Samson Young
Born in 1979 This artist lives and works in Hong Kong originally trained as a composer his artwork now takes for in a range of media’s. His work discusses themes of identity and conflict without suggesting solutions or interrupting the current social and political climate. He constantly questions our understanding of information and how we process things, specifically how we interpret sound. His work is also frequently political in nature, addressing military history and the British occupation of Hong Kong as subjects. He manipulates the components of music – sound, beat, rhythm, resonance – to communicate global issues surrounding topical conflicts that have affected our past and present as well as future.
I like the artists diverse approach in that he doesn’t excel in just one are a media rather each relies on the next to show the completed story and theme. However I feel his sound pieces to me are the most compelling, specifically “Liquid Borders” (2012-14), where the artist visited restricted zones along the Hong Kong-China border recording the sounds of the divide. Recording the vibrations of the fence at multiple points from both sides, showing that the sound of the fence remained the same from both sides. These recordings were made into sound compositions then transcribed into graphic notation.
Martin Creed
Martin Creed was born in 1968 and is a British artist, composer and performer. He uses ordinary inexpensive materials in order to create multimedia works that have both irritated and delighted viewers and critics. Despite his reputation as a conceptual artist he rejects the term “conceptual” and calls himself an “expressionist,” referring to his notion that all art stems from feeling. His work ranges from minimalist interventions, expressionistic portraits and songs. His approach to art always holds humorous undertones and experimentation. He is constantly underpinning everything he does with the open question about what art is.
Bruce Newman
Bruce Nauman was born in 1942 in America. Nauman finds inspiration in the activities, speech, and materials of everyday life. Despite the impact of Dada, he has continued to view his art less as a playful or creative enterprise than as a serious research endeavour. Nauman’s earliest work was shaped by Minimalism in the late 1960s. In particular, the way he treated his own body in his work, shown in video completing repetitive tasks – and the way he related the body to surrounding objects show the impact of Minimalism’s new ideas about the relationship between the viewer and the sculptural object. But he often rejected the slick production values of Minimalism and has often showed a preference for a cruder rawer presentation of work.
Richard Billingham
(born 25 September 1970) is an English photographer and artist, film maker and art teacher. His work has mostly concerned his family, the place he grew up in the West Midlands, but also landscapes elsewhere. He began taking photographs of his family in their council flat in 1990 to use as studies for paintings. However when he exhibited the photographs as works in their own right, they quickly brought him to the attention of the art world. His photographs have been hailed as a mass of contradictions and praised for their lack of condescension. They are an unique and highly personal document of working- class identity in Britain, showing a ‘warts and all’ look at the life of Billingham’s family.
CHARLEY MILLAR ART 