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I make work that is site responsive and participatory. I examine how our perceptions are shaped. Frequently I use smell as a medium, focusing closely on the relationship between smell and our associations with it. This has lead to investigations into how our histories and environments are constructed. An integral part of my work is engaging people...
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'I’m interested in self perpetuity and relentlessness; the broken record with a repetitive sensibility. It’s a selfish indulgence to crack the ‘same old joke’ that was perhaps never really funny in the first place. I find it gratifying to blur the border between humour and sincerity, and to recycle a pun doggedly; devoid of...
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I was born Monday 1st August 1977 and I'm, essentially, a painter. Sometimes I use a knife instead of a brush; a controlled act of violence. A painting can be more than the image on, or what is cut out of, a canvas. It can be the object as a whole; frame, title (essential), or empty space in the canvas. The "happy accidents" in the...
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Human form is the basis of my visual subject matter, and, for me, spills into ideas about who we might ‘Be’ – existentially, historically and physically. Hence portraiture, the nude, the ‘trony’ – and a preoccupation with what’s on the ‘inside’ and the ‘outside’. This latter had lead me to use the creative process and materials as metaphor,...
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Joseph Ismail is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Norwich, U.K. His practice is historically contextualised within the crossover between/from Minimalism and/to Conceptualism, with particular reference to time-based work/ideas and the practices of expanded video & film from the 1960s and 1970s to the present day. Looking back...
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I am inspired by the painterly process and its relation to abstraction, and feel passionate about engaging with the subject of borders, edges and peripheries.  I have always been drawn to places which could be described as borderlands, geographically and psychologically but also which have been rendered throughout history by painters and...
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My practice is a playful response to the constraints of society, institutions and authority. I create interventions, displacements and disruptions in a variety of media including performance. My work is frequently inspired by my love of language, is often discursive and usually collaborative. I enjoy the synergy of creating work with others.
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Intentions, Propositions and Influences The minimum of figurative content and subject matter in these paintings draws attention to their form and language and to their process of production which involves a set of rules and methods from which new and unforeseen forms will emerge. Each work involves a number of progressions based on...
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I am an artist printmaker working in the relief and intaglio processes, which include etching, carborundum and woodcut prints. My work is inspired by the subject of work/industry and I have made drawings in a wide variety of industrial locations which have included sewage pumping stations, a distillery, building sites and a bell foundry, etc. The...
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Born in Birmingham and now based in the east, Tribley works in the public realm and currently holds an Associate Artist position at firstsite in Colchester. Her work spans photography, drawing, sculpture and installation and operates on the boundary between fine art and graphic design.
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Like a child creates fantasy worlds through play, I create fictitious worlds that retain certain truths about our reality. I use maps, which are visual representations of our world; I cut out fragments and reconfigure the pieces as if assembling a jigsaw puzzle. Resultant work is a newly mapped out reality that comments on aspects of our world....
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My pictures derive from a delight in the world around. A play on the mundane and everyday reality we slip through on our way to somewhere else. They are about collective moments, some tragic, some euphoric, when the sharing of an experience gives significance to something unnoticed. These quiet revelations bind, nurture and reassure us in a world...
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Concepts I am a painter/assembler/mixed media artist. I produce abstract,tactile images influenced by my environment and memories. I am interested in the forms and textures of the natural and urban landscape which I explore using imagination,invention and experimentation with materials. Career path MA, Fine Art - Painting, De...
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My work is concerned primarily with occupied spaces and the narratives that unfold in them. My drawings of school playing fields, junked underpasses and the like often contain text with the tone of dialogue. Through these glimpses of speech the dilapidated environments come to life in a skint version of enchantment: a tree stump or a broken fence...
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“Landscape is a portrait of the soul” A quote from an unknown source scribbled in my sketchbook some years ago; it has formed part of the basis of my recent work where I explore the spaces we exist in, both physical and psychological. I use the real landscape which surrounds me as a metaphor for my inner life of imagination and...
