Glenda HardingThe Natural Beauty of a Homeland Visit

Marta CoradaPost Memories Series UK to ChinaA Hidden Talent - Scratching the Surface

Plus much more, including Debbie Kodas and Emily Nixon

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This first issue we introduce you to the talents of aspiring photographer Glenda Harding. Glenda sees beauty all around her and regularly visits the countryside of her homeland. Following on from this we revisit the work of Marta Corada originally from La Rioja, Spain her work from across the globe shows a ‘realness’ that not many succeed in achieving. We also reveal an unknown extension of her talents. viableMAGAZINE ventures to Manchester with Debbie Kodas and sees some real weather. Finally we are treated to a printed exhibition of Emily Nixon’s artwork. Inspired by individuals around her we’re in for a real treat.

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Post Memories UK, Center Point, London. Marta Corada 2013

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Editor:Jenny Bowes

With thanks to:Marta Corada

Glenda HardingDebbie KodasEmily Nixon

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CONTENTS

8. Ones to watch on Instagram.

10. What’s on now.

16. Glenda Harding. The Natural Beauty of a Homeland Visit.

28. Marta Corada. Post Memories Series UK to China.

38. MeiMei Illustration. The other dimension to Marta Corada.

41. Debbie Kodas. Rain is the Mancunian Way and not owning an umbrella.

48. Emily Nixon. Art is the Only Way to Run Away Without Leaving Home.

54. Find us.

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@luis_reininho

luis Reininho Photography

Nature at its brightest. Expect extreme weather and enhanced colours bringing to life the most blustered of days. Even the black and white photography exuberates vibrancy.

@aryanmusleh

Aryan Musleh

Making the ordinary interesting is a delightful series of photographs using objects such as the inanimate pencil to make you really think about the beauty you might be missing in the world.

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@znigznag

My mind wants to go everywhere. So does my feed.

Where the lines meet the corners takes us through a journey where we see buildings from another perspective. Explore the geometricity.

@j_kaschinski

Johannes Kasch

Just starting out but with a wonderful use of composition that simply cannot be ignored. Who would have thought so much could be captured by pointing your camera at the sky?

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(Tate.org.uk, 2015)

Tate Britain’s summer 2015 show revisits the natural sculptor who will always be associated with the picturesque Cornwall. 24 June – 25 October 2015.

The last major retrospective of the renowned Barbara Hepworth’s work in London was in 1968. Forty seven years later Tate Britain’s summer 2015 show reassesses her reputation thanks in part to her beautifully kept St Ives studio. Forever associated with Cornwall, where she lived from 1939 until her death in 1975, Hepworth was internationally famous as her work graced museums and public spaces around the world. Her most notable piece ‘Single Form’, stands in the plaza of the United Nations building in New York.

This show includes carvings and sculptures in wood, stone and bronze, accompanied by drawings, collages, textiles and experimental photogram work.

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The London Open exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery is just part of the scene that identifies tomorrow’s art stars. 15 July – 6 September 2015.

Past displays include the works of Grayson Perry, Anish Kapoor and Rachel Whiteread, and this open-submission exhibition is a great barometer of the ‘new kids on the block’ scene. Launched in 1932, the showcase promises to exhibit the most dynamic artists living and working in London today.

(E-architect.co.uk, 2015)

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(Cdni.condenast.co.uk, 2015)

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, Victoria & Albert Museum(March 14 - July 19, 2015)

This collection of work by the extraordinarily talented designer Alexander McQueen promises to be the biggest and most unique fashion exhibition of the year. This exhibition thrilled audiences when displayed in New York city’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2011. The displays will cover the extent of McQueen’s brilliant, though sadly much too short, career from his 1992 MA graduate collection to his incomplete A/W 2010 collection.

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2014-15 London College of Fashion, Art of Dress

In 2014-15 London College of Fashion goes all out to celebrate the ‘Art of Dress’ in a project that reflects centuries of the ‘dress’ evolution. The project will be shown across the world in London, New York, Dubai, Shanghai and back to Europe in Florence.

The ‘Art of Dress’ exhibition showcases work by undergraduate students from the School of Design and Technology and the School of Media and Communication.

