Shantell Martin :: Artist Feature
See Shantell at the Motion Graphics Festival
Digital Painting Workshop :: Shantell will also be hosting a Sunday morning workshop from 10am - 5pm. Each student gets a fully-loaded computer to work on.
Loda at Gallery :: Shantell will preform her unique interactive digital fine art at the Friday night event.
Motion Graphics Screenings :: Shantell's video work, recently released on the Light Rythm Visuals dvd label, will be showcased during the Motion Graphics screenings.
Shantell's video from the Digital Painting workshop
About the Digital Painting Workshop
Internationally touring visual performance artist Shantell Martin provides an inside look at the technology and aesthetics of live painting software. Learn to harness intuitive creativity using technology and methods developed for and by artists. Guided by music and audience participation, you’ll record your creations for later use as post-production motion graphics and creative event documentation.
The workshop will emphasize the use of traditional art skills and free-flowing creativity to solve problems, rather than technical tricks and gizmos. See first-hand how new art-making software gets out of the artist’s way, allowing you to relax and just create instead of having to over-think each step.
Each student will be provided a computer to use during the class. You will also have an opportunity to work directly on a Wacom tablet already set up for live painting. Students are also welcome to bring their own computers and tablets.
About the Artist
Since graduating from London’s Central Saint Martins University of Art & Design with first class honors in graphic design and illustration in 2003, Shantell Martin has been expanding conventional definitions of drawing, using it as a base from which to storm and occupy the design, fashion and music scenes. After some time living in Japan, Martin has recently relocated to New York City.
Since graduating from London’s Central Saint Martins University of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Graphic Design/Illustration in 2003, Shantell Martin has redefined the concept of drawing—using it as a base from which to storm the fashion, music and club worlds. Recently relocating from Tokyo to New York, she collaborates with designers, musicians, DJs and her audience to produce fresh, continually evolving art and design that challenge, inspire, amaze and mystify.
Starting with the humble tools of pen and paper she creates delicate, intricate and ever-changing otherworldly scenes, of populated quasi-humans and other not-quite-familiar creatures, which themselves seem to be continually engaged in the process of evolving into something else. Of her drawings she says: “The lines are spontaneous and intuitive, drawing for me is a line that flows between the past and the future without touching the sides.”
Her illustrations are unique and flexible, a style that has proved adaptable to other forms of expression. Apart from her drawings, which have been exhibited from London to Tokyo, as an increasingly-sought after VJ Shantell has created two unique art forms—both proudly
low-tech—which allow her to bring her work to a wider, club-going audience. One, which she calls PPP (pen, paper, projector) and does regularly at an experimental mixed-media collaboration called Test Tone at Super Deluxe in Tokyo’s Nishi-Azabu, involves her covering the walls with an interconnected veil of hallucinatory lines and images to sounds of an eclectic mix of live performances. She sees herself as providing a “visual connection between the audience and the performers”.
For the slightly more hi-tech Sketch Projection, she uses a Wacom tablet (kind of like a grown-up, electronic version of Etch-a-Sketch) and one or more projectors to draw and erase, with the use of negative space and audience interaction playing an important part in the creation of the images.
Visit Shantell at www.shantellmartin.com
About lightrhythmvisuals
lightrhythmvisuals is an independent visual label that currently houses more than 30 international multidisciplinary artists, working with them to develop original content and releasing their work for a global audience. Established in 2003 in San Francisco, the label has since expanded to the UK and Tokyo. Founders Ben Sheppee and Jon Schwark have both written several books on the subject of visual media and over the years have taken key curatorial and developmental roles within the industry. lightrhythmvisuals contents are licensed by leading artists around the world and represent the most exciting changes taking place in today’s visual arts scene. Currently developing its seventh and eighth collections, the label has built both strong relationships with artist and a reputation for producing outstanding visual content.
Shantell's Koob's DVD featured in the DC MGFest Silent Auction
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