Marko Mäetamm was born in Viljandi, Estonia and lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia
Marko Maetamm is a multimedia artist whose practice is often concerned with his experience as a father and husband. The comedy/drama of domesticity is his theme. Although he draws from personal experience, the work is not autobiographical or documentary. His work is derived from quesrions such as ‘what if’?. From there he builds on situations that are absurd, humorous, macabre, surreal – and ultimately universal, since he provides us with an insightful analysis of family life/domesticity and the pressures from the outside world that place stress upon its all too fragile walls
Mäetamm studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts, and has exhibited extensively in Estonia and internationally. He was chosen to represent Estonia in the Venice Biennale in 2003 and 2007
His work has also been shown at the Dorsky Gallery in New York City; the Gallery of the Hungarian Institute in Tallinn, Estonia; Hobusepea Gallery in Tallinn, Estonia ; Nosbaum & Reding – Art Contemporain in Luxembourg ; Artists’ Studio in London, UK; Tallinn City Gallery in Tallinn, Estonia; Rotermann Salt Storage (Art Museum of Estonia) in Tallinn, Estonia – Memorial Show Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia; kArton Gallery in Budapest, Hungary ; and the Contemporary Art Centre in Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
www.maetamm.net
20 March 2009
Tanya Axford was born in Kent, UK and now lives and works in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Axford’s work plays on our familiarity with and expectation of everyday situations and materials. Conjuring playful installations, performances and video works, she offers the viewer an unexpected ‘escape’ from the routine of everyday life by harnessing its very characteristics, meticulously orchestrating mundane objects and events into captivating artworks that celebrate the unsung potential of the ‘ordinary’.
Axford completed a BA in Fine Art at Newcastle University and an MA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London and is currently represented by Workplace Gallery, Gateshead.
Exhibitions and Residencies include: ‘Tomorrow the Future’, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton; ‘All my Favourite Singers couldn’t Sing…’, Workplace Gallery, Newcastle; ‘Hand me Down’, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh (cross artform collaboration); ‘Camberwell Arts Festival’, Camberwell, London; ‘The B-side’, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (solo); ‘View Halloo’, Turner Contemporary, Margate (solo); ‘The Interval’, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick (solo) ; ‘Babel’s Folly’, Locus+, Newcastle. She has also taken part in a number of residencies and fellowships both nationally and internationally and her work has been collected by both the Government Art Collection and the UBS Collection.
8 March 2009
Megan Broadmeadow was born in Manchester and lives and works in Colwyn Bay, North Wales
Megan Broadmeadow is a multi discipline artist, working in sculpture, installation, performance and painting. Her work explores aspects of British identity through the use of pastimes, landscapes, objects and characters. She also works with themes of leisure time, the great outdoors and landscape.
Megan creates objects that represent the area that they come from, either that of a community, object, landscape or other intangible identity of a town or village. Often incorporating performance within her sculptural installations, Megan’s work retains a playful and incisive glimpse into the idiosyncrasies and quirks of what it means to be British.
Broadmeadow studied Sculpture at the Slade School of Art, and graduated in 2002. Since then she has exhibited and performed in Wales and England. She also works as an associate director for Cynefin Theatre Company.
Recent Exhibitions include: Real Writers residency, G39, Cardiff; Wish You Were Here? Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno; Theatr Freuddwydion, Residency, Galeri, Caernarfon; Young Wales, Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy; White Noise, Mile End Ecology Centre, London.
7 March 2009
Neville Gabie was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and now lives and works in Stroud, UK.
Gabie’s central concern is in working responsively to specific locations or situations. Those sites are not arbitrary or randomly selected, but fit together, being places in a state of physical or social flux. Working in a range of media from sculpture to film and photography, projects are usually developed over a sustained period of involvement and often a significant part of his practice involves working collaboratively.
He completed his MA in sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 1988. He has undertaken a number of international residences, and has curated and organized off-site projects in the UK. His work has been shown extensively internationally and nationally.
