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Interested in: The human machine interface, people's perception and interpretation of space, systematic repetitive movements, precision, illusion, order, rules, form following function, craftsmanship, sequences, architecture, surfaces, the colour red, hinges, levers, cams, systems as concepts, reciprocating motion, undulating, rotating, control. ...
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Most recently, Jenny Parkin has been using architectural figures and cheap party food - custard, jelly, doughnuts, etc - to create little stage sets for her camera around themes of greed and consumption. In other work she has recycled and remade things that are already out there in people's homes and lives. She considers the history of...
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Concepts My art practise involves the construction of sculpture,making drawings and also sculpture installations and collaborative dance/performance work. The research is concerned with the relationships between three-dimensions and two-dimensions, physical reality,movement and stillness,light and shadow,for interior/exterior sites and...
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Concepts The sculptures relate strongly to the body, some in terms of memory of presence in the cast moulds of the head, fist and body within a pillow or bed and the subsequent evidence of a permanent presence these casts hold. Others are analogous to the body in terms of forms and reference to clothing or beds. Career pathQualifications:...
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All I can do, at this stage, is think about painting (so am I a painter?). Not just the putting-on of wet matter, but the whole messy affair; the tradition, the fight, the game - from its falling down to its standing back up, and from its defiant dance to its desperate hanging on (there's been a lot of talk about this, for a while now, but...
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Georgia Boniface's work considers the construction of identity, and explores modes of being and the complexity of the human experience.The specific theme of the 2010 work The Republic of Georgia, is personal choice versus heredity:''Identity' is revealed to us only as something to be invented rather than discovered; as a target of...
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From stitching live GPS routes to learning to fly a light aircraft Jen Southern's work plays with the idea of what it might mean to inhabit mobile media, to live with it and be changed by it. In collaboration with other artists, software designers and members of the public she makes work that explores processes of navigation, walking as a...
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Alastair T. Willey is concerned with ideas of space and with 'I' the artist creating the work. Through a dialogue of spacial theory and a history of the space or the artists personal experience with the space, Willey forms the basis of his artistic practice.The artist uses conceptual methods of exploration and presentation to document his...
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Since graduating in 1995 (B.A Hons Fine Art) I have been a practising visual artist and for the past seven years I have been self-employed. During this time I have researched, developed and created indoor, outdoor, temporary and permanent art works for exhibition, commissions and self organised projects. Throughout, I have also been involved in...
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Liadin Cooke: Artist of the monthEach month a guest selector chooses an artist from the Axis directory to be featured as our artist of the month. This month Sarah Brown, Curator (Exhibitions) at Leeds Art Gallery, discusses her selection.I first came across Liadin Cooke’s work when she invited me to her studio. We both had just begun a...
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Transmute: Change the form, nature, or substance ofMutation: The process, or an instance of change or alterationTrans-(Prefix): Across, beyond, through, on or to the other side of, into another state or place. Gently tweaking the knobs of reality - trans-muting found, used, discarded & recycled materials into strange and...
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Over the last 2 years, supported by the Arts Council, I have been developing a new body of work. New Grounds has allowed me the freedom to explore new concepts and discover a more personal creative identity. I have discovered printmaking as a basis to explore marks and surface. There is a structural connection with the devore work I am so...
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Fictional Landscapes in the Work of Matthew Askey, Matthew Burrows and Rui Matsunaga. Matthew Burrows Baptism, 2005 ...
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