LADy LaMb&Popsy :: July

July 24, 2007

Interview with Ana Galvan

Filed under: Art

q) Let’s start with the basics; what’s your full name, where do you live, and how old are you?

a)My name is Ana Galvan, I’m 31 years old and I currently work in Madrid.

q) Do you have any formal training?

a)Yes, I went to a Secondary School of Art. I studied Fine Arts in Valencia and in Southampton also.

q) Did the place you grew up in influence your image making?

a)Maybe, but I’ve never been aware of that. I was born in Murcia, in the south of Spain, where, although you can find sea and mountains, landscapes are quite desertic. Perhaps I’m recreating those landscapes in my drawings. Who knows?

q) How do you come up with your concepts?

a)Most of them come up from real life, mainly self experiences. Others come up from music, films or TV.

q) Describe your creations in a clear, concise and understandable sentence. What do you call them?

a)Well, some vitryolic humour and some personal feelings.

q) What other mediums would you like to explore in your image making?

a)I want to explore comic structure and strict "Black & White" deeplier.

q) What is the best time in the day for you to work on a project? Is there one, or is it more about the environment — maybe the right mood?

a)I like to work in the morning, quite early. I need so much concentration that I can’t abide hard noises, just music.

q) What are your artistic influences?…and …generally who or what influences you the most?

a)I love comics, and I admire authors like Daniel Clowes, Charles Burns or Chris Ware, who have the courage to look deeply into abstract concepts, inherent to the human being, and therefore, quite difficult to express.

q) Who are some of your favourite artists/designers/photographers?

a)Here there are some of my favourite “artists”: Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, Allan Moore, Sidney Lumet, Billy Wilder, Will Eisner, David Lynch, Matt Groening, Joss Whedon, Joon-ho Bong…

q) What is your next project? Exhibition? Collaboration?

a)I’m working in a serie of illustrations for an online publication about graphics arts: www.magaezine.es.

q) What are your plans for the future?

a)I’m planning to quit my current work and find out any other that lets me enjoy free time to work on personal projects.

q) Are there some web sites that You would like to recommend? Artists, art communities, xxx,…!?

a)Sometimes I visit communities like "Illustrators Friday", "Illustrators Mundo" and "Comic Space". Also, I would like to recommend a site where you can find interesting Spanish authors: www.edicionespeo.com

q) What sort of music do you listen to?

a)Pop music, mainly. Nowadays I listen to Josh Rouse, Arcade Fire and Charlote Gainsbourg.

q) Do you collect anything? If so what?

a)No, I don’t

q) What do you do for fun?

a)Be with friends, read comics and books, watch TV series and films, listen to music and make drawings.

q) Any advice you can pass onto aspiring artists/designers?

a)Yes. Don’t be afraid to show your work.

q) Your contacts…

a)Ana Galvan
ana@anagalvan.com
www.anagalvan.com
elmyra-duff.blogspot.com

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July 12, 2007

Interview with Kenn Goodall

Filed under: Art

q)Let’s start with the basics; what’s your full name, where do you live, and how old are you?

a)My name is Kenn Goodall, I am 25 years old and I live in London, UK.

q) Do you have any formal training?

a)I studied art at college and did a graphic design and illustration degree at university.

q) Did the place you grew up in influence your image making?

a)Yeah I think it did and it does today, I am still growing. New shoes every 3 months etc.

q) How do you come up with your concepts?

a)For my commercial work it’s a fairly normal process: Read brief, drink coffee, think, doodle, panic, doodle, email, start final image.
My personal work usually comes about from something I’ve heard or seen, it usually grows from there either conceptually or aesthetically.

q) Describe your creations in a clear, concise and understandable sentence. What do you call them?

a)Images created using a variety of media for fun and profit.

q)What other mediums would you like to explore in your image making?

a)I am going to do some animation/motion at some point, I have to. I’d also like to do some larger scale paintings, ones that can’t fit onto my scanner. Explore more gallery based ways of working.

q)What is the best time in the day for you to work on a project? Is there one, or is it more about the environment — maybe the right mood?

a)More of the right mood than the right time. I usually work best during the day, I kid myself into thinking I can work late but nothing great gets done after 2am.

q) What are your artistic influences?…and …generally who or what influences you the most?

a)My very first recollection of really liking a picture was when my dad would play ‘More than a feeling’ by Boston and I’d sit and look at the front cover, I was intrigued by all the floating space ships.
Onwards from that - lots of things. I love music, music moves me in a way that pictures will never be able to.

q) Who are some of your favourite artists/designers/photographers?

a)This could be a very very long and boring list so I’ll try to be concise : Jason Holley, Jeffery Decoster, Phil Hale, Kent Williams, Dave Mckean, Build, Milton Glaser, Ted Mcgrath, Alan E Cober - etc. Then also a lot of my peers : Bob London, Hellovon, Emily Forgot, Holly Wales, Erin Petson, Richie Clarke there’s so many talented folk out there, it’s sometimes a little disheartening.

q) What is your next project?Exhibition?Collaboration?

a)Like I said earlier, some bigger paintings. I am also working on a couple of collaborations, one with Pete Simonelli - a poet from San Francisco and one with my fellow scribbler Rich Clarke.
In a nutshell, MORE drawing and MORE painting.

