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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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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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Emily Hesse's practice refuses to be defined and constrained by those traditional divisions with which we try to simplify and control modern artistic practice. Much of her work is about sculpture, certainly, but equally painting, photography, film and drawing are all resources she employs to communicate her insights into the world around us....
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My practice can be loosely divided into three categories: Sculpture/Installation, the Collection and Text Art, though it also incorporates other disciplines such as Collage, Photography and Performance. I would describe my work as conceptual but with a comedic sensibility. Language and wordplay are also key elements, as well as humour also (comic...
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Heritage interpretation plays an important part in Theresa Easton’s practice. Easton is interested in exploring cultural and historical episodes using contemporary printmaking processes. Central to Easton’s creative practice is the role of printmaking. Easton is interested in pushing the boundaries in printmaking and working with...
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Concepts My work is 'about' rather than 'of' landscape. I prefer to get involved with a landscape and aim to say something about its past and present. I am especially interested in the impact that mankind has had on the land through industrial, agricultural, ritual and military use and increasingly with ecological issues. I was commissioned...
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"The drawings for her degree show, which reverse the female submissiveness advocated by a religious pamphlet posted through her door, put women in a dominant position while the men are bent and bound in sexual submission. The male figures have been censored, but to protect whom? The spam I receive contains more indecency than Ms Gorrill's...
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Louise Mackenzie is a multidisciplinary artist. Collaboration, process and interaction are central to her practice.  Operating between gallery and other settings, her experimental, research led approach is determined by the context: historical, scientific or archaeological, to which it is a response. Conceptually and thematically,...
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b.1980, United Kingdom Matt James Smith is an artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne. His work is often an attempt to excavate the subjective history of a particular landscape or place through the use of lens-based media. Recent research has been centered around ideas of the 'unpresentable' (the sublime, the uncanny, the traumatic) in relation...
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Concepts I am interested in taking discarded materials and making them into art. I have no idea when I begin as to what is going to happen. The material itself dictates what is going to emerge. Colour is kept minimal as an alternative to the high gloss of most modern advertising imagery and also to emphasise the...
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My work enhances both public and private spaces through the creative use of architectural glass. Projects begin by listening and responding to the needs of the client. They are then developed through research to produce a design that has a simple elegance suited to the context of the work. It is fascinating to translate ideas and stories into a...
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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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I make work that sits at an intersection between art and fashion. I am intrigued by the relationship between the spiritual and the decorative and how we give meaning and power to certain objects in our lives. I enjoy the protective and transformative nature of clothing, whereby fantasy can be made visible, and one can both hide and reveal oneself...
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i am an outsider artist, a live art performer and a writer with a growing international reputation and involvement nationally in disability arts. i work across live art / digital arts / installation / soundmapping / film / visual poetry and spoken word to challenge ownership of narratives. surrounded, often defined by languages (visual /...
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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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Artist's Statement: Offcuts as an Art Practice 'I used to make art objects from the offcuts of my furniture making: now I let the off-cuts themselves make art of my workmanship. Offcuts from a worked object evoke a negative, rejected space; the worked object itself occupies a space valued, deliberated, tooled. I work with these apparent opposites...
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My mainly lens-based “romantic conceptualist” practice responds to fundamental questions of technologies, perception and narrative. I have a particular fascination with contested sites, and use a pseudo-ethnographic method – like a renegade anthropologist – to perform a kind of intellectual fieldwork that engages with the...
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Concepts Public commissions: I spend a lot of time researching to gather information on which to base the piece. New materials and processes also present a challenge to work with. My work tends to have a graphic quality with clean lines and a minimalist feel. I like mixing materials whenever I can and often include text in a piece. ...
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Rachel Gretton Glass is a creative business established in 2004 and is currently based in Hartlepool in the North-East of England. Rachel works as a freelance artist producing  kiln cast glass sculptures for both personal commissions, exhibitions and also working as a residential artist within the community on larger site specific...
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My current practice combines painting with sculpture and the made with the ready-made. My continued interrogation of painting and process has seen me evolve from working exclusively with oil paint and two-dimensions to gradually introducing new materials (Fablon, gaffa tape, furniture, scrap metal, strip lighting, gloss paint) in order to...
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My practice is intuitive based on material exploration and the act of making. 'Crafting' the object is an important aspect of my work as it is at this time that I learn about the materials and the possibilities. The connotations of the materials used within my work together with the processes, which can be obsessive either involving...
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My practice comprises text, film, sound and performance. It usually draws on what is already available. A lot of my work is driven by an interest in taxonomies and classification systems, and in particular an interest in the illuminations and absurdities that arise as a result of applying classification systems to existing bodies of...
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Bridget Kennedy (b. 1970 Voorburg, Netherlands) is a compulsive organiser. She uses systemisation as a survival tactic, as a means of creating a little quietness amidst the clamor of modern life. She lives on the outskirts of a small village in the North of England. Whilst seeking out wildness and wilderness through interaction with nature she...
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Through the sculpture I make I aim to re-interpret the human form by rendering it in new processes and forming it through complex geometric operations. By reviewing the body in these ways I aim to reconsider the way we view ourselves, in many terms: from our atomic makeup to our societal structures. When making work for a particular site I see...
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Concepts The power of light to transform architecture and landscape is of primary concern. With an innovative approach to design, integrated works are created in a range of materials, designed to respond to the suns shifting influence, changing in impact throughout the course of a day.  Current practice  is concerned with the links...
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My work draws on the experience of the audience, exploring how language, codes and the written word is perceived, broken down and deciphered by the viewer. I am interested in the notion of memories, the cultural psychologies of looking and the differences between socially conditioned learning patterns and biological ones.Within my practice I...
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My practice has a very specific focus on drawing, which I feel is largely due to its immediacy and flexibility as a medium for the exploration of ideas. A key strand of my work involves the employment of systems or devices to disrupt or interfere with my control over the process of making. Through my practice I aim to explore the notions of order,...
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I create works with a sculptural sensibility in a wide variety of media, from photography to installation, video and objects.My work revels in the transience of life, seeks out poetry in the ordinary and draws attention to complex cycles of growth and decay. My eclectic interests, from jewellery to fungi unite, producing fantastic creations, which...
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I am curious about how we value, occupy and dream about space, both physical and imaginary. A playful examination of urban, rural and domestic space has always been intrinsic to my practice. The situations i initiate and objects i make seek to heighten the relationship between the viewer and the viewed, the self and 'elsewhere' or 'other'. ...
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Norman M. Klein describes how evidence ‘is a remnant left over by chance’: we understand a location or an event on those sources we have access to, but as Klein suggests, there should be an open-endedness, an acknowledgement of that which we do not know. I use photography, video, installation and audio exploring how documents in...
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My 3-dimensional work focuses on elements of the natural world which are often overlooked and undervalued and so aims to encourage people to question this and to develop an enhanced perception of their environment. I like to make people think by triggering their emotions through texture and smell and perhaps make them smile. I wanted to portray...
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