Camberwell Space is pleased to present new work by artists created during the Artists Access to Art College Scheme (AA2A) at Camberwell College of Arts, Chelsea College of Art and Design and Wimbledon College of Art in 2012/13.

Emily Allchurch specializes in photographic re-creations of old master prints and paintings set in a contemporary idiom. She completed an MA at the Royal College of Art in 1999 and has exhibited extensively including the Japan Society Gallery New York, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Artsway and the Royal Academy of Arts. In 2011,The Minneapolis Institute of Arts acquired a full set of Tokyo Story for their permanent collection. She featured in the BBC4 series A Digital Picture of Britain (2005), Britain in Pictures (2007) and This Green and Pleasant Land (2011). She lives and works in London.

Cécile Emmanuelle Borra is a French born artist and a graduate of Goldsmiths College. Much of her work explores notions of “desire” and examines the commodification of the Body, refined by a critical line of enquiry rooted in tropes from gender studies and feminist art history. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Sketch and group show at the ICA and the Royal Academy, London. Borra co-curated and exhibited in The Show at SOBREÁTICO, Barcelona (2010) and exhibited at Supermarket, Kulturhuset, Stockholm (2011) and A.I.R Gallery, New York (2012). She lives and works in London.

Giuseppina Esposito’s work explores the contrast between presence and absence, and investigates notions of temporality. She has been using still photography, text, and multichannel film installations, reflecting on how we make sense of disparate visual data. Her most recent work And What Then, 2013, which will be presented at Screen: Between Europe and Asia, at the International Shiryaevo Biennale, asks how a set of moving images, given within a particular construct, elicit from the viewer a need to elaborate a narrative between three films which have no apparent mutual connection. Esposito is originally from Naples; she lives and works in London. She studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and at the Slade School of Fine Art.

Ben Fredericks is a moving image artist and director, who works in collaboration with a range of arts professionals across film, music and visual arts industries. His films experiment with diverse narratives, visual storytelling and performance to capture a snapshot of time in a fictional characters life. In his recent work he has created a series of unrelated short vignettes on love called ‘Portraits of a Utilitarian Love’. This series explores fleeting moments of un-dramatic almost mundane events in life, which relate to the everyday and unglamorous side of love. He lives and works in London.

Jade Heritage works predominantly with video, writing and performance. Her current practice revolves around personal history, environment, and social standing; the process she employs is grounded in deconstruction; picking apart human behaviour, language and movement. Jade Heritage graduated with BA (Hons) Fine Art: Time-Based Media from Wimbledon College of Art. She has been a Bow Arts Trust Associate Artist since October 2011. Recent exhibitions include Houses, The Old Ambulance Depot, Edinburgh (2012); Westworld, Scare in the Community, Xero, Kline, Coma Gallery, London (2012); Future Map, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2012). She lives and works in London.

Marianne Holm Hansen works across media and in relation to specific systems, sites and situations. Her practice explores and re-appropriates established methodologies to question how we come to understand things as we do and how an awareness of this may enable us to understand differently. Her work is presented internationally, including at La Mama, New York, (2012); AC Institute, New York (2011); Arnolfini, Bristol (2010); Stanley Picker Gallery, London (2009); Academic Film Centre, Belgrade (2008). She studied at Det Fynske Kunstakademi (Denmark), International Centre of Photography (New York) and holds an MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice from Goldsmiths (London). In 2011 she published her first book project '100 things not worth repeating: on repetition' (LemonMelon, London).

The circulation of images and how companies/brands carefully insert this material into our daily experience is a constant theme throughout Sam Plagerson's work. Drawing upon the signs, codes and gestures carefully embedded in advertising, the work mines images from billboard, internet and magazine sources. Through the translation of this iconography into sculptures, his practice explores the ideology of this consumer language. He graduated from Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 2008. Recent exhibitions include Seduction, Simon Oldfield, London (2012); Tryouts, Downstairs Gallery, Herefordshire (2012); New Symphony, Simon Oldfield, London (2010); Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2009, Corner House, Manchester, Rochelle School, London (2009); Pop Will Eat Itself, Piccadilly Circus Underground Station, commissioned by Art on the Underground (2009).

Italia Rossi‘s practice explores the space and the presence of the body, using subjects and imagery that derive from architecture, graphics, geometry, movement and identity. Her work deliberately mixes 3d and 2d aspects, combining drawings, etchings, photos and installations to create metaphors of processes, diagrams of things displaced in the space and maps of localised events in the time. Italia Rossi trained originally in Architecture. Recent group exhibitions include The Artist Eye at the Hackney Museum (2011), Pushing Prints Festival in Margate (2012) and the Annual Shows of the East London Printmakers (2011, 2013). Italia’s work has been awarded and supported by the British Council; she lives and works in London.

Sally Waterman employs literary adaptation as a mechanism for self-portraiture, creating photographic and video works that explore memory, place and familial relationships. Drawing upon writers such as T.S Eliot, Henry James and Virginia Woolf, she re-invents the source material through a fragmentary re-scripting exercise, seeking autobiographical associations with certain images, themes, characters or concepts. Waterman received her PhD in Media & Photography at the University of Plymouth in 2011. Recent exhibitions include Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (Solo, 2012) and Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany (Group, 2013). Her work is held in public collections including the National Art Library, V&A, London and the Yale Center for British Art, New York.

Jeanine Woollard’s work recalls a nostalgia for art historical tropes and artisanal methods, but at the same time utilizing mass produced objects and imagery as a conduit for this romance. Her photographs are often the documentation of sets assembled from ‘carefully’ hashed together detritus, where there are no bounds to what can be called material. She holds a MFA from Goldsmiths College; she lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions and residencies include: Young British Art II, curated by Ryan Gander, Dienstgebaude, Zurich (2012), Cantus Firmus, W139, Amsterdam (2012), Artist in Residence -The Royal Standard, Liverpool (2012), Peeping Tom, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands (2011).

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Camberwell College of Arts
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