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Emily Dezurick-Badran - Artists Profile - A Red Threatening Sky

 

Emily Dezurick-Badran is an American artist, writer, and scholar living and working in Southend on Sea. She dabbles in a variety of styles and subject matters, but finds that her work continually returns to themes of the forbidden and the unspeakable. She is especially fond of figurative drawing and painting, but also creates installations, paper crafts, and abstract paintings. 

Emily’s previous paintings focused primarily on the effects of trauma and mental illness, with a special focus on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. She is currently creating a small installation about love, lust, and transgressive desire, tentatively titled “Be My Valentine.” Emily is also working with her friend and colleague Edwin Abrescy on a two-person bi-continental show titled “The Faces of Bad Men,” which explores portrayals of masculinity and evil. In the rest of her time she makes small paintings and illustrations influenced by mythology, daydreams, fairy tales, nightmares, children’s books, and the English landscape. Within the next year she hopes to illustrate an online graphic novel and produce short animated segments. She also has plans for an illustrated children’s book. 

Emily graduated in 2007 with a BA in Visual Art from Antioch College. She collaborated previously with Foolish People on The Abattoir Pages and is happy to be working with them again.

Please visit her website (www.dezurickbadran.com) and Etsy shop (www.etsy.com/shop/drowse) or email [email protected] to find out more about her work.

FoolishPeople present 'A Red Threatening Sky' 
11th – 20th February 2010 7:30pm, 8.30pm & 9.30pm 
Tickets: ClubAethereus.com 07597576075 
The Old Abattoir, 187-211 St. John’s St, Clerkenwell, London. EC1V 4LS

Maryam Hashemi - A Red Threatening Sky - Artists Profile

I explore my subconscious and beyond through my paintings. It is my tool to know myself or push the boundaries of my dream state reality. My endless interest in mysteries and my Iranian background often blend in a surreal form and reveal untold stories. 

 

"From the memories , I'm giving birth to a Demon , can't wait to see his face" 

http://maryamhashemi.blogspot.com/ http://www.iranian.com/Arts/2006/February/Hashemi

Samm Hain - A Red Threatening Sky - Artists Profile

Samm Hain was born in Framingham, Massachusetts during the blizzard of 78'. His interest in the arts, occult and otherwise, were likewise born in Framingham. A writer and visual artist his writing has appeared in three anthologies: 'The Best Of Konton Magazine', 'Magick On The Edge', and Foolish People's 'Terra: Extremitas'. Currently residing in Portland Oregon his photography has been featured in a local Pacific Northwest Travel Guide. A frequent collaborator with Foolish People and part of the artist collective Cell 144 Samm’s work explores the mythic connections between art, life, and anarchy; the stories of what gets built in the ruins of the institutions that have failed us. He is currently writing a novel and illustrating and writing a graphic novel. Much of his work with Cell 144 can be found at flowerofkairos.com

FoolishPeople present 'A Red Threatening Sky' 

11th – 20th February 2010
7:30pm, 8.30pm & 9.30pm
Tickets: www.ClubAethereus.com 07597576075
The Old Abattoir, 187-211 St. John’s St, Clerkenwell, London. EC1V 4LS

Jules Newman - A Red Threatening Sky - Artists Profile

 

Jules Newman is a London based artist whose fascinations with mythology, dreams, and symbols and interests in theatre and performance have led her to work in a variety of roles including in-crowd performer, model, make up artist, set designer, props maker, and events manager. She also runs an online spell shop called 'The Magic Tree', and makes horned headpieces, masks and wigs as part of another project called 'Ghoulia's Peculiars'.

In all her endeavours Jules seeks to stimulate people to challenge their understanding of normality and to engage with their environment, senses and imagination. This can be manifested through meditation, through physical acts that symbolise catharsis, or by encouraging people to embrace the daydreams, wonder, humour and playfulness that may be considered conventionally unacceptable. She aims to provide disguises that reveal truth and enable an authentic and inspiring experience. 

