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The main focus of my work is video and painting, and the boundaries that exist between the temporal and the static. All my paintings have their roots in the moving image. The ongoing series of pixel paintings are inspired by abstract images which are projected onto the canvas surface in an endless loop. My painting attempts to capture a reflection...
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My subject matter revolves around architecture (especially concrete structures, military and industrial buildings), nuclear science and technology, Cold War history and landscape.
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Concepts My main work is installation and object-based. I'm interested in cultural conditioning & hierarchies. Areas of workPrimary educationSecondary educationAdult educationCommunity artsExhibitingLecturingPublic artResidenciesRadio/TV Collections Rabas Museum, Hredle, Czech RepublicSainsbury Collection,...
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The artist is currently revising his statement.  All artists' statements must by necessity be deluded, since adopting a particular stance and viewpoint is itself deluded, and to say one doesn't know what one is making work about would seem to devalue both the work and the individual, and yet it may be the most honest statement possible.
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Having been trained as an engineer, the form and monumentality of architecture and industrial plant has inevitably had a significant bearing on my practice. My work seeks to comment on the world about us and thus takes a political stance. Recent work has looked at the fragility of economic stability, division and subjugation in our society,...
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Edward Ashton's work is the result of his constant gathering of found imagery – from magazine cuttings, photographs and old postcards – and its subsequent cropping, editing and collage within each final piece. Through this process of careful selection and manipulation Ashton aims to create 'unique settings, situations and juxtapositions that...
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Concepts/themes/ideas The non-functional vessel has been my main focus for several years. Influenced by formal research, the overall theme to recent work is that of the representations of tourism: the souvenir and the photograph in particular. Research trips undertaken to Alberta, Canada, and Philadelphia, USA provided a rich source...
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My work sets out to explore the loss of utopia and failure of modernism to connect with the human condition.Through the use of space and displaced characters, and their juxtaposition with monumental architectural structures, these works aim to mirror the emotional turmoil and unbalance we experience in the midst of a constrained, yet...
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I approach my practice in an enquiring, investigative, experimental and research-minded manner. Artefacts, situations, and stories I encounter define my decisions and methods; as a result there is truth in the midst of fiction within my practice. My work is not a culmination of my research or journeys, but rather a series of outcomes, which...
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Influences: Aesthetic and formal concerns. Statement:  The composition of Umerle's paintings is determined by a combination of precision and chance. Materiality of paint and attention to surface are countered by a strong compositional element within the structure of the work. Layer upon layer of paint is built up, each layer...
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2009 saw major changes to my life and a move away from the chaos of London to the quiet of the North Wales coast. The result of the move has been a change in the focus of my work. Where once the human figure was my main inspiration, now it is the land, the sea and the sky although, occasionally and to refresh my ideas, I paint still lifes and make...
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I work with a wide range of media and processes involving the manipulation of everyday objects and materials. Mass-produced, anonymous objects are often rendered dysfunctional caricatures of themselves, addressing concepts of purpose and futility. I create or accentuate subtleties, blurring distinctions between the absurd and the mundane, with...
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Aeneas Wilder's work is principally that of an iconoclast. The questions that are raised through his creative practice focus on the validity or otherwise of cultural production and the validity or otherwise of national and personal identity. In questioning these systems a broader critique of society comes to light, that of controlled activity,...
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Interventions in the institutionalised everyday.Aimed at localities we collectively inhabit, my work reveals, negotiates and activates awareness for our immediate terrain. It reflects on mechanisms that underlie the institutionalised everyday - authority, discipline and hierarchies are embedded throughout.By altering uniform public interior I...
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I make images with paint, collage, drawing and camera. Work is from observation, directly from life, from drawings, from photographs, from screen images. Self-portraiture is central, partly because I'm simply the observable human figure in what I paint but also, through performance, it allows me to trespass into the worlds of other women and,...
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For the past twenty five years I have been consistently creating and redefining my artwork. Beginning with the photographic self-portrait, the philosophical and psychological analysis of myself through the medium of the lens, I have been moving on to question how the work will be seen and experienced. Exploring digital photography and...
