Collages

My photographic collages bring together three different sets of photographic subjects, to create a viewing experience that I hope will aid the viewer in being able to see the beautiful and unappreciated in the both the natural and industrial worlds. These three subject matters include industry, nature and the human being.

Two photographers that have influenced this project include Karl Blossfeldt and photographic partners Bernd and Hilla Becher. Blossfeldt would spend months on end searching for archetypal flora and fauna specimens. Like Blossfeldt, I have repeatedly visited locations in a bid to capture something before it is gone, at a precise moment. Blossfeldt sought to reveal the perfect example, whereas in my endeavours I attempt to capture the surreal. It is from here and with an element of photographic illusion that I search for human characteristics within my photographs. I have chosen to merge the industrial forms that exist beside the found and collected plant specimens, opting to search for appropriate subject matter and empowering them with human characteristics.

The industrial forms within my collages pay homage to the photographic work of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Bringing together these man-made forms and presenting them against phallic plant specimens bring together two subjects that might not ordinarily be compared. These make for the first two elements and feature heavily with my collages.

The 'character' represented within these photographs, is a combination of three elements, plant, industry and human. The characters are often translucent in appearance, and represent the emergence of the human within my non human subjects.

Ultimately, my work aims to raise my subject against the sky for astonished admiration, a platform for all to appreciate the unappreciated, within the vast world surrounding my chosen subjects.

Enjoy

Want these Collages? You can contact me for usage and copyright, single litho prints and photographs with your choice of mount, prices available on request.

• Date: August 2014
• Client: William Vinegrad
• Category: Collage

Images

GROUND is the name of whats going on at 60 Beverley Road in Hull.
We are a collective of artists. We have our studios upstairs, and downstairs we have a gallery, and space for workshops, and events. We have exhibitions, and lots of talks, workshops, and sometimes music or loud noises. We have zines and books, by us and other people. There is lots just to look at, and stuff for sale too. We have a Risograph printer too, so get in touch if you might like us to print your zines, posters etc. We can paint murals, and do other work. We'll be having the second Mammal Jam Festival in mid January 2016, so look out for it, and if you'd like to perform, have or stall or otherwise take part, then get in touch! We are in this building thanks to HIHAC (Hull Independant Housing Aid Center). Thanks!!! We are trying to run a safe space for everyone who comes to our events, no sexism, racism, nowt like that. We have a constant supply of tea bags.

Want to contact Ground? You can contact us for usage and copyright, single litho prints and photographs with your choice of mount, prices available on request. groundarts@hotmail.com

• Date: August 2014
• Client: Ground
• Category: Images

Specimins

The plant must be valued as a totally artistic structure.

Want these specimins? You can contact me for usage and copyright, single litho prints and photographs with your choice of mount, prices available on request.

• Date: August 2014
• Client: William Vinegrad
• Category: Specimins

Drawing

Drawing is one of the oldest forms of human expression.

Want these Drawings? You can contact me for usage and copyright, single litho prints and photographs with your choice of mount, prices available on request.

• Date: August 2014
• Client: William Vinegrad
• Category: Drawings

Murals

A species smaller than the eye can see or larger than most living things and yet we take from it without consent our shelter, food, habiliment

But who am I to doubt or question the inevitable being, For these are but a few discoveries, we have found inside the Secret Life of Plants

But far too many give them in return, A stomp, cut, drown, or burn. As is they're nothing but if you ask yourself where would you be, Without them you will find you would not.

And some believe antennas are their leaves That spans beyond our galaxy, they've been, they are and probably will be who are the mediocrity

But who am I to doubt or question the inevitable being For these are but a few discoveries We find inside the Secret Life of Plants For these are but a few discoveries We find inside the Secret Life of Plants

Want these murals? You can contact me for usage and copyright, single litho prints and photographs with your choice of mount, prices available on request.

• Date: August 2014
• Client: William Vinegrad
• Category: Murals.