(LCF, 2015. Maisie Noble, BA (Hons) Fashion Illustration)

(LCF, 2015. Cassey Gan - BA (Hons) Fashion Design)

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The London Photograph Fair. 23 - 24 May, 2015.

Since 1982 the London Photograph Fair has been a meeting place for collectors, enthusiasts, museum curators and dealers on the hunt for original photographs and photo-books. This boutique-style photograph fair will take over the wonderful neo-gothic mansion that is Two Temple Place with unique displays for this special weekend event.

A great variety of works are on display and for sale, from Vintage Fine Art, Press and Fashion photographs, to Modern and 19th Century rarities. Specialist book-dealers offer a range of original and collectible photo-books as well as reference material. Prices begin at £50 then rise to the thousands and the fair attracts up to 50 dealers from across the world.

(Photofair.co.uk, 2015)

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Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector, Barbican Centre(February 12 - May 25, 2015)

This exhibition stands aside from the rest with its strange and wonderful artifacts on display. Examining a number of post-war and contemporary artists through their own personal collections attendees are in for a treat. Ranging from mass-produced Andy Warhol memorabilia and popular collectibles, to unique curiosities and extremely rare specimens, the collections most certainly give us insight into the inspirations, influences and interests of famous artists such as Damien Hirst, Peter Blake and Andy Warhol.

(Images.huffingtonpost.com, 2015)

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GLENDA HARDING

Using Instagram as a platform, Glenda has displayed a real talent for perspective photography. Utilising the beautiful rural setting near her hometown in sunny South Wales, Glenda takes us into her world, displaying rocks as if they were little jewels and driftwood like the ultimate prize. Without Instagram Glenda feels that she would never have discovered her deep interest in photographing what is so close to her.

“It all started with a few snaps here and there on the iPhone. Before I knew it I’d purchased a FujiFilm SLR (#HappyChristmastoMe) and was bringing the beach to life. Experimenting with Instagram transformed something that had become so normal to me into a dazzling, colourful and exciting dreamworld.” explains Glenda - and she really does have something to be proud of. You’d be challenged to find more beautiful scenery and such interesting compositions, this photographer has great flair for what she does.

Here Glenda takes us on a walk through her homeland of the Welsh countryside and tells a story, not just of beautiful beaches and blue skies but of the things we sometimes fail to see. The beauty of a tangled rope - where did it wash up from? The mystery of those tiny people - where are they going? - and the vast, vast space ahead, all the things that have happened and all the things that will.

Cliff Edge, Porthcrawl Beach 2015

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A Rocky Landscape, Porthcrawl Beach 2015

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Rope, Porthcrawl Beach 2015

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Scattered Rocks, Porthcrawl Beach 2015

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White Rock, Porthcrawl Beach 2015

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Seascape, Porthcrawl Beach 2015

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MARTA CORADA

Post Memories Century Park, Shanghai 2012

The journey starts in Shanghai and takes us on Marta’s mesmerising journey.

The narratives developed in “post-memories” are set on the border between the documentary and narrative fiction, where time, related to a particular space, is presented as distorted and/or altered. The resulting image does not provide portraits of the individual subjects, but rather contextualises them in their everyday lives as actors on stage. The captured moment of a photograph can change its meaning, even to the same viewer. The passage of time and the nature of memory flip the sense of an image upside down, finding new dimensions while not altering its form. Introspection and our surroundings create multiple, mutating meanings which force open any definite interpretation. The still image is fixed but not frozen.

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Post Memories Century Park, Shanghai 2012

Post Memories, Yu Garden Underground Station, Shanghai 2012

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Post Memories, Bund Venue, Shanghai 2012

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Post Memories UK, Eastbourne Beach

The journey continues to with Post Memories series UK - the project winner of the 1st Emerging Artists Grunt in La Rioja Spain.

