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My current work involves physically altering (or appearing to alter) existing architecture in public and exhibition spaces. These architectural interventions are developed specifically for their location through research and site visits; responding to the architecture, history and current happenings in the area. Through this I create a...
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My work is poised between the visible and invisible, resonating with the marginal spaces of the feminine, connecting with the viewer beyond symbolic language. It is about the recollection of elusive and ethereal memories drawing from my own experience of loss and self-negation; the desire to be hidden and yet to be seen.Making works in various...
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Concepts Painter concerned with visual perception. Formal notions of light and movement within the second dimension. In addition, the concept of illusion and double meaning are particularly important. The notion that we may receive two contrasting visual experiences from a single visual stimulant. I am interested in playing with ideas of...
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Sculptural practice and thought allows a very real exploration of the physical world. All its aspects fascinate me. My work is fuelled by diverse sources and open patterns of thought. Current work explores extremes of visibility, experience, material nature, location and situation. Time’s relationship with matter is a recurrent interest...
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My work focuses on human nature, in particular group dynamics and social isolation.  I am interested in the many facets of human behaviour - from the kindest of gestures to more sinister actions and Machiavellian treachery.  As well as depicting dramas I also create tiny tales of growing and crumbling relationships using...
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Current Practice I am essentially a fine art painter, but I do print and draw as part of my practise. I have recently re-dicovered Gesso which I am finding captivating in its coldness. Concepts If you look at my paintings closely you will see layers upon layers of paint. Each piece takes time to complete, although the marks are expressive and...
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Concepts Current content involves the selection and processing of fragmentary images from multiple sources, and most particularly addresses our engagement with the virtual world of the internet. Throughout previous work there has been a dominant theme of the layering of imaginary visions onto elements of perceived reality. However, the...
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Jessie Brennan’s practice lies between drawing and participation, informed by the social history of places, and by a direct engagement with the individuals who occupy them. Central to her work is the exchange of local knowledge and personal experiences, memories, folklore and myths, between herself and the people within a particular place,...
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Concepts, Processes and techniques We and our surroundings are changed and marked by the processes of life. These marks, arising from human and natural processes, are my inspiration. The bubbles momentarily visible on the beach as a wave retreats, the sand ripples left by an outgoing tide, the footpaths worn by people walking from place...
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'I’m interested in self perpetuity and relentlessness; the broken record with a repetitive sensibility. It’s a selfish indulgence to crack the ‘same old joke’ that was perhaps never really funny in the first place. I find it gratifying to blur the border between humour and sincerity, and to recycle a pun doggedly; devoid of...
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“Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.” ― Walter Benjamin Drawing is central to me. Not only is it at the core of my practise as an artist, but, possibly more importantly, it allows me to be tethered to and in the world. Moreover, these two areas are in...
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I was born Monday 1st August 1977 and I'm, essentially, a painter. Sometimes I use a knife instead of a brush; a controlled act of violence. A painting can be more than the image on, or what is cut out of, a canvas. It can be the object as a whole; frame, title (essential), or empty space in the canvas. The "happy accidents" in the...
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Landscape, Place and Memory The Attic Gallery, 26 High Street, Pinner, Middlesex HA5 3rd November and 5th – 8th November 2012 The images of landscape in this exhibition describe places once or many times visited. The terms place and memory refer to concepts which are used to interpret a landscape image. Influenced in part, by 19th...
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Enzo Marra is of Italian parentage and holds a BA in fine art from Reading University and an MA from Brighton University. His painterly work is characterised by elements of history, mythology, surrealism and metamorphosis. He has been selected to exhibit in the Threadneedle Prize and GFEST in 2010, Charlie Smith Anthology in 2011, The Open West,...
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Rosie Leventon makes Sculptural installations Interventions Public Art Commissions Environmental Artwork and drawings some of which are permanent and some ephemeral. Green issues run through the work, she always prefers to use recycled materials.  Many of the pieces are architectural and relate to or use their surroundings in some way, they...
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Human form is the basis of my visual subject matter, and, for me, spills into ideas about who we might ‘Be’ – existentially, historically and physically. Hence portraiture, the nude, the ‘trony’ – and a preoccupation with what’s on the ‘inside’ and the ‘outside’. This latter had lead me to use the creative process and materials as metaphor,...
