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Blobmouth 2025
2025 Discerning the Silent Presence
2022 Hercules
2025 Fog Horn
Fake fur, fabric, plastic, mixed-media 54 × 54 × 52 cm
LiDAR photograph and archival pigment print Set of 4, each 40 × 60 cm
Italian white marble and slate 75 × 55 × 30 cm
Foam, horn, acrylic paint, wooden base, button (audio component) 65 × 45 × 37 cm
raymondterrific Paul Raymond
Paul Raymond is a Newcastle-based artist and art educator whose practice spans sculpture, collage, print, moving image, performance and kinetic assemblage. Informed by surreal childhood memories and distorted nostalgia, the work explores creativity and conformity within politically shaped systems. Moving between material and digital realms, Raymond transforms technology through experimentation, questioning control, memory and the pursuit of utopian possibility. models created without planning, one of which unexpectedly developed mouth-like features. This accidental form was embraced and evolved into a pink, blob-like ‘Hellmouth’. A written description of the Plasticine figure was entered into an AI image generator, producing glitchy, fragmented digital versions. The AI images were used to develop a design for a large-scale fabric sculpture. Raymond’s intention was to capture the magic of childish imagination and to allow unconscious Blobmouth emerged from a process of instinctive transformation. It began as a series of small Plasticine decisions to determine the outcome. However, the process also highlighted the mutation and distortion of ideas when viewed through a flawed digital lens.
peiyanzou_ Peiyan Zou
polly.black.art Polly Black
Piotr Gargas
Peiyan Zou is an artist working at the intersection of architecture, media and technology. His practice merges fragments of data and matter to explore memory, materiality and myth, positioning technical systems within speculative narratives. Informed by architectural training and digital culture, Zou examines how optical technologies produce new distortions, prompting viewers to reconsider evidence, perception and the fragile boundary between reality and fiction. Discerning the Silent Presence retools LIDAR, the laser- mapping system famed for precision, to question whether scans can be trusted. Rather than simply recording Epping Forest, the device is made to suggest a ghost story that may never have existed. Here LIDAR acts as both narrator and unreliable witness. A custom algorithm in Grasshopper traces each laser pulse, generating parameters for acrylic lenses and mirrored sheets.
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Polly Black is a mixed-media artist who focuses on midlife from a (cis-gendered) female perspective. She explores how older women are misrepresented or marginalised in Western culture. Black’s work seeks to reframe this transitional stage, highlighting both challenges and resilience while repositioning it beyond stereotypes, offering space for renewed visibility and dialogue. Fog Horn is a mixed-media sculpture modelled on Polly Black’s modified head, reimagined as a device that emits a warning sound. Drawing on weather-forecasting instruments, it reflects on brain fog and other midlife experiences. The work engages viewers directly, elevating these often-overlooked conditions and questioning their impact on both the individual and those around them.
Piotr Gargas is a sculptor specialising in stone carving, blending classical training with contemporary expression. With over a decade of experience in architectural restoration across Europe, he now focuses on fine art sculpture, employing laminated techniques that layer marble and slate into seamless forms. His monochrome works, both abstract and figurative, explore strength, fluidity and balance, uniting traditional craftsmanship with modern minimalism. Hercules employs a monochromatic palette that emphasises material contrasts, producing a striking visual effect and lending the work a distinctly contemporary character.
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