Based on the earlier concept of Post Memories series started in Shanghai in 2012, the series speculates on the causality of time. As the viewer interacts with the elements of a conventionally supposed reality, the individuals actions in everyday life creates bizarre environments where the omitted actions lead to speculation about cause and meaning. The technique includes multiple shooting and a careful selection of moments plus plenty of edition work, these are the tools to compose these images on the boundary between fiction and reality. Post Memories UK however, goes a step further than the previous Series developed in Shanghai. The characters became more dynamic, playing with the whole area in the composition, sometimes close to the lens, sometimes far away becoming part of an abstract landscape. Somehow, they communicate each other building together these amazing choreographies.

The series is an ongoing project, it has become the line of investigation and understanding of photography, finding new meanings and ways to use them.

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Post Memories UK, Charing Cross Station, London

Post Memories UK, Eastbourne Festival

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Post Memories series 2013, Saint Paul’s Cathedral, London

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Post Memories UK, Borough Market, London

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Post Memories UK, Center Point, London

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What you may not have known is that the multi talented artist and photographer Marta Corada is the talent behind the wonderful MeiMei Illustrations work. Idea’s for jewelry and fabric designs make up this wonderful collection of intricate sketching. An ongoing theme rings true and the line drawings all have a magical fantasy feel their finish.

Of the ‘Flying Human Cat’ drawing, Marta says “This was an imagined Magic Creature but felt so real for me”.

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Flying Human Cat

Self Kokesi with bird and cage 2015

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Baby Sumo Nigri Portrait of Childhood

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Small drawings made on a sketch notebook often representing mythical creatures conjure up thoughts and images that dance through the mind. Rottring and gel pen on paper brings to life what could only be made real by MeiMei Illustrations.

Portrait of Childhood 50’s Lady and a Pink Skull

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DEBBIE KODASDebbie Kodas grew up in a small town, Leigh - a product of the Manchester Textile Revolution, and is naturally drawn to the City. Living nearby, Debbie has been able to meet and photograph many of the people and their pets that choose to explore the streets of Manchester. Something she describes as “Highly interesting”.

Deansgate, one of Manchester’s oldest roads, represents to Debbie the varied nature of what Manchester is and was. At the Southern side it passes by the remains of the Roman Fort Mamucium, thought to be where the name Manchester derived.

Despite an average of 150 days of rain a year in Manchester, Debbie mentions “I still have never owned an umbrella. Borrowed and lost the odd few but never had my own.”

Rain is the Mancunian Way- a two mile long motorway passing through the city only increases photographic interest. Famed for its unfinished slip road.

Liverpool Road is home to the first inner-city passenger railway. I find it beautiful through all seasons but when the snow and fog hit, time magically rolled back to the 19th Century. Captured in photograph.

“By no stretch of the imagination is Manchester a picturesque city. It is, however, emphatically if unconventionally beautiful. In common with all things beautiful...it is fundamentally flawed. It has a compulsion to preen and show off. It is narcissistic, contrary and wayward, and yet you cannot help but love it. It is both admirable and maddening.” From “Change and Contradiction” by Chris Lethbridge, Diverse City 1994.

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EMILY NIXON

“Art is the Only Way to Run Away Without Leaving Home.” - Twyla Tharp.

Graduating from the University of Gloucestershire’s Art driven Pitville-Campus in 2010, Emily’s work is inspired by individuals of interest. All pieces are for sale through her website and bespoke requests are welcomed by the artist.

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VogueEmily Nixon Digital Image 20x20cm

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I Am...BEmily Nixon Acrylic and Gold Foil on Canvas 50x50cm

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Twenty OneEmily Nixon Acrylic and Watercolour on Canvas 60x100cm

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Poppy RedEmily Nixon Acrylic on Canvas Board 66x45cm

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ChloeEmily Nixon Acrylic on Canvas 50x50cm

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CONTRIBUTORS

Glenda Harding

Marta Corada

Debbie Kodas

Emily Nixon

https://twitter.com/glendahardinghttps://instagram.com/glendypops

http://www.martacorada.comhttps://www.facebook.com/martacorada

Twitter @MCoradahttp://coradaphotos.tumblr.com

https://instagram.com/martacoradaphotographyhttp://meimeillustration.blogspot.co.uk

http://www.debbiekodas.comhttp://vdebbiev.vsco.co/journal

https://instagram.com/debbiekodas

http://www.emilynixonart.comhttps://instagram.com/missemilynixon

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