New artists

Axis Artist of the Month July 2009

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New artist to Axis 26 June 2009

I have worked in film and television as a camerawoman and director for the last 10 years, more recently I have concentrated on art photography. I consider myself an emerging art practitioner. read more

New artist to Axis 26 June 2009

My work is centred on drawing as a vehicle to express the sensation and deeper experience of being in different places in the landscape. I have travelled widely over the last few years (including... read more

New artist to Axis 24 June 2009

My work explores the re-presentation of ideas as constructed, visual, oral and conceptual stimuli, considering the associated histories of these ideas through both intellectual and emotional... read more

New artist to Axis 24 June 2009

The 'Dark Matter' sculptures and drawings refer to the vast majority of matter and energy in the universe that exists but cannot be seen. The work also reflects my interest in the... read more

New artist to Axis 24 June 2009

Through photography I try to find beauty in the everyday and in the lost and forgotten. So many treasured items are lost such as books and letters I try to bring these lost and forgotten objects... read more

Featured in online journal 24 June 2009

Cornwall has had some artistic highlights in its time but it’s probably fair to say that it isn’t top of most people’s list as a contemporary art hot-spot. But that could be about... more

Selected for Public Realm on 22 June 2009

Maia Conran's project undertaken in Bed and Breakfast accommodation throughout Wales, records their owner's personalities by photographing the interior decor and furnishings. read more

New artist to Axis 19 June 2009

My work incorporates technology pertaining to everyday communication, utilizing devices past and present. Televisions, slide projectors, digital projectors are modified and taken further often to... read more

New artist to Axis 15 June 2009

Self-defined as a painter, but actually practice includes painting, sculpture, installation and has a lot to do with making a space more theatrical through the careful positioning of painted... read more

Selected for Open Frequency on 15 June 2009

In his most recent work, photographic artist Hamish Gane explores themes first developed in his 2005 series ‘Apron’. Using his immediate family as subjects with the domestic space as... read more

Selected for Open Frequency on 11 June 2009

Richard Bevan’s work deals with the tension between film as a medium and light as its agent. In his films this tension varies from the equilibrium of good light conditions and a... read more

New artist to Axis 04 June 2009

My practice is cross-media and involves sculpture, installation, site-specific work, painting, drawing, and photographic elements. At times my work has followed disparate tangents and working... read more

New artist to Axis 04 June 2009

Finally, I've stopped trying to impose order and let random chance take over – letting ideas, experiences and day dreams collide. The objects I make are mementos of these random... read more

New artist to Axis 04 June 2009

My work is concerned with the forms that make up our modern landscape: the building, tower, skyscraper. The forms in which we live, work, love, communicate. They define who we are. We communicate... read more

New artist to Axis 04 June 2009

I work between the mediums of drawing and painting. Making drawings and notes daily of everyday sites and objects that inform my practice. I work in ongoing series often alongside each other,... read more

Axis Artist of the Month June 2009

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Selected for Open Frequency on 02 June 2009

Nick Fox’s paintings and objects are a combination of fine art and craft, romantic desire and explicit eroticism, decorative pattern and loaded symbolism. He employs this exploration of the... read more

New artist to Axis 01 June 2009

Building on the delicate relationship between fine art and craft, my paintings contemplate different perspectives of desire. Unfolding narratives of fantasy are suggested by delicate... read more

New artist to Axis 29 May 2009

My work involves utilising the subjective view of the camera to encourage the audience to question what they are looking at. This is achieved by concealing or revealing part of the information,... read more

New artist to Axis 26 May 2009

My work has always been urban. I work by layering images and then constructing but also eliminating parts of images to find new buildings and places. I use images of real buildings and work them in... read more

New artist to Axis 22 May 2009

A number of theorists have recently noted that all members of society, both impoverished and privilege are suffering from a lack of belonging. In addition to a perceived loss of place artists... read more

New artist to Axis 21 May 2009

Yaron Lapid's work is about himself as much as it is about the others. Whether these are the people marginalised from society, his closest colleagues or complete strangers, this does not... read more

New artist to Axis 21 May 2009

The concept of 'imaginary space' is key to my practice. As a sculptor and installation artist much of my work stems from drawing processes and explores the ambiguous translation from line... read more

New artist to Axis 20 May 2009

protoPLAY is a transdisciplinary art group who set up interesting ways to explore the problematics of authorship, collaboration and the self in the context of contemporary society, whilst... read more