Martyna Madej
Marty
"Who is clown? To us a clown is somebody sacred, funny, powerful, ridiculous, holy, shameful, visionary. He is all this and then some more. Fooling around, a clown is really performing a spiritual ceremony." - John Fire Lame Deer Marty is an expression of frustration with the absurdity of human existence and the modern world. Martyna Madej's alter ego, Marty the Clown, is an attempt to protect herself from the outside world but also an attempt to communicate with it. Through a series of performative acts the artist seeks to create a space of reflection in which Marty examines make-believe and illusory exaggeration as a methods for counteracting the shitty stuff of existence; finding comfort in the ridiculous.
Alice Armfield • Eleanor Carver • Hannah Collins • Remi Frederick • Sophie Jarrett • Nemo Macharia • Martyna Madej • Iliyan Marinov • JJ Potter • Max Smith •
Bath Spa University
BA (Hons) Photography
Barking and Dagenham College
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Chester
BA (Hons) Photography
Crawford College of Art and Design
BA (Hons) Fine Art
University of Cumbria
BA (Hons) Photography
Dublin Institute of Technology
BA (Hons) Photography
IADT Dun Laoghaire
BA (Hons) Photography
Edinburgh College of Art
BA (Hons) Photography
Edinburgh College, Robert Gordon University
BA Professional Photography
Falmouth University
BA (Hons) Photography
Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
University of Gloucestershire
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Gloucestershire
BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Griffith College Dublin
BA Photographic Media
Hereford College of Arts
BA (Hons) Photography
Leeds Arts University
BA (Hons) Photography
Manchester School of Art
BA (Hons) Photography
Photography Studies College, Melbourne
Bachelor of Photography
National College of Art and Design
Photography and Digital Imaging Certificate
University of Portsmouth
BA (Hons) Photography
Sheffield Hallam University
BA (Hons) Photography
University of South Wales
BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
University of Suffolk
BA (Hons) Photography
Swansea College of Art, UWTSD
BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts
Swansea College of Art, UWTSD
BA (Hons) Photojournalism and Documentary Photography