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I am interested in the tragi-comic, and the way it is possible to present the audience with a proposition that can be viewed as light-hearted, or something more sinister, in order to prompt questions of spectatorship. Frequently, work manifests itself as performances that focus on repeated actions and utilise a theatrical register, in an attempt...
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Concepts Julie Brixey-Williams is a British artist who lives and works in London, where she has exhibited regularly. Her work explores the relationship that the body shares with space and architecture and the gestural marks that we leave behind. Working in various media, including photography, video, installation, performance and drawing,...
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Concepts I have worked with a wide range of media such as video and sound installation, animation, sculpture, and computer generated performance. I create a multi-sensory experience and explore the areas where art & science and life & death overlap. I'm interested in how developments in science and it's imaging methods provide a...
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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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My socially engaged art practice creates events and encounters with people in everyday situations using everyday objects and materials. I invite participants and passersby to engage actively with art, to be part of the action, especially those who might not step into designated art spaces. These temporary relationships exist in the local and are...
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My current practice examines how far I can scientifically generate genuine emotions by manipulating the senses through a work of art by fully immersing an audience in that work of art, employing all the senses in a single purpose.I make performance/video installations in specifically designed spaces. With a background in Theatre and Architecture,...
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My art practice focusses on aspects of both landscape and text, consisting of photographs, moving image, installations, drawings, performance and painting. Working reflexively across different mediums has enabled a visual language to develop that articulates what otherwise may remain remains unseen and unheard. My motivation is to exceed the...
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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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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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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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With a background in science, the tension between those two sides of me (the artistic and the scientific) triggered most of my art work in recent years. Initially, I was making art on art (exploring questions like What is art? and How does art world work?). More recently, I explored the discrepancies between great scientific ideas and our everyday...
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My practice considers where our disenchanted, secularised world a sense of the religious fails to be suppressed, either through unacknowledged ideological attachments (a dogmatic sense of what is correct or true) or through the seductive, mesmerising appeal of contemporary art.  The work arises from a fascination with the rhetoric...
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I have a deep rooted affinity with the countryside and its resources, in part informed by my family's long association with farming. The cyclical element of the processes in nature inspires me, as do the insignificant details that we might often pass by. I am interested in ways that we work with or against nature; how we react and intervene,...
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Jony Easterby Artists Statement. Having worked in the public realm for over twenty years and have gathered a broad range of skills that I bring to each new project. I live and work on 3 acres of Welsh hillside which is also my ‘plant laboratory’ and studio, and there my passion for and knowledge of ecology, horticulture and the...
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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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Concept  I studied Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art and completed my degree at Camberwell School of Art London where my work explored photography and film/video slide projected installations , computer art and sculptural relief making and stained glass. I then wanted to push and explore these mediums further through...
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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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Paper is a medium, a document a catalyst, a message, a creative act, it transforms for the better or worse, it travels, it is solid in a semi transparent world, it holds value, it proves, it also us to share information and ideas, it sorts us into groups of accepted and rejected, it covers up temporarily, it can be destroyed easily, it is...
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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'm a visual artist and project maker, often working with the perception of 'knowledge' (surrounding specific groups of people or institutions) to produce diverse outcomes that are analytical, witty and intriguing. These artworks intend to question the way in which we relate to knowledge and knowledge systems. This includes objects and...
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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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Having once been told by a drawing tutor that if you only draw the outside you only get the outside, I decided to investigate this further. Using the idea that the more you are given the less you get I strip back the visual to its essential elements before inviting the viewer in to flesh out the work again. Working with lines, loops, layers,...
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Eldi Dundee is a NY born artist who has been living in London for the best part of two decades. Her practice consists of an interchange of painting, photography, assemblage, performance, installation, writing, drawing and sculpture. Eldi studied Fine Art at both Central Saint Martins / Byam Shaw School of Art (University of the Arts London) and...
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Based at Bankley Studios, Manchester, working in a broad interdisciplinary practice including painting, sculpture, the moving image and ever emerging technologies, Gary James Williams enquires into the creative potentials of the narrative structure in coming to terms with the everyday and real-world phenomena in contemporary art practice....
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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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ConceptsI work in a broad range of materials and media, making extensive use of new technologies to create works which view the world as energy. A constant dialogue between opposites, my sculptures use light and motion to transform themselves from solid to void, opaque to transparent, formal to organic.My work takes inspiration from science,...
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Denise Bryan works across media, making objects, photographic series, installations and performance pieces.  Her studio increasingly resembles a Scrap Store, Bryan can't stop collecting things that have the potential to become objects; sculptures that have been described as "Hands on Conceptualism".  The materials used to...
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I am interested in the perceptual instability within spatial representation, particularly within the discipline of painting. I am interested in how space is articulated pictorially and how the physical space it inhabits can enter into this discourse. Many of my works are site-responsive and are created to react and call attention to the...
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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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Lisa O'Brien's performance and installation work stems from her interest in sound. In the 80's she studied Expressive Arts at Brighton Polytechnic which included components in music composition, performance and sculpture. She developed an interest in working with instruments and vocals and much of her subsequent composition and performance...
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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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