Artist's 500

Boyarde messenger Born in London 1980.

Studied art BTEC foundation in art at Wimbledon school of art in 2000 and then did a BA in photography at Bournemouth arts institute in 2003.
Boyarde Messenger is said to be an “environmental Portraitist” which means she does portraits while the focused subject is in their usual surroundings/environment.
Done in photography, meaning the artist would try  to bring out the character of the person while they are relaxed in the surroundings.

She works commercially while doing her own projects to better express herself

Her portfolio is made up of three areas of work due to her separate interests.

Her second home of belize in central America.
Her interest in the female form and Scopophilia [pleasure of looking]
and her love of Pop art and the artistic.

Her playful personality is highlighted in her works surrounding the female form, having a pop art way of doing her art or a traditional one as she takes pleasure form, making it amusing, silliness and mischievous.

For the Belize part of her work, influenced from Eduard Hopper, it shows a whole new world of inspiration. With her fantasy increasing she created a narrative and open film still from attractively undone landscapes to the free spiritedness of people. This shows in her Night prowl Series which also gives a rather eery feel to me, as if something islurking in the shadows.

Belize narrative:

Boyarde messenger is known for her “Pop art bottoms” that can be found from London and Australia to the royal palaces of Jordan, Paris and new York.
she combines hand painting and photography liberating the subject and admiring it while still adding it with humour.

Boyarde herself says she is “Painting on everything but paper”.
Scopophilia lets her re-contextualize sub conscious images of all types of art from Pre Raphaelites to comics ect.

Evolving her art, it now transcends from body to fashion accessories.

A designer called charlotte Olympia collaborated with Boyarde Messenger on a project during Art Basel Miami last year that involved hand painting 100 pairs of the dolly platform pumps for the “Neiman Marcus charlotte Olympia project”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkBkb0_zUnY&feature=player_embedded

the most in interesting part is that each pair of shoes was a re-interpretation of a famous artwork from 20^th century artists like Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van  gogh.

During the private “Art Basel Miami” event, these shoes were sold.

Personally, im not much of a heel person and yet even I find most of the shoes rather impressively done.

She showed her work internationally with the Cynthia Corbett Gallery with her first solo show in 2009.
In exhibited at Saatchi Gallery in London with “The art of giving” were she showed 4 hand painted women in her unique pop art style.

“Painterly in style yet photographic in composition” her fascinating real life landscapes give the viewer the perfect story

BoyardeMessenger. 2013. BoyardeMessenger. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.boyardemessenger.com/fa_popart.php. [Accessed 20 May 2013].

St Johns Cavilier - inspired from Music/Pianos

The artist was inspired by pianos and music.

This shows an interesting interpritation by leaving most of the canvas blank and just painting it white with bits of white paper glued to add some different shades. With all this empty space, on the far left there is a mash of different colours and piano keys makes a good  composition and an interesting piece.

Somewhat of an element of symetry with the left and right side get the symetry being broken with the  splashes of paint in the center of the right side. While the piano keys are done with browns giving a dirty look, the middle of the image is blasted with colours.

Mainly being blue with small bits of colours, the amusing part is how a palette is stuck onto the canvas with piano keys painted on as it has the basic shape of a piano. Coloured pained seems to drip off the palette and find itself on the right side of the canvas.

Interesting way of making a modest way of highlighting the form of a piano and creativly making coloured pages of music notes on part of the piano.
The piano shape is a slightly darker shade of white to make it more visible.

 

This image is one of the works i like best as its simple yet complicated at the same time. The simplisity of the background making it a plain colour with small hints of pale colours and on the left side having cardboard in the shapes of pianos stuck and piano keys painted on as they are covered in differently coloured paint and abit under them to make them stand out.

The Artist.

St Johns Cavilier - War inspired Exhibition

By Tonio Mallia

DunKirk

This painting seems to be a troop of soldier passing through the water for better cover from the enemy.
Mainly done in blues due to the hue of the water and the cover of night. Yellow and orange dabs of paint are visible which may represent the bombs going off in a near by town.

Detail fades off the further away the troops get from the front of the painting from a detailed face to a speck in the background.

The Sea
One of my favourites from this exhibition as the image shows a child sinking to the  bottom of the ocean. The painting is split in two as the first one is a general outlook to the ocean while the bottom one shows what really lies beneath the waves.

The mash of colours really brought the beauty of the water as u can see a combination of purples and blues as the water glistens in  the reflection of the sun. The effect of air coming off the boys clothes and from his mouth are done in an impressive way that it looks realistic as if you are watching a clip.

Dad
A touching site of an unknowing little boy hanging on to his father as he looks beyond the picture. Little does the child know the dangers of his father’s partake in the war and eagerly looks up. With the plane in the background he can tell that this is him going to war and not just coming back.

