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1963: Chichester, West Sussex. 1980-82: Foundation, West Sussex College of Design. 1982-85: BA (Hons) Fine Art, South Glamorgan IHE Cardiff. I was born in Chichester in the shadow of the South Downs. I had an early interest in making pictures, which developed into the desire to become an artist when I saw a powerful Picasso sculpture in...
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Current Practice I am essentially a fine art painter, but I do print and draw as part of my practise. I have recently re-dicovered Gesso which I am finding captivating in its coldness. Concepts If you look at my paintings closely you will see layers upon layers of paint. Each piece takes time to complete, although the marks are expressive and...
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'I’m interested in self perpetuity and relentlessness; the broken record with a repetitive sensibility. It’s a selfish indulgence to crack the ‘same old joke’ that was perhaps never really funny in the first place. I find it gratifying to blur the border between humour and sincerity, and to recycle a pun doggedly; devoid of...
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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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My practise incorporates collage,drawing and assemblage.I use a variety of materials and media often within the same work. Recent works on paper appropriate historical forms and reference including church interiors and Western Landscape painting tradition.Siphoned through materials such as brightly coloured vinyl and an aesthetic that suggests...
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Human form is the basis of my visual subject matter, and, for me, spills into ideas about who we might ‘Be’ – existentially, historically and physically. Hence portraiture, the nude, the ‘trony’ – and a preoccupation with what’s on the ‘inside’ and the ‘outside’. This latter had lead me to use the creative process and materials as metaphor,...
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ConceptsTo the viewer the paintings look like elitist depictions of bourgeois living.  These have been painted from photos which I have taken myself from my travels or from lifestyle magazines.  I am interested in the notion that some things never go out of fashion and are classic. This is what good life is about and its contents....
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In my work I construct allegorical settings in order to explore, comment upon and sometimes confront injustice and violence. Although my work has serious intent, I poke fun at myself and use humour, pathos and the unexpected to engage my audience. I have used a range of media, and shown installations, drawings and work in new media. I have...
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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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The 'Dark Matter' sculptures and drawings refer to the vast majority of matter and energy in the universe that exists but cannot be seen. The work also reflects my interest in the experience of place and the ability of art to enable access to abstract, remote and invisible spaces including the space of the human unconscious. In the 'Dark Matter'...
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Concepts Composition is important. Related flat areas of colour are made to look solid without the use of illusionist modelling; pattern sometimes assisting in describing form. People, objects and patterns are arranged on the picture surface within the particularised space. All elements are intended to harmonise exactly; the colour and shapes...
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Concepts I am interested in how images speak, in the nuances of visual language and translation from one medium to another. I work figuratively as a route to narrative discursive painting based on photographs, both personal archive and found imagery. I assemble collections of selected images which offer connections both familiar and...
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I always use figures in my paintings. I use them to challenge the preconceptions we have about people due to media stereotyping. The paintings are concerned with identity, class, race, gender and the environment. This narrative is an essential element in my work, without a narrative I lose interest. I am however also concerned with the language of...
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Rebecca Spooner’s rich installations combine film, photography, projection and found objects. Her work explores the romanticism of nature, in particular the representation of women, wild animals and the British landscape. Rebecca Spooner, Rough Notes, Publicity Image ...
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Matt Gee's work involves covering, melting, placing, arranging, of spaces and objects as some of the processes involved in the fabrication of my work.There is a concern with the authenticity of materiality, the source of materials, jostling with the modern materialistic demands of human sensory decadent desire, a society that expects, an...
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Martyn Cross presents us with a disturbing and weird world, one where joy and innocence appear infected with dark thoughts and actions. Often using the covers of found knitting patterns as his canvas, brightly coloured images of happiness and comfort are disfigured and despoiled so that their subjects find their newly knitted garments covered in...
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I make watercolours, drawings and oil paintings. Over recent years they have been based on cities that I have lived in or visited. The base of all of my cities is probably derived from the view in fron of our house looking over Sheffield. Since 2000 I have kept experimenting with materials, homemade paints and media, recording the interaction and...
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I have a fascination with the suburban home, the neatly cut grass, and the perfectly polished car on the driveway. This may have developed through my own upbringing or it may come from the dream of living in a place like that. I like to paint the most ordinary places, homes which I can imagine myself living...
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Concepts Through painting, drawing, collage and cardboard constructions my current work develops an ongoing interest in visual perception where foregrounds and backgrounds hold an ambiguous relationship to create certain levels of flatness. I question what is negative space when it is given priority? Does it still remain negative when it is the...
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Concepts My main work is installation and object-based. I'm interested in cultural conditioning & hierarchies. Areas of workPrimary educationSecondary educationAdult educationCommunity artsExhibitingLecturingPublic artResidenciesRadio/TV Collections Rabas Museum, Hredle, Czech RepublicSainsbury Collection,...
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Concepts We live at a time where shifting cultural assumptions have shattered fixed notions of continuity and value. The essential truths that Postmodernism has denied – love, evil, death, the sacred, morality and soteriology have become absent from much contemporary art as they have from wider contemporary culture. Yet...
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Concepts, themes and ways of working Rachel Gibson’s paintings, prints and artists books reflect an intuitive involvement with imagery and ideas that are central to the notion of memory and sense of place. Inspiration comes from sources which can be loosely described as historical, geographic and poetic. The ancient landscape of the...
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Art is a mimesis of reality; the reality being the everyday. This reality that we have become accustomed to has been appropriated. This alternate 'reality', which has been created, embraces humorous obscurities by acknowledging the mundane and the ludicrous. The work is an investigation that explores where the alternate reality is present...
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Concepts, ideas, themes The background to my work is an interest in the relationship between beliefs and science, rationality/irrationality, the juxtaposition of order/non-disorder. We each have to negotiate our own sense of being created by categories (structure) and a fragmented world of endless networks and gaps. In my current work it is...
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Concepts My ideas are developed from my thoughts on the relationship between humans and the landscape, how we manipulate our natural surroundings and the impact we have on the environment. I am also interested in how nature adapts to urban landscapes. Influences Environmental issues, human effect on landscape, botany, architecture.
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The Work of Louise Garland engages with the philosophical belief in the continuum of life. It examines the nature of our existence, linking the personal (especially from a female context)with the metaphysical, with references to the collective notions of archaic symbolism.Garland incorporates found materials and objects into her pieces.there is a...
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Art, understatement, drawing history, critical theory, collections, teaching and learning modes, ecology, fiction.
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'If the fool persists in his folly, he becomes wise.' (William Blake, Proverbs of Hell)
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I graduated in 1997 from Norwich University College of the Arts. I have work in the Welcome Trust Collection and with private collectors. I have exhibited in including the RBS Gallery, Leeds City Gallery, the Cornerhouse in Manchester and the Saatchi Gallery. I have held residencies in High Royds and Rampton Hospital. I work with drawing,...
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My work references the language of architectural features and environments, questioning the implications of its usage and place within the continuity of our Western identity and outlook. I am interested in the psychology of spaces, seeking the rift and intervention that occurs as space becomes place.
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Drawing is the foundation of my practice that addresses the themes of site, context, belonging and memory. I often make drawings in series to explore and expand on my ideas. I utilise collage and printmaking processes as well as photography and digital manipulation enabling me to develop images for surface designs and book-works. For book-works...
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