Nika Kupyrova

www.nikakupyrova.com

Nika Kupyrova works in the mediums of installation and photography, using found materials to explore the emotional narratives of living spaces and the concept of “home”.

Found objects interest the artist by their deep-rooted familiarity and gradual re-shaping through possession. In her work, Kupyrova approaches both the mundane and the extravagant of domestics by constructing fictional “homes” which carry the traces of their previous inhabitants, or creating fake household objects, which manipulate the protective, comfort and totemistic qualities of their prototypes.

Magda Boreysza

www.magdaboreysza.com

Magda Boreysza is an illustrator, comic artist and animator. See more of her work at www.magdaboreysza.com. Her hand-painted plates are available to buy at Technicolour, 2 Bruntsfield Place.

Low Pressure

www.low-pressure.co.uk

Low Pressure is an arts collective connected by friendship and an interest in creating exhibitions, events and happenings that provide a platform to support and inspire interaction between artists of various disciplines. Acting as a support network for each other they work both collaboratively and individually.

Low Pressure have produced a collection of objects from mundane materials that play with the idea of value. The outcome created is an illusion of luxury and value in each object emphasized by the laboured process and the manipulation of materials by the artists.

Sarah MacIntyre / Margaret McCormick / Sara Sinclair / Laura Sutherland

Konomi Kaneya

kaneyatrace.wordpress.com

The principle concern of Konomi Kaneya’s current art practice is to explore various natural phenomena in specific stages of their development. She is principally interested in the flow of natural energy; this exploration allows her to understand the living and natural environment. It is important to depict the invisible flow of natural life and by the use of the “line” Kaneya can portray worlds, specific tensions, currents or rhythms.

Kirsty Sumerling

www.kirstysumerling.co.uk

Kirsty Sumerling’s jewellery collection focuses on the beauty of surface decay and the resulting work appears as a series of snapshots of surfaces frozen in time. This installation shows the extensive samples that were produced, informing the final work.

Intrigued by the effects of time and decay Summerling explored this condition in enamel and chemical patina, playing with both control and unpredictability. The embedded patina and change within a surface implies that a transformation has occurred over a period of time.

The resulting work is unpredictable and unexpected; a product of a process deliberately out of her control.

Katheryn Wiggins

www.kathrynwiggins.com

You are human.

Kathryn Wiggins created these images to illustrate what that really means.

Among the visual rhythms, you will come across undecipherable notes and pictures that do not allow illusion, inspired by ancient artefacts we cannot decode.

At the same time, these elements provide innate resonation while invoking a deep sense of having seen unmistakable relics of the human spirit.

Eric Schumacher

ericwschumacher.blogspot.com

Eric Schumacher's work is strongly influenced by experiences gathered from explorations of urban areas. Different kinds of architecture and architectural improvements, as well as furnishing of interiors and other home personification are surveyed with an analysis of the different styles of design found throughout the decades and centuries.

The work shown at the WOT is considered by the artists as a 2D sketch of found images and materials and plays with the idea of an absurd juxtaposition of the human evolution and its utopian visions.

Becky Campbell and Sigrun Guðmundsdóttir

becky-campbell.blogspot.com ; sigr.wordpress.com

“Being immersed outside in water at Sundlaugin í Vík í Mýrdal I was able to look out to the mountain Reynisfjall and I knew that the sea was close by. The day before was the first of a road trip travelling towards the east of Iceland and passing this village a lullaby had been sang to me: remnants of that melody echoed. Suddenly I was fully aware of physically engaging with the tactility of the water- I wasn’t only looking at or only touching the ground with my feet. I was making my own stories I could then tell to others.”

Sigrún Guðmundsdóttir and Becky Campbell began collaborating in Reykjavik in January 2010 following a journey through the south of Iceland. Plants have been sent from Iceland which Campbell has reconfigured as props to be returned to Reykjavik for a performance by Guðmundsdóttir.

Alice Bo-Wen Chang and Becky Campbell

becky-campbell.blogspot.com

The obsession of window patterns in Chinese and Islamic architecture has led Alice Bo-Wen Chang to create geometrical objects with patterns growing and flowing organically. In collaboration with Becky Campbell, whose interest focuses on the elevation of plants and throw-away detritus, they meet half way along their journeys from opposite ends: the hands that carve the geometries of the flooding light, and the fingers that manipulate the reconstruction of the uncanny nature, are held together. Together, the artists' works interact, converse and compliment; the space becomes luminous.

Augustus Veinoglou

snehta.wordpress.com

Augustus Veinoglou’s visual and theoretical research is informed by pragmatic studies, which have interest in the materiality and the structural qualities of the urban landscape.

