Attenborough Arts Centre
At Attenborough Arts Centre, encounter works by Jarvis Brookfield, Mustafa Boga, Claye Bowler, Morgan Dowdall, Beverley Duckworth, Lucy Gregory, Pratima Kramer and Piotr Krzymowski.
Curated by Saziso Phiri.
Jarvis Brookfield is a self-taught artist currently living and working in Leicester, who recently graduated from De Montfort University with a 1st class degree in Fine art. Reflecting on his past experiences with entheogens and lucid dreaming is what largely inspires him to create paintings from his imagination. He is currently engaged in creating works that aim to convey a sense of the places his mind has travelled to with otherworldly, colourful and surreal imagery. Brookfield also believes that being human is far deeper, beautiful and more mysterious than we could ever imagine.
Mustafa Boga is an artist based in the UK and Turkey. He completed his masters degree in 2016 from Central Saint Martins in London after studying for an MA in Fine Art. He also obtained another masters degree from Greenwich University in London after studying an MA in Cinematography and Post Production. Before that, he achieved a bachelors degree from Istanbul University after studying at the Faculty of Communication and Journalism.
Claye Bowler is an artist living and working in West Yorkshire. His work explores queer and trans narratives and experiences, working off his own life, the interactions of the communities he is part of, as well as looking at the way queer and trans people are recorded (or not) institutionally in archives, galleries and museums.
Bowler has built physical archives of his own relationships, experiences and possessions; created interactive installations denoting the fragility of history; as well as using casts of his body to construct/carve/caress his transitioned body into being.
Morgan Dowdall is an artist born in South Wales and based in Cardiff. Having studied BA Ceramics at Cardiff School of Art & Design, their practice is highly influenced by the materiality of clay; however, Morgan’s artistic practice explores all facets of visual art, ranging from: sculpture, applied arts, surface design, to installation. Through these, they explore queer aesthetics and the representation of male bodies throughout art history. Morgan was one of the 10 artists shortlisted for the ‘Robert Walters Group UK Young Artist of the Year Award 2019’ at the Saatchi Gallery, London.
Beverley Duckworth was born in London and has a studio in Hackney. Her work explores boundaries, imperfection and the abject. Using dust, hair and skin as primary materials, she reveals and reconfigures the discarded to provoke and question dual reactions of attraction and disgust. Her practice spans several media, including work on paper, photography, sculpture, moving image and installation. Beverley was a finalist in the Signature Art Prize 2020, she was shortlisted for The New Emergence Art Prize 2020 and for The Mother Art Prize 2020, and she has recently been elected as a member of The London Group.
Lucy Gregory graduated from The Ruskin School of Art, 2016 and The Royal College of Art, Sculpture, 2018. Exploring the theatricality of flatness, she creates large-scale ‘kinetic collages’ that rely on audience participation to activate surreal mechanisms. Her sculptural environments play with a collision between bodies and machines to create the feeling you are walking into an animation – referencing the body and its flexible instability flattened on screen, and the often violent slapstick humour of cartoons. Lucy won the Ingram Prize and her work is now part of the Ingram Collection. She received the Gilbert Bayes Trust Studio Grant and the RCA Arts & Humanities Art Criticism Prize, and has been shortlisted for this year’s National Sculpture Prize to realise a large- scale outdoor sculpture. She was awarded solo exhibition at Boomer Gallery 2021 and recently exhibited at Bold Tendencies, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, MK Gallery and The Lightbox Gallery.
Pratima Kramer creates distinct ceramic sculptures from her studio in Hertfordshire, UK. Growing up in a Hindu brahmin family in Gujarat and educated in a school based on Mahatma Gandhi’s principles has given Pratima a deeper understanding of culture, history, mythology, and spiritualities, as well as the inner beauty of life and humanity in people.
She uses the transferable skill of intense observation for details, learned early on in her career as a Microbiologist, in her art practice.
Through her figurative sculpture she tries to show humility despite the abject poverty in the people she encounters.
Pratima has been a recipient for professional development from The Craft Council.
Piotr Krzymowski is a Polish artist based in London. He graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and works across a variety of media including: photography, installation, collage and moving image. In his practice Krzymowski examines the effects of the internet age on an evermore widespread and dependant generation. He often investigates the metabolic conditions of ‘technophoria” and suggests that human needs and desires are satisfied purely by the continual evolution of our electronic devices. He participated in many exhibitions in galleries and institutions including: ICA London, CCA Glasgow, Whitechapel Gallery, CoCA Torun, Liverpool Bienial, and l'étrangère gallery.