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Explore this archive through any individual artist’s links to it, and ultimately to each other. Shared spaces, gifts and projects connect artist to art to artist, and show the importance of these connections.

Tamara Okudu

TW: Mentions of death and violence

Tamara doesn’t regard herself as an artist so much as someone who makes art. She creates entirely for fun, using her works to explore grief, nostalgia and personal experience. Heavily influenced by camp aesthetics and y2k icons, her practice often delves into humour and silliness.

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Adele Clifford

TW: Bodily fluids

Adele is an interdisciplinary artist working in costume creation and design, visual arts, music, and performance art as a medium of storytelling and worldbuilding. Her work embraces folkloric aesthetics and narratives to explore gender, sustainability, and our relationship to the natural world.

Her clothing, which she showcased in a collaborative show in 2023 called Spinsters, used natural materials and objects to portray the shapes and movements found in our eco system. Her time at Alto Art Residency was an opportunity to absorb the unique flora and fauna of the Chapado dos Veadeiros and served as the perfect inspiration for an upcoming performance project. She worked on various drawings, crochet costume pieces and props, echoing the abundant wildlife of Brazil.

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Ellie Home

TW: Bodily fluids, nudity, gore

Inspired by the grotesque, Ellie Home explores the horrors and ecstasy of inhabiting a fleshy vessel in constant flux. Through hybrid beasts, with exaggerated and warped offshoots such as umbilical cords, nails and hair, she attacks the canvas with a provocative and perverse mix of biology.Decay and degradation are ever-present reminders of our brutal life cycle within Home’s work, from fungal colour schemes, mouldy secretions and sagging flesh. The carcasses within Home’s work engulf and transmogrify into a communal body, inspired by dancing, sexual and religious mysticism, representing a longing to escape isolated consciousness.

By creating a molten landscape where it’s inhabitants ooze and leak through phallocentric binaries, she pokes fun at the reductiveness of humanism’s binaries and celebrates fluidity.The beasts within Home’s fantasy world are amalgamations of animals, objects, humans, microorganisms and plants that walk the tightrope of disgust and desire. These unlikely cross pollinations defy categorisation, dissolving the boundaries and hierarchies between entities. Home births these works into her arena of metamorphosis through large scale oil paintings, mixed media sculptures, collage, ceramics, costumes and visceral performances. She has exhibited and performed across Glasgow, Newcastle and London.

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Alex Ellerton

TW: Nudity

Walking the line between pleasant and unpleasant, my work explores the boundaries of the body and relationship with abjection. I have this fascination with the internal body and the external body; the breakdown of the physical boundaries that occurs mainly through sexulity and digestion.  work primarily now digitally, however, I miss the raw, sketchy and chaotic processes I find when working physically in paintings and drawings. I would say that currently in my work, the unclean, unfiltered roughness that is so easy to obtain in paintings but difficult to organically create in a medium as soulless and inorganic as computers.

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Shawn Nayar

TW: Bodily fluids, nudity

Shawn Nayar is a performance artist from India who weaves his audience into collaborative enquiries. On stage, he embraces the instinctive physicality that comes with his intrinsic movement practice, becoming a body that lunges into the crowd with grotesque convulsions and holds their attention with captivating lulls.

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Explore by theme

 

Explore the archive through the common links between art practices. Having grown and developed alongside each other, these shared interests and influences come out of that sense of community. 

The body as art

TW: Bodily fluids, nudity, gore

The body, both internal and external, is a major site of exploration for the artists in this project. From the connection of human biology to the natural earth, of the internal bodily functions to sex and sexuality, and the impact of social perceptions of body and gender on how we react to them, the physical body is a common thread in this archive. 

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I made this for you

As each other’s audience as well as collaborators, much of the artwork we create is made specifically to be gifted, or winds up that way when space become an issue. Much of the archive is built up of this sharing, and hoarding, of each other’s artworks. It is an important part of what makes this archive so communal and connected.

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It's personal

Personal experience informs much of the works seen in this archive. Emotions, encounters and history build up a lot of the understandings and meanings we see in these works. It also informs the interests these artists have in their art practices, drawing a line from life to art that keeps branching further and further. The inclusion of the artists physical bodies or images of themselves brings the person into these works, and assigns an identity to the experiences depicted. 

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Looking camp right in the eye

Campness is a common thread running throughout this archive. From colour palette to subject matter, to the theatrics of exaggerating gender and aesthetic binaries, the artists approach their practice always with a hint of playfulness. 

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