He is interested in the psycho-geographical and the archaeological traces as these appear on the materiality and textural qualities of urban space.

He is currently looking into the poetics of space and in forms of dream-space and dream architecture, as spatially bound dreams make him grasp better the emotional significance of specific experiences in real space.

He usually works in a tactile and intuitive way.

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Cast edifice can be either seen as a miniature model for the realization of a larger structure or an independent sculpture, CE is a material experiment making reference to the ephemeral materiality of contemporary architecture and construction. It involved customary sculptural practices such as modelling and casting.

Lorna Louise Reid

knittingcupsofteaandme.blogspot.com

The collection, based on Fair Isle knitting patterns, led to an obsession of repeating shapes and lines. Stamps and stencils were cut to create marks and build up surfaces.
The work, although silk screen printed, shows the naïve quality of drawing and the clear use of felt tip pen and cut shapes, onto natural coloured fabrics like paper drawings.

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an exhibition of desirable art objects that defy specific function



Lorna Reid

Sacha Imrie

Alice Chang

Low Pressure

Faith Limbrick

Thórunn Bára

Nika Kupyrova

Rachel Charter

Tobias Houlton

Konomi Kaneya

Becky Campbell

Kirsty Sumerling

Kathryn Wiggins

Eric Schumacher

Rachael Thomas

Magda Boreysza

Augustus Veinoglou

Sigrún Guðmundsdóttir



The WOT, George IV Bridge/Victoria Street

25th November - 9th December 24/7



artists' talk : Wednesday 24th November 18:30. e25. Edinburgh College of Art



curated by Becky Campbell
The WOT is a window gallery for students and recent graduates of Edinburgh College of Art. It is located across six large windows on George IV Bridge and Victoria Street; the windows are part of the City's Central Lending Library building. This is an exciting opportunity for a new kind of exhibiting as the windows are open 24/7.

Natalie Wilson

Natalie Wilson
Ba (Hons) intermedia Art
Drawing (in progress)
Black paper and sunlight

My interests predominantly centre around communication, information and behaviour, with specific regard to the technological advances which have altered and will alter our lifestyles either subtly or to a far greater extent.

www.NatalieWilson.eu

James Currie

James Currie
Ba (Hons) Intermedia Art

Catherine Hobbs

Catherine Hobbs
MA Fine Art
catherine.hobbs@eca.ac.uk

I seek to relegate the eventful and elevate the forgotten and present them side by side, as equal and inseparable.

Aleksandra Zawada

Aleksandra Zawada
Ba (Hons) Painting

zawadka_ol@op.pl

My work touches on appropriation. Similar by its means, it is more personal and attempts to challenge the reproduction as taste forming. I am interested in the paradox: whether it is possible to profane a copy, does it have value and can it still be classified as art.
By conscious choice, I am trying to bring back art to the reproduction. The artist’s choice is deliberate. The pieces are carefully selected. I consider them significant in my practice from various reasons. Very often it becomes a comment, a tribute, a dialogue.
I work in not extending 7 series, using the same starting point. Each peace is unique and exists on its own. The materials are very minimal and fragile. Putting them next to each other removes reassuring comfort zone and reveals their origins.

Phyllis Smith

Phyllis Smith

MA Drawing and Painting

My work is about trying to hold onto a past memory, here from a day spent walking in the park. Through photos, sketches and memory I try to create an image of the mind's eye.

Claudine Quinn

Claudine Quinn 2010

claudinequinnphoto@gmail.com

Ba (Hons) Photography

23 Rectangles (sketch for a window)

A photographic sketch in response to a space.

Megumi Fukae

Megumi Fukae

MFA Intermedia Art

megmegmillion@yahoo.co.uk

I am interested in the relationship between place and people

My current work is about borders

We are surrounded by borders, they are part of how we co-exist; borders between country and country, area and area, family and family, even individuals. In our day to day lives it often seems that we do not mind or do not notice them. They are mostly changeable, obscure and invisible.

I would like to reveal the given space through the idea of borders and make the viewer a little more aware of the space.

Sunland

After the festival exhibition and a short break form all WOT related things, the window on talent returns with a new exhibition curated by recent graduate Alex Tobin. 'Sunland' has taken artists from intermedia, photography and painting, presenting;

Natalie Wilson

Catherine Hobbs

Claudine Quinn

James Currie

Megumi Fukae

Phyllis Smith

Aleksandra Zawada

Opening Tuesday 19th October

ARTIST TALK

6.30pm

Intermedia Seminar Space E25

Edinburgh College of Art

then

The WOT

George IV Bridge

The Villager

around 7.30pm