q)What are your plans for the future?

a)Eating my tea, going to the gym in the morning, drawing, painting, socialising.

q)Are there some web sites that You would like to recomend? Artists, art communities, xxx,…!?

a) http://www.boblondon.co.uk
http://www.erinpetson.com
http://www.emilyforgot.co.uk
http://www.hellovon.com
http://www.eatjapanesefood.co.uk
http://www.richardtclarke.co.uk
http://www.tedmcgrath.com
http://www.fecalface.com
http://www.ycnonline.com

q)What sort of music do you listen to?

a)I like all kinds of music as long as it’s interesting and not lame.
My top ten from last week are -
Boris
Oxbow
The Blood Brothers
Chris Clark
The American Analog Set
Burial
STNNNG
Battles
The Books
Autechre

q)Do you collect anything?If so what?

a)I collect vinyl records that I have no space for.

q)What do you do for fun?

a)Hang out with my girlfriend Niccola, drink, take photos, watch bands and generally mess about with friends.

q)Any advice you can pass onto aspiring artists/designers?

a)1.Make good work
2. Don’t rip people off, this makes you a loser.
3. Stick at it.

q)Your contacts…

a) http://www.bykenn.com
+44(0)7944620142

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July 3, 2007

Interview with Lisa Jeannin

Filed under: Art

q)Lets start with the basics; what’s your full name, where do you live, and how old are you?

a)Lisa Jeannin.
I live in Antwerpen,Belgium and I was born in 1972.

q) Do you have any formal training?

a)Yes, I studied in the art-academy of Malmö , Sweden 5 years ,graduated in 2001.and one year in the art-academy of Den Bosch,Holland before that.

q) Did the place you grew up in influence your image making?

a)I grew up in a small place near Stockholm called Österskär . I was influenced by the nature ,books I read ( I was very interested and still am in mythologies and fairytales from the whole world)it helped that my parents helped me to put that kind of paper newspapers get printed on everywhere on the walls of my room so that I could draw and paint different worlds to play in.My grandmother Ingrid was a big influence by her playfulness and understanding .I influenced myself by playing a lot by myself, making radioprograms, music,writing scripts and stories ,building up fantasyworlds inhabited by trolls, spirits, babies, children , animals, mummies and other creatures. As I became older I could start putting ideas I had already played with as a child together. I have rarely in my life been bored.

q) How do you come up with your concepts?

a)They pop up in my head! Sometimes I get information in my dreams.

q) Describe your creations in a clear, concise and understandable sentence. What do you call them?

a)I work mainly with stop-motion clay animations often with real humans or animals participating as well.But I also make sculptures and drawings and sounds. Exploring “themes” as perception , scale , the “unconscious” , the power of imagination, love , lonlyness, madness, magic, playfulness, parallel worlds and hope. That became more sentences…but here is a single one:
Trying to understand the world via fantasy and fiction.

q)What other mediums would you like to explore in your image making?

a)One dream is to make a film on 35 mm.

q)What is the best time in the day for you to work on a project? Is there one, or is it more about the environment — maybe the right mood?

a)The best time is in the morning for making things , and in the evening more to think , analyze what I did and prepare myself for the next step.

q) What are your artistic influences?…and …generally who or what influences you the most?

a)I am mostly influenced by films and mythologies from the whole world.I like hindu-devotional music-videos, Busby Berkeley-choreographies, science-fiction-books, rituals, folkloristic mind-blowing experiences, tai-chi , spiritual stuff.

q) Who are some of your favourite artists/designers/photographers?

a)Bruce Bickford , Henry Darger, George Herriman, Hieronymus Bosch and Buster Keaton.

q) What is your next project?Exhibition?Collaboration?

a)Right now me and Rolf Schuurmans are in the process of making 3 synchronized films (video) mixing stop-motion clay-animation with animation of 4 children creating one goddess and animated music.
We are also making a book that will be published by “publication” about these 3 films.
Exhibitions coming up in Felix de Boeck-museum in Brussels and Error #7 in Antwerpen.

q)What are your plans for the future?

a)To start working on a public art commission for a theatre in Gävle,Sweden in bronze.It is a ghost orchestra where the weather plays an important part.
To make silk-screen prints – posters for films I made in a centre for graphic art in Belgium.

q)Are there some web sites that You would like to recomend? Artists, art communities, xxx,…!?

a)www.brucebickford.com

q)What sort of music do you listen to?

a)I am collecting 78´records mostly jazz and “world-music” but I also like crazy syncopated music that was made also after vinyl and cd was invented .Right now I am fascinated by Iannis Xenakis.Especially his choire-works for children and his percussion-works.

q)Do you collect anything?If so what?

a)78´ records , musical instruments, puppets, stockings, films that I can relate to, hats and beautiful underwear.

q)What do you do for fun?

a)I mostly work on my projects and that is my idea of fun.
Otherwise I like to dance, make music, meet friends ,walking, go to the movies, be in the nature, swimming in lakes and rivers.

q)Any advice you can pass onto aspiring artists/designers?

a)To stay true to your self.

q)Your contacts…

a)www.lisajeannin.nu
www.myspace.com/lisajeannin
www.myspace.com/vilhelmtortoise

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