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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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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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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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Between Narratives and Altered states. There are central themes that i have become interested in and deal with in different ways encompassing print , interactive instillation, film, silhouettes and drawing. These themes deal with broad and open ended interpretations of narrative events both personal and public ( for example the Protest prints...
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'...Scrutiny of high and low culture takes another turn in the sculptures and collages of Lizi Sánchez. Sánchez’s sculptures possess an unashamedly frivolous quality. The weighty materials traditionally associated with sculpture are, more often than not, eschewed as Sánchez is drawn towards cheap materials such as those commonly found in hardware...
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The underlying theme of my work considers our understanding of and attitudes towards what we consider reality to be. Initially the various images appear to be snapshots that make up a typical urban environment, and to an extent they are. However, the works are in fact a calculated juxtaposition of different photographs, which take the form of a...
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Fiona Curran's paintings, installations and assemblages explore the impact of new digital technologies on our experience of landscape space. The works reveal a recurring utopian impulse, formal idealism and sense of escapism that registers in a palette borrowed from the computer screen and advertising. There's a sense of spatial...
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I have developed an art practice that is concerned with walking, responding to, and intervening with the architecture and constructed spaces of the contemporary city and the utopian ideals of modernist art and architecture of the past. I make abstract, architectonic and site responsive paintings, collages, photography, books, film and...
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‘Laura Cherry’s collages present found images as metaphorical dramas, made up of poignant psychic and physical processes. With their directly opposing elements and heightened perception, they…deliberately delete and reconfigure finely selected visual elements… The poetic void, where the eye shifts and reads what is or is...
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My work explores the roles of language, the image and memory in the construction of personal narrative. In my last project Perhaps Finally Alone I played with the idea of the domestic and the domesticated: object, animal and human. My subjects were anonymous people, soft animals and heavy textiles. Instead of highlighting the resemblance or...
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I work from images of people, using the reproductions of their painted and sculpted portraits reduced to thumbnails on Google. Deriving elements from the print outs, and then splicing and reconstructing the fragmented parts forms the basis of exploring these images of individuals and how they have been represented throughout history. My...
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I met with Lucienne Cole on the 2nd May 2007 in a dark studio room in the heart of Birmingham, her current home. Lucienne and I shared a number of interests, the power of pop, the relationship between pop music and art, off-site interventions and art in social spaces. We had a lot to share, here are the highlights...This interview is available...
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I met with Lucienne Cole on the 2nd May 2007 in a dark studio room in the heart of Birmingham, her current home. Lucienne and I shared a number of interests, the power of pop, the relationship between pop music and art, off-site interventions and art in social spaces. We had a lot to share, here are the highlights...This interview is available...
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"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops" - Slaughter House Five, Kurt Vonnegut The artist, as an outsider, is ideally placed for picking up that which has been chucked out.  Claire Brewster's work is about retrieving the discarded, celebrating the unwanted and giving...
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Over the last few years Tim Bailey has created a diverse and convincing body of work, and most recently he has concentrated on producing a parallel practice based on performance and painting. Creating a fictional scenario, where cracked actors play out surreal and multiple roles in an uncanny way, one could say that his work deals with various...
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Over the past one or two years I have been working on the concept of speed. Not the least against the background of the writings of the contemporary French philosopher Paul Virilio. In my work I currently investigate into the notion of the destruction of space through military technologies and concepts of virtual reality - two aspects of speed...
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Yael Schmidt is a multidisciplinary artist working predominantly in lens-based media. Her practice explores an individual state of mind within a broader environment and the inevitable sense of unease that accompanies the making public of a private act or thought. Her photographic and video recordings, mainly of close friends, focus on...
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Artist statement The topography of language, of music (and sound) and of our systems of classification and definitions surrounding these landscapes reflects a pertinent and fundamental set of concerns underpinning my interdisciplinary fine art practice. Through a particular process that carefully interweaves what is already there, I seek to...
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Tereza Buskova (b.1978, Prague) is a Czech artist who has been based in London after completing her Fine Art Printmaking MA at the Royal College of Art in 2007. Her intuitive practices capture and renew Czech folk traditions through a combination of film making, screen printing and performance. She has proudly developed collaborative creative...
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