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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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I work from imagination to create my own poetic vision of the world. Over time, I have developed a number of themes and characters, largely with origins in childhood memory and dream imagery. My subject matter reflects my interest in, myth, folklore, history and  magic and my characters express both the light and darker sides of human nature....
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British artist based in Bristol, England who studied and was raised in the Middle East. As a result works often revolve around Middle Eastern culture, politics and ideology. Taking a particular interest in the notion cultural displacement.Most work is three dimensional or installation-based and uses materials and imagery commonly seen in different...
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I make paintings on paper, canvas and wood which take imagery from art historical and contemporary sources; alongside these I make abstract paintings. My recent paintings ('Los azulejos' series and 'We may not be here tomorrow' series) make reference to Mexican sources, for example, photographs taken in Guadalajara. ‘Los azulejos –...
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I am interested in illusion, artifice and the manipulation of reality and perception primarily where recent history, memory and power collide. My work is process based, often taking the form of sculptural assemblages or installations that can easily be re-arranged and re-used to explore differing perspectives, while questioning how we ascribe...
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Martyn Cross presents us with a disturbing and weird world, one where joy and innocence appear infected with dark thoughts and actions. Often using the covers of found knitting patterns as his canvas, brightly coloured images of happiness and comfort are disfigured and despoiled so that their subjects find their newly knitted garments covered in...
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Situated within a state of flux and placed in the context of the of architectural thought and theory. My practice extrudes spaces and is situated within the thoughts and theory of the dystopian space to the human condition and explores both the emotional and physiological reactions of the viewer. Using both the physiological and the psychological...
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The objects I am designing and making look familiar and usable in some way – and yet are not. Their features can trigger an association, a memory; of something you have used or seen before. My reference points are usually photographs – taken of things I see on the street - litter, recycling, abandoned furniture; or items in buildings...
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The paintings depict distorted apparitions moving through virtual space, while referential touchstones in art are melded with specific cultural and personal concerns. The work visually quotes image conscious 1980's guitarists lifted from internet music videos. Their hideous glam-rock style accentuated by gaudy stage lighting dictates the palette...
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Concepts, ideas, themes The background to my work is an interest in the relationship between beliefs and science, rationality/irrationality, the juxtaposition of order/non-disorder. We each have to negotiate our own sense of being created by categories (structure) and a fragmented world of endless networks and gaps. In my current work it is...
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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 make paintings that are based on walks within a place. By walking somewhere I start to notice things that I would normally overlook, things that we leave behind us, footprints, spilled food and drinks, marks made by insects and animals, by weather and time. All of these tiny marks act as clues telling us how we navigate and use a place, what...
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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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Painting is at the heart of my practice, however I have always been interested to explore other approaches; working with writing, live art, installation, sound and engaging in a number of collaborative works (often working with Alex Baker).One way of looking at thingsEating an Ice Cream, a particularly elaborate sundae, by a wintry North Sea, and...
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My work as an artist internationally is focused on site specific Public Artwork, responding to particular physical, cultural and emotional landscapes.  It explores the relationship between people, places, ideas and aspirations.  I also develop process-based Artist Residency projects in Schools and Organizations, exploring individual 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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Having worked on a wide range of permanent Public Art projects, Stephen brings a lively imagination and a singular aesthetic to each commission he is involved in.Each site has demanded very different responses, so that artworks often use different materials and industrial processes.Stephen combines his own artistic concerns with these individual...
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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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In making visual equivalents for the elusive experience of silent watching, I appropriate lines from the outside world in opposition to myself and in this way consider the complex relationship between the external landscape and an inner felt world. I am interested in the interface and enmeshing of different disciplines, science, art,...
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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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Rowe is interested in the escapism that cinema gives to the audience.Pulling from a huge wealth of sources of popular culture and primarily, films from the 1980s; Rowe reconstructs his own versions of infamous props and scenes from these films.These handmade objects are painstakingly carved, sanded and cut from MDF (the only material Rowe allows...
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My work involves large scale paintings reflecting conflicting senses of intimacy and glamour. The staged set-up and synthetic colour serve to emphasise the artifice, detaching the paintings from reality and suggesting a parallel world of Hollywood cinema and high-gloss fashion photography. These are not portraits in a traditional sense; the...
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Dave Morgan-Davies is a Bristol-based visual artist whose work focuses on landscape and the built environment. His photographs and moving images are meditations on the character and poetry of particular places and moments.Although much of his work follows a straight documentary approach, Dave is interested in the painterly quality of photography...
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Basically, I stick things together, and make some stuff- which I often assemble into other things. Ive watched a lot of telly, read some books, both text books and novels, seen films, been places. There are many archetypes employed in my works. The work like myself is reactionary, I am very much interested in our experience both mediated and...
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I would consider myself to be a painter but actively pursue filmmaking, photography and sculpture as part of my practice.I'm fascinated by the disparity between the contemporary human condition as we become more detached from nature, and how this is reflected in the changing character of the landscape and how people inhabit these spaces.My...
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I explore, create and subvert belief systems. Up until recently (and principally through social media), I have been positing outcomes through several 'artistic' identities. These were/are archetypes at the fringes of the artworld: outsider artist; jaundiced collector and agit prop activist, developed from characters first encountered in...
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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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My work addresses themes of absence, memory and female identity and has evolved from an exploration of the empty domestic interior. It explores the borderland between absence and presence and between the familiar and the strange. I use the motifs of wallpaper and women’s clothing to evoke the presence and traces of past or absent inhabitants...
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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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I use painting, photography and print to explore my interests in systems, architecture, modernism and ruin appreciation.
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