https://artistscollectivebm.cargo.site CollectiveBM Thu, 13 Aug 2020 20:46:14 +0000 https://artistscollectivebm.cargo.site en https://artistscollectivebm.cargo.site/Konstantsa-Nikolaeva Thu, 13 Aug 2020 20:46:14 +0000 CollectiveBM https://artistscollectivebm.cargo.site/Konstantsa-Nikolaeva Konstantsa Nikolaeva Koleva (born 19 January 1994) is a Bulgarian-born artist, designer and photographer. Her subjects include cityscapes, and the expressive and unusual use of colour from the position of a young author. She is greatly inspired by visual artists of the early twentieth century. 1. Biography: 1.1 Family and Origin Konstantsa was born in Haskovo, Bulgaria, to Antoaneta Stancheva (an actress and gallery manager) and Nikolai Kolev (a scenographer). Her father specialises in exteriors as well as the arrangement of conceptual events in museums and theatres, and her grandfather was the conductor of the Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra in Ruse. 1.2 Childhood and early creativity Konstantsa’s interest in drawing started from an early age. As early as 3 years old she developed attention to detail and composition in her drawings, as well as a strong aesthetic sensibility. She attended the only art nursery at this time in Bulgaria, which helped develop innovative approaches in her early education, establishing qualities such as: teamwork, responsibility, honesty, care, perseverance, and respect. She won awards in several regional and national drawing and photography competitions. From the age of 5, she began studying Italian, and developed an enduring fascination with Italian art and culture. 1.3 Education Encouraged by her parents she made the decision to study art at 13, and took her first drawing lessons with her father, studying rules of classic drawing, sketching, thematic composition, perspective, and colour theory. In 2008, she was offered places at the three top art schools in Bulgaria. She chose National School of Fine Arts Iliya Petrov in Sofia, graduating from Painting in 2013. From 2013 to 2016 she completed her undergraduate degree at London Metropolitan University in Furniture and Product Design. She was then accepted to do a master’s degree at La Sapienza Universita di Roma in 2016, but decided to study at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she graduated with an innovative master's in Design: Expanded Practice in 2019. 1.4 Work and professional experience Since moving to London in 2013, she has worked as a teacher at crafts and arts centres for children and as product designer for Ilio design studio. In the summer of 2018, she worked as a gallerist in three galleries in Barcelona with the Erasmus program. Although not a professional photographer, Konstantsa likes photographing nature, and she uses photography to look at the details of objects. Konstantsa Currently works at the British Museum. 1.5 Private life Konstantsa is a liberal young artist with a spiritual passion to travel to different continents and discover cultures, meet interesting people and artists, to provoke and develop her practice. She is inspired by the architecture of European and Asian cities, passionately painting urban landscapes with a variety of techniques and materials. She enjoys visiting places that make her feel artistically charged by life, energy and diversity in nature and culture, and this way creates her own “global home”. 1.6 Social activity When Konstantsa was 4, her mother founded a non-profit organisation; she grew up in an atmosphere of social projects in her hometown. Along with her art education she started building social reflexes to protect vulnerable groups in society: orphans, disadvantaged people, victims of human trafficking and domestic violence. She has been a volunteer for more than 10 years with the IKAR Association - Haskovo, and actively participates in social and civic campaigns, youth regional and international exchanges and initiatives. She is a designer of various brochures and posters in the social context about equality, human trafficking and more. Konstantsa’s sensitivity to social problems continues in London and she has followed up on various projects such as: “Exchange of Art Material for Artists” from Wales, the Caribbean and China as being a multicultural social project for the design of products symbolizing the equality of nations; a project in which she teaches drawing to single men, funded by the NHS. 1.7 Awards, nominations, participation - Second Prize from the National Contest for Painting for National Bulgarian Schools of Art by Ministry of Culture, 2012 - Participation with her own product in Salone Del Mobile, Milan in 2015 - Participation in the exhibition "Fit in a flat" - Goldsmiths, University of London in 2017. - Participation in the exhibition "Sometimes here, sometimes there" - Churchuliyev Gallery Dimitrovgrad in 2018 - Kite Studios Winter Show in 2018 1.8 Websites and social media konstanzza.com konstanzza.weebly.com Instagram: konstancakoleva; dblesided   https://artistscollectivebm.cargo.site/Francesca-Conte Thu, 13 Aug 2020 20:07:33 +0000 CollectiveBM https://artistscollectivebm.cargo.site/Francesca-Conte In love with any form of material culture, Francesca Conte has a background as Museum Anthropologist. Born in Rome and based in London, Francesca’s main interests are: collective memory, oral history, decolonisation of curatorial practice and East African art and cultures. Francesca graduated with a MA