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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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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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I use art as a stimulus to open otherwise dormant possibilities through cognitive and physical processes; my visual language being defined through a practice involving perpetual creation, deconstruction, and reconstruction. I call this ‘system and play’, allowing a system to naturally occur, nurturing and developing it, until...
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The work is primarily concerned with exploring the tendency to nurture habit, ritual, routine and even obsessive repetition in a modern world teetering on the brink of dystopia where possibilities and choices are seemingly endless. My practice uses a wide range of media chosen to suit my ideas including drawing, animation, print, performance and...
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Concepts Victoria Rance’s work is concerned with the exploration of human behaviour and the boundaries between the self and others. It investigates human interaction within different physical and social environments. Her work creates a sense of place, encouraging people to become more aware of their body in its physical environment....
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Simon Withers is a visual artist, performer and writer; he lives and works in Nottingham. His artistic practice includes exhibition and event curation. Over the past five years Simon co-foundered mere jelly, an artist run agency, through which mere jelly promoted the work of nine East midland based artists work at a London art fair. In 2004 he...
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I am an artist working with sound in digital, visual art, and performance contexts. Now practising as a freelance artist, I was formerly director of Aune Head Arts (auneheadarts.org.uk) and Artistic Co-Director of half/angel (halfange.ie). Before 2000 I was a full-time academic teaching mostly at postgraduate level here in the UK and in the US.
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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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I am a Norwegian artist, currently based in Sweden. My work evolves around performance, photography, contemporary male identity, bodily representation, self-portraiture and fragmentation. Up until now I have shown my work in a wide variety of media including performance, installation, video, projection and photographic prints. Because of my...
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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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Blue has been given access to the National Library of Wales' (NLW) varied collections which consist of many of the Nation's treasures, including a broad range of materials such as manuscripts, maps, photographs, paintings and archives - not to mention the films, sound tapes and off-air recordings that are also housed there. The project was...
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Caroline Wright’s practice is based on conceptual archaeology. Her work includes live performance and visual art that is often site-responsive. She works in mediums as diverse as glass and gold as well as the human body and has made work for cities and rural spaces, for galleries, theatres, churches, on desolate uninhabited islands and...
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CONCEPTS Much of my work originates from Landscape and the natural environment; it is as much to do with the process of making as it is about what I see, hear, taste, smell, feel or touch. The nature of the stimulus informs the method of making.
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Ginny Reed is concerned with contrasting different aspects of production including film, performance, drawing and light and it's effects. The works coincide in contrasting the materiality of actual, depicted and used objects with the materiality of the forms of their representation. Her work explores the accumulation and dispersal of materials and...
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New statement pending. Claire Hope: 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 Ben Cook, founder Director of LUX, discusses his selection.Claire Hope is an artist for modern times, working at the hard edge of language and power relations, highly...
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Concepts I work with ideas to focus and make visible. I aim to encourage the role of the viewer as participant/performer and acknowledge that without this engagement the artwork is essentially obscure. I am concerned with how a view of the world is interpreted and informed and accessed through language. I am inspired by poetry. My work frequently...
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Concepts Tea aims to represent the dynamic complexity of interactions between the built environment and people’s activities, memories and imagination This is a collaborative, critical, spatial practice that draws on a range of perspectives (professional and personal) that supplement the core team of Peter Hatton, Val Murray and Lynn...
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Helen Higgins is a London-based visual artist who has worked on a number of interdisciplinary projects and interventions with museum collections and art galleries in the UK and internationally, since graduation in 2007. Her artistic practice explores the origins of the museum; how culture was used as a tool of social management. The clean,...
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Michael Takeo Magruder (b.1974, US/UK) is an internationally recognised visual artist and researcher based in King’s College London (KCL) who works with digital and new media including real-time data, immersive environments, mobile devices and virtual worlds. His practice explores concepts ranging from media criticism and aesthetic...
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I am a multi-disciplinary artist working in performance, installation, text, spoken word, choreography, drawing and video, as well as painting. My work is about process and the body. Since 2008 I have completed a transition from my training in Fine Art to a point whereby I have integrated and utilised both my skills and identity as a movement...
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West’s practice evolves from a response to the psychology of space and colour, utilising the two in a way that is deeply rooted in colour theory and draws parallels with the concept of synesthesia. Working on a scale and intensity that impacts upon the gallery space, West is deeply influenced by the process of collecting. Her work...
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I am a member of studio XYZ a small group of artists who come together regularly to work on themed projects, and a member of the Space Place Practice research group (based in Bristol).  I also work in collaboration with another artist Michele Whiting under the banner Quilos and the Windmill, and we were selected as joint...
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James Winnett (Birmingham, 1983) is a Glasgow based artist working primarily in sculpture, intervention, print and video. His work focuses around forms of spatial enquiry, merging processes of research, intervention, and documentation. An examination of place, borders and cultural identities is central to his practice as is an exploration of the...
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My arts current practice draws upon my interests in stage magic and folk traditions. Props and costume are combined with song, text and other activities creating strange rituals. Placed within this context the magical effect becomes a mode of symbolic demonstration, creating narratives that often reference cultural myths and histories of the...
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'His connection to land is demonstrated as cultivator – from seed to growth to food and meal as social gathering, a timeless act. He investigates landscape, and the details of landscape, including its history and myths, for explorations of culture within a contemporary context.' (Tim Davies)Owen Griffiths is an artist working...
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I've always been interested in working with a range of media to develop work using the most appropriate material. This is why it may appear a mixed bag. For instance, recent exhibitions have used projections in one space, museum cabinets in another, found and reconstructed elements on a wall in another space, and...
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seekers of lice proposes art as an insect bite, infecting the blood through proximity, anecdote, annexation, colonisation, infection, inoculation: scratch the itch & itch the scratch.seekers of lice creates material interventions, sometimes of an ephemeral nature, which find gaps and spaces in which to operate. Its practice is concerned with...
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ConceptsMy work has always had an element of humour, this is especially so in my personal kinetic pieces where it seems to be an unavoidable part of the process of making animated figurative sculptures. The choice of subject material has followed various themes, but is often a take on my personal experiences of the world.Influencespolitics,...
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Making art is a way of interpreting and forming a greater understanding of my environment and experiences. My work is concerned with capturing and expressing the energy of the moment. I have found inspiration in busy city streets, early morning markets and listening to music. Throughout these different subjects I have been investigating and...
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I am an emerging UK based artist currently working in Brighton. I have produced work in several mediums including photography, sculpture, video, and live actions. My work has strong narrative element, evoking associations of place, time, and history. I aim to create a body of work which is at once intimate, yet widely felt by...
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