20×20 magazine

‘Harmonia Mundi’

2009 | 20×20 cm | 60 pages | black&white | 3 categories: words, visions, blender |  28 contributors

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Issue Three | Contributors

Stuart Alexander is a conceptual artist living and working in London, exhibiting nationally and internationally. He is particularly interested in creating narrative and mythology revolving around the themes of relative truth, social critique and image context and representation. He has a creative history of illustration, text works, photography and film but is moving into the dark realms of photographic installation. (Contact)

Olivia Bliss is an interdisciplinary artist who is primarily interested in our sensory connections with nature and finding ways to communicate ecology though art. Over the last five years she has taken part in various solo and group exhibitions throughout the UK, France and Portugal. Olivia studied BA Hons in Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art, where she won the 2009 Glasgow Print Studio Prize. During September 2009 she participated in an artist in residence programme with Obras Arts in Portugal. At the moment she is working as an artist developing her print practice at the Glasgow print studios.   (website)

Kiril Bozhinov worked as music journalist for a number of Eastern European music publications. Wrote and codirected a homage-play to Russian satirical short stories under the title of Chichikov and the Big-Nosed Devil that was performed in London. His first collection of short stories, Eclipses : stories of disappearances and reappearances was published in 2009.   (blog)

Greig Burgoyne is a UK based artist who makes drawings. Often large in scale site specific wall drawings addressing ideas around our misplaced and highly contradictory value and belief systems. Themes such as consumerism, vanity, conformity, nostalgia and faith often come into sharp focus in his ink drawings which direct his larger projects as the scavanging of styles in which to look through the cracks in the broken utopian spectacle of comtemporary society. Greig studied MA painting at the Royal College of Art, London and at the HAK, Vienna. He is Pathway Leader BA Fine Art at University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.  (website)

Kathryn Cooper trained in fine art at The Nottingham Trent School of Art and Design in 2002 and now lives and works in Nottingham. Her practice is mainly concerned with collaboration, participation and the presentation of information. Collaborating on publications with artists, writers, professors and scientists led Kathryn to curate a live art event in 2006 in East London, The Solutions: an experiment in conflict and collaboration. She completed a residency in 2007 at The Daniel Shand Gallery in East London. Kathryn creates interactive performances and has performed at events and galleries throughout the country including Hatch (Nottingham), 42 New Briggate Gallery (Leeds) and Tate Liverpool. (blog)

Zoë Darling is an artist living and working between Switzerland and London. She works in various mediums including performance, video and print. She is, amongst other things, the editor of a self published art-zine Succulent L’egume, and occasional member of the A Band. Joth W. is an artist living in Switzerland. He specialises in animation film but also works with performance and light projections. Zoë and Joth would like to thank Cesare Macri, Sophie Haller, Capucine Matti and  Jing wei for the translations.

James Grinwis lives in Florence and edits Bateau, a journal and chapbook press. Work out recently or forthcoming in Aufgabe, Black Warrior Review, Puerto del Sol, and Press 1. His book of poems, The City from Nome, is forthcoming from National Poetry Review Press.

Philip John Jones is an artist from Wales, based in London. He studied Fine Art in the former and Art History and in the latter. He works in the medium of photography, and his present practice deals with ideas of repeated representation, appropriation and value. (blog)

Mercedes Lawry has been publishing poetry for over 30 years in magazines such as Poetry, Nimrod, Folio, Crab Creek Review. She has a chapbook, There are Crows in My Blood published by Pudding Press and has also published stories and poems for children. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, she has lived in Seattle since 1978 and she is currently Director of Communications at the Museum of History & Industry.

Aaron McElroy was born in 1978 and lives and works in NYC. (website)

Edward Mullany lives in New York. He is an associate editor at Anderbo and matchbook, online literary journals. His writing has appeared in Short FICTION, Alaska Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, and other journals.

Kate O’Connor graduated from Cambridge University in English Literature in 2009. As a student, she read her poetry at regular open-mike evenings. She has just finished a placement teaching English at Pavia University, Italy. Now, she will be mostly working in theatre, as director, actor, writer, or all three. (Contact)

Mark O’Neil is a writer of stories and plays and grew up in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Paul Burrell, Lady Diana’s former butler, also comes from there. They’ve never met. Mark’s work has been performed around London; from the Blue Elephant Theatre to a flower shop in Hither Green. After completing two fiction courses at Goldsmiths, his writing continues to develop. He is currently working on a radio play.

David Ostrowski was born in Cologne (1981), he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf. David lives and works in Cologne. (website)

Giovanna Paternò studied Art History in Florence, graduating and specialising in Museology and Contemporary Art. After moving to London she started writing and translating for British (The Art Newspaper) and Italian art magazines (Giornale dell’Arte), while completing a masters degree in Journalism at Westminster University. She is now a freelance writer and translator, and spends her spare time listening to obscure music and doodling on scrap paper. Giovanna has taken part in various projects such as Chromophilia (interdisciplinary research on colours), Interlude Magazine, and since 2008 she is the co-editor of 20×20 magazine.   (blog)

