Stav B
Telephone + 44 (0) 7766 036227
Email stavb42@gmail.com
youtube.com/1stavb
Education
Education
MA Photography. London College of Communication 2001-2003
Intermediate Course in Photography. Morley College 2000-2001
BA (Hons) Fine Art/ Ceramics. Camberwell College of Arts 1993-1996
Foundation in Art & Design. London Guildhall University 1991-1992
Portfolio Preparation Course in Painting & Drawing. Mary Ward Centre 1990-1991
Pre – Foundation Course in Drawing and Painting. Maria Ioannidis Private Institute of Art. Athens.1986-1987
Exhibitions
Me and you and no one else. Video and Live Performance. At home with the ludskis. London 2012
Completing. Video Performance. Whirstable. Kent January 2011
I’m with you. London December 2010
I’m with you. London December 2010
The platform. London April 2009
Queer Beograd. Belgrade/ Linz/ Berlin/ Athens September 2008 – present
Red dawns festival Ljubljana October 2007
Subterfuge. Manchester September 2006
Queen Bees. London September 2006 - present
Hayward Gallery. Undercover Surrealism. July 2006
Hayward Gallery. Undercover Surrealism. July 2006
Behind Bars. London May 2006 - October 2008
Kaos. London October 2004 - March 2006
Act Art April. London 2004 - November 2009
Performances November 2002 – present
Photographs. 2001 – 2004
xposures. A Bi – Weekly Short Film/ Visuals/ Music Event. London 2001 – 2002
The Museum of Installation. Mirror. London November 1997
The Museum of Installation. Mirror. London November 1997
Work
Curating (photography and illustration/ group show in Camberwell College))
Photoshoots (Toni and Guy/ 2005)
Big Arts Week (photography and film with Woolwich Primary School)
Marco Mancassola (portrait for his book Last Love Parade/ 2005)
Wedding. 2003
Etchings (Chalk Farm Gallery/ 1997 – 2000)
The History of the World (film by Michael Petry/ USA 1997)
Skills
professional: Photography, Writing, Conceiving and executing my own performances, Styling, Art theory and critique, Curating, Promoting art/ club events. practical: Computer (word, excel, html), Languages
Hobbies and interests
Art, Books, Films, Music/ DJ, Knitting, Sports, Travelling and Learning
References
Anne Williams. Course Director MA Photography. London College of Communication a.williams@lcc.arts.ac.uk
Michael Petry. Artist/ Gallerist/ Curator. MOCA Gallery. London
I have been performing since November 2003 in various spaces and places: galleries (Hayward/ Red Gate Gallery/ The Museum of Installation/ Four Corners/ Inside Space/ Pierre Garroudi), churches (the crypt/subterfuge. Manchester), canals (public life), clubs and art collectives, pubs, bars, squats/ parties/ collectives, social centres (Rampart/ Brady), private homes (art house party/ park road pilot), alternative fashion boutiques (two see), private members clubs (a Gentleman’s’ club), cinemas (Rio) and the outdoors (seaside in whitstable). London and Abroad
Statement
My work is dealing with the ongoing themes of identity and love. My desire was to become a painter. But within the first term of my first degree year, I was moved to the sculpture department, as my work had become three – d. At the end of my degree and because I had fallen in love with sculpture; austere, voluminous, precise, clean pieces, the MA was afoot. But after a couple of disappointing courses, I opted out of instinct towards photography, where the austerity became fluid and personal, based and inspired by surrealism and feminist theories. As I was always writing, either diary entries or notebook scribbles and ideas, combining image and writing were a natural continuum and the live expressions, based on my real life and delivered with a metaphorical abstraction were born.
These visual spectacles contain elements of circus, acrobatic movements, dance routines, quirky sounds, fashion statements, blended with the prose and heard loudly or quietly and intoned appropriately with disturbing lighting and odd props which are incorporated in the work. They contain sculpture, installation, video, sound, poetry, and music. They are rounded fine art pieces, with visual art sensibilities and theoretical considerations. These pieces are funny, tragic, sexy, and cathartic. My own personal journeys. A juxtaposition of the real and surreal. An authentication of the woman and the artist. Via prose, costume and mask.
An ongoing game of assumption, theory, practice, belief and innocent perversity! I have always hidden my face, behind the lens; behind the visual prop. Now, I hide my face with a face, facing the spectator, my mirror, myself; my own prop.
Statement
My work is dealing with the ongoing themes of identity and love. My desire was to become a painter. But within the first term of my first degree year, I was moved to the sculpture department, as my work had become three – d. At the end of my degree and because I had fallen in love with sculpture; austere, voluminous, precise, clean pieces, the MA was afoot. But after a couple of disappointing courses, I opted out of instinct towards photography, where the austerity became fluid and personal, based and inspired by surrealism and feminist theories. As I was always writing, either diary entries or notebook scribbles and ideas, combining image and writing were a natural continuum and the live expressions, based on my real life and delivered with a metaphorical abstraction were born.
These visual spectacles contain elements of circus, acrobatic movements, dance routines, quirky sounds, fashion statements, blended with the prose and heard loudly or quietly and intoned appropriately with disturbing lighting and odd props which are incorporated in the work. They contain sculpture, installation, video, sound, poetry, and music. They are rounded fine art pieces, with visual art sensibilities and theoretical considerations. These pieces are funny, tragic, sexy, and cathartic. My own personal journeys. A juxtaposition of the real and surreal. An authentication of the woman and the artist. Via prose, costume and mask.
An ongoing game of assumption, theory, practice, belief and innocent perversity! I have always hidden my face, behind the lens; behind the visual prop. Now, I hide my face with a face, facing the spectator, my mirror, myself; my own prop.
© Stav B September 2011
Performances
Me and you and no one else/ May 2012
Completing/ January 2011
Push it; raise it: harder, higher/ October 2010
Take it further/ July 2011
The devil is in the detail/ November 2009
Soldier/ September 2009 *
Pink Ribbon/ October 2008
Walking under ladders/ March 2008
Give me something/ February 2008
Sugar Mary/ July 2007
Let’s be… not/ June 2007
Time and grace/ February 2007
I let love in/ February 2007
Realising the marvellous in the mundane/ June 2006
Shut the fuck up you stupid fucking cunt/ April 2006
Biting cheek/ January 2006
Once upon a time there was…/ June 2005
Dance/ April 2004
Conceived, written, performed, styling by stav B
Conceived, written, performed, styling by stav B
Except soldier written by jet moon, re written by stav B
Sound design by Doug Haywood
Film/ edit by Sarah Baker
Film stills by Sophie Allen
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