‘Toy Toonsers Medicine,’ (Collaboration Project with Paul Westcombe and Gusty Ferro).
An Animation created by Westcombe, where Ferro created experimental new sound pieces which have been created in a response to the work as further symbiosis between both artists.
Westcombe has taken drawings created by Ferro and made them into 3D animated spectres weaving in and out of the video works, exploring the slippages between both artists work and both of their concerns with the body and architecture.
Westcombe graduated Grays School of Art (painting) / RCA (MA Painting) / R.A.D.A (Scenic Art). He has exhibited widely throughout the UK / internationally, exploring desire and the capacity to construct the grotesque and phantasmagorical in moments of sensory deprivation. This forms a decentered practice, which involves, expansive wall painting / installations. Recently he has moved towards animation / theatre, working collaboratively with performers; opera singers, and writers.
Gusty Ferro is a Brazilian artist currently studying at the Royal Academy Schools in London. In the last few years they have been living between Glasgow, Blackpool and São Paulo; experimenting with different approaches within their practice in collaboration with other artists and specific contexts. Gusty’s work is rooted in the idea of displacement, navigating between drawing, electronic music, printmaking, sculpture and site responsive installation.
A former student from the fine arts roaming programme School of the Damned, Gusty participated in international residencies, group and solo shows in Scotland, England, Spain, Ecuador, Argentina, India and broadly in Brazil. In 2020 Gusty was recipient of the Arts Council England, National Lottery Project Grant to develop research and a new body of work in Blackpool; and in 2016 they participated in a residency at Glasgow Sculpture Studios followed by a solo show at SWG3 Gallery, as part of a project supported by the British Council and Creative Scotland.