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Mike Chavez-Dawson is an artist curator based at Rogue Artists Studios, Manchester, UK. He curated and instigated the critically acclaimed shows ‘Unrealised Potential’ and more recently the David Shrigley solo show titled ‘HOW ARE YOU FEELING?’ for the Cornerhouse, (2012-2013). “My art practice is interdisciplinary...
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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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Statement It's about the Shape of the Journey...a documentation of works on paper and canvas in book form and sound scapes exploring our footsteps in the environment using screenprinting and photography I explore the natural forms and geometric patterns and anything else which can be used to pin down a thought, a feeling, a memory I'm drawn...
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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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Born in Birmingham and now based in the east, Tribley works in the public realm and currently holds an Associate Artist position at firstsite in Colchester. Her work spans photography, drawing, sculpture and installation and operates on the boundary between fine art and graphic design.
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There is an interest to create from the acts of learning, observation and contemplation on the subjects of the perception of nature, the inquisition of existence and the connection between things. The process of making, allows me to channel particular thoughts, ideas and connections through layering and assemblage, enabling me to comprehend the...
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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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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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The majority of my work is done to commission, whether from architects, cathedrals and churches, public art agencies, local authorities or private clients. The medium will depend upon what will be appropriate for a particular piece of work. To date, work has been made in stone; wood; marble; slate; bronze; aluminium; glass; GRP; plaster; stainless...
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Reading his palm Bob and Roberta Smith declared Daniel Lehan to be: The Most Stubborn Artist I Have Ever Met ! Frog Morris - Curator, Poet and Performer - says:  Daniel's works often begin with simple instructions that any man, or woman, in the street can follow: ‘Make a sign saying what you want’, ‘write...
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Nick Davies is an interdisciplinary artist, printer, and curator based in Devon. His work spans a wide range of media and is often socially engaged and collaborative. His work uses a critical yet humorous eye to approach topics surrounding the way we view creativity, intelligence, value, and 'the public'. The work attempts to explore concepts that...
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Sophie Warren is an artist and Jonathan Mosley is an architect. They have a critical spatial practice that employs strategies of play, hybridisation and the construction of imaginary architectures to resist homogeneous perceptions of urban space. Using language, event, still and moving imagery and installation Warren & Mosley construct...
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Text Art The Uncertainty Series is an ongoing body of work that mimics the ‘track changes’ function in word processing programs. This format allows Charnock to reveal the doubts she experiences during her art-making – giving solid form to meandering and often contradictory thoughts. An installation at Mid Pennine Gallery took...
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Alex Dipple’s painted-over newspapers present the classical information mediumfree from its content as tender and vulnerable but mysteriously beautiful „skins.“ With a similarly sort of a „foreign view“, the artist examines newspapers and their formal structure. She discards lines, which are...
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Public Art should encourage and stimulate interaction with the world around us. It should evoke a sense of pride and wonder for the unique quality of the places where we live, visit and work. The right public art, in the right place can contribute to the heritage, culture and future economy of the area by creating inspirational...
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Concepts I work with ideas to focus and make visible. I aim to encourage the role of the viewer as participant/performer and acknowledge that without this engagement the artwork is essentially obscure. I am concerned with how a view of the world is interpreted and informed and accessed through language. I am inspired by poetry. My work frequently...
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My art practice is an exploration of medical science through a multi disciplinary practice that includes drawing, photography, video, found objects and installation.Concepts stem from many aspects of medical science including current medical research into genetic engineering and stem cell technology, and old discredited medical disciplines such as...
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Charlotte A Morgan works with writing, print, sculpture, photography and performance. Her work draws from the interplay of memory, fiction, narrative and temporality within architectures, landscapes and interior spaces, and often focuses on the performance of objects and structures and the language of archiving and display. http://www...
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Process is central to my work and intimately linked with my activity as a gardener (I have been running my own plant-specialist garden maintenance company since 2004). My ideas are usually generated by my immediate environment. I may use a prosaic object, an activity or an unusual event as a starting point. I sometimes use live plant material in...
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Specialising in fine art textiles, I combine the drawn, the painted, the digital and the crafted. The influences in my work vary widely. Themes which deal with human and social behaviour are a regular reoccurrence through the use of common imagery already existing in our society, set alongside both the figurative and abstract. Expressed through a...
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As an artist I am fascinated by concepts of community and identity and how these are expressed in the public realm in terms of marking territory, claiming ownership and passing on stories. I would therefore define my self as a narrator and recorder of events, often everyday things that we take for granted but that can define our culture, heritage,...
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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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'His connection to land is demonstrated as cultivator – from seed to growth to food and meal as social gathering, a timeless act. He investigates landscape, and the details of landscape, including its history and myths, for explorations of culture within a contemporary context.' (Tim Davies)Owen Griffiths is an artist working...
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seekers of lice proposes art as an insect bite, infecting the blood through proximity, anecdote, annexation, colonisation, infection, inoculation: scratch the itch & itch the scratch.seekers of lice creates material interventions, sometimes of an ephemeral nature, which find gaps and spaces in which to operate. Its practice is concerned with...
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I am an emerging UK based artist currently working in Brighton. I have produced work in several mediums including photography, sculpture, video, and live actions. My work has strong narrative element, evoking associations of place, time, and history. I aim to create a body of work which is at once intimate, yet widely felt by...
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Concepts Public commissions: I spend a lot of time researching to gather information on which to base the piece. New materials and processes also present a challenge to work with. My work tends to have a graphic quality with clean lines and a minimalist feel. I like mixing materials whenever I can and often include text in a piece. ...
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Suzanne Smith is an interdisciplinary fine artist currently based in Manchester, UK. Watchful, insistent and awkwardly intimate, Smith gathers, prods and probes her way through a suspect world. Navigating a fog of social norms it's the junctures that appeal.  The tessellation and the slippage.  The tiny shifts in gesture, context,...
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As Homo Faber we exist through objects, our actions and experiences mediated by them; they are no longer mere tools but extensions of ourselves. My practice is built around an investigation of the objects that surround us where I consider them in terms of being comprised of a network elements both physical (essential and accidental) and abstract...
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Notes on current practice My expanded practice encompasses both studio and curatorial activity through which I explore my interest in the production of art, its site(s) of production and exhibition. I have exhibited in numerous one person and group exhibitions in this country and abroad. In 2004 with Nicola Streeten I...
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My artworks often use words or a combination of text and image; I am intrigued by the ability of words to evoke other senses and call up myriad associations. My work attempts to tap into what might be called a ‘collective cultural imagery’ – the associations and mental images that people carry with them already, that they have...
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My work is engaging with notions of travel and/or displacement. I am working with diegetic approaches to image, performance, text and sound. Central to my practice is the desire to ‘dig-up’ information, re-contextualise it and present it in engaging ways. The focus here is on the complex relations between mobility and identity...
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