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Curatorial Review of Simone Figus in Contrast
Revelations 2 (2022) instantaneously contrasts our eyes—there is a strong red—aggressive and loud against the figure’s blue face. Thus, it seems as though it is an almost physical encounter between the two opposite primary colours: red and blue. They continuously clash and bleed into one another, giving a sharp jolt to the work. The piece…
Curatorial Review of Andrea London in Contrast
Light in the Blue Hour (2024) is a spectacular photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge at night. The atmosphere within the photograph is strong while also showing restraint – the stone towers of the bridge are positioned within the photograph to look as though they are towering and standing and imposing over city and bridge. The…
Curatorial Review of Maryam Fardinfard in Contrast
The King Beneath the Surface (2018) presents a tiger moving through the water in a quite and solitary setting. The painting has mastered the scene extremely well and thus allows us to observe the tiger at ease and relaxed. Below the tiger is its own reflection in the water which, despite being distorted by the…
Curatorial Review of Elena Gorn in Contrast
The Listener (2025) brings us directly towards a silhouette of a face which has been cleanly carved from the left side of the composition. The silhouette does not have any individuality as it has been stripped of any emotion, expression or appearance and does not speak. It listens which turns the silence of the silhouette…
An Interview with Leanne Violet in Contrast
Leanne Violet was interviewed for the fourth (and final) edition of the Contrast publication. You can find the online exhibition version of the publication here. You described your work as an ‘archive of memory and survival’. How do you see your pieces serving as both personal testimony and collective history? Although my practice spans a range…
Curatorial Review of Leanne Violet in Contrast
Love in Idleness (2025) reclaims textiles and is a reclamation of domestic textile work. Violet has challenged the romanticised notion of ‘women’s work’ by confronting it, the symbolism in the work and the defiance of it. From the first look at the work- we are drawn towards the eye in the centre which has replaced…
An Interview with Maximilian Vermilye in Contrast
Maximilian Vermilye was interviewed for the fourth (and final) edition of the Contrast publication. You can find the online exhibition version of the publication here. You describe your process as psychodynamic photography, what inspired you to connect photography with psychology and the unconscious? For me, all art at some level connects with what is in our…
An Interview with Gary Dempsey in Contrast
Gary Dempsey was interviewed for the fourth (and final) edition of the Contrast publication. You can find the online exhibition version of the publication here. Can you share a specific cultural tradition or story that has had a lasting impact on your practice? One tradition that’s deeply influenced my work is the Irish practice of seanchaí—the…
An Interview with Mia Upton in Contrast
Mia Upton was interviewed for the fourth (and final) edition of the Contrast publication. You can find the online exhibition version of the publication here. The works you’ve presented in this publication are still and contemplative moments—can you share the stories behind the original images that inspired these woven scenes? The images came from a mix…
An Interview with Lewis Andrews in Contrast
Lewis Andrews was interviewed for the fourth (and final) edition of the Contrast publication. You can find the online exhibition version of the publication here. Your work explores cosmic phenomena on both molecular and cosmic scales- what drew you to these and how do you think it reflects on humanity’s existence and perhaps our experience?…