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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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My projects explore the territories between art, ecology and politics and take the form of live events, installations and interventions in public places. Through repeated experiments and actions in specific places, I seek to interrupt my assumptions and understand perspectives I could not see alone. I craft particular objects which open up a...
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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, writer and curator with over thirty years experience of contemporary art production, curation and writing. Most recently my research falls into two distinct though interrelated activities original artworks and commentaries on contemporary work. There are three strands to the origination of artworks. Current work is focused on...
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I have always been fascinated by the way objects and structures (mostly manufactured) affect or manipulate light which falls on them, passes through them or reflects from them. Early work involved consciously harnessing projected light and manipulating it to produce sculptural installations. Objects, which appeared to be three-dimensional,...
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Louisa Chambers examines ideas surrounding machines, devices and inventions, and how they could assist humans living in temporary or placeless worlds. Multiple dimensions and perspectives are explored through the materiality of paint and the repetition of geometric motifs which are floating ambiguously in space. Impossible architectural...
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My work is exclusively drawing based and investigates activity and gesture. Relating to the individual moving through space it reveals, recreates and documents ensuing residual marks and indicators of contact. Work ranges from large, meticuously rendered drawings to collections of accidental, intentional and found marks. Alongside the...
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For nearly fifty years David Ainley's paintings have involved approaches in which changing states and 'histories' have been significant concerns. In the 1960s studies of processes of plant growth influenced biomorphic images which The Guardian noted for their 'poetic intensity', 'invariably imaginative, non-repetitive, and...
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I have always held a deep curioristy between the links between science and art and for the last 12 years have made paintings based around this subject matter. My practice is rooted in the phenomenon of science and the enviroment and I am currently using photography and drawing to explore this. Normal.dotm 0 0 1 2 13 bilborough college ...
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As Homo Faber we exist through objects, our actions and experiences mediated by them; they are no longer mere tools but extensions of ourselves. My practice is built around an investigation of the objects that surround us where I consider them in terms of being comprised of a network elements both physical (essential and accidental) and abstract...
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My work occupies the space between ideas of the Dionysian and the Absurd, moving from one to the other exploring themes of futility, pointlessness, hopelessness, nuisance, de individuation, death, rebirth and the irrational.This activity becomes a strategy for affirming life in the hope of building links between individuals by examining and...
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Concepts I believe colours have a psychological impact through our visual sense. Every change in the way artists paint light (i.e. colour) reflects the evolution of our civilization. In Art History we can see how the way artists use colour has changed. It reflects their time and space - very different from any other time or space. It also...
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After winning a scholarship to attend and study at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, the possibilities within language and mistranslation became a catalyst for my practice. Language went on to inspire me to look at how it molds and affects the individual, their identity and culture.My practice is socially rooted and motivated, abducting subject...
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To discover how medicines work in a single cell, the artist Jo Berry (JB) will participate in Practical research activities, using fluorescence microscopy to study Pharmacology of drugs and Receptors in living cells, gaining insight into the scientific process and methods for using Fluorescence imaging to measure drug-receptor interactions...
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Concepts I think most of my work is about storytelling: capturing a situation or a scene that seemed to be memorable or unusual in some way. I like to present a simplified world broken down into colours and shapes, and let the viewers imagination fill in the gaps. As subject matter, I draw inspiration from everyday scenes, and local...
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Jo Dacombe's current interests include mapping, walking, connections, public space, modes of travel, change and sense of place.  Jo's approach is engaged practice in the public realm to create a dialogue about the experience of space and place. Developing from her original practice as a painter, Jo now uses art interventions through a variety...
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My recent work is based around the idea of the industrial landscape, a world that has been carved flat through relentless resource gathering. Unwittingly revealing the contrast of the man made with the effortless splendour of nature. Inspired by the heavy architecture of the industrial revolution and its contrast to the surrounding softness and...
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Resume 2011 First prize National Competition as Artist in Residence to design and install five unique artglass panels in five Lincolnshire churches. To be completed by July 2012. 2011 First prize to design two glass sculptures for NHS Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh 2011 First prize to design three glass canopy...
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I have extensive experience of producing sculpture for the public realm, and also work to commission for private clients. I have undertaken numerous sculpture commissions with a wide range of contexts, budgets and materials. I have work sited in Europe, Japan and throughout the UK in many permanent public and corporate collections, including the...
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In many respects, my work is a sort of anti-entropy. I focus on the otherness of space in order to prevent its ultimate dissolution, promoting a spatial practice of radical alterity. Alterity is in danger. It is a masterpiece in peril, an object lost or missing from our system…[1] There is a crisis of alterity in which otherness is...
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Candice Jacobs currently lives and works in Nottingham.  She was one of the co-founders and co-directors of Moot, an artist-run gallery/project space in Nottingham (2005 - 2010), and One Thoresby Street (2009 - present), an artist-run project which supports individual artists and art organisations.  Recent exhibitions include; In...
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ConceptsThe work produced is inspired by the environmental surroundings of that time. Colour and form play an important role along with the need to produce something that challenges the mind's eye. The subject matter is either landscape or night time interiors.InfluencesArtistic, are modern colourist, political, environmental, impact of humans...
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Statement  My interest derives primarily from an engagement with fabric & fibre, and the dialogue created by the quality of light diffused through layers and the manipulation of form. My continued interests in layering & fragmentation, combined with a growing desire to reuse & recycle, have led into mosaic, & I...
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Considering Silesia I’m interested in digital explorations, from pixel to painting and back again, and my project “Considering Silesia” examines issues of conflicting (Anglo-German) heritage, identity and migration observed in the context of our evolving relationship with the internet and new media – our digital...
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Concepts My practice is wide-ranging using watercolour, gesso, oils and acrylics as well as natural and found materials, in two and three dimensions as well as site-specific installations. I am interested in the extension of two into three dimensions, and I work in series which are cyclical. The site-specific work is generated from the site...
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I work with felt, embroidery and print to produce garments of clothing, drawings and textiles that have a personal narrative. Currently I am interested in examining my own identity and its relationship to the places that I live, work and travel to. My work explores the wider concept of journeys and mapping and is based on my personal experience...
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ConceptsArtistic invention of sacred and religious themes in Painting, Sculpture and Architecture have been a constant influence on my paintings and drawings since 1986. In 1997 this interest broadened to include Islamic and (more recently) Japanese sacred influences alongside the strong Western cultural influences particularly of Baroque and...
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My practice incorporates drawing, printmaking, installation and sculpture through resin, inflated PVC, neon, plastics, rubbers and bronze. It increasingly seems driven by the accommodation of perceived paradoxes such as; the invisible, weightless, and seemingly formless object or singular forms with both unity and variation. The latter is made...
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Artist statement The main focus of my work lies in the exploration of the evolution of form and ornamentation. In my most recent body of work 'Make Do and Mend' I have created a range of jewels from second-hand fabric, crochet, lace, heat treated copper and gold-plated elements. I aim to explore a traditionally domestic approach to recycling...
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Artist statement My artistic practice has previously involved large interactive maze-like installations, and rhizome-like structural and ephemeral sculptural installations. All concerned with a sense of wonderment, arcadia, the city, and the universality inherent in architecture, whilst also questioning issues of population growth, an and...
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