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“Landscape is a portrait of the soul” A quote from an unknown source scribbled in my sketchbook some years ago; it has formed part of the basis of my recent work where I explore the spaces we exist in, both physical and psychological. I use the real landscape which surrounds me as a metaphor for my inner life of imagination and...
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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 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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'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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I was born Monday 1st August 1977 and I'm, essentially, a painter. Sometimes I use a knife instead of a brush; a controlled act of violence. A painting can be more than the image on, or what is cut out of, a canvas. It can be the object as a whole; frame, title (essential), or empty space in the canvas. The "happy accidents" in the...
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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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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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I am an artist printmaker working in the relief and intaglio processes, which include etching, carborundum and woodcut prints. My work is inspired by the subject of work/industry and I have made drawings in a wide variety of industrial locations which have included sewage pumping stations, a distillery, building sites and a bell foundry, etc. The...
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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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Like a child creates fantasy worlds through play, I create fictitious worlds that retain certain truths about our reality. I use maps, which are visual representations of our world; I cut out fragments and reconfigure the pieces as if assembling a jigsaw puzzle. Resultant work is a newly mapped out reality that comments on aspects of our world....
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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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Light is an important element in my practice as it gives life and energy to my work. My fascination with the ethereal quality of light and how it can be used as a tangible material began with my observation of sunlight's interaction in the natural world. Through light and plastic interplay, I explore the boundaries between art, science and nature...
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My work is abstract and is inspired by landscape and environment.  Strongly characterised by colour, rhythm and movement, I seek to express the excitement of travel and new experiences. Artist statement 'Rhythm' (2007) comes from a body of work made from abandoned derelict artefacts found in a rural environment. In its painted form, this...
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Emma Johnson explores the fragmented, multifaceted nature of memory, time and history. Johnson reconstructs maps into artworks, cutting paths and layers to transform the originals into reconstituted and complex new objects. As functional items, they are rendered virtually unreadable, but symbolically they suggest journeys (both geographical and...
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I use and re-use motifs derived from familiar places or situations, mainly painted, but sometimes explored through different media. These are then presented in a variety of ways. Often reflected or refracted within a loose framing; within the confines of an installation, a collection of painted images or leading to a...
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Alex Pearl makes mini epic films, video installations, sculpture and books. Throughout his work there is a sense of an acceptance of failure or disappointment as important parts of the human condition. Using readily available materials and software the films are made from: suddenly apprehended ideas, discovered objects and impromptu processes....
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As an artist and researcher my interest is concerned with the representation of landscape. More specifically I am investigating how a particular aspect or understanding of landscape can be depicted in non-figurative paintings and drawings. This understanding of landscape is informed by readings of cultural geography, which help to define place and...
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My art is a combination of socio-political commentary, humour and culinary methodologies. I make artwork in response to the issues that I feel are of significance, often conflating our contemporary situation with historic references. Outmoded thinking, unsuitable fiscal mechanisms and cultural fragilities threaten the stability of our...
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Concepts/themes/ideasMy work is concerned with time and memory, renewal and decay, fragility and strength, absence and displacement. I work primarily in kiln-formed and surface-decorated glass combined with other materials and use the plasticity of the medium and its properties as a transformer of light to explore the recurring themes...
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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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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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I have a genuine and buoyant practice that grows through the process of making. Themes in my work include architecture, construction, playgrounds, shape, colour and scale, valuing form over function.Within my sculptural installations, the concept is of space and how I use space to organise my materials and create scenarios. I intend to explore...
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I explore everyday routines as a means to analyse where I fit in to the greater scheme of things. Focusing on the immediate environment and the routes to local towns and villages, I portray the shape and pattern of my daily journeys. The repetitiveness of these activities, the places I visit and the people I interact with, underpin my work. ...
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My practise involves sculpture and photography, employing everyday items as materials. Focusing on the everyday, and the relationships between the intangible and the material, I am currently investigating the need for and creation of an interior haven fom the outside world and the importance played by objects, gifts, memorabilia and...
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Exploring video as a textural, organic medium is seing my work embrace and reexamine the dynamic sensual aesthetic qualities found within the impressionist movement. The natural world around me with its rhythmical repetition, is playing a very inspirational role. Keep on questioning the very nature of the digital video medium, can it go beyond...
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Jacqui Jones is a graduate artist whose work responds to environmental issues. She creates art objects and installations that consider sustainability in ways that are powerful and thought provoking. She is interested in pushing the boundaries of unusual materials to raise awareness of our relationship with the natural world. Following a recent...
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My practice as a fine artist is in creating images with materials, mostly sculptural, with an interest in expressing an archetypal way of seeing the world. Myth has been an important reference throughout my work as they contain layers and patterns of meaning (archai) which underlie the culture of societies throughout the world, as much now as...
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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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I like to work on the borders between representation and indecypherability. Sense and non-sense, meaning and non-meaning, finding order in chaos and chaos in order.
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My current work questions the nature of things, images and experiences; the significance, the meaning, connotations and expectations.  Generally the focus is on the everyday and how we might or might not expect to find things.  There is usually a sense of uncertainty or discontinuity in the work allowing the viewer to interpret in their...
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Working across a diverse range of media including drawing, photography and installation my work explores ideas of the sacred and mystical in the everyday. I engage in a process of recombining familiar signifiers to conjure a sense of the numinous and powerful potential of the commonplace. I try to create a world that is haunting, humorous and sexy...
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