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I like to work on the borders between representation and indecypherability. Sense and non-sense, meaning and non-meaning, finding order in chaos and chaos in order.
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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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Working across a diverse range of media including drawing, photography and installation my work explores ideas of the sacred and mystical in the everyday. I engage in a process of recombining familiar signifiers to conjure a sense of the numinous and powerful potential of the commonplace. I try to create a world that is haunting, humorous and sexy...
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Concepts Dominique Rey produces photographs, collage, sculpture and video, informed by the history of a place, or by the influence of the human in collision with the monumental in the built world. Rey works with the effects of time and decay on the architecture of a landscape. The work is inspired by growth, war, death and a transience of life...
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Through examining and referencing artefacts, social structures, mythologies, architecture, and industry; my practice is a continuous investigation into how we explore and understand notions of human behaviour and curiosity in its absurdity, banality, tragedy, resilience and humour. I am interested in the dialogue that develops through...
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The body and its relationship to the space that surrounds it inspire my sculpture. Absence and Presence are recurrent themes within my work as these sculptures are the physical depiction of the negative space around the figure. I have recently used resin to make sculptures of stiletto shoes that include an impression of the wearer's feet....
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I studied furniture design at Middlesex University and an interest in light led me to explore the physical and visual qualities of glass. I then went on to study Glass at the Royal College of Art, where I worked on architectural scale projects dealing with issues of light and space. Glass is a material which allows me to exploit the aesthetic...
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At the core of my interest is the enjoyment of disparity, discontiguity and the occasional brief failure of Gestalt mechanisms, and the quest to represent this in some way. I investigate ways of seeing, specifically with reference to cultural and paradigm disjunction, and embody these disparities in my working practice. I work with video and in...
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Townley and Bradby make interventions, performance walks and artists' books. Townley and Bradby's practice explores the routines and rituals of urban public spaces. By carefully combining place, action and props, they feel for the bounds of what is permissible, or for the level at which an intervention ceases to be invisible and rises into the...
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Concepts My work is cross disciplinary, the means and materials determined by the primary idea.Much of my work has come out of research into a family genealogy, in particular the way women are represented in the text of written histories. History as a form of sorting and collecting carries with it issues of differences and exclusion.  The...
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Concepts Bettina Furnée's practice is rooted in notions of site and uses language as a primary material. Her works in the public realm derive from an interest in the identity, history and future of a given place, and the way in which language relates to a location. Works are developed through research and in collaboration with local...
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My visual practice is centered around notions of endurance, duration, exhaustion and repetition. These ideas are explored through performance and action-based exercises and documented using basic recording equipment, or through note-taking and the accumulation of data.   The audience are rarely present whilst the action is taking place,...
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Through my work I deliberately play between the recognizable, or ‘known’ which victor Burgin calls ‘the already seen’, and the merging of real experience. For example, as resident artist on Pontypridd Railway Station I used many elements from the film ‘Brief Encounter’ to re-imagine the disused buffet; this...
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Sometimes playful but at the same time deadly serious, I aim to inspire people to think and act differently by focusing on issues in an unusual and engaging way and via projects that are seriously researched but 'off the wall' in their execution. Often humorous - even surreal - in tone, my work is deliberately accessible with a strong aesthetic....
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Sarah Sabin Wall Excavation, 2002 Selected by Charlie Levine Archives, collections, found/discarded objects, hidden histories are pieces of puzzles that artist Sarah Sabin enjoys discovering, dissecting and putting back together again. ...
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Ideas of memory, fragility and transition run through my work, through the use of fragile materials such as ash, dust, reflections in water and also the imagery within painted ephemeral family portraits and translucent portraits that I have crafted from old photographs which are placed on glass.I make ethereal veils as masks of my family ancestors...
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My current research is based around visual expressions of psychological ideas of self and identity, reflected through the twin effects of attraction and repulsion engendered by a fascination with remains: specifically, human remains as presented by the medical museum, with its mixed message of instruction and sideshow. To this end I am currently...
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The main thrust of my practice has been in the field of Art and Science, I am not only at ease within this field but I am also enthused by scientific approaches and processes. Like a rhizome, the theme of art and science meanders, diverts and then converges either randomly or specifically. At every con-junction there is scope for exploration and...
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I am a sculptor who works in steel, typically figurative work for exhibition and also to commission and site-specific public art.My work might start from the current affairs of the day or a character from history but invariably tends to find the strangeness and comedy of the world around us.I am drawn to social satire often using clothes and...
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For the past five years, I have explored non-traditional uses of liquid porcelain, using an approach to mark making as a large part of the content of the work. The outcome has been a series of process led sculptural drawings and forms in which there is a point of transition from order to disorder, when different...
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My work utilises a diverse range of processes including installation, photography, assemblage and digital media and explores how objects and images become significant through recognition or mis-recognition and through changes in context. I investigate alternative histories, world views, myths and half-hidden stories. Anthony Shapland has written...
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I would describe my work as a series of observations that explore the perennial human search for meaning and the ways in which our deep rooted cultural and social practices and beliefs impact on our view of the world and our relationships with those around us. I employ a cross disciplinary approach, in which printmaking processes merge...
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I have made art for 40+ years. My main motivation is autobiographical, and I use archival sources and the notion of palimpsest. The style is light, humorous, teasing, flippant, making comments on ageing, sensory loss, being an unsuccessful artist etc. The result is: messages and meanings are overlaid and often obscured. There is re-writing,...
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Arabel Rosillo de Blas is a visual artist that works with sculpture and site-specific installations. Her pieces are intensely evocative by joining elements otherwise unconnected. Different parts: the process, the object, the place; which all together create the narrative of her final pieces.The object is what you see, understood by its use,...
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There are moments before sleep, in dreams or reverie in which images pass through the mind. Then again, sometimes at dusk, voices will carry from a landscape of half seen trees and figures, in a merging of what is physical with the ephemeral and marginal. This is the territory of Viv Allen's work. Through her camera obscuras, none of which use...
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Concepts My current practice is prominently mixed media and installation with a focus on using textiles, text, photography, projection and utilizing found objects. Previous works have been site specific and gallery based viewing domesticity, in particular the working class and issues within a dysfunctional family unit. My installations also...
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An exploration of the ideas around a sense of place has been at the core of my practice. This could be a personal mapping of my surroundings, working with a Parish Council to celebrate its specialness or researching the history of a specific space to create appropriate and meaningful pieces of public art. The use of the book form has...
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Sorensen has recently graduated from Central Saint Martin's MA FA course. Her practice is research based, collaborative and uses project dependent media. She is interested in current tendencies in urban agriculture, city side agri growing, climate change and migration. Her new farm project employs elements of quasi-scientific methods and...
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My work is often raw, immediate and provocative. I use film and the editing process to tell stories which carry powerful personal meaning. Film is exciting because it allows us to —examine ourselves, imitate ourselves, extend ourselves, reshape our reality right into the abstract. As a filmmaker/curator/installation artist I explore...
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The work sets out to articulate a haptic approach to the rediscovery of heterogeneous spaces, their construction and habitation. By means of transversals, the artist-explorer enacts new encounters with the surrounding environment, the potentiality of its functions and the socio-political encryptions residing within it. The artist, as well as the...
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