Photo by Yiannis Katsaris

Her animal masks from 'The Abattoir Pages', a previous Foolish People event, are being displayed at The Reading Room, 65-66 Frith Street, Soho, London W1D 3JR from 8th February - 2nd March 2010, as part of the 'Miss Kiki Salon Presents...' exhibition. 

Website: www.myspace.com/ghouliaspeculiars 
Email: [email protected] 

A Red Threatening Sky - First Wave of Artists Announced

Electro Boy by Tom G Adriani 

We are proud to announce our first wave of collaborators for 'A Red Threatening Sky'.

FP are extremely excited to be working with such a talented group of artists and writers. We recommend you visit their sites to see what they have in store for you.

We'll be profiling each of the artists here in the next two weeks and the second wave of artists will be announced early next week.

Tom G Adriani
jotta.com/jotta/viewProjects/adriani

Maryam Hashemi
maryamhashemi.blogspot.com
iranian.com/arts/2006/february/hashemi 

Jules Newman AKA Ghoulia's Peculiars
misskikisalonpresents.co.uk/collection7.html
myspace.com/ghouliaspeculiars
myspace.com/themagictree

Ioanna Pantaz
ioannapantaz.com

Samm Hain
flowerofkairos.com

FoolishPeople Present A Red Threatening Sky

FoolishPeople present A Red Threatening Sky; an immersive Valentine’s event combining performance, art installation and investigative interaction to create Club Aethereus; a strange and surreal underworld of Gnostic Noir. A place where crime, passion, the sacred and profane all cast one shadow. 

The Valentinian. Harry wakes with no memory of how he arrived inside the club. He has been contracted to find a missing person. Pearl. 

The Hotel room. Her hands and feet are bound and a hood hides her face. Teddy boy philosopher Roy Boutling watches the prize for the club’s owner. Sebastian Qyain. 

The Aviary. The birds song has become distressed. The ornithologist Miss Moreau waits for her lover, a man whose face she has never seen. The Dance Floor. 

The showgirls receive a letter from Sebastian Qyain. It contains the revised ending of the Valentine’s show at Club Aetherus, directing them in a horrifying act. 

Opening hour approaches under a red threatening sky. 

You are invited to enter and investigate the mystery of love’s final destination, in a unique experience honoring the earliest traditions and rituals of courtship, jealousy, union and lust. 

A Red Threatening Sky examines the nature of love, an unrelenting force which pervades all our lives from the moment we are born until the day we die.

It follows FoolishPeople's sell-out run of The Abattoir Pages, where they partnered with Guerrilla Zoo for their third open source meta event at the Old Abattoir, and the critically acclaimed Cirxus, which was performed at The Arcola.

Tickets are on sale now for A Red Threatening Sky.

Poster Art & Design P. Emerson Williams

Creative Team

John Harrigan
P. Emerson Williams
Lucy Allin
Tereza Kamenicka
Ruth Middleton
Hannah Druckes
Emma Tompkins
Abbie Yaxley

Listings Information:

11 February - 20 February 2010 

7.30pm, 8.30pm & 9.30pm entrance times.

Tickets: £16 Only available online ClubAethereus.com 

The Old Abattoir, 187-211 St. John’s St, Clerkenwell, London, EC1V 4LS

'The Abattoir Pages' photo album

The photo album of 'The Abattoir Pages' is now available to view, with photography taken by the talented Yiannis Katsaris.

Thank you to everyone who participated in and supported the project.

 
Art by Lorraine Clarke

Photography by Yiannis Katsaris

The Abattoir Pages - 2nd wave of artists announced

I'm very proud to announce the second wave of artists collaborating with Guerrilla Zoo & FoolishPeople on 'The Abattoir Pages'.

Lee Adams

Joseph Matheny

Emily Dezurick-Badran

James Curcio

Antoine Bertin

Syban V

Victoria Karlsson

The 3rd and final wave will be announced next week.