honorable mention
Yas Crawford united kingdom
title
Lombardy
Crawford's sometimes complex use of different creative mediums, instinctively and nearly always develops in a fine art form. Her work begins with analogue images, illustrations and paper sculptures of the landscape which provide outlines and topographies for the final image. Crawford's process is to layer the analogue images revealing a dislocated landscape reflecting the lives of the people and their love of their country. The sculptures provide an imaginary topography and the digital paint reveals the virus. The abstraction remains to shadows the impact of the event. The overall finished fine art form a further reflection of Italian artists are at the very heart of this piece of work.
Crawford's artwork has been recognised over the last two years with several international awards including Winner of the Art of Neuroscience Award 2021 for Cognition IX, Winner of the Land Air 4.0 Quasi Quadro Award 2021 with Inception I, Finalist of the RPS Science Photographer of the Year 2019 for Oxygen Ib. Crawford held her first solo exhibition 'Cellular Flow, I've been thinking...' in Barge, Turin 11 Dec 2021 to 25 Feb 2022.
Multidisciplinary collaborations include: a neurological project/video animation with a MSc Animation graduate from Tehran University of Art 2021-2022, an evolutionary biology project with Nottingham University/UK Pint of Science, research on mapping neural activity in the brain for The John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU, Canberra and PhD research on the immune system of M.E/CFS patients, Quadram Institute of Biosciences, Norwich.
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entry description
'I visited the beautiful mountainous Valli Intelvi region of Lombardy, Italy in November 2019, just before the Coronavirus outbreak. The Series Lombardy has been one of the most difficult for me to realise, having found myself so emotionally attached to the place and its people. I continuing to develop the series'. explains CrawfordCrawford's sometimes complex use of different creative mediums, instinctively and nearly always develops in a fine art form. Her work begins with analogue images, illustrations and paper sculptures of the landscape which provide outlines and topographies for the final image. Crawford's process is to layer the analogue images revealing a dislocated landscape reflecting the lives of the people and their love of their country. The sculptures provide an imaginary topography and the digital paint reveals the virus. The abstraction remains to shadows the impact of the event. The overall finished fine art form a further reflection of Italian artists are at the very heart of this piece of work.
about the photographer
Yas Crawford is an internationally awarded Art Photographer who has exhibited in the UK and Europe. Crawford is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and a Fellow of the Geological Society. She was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales where the landscape and biological make-up have subliminally influenced her work. With a degree in Geology and a master’s in Photography, Crawford has worked in various business roles, an entrepreneur in life sciences, and now working in what she calls ‘The Grey Space’ in-between disciplines. Crawford's research touches on mapping evolutionary change and the impact it has on mankind.Crawford's artwork has been recognised over the last two years with several international awards including Winner of the Art of Neuroscience Award 2021 for Cognition IX, Winner of the Land Air 4.0 Quasi Quadro Award 2021 with Inception I, Finalist of the RPS Science Photographer of the Year 2019 for Oxygen Ib. Crawford held her first solo exhibition 'Cellular Flow, I've been thinking...' in Barge, Turin 11 Dec 2021 to 25 Feb 2022.
Multidisciplinary collaborations include: a neurological project/video animation with a MSc Animation graduate from Tehran University of Art 2021-2022, an evolutionary biology project with Nottingham University/UK Pint of Science, research on mapping neural activity in the brain for The John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU, Canberra and PhD research on the immune system of M.E/CFS patients, Quadram Institute of Biosciences, Norwich.
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