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Concepts Bettina Furnée's practice is rooted in notions of site and uses language as a primary material. Her works in the public realm derive from an interest in the identity, history and future of a given place, and the way in which language relates to a location. Works are developed through research and in collaboration with local...
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Concepts 'Loneliness is the echo that screams in the darkness' Lisa Mitchell 2009 My work is often very emotive and autobiographical, often drawing on intense personal life histories. I like to work using a variety of mediums be it photography, painting, print making or sculpture, whatever I feel would benefit the piece at the time....
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I was born in Poland and trained in ceramics and glass at Middlesex Polytechnic and Surrey Institute of Art and Design in the UK. I have completed my Master of Arts at the national College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland, where my research explored the technical and expressive possibilities of sand casting glass.My work is inspired by Gaston...
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ConceptsMy work is an attempt to synthesise the visual and tactile world as I experience it. In the words of Elvis Costello: 'What shall we do with all this useless beauty?'A continual order of disorder and creating chaos in the midst of order at some level. InfluencesNature, paradox, tenacity. Career pathMy career path is a balancing act...
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ConceptsI began making paper whilst on a Painting Fellowship which evolved into a Papermaking Fellowship. The possibilities increased the more I looked into the history of papermaking, the variety of ways it's produced throughout the world and, of course, the different approaches of other artists who manipulate and transform this versatile...
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Brazier's practice focuses on the concept of time, a relentless and ever-present phenomenon. His work has evolved alongside his ongoing research, which is driven by a desire to better understand the passage of time.Much of Brazier's work is based around ephemeral and transient sculptural forms, the deterioration of which presents the...
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Sarah Sabin Wall Excavation, 2002 Selected by Charlie Levine Archives, collections, found/discarded objects, hidden histories are pieces of puzzles that artist Sarah Sabin enjoys discovering, dissecting and putting back together again. ...
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An artist and designer for over thirty years, Tim Ward specialises in the design & build of public art, street furniture & environmental projects. Tim likes to explore the combination of a variety of different materials, ranging from steelwork, photographic plates, glass, stone, mosaic and lighting in producing his artwork. He believes art...
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Concepts My work, which includes site specific public sculpture, sculpture and installation, combines the natural and the man-made with themes largely drawn from nature interpreted through industrial materials and engineering techniques. Multiples, reflection, transparency, movement and light are present. I seek equivalents for...
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I am a sculptor who works in steel, typically figurative work for exhibition and also to commission and site-specific public art.My work might start from the current affairs of the day or a character from history but invariably tends to find the strangeness and comedy of the world around us.I am drawn to social satire often using clothes and...
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For the past five years, I have explored non-traditional uses of liquid porcelain, using an approach to mark making as a large part of the content of the work. The outcome has been a series of process led sculptural drawings and forms in which there is a point of transition from order to disorder, when different...
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My work utilises a diverse range of processes including installation, photography, assemblage and digital media and explores how objects and images become significant through recognition or mis-recognition and through changes in context. I investigate alternative histories, world views, myths and half-hidden stories. Anthony Shapland has written...
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I would describe my work as a series of observations that explore the perennial human search for meaning and the ways in which our deep rooted cultural and social practices and beliefs impact on our view of the world and our relationships with those around us. I employ a cross disciplinary approach, in which printmaking processes merge...
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There are moments before sleep, in dreams or reverie in which images pass through the mind. Then again, sometimes at dusk, voices will carry from a landscape of half seen trees and figures, in a merging of what is physical with the ephemeral and marginal. This is the territory of Viv Allen's work. Through her camera obscuras, none of which use...
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The pre-occupations of my work and thinking lie in how humans function within the world and the gaps that are created when our desires - to reach an un-specified potential - are faced with a different ‘reality’. My practice involves elements of deconstruction and analysis. Reparation, reformation, or re-situation is utilised to...
