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The lure of the ‘false’ in painting forms the foundation of my work. Constructed landscapes and the psychology of fictional spaces make up the stage for an exploration of painting as a simulacra, not a representation. Ultimately, my paintings seek to picture something tangible, conjured up from our obsession with simulations and...
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Christiane Thalmann is an artist based in Sheffield, UK.  She is interested in various aspects of contemporary life. Subject matter has included issues around women, the effects of childhood and finding one's way in the world, relationships, and ideas around home and elsewhere. She employs a...
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Alex Pearl makes mini epic films, video installations, sculpture and books. Throughout his work there is a sense of an acceptance of failure or disappointment as important parts of the human condition. Using readily available materials and software the films are made from: suddenly apprehended ideas, discovered objects and impromptu processes....
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My artistic practice encompasses a number of different styles of drawing and painting and a variety of different creative strategies. I use these to explore aspects of our physical and emotional relationship with nature. The complexity of this subject matter demands a complex response, so my work ranges from detailed, representational drawings to...
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Using objects appropriated from cartoons as a starting point, Vincent James makes artwork across a range of media including painting, sculpture and animation. In this work props dislocated from different cartoon worlds collide, creating surreal and whimsical interactions. James’ sampling of popular culture and separation of objects from...
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My work takes form through a gradual accumulation of ideas, research, found and gathered material and experimental processes. The outcomes of this cumulative process range from carefully crafted artefacts and drawings to texts, photographs, videos and installation. Although my practice progresses through several different strands, at the heart of...
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I make Moving Image and art contraptions, using digital media, vintage items and bits and bobs to make beautiful insights. My Moving Image is non-narrative, poetic and abstract. My subjects are generated by scientific and optical ideas, by way of a philosophical translation into form. So the meaning of my works can be traced back to universal...
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My work speaks of culture dislocation from Eastern Europe Czech Republic to Western Europe UK culture. I use combined media animations, drawings and installations to juxtapose the everyday, the domestic and the personal view with a system of drawn symbols and out-taken quotes from society. In this way I effect to decentre my self as a maker, and...
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My practice has always had the ethos of making work which costs little or nothing to make. I class myself as a sculptor and although recently my practice has moved away from the making of objects towards digital media. All my work has sculptural elements; recent animations and drawings looked towards extending the flat surface into a three...
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'Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time future...'Burnt Norton Four Quartets by T S EliotThe work conveys an emerging cultural dialogue between past and present. The message of marking time is achieved through manipulating space and using textiles, particularly lace. This fine open fabric provides a technical and...
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Michael Robbs began as a painter, before moving onto animation and now vector prints. His interest with computer technology began in 2001 after experiencing an irrevocable hard disk failure whilst working on an important document. As a result two large scale paintings emerged, titled ‘This program has performed an illegal operation…’ and...
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The looping nature of my work and subject matter mirrors the structure of the underlying technology used in its creation and the repetitive processes that seem central to the infrastructure of contemporary society. Frequently, my films are animated loops structured from photographs, scanned images or single fames extracted from video footage,...
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Anne-Mie Melis work explores the visual nature of plants and their role in an increasingly technology-infiltrated world. Her main inspiration is science, focused towards plant biology and engineering. She uses a variety of media; large-scale architectural botanical drawings on paper, assembled objects, composed from plant parts or pruned shrubs,...
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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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Floating relicsRosie Farrell: 'Narrative Mirage: Slowness is a deceptive play' (2012)Installation with four videos (HD video and digital animation) with single soundtrack, steel modular shelving unit with glass, crystal sphere and rotating motor, projectors, DVD players, amplifier, speakers, CD/MP3, Chelsea MA show, LondonI was lured into...
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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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My work is involved in ideas surrounding transformation specifically how our perception of a subject's reality is changed through a creative action. This includes examining the contrast between what is considered material or immaterial in an art context. Furthermore I am aware of the concept of ownership and I find this of particular interest...
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Immateriality and Materiality: These elements form the core of my practice; and are represented through a combination of both digital animation and installation. My work is presented either as still images, animation or video installation. Video installation works are presented as three projections, a central projection flanked by two...
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Art depicting the landscape has been increasingly regarded with suspicion during the last 40 or so years, and is seen by many in urban art circles as being sentimental and passé. As I live and work in Cornwall, a relatively remote, non-urban part of the UK, this is problematic. I would argue that our experience of the landscape, and of...
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Miranda Whall's work is simultaneously intimate while resonant of the collective vagaries of human experience and our inability to truly empathise with each other and with the natural and physical world around us. Whilst the content of her drawings and videos often appears sexually provocative or deeply confessional, she does this not for shock...
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'Airborne (MAD)' (2009) is installed in a narrow room with a partially tapered entranceway, like a giant mouse hole, forcing visitors to bend over in order to walk in. Inside the room an animation of stark, simple geometrical shapes is projected onto a trapezoidal screen which is continually rotating, causing the image to drift...
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Julie Myers specialises in a variety of time-based media including video and sound installation, single-screen, web, mobile and interactive technologies. Her work is informed by social encounter, participation and intervention. This can be just a brief moment captured between strangers, or a collaboration with multiple participants simultaneously...
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