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Program of Live Events
Wednesday June 17th, 5:30 est:
POPPY SIMPSON, Head of Content and Curation, Meural, in conversation with BRENDAN BURNS, CEO of See|Me
Mark Cross
Art Saves Humanity featured finalist
Produced in New Zealand on the remote Pacific Island of Niue, my realist paintings are drawn from an acute worldview necessitated by living in one of the more isolated places on Earth.
Offering no answers, but creating discussion instead, these works deal with the foibles of humanity, such as human conflict, consumerism and pollution. My figures are totally integrated into the landscape and there’s never a feeling that nature is dominated by humankind. This is the basis of a complex philosophy that the Artist transfers into his images and in their ethereal, visionary way, the works warn of the dire ecological imperatives that face both a small island and a planet
ART SAVES HUMANITY EXHIBITION WINNERS
Finalists:
Grand Prize Winners
Diana Cheren Nygren
grand prize winner, photography
I am a fine art photographer trained as an art historian. My photographic work explores the visual character of place defined through environment and weather. Place has implications for our experience of the world, and reveals hints about the culture around it.
This series, entitled "When the Trees are Gone", imagines city dwellers searching for moments of relief in a world shaped by climate change, and the struggle to find a balance between an environment in crisis and man-made structures. In these images, relaxed beach-goers find themselves amidst carefully composed urban settings in front of dramatic skies. The resulting images lay bare challenges to city planners, and the problematic nature of the future that lies ahead for humanity and the planet. My hope is that they also provide inspiration for viewers to think about how we might reshape this future.
‘Water Bottle’, Diana Cheren Nygren, 2020
Xi Zhang
grand prize winner, painting
I create paintings that explore the way individuals’ minds reshape their physical environment. My investigation incorporates a variety of individual psychological realms, depicting them in fictionalized surroundings that confuse the relationship between perception and reality. I utilize a mixture of expressionist and abstract aesthetics in a subtle, theatrical way to construct the characters’ environments, mirroring their internal thoughts, struggles, personality, and problems. With this approach, I hope to present an opportunity to let the viewers reflect on their own struggles, and ultimately showing them that they are not alone with these issues.
‘Ghost Town’, Xi Zhang, 2020
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