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Danno Watts
Gianna Badiali
Barry Cawston
The Next Artspace Artist: Round 1
The art of photography reigned supreme in Round 1 of the Next Artspace Artist. The Artspace team reached out and asked this week’s winners to share their thoughts on art, inspiration, and more. All of these winners will be moving to the Semi-Finals (to be hosted on Artspace.com from October 1 - 5).
Barry Cawston
As a young boy growing up in London, Barry Cawston always took a different route home from school, curiously wandering on side streets and peering in windows and open doorways. Despite a change in scenery (he now lives out in the countryside keeping pigs and growing vegetables), he continues to explore the world around him, camera in hand.
What do you hope other people get out of your art?
Stimulation, a different view, something that touches them and makes them think. The world and life can rush pass you and leave you isolated in an onrushing river hopefully my work captures some peoples attention and slows them down.
What’s your favorite thing you’ve ever made?
Books Napoli and The Tibetan Cowboy are two images that have an extra something a touch of magic captured from the real world, which is when photography for me rises to compare to other art forms. Both have a surreal quality which I love.
What would you be doing if you weren’t an artist?
Growing vegetables and keeping pigs, looking after my family, but I would still need to be making something, possibly furniture.
What is your favorite place to see art?
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park, I love seeing art in the landscape.
What is indispensable in your studio?
My Wista 5/4, which is a beautiful arcane wooden field camera that I still use all the time.
Gianna Badiali
After a childhood in Switzerland and Italy, Gianna Badiali has recently found herself living in Providence, RI, while attending Brown University. Describing it as a “strange, grungy, uniquely beautiful place,” she often finds herself encountering both the bizarre and amusing. Armed with one of her two favorite Nikon cameras (the D200 or F65), she manages to capture the unexpected in the many of the overlooked spaces and places that shape America.
What made you want to become an artist?
When I was a kid, I was fascinated by movies and filmmaking. I remember my family had a television channel that aired nothing but “making-of” documentaries. I watched these constantly. I think this initial interest might have cultivated a more sweeping question about what it means to create or reproduce an image or to tell a story.
What do you hope other people get out of your art?
Having an agenda about this feels foreign to me in a way. But if you find something comical in one of my photos, or if you experience a twinge of disordered nostalgia … I think the very simple idea that casual images from my life can have emotional weight for someone else is really powerful.
What’s your favorite thing you’ve ever made?
Last year I drove from Dallas to Providence via Chicago. Not being from the United States, I knew the destinations on my trip only through the pop culture mythos surrounding them. I’m fascinated by the extent to which many places played into my expectations and yet subverted them in unexpected ways. A breakfast diner in a small town in Mississippi would feel like the ultimate caricature, and then a vibrating disco ball in the corner would catch me completely off guard. These places were so funny — the photo series from this trip might be my favorite.
What is your favorite place to see art?
In a certain sense, definitely the internet. I think Tumblr is really a beautiful system.
If you could get any artist to do your portrait, who would you choose?
Paula Rego.
Danno Watts
An Arizona native, Danno Watts now lives in San Francisco or “heaven on earth.” Encouraged at an early age to think outside of the box (and question if there even is a box), Danno turned to art as a form of expression and discovery. Photography became the medium of choice; in his words, it “resonates with me, it makes me happy.”
Who is your favorite artist (living or historical)?
Hard to narrow it down, but I really do have an emotional response to Gerhard Ricthter and Jackson Pollock. I also have an emotional connection to Roald Dahl’s works.
Where do you look for inspiration? How do you get your creative juices flowing?
I love books, movies, music, and museums. I’m able to look to all of them, as each offers something different to affect my creativity and get the gears moving. I have a few go-to artists and albums to get my mind and heart into a receptive and creative place.
What do you hope other people get out of your art?
I want people to have a reaction to my art, to feel something. I take Pretty Pictures of Pretty Girls doing Pretty Things. I want people to appreciate the beauty of these women.
What is indispensable in your studio?
Sunlight, music, laughter and a cup of black hot tea (prepared English style).
If you could get any artist to do your portrait, who would you choose?
Living: Nick Knight or Paolo Roversi. Dead: Richard Avedon or Man Ray.
Interested in entering The Next Artspace Artist competition? Submit here through September 21. Or, vote for Round 2 Contenders here.
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