Painter
Northern Irish born Colin McGookin, has worked extensively as a photographer using the medium as a tool for recording events, documenting installations, researching source material, archiving his artwork and recently as an artistic medium in itself. He has a vast archive of photos dating from the mid 1970′s. McGookin has also effectively acted as a curator and facilitator on a number of exhibitions over the last two decades, in particular for Queen Street Studios. During his residency at 18th Street sponsored by the British Council, McGookin created the mural “Spiral Maze” as a collaborative project with the 5th grade class at the Canyon Elementary School in Santa Monica. His work has been exhibited at 18th Street in a one person presentation.
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Live/Performance and Video Artist
Phil Collins works primarily with live arts and video and has shown his work widely throughout the UK and Europe. His latest video works address politically relevant instances in the Balkans and Northern Ireland. Recent large-scale photographic prints observe his battle with testicular cancer, in the series ‘You’re Not The Man You Never Were’. For the past four years Collins has been engaging with the media through reality TV formats, taking testimonials from former show participants and industry professionals that reveal televisions exploitations. Through this process the artist is able to introduce performance and conceptually grounded approaches to video and photography through popular culture and low-budget production. His work shows an increasing commitment to the social and the politic in enlisting and exploiting purposefully and temporarily, the ambivalences and uncertainties of an audience through fiction and play-acting. His performances promote fallibility, awkwardness and lo-fidelity as methods of discussing authority, and with a complete lack of legitimate ideas, which have a pressing emotional and political significance for the audience. He was a recent nominee for the Turner Prize and exhibited at the Tate Museum in London.
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