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Working in three very different ways they address issues and ideas that they have been exploring, over the past year. Bethan is a sculptor who works in ceramics and who’s work is based around the theme of female sexuality, and ideas projected onto women’s sexuality by society, the media and religion. Lauro is a photographer who questions photography as a form of representation, as photography can witness an event, but it can also create an illusion! Susi is a sculptor/mixed media artist, who’s work looks at the changes that have taken place in London’s Docklands over the past few years, represented through imagery and local finds.
Susi Martin-Taylor
For the past year or so I have been exploring the Docklands, in particular around Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs, as I am interested in how this area has moved on from a close-knit working community to an architectural juggernaut. I feel the past has been virtually obliterated, in the name of commerce, with little or no respect for it’s social history. I wanted to reflect these interests and observations in my work. By using found objects, photography, and ‘industrial’ methods such as welding and casting etc I have created multi-layered structures that reflect the multi-layered complexity of the Docklands and the changes that have taken place there.
Bethan Williams
Women have been indoctrinated for centuries into thinking that their feminine visual image is all important: it is where their value lies yet it is also never good enough. My work is about trying to find relief from this pressure and discover an essence of femaleness that does not apologise for its gender. It is attempting to say “I will not comply with the ideas of femaleness that are thrust upon me by the world; I will not be passive; I am me, an individual and I accept myself as I am.
Lauro Govoni
My photographs play with the ambiguity of being “real” questioning what real might mean. They are digital prints but presented as straight photographs without showing any digital artefacts, leaving the question about its nature open to the viewer.
Instead of being photographs which try to sell an illusion, they are photographs open to be questioned about their form of representation on their own and/or in relation to the images we perceive everyday.
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