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NON PLACE COLLECTIVE is an ever-expanding group of artists, individually responding to the place of transience whilst retaining the authorship of a collective. Our collective's rationale is to invite artists to individually respond to the spaces that Marc Augé called non-places such as transient spaces or anonymous environments.The aim is to take ownership of where and how artists exhibit their work. Instead of relying on the traditional gallery routes, we offer an opportunity to work in non-place locations. Curating the space though a collaborative approach, gives the participants the confidence to think about places that are appropriate for their work. Artists who face challenges of how and where they can exhibit, have the support of the collective. Collaboration encourages inclusivity whilst celebrating uniqueness.
Non Place Collective was founded in Cardiff by Julie Lane, Lisa Sanders, Robert Oros, Marina Iodice in 2019.
Andrea Isa \ Dusseldorf
Andrea Isa was born in Germany. She Lived in israel for 10 years, where she joined the Arab Jewish Theatre “Layla Akher” and exhibited in different places. She is currently based in Duesseldorf, where she is an active member and curator of the artists ́ cooperative gallery “plan.d.”
江峰 Jiang Feng \ Taipei
江峰 Jiang Feng is a non-gendered contemporary Taoist and multi-disciplinary artist working across genres in movement/dance, theatre, performance art, voice, text, modeling, film, photography, theory, pedagogy, and criticism. They are now pursuing an M.A. in Cross-Disciplinary Corporeal Theories and Practice.
Luis Tapia Munoz \ London
My art practice consists of mixed-media installation, looking at themes of semiotics and the everyday. The idea of a non-place appeals as it can be used to communicate a state of transience, of existing in between two positions, not firmly in either. The overarching metaphor of existing between two states is a subject I’m closely engaged with.
Julie Lane [Co-Founder] \ Merthyr Tydfil
Julie Lane's practice is concerned with exploring the ambiguity of figuration through the process of painting. Her gestural mark making encourages the audience to unravel motifs; evoking a common understanding of what could be a familiar experience.
Mousa AlNana \ Glasgow
Mousa AlNana is a Syrian artist working predominantly between painting and printmaking. AlNana uses compositions of figures and spaces, taking from his own personal experiences to talk about issues and emotions to which we all can relate. He is also a participatory artist working with different communities and groups.
David Dixon \ Chipping Sodbury
David paints in oils and sculpts with reinforced epoxy. He explores the interplay between the deliberate and the serendipitous. He has a background in the physical sciences, particularly in the characterisation of surfaces and interfaces and this experience of observing a normally-hidden world informs his work as an artist.
Mez Kerr Jones \ London
Mez’s practice explores personal and communal feelings about place; how places are represented, geographical identity, changes within environments, memory and experience, and aims to understand the relationships formed between a place and its inhabitants. In this way her site-specific and site-responsive works consider not only a place, but a social and political context.
Gusty Ferro \ London
A multimedia artist interested in the relationship between the body and architecture, Gusty researches the materiality of objects and their presence in the public space. Through a process of experimentation with materials Gusty develops drawings, sculptures and site responsive installations that explore desire, tactility and intimacy.
Lisa Sanders [Co-Founder] \ Cardiff
Lisa Sanders' work explores themes of displacement and the failings of socio-political class systems, through placing authorship on everyday situations created directly (or indirectly) by the public. Sanders has a fascination with accumulations of stuff, mostly that of failed objects.
Tiff Oben \ Cardiff
As an artist Tiff Oben is fickle and suffering from an identity crisis, incapable of
settling on any single media, never seeing things through until the end, swerving
treacherously between the traditional and the contemporary. The only constant is the response to philosophical discourse and a heart-wrenched critique of our powerlessness to affect the way in which this shitty world is run.
settling on any single media, never seeing things through until the end, swerving
treacherously between the traditional and the contemporary. The only constant is the response to philosophical discourse and a heart-wrenched critique of our powerlessness to affect the way in which this shitty world is run.
Robert Oros [Co-Founder] \ Cardiff
Robert Oros (b. Romania, 1993) is a photographer/video artist based in Wales. Working predominately with analogue photography and archival materials, Robert’s practice engages in different subjects such as post-soviet identity; the clash between private and public; ways of documenting and presenting fictions and realities.
Jeremy Gluck \ Swansea
Jeremy Gluck is a neurodiverse digital, performance, and installation artist who mainly works with contemporary strategies. By rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives, Gluck creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art often collides with ambiguity and concealment.