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Happenstance is the title of the 2009 MA Contemporary Fine Art exhibition held at Sylvester Space, Sheffield. The nature of chance frames the students’ work in a convincingly well-curated and organised show. Both Sara Brannan and Anthony Hatton's work stood out as conceptually rigorous and well conceived.Sara Brannan's installation...
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Intrinsic to Klepuszewska's work are the details and scenes, the small fragilities and brutalities of contemporary human existence. The underlying themes of separation, solitude and transience persist concurrently with an exploration of the spaces we inhabit and the objects with which we surround ourselves. Combining a documentary...
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My work explores the co-dependent relationship between consumption and power, identity and autonomy, and the documentation and harvesting of processes within the socio-psycho geography of our collective experience.From banking debt to branding, multinational control to the chemicals contained within the air we breathe. We consume to cement the...
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ConceptsOver the past year or so, my work has shifted its emphasis, from reflections on landscape, to wider concerns regarding a sense of time and place. I am fascinated by ways in which the transitory nature of our existence is demonstrated: by traces of former human activity and the action of natural forces on the physical world. ...
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My work is principally concerned with the use, and arrangement of, the primary elements of visual language. Manipulating these elements I consider the potential of the compositional interactions between them to produce works that are simple, intuitive and perceptive. Mathematics and spatial geometry serve as an underlying structure and reference...
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Concepts Creation is a constant inspiration: plants, insects, landscapes and gardens. I work in watercolour and acrylic which I use together or separately, combining traditional watercolour techniques with semi-abstract backgrounds. I enjoy the traditional skills of watercolour while at the same time challenging myself to push its...
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Stone's works materialise in many forms from objects and installation through to site-specific interventions. Such works ultimately break down conventions of representation, offering new and explorative directions.  Themes of self, place, absence and transience are recurrent whilst existing materials and found objects are intrinsic. These...
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2012 Faces of Health An exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by David Harker at the Free Space Gallery, Kentish Town Health Centre, Kentish Town, London NW5 David Harker conceived the project of drawing and painting staff at the Kentish Town Health Centre in late summer 2011 and since last October he has been...
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'I'm inspired by the origins of my materials and excited by the physical process of turning the lost and the forgotten into something exquisite, glamorous and even wearable. The sense of history and the knowledge that my materials have been handled and used by people many years ago is extremely important to me, and I like to imagine that ...
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Christopher Steadman works in photographic and video mediums.His multiple-channel synchronised video pieces have been exhibited widely throughout Europe and America. He did a Master's in photography at NYU/International Center of Photography in NYC, and a Master of Fine Arts at Central St. Martin's College of Art in London for which he...
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Forthcoming exhibitions: Kay Bathke is a London based artist and illustrator specialising in semi-abstract landscapes and drawings from life. Her work is inspired by the natural world and natural forms. ‘I love the beauty, the contrasts and the subtle changes in form which I translate and emphasise through the marks in my...
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Annabel Dover's work has an instant appeal. Her paintings are like sweets; candy coloured and delicious and her subject matter dances around the irresistible subjects of remembering, longing and recreating. For her one-a-day series she made a small oil-on-board painting everyday for a year. Each painting was of something that grabbed her...
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My practice explores the human experience of digital technology. I am interested in how things enabled by digital technology such as digitised media content (music, films, books etc), instant communication, and always being online is affecting how we relate to history, how we anticipate the future and how we live today.I usually work with looped...
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Concepts To start with, in the sixties, I made environments, painting and sculpture, basing the environments on the notions of Marshall McLuhan and my painting on Jasper Johns. I got interested in the dimensionality of painting by reading Clement Greenberg et al. I saw painting losing ground to film and TV and decided to improve its...
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Andrew Burton's most recent work explores bricks. Working in Britain, India and the Netherlands, he formed thousands of tiny bricks from clay and constructed these into various sculptures. Each sculpture would be painted or glazed, but then broken up and its constituent parts used to form the next. In this way the sculptures are continually...
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I am a strayed photographer at heart, and my art practice now takes a number forms: photography, video, performance and writing. My life changed dramatically when I was at a car boot sale in August 2005. I saw a tin of cigarette cards and I leafed through all. Each depicted a pin-up photograph with a mini biography on the back. For reasons...
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