in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnography (University of Bologna). She specialized in Museum and Art Anthropology (University of Milan Bicocca) and African Studies (Dalarna University). Francesca has launched a few projects linked to the lockdown such as a photographic project connected to the London Borough of Lewisham and Collecting London Lockdown. The latter is an ethnographic project which aims to record the lockdown experience in London through personal objects with the main objective of humanising this unprecedented event. She mainly uses photography and sound recordings to collect memories of local communities. https://artistscollectivebm.cargo.site/Iona-Glen Thu, 13 Aug 2020 20:00:29 +0000 CollectiveBM https://artistscollectivebm.cargo.site/Iona-Glen Iona is a writer living in London. She loves to write about the relationships between memory, objects, place and biography. She is continually inspired by folklore and the natural world. Iona studied History at the University of Edinburgh, with a particular focus on the history of travel and cross-cultural relations during the British imperial period. Her undergraduate dissertation ‘Orientalism and gender in the photography of T E Lawrence and Gertrude Bell’ was published in the T E Lawrence Society Journal in 2019. She has been published online by DearDamsels, Project Myopia and Girls on Tops’ Read Me blog celebrating women in film. https://artistscollectivebm.cargo.site/Andrew-Foster Thu, 13 Aug 2020 20:24:18 +0000 CollectiveBM https://artistscollectivebm.cargo.site/Andrew-Foster Inspired by nature and dreams, Andrew Foster has been taking photos for 11 years, specialising in landscape and conceptual photography. He recently graduated with a First-Class Honours in Contemporary Media Practice from the University of Westminster and used to work as a freelance event photographer.He has been featured by the film photography brand Lomography in their magazine, and on their Instagram. He has exhibited his work at St Marks Hospital in London and screened his graduate film on LGBTQ+ rights in India at Regents Street Cinema.Currently he is working on more personal projects, continuing to experiment with double exposure and venturing out into documentary photography for his project 'Citizens of the EU.'   https://artistscollectivebm.cargo.site/Clara-Bleda Sun, 26 Apr 2020 17:40:34 +0000 CollectiveBM https://artistscollectivebm.cargo.site/Clara-Bleda Interested in Cultural Heritage documentation, Clara Bleda studied Bachelor of Arts (B.A) and BA(Hons) in Photography at the Design School (EASD), Valencia (Spain) followed a course of Managing photographs in the archives at The London Mathematical Society, London.Influenced by Robert Frank and colour pioneers such as Stephen Shore and William Eggleston, her photographs contain saturated colours and compositions that appeal to everyday iconography and the history of cities, always driven by a fascination with the passage of time, trying to analyse the complex relationship between human being and history.Without losing the sharpness and accuracy of sheer documentation, her work goes beyond the factual to immerse the viewer in an almost tangible nostalgia for a past never experienced. She worked in different projects, her most popular one was American Icons that was part of ‘Fotográfica 2010’ organised by Paco Mora studio and MUVIM (Valencian Museum of the Enlightment and Modernity), She’s part of Raïm collective, and one of the founders of this collective. https://artistscollectivebm.cargo.site/Isolda-Fabregat Thu, 13 Aug 2020 20:24:20 +0000 CollectiveBM https://artistscollectivebm.cargo.site/Isolda-Fabregat Originally from Barcelona, Isolda Fabregat (1994) has a lifelong passion for photography. She holds a Bachelor's degree in History of Art from the University of Barcelona, and looks at history in a poetic way. Notable projects include a photo-documentary for Prospekt Magazine in 2017 covering the siege of Leningrad, and website photography for the Civic Museum Floriano Bodini in Gemonio, Italy. Her current project is a collaboration with her colleagues at the British Museum, finding talents in common, and exhibiting them together. Always ready to hunt the light, Isolda’s inspiration includes Sebastião Salgado, Caravaggio and her parents.   https://artistscollectivebm.cargo.site/Matt-Anstis Thu, 13 Aug 2020 20:38:55 +0000 CollectiveBM https://artistscollectivebm.cargo.site/Matt-Anstis Matt Anstis is a London-born art historian and curator, specialising in Japanese and Korean material culture from the pre-modern, to the contemporary. Graduating with an MA in History of Art and Archaeology of East Asia from SOAS (University of London), Matt’s research interests include restaurants in Edo woodblock prints, Heian paper craft and Buddhist indigo sutras.As an amateur photographer and artist, his inspirations are contradictory: the constructed world, death and the supernatural, intense light and vivid colour, and dark, gothic monochrome. Inspiration comes from Victorian cemeteries, 19th century collodion prints and supernatural fiction, the writing of EM Cioran and Yukio Mishima, the collections of the British Museum, death metal and Wedgwood.Notable projects include the Koestler Trust’s display for HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs in 2019, working on the Koestler exhibition I’m Still Here in 2018, and the Barbican’s exhibition Mangasia: Wonderlands of Asian Comics in 2017.