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Lisa O'Brien's performance and installation work stems from her interest in sound. In the 80's she studied Expressive Arts at Brighton Polytechnic which included components in music composition, performance and sculpture. She developed an interest in working with instruments and vocals and much of her subsequent composition and performance...
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The work focuses on the fragility and limits of drawing as a medium, looking at the boundary between mark and support, where one merges into the other. Through earlier pieces the work questions how we perceive it, as a drawing or as a sculpture? In more recent works this idea has developed where the work emphasises the trace of a mark, appearing...
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I am interested in how humans create an absurd mixture of conflicting emotions when they are faced with overwhelming situations and anxiety.Through videos and bodies of drawings, I use humour and narrative to examine the psychology behind disturbing human behaviours. My videos mimic television genres such as documentaries, reality shows and...
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I have a socially engaged, collaborative art practice, focusing on public participatory art works. It can be termed as Dialogical Art , Anthropological Art or Social Sculpture  and takes the form of events, performances, installations or happenings but essentially they are not just artworks concerning passive observation, but active...
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I have always been strongly attracted to not only the physical spaces that we inhabit, but also our inner spaces, the dreams and thoughts we have and our interactions with them. The systems or dialogues we create to understand and contextualise our environment whether physically or intellectually has provided a rich source form which to draw. ...
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Together with painting on canvas there remains a large variety of shifting, stylistic strategies that can underwrite and scaffold any critical engagement with conceptual ideas. For instance, practically it is possible to produce painting that finds its starting point with everyday objects and material that are modified through paint....
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Mapping Absence, Confirming Presence – Artists' Negotiations of Personal, Public and Domestic SpaceEva Bartussek, Kate Peters, Christina Bryant, Pamela So, Nigel Grimmer, Dawn Woolley, Nicholas Cobb and Tessa BunneyCurated by Matthew ShaulThe major curatorial projects I have developed over the past five or so years have been almost...
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Mapping Absence, Confirming Presence – Artists' Negotiations of Personal, Public and Domestic SpaceEva Bartussek, Kate Peters, Christina Bryant, Pamela So, Nigel Grimmer, Dawn Woolley, Nicholas Cobb and Tessa BunneyCurated by Matthew ShaulThe major curatorial projects I have developed over the past five or so years have been almost...
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Chila Burman, Karla Black, Victoria Rance, Mary Fletcher, Barbara Walker, Pamela So Rachel Howfield, Karen Knorr, Grace NdirituCurated by Katy DeepwellExploring Axis’s database was both a pleasure and a challenge. Could I select a group of women artists who identified themselves with feminism and, at the same time, potentially represented...
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Chila Burman, Karla Black, Victoria Rance, Mary Fletcher, Barbara Walker, Pamela So Rachel Howfield, Karen Knorr, Grace NdirituCurated by Katy DeepwellExploring Axis’s database was both a pleasure and a challenge. Could I select a group of women artists who identified themselves with feminism and, at the same time, potentially represented...
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Teaching Experience Regular visiting artist, Glasgow School of Art Painting department and MFA. CollectionsAberdeen Art Gallery; The Essl Collection, Vienna; The Fleming Collection, London; Glasgow Marshall Trust; Perth Art Gallery and Museum, The Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS Bank.
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Duncan Campbell Film still, work in progress, 2008 Selected by Monica Nunez Irish-born artist Duncan Campbell is interested in the seductive power of stories. With a nod to Samuel Beckett's humour, his work juxtaposes the inherent promise of storytelling with the breakdown of...
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'Performance poetry that moves from the page to the voice, from speech to song, from song to signal, from signal to pure sound.' Sue Tompkins' object-based works include collages and sculptures formed from the pages of high fashion magazines, and assemblages using marginal, offbeat materials such as hessian, empty mineral water bottles and...
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Krisdy Shindler's work explores the visual re-definition and describing of the landscapes and cartography of knowledge. Using a variety of methods, primarily painting and stop-frame animation, her work investigates the movements, mechanics and progression of knowledge. As a chronological development, the animated painted image might be seen as a...
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Kate Davis makes meticulously rendered drawings that play with the representation of beauty, symmetry and evolution. Visual similes and metaphors tease the eye with incongruous metamorphoses of nature and culture, abstraction and representation, beauty and catastrophe. Reference points include Brancusi, Hepworth, Picasso and Goya, and...
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ConceptsSince 1992 I have gradually moved away from predominantly working in the studio towards gallery/museum exhibitions and installations to working almost exclusively in the public domain on large-scale, site-specific projects frequently crossing boundaries and collaborating with a wide range of disciplines. I have been commissioned by...
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Camilla Low's sculptures lean, suspend, float, dangle or stack. They combine a synthesis of colour, material, surface and form: beautiful, cool, elegant and funky. Despite surface allusions to Russian Constructivism or Minimalist sculpture, the work does not distance the viewer. Glossy surfaces of paint on wood or metal, or crisp-cut Perspex...
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Paul Carter's work engages with the actions of individuals aspiring to take ownership of global, political and existential issues while using accessible and localised means of production. His constructions raise big ideas while maintaining a DIY aesthetic, the result of a marriage between the universal and the local, creating visionary scenarios...
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