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The themes and ideas I use in my work are carefully formed from the architecture, surrounding environment and client specification. A hospital theme for example requires an atmosphere of calmness, where as a public building may want a strong statement. I use whatever glass processes and techniques are suitable including silk-screening and acid...
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My paintings explore the relationship between geometric pattern and pattern in nature. Colour is central to the way in which each of my paintings evolves, and it underpins my desire to reconcile the beauty of geometry and the delight of the organic world. To me, colour evokes the playfulness, sumptuousness and delight of the natural world.Pattern...
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ConceptsMy recent work has been a personal investigation into the parallels between the world of the 'unknown' human present in the news media, the world of the model as they pose, and my own personal life. In this context I have particularly explored the themes of captivity and release. I see my practice as a form of physical thinking, and a...
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Accepting the camera as an apperatus of capture, I attempt to push the boundaries of what the viewer knows is illusory yet accepts as real. My subject continues to be traces left by people in redundant spaces. The places I photograph are empty and are photographed as seen, not altered. I am not looking to document or comment, more to examine....
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My work is a response to the detail of my functional life; the familiarity and reassurance of repetitive tasks we all feel safe in and the impact of external and unpredictable factors on these. I have an interest in harming behaviours and the wear and tear of living on ourselves and our environment.Themes of 'wearing out' and 'holding...
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Graduating from Bath Spa university with a Fine Art degree in 2007, Clare Winnan has since been working in a wide variety of materials including photography, sculpture, drawing and painting to create a variety of works. Over the past two-three years her main passion and focus has been around photography and...
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Run closer to the fire, The vortex, The dream, Accelerate the spectrum, See what I have seen, A brave new world - which had always been, Now is released, In to the machine. In my paintings I explore the realms of suggestive, enigmatic apparitions, seeing thoughts and ideas almost as patterns, interacting to define the optimum image in...
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I have taken inspiration from the masters of reportage and documentary photography. The combination of the honesty and awareness of their work was the catalyst for my own studies. My work looks at the concept of capturing a precise moment in time and questioning the conventional process of photographing and documenting street photography. This...
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Karen Wallis draws and paints the everyday world. She is curious about the role of images and how they are perceived by the viewer, in particular how visual rhetoric influences their perceptions through historical reference, methods of display and curatorial input. Her recent three year residency at The Holburne Museum, during its closure for...
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Having been trained as an engineer, the form and monumentality of architecture and industrial plant has inevitably had a significant bearing on my practice. My work seeks to comment on the world about us and thus takes a political stance. Recent work has looked at the fragility of economic stability, division and subjugation in our society,...
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My current work emerges from a continuing research into the phenomenology of perception. My latest animations begin with a visual investigation into natural and man-made light. The resulting photographs highlight my interests in colour and simplistic abstract forms. The sequential transition of these photographic images is manipulated to create...
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The subject matter for my work begins with a significant object. I then set out to recreate it using a three-dimensional drawing process in wire and thread. I am aiming to explore its form, the space around it, the area it occupies as an object and the relationship between the object's solidity and its perceived skeletal structure. This...
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I work with actions and dance for video. Exploring different movements and effects of these on different materials and objects. Conversely, later work as explored the effects of objects and materials on the body.Sometimes I work from a conventional dance repertory broken or pared down to a task-like activity always in mind of breaking down...
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Oliver’s current practice focuses on conflicting desires and fears (what Freud referred to as ‘the phantasmic character of trauma’). Fascinated by cinema, spectacle and how they affect the viewer, he endeavours to recreate and represent this situation using objects and pictures, whilst deconstructing the event of experience and...
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My work is rooted in the tradition of landscape painting. Yet I offer a different vision of reality by creating place, not depicting it. I try and engage the viewer in two ways; through sensation and subversion.I am influenced by poetry, and its ability to convey strong sensations, textures, colours, sounds and emotions through words. I like to...
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Fascinated by patterns and the intricacies posed by 'structures', my passion lies in pushing simple materials and techniques to experience new boundaries. In doing so I am able to explore the concepts of 'movement' and 'balance'. Using the medium of textiles to express my ideas seemed a natural progression, having trained as a knitwear designer...
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ConceptsAmy Houghton's practice involves the use of animation, video and porcelain to explore the hidden and revealed histories and stories related to old objects in particular old textiles and photographs placed in the context of our lives in the present. She explores how we use and read antique textiles and photographs as stimuli for...
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Currently working on a collaborative project; Dominion, using text, image and photography in filmed performance with author Philip Hoare. This will include a Solo exhibition, Publication and Symposium at Peninsular Arts University of Plymouth and a launch of the Moby Dick Big Read with celebrity readers of the 135 chapters of Moby Dick....
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My work is primarily about the vulnerability of the human state and ideas of protection, confinement and escape. I create ambiguous spaces and escape routes that function between reality and fiction, some imaginary and some physical. I investigate lonely, quiet spaces exploring the fantasy of experiencing a respite from the constant pace of life....
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Bridget Sterling is a British artist whose practice is born from the experience of growing up in a dysfunctional middle class family. Her work explores the kind of formative experiences which powerfully mould and shape us, the quiet moments of observation where scenes appear normal but which are perhaps not. These are the memories which hang...
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I make heads and faces. Some people have great faces on the first look; other people's faces grow on me. Some faces have a particularly interesting composition or outline.  Faces are surprisingly different and I like the sensation of change that I get when I look from one face to another. Lived in faces hold more of a fascination for me than...
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ConceptsMy work is architectural, site specific. Ideas come from printmaking and mixed media paper work in parallel to my glass design. Themes are imagined landscape. I work to commission clients/architects needs prefigure. Motifs and calligraphic marks from landscape work, abstract representational solutions to clients briefs. Themes, motifs...
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