http://thewingassignment.com ninafarrell.com Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:08:46 +0000 http://thewingassignment.com en http://www.thewingassignment.com/Tisna-Westerhof http://www.thewingassignment.com/following/thewingassignment.com/Tisna-Westerhof Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:08:46 +0000 ninafarrell.com 5347890 <img src="http://payload152.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5347890/photo.JPG" width="670" height="967" width_o="2048" height_o="2956" src_o="http://payload152.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5347890/photo_o.JPG" data-mid="28774935" border="0" align="left"/> As one of a twin Tisna is intrigued by dual concepts: the imagined and the real, reflected and projected, memorised and imagined, past and present all recurring themes and the driving force behind her work. Tisna Westerhof is a Dutch artist living and working in London. She studied printmaking at the Royal College of Art in The Hague and moved to London at the age of 22 to do a MA at Central St Martins College of Art and Design.Tisna has exhibited internationally, with solo and group exhibitions in England, Japan, Germany, Switzerland and The Netherlands and has works in private and public collections. In 1999 she was awarded the Dutch Royal Printmaking Award.Tisna Westerhof is co-founder and curator of HartsLaneStudios, an experimental project space in New Cross Gate. In spite of our damaged world, Tisna created a fairytale universe, allowing her to render a sincere, unfiltered, melancholic, mercurial series of images. As one of a twin Tisna is intrigued by dual concepts: the imagined and the real, reflected and projected, memorised and imagined, past and present all recurring themes and the driving force behind her work.Artwork title: 'On a cloudy day' SoldSize: 30x40 cmMedium: Screenprint with (news)paper. As one of a twin Tisna is intrigued by dual concepts: the imagined and the real, reflected and projected, memorised and imagined, past and present all recurring... http://www.thewingassignment.com/Elodie-Lefebvre http://www.thewingassignment.com/following/thewingassignment.com/Elodie-Lefebvre Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:04:32 +0000 ninafarrell.com 5347785 <img src="http://payload152.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5347785/DOC-Mue-01-Web-2.jpg" width="670" height="1005" width_o="670" height_o="1005" src_o="http://payload152.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5347785/DOC-Mue-01-Web-2_o.jpg" data-mid="28774620" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload152.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5347785/MLEFEBVREDSC_0385-Web-2.jpg" width="670" height="1005" width_o="670" height_o="1005" src_o="http://payload152.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5347785/MLEFEBVREDSC_0385-Web-2_o.jpg" data-mid="28774627" border="0" align="left"/> The body is often used as a medium and a “place” that reveals the ambiguities, contradictions and power games that incarnate all human relationships Elodie’s work explores the nature of the link that unites us, human beings, to one another. She investigates the dynamics of various coupled axes such as the recurring duels : life/death, desire/refusal, appearance/disappearance. It focus on the point of friction of these opposites, where they can possibly, tenuously, coexist for an instant, before it collapses. In here the body is often used as a medium and a “place” that reveals the ambiguities, contradictions and power games that incarnate all human relationships. Her video and installation pieces are often an attempt to create traps to seize beings in their relations to the world. Her researches led her to collaborations with international choreographers such as Ea Sola, Bernardo Montet, Germaine Acogny or still Jawole Willa Joe Zollar... These meetings have fed her perception of the body in movement, questioned the idea of embodiment as well as the status of the visitor in regards to the work. Artwork title: MueMedium: Silcone and IronArtwork title: The RaptureMedium: Plaster and Gold Leave The body is often used as a medium and a “place” that reveals the ambiguities, contradictions and power games that incarnate all human relationships ... http://www.thewingassignment.com/Florence-Garrabe http://www.thewingassignment.com/following/thewingassignment.com/Florence-Garrabe Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:33:49 +0000 ninafarrell.com 5041504 <img src="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5041504/Atomique-WingAsylum.jpg" width="670" height="947" width_o="670" height_o="947" src_o="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5041504/Atomique-WingAsylum_o.jpg" data-mid="28773414" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5041504/atomique1-1-5.jpg" width="670" height="473" width_o="2048" height_o="1447" src_o="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5041504/atomique1-1-5_o.jpg" data-mid="27020190" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5041504/atomique1-1-3.jpg" width="670" height="473" width_o="2048" height_o="1447" src_o="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5041504/atomique1-1-3_o.jpg" data-mid="27020217" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5041504/Birdsong 