Aliki Braine

Hunting Part 1

2008, Black and White Photograph, 38 x 48 cm

This group of work is based on the historical theme of the hunt and was made using black and white film and a medium format camera. The photographs’ negatives were hole-punched using punches of varying sizes. When printed, the holes let through all the light of the projector onto the photographic paper and come out as absolute black. The intention of this partial destruction of the negative is to subtly break the visual realism of the photograph and point to its surface. The ‘punched’ holes are both aggressive and decorative and create a vigorous visual dance across the image.

Qualifications:

MA in History of Art (Distinction), Courtauld Institute, London, (2006-2007)

MA in Fine Art Media, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, (1999-2001)

BFA Hons in Fine Art, Ruskin School, Oxford University, (1995-1998)

Current Employment:

Artist working with photography

Freelance Lecturer at the National Gallery and the Slade Summer School

Solo Shows:

‘Black Out / White Out’, Fruela Gallery, Madrid, September 2007

‘Dessine moi un arbre…’, Jerwood Space, London, March 2006

‘White Outs and Sugar Skies’, Slade Gallery, London, August 2005

‘Definitives’, Gallerie Magda Danysz, Paris, January 2004

‘Landscapes’, Gallerie Magda Danysz, Paris, February 2002

Group Exhibitions:

‘Borderlands’, curated by Day + Gluckman, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, February-April 2009

‘La main qui dessinait toute seule…’, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, December 2008

‘Au pays des merveilles’, Galerie 5, Angers, France, November 2008

ARTE LISBOA, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2007

‘Alma Mater’, Alma Enterprises, London, July 2007

‘Blurred Certainty’, Jerwood Space, London, November 2006

‘The Living’s Easy’, Flowers East, London, August 2006

‘Je n’ai pas pu résister à être là’, Centre d’Art en l’Ile, Geneva, April 2003

‘Dramatic Events’, The George Rodger Gallery, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Kent, April 2002

‘Pluriel-s’, Gallerie Magda Danysz, Paris, March 2001

‘Made in London’, Museum of Electricity, Expo1998, Lisbon, June 1998

‘L’Alchimie du Portrait’, Musée de la Monnaie, Paris, November 1996

Awards and Residencies:

West Dean Residency, West Sussex, June 2006

Nominee, Max Mara Art Prize, 2007

Collections:

The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio

Hospes Hotel, Madrid, Spain

Unrealised Projects Vol. 2, by Sam Ely and Lynn Harris

Penguin Books, London

Simmons & Simmons, London

Publications:

HotShoe, October/November 2006

Metro, November 3, 2006

Radical Philosophy, issue 114, July/August 2002

Collectors, BBC2, April 1999