Artists
Grey Area works closely with artists, inviting them to come up with ideas especially suitable for development and production as a short run multiple. The development of the works is driven primarily by the artist. Through conversation with the artist and testing of materials and processes we focus in on the possibilities of the idea and how it can be best conveyed given the array of technology available.
Guy Allott
Lives and works in London.
Guy has worked with Grey Area to create a sculptural edition featuring Allott's trade-mark spaceship in a hand made case. Beautifully produced in an edition of 25, 'Across the Universe' is engaged in an unclear world of contradictions. It is both animal and mechanical, it looks at a future that might be and harks back to various pasts, both fondly and with trepidation. Guy has a also produced a new portfolio of prints and a new work cast in bronze which will be available in 2009.
Katie Goodwin
Lives and works in London.
Katie is a London based British-Australian artist and has exhibited in the UK and internationally. She been selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011 and is the the winner of Wimbledon's Jealous Print prize residency 2011. She has just completed a Masters in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art and a BA at Goldsmiths College, both in London.
Matt Calderwood
Lives and works in London.
Matt is working with Grey Area to develop a sculptural edition of stackable, tessellating dark rubber blocks. Like building blocks for adults Calderwood's rigorous thinking process starts with investigation into unpredictable areas and always results in uncompromising, unexpected, completely consistent artworks where every element of the work is relevant, where every element has it?s purpose are a subtle trademark and in this work it could not be more true.
Nick Laessing
Lives and works in Berlin.
An artist with an insatiable desire to research and refine the communal principals of antiquated and advanced technologies. His work includes a series of prints relating to the continual development and refinement of the Free Energy Machine, a technology that might just offer the possibility of endless, clean energy. These beautiful and intriguing machines offer a satisfying sculptural aesthetic driven by a functional necessity that remains quintessentially art.
Richard Galpin
Lives and works in London.
Richard Galpin turns his usual creative process on its head by obscuring the original photograph with a carefully refined computer-cut vinyl mask in this edition for Grey Area. This creates an intriguing interplay between the high gloss surface of the underlying photograph and the sharp, mechanical, semi-matt quality of the mask. There are two surfaces at work, fighting for prevalence.
Samuel Levack & Jennifer Lewandowski
Live and work in London.
Grey Area present two edition works from Levack and Lewandowski. Transformation #1 offers an assemblage of iconic elements from Blade Runner, including stark neon, fractured glass, stuffed replicant animals, exquisite corpses, a collision of eastern ephemera, and clunky technology. Transformation #2 features a series of works relating to the imagery and mood of the film The Big Blue, conjuring up a nostalgia for a non-existent, fictional past.
See artworks by Samuel Levack & Jennifer Lewandowski
Simon Ripoll-Hurier
Lives and works in Paris.
Simon has created a series of 6 new edition digital prints which play with ideas of representation and perception of big brand subtlety. The infectious background presence of major movie studios' role in our lives and the indelible power of the theme tune. In this series Ripoll-Hurier translates the signature tunes of the 6 major studios into brutalist skylines by simplifying their waveform and placing it in front a romantic if slightly ludicrous graduated sunset.