300.1.jpg" width="670" height="473" width_o="2048" height_o="1447" src_o="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5041504/Birdsong 300.1_o.jpg" data-mid="27020287" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5041504/Birdsong 300.2.jpg" width="670" height="670" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" src_o="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5041504/Birdsong 300.2_o.jpg" data-mid="27020337" border="0" align="left"/> A suivre l’itinéraire du travail de Florence Garrabé, nous comprenons que les perspectives de ce dernier ne participent nullement de l’immédiateté. The Wing Assignment invited Florence to show here works Atomique and Bird Song at Wing Asylum March 2013Artworks: Atomique and Birdsong Medium:Dimensions: Wing: Artist's ownInvited by The Wing Assignment: Feb 2013 En revanche, par la pluralité des matériaux, des supports, des dispositifs et des pratiques, quelque chose se tisse comme une chronique qui, chapitre après chapitre, découvre graduellement et par additions successives, la longue litanie de la souffrance humaine dans sa plus ordinaire brutalité. A suivre l’itinéraire du travail de Florence Garrabé, nous comprenons que les perspectives de ce dernier ne participent nullement de l’immédiateté. The... http://www.thewingassignment.com/Louise-McNaught http://www.thewingassignment.com/following/thewingassignment.com/Louise-McNaught Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:59:45 +0000 ninafarrell.com 5034328 <img src="http://payload136.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5034328/IMG_1131.JPG" width="670" height="815" width_o="2048" height_o="2493" src_o="http://payload136.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5034328/IMG_1131_o.JPG" data-mid="26978742" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload136.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5034328/IMG_1134.jpg" width="670" height="821" width_o="2048" height_o="2512" src_o="http://payload136.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/5034328/IMG_1134_o.jpg" data-mid="26978754" border="0" align="left"/>{image 3}{image 4}{image 5} I primarily use a neon colour palette to depict the presence of nature in my work, where the animals are God-like, Sublime and ethereal in their luminescence Louise McNaught graduated from the University of Greenwich in 2012 and has since exhibited all over the UK and in Europe, including the Royal College of Art in 2012 and overseas at the Salve Gallery in Leipzig, Germany also in 2012.Artwork: Heavenly Bodies - The Starless Medium: Ink and pencil on Antique Celestial Maps from 1880Dimensions: 35cm x 42cmWing: Artist's ownCreated for The Wing Assignment: Feb 2013Not wishing to limit herself or her subject matter, McNaught has a mixed-media approach which usually manifests in painted-drawings on traditional and sometimes unusual supports, such as celestial maps. Her soft style suggests a delicate relationship between nature and ourselves, making a clear point about man's destruction of nature - which flutters jewel-like in the balance. By subverting traditional representation McNaught hints at darker consequences, yet paradoxically giving animals an elevated status making animals look as though they are literally shining from within, drawing the viewers attention the animals presence and energy, and ultimately she is hoping to share with the viewer the awe that the natural world inspires her with. I primarily use a neon colour palette to depict the presence of nature in my work, where the animals are God-like, Sublime and ethereal in their luminescence ... http://www.thewingassignment.com/Paul-Dunkley http://www.thewingassignment.com/following/thewingassignment.com/Paul-Dunkley Mon, 06 Aug 2012 09:40:41 +0000 ninafarrell.com 3872133 Paul Dunkley is a motion graphics director working in film and TV with a special passion for film titles. He wishes Saul Bass was still alive... Artwork: Flight Medium: Photography + Video + SoundSize: 1920 pixels x 1080 pixelsWing: PheasantCreated for The Wing Assignment: July 2012'Flight' was created using pheasant wings and focuses on wing movement when in flight, the beautiful patterns and the symmetrical element of bird wings.Having these three elements as the core, I created an abstract one-minute and ten second animation that celebrates the function and form of the wings. <img src="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/3872133/PaulDunkley_WA_still.jpg" width="600" height="338" width_o="600" height_o="338" src_o="http://payload78.