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I am interested in the tragi-comic, and the way it is possible to present the audience with a proposition that can be viewed as light-hearted, or something more sinister, in order to prompt questions of spectatorship. Frequently, work manifests itself as performances that focus on repeated actions and utilise a theatrical register, in an attempt...
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Concepts Lately my activity has involved selecting and processing fragmentary images from multiple sources, and most particularly those related to our engagement with the virtual world of the internet. Throughout previous work there has been a dominant theme of the layering of imaginary visions onto elements of perceived reality. However,...
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What defines drawing: intention, format, support? Works in sketchbooks are drawings because they are investigative; primary sources; studies for something else; therefore apparently unfinished, ephemeral, and seen as work in progress. They are part of a journey towards another state of being. I am interested in the point at which painting and...
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My work is a constant enquiry, an incomplete sentence, a phrase articulated through materiality, object and space. It is quiet work, a vocabulary of cast offs, objects, liquids and processes, at times unstable, prone to decay, but familiar to us all. With influences ranging from Eva Hesse's organic minimalism to Watteau’s scenes of...
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Current projects I continue to make photographs of the regeneration of Weston-super-Mare. Commission 2012 - I am exploring 3D printing with Exeter Pheonix and the University of Exeter, and am looking to integrate new printed elements into models or films of models. Visiting Birnbeck - I have been making visits to Birnbeck Island since 2009...
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Current projects I continue to make photographs of the regeneration of Weston-super-Mare. Commission 2012 - I am exploring 3D printing with Exeter Pheonix and the University of Exeter, and am looking to integrate new printed elements into models or films of models. Visiting Birnbeck - I have been making visits to Birnbeck Island since 2009...
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My work is an ongoing investigation into ways in which one can represent visually an aspect of a psychological condition, such as anxiety, melancholia, mourning, or the vanishing of the self as a form of loss or absence. Recent work explores fairy tales as a symbolic dimension for the depiction of distressing states of mind and, in this context,...
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British artist Ian Wilkins (b.1986) graduated from Cardiff School of Art & Design in 2011 with an MFA in Fine Art specialising in printmaking. He currently works as a visiting tutor at the London Print Studio and is an associate tutor in Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art & Design. He has recently been selected as Artist-In-Residence for...
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Anna Keleher develops techniques, processes, skills and participatory works to expand 21st century perspectives. Her playfully devised invitations allow participants to take empathetic leaps into potential worlds. Her expanded collaborations engage with the humour of the world leading us to a land of potential in which everyday "things"...
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My current practice in kiln-formed glass explores the interplay between form and colour density. Through attenuating the glass form, I investigate the close relationship between colour and volume, revealing subtle transformations and alterations of colour and tone. The deeper the mass of glass, the more saturated is the hue derived from a single...
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I am an interdisciplinary maker working predominantly with performance, sculpture, installation and print. Using a variety of props and materials I devise ‘scenes’ to examine my relationship to certain objects, texts and spaces.  Exploring specific locations, libraries and archives I then enact/present my findings playing...
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I am a mixed media sculptor/installation artist and also work with photography. I enjoy working site specifically and in the environment and photography helps me to do this while still presenting work in a gallery context - more recently this has become the main focus of my practice. My work focuses on the everyday and the mundane but put...
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Combining the mass produced and the unique is, for me, humorous and ironical and full of suggestion and contradiction. I am interested in the process of reproduction (printmaking, laser cutting, high tech and lo-tech) and also by the theme of reproduction (with reference to the ethical debate surrounding biotechnology, genetics, sex and...
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Sophie Warren is an artist and Jonathan Mosley is an architect. They have a critical spatial practice that employs strategies of play, hybridisation and the construction of imaginary architectures to resist homogeneous perceptions of urban space. Using language, event, still and moving imagery and installation Warren & Mosley construct...
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Tender Machines is a new series of work inspired partly by architecture and machinery such as pylons, water towers, agricultural machines like threshers, and water towers. These have been first recorded in a sketch book and then later recalled in the studio and transformed with imagination to create individual characterful 'personages'. Each of...
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I graduated from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design in 2004 with a First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art.   As a multidisciplinary artist, my work is always concept led and revolves around research into both local and family history. I am fascinated by objects, people and places which might otherwise be ignored...
