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Concepts Frank To has created paintings inspired by a story attributed to the Renaissance sculptor, Michelangelo. It was said Michelangelo could visualise the human form within a block of marble. F. To, similarly, teases out figures from initially abstract images. It means he works in two distinct ways on a...
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Working mainly with installation, my work deals with issues of deconstruction and transformation, the recycling of materials, and the ambiguity of communication - as well as the obsessive repetitive actions used in the making of the work. Found objects are reconstructed into artworks which stand as a tangible and symbolic presence of the...
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Artist statement 'I long for your fluidity... I must listen well to learn your liquid voice.' (Luce Irigaray: Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche ) In my working processes, I established the analogy of conversation - water and self were participants in an open and spontaneous interaction (or encounter) from which a...
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McGonigal is an established artist and curator currently based in the UK represented by ArdBia Berlin. She has shown internationally and been involved in important curatorial projects, including the Liverpool Biennial 2002 and Elsewhere, Paris 1996. Her current practice consists of pencil drawings on paper, both minimal and...
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Concepts As an architectural glass artist I find that most of my commissions are for buildings. Progress in architecture can be very slow - sometimes years elapse between a project's inception and realisation. Being an artist in architecture is also a very collaborative process. From the design, through the...
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Concepts The tonal arrangements of a work is a primary concern; this makes abstract forms within the figurative painting. Similarities in the structure f shapes can create duality and ambiguous meaning. Portraiture from life is a relatively small but important part of my work. Ongoing themes are journeys, towns...
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Concepts/themes/ideas My current work is concerned with layers of time and the continuity between ancient and modern forms in the culture of Rajasthan (India) and Morocco. The process of scraping and wiping down the paint surface becomes a metaphor for excavating history, and transparent glazes are applied to...
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My artwork reflects my mashed up thought processes as they unravel the detritus of everyday life. My paintings are often screwed up scenarios where evil kittens and horses stalk you at night, or trashy glimpses at modern pop culture, where images gleaned from TV and magazines and lyrics from pop songs have been mangled through my brain, and...
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Simon Le Ruez uses sculpture, installation and drawing to reflect on a range of scenarios, incidents and seemingly random acts where meanings, like memories need to be pieced together. His work frequently refers to and oscillates between, private domestic spaces and that of wide-open metaphorical landscapes. Interested in the junction...
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Concepts, ideas and themes Recent art work has been made using recycled materials and found objects, investigating the inherent memory of the object itself and raising issues of our understanding of and the relationship with the past and today's consumerist society. Processes and...
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The physicality of sculpture, from the making process to the finished work, plays and integral part in shaping my practice. Environmental and architectural elements, along with material properties, aesthetic qualities and the manipulation of scale, are all important factors in my work. My public commissioned work has a strong...
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My interest lies in the stuff of paint and print, in the process of the making of the object, its' unique individual presence and observer/spectator participation. I am currently creating abstract images using non-toxic print methods and painting in oil on canvas. My work evolves from an obsessive passion for mark making, minuscule detail and a...
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My work is about exploring our connection to the land. My intention to capture feeling and emotion inspired by landscape, be it the glimpse of a night garden, the curve of a lakes edge or the tumbling lines of an allotment and it is this emotional response that is in mind when paint is applied, so horizons blur and colour saturates to create...
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My main choice of subject, my passion, is the human figure.  While initially being fascinated by the detail of the bone, muscle and skin; my painting is now more concerned with the mass and character of the pose and the figure and the relationship to the immediate environment.  I do not view a figure painting as a figure against a...
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I take on the somewhat superior position of a 'conductor' when making a painting. The canvas represents a 'stage' or a ground where various components can 'perform'. The elements are brought in one by one and orchestrated within the picture plane so that a narrative can be constructed around them. My intention is for each painting to suggest an...
