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Artist Feature: Ilona Sunderland

August 7, 2015 Surface Gallery
What Are You Talking About?  by Ilona Sunderland

What Are You Talking About? by Ilona Sunderland

Over the next week we will be featuring the work from a select few of the artists from our Painted Surface exhibition, which is open until Saturday 15th August.

Our first featured artist is Ilona Sunderland, a soon-to-be final year BA Fine Art student at Nottingham Trent University. We selected her due to her three-dimensional take on painting, and the way that the audience could interact with her work from various angles.

Check out her artist statement here:

Fascinated by human interaction and our evolution as a species in relation to our ability to converse and communicate with one another leads me to using the face as a central aspect of my work. I am not limited to specific mediums as such; the subject matter of each of my works determines the materials used and the form the works take.

I’m interested in still image’s power to infer a narrative without the assistance of sound or movement, placing human interaction in a contradictory context. Playing into the idea of absence is presence; I examine the empty spaces of conversation and our natural desire to fill in the gaps. I recreate these spaces to provide a place of reflection ­ the goal is to provoke question, contemplation, to make us become aware of ourselves.

What Are You Talking About? forms my most recent work; intending for the audience to inhabit the space within the installation, to rely on their experience of what they know, in order to piece together the given fragments.

What are you talking about? by Ilona Sunderland


What are you talking about? by Ilona Sunderland

We wish Ilona good luck in her final year of studies and look forward at seeing what she produces for her degree show next June! 

Visit her website here: www.ilonasunderland.tumblr.com

Written by Pippa Lynott

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we are still working hard at getting your postcards sent back to you but Surface Gallery are happy to announce the winners of the International Postcard Show 2019!🌟⁣
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In first place we have Ilan Garibi with The World is Not Flat!⁣
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In second place we have Juliet James for Fancy Pants 2!⁣
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and finally, last but not least, in third place we have Jennifer Hanu for Postcards to my Family!⁣
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all the artists are tagged in this post so go and check out their work! congratulations to the winners and a big thank you to everyone who entered! we had some amazing entries this year and it was very hard to pick just three ✨
Surface Gallery x UK Young Artists Takeover 🔥 
come see some flamin’ art at our opening. 
going on until 8pm! 🌊

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Thanks to everyone who came to our Make Your Mark workshop yesterday, what a great turn out! So many awesome, experimental artworks were created and fun was had by all! ☺️🎨✂️✏️🌈⁣
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Sneak preview of what you can get up to this Saturday at our Make Your Mark workshop! ⁣
Drop in 2-4pm for a mix of printmaking, marbling, poetry and collage. ⁣
£5 suggested donation, refreshments provided. ⁣
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Hit List: A Solo Exhibition by Tom Van Herrewege⁣
12th - 26th January⁣
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Opening Night: Friday 11th January, 6-9pm 🌟🌟⁣
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Surface Gallery is pleased to welcome Tom Van Herrewege, and his solo exhibition, Hit List. Since Spring 2017, Van Herrewege has been working on a large series of works entitled Hit List. Images of endangered animals have been sourced from sets of old cigarette cards and encyclopedia pages, some of these more than one hundred years old. The images have then been partially burnt away, representing the conservation status of each animal on the IUCN list of threatened species. The more the image is burnt away, the closer the individual animal is to extinction. The image is burnt away in order to represent humankind’s impact; we are the only animal that can produce fire. It also serves as a reminder that one day we may not, literally, be able to see these animals. ⁣
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The majority of animals represented in Van Herrewege’s Hit List are now endangered within their natural habitats. Most of the cigarette cards represent the more popular and better known larger animals. If they were to represent the smaller animals, such as amphibians, marine life, and a huge variety of other species that go unconsidered, then the animal imagery burnt away would be far greater. ⁣
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Artist Talk and Workshop⁣
Saturday 19th January, 2 - 4pm⁣
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As Tom discusses his project, you will be invited to research animal species and their ecological status and you will also have the opportunity to create your own artworks. Tom will be discussing his practice and methods of working and will be happy to help you try this out for yourself. Tablets will be available, although participants are also free to use their smartphones to research various species. All other materials will be provided.
To coincide with the opening of The International Postcard Show 2019, we will be offering a multi-disciplinary drop-in workshop, Make Your Mark. ⁣ ⁣
Our fab studio artists and volunteers will show you a variety of artistic techniques where you’ll get to make your own postcards, inspired by the wonderful work of everyone who has submitted to the show. ⁣ ⁣
What you’ll learn: ⁣
🌟 Printmaking ⁣
🌟 Collage ⁣
🌟 Marbling ⁣
🌟 Poetry ⁣ ⁣
What you’ll get: ⁣
🌈 A ‘variety pack’ of postcards to take home with you ⁣
🌈 All materials provided to make your multi-media, experimental postcards ⁣
🌈 Hot & cold drinks, cake and bikkies ⁣
🌈 Great company! ⁣ ⁣
Suggested donation £5, cash only. ⁣ ⁣
Children are invited to attend but must be supervised by an adult at all times. ⁣ ⁣
Saturday 12th January 2019 ⁣
2-4pm, drop-in ⁣ ⁣
Surface Gallery ⁣
16 Southwell Road ⁣
Nottingham NG1 1DL ⁣
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Just 1 week left to enter and send in your submissions to our annual International Postcard Show! If you still haven’t sent us your submissions, then you still have time to get them in! We have received many fantastic and creative postcards so far, so thank you to those who have already posted your work to us 📮
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The deadline for submissions is the Friday 4th of January at 6pm! ⁣
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Leave us a “🌟” in the comments if you have already submitted or are in the process of sending us your submissions, we would love to see who is entering!!!⁣
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