Rubbish exhibition)

Alice Bradshaw (UK)

Bradshaw uses a variety of working processes to manipulate everyday objects
and materials. Her works accentuates the subtleties of mass-produced and anonymous
objects, rendering them simultaneously mundane and absurd.

Immortalizing the famous friends: Berlin

Patricia Pisanelli (BRA)

"I like the idea of a square comprising a circle and a group of small rectangles where people put their clothes in.
I also like the idea of a person swimming in a purple, jelly-like liquid that could smell of flowers and sugar,
which is just another photo on some product on the shelf of the off-license.
One thing emerges from another that relates to that other that had nothing to do with it."
- Patricia Pisanelli

The Race

Ruth Pringle (UK)

Pringle is an interdisciplinary, conceptual artist with a eclectic practice linked to her ability
to create extraordinary scenes from ordinary objects. Currently based in France, she
integrates works inspired by place, community and history into public areas.

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Week Two

Bad Tourist

Huw Andrews (UK)

"I am a stout and confident seagull from Sausalito, my name is Bad Tourist. I

misbehave when people eat ice cream or take photos of San Francisco Bay.

My personal photographer, Huw Andrews, has sent me on this adventure to

reward and share my brilliance." - Huw Andrews 2011

Keep Still

Hester Jones (UK)

Based in London, Jones’ beautifully composed works are an elegant and moving
"investigation into representations of feminine and culturally constructed gendered identities".


Vent Jessica Hoad (UK) Hoad uses everyday found objects to create large scale experiential installations explore the notion of "what happens to us shapes us". Based in South West England, more of Hoad's work can be viewed on the Saatchi Gallery website. More Info

Synapse 3

Caroline Jane Harris (UK)

Harris' compelling prints are equally haunting and beautiful. Based in

London, Harris uses stunning craft and complex precision to create surreal and fractured illusions.

Kelvinator...

Brendan McCumstie (AUS)

Based in New South Wales, Australia McCumstie's humorous works
explore notions of memory, history and gender politics. Working across sculpture, collage,
installation and photography, McCumstie creates fun, articulate and fascinating work.

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Please Mind the Gap Peak Time Commute

Bethany Milam (UK)

Bethany Milam is an Interdisciplinary Fine Artist, based in Hampshire, UK.

Milam's work addresses the divide between reality and imagination through the
creation of fictional worlds or the transformation of the ‘ordinary’.

Life After Zog

Chiara Tocci (ITA)

Chiara Tocci's photographic practice explores the fragile nature

of cultural difference and identity. Travelling widely to engage

with her subjects, Tocci is currently based in London.


Tesco Value Plain Flour Sarah Barrett (UK) Barrett romantically engages the aesthetics of the everyday. A celebration of thrift, DIY and lo-fi culture, Barrett's work delightfully unpicks the popular values of consumer societies. More Info

I am Alive

Thomas Heidt (AUS)

Born in Germany, Heidt is an Australian based visual artist. Heidt's works

utilise the potential of materials to explore the relationship between scientific processes,

repetitive form and emotional and rational methods of construction.

Masked

Gavin Campbell (UK)

Based in Northern Ireland, Campbell is an interdisciplinary artist whose work

is influenced by issues of border/boundaries, space/place and identity. He addresses

the political and social aspects of identity, contested land and conflicted spaces.

OPEN CALL postcard exhibition

The Trans-Siberian Arts Centre OPEN CALL postcard exhibition submissions have now closed. Woop!

We've had an incredible response from over 180 international artists from Spain to Australia to Cypus to the UK to Russia to France and many more!

All 180 postcards will now be shown across 3 countries to an international audience at the Trans-Siberian Arts Centre as they travel along the Trans-Siberian train route from Moscow to Beijing in April 2011.

Big ups to all the artists who submitted!

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