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The work explores the push and pull between surface and space; surface existing as something we see, the space being something we experience. The process of layering and deliberate instinctive mark making induces forms to rise to the surface of the image, whilst forcing others back, leaving others to hover in a confounding space between the...
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My work is poised between the visible and invisible, resonating with the marginal spaces of the feminine, connecting with the viewer beyond symbolic language. It is about the recollection of elusive and ethereal memories drawing from my own experience of loss and self-negation; the desire to be hidden and yet to be seen.Making works in various...
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Light is an important element in my practice as it gives life and energy to my work. My fascination with the ethereal quality of light and how it can be used as a tangible material began with my observation of sunlight's interaction in the natural world. Through light and plastic interplay, I explore the boundaries between art, science and nature...
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My work is abstract and is inspired by landscape and environment.  Strongly characterised by colour, rhythm and movement, I seek to express the excitement of travel and new experiences. Artist statement 'Rhythm' (2007) comes from a body of work made from abandoned derelict artefacts found in a rural environment. In its painted form, this...
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Emma Johnson explores the fragmented, multifaceted nature of memory, time and history. Johnson reconstructs maps into artworks, cutting paths and layers to transform the originals into reconstituted and complex new objects. As functional items, they are rendered virtually unreadable, but symbolically they suggest journeys (both geographical and...
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Living in limbo between the angst of fine art and the therapy of making my work challenges both identity and preconception whilst at first glance appearing homely and domestic. I enjoy the 'out of place', the unexpected, the bizarre and I am an avid photographer who makes a constant visual record as an 'aide-mémoire' both at home and on my...
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Beach, house, dress ... In front of the mountains, and before the mountainsburn or break up as planned,houses are set up, but just as housesthat are not real houses, but just as realfronts of unreal housesinto which everyone can easily runwhen the artificial rain begins. In the collection It by Inger Christensen she invokes a set design...
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Until my late teens I grew up in a strict Muslim household where everyone was expected to take part in religious activities. From an early age we were encouraged to memorise prayers and fast during the month of Ramadan. With peers I was perceived as English but at home a different set of rules applied. Over thirty years later and an atheist,...
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My painting practice explores subjectivity and landscape, the fleeting and floating subject. I create oil paintings which mirror my quiet experiences of the world: an interaction between an inner world of the imagination and an outer world connected to external reality and the space I inhabit. From 2003, I created a series of bubble island...
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I use and re-use motifs derived from familiar places or situations, mainly painted, but sometimes explored through different media. These are then presented in a variety of ways. Often reflected or refracted within a loose framing; within the confines of an installation, a collection of painted images or leading to a...
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Alex Pearl makes mini epic films, video installations, sculpture and books. Throughout his work there is a sense of an acceptance of failure or disappointment as important parts of the human condition. Using readily available materials and software the films are made from: suddenly apprehended ideas, discovered objects and impromptu processes....
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My current practice is concerned with exploring aspects of human migration in relation to the landscape. It looks at the way in which human beings form attachments to their surroundings and how when separated from a familiar environment, they may experience traumatic emotions such as dislocation and displacement.Many migrants exist within a...
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As an artist and researcher my interest is concerned with the representation of landscape. More specifically I am investigating how a particular aspect or understanding of landscape can be depicted in non-figurative paintings and drawings. This understanding of landscape is informed by readings of cultural geography, which help to define place and...
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Concepts It seems to be both going to find 'it' and also letting 'it' just come. The revelation can be a slow burn or a sudden flash. The work is something ‘already within, already 'there in some form’ from the surface to deep within. The nests are not alien or new to me but somehow startlingly familiar like my soulmate. I...
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My art is a combination of socio-political commentary, humour and culinary methodologies. I make artwork in response to the issues that I feel are of significance, often conflating our contemporary situation with historic references. Outmoded thinking, unsuitable fiscal mechanisms and cultural fragilities threaten the stability of our...
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