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Joseph Ismail is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Norwich, U.K. His practice is historically contextualised within the crossover between/from Minimalism and/to Conceptualism, with particular reference to time-based work/ideas and the practices of expanded video & film from the 1960s and 1970s to the present day. Looking back...
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I'm interested in questioning the fixed identities of objects and materials so they defy usual definitions and expectations, or, as the artist Tom Friedman has said, 'Testing what matter is by allowing it not to be'.Central to my practice are ideas of displacement: is the location of material central to its definition so that if it is...
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Following a period working in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s conservation department, I moved across the road to the Science Museum where I was given access to their stores. It was here where the roots of my work began.  Disparate objects placed next to each other by size and material gave rise to surprising and discordant marriages....
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I make work that is site responsive and participatory. I examine how our perceptions are shaped. Frequently I use smell as a medium, focusing closely on the relationship between smell and our associations with it. This has lead to investigations into how our histories and environments are constructed. An integral part of my work is engaging people...
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Interventions in the institutionalised everyday. By investigating educational, corporate and public settings, I critically engage withissues rooted in the institutional context. I keep looking beyond the veneer of how we manouver to expose and reference behaviour, routines and decision making. My practice reflects on mechanisms that underlie the...
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Rosie Leventon makes Sculptural installations Interventions Public Art Commissions Environmental Artwork and drawings some of which are permanent and some ephemeral. Green issues run through the work, she always prefers to use recycled materials.  Many of the pieces are architectural and relate to or use their surroundings in some way, they...
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We live in a world that is constantly changing and evolving even the things we take for granted as always being there are constantly in flux. This is the flux that Kate Hammersley captures in her work. Transient moments such as a word spoken in passing, a lightning strike or a shifting horizon line are sources of inspiration in her work which...
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I am an artist who makes work across the fields of visual art, writing, performance and curatorial practice.  Inspired by the clown and the fool, I make mischief that is playful - defiant, teasing and delivered with a dry wit and humour, and often in the form of pranks. The pranks and performances I create instigate dialogues, which are...
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My practice is a playful response to the constraints of society, institutions and authority. I create interventions, displacements and disruptions in a variety of media including performance. My work is frequently inspired by my love of language, is often discursive and usually collaborative. I enjoy the synergy of creating work with others.
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Johana has a background in sculpture and has maintained a fascination with form, sometimes applying that to video and drawing. Graduating in 2001 from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff she has exhibited widely, most recently at Motorcade FlashParade in Bristol. Johana is particularly interested in the humanity present in the inanimate...
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Artist Statement “I am a black box, an abstract device evolved to hide the complexities within. Given the appropriate stimulus, I can be triggered to display a transient pop-up model of my inner self and disclose a little of what would otherwise remain secret. I can say with some certainty, when I chose the black box metaphor, I was...
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Shields practice investigates varied contemporary issues through the use of the site specific, found objects and traditional skills. His pieces contain a duality between what is often as a valuable permanence found in the process of drawing and mark making and the disposability of everyday encounters. Whilst producing contemporary works Shields...
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My work is concerned primarily with occupied spaces and the narratives that unfold in them. My drawings of school playing fields, junked underpasses and the like often contain text with the tone of dialogue. Through these glimpses of speech the dilapidated environments come to life in a skint version of enchantment: a tree stump or a broken fence...
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What breathes? (Reflections on the art of Clara S Rueprich by Jan Kuhlbrodt, 2004) In his late work written in the mid-seventies, Experimentum Mundi, Ernst Bloch describes nature simply as the outside, where there is an enigmatic breathing, with the question „what breathes?“ occupying an impersonal gap. The outside definitely...
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As an artist educator I'm interested in creating opportunities or processes that are slowed down long enough for participants to notice fleeting thoughts or memories that might otherwise go unnoticed or become edited out. For me, it's the process of each investigation that becomes the work… an engagement, a tour, a web-based campaign. Any...
