Lara Eggleton

• Primarily art writer now
• Move towards user generated art, anti-autonomous 'The office of useful art manifesto'
• Reflection of the aesthetically beautiful object
• Josie Flynn
• Nicola Pemberton: fantastic failure (wind machine drawing, 2007).
• Ai Weiwei
• Brian Junged
• The object needs to be attached to a concept to be considered in clinical terms
• www.follymatters.wordpress.com

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Lara had some very interesting things to say about both her own work but mostly about other artists work as mentioned above. I found it hard to take much about her own practice in as she talked mostly about others as that is essentially what she does on a regular basis now.

Jesse Darling

Jesse Darling is an artist and writer who's work explores issues of the self in the internet age, queer visibility, neo-liberalism and postcolonial constructions.

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Jesse Darling came to speak to us at Transmission and I found her work really interesting and her ideas about social media very informing and illuminating. Jesse addresses various issues in her work including sex, labour, work, trauma, alienation, love, death, physical fragility and mental instability.

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 What I like most about her work in a physical sense is how she constructs human form in a de-constructed way, her sculptures have a human quality to them even if they do not appear physically human.

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Dimitri Launder

• Wanted to combine the space of the studio and gallery.
• 'Artist Gardeners': Private client gardens, income but loves it. Design based projects inspired by fine art installations. Crossover between sculpture and gardening.
• 'Area 10': Timber shed abandoned by family business, made work in a 3 month cycle. Reused the art pieces. 8 years total. Process led and artist run. His work became more compromised by the fact that he was running the space.
• 'Noosphere': Moving installations, the conversation that took part inside the object was the product of the work.
• 'Pinholeye': Made pinhole cameras, put them in a vending machine, public took them and took a photograph then sent them back. The letters were almost the photographs as they described the moments perfectly.
• 'Arbonaughts': 'The desire machine', live installation. Practice evolved to be about site. About making a work that hooks an audience in. The kind of work that draws funding. Built up relationships with corporate companies that have property portfolios with spaces being empty for large periods of time.
• Art happens for him in the funding proposals, it's where all the ideas come together. Why do you want to make the work?

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