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People, place and the everyday are the base material for Cardiff-based artist Jennie Savage. Employing mapping, archiving and intervention, whether collecting stories or tracing journeys, Savage seeks to return the object to the source from where it was removed, or where it's journey began. 'I am interested in the dialogue between...
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My position as a multimedia artist within contemporary art is motivated by the love of art making and the complexities of skilled crafts. Traditional crafts are used in conjunction with digital technology to create a range of artworks that project the context of material reality and the act of the artistic creation. Concerned with...
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I work within both a two dimensional and three dimensional structure using the canvas as a way to add objects of desire. The subject often depicts what is considered vulgar from both a high and low social perspective. Works are derived initially from existing paintings and written works. Their adaptation comes to light through the...
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Concepts/themes/ideas As well as using my computer to create the perfect answer to a brief, I also strive to achieve a tactile quality and sensuality to the mosaics, handmade paper illustrations and paintings I produce. Career path I have spent numerous years working...
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Concepts To provoke curiosity I experiment with both imagery and media . I work in 2 D and 3D. Using junk materials (recycling) is a speciality. The work is stylised but recognisable and often there is a story. I draw a lot on humour and cross-culture. Recurring themes are crowds, the catering industry,...
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Phil Ashcroft's recent work explores ideas of narrative and the spectacle within landscape. Referencing the site-specific, Ashcroft creates semi-surreal settings and cartoon-like motifs in environments tinged by the sense of an imminent catastrophe. Apocalyptic landscapes devoid of human existence, built environments and architectural relics...
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HANNAH'S NEW PAINTINGS One thing you can not say about Hannah's work is that it is stagnant she is forever reinventing her work and experimenting with the canvas and the paints. Her latest works depict the beauty of nature and our earth mother. Hannah's own personal...
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Clara S. Rueprich's video 'condition M' (2006), documents a training exercise with a keeper and his hunting dogs. A trail of meat lies outside the dogs' kennels. Marked with an 'M' on their flanks, the hounds waiting hungrily inside can see the meat and become excited and agitated in their wait, but the keeper prevents them from leaving. When...
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To start with, I am a sculptor. I define myself this way as I have strength and a passion for this discipline. I enjoy the manipulation of 'stuff' in space. I like to keep things simple, as things naturally get complicated. I have a strong belief in an instinctual approach to working, combined with reflection and a critical dialogue...
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My work, as with myself, is driven by feelings. I strive to find emotion in any form, whether it be in the shape of an object, human or animal. Painting enables me to defy logic and gravity, allowing the figures inside the canvas to express every inch of their selves. The narrative often involves a journey, from where and to where I am uncertain...
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I have been drawing and cutting letters in stone, wood and bronze since seeing the work of David Kindersley in the early 80s. My fascination for alphabetic forms which were once figurative and are now entirely abstract, became a lasting passion. My practice is rooted in the old craft tradition of design for materials, the drawing for...
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The subject of my work is the experience of being beneath an open sky, of walking the landscape and responding to its everchanging moods, scents, sounds, temperature and colour.  However I work a triangular format, each causing a chain reaction with the other two; I work directly from the landscape, develop imagery associated with travel...
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I am a minimalist painter working with concepts related to autobiography. My work has recently developed a figurative element or motif which enables the viewer to engage with the ideas more freely. I cannot underestimate the subconscious, or how philosophy connects to my work but I do know they are as essential as is the idea which begins...
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The nature of language, and its limitations as a method of meaningful expression, has been an underlying theme in much of my recent work. 'Speaking Soul' came out of an attempt to investigate these limitations in a more direct way. The language books that I chose to use for the installation are exclusively utilitarian in their aesthetic. My...
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Helen Sear’s photographic practice has developed from a Fine Art background of performance, film and installation work made in the 1980’s. Her photographs became widely known in the 1991 British Council exhibition, De-Composition: Constructed Photography in Britain, which toured Latin America and Eastern Europe. Born in England in 1955 she...
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