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My practice can be loosely divided into three categories: Sculpture/Installation, the Collection and Text Art, though it also incorporates other disciplines such as Collage, Photography and Performance. I would describe my work as conceptual but with a comedic sensibility. Language and wordplay are also key elements, as well as humour also (comic...
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My work explores the co-dependent relationship between consumption and power, identity and autonomy, and the documentation and harvesting of processes within the socio-psycho geography of our collective experience.From banking debt to branding, multinational control to the chemicals contained within the air we breathe. We consume to cement the...
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Jenny West uses perspective drawing as a means of construction, conjuring three dimensional space on the surface of the paper and suspending forms within it. Originally, she learnt the rules of perspective as a practical tool - a means of describing the sculptural objects she was making in reality - but found that her virtual creations took on a...
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My art originates from observations of the incidental characteristics of the built environment. I gather inspiration in the ordinary, everyday surroundings I pass through by capturing the accumulation of history left behind in disused or forgotten areas. Aged surfaces and neglected structures hold a variety of clues as to the interests,...
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Although I have often used paint, since moving to France in 2002 I have increasingly focused on making installation, site-specific installation, constructed art work, photography and printmaking. I am influenced by abstraction but like to collect objects I have found or been given, searching out simple everyday materials which I seek to transform...
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I work with installation and have developed aspects of this work as video. My work takes the form of energy fields unexpectedly made visible, with a core theme of renewal, at times relating to environmental issues, the metaphysical and spirituality in its deepest sense. I work through the materials exploring their inbuilt properties and how they...
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Rabab Ghazoul is a visual artist whose practice draws upon a range of media to explore our negotiations and constructions of the political. Part social observation, part investigation into the realm of public narrative, her work often sees her referencing or re-staging chosen ‘texts’ – from news media footage to an existing art...
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My practice is experimental and multi-disciplinary, often driven by an interest in contradiction or paradox. I use the appropriation and defacement of found materials to construct scenarios or images that manipulate the 'real' or recognisable. Fliers and newspapers are a surface of existing forms, which serve as starting points for...
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My work looks at the contradictions between the digital and the old manufacturing industries, exploring memory and identity through landscape and place.With new technology and new materials offering fresh possibilities how can we adapt and take advantage without forgetting about our traditions and skills passed down from generation to generation.I...
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I am an interdisciplinary maker working predominantly with performance, sculpture, installation and print. Using a variety of props and materials I devise ‘scenes’ to examine my relationship to certain objects, texts and spaces.  Exploring specific locations, libraries and archives I then enact/present my findings playing...
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I use discarded materials to create images and constructions that reflect human existence and survival, both ancient and urban across the world. The work balances the chaos and destruction caused by this society with creativity and playfulness.I am inspired by the project work I do with people on the edges of society, in particular, children from...
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I am a mixed media sculptor/installation artist and also work with photography. I enjoy working site specifically and in the environment and photography helps me to do this while still presenting work in a gallery context - more recently this has become the main focus of my practice. My work focuses on the everyday and the mundane but put...
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Through installation, expanded sculpture, photography and film and sometimes pseudo-scientific experiments, I am trying to create a dialogue between space and place using interventions and interruptions as part of a site-specificity that explores in-between spaces, inside and outside, nowhere and somewhere. I use temporary, ephemeral and...
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Harriet works responsively to produce sculpture and site specific installations that play with and against the given space. Her practice is an exploration into the idea that we are drawn to that which is more powerful than ourselves and the resulting conflict between a desire for autonomy with the need to belong. This manifests in her work through...
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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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Concepts, ideas and themes Mainly concerned with the nature of land use and spatial confinement. With a bit of sparkle and colour. Although the medium is variable, it is always chosen in the context of its properties, the site or project. Processes and techniques drawing, construction, planting, painting, print, stitch, workshops,...
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Caroline Wright’s practice is based on conceptual archaeology. Her work includes live performance and visual art that is often site-responsive. She works in mediums as diverse as glass and gold as well as the human body and has made work for cities and rural spaces, for galleries, theatres, churches, on desolate uninhabited islands and...
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