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An exploration of the ideas around a sense of place has been at the core of my practice. This could be a personal mapping of my surroundings, working with a Parish Council to celebrate its specialness or researching the history of a specific space to create appropriate and meaningful pieces of public art. The use of the book form has...
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Concepts I am a metalsmith, making contemplative sculptural objects. My work makes constant reference to nature whether intentional or otherwise. I work with both the random and the planned, valuing the process and the ideas that emanate from the process. The work evolves while in my hands and I am often surprised by the results, sometimes...
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The work sets out to articulate a haptic approach to the rediscovery of heterogeneous spaces, their construction and habitation. By means of transversals, the artist-explorer enacts new encounters with the surrounding environment, the potentiality of its functions and the socio-political encryptions residing within it. The artist, as well as the...
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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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Karen Whiterod Nylon newspiece neckpiece, 1998 Selected by Charlie Arnold I first met Karen Whiterod at Darlington railway station in 2001. She had come up from Norwich at my request, to present a workshop as part of the ExtraOrdinary recycled jewellery exhibition (commissioned by...
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Concepts 'I teach technique led, explorative art as a means of empowering and inspiring children. By demonstrating how they can explore their thoughts and emotions through art, and then demonstrating how those artworks can be used to permanent effect in the school/wider community - this can be a permanent sculpture, garden design,...
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Since graduating from a Fine Art Degree four years ago, I have continued to experiment with materials. This has led to a flexibility in the way I work, sometimes creating large instillations and at other moments small drawings. I am continuing to develop and fine tune my practice, running self driven projects and organising group shows.My...
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Concepts I trained and worked as a landscape architect before developing a career in art and design. This has lead to a creative mix of artworks and projects, undertaken in a variety of settings and locations, often drawing on landscape experience and practice. Some projects result from the discovery or rediscovery of a new or familiar...
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I incorporate textiles in printmaking processes to explore themes of domesticity and the home. I use print to access subtleties of texture and tone in fabric and to bring those elements into pictorial form.The focus is often on forgotten or over-looked details drawing on the conflicting associations of domesticity to create tension. I aim to...
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History is a key focus for my investigations and I regularly re-introduce the forgotten, redundant or overlooked, in order to make them visible again for 21st century audiences. The fragility and vulnerability inherent in human society and nature is often revealed, with the possibility of rescue, escape, healing or protection never far from the...
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 Open Frequency ProfileSimon Morrissey, director of WORKS|PROJECTS, Bristol, profiles Bedfordshire-based artist, Andy Holden.Andy Holden’s works are material stories: objects as narratives, physical things that like to tell tales. Polymorphic in nature, Holden’s practice encompasses a diverse creative output, from monumental...
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Dan Archer’s sculptures primarily invoke the physicality of materials and explores their relationship to architecture, humanity and landscape. Many of his recent works have been large scale public commissions ranging from 8.5 metre high granite obelisks to wall mounted neon forms. His most extensive work, completed in 2008, was a sculpture...
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Ruth's work is organic and ethereal and is based on the following: Man has created legends built on the envy and respect of the powerful domain that birds have at their wingtips, not dissimilar to man within his environment.  Creating on the one hand man's respect and desire to feel so free, but on the other his desire of challenge to kill,...
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ConceptsTo explain briefly my current work involves mixed media with light for exhibitions, urban sculpture trails and sculptural commissions. All of these works are site-specific light sculptures. In regard to the commissions, these involve architectural and engineering collaborations. I am fully versed in all aspects required for Public Art...
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Emily Haysom is a painter and conceptual artist whose practice focuses on socially engaged and public art. Her main area of interest is 'individuals in community'. Favouring simplicity, low tech methods and word of mouth communication she collaborates with others to explore identity, resulting in artworks that are a mixture of contemplation and...
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Concepts Designing site specific pieces has its own priorities. Kinetic sculptures and clocks tell different stories for each setting. There may be themes resonant of the surroundings or the piece may reflect the ethos of the user. The Ebbw Vale Timepiece (Echoes) was built after considerable research and community participation in the defining...
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