Backlit
Amol Patil (India)
Amol’s works explore the desires that are generated by the constantly hampering fashion media. He is a Mumbai-based artist and he creates fabrics, jackets and skins as products of his performance. Apart from this his mediums range from drawings to installations. Specializing in painting Amol chose performance as a crucial medium. His family traditionally comes from folk theatre that travelled from village to village to sing folklore - ‘shaheer’. And being a student of Nikhil Chopra, it became more evident that performance is the crucial medium of expression. He lives in a Chawl. He admits that living there easily cultivates the desires of being popular and a celebrity. He has been fascinated with the roles of brands, mall culture and Bollywood. He commemorates the superficial or fakeness of appearances in his process of practice.
Emma Walker (UK)
Emma’s practice is a continuous exploration into the relationship between the Human and the Natural World. The work is often an examination of the destructive and controlling power that contemporary society seems to hold over the natural, but also a look into the beauty that nature simply exudes, but which is often overlooked. This work investigates the concepts of construction, human manipulation, beauty and science. The study of Nature as the premise for her practice comes from a personal fascination with the wonders of the Natural world. Emma has a BA (Hons) in Photography from Arts University College, Bournemouth. She has been involved in a number of photography exhibitions including the “AOP Student Photographer of the Year” and has been published in the first issue of “Oh!” magazine. Emma had a photography feature in the October 2011 issue of Digital Photographer magazine.
Katie Aggett (UK)
Katie's work explores a visual language for the changing systems of urban space. It links the choreography of changes in space and time with the fleeting growth and movement found in cities. It explores a depiction of not just one event, but many simultaneously, changing intensities of events which define our experience of a city space. Taking architecturally dense urban, often obsolescent, buildings as a source, she takes the movements and different changes that have occurred within this frame to create a score or map. This is translated through varying materials but in particular, the expanded field of drawing and drawing in space. The elements brought together in the work range from the physical changes of buildings over time to the movements and changing use of the space people create. This explores and reveals the characteristics under the skin of urban sites. It also re-analyses the way we view and interact with the changing history of the urban spaces around us.
Tom Archer (UK)
Tom is a Photography graduate from Sheffield Hallam University. He has featured in Photomasterskaya Magazine and was the winner of the London Street Photography Student Awards in 2011.