Performance

A character enters the space adorned in cut and paste foliage, dripping from head to toe in gold paint. A symmetrical star shaped collage of black and white flora gloriously covers the characters modesty. Or rather this foliage exposes it further though provoking symmetric specimen based representation.

This symmetrical star details through still life representation the anatomical parts of both men and women, manifested through phallic plant form. This concertina of forms, placed over this characters manhood, draw's thought provoking comparisons between plants and man. It is through delicate, careful and lengthy editing that I have composed a series of botanical imagery, that I feel best represent this notion in a number of different ways.

A elaborate bulbous headdress precariously sits atop the head of this statuesque character. This headdress is made up of a bank of still life imagery. The central bulb is embellished with repetitive images of a 'The Tongue, Hibiscus striatus', an image created for my still life series in 2012. This image through photographic documentation resembles what looks to like a deep veined fury tongue. The tip of this plant sits upon this tongue resembling a head, further reason for me to use this specimen to further draw comparison between plant and man. Ferns resemble antenna, thistles are armored with fury tops and horsetails resemble industrial skyscrapers, architectural delights that spin us around. Through echoing the Thistle the dominating aged has been captured, and the succulent youth via a dewy leaf bud. Up until this point I have only ever displayed specimens standing alone, but when displayed together as one typology they make for a thrilling spectacle.

This characters gold representation, stems from my want to raise my subject against the sky for astonished admiration, so I decided to adorn this character in microscopic foliage, and then stand its intricacies proud, tall and exposed for all to see atop a rotating platform and blast smoke onto it setting it higher than the clouds and as big as the skyscrapers it's details grow around. It is in this environment the character sings about the plants projecting at the top of it's voice preaching their intimacies projecting their vulnerabilities and projecting their brilliance. creating spectacle and wonderment in the factual, and unbelievable.

Up until a point the presentation of any character featured within my work was only ever represented through still imagery, and for me, it was important to bring this creature out of the 2D and into the now into the present, for I believe that that is where the real excitement is held for the viewer.

A projector, projects silhouettes of carefully collage specimens onto the back of a piece of hung material. This collage allows space to performance in silhouette to an audience on the other side. It is during the performance that I use my body to shadow and mimic the outlines of these specimens, or their actions as they grow. For example, like a fern and unfurl, grow, develop and eventually arch stretching my finger tips out as far as I can.

The idea to create shadows, plays on the secretive aspect surrounding the intricate lives of these plants. And my exposed presence within the performance, creates an interesting play between the secret and the seen.

The performance ends as it started still and spinning like a Greek heroine, toned strong and important, but still and motionless, like the specimens are in their natural environments swaying in the wind.

Want these Performance images? You can contact me for usage and copyright, single litho prints and photographs with your choice of mount, prices available on request.

• Date: August 2014
• Client: William Vinegrad
• Category: Performance.

Sculpture

The Strange Brew Art Collective – (T.S.B), formed in 2009, in a city of industrial works where the streets are hailed upon by acid rain.

This group/local collective of artists, whom originate from the City - Kingston Upon Hull, are practicing and performing their rhythmical notions of spray and doodling explosions around the Northern quarters of England, U.K. The collective consists of six members of brewed up, prolific nomads, set on changing space and place within the open arena – blank walls are the equivalent of bank minds.

T.S.B Work freely in print, spayed walls, zines, drawing’s and many more styles.

The styles within the collective unite to form highly similar expressions of modernist notions… Style is king!

The ‘final picture’ of the works that the collective collaboratively construct, freely come without question. But as a consequence of this asks so many.

Taking inspiration from the graffiti artists whom lurked in misty warehouses within the city, T.C.F (Twentieth Century Frescoes) and D.R.A. (Devious Rebels of Art) are two of U.K’s absolute collectives – T.S.B are set to pave a new way of urban display – amongst various other collaborative projects to come.

Want these Original Brews? You can contact me for usage and copyright, single litho prints and photographs with your choice of mount, prices available on request.

