Join us for LCN Chit-Chat #2!

Chit-Chat is a fantastic opportunity for LCN artists, photographers and designer-makers to meet up, exchange ideas and share a glass of wine. Two participants per LCN partner (SPACE, Cockpit Arts, Four Corners, Photofusion) will be talking about their practice in a 20x20 style: 20 slides, 20 seconds each. The presentations will be followed by discussions and drinks.

The speakers are:

Kristina Pulejkova is a multimedia artist who works at the intersection of art, science and technology. In her practice she builds a subjective narrative based on data and principles from the scientific disciplines of astronomy, physics, biology and ecology. Her main subjects of interest are time, ecosystems and mechanisms, looking for connections between man and machine, the organic and the mechanical.
www.kristinapulejkova.com
Twitter: @tinapulejkova
Instagram: @tinapulejkova

Edwin Mingard is a UK-based visual artist whose work deals with technology and social change. He works principally with moving image, making standalone artists' film and installations. Mingard's work often takes on mainstream and accessible forms – documentary, music video, glossy magazine – both to engage with people who are not at home in a gallery environment, and to question the value systems underpinning those forms. He studied Philosophy at the London School of Economics and is a Fellow of Teesside University's Digital Cities programme.
www.edwinmingard.com
Twitter: @edwinmingard
Instagram: @edwinmingard

Jan Klos
Jan J.Klos (b.1984) is a Polish born photographer based in London. Specialising in portraiture and documentary, his work explores communities, societies and traditions.
www.janklos.com
Instagram: @janklos_photo

Gavin Freeborn
Irish portrait and documentary photographer based in London, working across artistic and commerical projects internationally.
www.freeborn.co
Instagram: @gavinfreeborn

Vanessa Hogge
At once organic and ornate, spontaneous and stylised, Vanessa Hogge’s decorative floral wall pieces and vessels bring a unique textural and visual dimension to any wall or table. Working predominantly in porcelain, Vanessa crafts her one-off flowerheads and vessels in her studio in Cockpit Arts Holborn. Grounded by years of expertise as a ceramicist, she takes an instinctive, visceral approach to each piece, painstakingly sculpting every petal and anther by hand so that no two flowers are identical. The efflorescent flowers are created in porcelain and black clay, and are fired to high temperatures to create brittle, ossified shades of white and lava-like black.
www.vanessahogge.com
Instagram: @vanessahogge
Twitter: @vanessahogge
Facebook: @vanessahoggeceramics

Tessa Eastman
Ceramicist Tessa Eastman has over twenty years’ experience of working in clay. Her dynamic work is at the vanguard of the British contemporary ceramic art scene and she has impressed with her originality, skill and daring approach to her art form. Tessa’s meticulously hand-built ‘cloud bundles’ and complex crystal formations appear curiously alive with movement. She explores the strangeness of growth of natural phenomena where systems flow and digress from an intended pattern, translating her findings in colourful glazed ceramics. Tessa joined London Creative Network in September 2016 and Cockpit Arts Deptford in May this year.
www.tessaeastman.com
Instagram: @tessa_eastman
Twitter: @tessa_eastman
Facebook: tessa.eastman.9

Almudena Romero
My practice uses photographic processes to reflect on issues relating to identity, representation and ideology; such as the role of photography in the construction of national identity, or the link between photographic archives and colonialism. My work focuses on how photographic processes and technology transform the notions of public, private, individuality, identity, memory, and, in general, the concept of the individual. My works touch on how perception affects existence and how photographic processes contribute to organising perception.
www.almudenaromero.co.uk
Instagram: @almudena.romero
Facebook: Almudena.Romero.A

Richard Nicholson
Richard Nicholson is a photographic artist based in Bethnal Green, London. His practice is concerned with materiality and the passage of time. He is interested in the transition from analogue to digital technologies and the subsequent marginalisation of embodied experience.
www.richardnicholson.com
Instagram: @richard_nicholson_
Twitter: @thethirdtable
Facebook: richard.nicholson.391