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I have always found the subject of mental health and the human mind interesting on an intellectual and personal level, it therefore was an obvious direction to take my artistic practice. Photographs taken of objects, places and people I have researched or know personally, inspire my practice.  My work includes paintings reflecting my...
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We live in a world that is constantly changing and evolving even the things we take for granted as always being there are constantly in flux. This is the flux that Kate Hammersley captures in her work. Transient moments such as a word spoken in passing, a lightning strike or a shifting horizon line are sources of inspiration in her work which...
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I try to make things. Neill Sheasby: April's Artist of the MonthEach month we select an artist from the directory to feature as our Artist of the Month. In April's Artist of the Month, Ruth talks to Neill Sheasby about his appreciation of the ordinary, his time as a studio user at North Tyneside Art Studio and getting...
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Sally Booth is a visual artist specialising in drawing and painting. She completed a BA and MA in Fine Art at Bristol and Wimbledon School of Art. She has exhibited her work regularly across the UK, including at South Bank Centre, Whitechapel Art Gallery and Sadlers Wells.Sally was awarded the prestigious Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary in 2009,...
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Concepts My work has changed significantly since I began painting. My earlier work was concerned with making imaginative and symbolic connections to my relationship with classical Indian music, to the natural world, and to my Jewish heritage. In later years I have focused my attention on one particular subject - it is that of...
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My work is a mixture of works on paper and site specific installations. I use drawing, printmaking, collage, assemblage and textiles to create largely figurative works that depict everyday objects and places. I like that objects can describe a place, a time, a person or community through the way that they have been used or left. I draw attention...
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My practice considers where our disenchanted, secularised world a sense of the religious fails to be suppressed, either through unacknowledged ideological attachments (a dogmatic sense of what is correct or true) or through the seductive, mesmerising appeal of contemporary art.  The work arises from a fascination with the rhetoric...
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Statement It's about the Shape of the Journey...a documentation of works on paper and canvas in book form and sound scapes exploring our footsteps in the environment using screenprinting and photography I explore the natural forms and geometric patterns and anything else which can be used to pin down a thought, a feeling, a memory I'm drawn...
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Andrew Burton's most recent work explores bricks. Working in Britain, India and the Netherlands, he formed thousands of tiny bricks from clay and constructed these into various sculptures. Each sculpture would be painted or glazed, but then broken up and its constituent parts used to form the next. In this way the sculptures are continually...
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The Quick and the Dead.....An Expression of the aliveness and intensity of living, loving, and dying..... Aliveness comes only in the present moment. Once any thing becomes manifest, it is part of History in which the living has died. It serves then, as documentation of a living moment in creation. It is this moment of creation which matters.....
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Recalling the shimmering late works of J.M.W. Turner, Penman Sweet manipulates oil paint with the subtlety of watercolour... Annemarie Lopez 2012 Arts writer for Australian Art Review, The Sydney Magazine and The Week UK Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ...
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My work sets out to explore the loss of utopia and failure of modernism to connect with the human condition.Through the use of space and displaced characters, and their juxtaposition with monumental architectural structures, these works aim to mirror the emotional turmoil and unbalance we experience in the midst of a constrained, yet...
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Paper is a medium, a document a catalyst, a message, a creative act, it transforms for the better or worse, it travels, it is solid in a semi transparent world, it holds value, it proves, it also us to share information and ideas, it sorts us into groups of accepted and rejected, it covers up temporarily, it can be destroyed easily, it is...
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My work covers eclectic subject matter, often inspired by daydreams and my imagination, sometimes representational, using appropriated imagery from magazines and books and my own photographs; sometimes abstract. My practice is instinctive and intuitive, and encompasses photography, drawing and painting.
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I am an artist printmaker working in the relief and intaglio processes, which include etching, carborundum and woodcut prints. My work is inspired by the subject of work/industry and I have made drawings in a wide variety of industrial locations which have included sewage pumping stations, a distillery, building sites and a bell foundry, etc. The...
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Having once been told by a drawing tutor that if you only draw the outside you only get the outside, I decided to investigate this further. Using the idea that the more you are given the less you get I strip back the visual to its essential elements before inviting the viewer in to flesh out the work again. Working with lines, loops, layers,...
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