• Date: August 2014
• Client: William Vinegrad
• Category: Sculpture.

Exhibitions

A species smaller than the eye can see Or larger than most living things And yet we take from it without consent Our shelter, food, habilment

But who am I to doubt or question the inevitable being For these are but a few discoveries We have find inside the Secret Life of Plants

But far too many give them in return A stomp, cut, drown, or burn As is they're nothing But if you ask yourself where would you be Without them you will find you would not

And some believe antennas are their leaves That spans beyond our galaxy They've been, they are and probably will be Who are the mediocrity

But who am I to doubt or question the inevitable being For these are but a few discoveries We find inside the Secret Life of Plants For these are but a few discoveries We find inside the Secret Life of Plants

Want these Images? You can contact me for usage and copyright, single litho prints and photographs with your choice of mount, prices available on request.

• Date: August 2014
• Client: William Vinegrad
• Category: Exhibitions.

Curriculum Vitae

http://www.williamvinegrad.co.uk

https://www.facebook.com/williamvinegradart

https://www.hull2017.co.uk/discover/article/meet-artist-william-vinegrad/

http://amyjohnsonfestival.co.uk/?viba_portfolio=weeds-in-flight

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/the-young-artists-hoping-to-use-hull-city-of-culture-as-a-springboard-1-8203099

http://http://www.thespiderawards.com/gallery/9th/search-result.php?t=william+vinegrad&o=a&Submit=Search5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRx2SJg0r6E

https://michelledee2012.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/ grounds-for-confidence-in-new-gallery/

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Artists CV

William Vinegrad. Born 1990. Beverley.
East Riding of Yorkshire. UK.

Qualifications:
2009 - 2013 BA Hons Fine Art Newcastle University.
2008 - 2009 Foundation Course, Hull School of Art and Design,
Foundation Diploma in Art.

Residencies:
Det Jyske Kunstakademi: The Jutland Art Academy. Denmark.

Selected Pubications:
2012: TSB Mandala Zine 2011:
Issue.1 The Strange Brew: Extra Sick Spesh.
2016: Something Entirely Different: Issue.2
2016: Down to the Ground: Hull City of Culture 2017.
2017: Meet the Artist: William Vinegrad: Hull City of Culture 2017.

Selected Exhibitions / Commissions / Performances.

2017:
January 2017: Exhibition: Mammal Jam Festival,
GROUND Gallery, Hull.
January 2017: The Ferens Open Exhibtion: Ferens Art Gallery,
Queen Victoria Square, Hull.
March 2017: Performance: Re-Rooted Festival,
Humber Street Gallery, Hull.
April 2017: Exhibition: An exhibition of photography,
performance and projections
by William Vinegrad, GROUND Gallery, Hull.
May – June 2017: Exhibition: William Vinegrad,
‘The Secret Life of Plants’
Queens House Showcase, Paragon Street, Hull.
June 2017: Artists Presentation:
Queens House Showcase, Paragon Street Hull.
June 2017: Performance: SKIN DEEP, Ferens Art Gallery,
Queen Victoria Square, Hull
July 2017: Performance: WORM Festivals avantgardistic state,
The Performance Bar, Humber Street Gallery, Hull.
August 2017: Exhibition: The Brain Jar, Old Town, Hull.
September 2017: Performance: MAD PRIDE Festival,
Pearson Park, Hull
Novermber 2017: Exhibition: PAVE, Princess Avenue, Hull.
November 2017: Performance: NOURISHMENT a remix,
a response to the output of
Jean Michel Basquait, Humber Street Gallery, Hull.
December 2017: Exhibition: Where do we go from here?
Trinity Market / Humber Street Gallery, Hull.

