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Concept  I studied Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art and completed my degree at Camberwell School of Art London where my work explored photography and film/video slide projected installations , computer art and sculptural relief making and stained glass. I then wanted to push and explore these mediums further through...
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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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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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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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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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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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The Cilliní Project The Cilliní Project started in 2009 when I was awarded a Heinrich Böll residency on Achill Island, County Mayo where I first became acquainted with the Cilliní, the un-baptised infant burial grounds also known as, lisín, ceallúnach, calluragh, and caldragh - found scattered throughout...
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Glass reflects atmospheres and emotions. I feel, Making glass is a way of accessing a world increasingly excluded from our everyday life. The landscape is very important to me; the light, the textures and natural forms found in our surroundings. I always try to capture, or at least to identify something from the environment that expresses an...
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"The main themes in my work are related to drawing links between people, analysis and exploring stories in all forms, though in recent times particularly in mythology and legends." Hole in my Pocket - www.holeinmypocket.com Allistair Burt is one half of "Hole in my Pocket" a dynamic art/ architecture duo whose...
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The significance of negative space in painting has driven my studio research since graduating. Initially interested in the materiality of paint and the practice in transforming the medium into the subject of the artwork, my practice has progressed towards marking the structure of negative space.My paintings are formed as a result of constant...
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Concepts       My current interests are in exploring ideas in response to found materials, particularly old maps, dictionaries and artefacts which connect with shared experience of recent history. I make prints, mainly etchings and collagraphs and I also make artist's books, printing and binding my own...
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My practice is cross-disciplinary, often incorporating elements of performance, installation and film. My work tends to be non-gallery-based and is site-specific – each project tailored to suit the space I am working in and the communities of people that I bring together to form unique collaborations. My work is usually temporary in its...
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Ann Nisbet is a practising Architect and trans-disciplinary practitioner, her work employs a process led methodology and situates itself in the realms of architecture. She studied at Strathclyde Architecture School graduating in 2001 with a BSc Hons and with a Masters in Advanced Architecture Design, in 2003. She has practiced architecture in...
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Caroline is interested in the natural world and how we relate to it. She likes to encourage a fresh engagement with specific aspects of the natural world, recently with particular plants. Her work results from research into the subject and place, with the final piece or pieces being a process of distillation of the many disciplines of information...
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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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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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My work is predominantly hand thrown on the wheel using red earthenware clay and slip decorated using slip trailing and sgraffito.  I make functional pots because I enjoy seeing my work used and enjoyed, my pieces are created to be useful and at the same time beautiful to look at.  I am fascinated and thrilled by constantly developing...
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 Jane Frazer combines hand-woven  and knitted fabrics, heat manipulated textiles, perspex, video projections and photography to create eye-catching items for modern interiors. Work ranges from small-scale perspex hangings and jewellery to large-scale installations, which can be bought or commissioned from the workshop.  Paintings,...
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The structure of my work is based mostly from industry and architecture, however, the meaning comes from issues surrounding us: social, religious, political and environmental. My work has often been compared to that of Heath Robinson as it has an element of the mad inventor's quality to it. I feel that juxtaposing a natural or recognisable element...
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Although formerly a painter and sculptor I have found the process of printmaking conducive to developing my ideas. I have extended my work using silkscreen, or carborundum and etching combinations, some work contains a combination of both monoprint and silkscreen. At present I am allowing much of my work to be led by processes; processes as...
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I'm interested in the curious aspects of human behaviour, about how we interact within society. The figures or objects I choose for my subjects are stripped bare from any details. By painting or cutting out their shapes I turn them into neutral symbols, a representation of a type, a logo that is there for the viewer to project their own views...
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My work deals with the subject of value by considering the system of values that we bestow upon familiar objects and possessions. I am interested in how the perception of an object is altered by its material, situation, or scale, and by making ironic and playful changes to these properties I encourage the viewer to question the value of the...
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My earlier (and some current work), consists many years of sculptural and painted projects, while my fascination for mosaic work began ten years ago. I had used tessellated techniques on large environmental sculptures in the past, using fibreglass resin and a wide variety of materials, since then mosaic making, 2-dimensional and structural, has...
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My early career has been between engineering and wood work, from working in metal fabrication for a marine engineer company to designing and crafting my own bespoke wooden furniture. In particular, furniture making has its own artistic temperament and I can apply a certain degree of creativity to each piece. However, it can be constrictive when...
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ConceptsThe inspiration for my glass making has evolved from the nature of the material itself and its qualities which are unlike any other material.InfluencesSpirituality/Religion, Nature, Ancient cultures/Myths; own cultural identity (Asian); own gender (Female)Career pathQualifications: 1991 MA Ceramic and Glass, Royal College of Art,...
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I design work for public art and health care settings as well as for private individuals and corporate spaces.  All work is unique and site-specific.  I believe that visually stimulating environments have a huge impact on our general sense of well being and enjoyment of work, recreation and recuperation settings.  I have worked with...
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Mapping Absence, Confirming Presence – Artists' Negotiations of Personal, Public and Domestic SpaceEva Bartussek, Kate Peters, Christina Bryant, Pamela So, Nigel Grimmer, Dawn Woolley, Nicholas Cobb and Tessa BunneyCurated by Matthew ShaulThe major curatorial projects I have developed over the past five or so years have been almost...
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I am a jeweller and artist/researcher working across disciplines to open up the range of expression available in wearable technological products. Drawing on observations of land, sea and sky, the jewellery uses a wide range of materials such as Perspex, Formica, latex, silicon rubber, found objects and precious metals. Increasingly, the work...
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ConceptsI design and manufacture glass objects, architectural installations, and lighting. The flexibility of molten glass enables me to produce sculptural pieces for display and site specific work. Architectural and lighting commissions are also undertaken, where a consultancy is looking for a more unusual product to enhance a space or solve a...
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My practice is stimulated by what I perceive as challenges within the act of portrayal. I am fascinated by what lies behind the surface of the subject as an essence to be grasped or sought after through attempting to re-present it. The dialectic between the possibility and simultaneous hopelessness of this endeavour emerges in the abstraction of...
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Artist statement I am a freelance ceramic designer, working on limited edition studio ceramics and prototypes for factory production. My own practice is concerned with the re-contextualisation of existing generic objects, reinterpreting their form, and reinventing their function. I love working with porcelain and bone china, though I am also...
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ConceptsTaking inspiration from architecture, I produce a range of jewellery using 18ct gold for precious detailing. My jewellery has a broad range of wearers who appreciate the elegant simplicity of my designs.Career pathQualifications: 1997 BA Hons, Design, Duncan of Jordanstone Art School, Dundee Jewellery Metalwork1994 HND, Silversmithing...
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