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The major theme of my work is the exploration of a sense of place, rooted in the British tradition of reportage. I am particularly interested to evoke a response to the experience of being there in the environment, rather than to record topography. It is an interpretation of space in flux, always influenced by light, weather, sound, of fixing a...
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A pure note, or a group of notes, resonatingsilence between sounds; a soundharmony and discord - anger and violence - tenderness and sorrowspace between forms; and/or their interconnectiontouch - separation - absence - presenceThe breath
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The installation encourages audience interaction by allowing sound creation through body movement. Interaction is explored through analogue means opposed to digital processes hence more akin to the 'Theremin'.A bank of old tube TVs and monitors (CRTs) emit electromagnetic fields (EMFs) which are absorbed by the human body and channelled to...
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Selector text In 'Mrs McLaren's Labour' Ann Denison has created a humorous video which provides a new narrative on childbirth by juxtaposing formula one car culture with rhyming couplet language. Mrs McLaren is a puppet dressed in a chequered racing flag, who narrates the story of her childbirth cycle - resulting in the delivery of a 4 x 4 Ford...
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Concepts Your culture hates you. No, really it does. There are so many ways that the culture we collude with, works against our best interests. You can see it in the various artifices and self-mutilations we employ to reinforce our visible femininity, masculinity or youthfulness, but it could also be seen in the unattainable and...
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My art practice centres on an enquiry into quality of place, especially the ways in which place is constructed and inhabited.  These interests led to my completing an MA in Architecture and Spatial Culture in 2004.  Much of my work over the last decade has focused on residencies and contexts in which I was invited to respond to a...
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Concepts I make installations usually containing repetitive formal devices, ie boxes, often using fragile materials. It is important that the work is task orientated and time consuming. I am not concerned with the application of colour, only that which is integral to materials. Recently I have begun to make dense layered drawings of plant...
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Through research, drawing and interventions my practice seeks to interrogate the spatial and perceptual modes that operate in our experience of the built environment. My current work is realized through an ongoing process of studio making, documentation and on-line presentation, and through this process aims to question contemporary notions of...
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Concepts My work is rooted in photographic and lens based techniques and includes video and computer manipulation as well as some more obscure ways to make images.  Much of my work is a response to the presence of the human in the landscape (regardless as to whether humans are portayed).  The Stones Remain, (pub...
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The mechanism whereby we convert external stimuli through our senses, to in effect, 'create' our individual personal consciousness, is innately mysterious per se and it seems to me that when we involve the further mystery of human emotion in this equation, together with a degree of applied creative intelligence, we have the basic...
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I paint and draw compulsively. My earliest memories are of drawing by holding a pencil, making circular motions and filling the page with the shiny graphite. As a child I would collect hundreds of my scribbles, storing them neatly so that I could look through them again. Drawing was especially important to my experience and development, for as a...
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My creative focus is primarily concerned with the construction of interactive sound installation. The sculptural forms allow the viewer/participant to become the interface between object and sound. Navigation of the object creates a unique sonic sequence that mirrors participant trajectory. The work attempts to facilitate participant exploration...
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Concepts My art practice reflects a growing awareness of my connections to the natural world.  I am drawn towards processes that lay beneath the surface.  Especially where the organic meets the cultural. I have explored connections between botany and empire, genetics and language and genetic links across race and species....
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Since the mid-1980s I have been exploring the experiences and aesthetics of Asian femininity in paintings and installations, photography and printmaking, video and film. My work is predominately autobiographical, explores and challenges the received social constructions and constraints of classed, gendered, sexualised and raced subjectivities,...
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My work creates a juxtaposition of dreams, realities and sensations, fleeting moments from life inspired by my own experiences. I explore a sense of empathy for existing across different places and times, examining personal sensations of deja-vu, while moving through times, locations, and states of being, without a fixed linear chronology. ...
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Concepts Though tapestry weaving was my starting point, my practice has developed and evolved and lies now within installation, creating spaces where the viewer can be both the observer and the observed. Visual art as in all art is a way for us to enter other worlds: there are no answers there only propositions like notions of heaven, paradise...
