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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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At the core of my interest is the enjoyment of disparity, discontiguity and the occasional brief failure of Gestalt mechanisms, and the quest to represent this in some way. I investigate ways of seeing, specifically with reference to cultural and paradigm disjunction, and embody these disparities in my working practice. I work with video and in...
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Townley and Bradby make interventions, performance walks and artists' books. Townley and Bradby's practice explores the routines and rituals of urban public spaces. By carefully combining place, action and props, they feel for the bounds of what is permissible, or for the level at which an intervention ceases to be invisible and rises into the...
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Concepts Bettina Furnée's practice is rooted in notions of site and uses language as a primary material. Her works in the public realm derive from an interest in the identity, history and future of a given place, and the way in which language relates to a location. Works are developed through research and in collaboration with local...
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My visual practice is centered around notions of endurance, duration, exhaustion and repetition. These ideas are explored through performance and action-based exercises and documented using basic recording equipment, or through note-taking and the accumulation of data.   The audience are rarely present whilst the action is taking place,...
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Brazier's practice focuses on the concept of time, a relentless and ever-present phenomenon. His work has evolved alongside his ongoing research, which is driven by a desire to better understand the passage of time.Much of Brazier's work is based around ephemeral and transient sculptural forms, the deterioration of which presents the...
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Katherine Hymers' work inhabits a fragile world. A peaceful, gentle, taut, hard, sublime, fragile world. Hymers makes the most exquisite performances to camera - appearing alone, at times naked, vulnerable but untouchable and utterly distant. In 'Untitled (Morning Light)' (2007), shown in a gallery setting on a flat-screen monitor, a young...
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Sarah Sabin Wall Excavation, 2002 Selected by Charlie Levine Archives, collections, found/discarded objects, hidden histories are pieces of puzzles that artist Sarah Sabin enjoys discovering, dissecting and putting back together again. ...
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The pre-occupations of my work and thinking lie in how humans function within the world and the gaps that are created when our desires - to reach an un-specified potential - are faced with a different ‘reality’. My practice involves elements of deconstruction and analysis. Reparation, reformation, or re-situation is utilised to...
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My work is often raw, immediate and provocative. I use film and the editing process to tell stories which carry powerful personal meaning. Film is exciting because it allows us to —examine ourselves, imitate ourselves, extend ourselves, reshape our reality right into the abstract. As a filmmaker/curator/installation artist I explore...
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Concepts I trained and worked as a landscape architect before developing a career in art and design. This has lead to a creative mix of artworks and projects, undertaken in a variety of settings and locations, often drawing on landscape experience and practice. Some projects result from the discovery or rediscovery of a new or familiar...
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 Open Frequency ProfileSimon Morrissey, director of WORKS|PROJECTS, Bristol, profiles Bedfordshire-based artist, Andy Holden.Andy Holden’s works are material stories: objects as narratives, physical things that like to tell tales. Polymorphic in nature, Holden’s practice encompasses a diverse creative output, from monumental...
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Concepts/themes/ideasGrowth in preparation and focus but not 'thinking' about it. Remembering dreams. The word happiness. Processes and techniquesI am currently focusing on creative writing and Kathak dance in which I have been training for the past three years. I also work part-time as an events organiser and...
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A studio visit with Jon Falconer at Digswell Arts Trust 29th October 2007. Jon Falconer's work conveys a passion and engagement with life in all its manifestations. Through mixed media installation including poetry/text, painting, sculpture, photography and more recently performance Jon invites the spectator to be an active ...
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Performed on the original trajectory of the Swansea to Mumbles railway, the first passenger rail service in the world, Matt Cook presented a series of spurious stories - historical events that happened, or could have happened, during the 153 year life of the Mumbles Train. Playing and performing with a kinetic, colourful and highly...
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Working with social, as well as physical space and materials, Graham is a collection builder, situation and object maker. The body of her work forms the Dragging and Gathering, (Kicking and Screaming) Collection, incorporating urban intervention and performative works and object based installations. Her work plays with ideas of the constructed...
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Gary O'Connor mixes fiction with reality to create a varied practice that includes writing, installation, sound, video, and sculpture. 'Historical facts have always intrigued me', he says 'and at the end of the day, these are best told as stories. With time, facts can be subjected to the same treatment as fiction: they become myth and legend … a...
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