2016:
January 2016: Festival: Mammal Jam Festival,
exhibition GROUND Gallery Hull.
March 2016: Projection: An evening of acoustic
performance married with Art,
Spring Equinox, GROUND Gallery, Hull.
April 2016: Artists Presentation: Illuminate, POP Gallery, Hull.
June 2016: Festival: Gaskal Garden Project Murals,
VIRGO Festival, Dorset.
July 2016: Amy Johnson Festival, Moth Mural: Zebedee’s Yard, Hull.
August 2016: Mural: 2 Birds Mural,
Trinity Market, Old town Hull.

2014: May 2014: Projection: The Strange Brew,
FRUIT, Humber Street, Hull.

2013:
February 2013: Exhibition: 'One Grey Pareidolia'
the Long Gallery, Newcastle University Quadrangle.
March 2013: Exhibition: ‘Unearthed’
Moorbank Botanical Gardens, Newcastle.
March 2013: Exhibition: HOLD TIGHT 'A Fraction of the Whole'
An Exhibition of work in progress by Rachael Kidd
and William Vinegrad, Eldon Gardens, Newcastle.
May 2013: Performance: Newcastle University, XL Gallery,
'The Secret Life of Plants Part 2'.
June 2013: Exhibition: Newcastle University
‘The London Show’ Embassy Tea Rooms, London.
December 2013: Exhibition: ORIGINAL BREW,
Christmas party, The Blue Lamp, Hull
December 2013: Exhibition: 'Question the Dawn'
Pride Suite Space, Newcastle.

2012:
July 2012: Exhibition: The Avenues Open Gardens.
An Exhibition of Work by William Vinegrad, Hull
October 2012: Exhibition: 'Raised Against the Sky for
Astonished Admiration'. Botanical Structures ,
An Exhibition of photography by William Vinegrad,
The Quadrangle, Newcastle University.
December 2012: Performance: BALTIC Gateshead,
Neil Bromwich and Zoe Walker. The Encampment of Eternal Hope'
The festival of the Apocalypse,
Performance piece.
'The Secret Life of Plants Part 1'.
December 2012: Performance: ‘INTERIM’
Commercial Union House D&B Studios. Newcastle.
December 2013: Exhibition: 'Original Rules' Union Mashup, Hull.
As part of the Original Brew Art Collective.

2011:
December 2011: Exhibition: The Wagon Project. 'A work in progress' The Long Gallery, Newcastle University Quadrangle. Selected Screenings: 16.01.2012: Peter Tomkins and Christopher Bird 'The Secret Life of Plants'.
A fascinating account of the physical, emotional and spiritual relationship between plants and man

Workshops:

2017:
September 2017 – Present: Workshop Tutor, The Warren Youth Facility, Hull. As a tutor at the Warren my responsibility is to host workshops that provide, qualification equivalents to individuals aged 16-25 who have dropped out of formal education. As part of this activity I am currently working with groups to create costume exploring
the role of gender and identity.
August 2017: The Warren Youth Facility ‘Mad Pride’ Hull. Mad Pride is a project born out of Hull City of Cultures 2107 Creative Communities project. The project aims to challenge the tyranny of normality, and to celebrate diversity and difference. My role as part this activity was to produce and facilitate a series of workshop with 16-25 year olds to create costume around the festivals themes, to be worn as part of a parade held in Pearson Park Hull.

2016:
April 2016: The Mitchell Community Centre: ‘Untold Stories’ Hull.
April 2016: Spring Bank Community Centre: ‘Untold Stories’ Hull. A project born out of funding secured from Central Library Hull, to run a series of 10 workshops with different community groups around the city. With a view to working with these groups to encourage them to create comic strips with their untold stories about their lives growing up in Hull. These comic were made into ‘Zines’ and some were blown up and displayed in an Exhibition held at the City Library. Those involved were able to learn how to produce and materialise a ‘zine’.

2015:
March 2015: Middleton Street Mural, Hull. These sessions comprised of working with children from the area, to compose a community Mural that is now on permanent display in the park.

• Date: August 2014
• Client: William Vinegrad
• Category: All sections