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Steve Dutton is an artist who works on both collaborative and individual projects. He has been working closely with Steve Swindells (Dutton and Swindells) since 1998, prior to which he was one half of the collaboration of Dutton and Peacock. He has also enjoyed working in the past with artists Alec Shepley and Steve Hawley and is currently making...
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ConceptsI believe its important to vary the work I produce and the materials I use. Undertaking community and private commissions all over Wales inspiring people to contribute to the creation of artwork drawing inspiration from the natural world and its relationship to mythology.InfluencesCulture, Nature, Ancient cultures/MythsCareer...
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Ruth Geldard ‘Geldard’s work revisits the language of sculpture whilst incorporating many of the processes and materials that are the subject of much contemporary work. It explores how gender might affect perception of and interaction with materials. Investigation into the character and specificity of material relies on interventions...
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Born and brought up in London, and having lived there most of my life, my art reflects my fascination with its buildings and streets and the constant evidence of people, movement, change and chaos. I use and combine many different forms - installations, constructions, paintings, text pieces and digital animation always intending that the...
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Concepts Most of the concepts I explore in my work arise from life experiences. I am particularly interested in 'journeys' - inner and outer, personal and universal. My initial working process is intuitive and often involves physical interaction with the landscape. I research widely, exploring all possible connections and reduce the...
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Career Path I established my practice in 1996, a year after attaining a BA (Hons) in three dimensional design. With grants from the PYBT & Business Link the practice grew and developed. To add to the success I was awarded a travel scholarship from the Winston Churchill Trust in 1998 which enabled me to study at the prestigious...
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I paint fairly intuitively with a 'starting point' but without a fixed idea of how the end product will look. I don't spend much time worrying, as is the current vogue, about being 'contemporary', 'cutting edge' or reading books by continental theoreticians. Rather, my practice is informed somewhat by literature, films &...
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A Visual Discourse on Maternity Installations and Subverted ObjectsMy current art making practice is a three dimensional visual exploration of the dilemma of what it means to inhabit a female body. It is the female body alone I feel that defines woman as different from man and therefore I have chosen by necessity to distill “female” to...
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Since moving up here from Brighton, where I completed my Ph.D. [Language Games in a Visual Environment] , I have exhibited at the Angel Gallery, Nottingham, 20/21 Gallery, Scunthorpe, and last year, a one man show at Bank Street Art, Sheffield. I am at present making work for an exhibition entitled ‘Modernism Revisited’. It is both a...
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Concepts Public commissions: I spend a lot of time researching to gather information on which to base the piece. New materials and processes also present a challenge to work with. My work tends to have a graphic quality with clean lines and a minimalist feel. I like mixing materials whenever I can and often include text in a piece. ...
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Richard Higlett works across a range of media while more recently has been involving elements of performance and sound, presenting as part of Soundworks, ICA London in june 2012. In 2011, be created a Sound Car that can be used as a portable gallery for sound art and featured in a number of projects in 2012. Recent exhibitions include Unseen:...
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Concepts/themes/ideas The non-functional vessel has been my main focus for several years. Influenced by formal research, a series of work from 2006-2010 explored the representations of tourism: the souvenir and the photograph in particular. Research trips undertaken to Alberta, Canada, and Philadelphia, USA provided a rich source of...
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I make work with a strong performative element shown in mediums of video, sound, installation and live performance. My works are often documents of choreographed and repetitive exercises between individuals. Exploring boundaries of communication, control and negotiation between people is one of my primary interests, and as such I sometimes...
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My current work questions the nature of things, images and experiences; the significance, the meaning, connotations and expectations.  Generally the focus is on the everyday and how we might or might not expect to find things.  There is usually a sense of uncertainty or discontinuity in the work allowing the viewer to interpret in their...
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My current practice combines painting with sculpture and the made with the ready-made. My continued interrogation of painting and process has seen me evolve from working exclusively with oil paint and two-dimensions to gradually introducing new materials (Fablon, gaffa tape, furniture, scrap metal, strip lighting, gloss paint) in order to...
