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Kieron Dennis (Royal College of Art:
MA in Communication Art and Design)
Dennis has exhibited internationally for many years now. 2004
saw him selected for the Becks Futures Student Prize for Film
and Video at ICA. He was also awarded the Royal College of Art
Chris Garnham prize for photography. Dennis' video work combines
a mastery of digital techniques ranging from photography to
editing to sound and image manipulation. By employing a complex
use of visual and acoustic signs and exploring the obsessive
mind of the neurotic, Dennis' work is deeply psychological.
However, his use of wit and wordplay lends his work a humanist
element that makes it instantly readable.
Annie Kevans (Central Saint Martin's: BA (Hons) in Fine Art)
Annie Kevans has enjoyed great success since her final show,
being bought by Charles Saatchi and included in Art Review's top
25. Kevans' subtly rendered portraits of young boys in oil on
paper or canvas belie an inherent darkness. Concerned with
'belief systems and patterns of behaviour… historiography,
manipulation and the fragile concepts of webs which bind us
together', Kevans has rendered a series of portraits of 'evil'
political leaders from the twentieth century. Stalin, Polpot,
Hitler and Hussein all figure amongst others as young innocents,
forcing us to consider prescribed and potentially alternative
histories as well as the complex ambitions of the human mind. |
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