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/3872133/PaulDunkley_WA_still_o.jpg" data-mid="20198798" border="0" align="left"/> Paul Dunkley is a motion graphics director working in film and TV with a special passion for film titles. He wishes Saul Bass was still alive... Artwork: Flight... http://www.thewingassignment.com/Sadie-Medhurst http://www.thewingassignment.com/following/thewingassignment.com/Sadie-Medhurst Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:34:43 +0000 ninafarrell.com 3849119 <img src="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/3849119/sadie_new.jpg" width="670" height="947" width_o="1654" height_o="2339" src_o="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/3849119/sadie_new_o.jpg" data-mid="20063195" border="0" align="left"/> ... 1. Artwork title: ''Wing: Mallard Medium: Written WordCreated for The Wing Assignment: June 2012 ... 1. Artwork title: ''Wing: Mallard Medium: Written WordCreated for The Wing Assignment: June 2012 http://www.thewingassignment.com/Anna-Dwyer http://www.thewingassignment.com/following/thewingassignment.com/Anna-Dwyer Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:11:08 +0000 ninafarrell.com 3834706 &#9835; Little Voice.mp3 &nbsp;Play <img src="http://payload76.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/3834706/ANNA-IMAGE-01.jpg" width="670" height="360" width_o="1761" height_o="947" src_o="http://payload76.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/3834706/ANNA-IMAGE-01_o.jpg" data-mid="27020506" border="0" align="left"/> ‘Go to the Garden must I, To dream of dreams where pleasures lie, Starry night and hallowed dawn, Dusky eve and dewy morn, All day long the songbirds song Shapely form and silhouette, Shadow born and perfect set ‘Til crash of concrete Drone of drill Bring turbulence unto tranquil' By Anna Dwyer Artwork The Small VoiceMusic OrchestralInstruments French Horn, Timpani, Strings: Pizzicato/Tremelo and Synth, Harp Synopsis breakdown in 4 parts: Birds plaintive cry to industy, Voice of birds warning to industry, The Garden-with industry undertone in the background, Birds final warning as industry drowns out the voice of the birds Wing ScansCreated for The Wing Assignment: July 2012Anna's musical 'Revelation' was one of the winners of 'Musical Futures' and showcased at The Greenwich Theatre. She designed the original costume and set designs, wrote the book and libretto and co- composed the music with Pip Williams and Tobias Boshell. She studied art at Heatherly School of Fine Art.The Small Voice is about the fight between industry and nature. The beauty of birdsong and the importance of trying to keep hold of nature when man's pursuit of technology often masks the 'smallest of voices' and sanctuary's in a modern world become increasingly hard to find. ‘Go to the Garden must I, To dream of dreams where pleasures lie, Starry night and hallowed dawn, Dusky eve and dewy morn, All day long the songbirds song... http://www.thewingassignment.com/Emma-Collins http://www.thewingassignment.com/following/thewingassignment.com/Emma-Collins Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:58:22 +0000 ninafarrell.com 3840965 <img src="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/3840965/Screen Shot 2012-07-31 at 22.02.51.jpg" width="600" height="477" width_o="600" height_o="477" src_o="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/3840965/Screen Shot 2012-07-31 at 22.02.51_o.jpg" data-mid="20034192" border="0" align="left"/> I was mourning the loss of the body and spirit from the wings of the Mallard at the time and wondering how best I could honour its life and magnificence. Emma has always been inspired by nature visually and inspired by sounds, either natural or man-made. Often as a child she would draw birds from books about nature or being mad about horses would draw them too but always sought to bring the flat image to life.There has always been a duality to Emma's creativity, on the one hand being very small and quiet but on the other hand her body needing to feel a dynamic energy unattainable from drawing at a table. This gives a somewhat confused nature to her personality and production of art; happy to be small but needing to be bigger. It is because of her push and pull nature that she has stopped and started her art degree at Central Saint Martins (started in 2007). Before that she trained as an actress for two years and attained a degree in English with Philosophy. She has also lived in Brighton where she wrote some songs something she has continued to do so since a childhood desire for music was aroused on hearing in assembly one morning Handel's 'The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba'. After commencing the art degree, she took a break and trained as an EFL teacher and lived in Italy for a year and recommenced her degree in 2011. Next year the fight to be bigger but to stay small will no doubt continue.For 'Uccelli', the presence of nature around me was my inspiration. In particular the presence of birds and the trees, with and without the presence of birds. Of course, the soundtrack of the woods comes in to the equation and using the names of the birds heard in the woods, an instrument with a soothing presence is used to strike the rhythm of their names.Some of the slides are in black and white deliberately developed as negatives even though the film is colour. A tension of a desire