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Jo Howe

Reading is an act of co-authorship. When you pick up a book and read it, what you bring to that process is your own personal history. This is a filter through which we perceive language and by which we forge connections. My use of the book as sculptural object playfully reworks its formal components allowing the 'reader' to experience...
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Joanna Rojkowska

Since 1995 I have been making series of mobile objects move by air movement. In these objects the real actors are light and air movement. I often feel I am only a viewer because the effects are unexpected and surprising. Contact with these objects resembles the observation of nature, and/or meditation, which was my source of inspiration. I give my...
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Diane Maclean

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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Joanna Austin

My work is based in video installation, film and performance. I am interested in creating a disorientating experience for the viewer in order to provoke irrationality and imagination as an antidote to conformity and restriction and to promote creativity as a means of freedom for the individual. My main inspiration is the repetitive nature of...
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Jonathan Mitchell

ConceptsFor the last twenty-five years I have worked with bodies, objects and environments, producing in-process pieces from direct observation and imagination. My aim is to help promote stability through the relationships formed by society around and with its art.InfluencesMy artistic practice is significantly influenced by Cézanne, Picasso and...
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André Hess

ConceptsAndre Hess makes simple shapes that are both familiar and fugitive. Shapes that require the viewer to question what the pieces mean rather than what they resemble or represent. The making process informs the meaning of the work. He uses technique that fulfils the requirement. Surface treatment serves only to qualify what is already...
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John Higgins

ConceptsCurrently the shapes are based on the vessel and are informed by architecture and elements in architecture. This includes informal, vernacular and ancient constructions as well as radical, new buildings.The surfaces on the work consist of several layers and are usually textured and dry. This is seen as a metaphor for the layered lives we...
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