2025 ArtEvol Catalogue

Painting / Drawing

Digital Art

Mixed Media

Photography

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Diary, 14th December 2022–20th November 2023 2022

Do Algorithms Have Memories? 2025

Adornment 2025

Chemigram #5 2025

Ink on card 14.8 × 21 cm

Thread 95 × 120 × 15 cm

Chemigram print 23.2 × 30.5 cm

Carlos Fentanes carlosfentanes

Carola van Dyke carolavandyke

Caroline Silverwood Taylor carolinesilverwoodtaylor

Carlo Keshishian carlo_keshishian

Carlos Fentanes is an interdisciplinary artist working across drawing, painting and generative digital systems. Fentanes explores how memory, human or machine, is shaped, rewritten and erased, drawing parallels between algorithms and mechanisms of power in culture, religion and patriarchy. Through works fusing analogue craft with computation, Fentanes questions the stability of image, truth and collective memory. Carlos Fentanes presents a generative installation unfolding in real time. A BeagleBone Black microcomputer generates coloured marks on a monitor at fixed intervals, forming shifting compositions that are both ordered and chaotic. Acting as a metaphor for collective memory, the work reflects on how societies choose what to preserve or erase, resisting selective forgetting through an uneditable, ever-growing digital archive.

Carola van Dyke is a contemporary textile and fibre artist who works with thread as both medium and subject. Inspired by environmental awareness and reverence for nature, her practice draws from natural and still-life traditions, balancing ephemerality and permanence. Merging tradition with experimentation, Carola van Dyke transforms thread into vibrant works that meditate on preservation, biodiversity and transformation. Carola van Dyke draws inspiration from Abraham Busschop’s 18th-century painting Trompe l’oeil , which depicts Aesop’s fable of the raven stripped of stolen feathers. The work celebrates individuality as a quiet triumph rather than a flaw to conceal, affirming beauty in authenticity over imitation. Guided strongly by colour, van Dyke creates a wing where fresh and decayed feathers merge, embodying resilience, delicacy and transformation.

Carlo Keshishian is a visual artist working with ink and paint to explore the illusory nature of time. Central to Keshishian’s practice is a diary drawing series sustained for 27 years, in which images evolve incrementally through repetition. Keshishian’s meticulous mark-making embodies both continuity and disruption, creating works that transcend the canvas as meditations on time, process, and transcendence. This drawing, completed over 68 sittings, contains 58 diary entries written between 15 March and 1 November 2022, totalling 17,551 words. The entry in red ink marks the birth of Carlo Keshishian’s daughter, dividing the work into before and after. This work is part of Carlo Keshishian’s long-evolving series of diary drawings.

Caroline Silverwood Taylor is an artist with a background in monochrome film photography and darkroom methods. Taylor explored long and multiple exposures and damaged negatives to examine liminality and time. Taylor now experiments with alternative processes, focusing on the chemigram. Chemigram #5 was created by applying photographic chemicals directly to exposed photographic paper. The resulting image is a by-product of process rather than a deliberate focus, subverting the traditional objective of photography. Creating an image that relies on the physicality of process, without a digital equivalent, reminds viewers of the significance of historical photographic inheritance.

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