to be one thing but forced to be another is included in the unseen colour and aspects of energy present in the woods.Time alone in the woods is small time with dreams of being bigger.It has often happened that in the state of half sleep and half wake, I have heard brass bands and jazz bands and singers in my head who I know are not real in a physical sense but who momentarily share with me their sounds. Often I sleep with a recording device next to my bed and it has happened that in the middle of the night I am humming or singing the words I have heard in to the device. I cannot explain why this happens but a similar thing happened on the 8.45am train to work very recently with the following song, which I have recorded (in the toilet at Finsbury Park so as not to appear too barmy). I was mourning the loss of the body and spirit from the wings of the Mallard at the time and wondering how best I could honour its life and magnificence.1. Artwork title: 'UCCELLI.'Medium: Audio (recorded from a Tanzanian thumb piano) and slides on 35mm filmSize: Audio: 4' 23" (time)Wing: MallardSubmitted for The Wing Assignment: July 20122. Artwork title: 'O the Mallard Swift and Free'Medium: Unaccompanied lone female voice.Size: Audio: 3'30" (time)Wing: MallardCreated for The Wing Assignment: July 2012 O the Mallard swift and free gave not his wings to mecan you tell Lord, why should it be, my feet belong to thee?Call me up and raise me high, so I can ascend in to the skyCall me up and raise me high, so I can ascend in to the skyMany colours I can see illuminate your wings so freecan you tell Lord why should it be, no colour falls on me?Call me up and raise me high, so I can ascend in to the skyCall me up and raise me high, so I can ascend in to the skyO illusions of this life death is not a sacrificecan you tell Lord why should it be, all creatures long for theeCall me up and raise me high, so I can ascend in to the skyCall me up and raise me high, so I can ascend in to the sky I was mourning the loss of the body and spirit from the wings of the Mallard at the time and wondering how best I could honour its life and magnificence. Emma... http://www.thewingassignment.com/Viveca-Koh http://www.thewingassignment.com/following/thewingassignment.com/Viveca-Koh Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:57:59 +0000 ninafarrell.com 3840698 <img src="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/3840698/Wing Assignment_Flattened Final.jpg" width="600" height="482" width_o="600" height_o="482" src_o="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/3840698/Wing Assignment_Flattened Final_o.jpg" data-mid="20010344" border="0" align="left"/> 'life and death, vivid colour and dull decay, the possibility of flight versus permanent grounding' I used many photographs of feathers in extreme close-up, the beautiful wings I was sent for this assignment, a bird skeleton discovered in an abandoned building and live birds photographed in various locations, blended and merged to form a series of contradictions: life and death, vivid colour and dull decay, the possibility of flight versus permanent grounding. 'Memento Mori' is translated from Latin as 'remember you must die', and I wanted to capture a sense of this from the birds' perspective with this work.Artwork title: 'Memento Mori'Medium: Photographic MontageSize: c. 24 x 20" (print only)Wing: MallardCreated for The Wing Assignment: by Viveca Koh ARPS 'life and death, vivid colour and dull decay, the possibility of flight versus permanent grounding' I used many photographs of feathers in extreme close-up, the... http://www.thewingassignment.com/Elliott-Ashton http://www.thewingassignment.com/following/thewingassignment.com/Elliott-Ashton Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:57:52 +0000 ninafarrell.com 3840716 <img src="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/3840716/elliott ashton wings_resize.jpg" width="600" height="335" width_o="600" height_o="335" src_o="http://payload77.cargocollective.com/1/5/163287/3840716/elliott ashton wings_resize_o.jpg" data-mid="20010495" border="0" align="left"/> Elliott has been making his own animations since the age of 8, but has been working professionally in the film / TV industry since 1991. In 2005 Elliot set up his own digital animation company, both to work on commercial projects, and also develop his own animated properties. clients have included, BBC, CBBC, Disney, FilmFour, Nickelodeon, Jetix, EA Games, Masda, Google, Virgin Media, Sunsilk, Specsavers, Adidas, Sky Sports, Kodak, and ITV.In 2010 he wrote and directed 'Attack of the Aliens' which won 'best animated film' at the 'New York Film Festival, and is currently in pre-production on his own animated children's TV series.Artwork title: " Angels fall, Icarus burns, Empires topple, Phoenix rise from the ashes."Wing: Open Mallard WingMedium: 3d AnimationSize: ratio 16:9Created for The Wing Assignment: July 2012 Elliott has been making his own animations since the age of 8, but has been working professionally in the film / TV industry since 1991. In 2005 Elliot set up...