Light in the background highlights the blades of the plane and hits the peoples figures to highlight detail of their clothes 

Missing
This image is of a plane that has crashed near a town were the pilot probably came from as we see a child in tears near it. The part i like most how the feeling of the girl is emphisised as the artist made a second canvas with the girl having a "close up". Another painting where the mash of colours is impressive and helping to send the message of the painting.

Bayonets
This image to me symbolizes the fallen soliders. The bayonets, being the weapons, placed upright in the soil and a helmet on each. this could be a sign of respect as they died in battle.
The image is mainly showing alot of brown fog-like effects which to me seems like this is in an on going war or the rest of the troop drove away.

Mcast Exhib #2

  
I got the idea that being as they were presented like this, means that they were meant to be one “piece”.
The idea I get with this is about reading.  Some may look at this picture and think “The man on the bench wants to read” or the other way around, “the man reading feels like sitting down”.  When I look  at this picture think that the reader might seem like he is just sitting on a bench to other people, but to him, he’s in his own world.  

 Interesting interpretation making clockwork represent a persons face/head. Could mean that he is wasting time or just generally waiting for something, maybe a vehicle to pick him up due to the suitcase near him. Questionable factors of this image are rather strange. Why doesn’t he have shoes? Why is he on an old fashioned chair in an empty room? 

Interesting distortion of a female body.  Shot from the back to show the interesting “bumps” of the spine and small shadows of the rib cage. Distortion emphasizes the width of the hips and how the waist is narrow, typical in female biology. Edited to be black and white makes shadows clear and the image generally more interesting.  Having a black background and a greyscaled object /person in the middle makes it seem like a reverse silhouette.

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The following seem to be inspired by Fairytales

Inspired from Snow White.
Were in the movie, snow white is portrayed as a weak character that relied on being rescued by the 7 dwarfs and later on by her prince charming, this image portrays her as a character that doesn’t need saving. The quote of the picture is “I AM POWER” as she stops the man from giving her a curing kiss as she was fallen by the poison apple. She can save herself.

Inspired from Little Red Riding hood
Were in the movie she just a little girl, visiting her grandmother yet being hunted by a wolf then saved by the huntsman, this image shows an older red riding hood, ready to defend herself against anything that might harm her as she holds a large knife with a grin while sitting on the floor near her basket of goodies.
Quote of the picture being “ I AM BAD” to me seems like a comeback to the “big bad wolf” that once tried to kill her.

Inspired from Alice in wonderland
In the movie, Alice is this young girl who ends up in a world filled with wonderful yet strange things, meeting different characters and creatures like The Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat and each one getting more weird till the final Red Queen.  The quote of this image is “I AM NORMAL” as the girl seems to be defying gravity as her hair and a tea set seem to be floating upward near a giant rabbit hole. Maybe she is normal in a world where strange things happen and being as the characters themselves say “We’re all mad here”. Mad to them is normal.

Inspired from Rapunzel.
In the movie, she is this young woman trapped in a tower, just waiting to be rescued. As her hair gets longer by time she uses it to help the prince save her as he climbs the tower using her hair as rope.  This picture shows her hair still long but shorter as no one needs to use it as a climbing tool. The images quote is “I AM FREE” as she doesn’t need anyone, she is already free with no help.

Not the main characters of any story I remember but possibly inspired from Tweedle dee and Tweedle dum from alice and wonderland
Characters that where never taken seriously by most, these twin characters were spoken to as one and never given individual attention. In this picture the quote is “I AM ME” these twins are dressed differently and have generally different styles as one is smart with no facial hair, the other is more casual with abit of stubble.

Mcast exhibition #1

  Note: title of work and name of artists are not mentioned. They are probably students of level 5 or 6

  

This is an interesting piece made of textile. The wire for the light and half the bulb are covered in a knitted structure of textile.
Seems to be inspired  from a snake or spring like form as the piece hangs from  above.
In a weird way it looks like a creature with one eye looking down at the passer-by , creeping.

 This interesting ceramic piece has different textures applied, probably done in a different way of firing. Due to this, there is a cracking effect as well as specks on it that work rather well together. The yellow and blue drips or splatters of glaze make it seem more interesting and not so plain.

 
 A scene painted on canvas inspired from cubism. Painted with flat colours and everything is simplified into a basic shape. I believe this is a Maltese scene due to what looks to be a church in the background that looks like any other Maltese church in Malta.
Interesting way of looking at the scene and rather impressive as the artist managed to combine everything without making it overly abstract that the viewer can’t tell what it is.

  A ceramic piece made up of multiple interesting shapes, combined to make a type of container. Together they seem to fit in each other like puzzle pieces yet still make sense on their own, or with fewer pieces.  Glazed in the primary colours they look acceptable together in a way were it doesn’t look odd.