ARTIST STATEMENT

Exploring the bewildering experience of displacement plays important role in Ates’s work. She questions cultural and social values through exploration of memory, loss and nostalgia. She engages in the potential of pattern and motifs within Islamic art. Layers held within lavish architectural spaces offering possibilities to hide or reveal, alluding to the theatrical. Her work begins with film and photography, yet a subsequent layering of imagery results in a disruptive blur of cultural perceptions. This compounds the idea of “the veil”, which sits at the core of her art practice. Manifestations of this have been realized through performance and site responsive activities that merge eastern and western sensibilities.

2006-08 Royal College of Art, MA Fine Art; Printmaking, London
2001-04 Wimbledon School of Art, BA {HONS} degree in Fine Art; Painting, London
2000-01 Lewisham College, BTEC Diploma Foundation Studies in Art and Design, London
1996-98 University of Marmara, Fine Art; Painting. Istanbul

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
'Landslide', Cafe Gallery, London, 2008
'MUJU; The Upstart festival', Tricycle Theatre, London
‘There and Back Again’, Hockney Gallery, London, 2007
‘Ensemble (s) ll’, Cite Internationaledes Arts, Paris
‘Re-Formation’, Christ Church Spitalfields, London
‘Over and Over Again’, Sadler’s Wells, London
‘Peace Camp’, The Brick Lane Gallery, London, 2006
‘Secrets’, Gulbenkian Gallery, RCA, London
‘I.D’, Group Show, Crescent Arts, Scarborough, 2005
‘Looking Glass’, Group show, Waterloo Gallery, London
‘Three Sixteen’, Group Show, Candid Arts, London
'TAKE 04’, Group Show, Wimbledon School of Art, London, 2004
‘The Launch of Creative Cultures’, Merton Council, London
‘If u want my body’, Wimbledon Library Gallery, London
‘Identity’, Guildford Arts, Guildford, 2003

SOLO EXHBITION
‘Projects at Christ Church Spitalfields', London, 2005

FILM SCREENING
‘Art Video Screening’, Vasteras, Sweden, 2007
‘Detroit 10th International Film/Video Festival, Museums of New Art, (MONA), Michigan, USA
‘The Vision of the Nunnery’, The Nunnery Gallery, London, 2006
‘Showcase’, Momentum ’06, London ‘Island Art Film & Video Festival ’05, Prenelle Gallery, London, 2005

RESIDENCY/AWARDS
Matthew Wrightson Award 2008
Short-listed (1 of 6) for 20/21 Century Art prize
The Cite Internationale Des Arts, Paris, Apr – June 2007

WORK
University of Hertfordshire, UK, Nov 2007 - Teaching placement (including artist talk)

EXPERIENCE
Sadler’s Well’s, London, Dec 06 - Jan 07 - Working with curator and art critic Sacha Craddock organising ‘Poster’ exhibition
National Gallery, London, 2003- talk on Peter Paul Rubens; Massacre of the Innocents, ‘Pain and love’, Sunley room