Recent projects/Exhibitions include:
2006 DAS GROSSE RASENSTUECK – Nuremberg, Germany. 2006-7 LIVING HISTORY – Tate Modern, London. 2007 CREATIVE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE: LIVERPOOL AND THE AVANT GARDE. Tate Gallery Liverpool. 2000/05 Up in the Air/FURTHER Up in the Air www.furtherafield.org.uk. 2004/08 SHRINKING CITIES Kunst Werke, Berlin, MIGRANT OFFICE, international touring exhibition focussing on 4 cities in Europe & USA. www.shrinkingcities.com. 2003/05 COAST Public art project commissioned by First-site Gallery, Commissions East, Essex County Council. www.coastart.org
www.nevillegabie.com
6 March 2009
Paul Granjon was born in Lyon, France and lives and works in Cardiff, Wales
Granjon’s DIY approach involves using the ever-increasing detritus of the technological revolution to create robots, films, installations and performances. His ability to engage and entertain through his work is deceptive as it belies an investigation of serious issues that lead us into darker worrying territories and explore cultural anxieties. Granjon critiques our cultural obsession with notions of progress and our ever-increasing desire to create and harness state-of-the art technology
He studied at École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, France and has exhibited and performed internationally and nationally ever since. In 2005 he was chosen to represent Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art
Recent Exhibitions include: 2008 Ars Electronica, Austria, 2008 Jump, Nam June Paik Art Centre, Korea, Science as Premonition, 2008 Zimin Foundation Moscow, 2008 Supertoys, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2008 Nouveaux Monstres, Via Festival, France. 2007 Austria, France (Reflections and Constructions of a Button Pusher), Switzerland (The Heart and the Chip) 2006 Belgium (The Heart and the Chip), Canada (Positive Activities), Germany (Reflections and Constructions of a Button Pusher/The Heart and the Chip)
2005 Croatia, Slovenia (Z Lab Transported), Italy (Sexed Robots)
www.zprod.org
5 March 2009
Neeme Külm was born in Võru, Estonia and currently lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia.
Through his artworks Neeme Külm aims to challenge and confront the viewer through political, locational or topical issues. Employing a wide range of media from sculpture to performance, his works are often interventional, rather than object-based and question the nature of contemporary existence.
Külm studied Sculpture at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn and has exhibited extensively in Tallinn and Europe.
Recent Exhibitions include: Uscita, Desiderio e Memoria – Artra, Milan; Ich war hier – Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin; Backwards Blues – National Center For Contemporary Art (NCCA) – Moscow Branch, Moscow, Emergency Biennale in Chechnya – Centre A – Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, BC; Shiftscale – Sculpture at the Extended Field – Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
4 March 2009
Aisling O’Beirn was born in Galway, Ireland and is now based in Belfast
Her current work is concerned with exploring spatial politics encompassing subjects as diverse as the technologies behind space exploration to the very localised practice of nicknaming places and landmarks. Research takes the form of a constantly expanding collection of vernacular information ranging from urban myths, anecdotes, place nicknames and hand drawn maps gathered from various locations
The interest in these unofficial accounts stems from a concern regarding the politics of how place is described at a local level. Recent installations and site specific projects marks an attempt to bring together some of this seemingly disparate information in a non-linear fashion through sculpture, installation, animation and site specific means
O’Beirn studied sculpture at The University of Ulster in 1990 and has been exhibiting since. She was awarded a PhD by the University of Ulster in 2005. O’ Beirn has exhibited both nationally and internationally. She is an Associate Lecturer in Sculpture at the University of Ulster. O’ Beirn is represented by The Third Space Gallery, Belfast. www.thethirdspacegallery.com
Recent Exhibitions include 2007: Dark Matter, Belfast (solo) 2006; And Other Storeys’ Derry, (solo); Some Things About Belfast (Or So I’m Told), Space Shuttle Mission 3, Belfast (solo project); A Small Urban Inventory, Belfast, (solo). Group shows include 2008: Maquettes En Modekllen, Paper Biennale, Stedejilk Museum, Aalst, Belgium, Campouflash, Dresden and Poznan; 2007, Campouflash, Lodz, Le Syndrome De Broadway’ France, Protokol Sc, Centrifugal, Sekvenca II, Zagreb, ’Tides’, Pittsburgh, USA, Resolutions. Washington DC, USA, 2006; Dogs Have No Religion, Prague, ‘Recontre Internationales, Paris, Berlin, 2005; ‘The Nature of Things: A Long Weekend’. Venice Biennale, (as part of N. Ireland at 51st Venice Biennale), No Topless Bathing: Belfast Has Suffered Enough’ Valencia, Spain
www.aislingobeirn.com
2 March 2009