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I am a member of studio XYZ a small group of artists who come together regularly to work on themed projects, and a member of the Space Place Practice research group (based in Bristol).  I also work in collaboration with another artist Michele Whiting under the banner Quilos and the Windmill, and we were selected as joint...
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I consider myself to be a collagist, and in the simplest terms all of my work can be seen as an extension of collage. I am fascinated by the act of reconstructing things that already exist, in three as well as two dimensions. I am intrigued by simple single units that can be reproduced. this reproduction is sometimes cellular-like, where elements...
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My work explores ideas and subject matter often taboo in art, such as the sentimental, the cute and the nice. The painting style transforms and elevates the original throwaway kitsch image so it cannot be dismissed as merely a "bad painting". The subject matter is simple, strong and "in your face". These subverted cliches...
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Graduating from Bath Spa university with a Fine Art degree in 2007, Clare Winnan has since been working in a wide variety of materials including photography, sculpture, drawing and painting to create a variety of works. Over the past two-three years her main passion and focus has been around photography and...
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My works have a simplicity to them, transforming the gallery with an economy of means. Many of them act almost as a backdrop to other activity in an exhibition space – subverting and affecting the way the space is viewed and used. Through displacing aspects of architecture, multiple associations and ambiguous situations are created. This...
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To me the most interesting thing to say about sculpture is the process in which it was made - understanding the materials, and the involvement with tools - that lineage of development that leads to something is what is important to me. My work is driven by basic forms and materials. You develop what seems to suit them and fit together. I use...
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The departure point is an interest and engagement with escape. Materials are abandoned or redundant buildings, rooms and their contents; spaces in a state of transition. They constitute a playground for exploration where photography is used to document what is found, describing a gap, a forgotten section and a sense of amnesia. ...
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Jefferies maintains a diverse practice that incorporates model making techniques, photography and sculpture. Current work centres on the architectural model and the production of fictional archives. One aspect of his work involves the dichotomy between the photographic image and the actual events and inherited memories that accompany them. This...
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'In my photographic work I was always especially entranced by the moment when the shadows of reality, so to speak, emerge out of nothing on the exposed paper, as memories do in the middle of the night, darkening again if you try to cling to them, just like a photographic print left in the developing bath too long' (W.G.Sebald, Austerlitz) Upon...
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Open Frequency ProfileArtist Sean Edwards describes his encounter with Hannah James’s installations, which use minimal forms to explore space and how we approach and inhabit it.The sculptures of Hannah James could be seen to function not as finite sculptural objects but rather as propositions of potentiality. Initially presenting themselves...
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Since gaining a BA Hons degree in Fine Art (Painting) in 2011 from the University of Brighton, I have been living and working in Bristol, and am a studio holder at Spike Island.Taking influence from visual culture from my Japanese heritage, my paintings explore tensions between playfulness and melancholy.
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I am curious about the dialogue between activity and the built environment and how each shapes the other. I draw on my own personal encounters with architectural mechanisms that enable and prohibit activity (such as steps, ramps, barriers, and reservations). I am fascinated by the way in which we continuously modify our surroundings and the...
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“Since leaving college I have been creating a body of ceramic sculpture which has increasingly left its figurative beginnings behind as I became more and more interested in the sheer power of a simple unadulterated line, and the rendering of colour to make the surface complement or conflict with it in a way I find enormously exciting. ...
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Concepts Much of my work is a response to my involvement with, and interest in, the sea. I explore notions of immersion and peoples' interpretations of the marine environment and also romantic associations with collecting and discovery. I am interested, in particular, in the sea as an agent of loss, breaking down and consuming many objects lost...
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The nature of Karen Brett's practice is people orientated and explores challenging issues that are concealed away from the public eye. Brett investigates the psychological representation of the human condition, and has always been interested in the unseen, addressing a private moment and trying to express it in a way that is moving and...
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Currently working on a collaborative project; Dominion, using text, image and photography in filmed performance with author Philip Hoare. This will include a Solo exhibition, Publication and Symposium at Peninsular Arts University of Plymouth and a launch of the Moby Dick Big Read with celebrity readers of the 135 chapters of Moby Dick. People...
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