Beatrice Pediconi’s work, overcomes pure photography. She expresses herself in a borderline universe between paint, performance, and visual art. Pediconi received her training in Paris and in Rome where she was awarded a degree in Architecture in 1998 at the University La Sapienza. Since 2003 Pediconi focuses her work in fixing and pinning down a truly evasive phenomenon: the movement of liquids, and their transitory effects. In the series Untitled (2008-2009), she worked with white tempera recalling a voyage through the universe; the forms refer to constellations in heavens as well as to marine organisms. In the process of painting in water, specific condition generate an evasive flow of phenomena, which she see and seize with the camera. The photographic work is analogic and realized with large format camera. In 2008  Pediconi was awarded the “best author” prize at the Biennal of Experimental Art in Saint Petersburg.  In 2009 she was awarded a grant from the Lucid Art Foundation for an artist residency in California for 2010. (website)

Francesca Ricci has been living in London since 1998, after graduating in Stage Design at the Academy of Art in Florence. She has been working in different jobs in the arts (and non) for several years, at the same time being involved in independent projects: collaborating with theatre companies in fringe shows, writing on art and cinema for magazines and publishing a collection of short stories in Italian in 2003. In 2005 she co-founded the independent art magazine Interlude, which published four issues, and is now co-editor of 20×20 magazine. She has recently taken part in the ‘Art/Value/Currency’ project. (blog)

Ex-Yorkshire, ex-Oxbridge, ex- Greece Turkey and Italy, Andrew Shelley now lives and writes in London. Recent books by him are Love Enough (Pulsing Vulva, 2008) and Openacity (Drunken Guru, 2009). Details of how to obtain them available on request.  (Contact)

Maaike Anne Stevens is an artist who lives and works in London. With a background in exhibition design and industrial design engineering (2005, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands), her work revolves around the perception of space, time, and possible worlds in between dimensions. Having graduated with a BA Fine Arts from Central St Martins College, London (2008), her current art practice is focussed on bringing attention to the fact that many people have lost the ability to separate observation from preconception. She tries to alter daily perspectives in such a way that the expectation of what you see is (literally) broken into pieces. Drawing plays an important role in her final pieces, as well as manipulating the representation of reality through photographs. Maaike’s work blurs the edges between the depicted scene and the world in which the artwork is being displayed. Placing all these layers in the same level, drawing one world into the other, the intention is to make reality look a bit more fictional and the depicted slightly more real. (website)

Mario Sughi was born in Cesena in 1961 and is an illustrator, cartoonist and historian. Living and working in Dublin, he is a member of the Associazione Illustratori and the author of nerosunero. At the end of the Seventies, he worked as a humorist in Rome for the Italian satirical magazines Il Male and Zut. Mario moved to Dublin in the late Eighties where he studied Medieval History, and in 1995 was awarded a PhD by Trinity College Dublin. His illustrations and cartoons, satirical in humour and minimalist in style, featured in international exhibition catalogues, magazines and art galleries. Lürzer’s Archive included Mario Sughi in the compilation ‘200 best illustrators worldwide 2009’.   (website)

Marianne Swan studied photography in Rome before moving to London where for the last 5 years she has worked as a picture editor for creative publishing and as a curator for photographic exhibitions.  Last year she returned behind the camera and her new work explores the potential of photographic images to evoke memories and the relationship photography has with imagination, reality and chance. (website)

For Sarai Vardi, exercising caution in Stationary Box has become necessary. Being drawn to pen and ink like ducks to water has resulted in her being twice ejected by force from the flagship store, and only goes to prove her enthusiasm for the arts. Born in Israel to a Chilean man and his Scottish bride, she now calls London her home and will illustrate anything for the right price. 70’s vintage porn, Indian matchbox labels and out of date astronomy textbooks are but a few of her inspirations sources. When she’s not drawing, you will usually find her sketching.   (website)

As well as being editor of Spoken/Written Bulletin S.W. regional e-newsletter for live literature, S.V.Wolfland has been published in various in print and online publications in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia including The Argotist Online, Spokes, Poetry Manchester, The Bathyspheric Review etc., and the anthology North Yorkshire One Nine Nine, published by Shutter Books. S.V.Wolfland has three poetry chapbooks currently available, The Books of…Trilogy, the first of which, The Book of Contentions is available from the Poetry Bookshop Online, and also a historical novel out, Porlock the Warlock. S.V.Wolfland has an MA in writing from the University of Plymouth, is a member of the Cartwheels Collective group of artists (website), and has exhibited visual textwork at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery.

Karen Yuan is a freelance writer and musician living in New Jersey, USA. She studied in Beijing for one year in 2004 and returned there in the summer of 2009 to teach English to Chinese children. When not shouting story ideas at the dinner table, she plays the classical piano and has won and performed for numerous honors and awards.  She is currently working on a novel.

Australian born Lachlan Waite is particularly interested in photography and mixed media creations. He happily travels the world capturing images of different places and their people. He has a fascination for solitary figures, ramparts and walls. Lachlan doesn’t consider himself to be a photographer any more than a person who writes a letter to a friend considers themselves to be a writer, however, he has a strong connection to different mediums to help him articulate feelings and emotions. Lachlan currently lives and works in India and enjoys having access to and experimenting with various types of vibrant fabrics.

Joanna Zylinska is a writer, lecturer and photographic artist. She teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her visual work focuses on different instances of photographic mediation. (website)