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In 2005 at the age of 60 I made the decision to study, part time for a B A (Hons) Fine Art  degree. It was something I'd always wanted to do and somehow avoided for numerous reasons. I didn't think I was 'good enough' if truth be known. I married early and had 5 daughters, then spent 30 years in various arts and voluntary sector jobs. My...
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Jayne has recently graduated as an art therapist (July 2012) after completing an MA at Leeds Met. She previously graduated from Leeds College of Art & Design in 2009 after completing a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and gaining a First. She is currently working as a tutor on a community art project. Her work deals with the familial and the often...
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'Ian Gonczarow works in the traditional artworld genre of painting, yet he forces the paint into images of cultural and political dissent. The heraldic insignia of world power politics - the Stars and Stripes, heroic soviet statuary, all cack-handedly reproduced with meticulous care - are filtered through the blatant bad taste aesthetics of...
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The predominant focus of my practice is man-made structures and constructs, challenging and questioning them as an attempt to understand social systems and processes that are in constant flux. Change is an unavoidable part of life no matter how hard it is fought against. The question then arises of how do we deal with such an inevitability....
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Considering the constant defining force of gravity, it is a spectacular assumption on behalf of matter, both animate and inanimate, that it should seek to establish itself upwards. And yet we all understand that in time both mountain and mite are dragged back down. It is this cycle of growth and decay that interests me.I make work that attempts to...
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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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Liz Murray works with moving image, performance, sound and installation, often in response to site and situation. Inherent within the work is a questioning of how matter, labour, status and authenticity are classified. She is interested in systems of value and in how they are perceived and maintained. Her work often involves a process of salvage....
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George Charman studied sculpture at Farnham University before going on to complete his MA in 2008 in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art. His work explores the social constructs of architecture imbued in the process of making and its ability to act as a bridge between the mutable world and a space beyond what is here. The work plays with...
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Influences Areas of work Early years educationAdult educationCommunity artsCuratingExhibitingHealthcare artsLecturingPractice-based researchPrivate commissionsPublic artResidenciesFundraisingWorkshopsWorking with architectsSpecial needs Collections Museum Albertina, ViennaRupertinum, Museum for Modern...
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I make performances, objects and text. Often these things try not to be art. They sometimes make people laugh. They tend to identify and extend points of reciprocation between practice and everyday life; production and circulation; studio and gallery; word and thing. In this context the categories of performance, object and text contaminate one...
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Concepts A common theme in my work is the relationship between intimacy (surface) and monumentality (structure) which embraces painting, sculpture and installation and brings into play the physical space of the gallery. Influences Early Modernist architecture, the De La Warr Pavilion, Superstudio's 'The Histograms of Architecture', English...
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I am a multi-disciplinary artist working in video, installation and mixed media sculpture, including taxidermy.My fine art practise has developed out of 20 years experience as a film maker and several themes can be seen across a number of works, both filmic and current; an interest in the uncanny, the impact of the horror genre, the concept of...
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ConceptsFrom the ridiculous to the sublime. I work on the wheel. An experience initially so like sticking your hand up a cow's bottom. But also, by contrast, a transportation that results in finding yourself playing a rhapsody on a finely tuned instrument. I am interested in most things. Words are very important to me. I have always read,...
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My art is about the repetitive, mundane and monotonous. All my work fits within these parameters but the results are widely dissimilar. I have extracted information and data from the technology of Bluetooth and presented it as art in many guises such as nonsense verse, video and sound. I have used coloured pens and paper for other areas of...
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"In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically. In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside." (Henri Bergson) ...
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Artist statement I have a deep attachment to the island on which I live, which has informed my work during the development of identifying my relationship between self and place. This attachment was created by spending time alone outside immersing myself in the landscape, really observing and recording what I see, hear, feel, smell and touch as...
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‘Laura Cherry’s collages present found images as metaphorical dramas, made up of poignant psychic and physical processes. With their directly opposing elements and heightened perception, they…deliberately delete and reconfigure finely selected visual elements… The poetic void, where the eye shifts and reads what is or is...
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