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Much of the work I create is a response to the impact of surrounding environments at home and abroad, where everyday situations and visual memories are gathered and expressed in the designs and colour. The worked pieces are often intuitive and controlled compositions, discovered through the process of balancing colour, shape and texture, allowing...
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Concepts My early paintings  explored imagery drawn from the world of material and cultural consumerism. My aim was to give substance and permanence to the ephemeral nature of this source material:posters, photography, film, through the use of traditional oil painting techniques. More recently I have used aerial imagery of the region in...
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"My paintings are of landscapes and marinescapes particularly in those where industry takes place or has taken place. These areas with their colour, pattern and texture stimulate me as a painter." George Little was born in 1927 in Danygraig, Swansea where his earliest visual memories were of looking down on to the then constantly busy docks,...
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Concepts I live a quiet and simple life in the hills of mid-coast Wales, and my work reflects that. I am inspired by trees and the sea. In my personal history they mean refuge, but it isn't important to know that to appreciate the work. It is just where I'm coming from and why there is the affinity. I really like the fact that they appear...
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Concepts Landscape is an essential part of her being and integral to her production. She does not paint landscapes but absorbs them along with their inhabitants. Sykes watches the behaviour of animals, birds, and insects; She take photos of clouds, the sea and the fields. These creatures and the natural movements of the elements leave significant...
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Concepts To create a living landscape, not in representational terms, but as a voyage of the mind and exploration of material. Also to glean from nature and discarded man-made debris, like any beachcomber. To navigate through human emotion.  My subject is the figure in the landscape, but the human presence is hinted at, rather than...
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Christopher Rutter and Evelyn Bennett have worked closely together since 1994. In collaboration they have made large-scale sculpture for a number of locations including Chichester, Hastings and Swindon Hospitals and ‘Sculpture at Goodwood’. They have been commissioned by property developers such as Lovells and made work for Royal Caribbean...
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Yael David-Cohen is a London based artist, whose abstract and colourful works investigate the themes of nature and growth through recognisable organic shapes and forms. Her oeuvre includes large-scale mixed media on fabrics, intaglio prints and handmade artist books. Yael was born in Jerusalem and Graduated from the Tel Aviv Art School and the...
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From early childhood I’ve obsessively drawn people, and characters from my imagination. This creative compulsion later came to reflect my desire to understand myself and others, both from a psychological as well as a creative and emotional perspective. My work explores human expression, form and relationships between individuals and within the...
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Concepts As both an artist and an architect, my concerns are with inhabited places. I am interested in the useful as well as the poetic. From small scale work to larger temporary or permanent public work or exhibitions. I concentrate on the ordinary things that anchor us and our feelings in the world. This has led me to education and...
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‘Rosalind Davis reveals herself to be a visionary artist of sensitivity and complexity. Her mixed media paintings of dystopian landscapes incorporate embroidery and floral-print textile…they conjure up a claustrophobic world of the uncanny.’ Andrew Bryant. Artists Statement; Rosalind Davis’ creates mixed media paintings...
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My work is concerned with boundary, connection and relationship- essentially a reflection on apparent dualities, questions of Self, Other and the figuration of human relationship. Drawing is the very root of my practice yet I work across media including Installation, Video, Painting and Bookworks. My praxis is often Collaborative. I am...
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Paddy Hartley originates from Leeds, West Yorkshire and now bases his practice in the East End of London. As a graduate of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff with a Masters Degree in Sculpture and Ceramics with Distinction in 1998, it was the open-minded approach to technique, appropriation of material and subject encouraged at Cardiff...
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The most basic ecology of the contemporary art scene would place the uber Contemporary Art Museum at the top of the food chain, with dealers, collectors, art fairs and biennales scrapping it out for second. Next up would be the galleries, art prizes, art magazines, journalists, funding bodies and the spaces the support jostling for...
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Rachel Howfield is a visual artist working across several disciplines. Her work explores how we become who we are, our public and private selves. Her work addresses themes of identity with reference to feminism and post-feminist ideologies. She is interested in the action of memory, and how we construct our reality from a patchwork of remembered...
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In recent work the paintings explore the relationship of the figure in space with a focus on the subject of autism. Following a residency and collaboration at a school for autism I have used my research and filmed footage to develop paintings in the studio. Figures in the work occupy a small section of space, a piece of playground, the edge...
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