Erica Eyres
Erica Eyres is a Canadian-born artist based in Glasgow. Eyres’s videos, drawings and sculptures feature a cast of tragi-comic characters through which she reveals the absurdity and extremism of contemporary conceptions of beauty, identity, and sexuality. She received an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art (2002-2004), a BFA Fine Arts (Honours) from the University of Manitoba (1998-2002), and also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2005).
Katinka Simonse
Katinka Simonse (a.k.a. TINKEBELL) is an Amsterdam-based artist whose projects evolve from her research into the issues and strategies of contemporary populist movements—such as animal rights activism—to reveal the inherent yet inconspicuous hypocrisy of these movements, especially in relation to the evocation of empathy.
Lorraine Sue-Fern Yeung
Lorraine Sue-Fern Yeung is an emerging artist based in Leeds. Working primarily in video, photography and performance, Yeung addresses the concepts of abjection, beauty and compulsion, particularly as they pertain to the human body.
Shelly Nadashi
Shelly Nadashi is an Israeli-born artist based in Glasgow. Her practice is based in multi- disciplinary activity; she has experience and practical knowledge both as a performer, puppeteer and visual artist, and tends to use a variety of mediums to carry out her artistic ideas, including live performance, video, sound, text, drawing and puppet-making.
Sigga Björg Sigurðardóttir
Sigga Björg is an Icelandic-born artist based in Glasgow and Reykjavik. Working primarily in drawing and video, Sigurdardottir invents characters that are neither human nor animal—but which combine traits of both—to create enigmatic situations and narratives. She received an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art (2002-2004) and a BA Fine Art from The Icelandic Academy of Art and Design (1997-2001).
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