He Wants Revenge - 2010

2.42.2010

Works by Tomasz Knapik, Ella Bertilsson and Killian Dunne

Black Church Print Studio Gallery, 22 April, 6-8pm

In a mixed media show heavily influenced by the printing process three BlackChurch artists: Tomasz Knapik, Ella Bertilsson and Killian Dunne will respond to the shows title. Each artist shall create an individual piece entitled "He Wants Revenge" presented with a series of works that take influence from the show's title as well as their own practices.

Ella Bertilsson creates raw, autobiographical work that reveals the underbelly of Swedish society. Far from the popular image of Swedish society as eminently reasonable and sedate, Ella's work layers personal memories of a place or person with passed on stories.

These narratives offer fleeting glimpses of a chaotic sub-culture, while others, a more personal glimpse of loved ones lost. Her ability to get under the skin of society allows for deeply personal and thought provoking work.

Killian Dunne's work concentrates on anonymity and history in relation to the constant. Family trees, conflict, myth, religion, evolution, and superstition are blended into peculiar narratives where conflicting philosophies blur together.

The First World War is of particular importance to his practice, the link and breaking point between an old and new world. Where modernity and myth collide, Arthur Conan Doyle's fairies coexist with bomber airplanes and ectoplasm coexists with mustard gas.

Tomasz Knapik is a visual artist working in the field of printmaking and graphic design. His creative process involves the overlapping of these closely

related media.

Through this process he attempts to organise and give structure to the often chaotic nature of his emotional response to reality. This results in an autobiographical interpretation of relations between people and places distilled by subjective nature of memory affected by time and his imagination. He explores the past in an attempt to find the balance of all things through a journey of self-discovery and self-expression.