Aaron Douglas

In the early days of the 2oth century there was a rise in all the cultural avenues of the black experience in America. Much of this happened in Harlem. Aaron Douglas was part of what has been labelled the Harlem Renaissance.

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Heidi P

Heidi P. A Danish artist paints big. Her work is a collage of childhood like images. Of innocence and horror. It is as if she transported walls from her own childhood and put them on canvas.

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Edgar Leissing

Edgar Leissing. Landscapes. From below. Humans contorted. From above. Perspective is everything. Viewpoint. Always the vortex. As if all life revealed itself to you. Even when that revelation is chaos.

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Ahmet Murat Karayilan

I’m an artist painter. I’ve studied Mathematics, Woodworks Industrial Engineering + Fine Arts. My art is influenced by Heidegger. Indeed, each figure of mine is ‘Dasein’: aware of existing in time… 

So says Ahmet Murat Karayilan. The combination of 2 and 3 dimensional figures, the use of geometry and paint certainly seems grounded in philosophy. There is a real existential quality about the figures. Strange also that they appear to have that wonderful profile of the early Greeks.

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Edward Curtis

Edward Curtis. We owe a lot to this photographer. His photographs of the native peoples of North America was a lucky circumstance. The dieing of an old world and the birth of a new technology. It is easy to read nobility and strength and honesty into these photographs. That can be a romanticization of the First Peoples. But what is obvious is that they are real.

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Eric Curtis

Eric Curtis In a book called Fallen Superheroes, Eric Curtis brings us his spoof on the superhero phenomena. Whimsical and silly, the pictures are a lot of fun.

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And this is a superhero movie that my daughter worked on.

Scott Prior

Scott Prior. There is such a sense of silence in Prior’s work. And emptiness. The paintings seem religious but without a God.

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The Creator @ FACT

A terrific surreal experience. Could be a trailer for a movie.

Written and directed by Al Holmes and Al Taylor (Al and Al).

‘Alan Turing was a man of many exceptional feats; he gave birth to the modern day computer with his development of modern day computer science, algorithm, mathematical computation in his ‘Turing Machine’ and he also played a major part in cracking the Enigma Code during World War 2 at Bletchley Park for the Allied forces. Turing was a mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was so brilliant and ahead of his time he moved onwards from computer science before it had even taken off. Alan Turing, to say the least was a genius.

Despite his exceptional mind however, he faced the challenges imposed by the society of his time – being a homosexual man was illegal in the UK at the time. When his sexuality was discovered he had a choice of imprisonment or chemical…

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Gustavo Lacerda

Gustavo Lacerda. Has done a series of photographs/paintings on albinos. It is a genet(/r)ic disorder that affects eyesight and skin colour. Lacerda’s pictures look haunting. The subjects are fragile. Almost alien. And they look uncommonly intelligent. I was fascinated by these pictures because I myself am very fair. My hair was red and there were freckles but as I’ve gotten older my  hair has turned white. Only my wrinkles betray a blank white canvas.

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And then of course there is Village of the Damned based on the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham

Bud McNichol

Every man should be named Bud. The first man should have been called Bud. Adam is so formal. And his paintings are a bit like the Garden of Eden. They are bright colourful and filled with whimsy and humor. Slice of life. An artist’s world. They remind me of the work of David McFadden.

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In television McNichol’s world reminds me of the world of Dobie Gillis. Naive and random.