Ivana Puskas \ Nottingham
Ivana Puskas is a PhD researcher in Fine Art, School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University, UK. The purpose of her research is to display the personal narrative to address the issues of war, loss and belonging, related to the specificity of the ex-Yugoslav context in order to contribute to developing of the female voice of artists.
Gary Duehr \ Boston
Gary Duehr has been chosen as a Best Emerging Artist in New England by the International Association of Art Critics, and he has received an Artist Grant in photography from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He has written about the arts for journals including ArtScope, Art New England, Art on Paper, Communication Arts, Frieze, and Public Culture. Currently he manages Bromfield Gallery in Boston's South End.
Marina Iodice [Co-Founder] Glasgow
Marina Iodice was bors in Naples. Her practice grows from the dialogue between the isolated individual and the social group. Her research lies in the themes of language, identity, physicality, femininity, innocence and sin, utilising the motifs of fragmentation and repetition, investigating the relationship between language and meaning.
Claudio Pestana \ London
Claudio Pestana was born in Portugal in 1974, and lives and works between London
and Dorset, England. First trained as a psychologist, his practice is eclectic and
encompasses painting, drawing, ceramics, found objects, photography, video,
sound, and text. Pestana recurrently explores themes of identity, history, nature, and
violence.
and Dorset, England. First trained as a psychologist, his practice is eclectic and
encompasses painting, drawing, ceramics, found objects, photography, video,
sound, and text. Pestana recurrently explores themes of identity, history, nature, and
violence.
Vitaliia Ferodova \ Cardiff
Vitaliia Fedorova is a Ukrainian visual artist. Her practice focuses on introspection and stretches on the poetic-social axis. Her main interest is to explore the possibilities of art as a political force that not only reflects social processes, but can significantly influence and shape them.
Marek Liska \ Cardiff
Marek is a recent graduate of Marek aligns their artistic practice with the practice of a horticulturist; undergoing their own material investigation with soil, space, tools, processes and nature itself - encapsulating the experience of interaction and mutual growth, or de-growth.
Megan Jackson \ Bristol
My found drawing of Non Places show the traces left by everyday objects and
places, and the shapes, lines and patterns hidden within them, noticing the objects
and places that usually go unnoticed. I focused on mundane and ordinary things like switches, toilets and walls.
Some drawings are easily recognisable while others are only clear to me.
places, and the shapes, lines and patterns hidden within them, noticing the objects
and places that usually go unnoticed. I focused on mundane and ordinary things like switches, toilets and walls.
Some drawings are easily recognisable while others are only clear to me.
Niko Mitzuko \ Berlin
Niko Mitsuko hails from Long Beach, California but as a child she moved to Las
Vegas. She first learned how to print in a darkroom in high school and became
fascinated with the magic of photography.
Vegas. She first learned how to print in a darkroom in high school and became
fascinated with the magic of photography.
Nikki Allford \ Bristol
Ally McGinn is an object-oriented painter working within a narrative that questions
perceptions of art and the conditions of painting. Combining found objects,
manipulated semiotics, and painterly language to create artworks that aim to
question perceptions of the things we are looking at and the ways we are looking at
them.
perceptions of art and the conditions of painting. Combining found objects,
manipulated semiotics, and painterly language to create artworks that aim to
question perceptions of the things we are looking at and the ways we are looking at
them.
Johanna Bolton \ London
I want to bounce my ideas against matter, against the human body – the resistance they meet there teach me something new every time. I am interested in how concepts and language affects human understanding of the real life-world out there – and in here. The human body is perhaps the first case of matter that has become self-aware.
Cameron Lings \ N.E of the UK
Throughout Cameron Lings' extensive artistic practice, aspects of time, data and statistics are combined within the context of a singular event, in order to realise a piece of art that despite its abstraction, remains functionally readable.
Daniel Lane \ Cardiff
Ally McGinn \ Bath
Ally McGinn is an object-oriented painter working within a narrative that questions
perceptions of art and the conditions of painting. Combining found objects,
manipulated semiotics, and painterly language to create artworks that aim to
question perceptions of the things we are looking at and the ways we are looking at
them.
perceptions of art and the conditions of painting. Combining found objects,
manipulated semiotics, and painterly language to create artworks that aim to
question perceptions of the things we are looking at and the ways we are looking at
them.
copiright 2023 Non Place Collective
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