ART from HEART is excited to announce the Winners of the Artist of the Season featured in our Autumn 2024 edition!
3 Artists, 3 Mediums, 3 Countries:
Naoual Peleau - Anthotype Photography - Toulouse, France
David Ian Bickley - Video Art - West Cork, Ireland
Anna Sharpe - Watercolour Painting - The Lake District, UK
The competition is open to multimedia artists worldwide and was created to showcase, promote and raise the visibility of the work of emerging and mid-career artists. The winners are featured on our website and social media platforms and considered for any upcoming curatorial projects by ART from HEART. Artworks are selected based on creativity, originality, quality of work, and overall artistic ability.
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Artist Naoual Peleau - Anthotype Photography - Toulouse, France
©Naoual Peleau, Anthotype, All Rights Reserved
Left to Right: Dead Leaves No2; Dead Leaves No3; Dead Leaves No5
Artist of the Season Winner Naoual Peleau anthotype photography is mostly about experimentation and research. Fascinated with all things fragile, she wants to witness the metamorphosis. In an intimate and autobiographical practice, she deals with subjects such as solitude, death and body relationships.
I like to manipulate the image and its support, transform and also destroy. Part of the creative process is beyond my control. It’s a space of freedom and unexpected. In my research I try to maintain a balance between an accidental creation and a successful experience.
Peleau's anthotype images are created from photosensitive substances from plants. She uses linden and magnolia leaves, their shape being the one that best resembles her face and body. She exposes them to the sun for several hours; its light will mark the exposed parts and reveal the image. This results in very fragile leaves, still sensitive to the sun. Time is at the heart of the project given the fading summer light and the leaves turning red. This creative process is a reflection on the passing of time and the fear of growing old.
I want to talk about sensitivity, fragility and the ephemeral nature of life. I show a fusional relationship with nature: by exposing my body on a leaf, we literally become one.
The space between the leaves symbolizes the shyness gap, also called crown shyness. It is an interstice between the foliage of certain trees, more easily observed at the crown level. It allows light to pass through and prevents contagion between different species. Dried flowers fill this small space by holding the elements together.
Peleau obtained a dregree in fine arts in La Sorbonne in 2014 and join the photography school of Toulouse the following year and graduated in 2018. She lives and works in Toulouse, France.
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Artist David Ian Bickley - Video Art -Â West Cork, Ireland
©OVERFLOW, David Ian Bickley, Dr Jack Greenhalgh, Shin Yu Pal, 2023, All Rights Reserved
Produced by David Ian Bickley and Dr. Jack Greenhalgh Â
Words & Voice Shin Yu Pai
Photographed & Edited by David Ian Bickley
Assistant, Gabriel O'Sullivan Bickley
Original recordings, Jack Greenhalgh
Audio processing, David Ian Bickley
Pond, courtesy of The Hollies Centre for Sustainability, Enniskeane, Co. Cork, Ireland. Â
Artist of the Season Winner David Ian Bickley (b. 1961) is an Anglo-Irish artist, filmmaker and musician who uses analogue and digital technology and techniques to conjure audio-visual works and installations that delve into realms of nature, landscape, mythology and symbolism.
His works are abstracted, process-led and textured, capturing the essence of places and stories using memory, feeling and digital alchemy. His works also use landscape as a form to reflect and process mythic and folklore motifs, creating a sense of animation and accelerated time-scale. His practice incorporates film, music, video, immersive environments and sound art.
OVERFLOW is an immersive audio visual project that journeys from the human sphere of atmospheric time into the alien microcosmic world of a living pool. This filmic journey is set against an audio tapestry collected from the aquatic environment using hydro-phonic equipment. This sound, digitally processed into the realms of musicality, describes the strata of the internal world of a small body of fresh water teeming with life. As we travel downwards each context layer is amplified both visually and audibly through the use of layered fragments that drift across our perception — redolent with drama and trepidation .
David Ian Bickley graduated from WSCAD with a BA in film in 1983. He is an award-winning media artist whose body of work spans the primitive technological of the 1970’s to the digital cutting edge of today. His media work has manifested as television, installation, electronic music and video art.
His work has been shown in many major museums, galleries and festivals around the world.
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Artist Anna Sharpe -Â Watercolour Painting - The Lake District, UK
©Anna Sharpe, Eastern Skies, 2024, Ink and Watercolour, All Rights Reserved
©Anna Sharpe, Ink and Watercolour, All Rights Reserved
Left to Right: Into the Abyss One, 2023; Between Time & Space, 2023; Into the Abyss Two, 2023
Artist of the Season Winner Anna Sharpe is an Artist based in The Lake District, UK, a rock climber, fell runner, mountaineer and general lover of all wild places. She creates art inspired by our connection to natural landscapes.Â
Anna's love of mountainous landscapes has taken her across the world: climbing peaks in the Alps such as the Matterhorn, Mont Blanc and the West Ridge of the Salbitschijen; trekking high passes in the Himalayas; and many trips around the UK. Mountains have an incredible power and ambivalence for her, fear and wonderment, beauty and horror. Â
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Anna recognises both climbing and art as ways of interacting with the ‘more-than-human’ world. In a time when the environment is frequently mistreated as a resource, she takes inspiration from The Romantics, looking to reawaken our physical and spiritual connections to our landscape. Watercolours from the romantic era are commonplace in Anna’s Lake District home. She frequently explores the spirit of these pieces whilst combining more contemporary stylistic uses of inks with watercolour to create art for a modern-day audience.
Wild mountainous landscapes nourish my sole and feed my artistic practice. Utilising my mountaineering and rock-climbing skills I explore these hostile environments before bringing their magic to paper with watercolours, inks and fine liners.
Every year gets hotter and as the permafrost melts the snow-capped mountains of our world become increasingly fragile and visibly changed. In the European Alps giant glacial ice structures still cling to jagged peaks. Anna Sharpe watches as every year the glaciers shrink and the mountains become increasingly fragile, prone to enormous rock fall.
Anna is drawn to researching and documenting these precarious environments. With ice tools and rope, she explores the remaining structures. Lowering herself deep into crevasses she discovers creaking worlds, far older and greater than her small human ego. She mourns the fact that the alpine glaciers are diminishing. In her explorations (on both foot and paper) she investigates the ungraspable magic of the ephemeral and explore the relationship between change and loss.
Walking through the landscape and with the fluid lines of a brush Anna contemplates humanities position in the ebb and flow of a land that spans times beyond human comprehension.
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