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Laura Blight

Laimonas — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:20:33 +0000

Interesting series by Laura Blight, recently shown in Free Range exhibition in London Old Truman Brewery. Her work looks into the human traces left behind in rented accommodations, usually after the occupants have passed away.

Blackpool & Fylde Graduate Exhibition Pt II

Laimonas — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:06:45 +0000

Blackpool & Fylde BA (Hons) Graduate Exhibition, Cube Gallery, Manchester

Opening night was a great success, with a big turnout, and comments from tutors being best graduate show in many years. Big thanks for everyone contributing to the exhibition!

Catherine Scrivener (right) and Sofia Ali (left)

Anna Dyson (left)

Cube Gallery, Manchester

Hannah Allen (right)

Laimonas Stasiulis - Into the wilderness (left)

: Laimonas Stasiulis – Into the wilderness (right) Sofia Ali (left)

Laimonas Stasiulis - Into the wilderness

Adam Wilson - Preston Bus Station

Sarah Casey (left)

Linda McLaughlin (left), Leah Metcalfe (right)

Sofia Ali

Alex Worsley (left), Anneka Goodyear (right)

Rob Rusling

Setting up for exhibition…

Laimonas — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 02:00:36 +0000

Cube Gallery, Manchester

Sunday, 20th June, we begin to curate and set up our Graduate Exhibition show at Cube Gallery, Manchester. Everything went really well, and all done on time! Great effort from everyone involved.

Work Area

Adam Wilson, Aaron Tonks, Rob Rusling, Andy and Brian Morrison

Adam Wilson, looking at my prints

mounting wooden battens on aluminium

Perfect use of crates of beer – weighing down wooden battens to bond with aluminium

My print found its place, ready to be hung on the wall

First print - done! Big thanks to Adam for the help

Classic shot, me looking knackered

Adam Wilson, next to his prints

Aaron Tonks setting up, with a fashionable toolbelt

Sarah Eyre and Sarah Casey, setting up

Rob Rusling, thinking...

Adam Wilson's prints about to go up

Catherine Scrivener's prints, my favourites from the exhibition

Into the wilderness… Exhibited

Laimonas — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:46:23 +0000

My latest project “Into the Wilderness” is being exhibited in:

Cube Gallery (Manchester) 22nd-26th June

Sustain Gallery (London) 29th June- 3rd July

Two aluminium mounted prints, 60″ x 48″.

Feel free to come along and see my work alongside other students from Blackpool & Fylde School of Art.

Sean Stewart

Laimonas — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:55:21 +0000

Sean has some really nice work on his website, have a look for yourself.

Eirik Johnson

Laimonas — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:16:37 +0000

Eirik Johnson’s project Borderlands.

Links

Laimonas — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:28:01 +0000

I am looking to exchange links with other photographers, if you have a blog running or would like to swap links to your site, please contact me: info@laimonas.co.uk

David Laventi

Laimonas — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:06:42 +0000

I came across David Laventi’s project Romania Revisited and was quite impressed by the imagery. Below is artist’s statement on the series:

“I found myself sitting in a wooden hut making an effort to down another swig. The dirty plastic bottle labeled American cola was the only object keeping me in this century. It was filled with tuica, a clear fiery plum brandy. Like the village, the old man, my drinking companion, seemed unchanged since the days of the Ottoman Empire. I had come following the story of my great-grandfather, who had been imprisoned here in Romania for seven years as a dissident.

Romania Revisited retraces my great-grandfather’s footsteps into an unexpected past. Based on stories told by my father and grandmother, I traveled to Romania with a 4×5” large format view camera, collecting lost memories on a journey through a country now struggling to put behind it a lifespan of tyranny, while all the best and brightest who dared or were able to left.

I went to Sighet prison first. The building stands as a concrete eyesore in the green tranquil landscape. It was here that in 1948 the victorious communists imprisoned their political opponents. Now, the prison is the museum of the resistance to communism. The walls have been whitewashed. Children on school trips run about aimlessly. I asked the curator if they knew of Asra Berkovitz my great-grandfather. They were shocked that I had come from America – I became an instant celebrity by default. They knew more about him than I did. My great-grandfather had been a senator and publisher of a liberal newspaper. The curator showed me his cell, where Iuliu Maniu, the former prime minister, had died in his arms. She pointed out the black and white portrait of my great-grandfather on the wall – the same one my grandmother has on her night table.

Drink, the old woman gestured to encourage me. After our drink together, the old man appointed himself my guide and guardian…”

Source

Norbert Enker

Laimonas — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:28:20 +0000

It’s been a while since the last update, juggling several commissions on the go. Here is a nice project by Norbert Enker titled Brain Storm. The project is about the human brain and its relation to religious codes of values, and the belief that all conflicts can be mastered through rational considerations (the description has been written in German, therefore translation is quite rough)

Shawn Gust

Laimonas — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:38:17 +0000

I have officially finished my 10,000 words dissertation and ready to get the blog rolling again. First up is Shawn’s series Once Removed (2008), which deals with the natural world, and man’s interactions within this environment.