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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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My current work involves physically altering (or appearing to alter) existing architecture in public and exhibition spaces. These architectural interventions are developed specifically for their location through research and site visits; responding to the architecture, history and current happenings in the area. Through this I create a...
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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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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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Graduating from Liverpool School of Art in 2005, I was a member of the Royal Standard 2006-8 and an in-house artist at the Bluecoat from 2008-10. I am currently studying an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art & Design 2010-11.
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I explore the transformative possibilities of paint. The layers of paint are plasticised and cast, preserving their liquid qualities, while allowing new applications, new possibilities to be imagined.The hanging works are investigations of the sculptural possibilities of paint as a medium. The threads or ribbons of paint evoke a fluid painterly...
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My practice is concerned with time, process and the meaning acquired by objects and materials.Influenced by minimalist movements of the 60s and 70s, the works disrupt the narrative connotations acquired by symbols, objects and spaces. Motifs are informed by architecture, design, comic books and film title sequences by artists such as Saul Bass....
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The use of various methods, like travel, video, sound, choreography, performance and writing, sits in the expanded notion of my work – where new and obsolete technologies reflect one another as the analogue and digital swap places; modes of representation are questioned as they blend in each other or dissolve and reveal, or obscure,...
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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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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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My work focuses on our built and social environment - planned societies and governed life, and the processes of urban planning driven by political and economic demands, whilst paying little regard to our needs and aspirations. Sculptural assemblages piece together fragments of everyday construction materials, handmade ceramic objects and...
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BIO: Robin Tarbet graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2006 and is an artist based in East London. He was awarded the Stanley Picker Tutorship in Fine Art at Kingston University in 2006/07, where he now works as a lecturer. Tarbet’s work combines two–dimensional media, photography, printmaking and live film, with...
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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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Kerry is an artist, composer and lecturer. He has lectured since 1985 at various colleges and universities in England and currently is a visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. As an artist and composer he works through digital media, installation, sound, music and drawing and has exhibited continuously since 1983 in Britain,...
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(b.1988) My work enters a place in which abstract and representation collide, question and unite. My vision is to make visible the thin line between telling a story and the absence of a story.
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My art practice is a combination of found and/or processed materials, introducing new associations and compositions. I am an artist who often employs organic material and the context of location to make my art. As you will notice from the images supplied, my sculptures and installations are constructed from only a few elements emphasizing a need...
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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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Born in 1974, Ben Cove grew up in Manchester and currently lives and works in London. He graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London with an MFA in 2008 having previously completed undergraduate degrees in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University in 2001 and Architecture at The University of Nottingham in 1995. Since 2001 he has...
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Leanne Bell Gonczarow considers narrative construction and suggestion in relation to time-based phenomena. A driving force of the practice is an exploration of light - as both subject and material.  During an MA in Book Arts an interest was developed in the book as a construct or site in which time can be highlighted and controlled through...
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Charlotte Warne Thomas' work explores the presence of physical and ideological structures that avoid revealing themselves, and thus possess a forceful field of influence. Of particular interest to the artist are the apparently benign institutions of architecture, town planning and design, which exert an authority in terms of controlling the...
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Concepts My work takes its inspiration from moments glimpsed in everyday city life. I home in on sites of indeterminate meaning. The most recent paintings ('Paddington' and 'Underpass' from 2008) follow on from the ('Westway' series from 2002) refer to pedestrian experience of the underside of the great roads and flyovers leading into and out...
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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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Concepts Victoria Hall's work is a combination of an ethnographical and performative approach resulting in documented pieces using photography. In the present series of humorous and sophisticated restaging of famous British and European paintings from the 16th through to the 20th century, careful attention is paid to lavish costumes and grand...
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Concepts Victoria Hall's work is a combination of an ethnographical and performative approach resulting in documented pieces using photography. In the present series of humorous and sophisticated restaging of famous British and European paintings from the 16th through to the 20th century, careful attention is paid to lavish costumes and grand...
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I work across a variety of media both 2D and 3D and on scales ranging from environmental to miniature. My work is characterised by a strong interest in construction and a delight in the unexpected in ordinary materials. Although essentially non-representational, my work is concerned with the physical, emotional and psychological language...
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Concepts/themes/ideas  My art practice has been concerned with the nature of the creative process, the condition of the art object in the expending field of sculpture / installation. Located in a wide range of socio-cultural contexts, including public and non-art spaces, my work explores the concepts of ‘the art making in the...
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My work explores the desire to create the perfect presence even if it is only temporary and delusional. Artist statement 'The Delirium of Joy' is an installation work, constructed out of domestic and urban materials. On the wall, as a picturesque backdrop to the projected video component, hangs an idyllic print of an ocean view. Seabirds...
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Concepts The subject of my work has always been the human body, through from life painting to light installations, where it is present in its absence also, in that I am dealing with aspects of the human experience. I have explored visual perception which I dealt with in various forms and media – I was registered partially sighted in 1992. I...
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Gayle Chong Kwan (b. 1973, Edinburgh) is a Scottish-Chinese Mauritian artist. Gayle was nominated for Open Frequency in 2005 by Mark Sealy, former director of Autograph, London.To view the artist's current work and to contact the artist go to: Gayle Chong Kwan on Axis
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My practice is interdisciplinary, combining art and architecture to examine themes of history, identity and place. Much of my work is research based and site-specific, and evolves through a participatory process, which has developed from several years working in youth arts and participatory development. I am interested in creating work in public...
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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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Making work is a means of understanding the ideas that captivate my thoughts. Through experimentation, play and study these ideas begin to find a form and make sense. I enjoy tracing a line of thought through different mediums, interested to see how the expression of it takes shape in both two and three dimensional form. Each medium has...
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