Lace Market Gallery
Leicester based artist Lloyd Hughes is a recent graduate of De Montfort University. Lloyd will present a installation of five interlocking fields of investigative coloured pattern that will evolve and merge over time and will be working in the gallery to develop this installation during the festival. He would like to bring together a multitude of mathematical and geometrical thought processes through his experimentation and would like to break down these patterns into simple, playful forms.
Estonian artist Siim Karro from Estonia creates paintings and drawings inspired by architecture working with geometric shapes to develop an understanding of architectural forms in two and three dimensions. He is interested in the intersection of geometric forms and how they create new shapes and planes. Describing two of his drawings titled Developing as, “The first part (drawing one) shows different areas surrounded by other areas, (and) these crossed area form new areas. The second part (drawing two) shows how the same thing happens if these areas are in a 3D space.”
Nottingham based artist Maria Cassidy lives and works in Nottingham, she graduated in Fine Art at Loughborough University.Maria's practice explores both the existing and the surreal in an amalgamation of found imagery. Through two dimensional and three dimensional collage and assemblage, she dissects familiar imagery and reconstructs the fragments to form new narratives. As an avid collector of postcards she explores the placement of these visual facades alongside images documented and exposed daily throughout the media. She is both politically and historically motivated to fabricate works exploring both the old and the new. Her work is a delicate weaving of events and places, inviting the viewer to delve deep into the constructed layers. Through the smoke screen, we are given a glimpse of a disagreeable truth, a reminder of the reality we live in. The works are often humorous and surreal, with an occasional hidden truth realised on closer inspection.
