GS interns’ Axe Head Collective presents its third major March Volcano Theatre group show of Swansea College of Art alumni! Opening March 13th for one week. Titled I Have the Biggest Heart in the World but… this show is Axe Head Collective’s biggest so far, featuring twelve artists and including a performance by exhibiting artist Jeremy Gluck.
Formed in 2017 by four UWTSD Swansea College of Art Fine Art artists – Alina Skorohoda, Demian Johnston, Jeremy Gluck, and Melissa Rodrigues – to considerable aplomb Axe Head’s self-directed debut show, ‘Axe Head to Everything’ opened in March 2018 at Volcano Theatre, featuring in total nine UWTSD undergrad fine artists. The following November the four curated a show of their work exclusively for Creative Bubble, ‘Studio 95 – Promote Harder’. And in March 2019, the second Axe Head to Everything Swansea College of Art group show, subtitled ‘Cut & Run’, opened at Volcano, featuring ten artists. October 2019, and Axe Head had their Axe Head GS show at GS Artists, where the founding quartet intern.
Axe Head III for Volcano will feature conceptual artworks, paintings, photos, video and more, approaching a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way.
AXE HEAD TO EVERYTHING 2020 Artists
Abigail Fraser @fineart_fraser
Alina Skorohoda @skorohodalina_art
Benesek Monk @benesekmonk
Demian Johnston @demonstuff
Ellie Day @linesbyday
Jeremy Gluck @nonceptualism
Melissa Rodrigues @melissa_rodrigues_art
Mitja Zupanc https://www.flickr.com/photos/mitja-zupanc/
Owain Sparnon @owainsparnon
Scott Mackenzie @mackenzie_________scott
Tomos Sparnon @tomos_sparnon
Zoe Mills @bigz_zo
Axe Head Collective Artist Statements
Alina Skorohoda @skorohodalinaart
Alina’s artwork explores the notion of woman’s duty to the world. She responds to the feelings of obligation that haunt women everywhere. Alina uses domestic objects in her work. Through altering these objects, she questions attitudes, fears and unwritten rules which have formed a hostile environment for women and their behaviour within it.
Demian Johnston @demonstuff
Demian’s practice looks to develop internal mindscapes involving multiple symbols and thoughts to bridge the physical process and mental or spiritual state, and individual and collective consciousness. Building on a growing body of work featuring dynamic installations with energy concentrated by their confinement, his work is rarely figurative, encompassing dimensions of unpredictability and naturalness.
Jeremy Gluck @nonceptualism
Working as a fine artist in digital art, film, installation and mixed media, Jeremy Gluck’s uncompromising works confront the viewer, encouraging a physical, sensitive, or conceptual experience of each. Radical artistic engagement is the mission statement.
Melissa Rodrigues @missbalencantefineart
Rodrigues’ work uses a variety of techniques – lately photography – and materials to explore issues of displacement, belonging, and cultural identity. Addressing issues concerning the movement of people across the world, immigration, sense of belonging, cultural identity and the rhetoric of otherness are the bases from which Rodrigues’ work blossoms.
